According to a copy of a contract released under the California Public Records Act, UC Davis administration admitted to paying public relations firm Nevins & Associates $175,000 “to create and execute an online branding campaign designed to clean up the negative attention the University of California, Davis and Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi have received related to the events that...
Two recent California laws are playing a major role in expanding women's rights. The first, which significantly eases access to birth control pills, was passed in 2013 and finally activated last Friday after years of regulatory discussion. The second, which was passed just days ago by Governor Jerry Brown, would extend the length of time new parents can take...
The University of California and the California Community Colleges (CCC) system have approved a collaborative effort to increase UC enrollment of community college students over the next three years through expanding campus outreach and Transfer Pathways, a program dedicated to setting transfer students on course to major in popular fields, such as computer science, history and psychology. $2.6 million...
First and foremost, the president of the University of California’s duty is to shape the vision — the mission statement — for the university system by working with the UC Board of Regents and campus chancellors, while maintaining the high academic standards it is known for. In pursuit of this, the president must also manage several multimillion and multibillion-dollar...
The Oscars have come and gone, and with them, an array of questions and controversy regarding race, representation and Chris Rock humor. This awards show is an ideal opportunity for the public to raise its concerns with these issues and in turn, force the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Hollywood to address their mutual problems.
The academy...
During a town hall meeting on Feb. 9, Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox announced a change in direction to UCR’s Strategic Action Plan, or UCR 2020, which seeks to further and guide the future growth of the university. Instead of continuing to hire large numbers of faculty members, Wilcox stated that the hiring process will be slowed down. In the...
There is a little-known law called “advance parole” that allows people who are not documented American citizens to leave the country under certain conditions and return legally. A person filing for advance parole can make an excursion for educational purposes, such as studying abroad, or for humanitarian reasons, such as visiting ill family members in another country. In particular,...
Around late January, UC Irvine’s Black Student Union (UCIBSU) published a list of demands on both the Afrikan Black Coalition website and Change.org directed toward members of the UCI administration, such as UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman. While the former consisted of various demands for more resources ranging from the establishment of the Marsha P. Johnson Black Student Resource, Outreach...
After the final due date of Nov. 30, the number of undergraduate applicants was counted and revealed promising results for UCR: For the first time in our school’s history, UCR received over 50,000 applications; to be specific, out of the 52,467 total applicants, 41,559 were freshmen applicants and 10,908 were transfer applicants. In contrast to 2014, UCR saw a...
Recently, the University of California system divested from California's private prisons, selling approximately $25 million in shares from several of these corporations. This comes after a period of protest by students across the UC who have objected to alleged human rights abuses occurring in private prisons.
On a superficial level, this move by the UC is in line with the...