Breaking: UCSB graduate students voted tonight to go on a full strike starting Thursday for a cost-of-living adjustment to their pay, following the lead of UCSC graduate students who have been striking for two weeks now.
Story to come.
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- BREAKING: The UC announced plans to sue the federal government over recent changes from U.S. I.C.E., which bar international students from staying in the U.S. if they attend a university that offers only online-courses during the coronavirus pandemic. Story to come.
- BREAKING: The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to sue UC Santa Barbara over alleged failures to supply adequate housing to students under the Long Range Development Plan. Story to come.
- Stay safe, Gauchos. Nexus photographers were out during the storm and captured some of the lighting that hit Santa Barbara just a few minutes ago. 📸 by Will Tracy and Cameron Hsieh
- More than half of the UCSB women's basketball team has begun kneeling during the national anthem. (@thenexus_sports) dailynexus.com/2016-12-01/wom…
- A backpack for every student killed in a school shooting since Virginia Tech has been placed on the lawn across from Storke Tower. The 6 backpacks representing the UCSB students killed in the Isla Vista massacre are at the center of the piece. 📷: Hannah Jackson / Daily Nexus
- All UC schools will be switching to remote instruction for at least the first two weeks of winter quarter due to the spread of the Omicron variant.
- SBSO arrested the suspect in a string of attempted kidnappings earlier this week in Isla Vista. Story to come.
- BREAKING: The UC Regents unanimously voted during their board meeting today to eliminate the ACT/SAT requirement for college admissions over the next four years, a move that will likely impact college admissions processes across the country.
- On behalf of roughly a quarter million University of California students, UC Davis student Claire Brandmeyer filed a class-action lawsuit against the UC on Monday, calling on the academic system to return its spring term student fees back to students.
- BREAKING: The federal government has rescinded the July 6 I.C.E. policy that would have banned international students from staying in the U.S. at colleges offering only online classes, announced today in a hearing in Harvard and MIT's lawsuit about the regulations. Story to come.
- On day 8 of the UCSB COLA strike, organizers have taken over the Ortega Dining Commons, offering undergraduates a swipe-free meal as they chanted “all smiles, no swipes” to students coming in for lunch.
- BREAKING: Michael V. Drake is the new UC President, the UC regents announced in their meeting this afternoon. Drake will be the UC system's first Black president and will replace outgoing UC President Janet Napolitano, effective Aug. 1, 2020. Story to come.
- BREAKING: UCSB just announced that it will be “transitioning to remote instruction” for the rest of Winter Quarter and the beginning of Spring Quarter “through at least the end of April” to mitigate the spread of coronavirus in the area. t.e2ma.net/message/8c6buk…
