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As the 48,000-member UC academic workers union announced a Monday strike at UC Santa Cruz over alleged free speech violations during pro-Palestinian protests, the University of California on ...
Academic workers walk out to support participants in the pro-Palestinian protests. UC officials call the strike illegal. It could spread to other campuses.
Graduate workers at UCSC spend 50 to 80% of their income on rent, well over the 30% threshold to be considered rent burdened. [2] Seeking parity with University of California, Riverside , [ 3 ] union members broke with UAW Local 2865 leadership in an effort to get the university system to pay for the $1,412 per month wage increase. [ 4 ]
City on a Hill Press, originally launched in 1966 as The Fulcrum, is the weekly student newspaper of the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Designed as a magazine, the weekly tabloid-sized paper releases new issues every Thursday of the fall, winter and spring academic quarters, as well as a back-to-school issue entitled "Primer" at the end of the summer session, for a total of 30 ...
The Silicon Valley Campus offers several master's programs designed to support the diverse workforce in the Silicon Valley area. [7] It currently houses an M.S. program in Games and Playable Media and an M.S. program in Serious Games, with an M.S. in Natural Language Processing and M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction in development, with a tentative launch date of Fall 2020.
John R. Lewis College is home to the University Center, a conference center located above the Dining Commons, and the Terry Freitas cafe, a student-run co-op cafe named after UCSC-alumni Terry Freitas, who was murdered in Colombia due to his work with the U'wa people to stop oil companies from drilling on U'wa land.
UC Santa Cruz joined the NCAA in September 1980 after years of playing in unofficial club competition. In 2016, due to mounting debt in the funding of the athletic program, the university polled its students on whether or not they would approve an increase in student fees which would be necessary to maintain the athletic program.
A tornado touched down in the Northern California town of Scotts Valley near Santa Cruz Saturday afternoon, flipping cars and knocking down power lines, according to authorities.