Katherine Swartz

Across the University of California, teaching assistants and tutors are unionized, but graduate student researchers are not. That could soon change, after organizers filed more than 10,000 signed union authorization cards with the California Public Employment Relations Board last month.

En toda la Universidad de California, los asistentes de enseñanza y los tutores están sindicados, pero los estudiantes investigadores graduados no. Eso podría cambiar pronto, después de que los organizadores presentaran más de 10,000 tarjetas de autorización sindicales firmadas ante la Junta de Relaciones Públicas de Empleo de California el mes pasado.

The chair of the University of California board of regents said Wednesday he’s open to considering dramatic cuts in the number of armed, sworn police officers across the university system.   The comments by Regent John Pérez came during a panel on the future of campus policing co-hosted by CalMatters and KQED, in which the UC […]

At 32 of 33 UC and CSU campuses, police officers are whiter than the students — and in many cases, disparities are glaring

En 32 de los 33 campus de UC y CSU, los agentes de policía son más blancos que los estudiantes y, en muchos casos, las disparidades son evidentes

Update, July 14: Immigrations and Customs Enforcement rescinded Tuesday its new rules requiring international students to attend in-person classes in order avoid deportation, after colleges around the country — including the University of California — sued to block them. The decision was announced as part of a settlement in a lawsuit filed by Harvard and […]