Graduate Students To Occupy Cheadle Hall All Day Friday For Cost-of-Living Adjustment
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.
25 Years Later, Women’s Rights Icon Anita Hill Returns to UCSB
Hill did not dwell on her own experiences in the Senate Judiciary Committee and instead focused her speech on the work that still remains after the launch of the #MeToo movement.
3rd District Supervisor Candidates Field Community Questions at Isla Vista Town Hall
Questions written by attendees prior challenged the candidates on issues including environmental policy, mental health and affordable housing in I.V. and the county as a whole.
Janet Napolitano, UCSC Administration Warn of Termination to Striking UCSC Graduate Students
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.
UCSB Students for Justice in Palestine Calls for Boycott of SB Hillel Trip To Israel and Palestine
The executive director of the Santa Barbara Hillel, Rabbi Evan Goodman, has organized and led the trip for the past five years.
From “The Central Park Five” to “The Exonerated Five”: Yusef Salaam Speaks at UCSB About Criminal Justice System
Salaam talked about his experience in prison, in a talk titled ‘From ‘The Central Park Five’ to ‘The Exonerated Five.’”
Across UC System, Graduate Students Unite for COLA Movement
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.
Soc 152A Professors Reminisce Over More than Four Decades of Teaching Sex-Ed
Janice and John Baldwin have been teaching the current iteration of Soc 152A for over 40 years.
UCSB Graduate Students Present Demands for Cost-of-Living Adjustment
UC San Diego, UC Los Angeles and UC Davis graduate students also held rallies yesterday in support of a COLA at their respective universities.