Higher Education

About 340,000 California students completed a financial aid application, up about 11% over last year.

Social media swirled with rumors that ICE would be among the employers at the job fair, something the campus said is not true. Still, the campus postponed the event over concerns about Customs and Border Protection’s participation.

Women continue to lag behind men in certain science, technology, engineering and math programs.

The administration terminated the grants over alleged DEI violations. University of California attorneys argued the suspensions were arbitrary and capricious.

Google, Microsoft, Adobe and IBM will offer AI-related tools to California's schools and universities in an effort to prepare the state’s students for a changing economy.

After hundreds of international students lost their status this spring, then regained it following lawsuits, the uncertainty of it happening again has created fear. Some students say they’ve changed the routes they take on campus, the topics they research, and what they post on social media.

Even in California, where prison access to technology and research resources is better than average, students regularly face dead ends.

UC researchers claim a judge’s previous order barred the National Science Foundation from suspending UCLA’s grants.

The suspensions affect hundreds of UCLA grants and come days after Trump’s Department of Justice concluded in an investigation that “Jewish and Israeli students at UCLA were subjected to severe” harassment.

Inland Empire high school students have a higher graduation rate than their peers in California but are below average when it comes to enrolling in college.