Mallika Seshadri

When Laura Swartzen saw the email from Sacramento State University’s Title IX office, it felt like her heart skipped a beat.  Swartzen, the Sac State confidential campus advocate, had spent the past nine months supporting a student who reported being sexually assaulted. Swartzen had listened to the student’s wrenching account, offered to connect them with […]

California colleges are applying lessons learned from COVID-19 as they attempt to keep monkeypox from spreading on campuses. Experts say the disease poses a lower health risk than COVID but could keep students from their studies for longer periods.

Free college isn’t a new idea in California. But some community colleges, facing declining enrollment, are waiving fees for more students than ever, and adding on perks like free textbooks, meals and transportation.

En resumen Los campus de la Universidad de California y Cal State comenzarán a proporcionar servicios de aborto con medicamentos a partir del 1 de enero bajo una nueva ley estatal. A raíz de la decisión de la Corte Suprema que anuló Roe v. Wade, la apertura de citas de aborto en los campus universitarios […]

University of California and Cal State campuses will all start providing medication abortion beginning Jan. 1 under a new state law. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, opening up abortion appointments on university campuses could ease pressure on local clinics, which will likely see an influx of out-of-state patients.

Stop AAPI Hate, a California-based coalition, has recorded nearly 7,000 hate incidents involving Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders nationwide since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. It’s become a key source of information for the media and for advocates looking to stop the surge of racist attacks.

Stop AAPI Hate, una coalición con sede en California, ha registrado casi 7.000 incidentes de odio que involucran a estadounidenses de origen asiático e isleños del Pacífico en todo el país desde el comienzo de la pandemia de coronavirus. Se ha convertido en una fuente clave de información para los medios y para los defensores que buscan detener la oleada de ataques racistas.

Lea este artículo en español. In mid-January, science education professor Al Schademan received one of around 2,000 emails sent to faculty, student employees and essential staff at California State University, Chico. The email contained a surprise for Schademan: He would be among the first higher education employees in California to gain coveted access to the coronavirus […]

Read this article in English.   A mediados de enero, el profesor de educación científica Al Schademan recibió uno de alrededor de 2.000 correos electrónicos enviados a profesores, empleados estudiantiles y personal esencial de la Universidad Estatal de California en Chico. El correo electrónico contenía una sorpresa para Schademan: estaría entre los primeros empleados de educación superior […]

International students forced to return to their home countries. Low-income students losing the jobs that kept them afloat. Professors and students alike pushed off campus and adjusting to virtual learning, sometimes without access to the technology they needed.  The coronavirus pandemic disrupted nearly every aspect of California higher education as we knew it. In the […]