UC Santa Cruz saw its first drop in undergraduate applications in five years — down 7.3% — even as national numbers rose. Meanwhile, the university has repeatedly declined to release graduate enrollment data for the upcoming year, citing what one official called a “dynamic situation.”
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UC Santa Cruz needs to admit more local students
Santa Cruz High School students face one of the lowest acceptance rates to UC Santa Cruz in the state — even as wealthier schools hundreds of miles away fare far better. Former supervisor and UCSC professor Ryan Coonerty argues it’s time for the university to give local students priority.
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Immigration agents signed up to recruit at a California university. Then the protests started
Social media swirled with rumors that ICE would be among the employers at a job fair at Cal Poly Pomona, something the university said is not true. Still, the campus postponed the event over concerns about Customs and Border Protection’s participation.
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UCSC Chancellor Cynthia Larive up for regular five-year review
UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Cynthia Larive is set to undergo an overdue five-year performance review, part of a standard UC systemwide process led by President James Milliken and faculty leaders.
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UCSC clarifies delay on major housing project – now expected to break ground in 2027, open in 2029-30
Construction on the 2,900-bed Heller Drive student housing project at UC Santa Cruz will start in 2027 and be completed sometime in the 2029-30 school year; it was originally slated to be finished in 2028.
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Massive UCSC student housing project delayed at least one year as campus grapples with housing shortage
The construction of UC Santa Cruz’s 2,900-bed Heller Drive student housing project, a key part of the long-delayed and controversial Student Housing West development, has been pushed back to 2027 and is now slated to be completed during the 2029-30 school year.
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California invested millions pushing these careers for women. The results are disappointing
Women continue to lag behind men in certain science, technology, engineering and math programs, according to an analysis of colleges’ data by the Public Policy Institute of California on behalf of CalMatters
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Fearing deportation, international students go silent at California’s universities
After hundreds of international students lost their status this spring, then regained it following lawsuits, the uncertainty of it happening again has created fear. Some students say they’ve changed the routes they take on California campuses, the topics they research and what they post on social media.
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Tom Lehrer, musical satirist who taught math at UC Santa Cruz, dies
Tom Lehrer, the popular music satirist who taught musical mathematics at UC Santa Cruz among other universities, died Saturday at the age of 97 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Associated Press reported Sunday.
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What skills do employers want in college graduates? New UC tool has answers
Seeking to better develop its academic programs to prepare students for the changing workforce, the University of California developed a new data tool to show where tens of thousands of alumni work in California and the skills those employers seek.