In Memory of Professor Emeritus William H. Friedland
Professor Emeritus William H. Friedland, founder of the community studies department at UC Santa Cruz, died at the age of 94 in his Santa Cruz home on Feb. 20. Friedland, who spent 22 years at UCSC, dedicated his career to documenting workers’ rights. He collaborated...
LRDP Committee Host First Community Forum
The Sequoia Ballroom at Hotel Paradox was alive with debate at the first of three Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) Community Interactive Forums on March 5. About 100 Santa Cruz community members and UC Santa Cruz staff discussed the next iteration of the LRDP, which...
Liberation Education Takes the Stage
A teacher teaches, and students are taught. The teacher knows everything, and the student knows nothing — key critiques by Paulo Freire in the “Pedagogy of the Oppressed.” Dr. Darrick Smith deconstructed these historically oppressive education models, after which about 150 attendees reassembled them with...
All Stocked Up With Nowhere To Go
The Student Union Assembly (SUA) food pantry helped feed more than 1,200 students last month, going through 25-30 packages of food per night including sushi, burritos, salads, fruit cups and sandwiches. Despite the pantry’s recent success in supporting 450 more students compared to fall quarter,...
Trump Administration Sues Calif.Over Immigration Laws
The Trump administration filed a lawsuit against California on Tuesday to challenge its policies protecting undocumented immigrants. The Department of Justice sued the state of California, along with Gov. Jerry Brown and state Attorney General Xavier Becerra, in response to three state laws that administration...
T.M. Robinson-Mosley, New Interim Dean of Students
T.M. Robinson-Mosley was chosen to be the interim associate vice chancellor for student engagement and development and interim Dean of Students (DOS) in January 2018. Robinson-Mosley will oversee the Dean of Students Office, a branch of the Division of Student Success that provides extracurricular programs...
Charges Against Union Demonstrator Dropped
All charges against David Cole, UC Berkeley (UCB) union worker, were dropped by the Alameda county prosecutor’s office on March 1, according to an American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) 3299 Facebook post. UCB police violently arrested Cole for throwing a sign...
Future For DACA Beyond March 5
U.S. District State Judge William Alsup ruled that the Trump administration’s actions to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is illegal in Regents of the University of California v. United States Department of Homeland Security. “The agency’s decision to rescind DACA was based...
City Declares Fiscal Emergency, Puts Sales Tax on June Ballot
Santa Cruz City Council declared a fiscal emergency during the most recent meeting on Tuesday afternoon and moved to place a sales tax on the June 2018 ballot. If the taxation measure receives enough votes during the special municipal election, the sales tax rate will...
Title IX Investigator Hired to Improve Processes
The UC Santa Cruz Title IX Office hired Rosamaria Garcia as a new principal investigator for sexual assault and harassment cases. She began this position Feb. 5, bringing the office’s total number of investigators to three. The office is increasing staff numbers to address the...