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The union that represents 48,000 academic workers at UC, including graduate student teaching assistant and researchers, voted Wednesday to authorize a strike. The union say UC has violated workers’ rights by retaliating against them for participating in pro-Palestinian protests across the system’s 10 campuses.

The district that sent out the most pink slips this year to teachers has now canceled all of their layoffs.

President of Sonoma State University Mike Lee was placed on administrative leave Wednesday by the California State University, after he announced that he had agreed to some of the demands made by protesters to involve them in university decision-making and pursue divestment from Israel.

The University of California’s board of regents on Thursday postponed a vote on a controversial policy to restrict faculty departments from making opinionated statements on the homepages of university websites. The regents could next consider the policy at their July meeting in San Francisco.

Public speakers address UC leaders during a March UC regents meeting at UCLA.

Ethnomathematics, a teaching approach that connects math to culture, is emerging as a way to create more engaging and inclusive math classes, particularly for Black, Hispanic and Indigenous students, according to The Hechinger Report.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo will receive $60,000 over two years as part of a larger program to support students who are also parents, according to a Cal Poly news release.

UC Santa Cruz graduate teaching assistants, researchers and other academic workers will strike Monday, the union representing 48,000 student workers across the University of California announced Friday.

Powerful organizations argue governor would address short-tern challenge at the expense of future funding

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