Support DACA Emergency Fundraiser for UCSC Students
President Donald Trump upended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program last week, leaving 800,000 DACA recipients across the country facing a future of uncertainty. In the days following, 16 state attorneys general, including California’s Xavier Becerra, sued the Trump administration over its decision,...
SUBMISSION: Engaging Education Calls for Chancellor’s Match
Engaging Education (e2) is a student-initiated center that creates programs for student from underrepresented and under resourced communities. We, the students, made a commitment to diversity by voting to tax ourselves to fund these programs. Almost all of the funding for these programs comes from...
“We need our people here.”
By Georgina Sandoval For three days and two nights, 85 admitted high school students visited UC Santa Cruz to experience student life through Engaging Education’s (e2) Student-Initiated Outreach (SIO) programs last week. The three programs — Destination Higher Education (DHE), A Step Forward (ASF) and...
Petitioning Against the Pit
Five members of the Student Union Governance Board (SUGB) slid a cardboard box across the table to Executive Vice Chancellor (EVC) Alison Galloway, one of UC Santa Cruz’s top administrators, on Feb. 18. Inside the box were 1,172 bright orange signed petitions — collected in...