Campus

November 20, 2022

UCSB reduces COVID-19 mitigation efforts beginning winter quarter

By Asumi Shuda

UCSB will discontinue its COVID-19 testing center at Building 434 and end PCR testing on campus entirely.

November 20, 2022

Record number of students attend UCSB

By Mark Alfred

Of the total students enrolled, 23,460 are undergraduates, reflecting the highest levels of undergraduate enrollment at UCSB to date.

November 17, 2022

First week of UC union strikes begins

By Mark Alfred, Holly Rusch

Academic employees across all ten University of California campuses are withholding labor, picketing and marching through campus.

November 14, 2022

Hundreds march at UCSB as largest higher education strike begins

By Mark Alfred, Holly Rusch, Bella Leonard

Over 500 graduate students, employees, faculty members and UC Santa Barbara community members congregated at Davidson Library.

November 12, 2022

New Department of Homeland Security rule aims to preserve Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program amid court scrutiny

By Asumi Shuda

There are nearly 3,460 DACA participants enrolled at a University of California (UC) campus annually.

November 11, 2022

Student leaders advocate for greater physical accessibility of UCSB campus

By Asumi Shuda, Melea Maglalang

The lack of accessibility requirements has resulted in insufficiencies in several campus buildings, presenting barriers to students with physical disabilities.

November 11, 2022

Vista Point: Weekly goings-on in and around I.V.

By Asumi Shuda

Weekly events in and around Isla Vista.

November 10, 2022

Get out the vote: campaigning efforts occur across campus

By Nisha Malley, Vikesh Dheeriya

Carbajal’s Get Out The Vote Campaign reached out to UCSB students to vote through texts, phone calls, door-to-door outreach and tabling at the UCen.

November 10, 2022

Academic workers prepare for Nov. 14 strike

By Mark Alfred, Holly Rusch

The strike is based on allegations that the UC has engaged in unfair labor practices throughout the process to negotiate a new contract for employees.

November 7, 2022

EVPLA Office hosts voter registration fair ahead of midterms

By Asumi Shuda

The voter guide contained information on voting rights and ballot drop-off boxes in I.V. and on UCSB’s campus, as well as information on California propositions.

November 7, 2022

Vista Point: Weekly goings on in and around I.V.

By Asumi Shuda

Weekly events in and around Isla Vista.

November 7, 2022

UCSB Latinx/Chicanx Community celebrates Día De los Muertos

By Asumi Shuda

Día De los Muertos originated in Mesoamerica as a holiday tradition to celebrate the lives of those who passed away.

November 5, 2022

Three UC unions ready to begin strike on Nov. 14

By Mark Alfred, Holly Rusch

A strike would see the 48,000 unionized UC workers organized under United Auto Workers — including TAs, graduate students and academic researchers, academic student employees and others — withhold their labor from th...

November 4, 2022

Sustainable University Now to sue UCSB, seeking documents related to Munger Hall

By Mark Alfred

S.U.N. also accused UCSB of violating its agreement with the university by not adequately addressing the issue of student housing.

November 3, 2022

Nexus Explained: Munger Hall

By Mark Alfred

Prior to the Munger Hall project, UCSB spent years developing a different student residence, an apartment complex known as Mesa Verde.

October 31, 2022

Students form PATH club to foster connection with residents experiencing houselessness

By Sindhu Ananthavel

The club provides an avenue for students to regularly volunteer at the shelter, primarily through preparing and serving meals to P.A.T.H. residents.