The union representing University of California lecturers, which includes 6,000 lecturers across the system, will be holding a two-day strike on nine campuses including UC Santa Cruz starting Wednesday. The lecturers say they’re striking against unfair labor practices.
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March at Lighthouse Point on Saturday hopes to raise awareness of missing women of color
UC Santa Cruz student Faith Brown is looking to combat “missing white woman syndrome” with a march Saturday at Lighthouse Point. The event starts at 2 p.m.
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UCSC, lecturers reach settlement over unpaid work between 2018 and 2021
UC Santa Cruz lecturers filed a grievance in 2018 alleging that the university owed them pay for hours they spent attending faculty meetings and special events, among other tasks. As part of the settlement of the issue, UCSC will pay lecturers sums of between $650 and $1,000 for each course taught between 2018 and 2021 and increase pay going forward.
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New law to bring CalFresh food benefits to more college students
About 127,000 California college students receive money to help with groceries every month, but a state report estimates that the number who are eligible is much higher — between 416,000 and nearly 700,000.
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‘Youth out in front’: Hundreds of students march through Santa Cruz for international climate action day
Students from Mission Hill Middle School, Santa Cruz High and UC Santa Cruz came together on Friday, along with veteran environmental activists, to speak out on behalf of taking climate change seriously and continuing the fight against fossil fuel dependency.
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UCSC College Ten to be named in honor of civil rights icon John R. Lewis
UCSC announced Wednesday that its youngest college will be renamed after the late congressman and civil rights icon. The formal renaming will occur in spring 2022.
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UC Santa Cruz grad students demand increased housing stipend, recognition of UC student researchers union
In a rally on the UCSC campus Tuesday, graduate students had two main purposes: demand both that UC Santa Cruz administration triple their housing stipend and that the UC system recognize the unionizing of student researchers.
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How two new UCSC student-led groups are trying to tackle the housing crisis
The Student Housing Coalition held its first meeting last week on the UCSC campus and announced its goals to bring diverse groups together to support solutions for the housing crisis across the Monterey Bay area. A Slug Shelter co-founder told Lookout the group is searching for land where it could potentially set up a mobile unit for 10 to 12 students experiencing homelessness.
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Pressure mounts on UC system to reach agreement with lecturer workforce as strikes, class cancellations loom
The UC workforce has a churn problem as about a quarter of the system’s 6,000 lecturers don’t return annually. The lecturer union and UC have made some progress in their multi-year impasse over a new contract, but many issues remain unsolved as the threat of strikes loom.
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Born from the pandemic, pop-up shops thrive on East Cliff Drive
Two pop-up places, Coffee Conspiracy and S.C. Bread Boy, provide their food and drink to customers along East Cliff Drive. The owners of both decided to strike out on their own after getting laid off from jobs in the service industry amid the COVID-19 pandemic.