University of California

Newsom’s veto means a four-year battle to allow students without legal status to work at California’s public colleges wages on. This is the second time he vetoed such a bill to allow public colleges and universities to hire undocumented students.

Last year the White House suspended or cancelled more than 1,000 California science grants. This bond measure would restore some of that funding.

UCLA’s new major fuses technological tools for statistical analysis, coding, 3D mapping and data visualization with traditional humanities in subjects like history, literature and global cultures.

Following a CalMatters investigation, students and faculty at UC San Diego protested against campus police for collaborating with Border Patrol through a federal grant program. The university will stop participating in the program and aiding patrols, sources and internal documents confirm.

The Trump administration cancelled $2 billion of research grants to University of California professors. Their legal team says it has proof that those terminations were unconstitutional.

A growing number of professors are pushing the UC to reinstate the SAT for undergraduate admissions, which the Board of Regents removed from the admissions process in 2020.

In college admissions in California, the real quandary isn’t about requiring the SAT. It’s about how to select applicants when they all seem to be exceptional.

Since Gavin Newsom became governor, state support for California’s public universities has grown by 50%.

According to state law, campus police can own military weapons to uphold safety as long as they report it to the public. However, not every college follows every part of the law, according to an investigation by CalMatters into all 148 public colleges and universities in California.

The College Journalism Network at CalMatters investigated how public campuses throughout California were complying with a state law that requires transparency about military equipment. This guide is for student journalists to investigate their own campuses.