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Sep 15th, 2016
The incoming UCLA freshman is a top-flight student, earning a 4.2 GPA at his San Diego high school. He’s the son of Mexican immigrants and the first in his family to attend...
Sep 20th, 2015
Welcome, UC Irvine undergrads — or welcome back! — to your public education and, yes, to our jobs. We academic student-workers (“teaching assistants” and “tutors”)...
Sep 3rd, 2015
The ranks of UC freshmen from other states and nations will rise substantially this fall at the Irvine, Davis and San Diego campuses, even as the controversially high numbers of...
Apr 30th, 2015
When asked what percentage of UC Irvine's service workers are Latino, Amanda Novoa thinks for a moment, then says, "Well, just by looking, I'd say 98 percent, but I'm just making...
Mar 22nd, 2015
Jack Peltason, a constitutional scholar with a modest manner and a homespun sense of humor who was a former chancellor of UC Irvine and president of the UC system for three years...
Nov 21st, 2013
Activists chanting "si, se puede" and "UC, escucha, estamos en la lucha" drowned out the traditional "$2 boba" chants at UC Irvine yesterday as workers, students and their...
Nov 20th, 2013
Thousands of UC service workers are picketing today across the system on a 24-hour unfair labor practice (ULP) strike authorized by the workers’ union AFSCME 3299 (American...
Nov 5th, 2013
Last Wednesday, 98 percent of UC Irvine service and patient care workers approved a vote to authorize an unfair labor practice strike, a number narrowly surpassing the statewide...
Oct 9th, 2013
Patient care workers at University of California hospitals, including UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange, will be taking a strike vote Oct. 28-30, their union (and the UC's...
