UC News

March 5, 2020

This Week in UC News 2/27 – 3/04

By Staff Report

Our column “UC News” will showcase the top stories of the week from other UC student newspapers in our weekly print edition and online.

March 5, 2020

“I think people are just fed up”: COLA Organizers Call For Thursday UC-Wide Work Stoppage As Movement Reaches All 10 UC Campuses

By Evelyn Spence

With the launch of a COLA group at UCSF, all 10 UC campuses now have rumblings of COLA organizing on their respective campuses.

March 5, 2020

“We’re monitoring the entire world at this point”: UCEAP Suspends Three Study Abroad Programs Due to Coronavirus

By Sanya Kamidi

The China study abroad program was cancelled at the end of January; the South Korea and Italy programs were cancelled last week.

February 28, 2020

Breaking: UCSC Dismisses 54 Graduate Students on COLA Strike for Failure to Turn In Fall Quarter 2019 Grades

By Evelyn Spence, Max Abrams

Several graduate students who received dismissal letters posted screenshots of them on social media.

February 25, 2020

UC Santa Barbara Releases 2019-20 Campus Population Data

By Jackson Guilfoil

Across the UC system, the number of freshman applicants decreased by 2.5% from the last school year, but transfer student applications increased by 4.7%.

February 24, 2020

Breaking: UCSB Graduate Students Vote To Begin Full Strike on Thursday for Cost-of-Living Adjustment

By Katherine Swartz, Sanya Kamidi

UCSB 4 COLA is calling for a monthly amount of $1,807.51.

February 24, 2020

UCGPC President Says Napolitano Meeting Is Not To Negotiate a COLA

By Max Abrams

Strobel described the incident as a “misunderstanding” and said that UCGPC meets with Napolitano on a yearly basis.

February 23, 2020

UC Regents Release Implementation Guidelines To “Generally” Prohibit Outsourcing

By Max Abrams

According to Andrew Gordon, UC Office of the President (UCOP) spokesperson, the new guidelines are effective immediately.

February 23, 2020

Graduate Students Occupy Cheadle Hall Until Midnight, Rally for COLA and University Support of UCSC Strikers

By Katherine Swartz, Sanya Kamidi

Graduate students from advocacy group UCSB 4 COLA organized the sit-in in response to a call for solidarity from UCSC graduate students.

February 21, 2020

In Photos | “UC, UC, you’re no good, pay your workers like you should”: UCSB Graduate Students Rally In Solidarity With UCSC

By Daily Nexus Photography

Live coverage of the Cheadle Hall occupation can be viewed on Twitter at @dailynexus.

February 20, 2020

Graduate Students To Occupy Cheadle Hall All Day Friday For Cost-of-Living Adjustment

By Katherine Swartz

In addition to supporting the UCSC cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) movement, UCSB graduate students are fighting for their own COLA of $1,807.51 a month.

February 18, 2020

Janet Napolitano, UCSC Administration Warn of Termination to Striking UCSC Graduate Students

By Katherine Swartz

Napolitano said the UC would not re-open the union’s current contract nor would it agree to a COLA in addition to the current contract.

February 13, 2020

Across UC System, Graduate Students Unite for COLA Movement

By Evelyn Spence

At the root of the UC COLA movements is the concept of rent burden; students’ rent burdens vary, but across the UC, organizers have been using it to calculate COLAs specific to their universities.