Pandemic Highlights Job Precarity for Lecturers
The fight for increased job security is nothing new for UC lecturers. About 1,600 lecturers lose their jobs every year. Amid COVID-19, UCOP announced there would be no layoffs through June 30. But unless the UC makes these protections more permanent, lecturers will be left…
UCSC Health Services Remain Operational
The UC Santa Cruz Student Health Center is open and will remain open during spring quarter. In-person visits are limited to students living on campus who experience acute injury or illness. Everyone accessing in-person care will be screened for fever and respiratory symptoms before entering….
Campus Moves to Protect Students from COVID-19
By Haneen Zain and Elena Neale Updated: March 13, 2020 3:22 p.m. UC Santa Cruz suspended all in-person classes from March 11 through April 3 after a second case of COVID-19, or coronavirus disease 2019, was confirmed in Santa Cruz County on March 9. The…
Amid Shortage, Psychology Department Opens Two New Senior Seminars
About 85 expectant psychology and cognitive science graduates were left unable to enroll in senior seminars for the spring 2020 quarter, after a Feb. 26 email announced that these courses received more applicants than the UC Santa Cruz psychology department prepared for. The department has…
UCSC Fires At Least 74 Graduate Student Employees
UC Santa Cruz is facing an uncertain future after the administration fired dozens of striking graduate students last week. Since Friday, more graduate students have received notice that they will not get teaching assistant (TA) positions this spring. UCSC Executive Communications Manager Marc DesJardins confirmed…
Graduate Student Teaching Strike Spreads to UC Santa Barbara
So-called “Doomsday” came and went last Friday as about 85 UC Santa Cruz graduate students voted to continue withholding fall quarter grades after a day that saw about 1,000 students, workers and faculty rally and march through campus. Marchers succeeded in shutting down campus entrances,…
GABRIELA Comes to Santa Cruz
When her husband Diego was assassinated, Gabriela Silang took up his role as leader of the revolutionary movement resisting Spanish colonialism in the Philippines. She became an icon in Pilipinx culture, representing the strength of women and the fight for women’s liberation. In the Philippines today,…
UC Administration Threatens to Fire Striking Graduate Students
By Julian Barragan and Anna Maria Camardo On their sixth day of picketing, UC Santa Cruz graduate students erected a plywood clock counting down to Friday, or, as they are calling it, Doomsday. Last week, the UC administration sent a series of emails calling for…
Graduate Students On Strike
Graduate students at UC Santa Cruz have had enough. After two months on a grading strike with no action beyond dialogue from the university administration, the Graduate Student Association (GSA) voted to initiate a full teaching strike beginning Feb. 10. The picket drew several hundred…
711 Empty Beds on Campus
*Pseudonym used at source’s request. It was fall 2019, and on the fifth floor of Building A at Merrill College second-year Archer Willems and his friends decided to turn the empty quintuple room down their hall into the lounge it once was a decade ago. …