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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10 a.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> University of California academic researchers and postdoctoral scholars agreed on a tentative contract with the university system, 15 days into a massive, statewide strike, union leaders announced Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed five-year deal, reached after midnight, addresses workers’ key demands, including significant cost-of-living wage increases — of up to $12,000 by next year — as well as paid family leave and stronger job security, according to a union press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neal Sweeney, president of United Auto Workers Local 5810, which represents the two bargaining units involved, called the concessions “historic,” saying they would amount to “the largest salary increase of a postdoctoral scholars’ union contract that I’ve seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These two contracts and the contracts that will come hopefully in a short number of days [for the other bargaining units] really set the standard,” Sweeney said. “I think it’s the start of a reconsideration of how university researchers are treated across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/stealyrcarbon/status/1597626560005038080\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roughly 12,000 workers who would be covered under the agreement make up just about a quarter of the nearly 48,000 academic workers striking statewide. Those still in negotiations with UC include some 19,000 part-time graduate student instructors and teaching assistants and about 17,000 student researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sweeney said the postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers his union represents plan to remain on the picket line until the agreement is ratified — possibly by next week — and are pledging to continue striking in solidarity with the remaining 36,000 academic workers still seeking a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re calling on the university to seriously come to the table, make serious proposals to academic student employees and student researchers who are still bargaining, and to make sure that they can reach fair agreements to recognize the contributions that our colleagues make,” Sweeney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, UC officials called the workers “vital to UC’s research activities,” and said the terms of the agreement “uphold our tradition of supporting these employees with compensation and benefits packages that are among the best in the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most postdoctoral scholars, the tentative agreement includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A 20%–23% salary increase (of up to $12,000) by October 2023, with the lowest-paid postdoctoral workers slated to receive a 57% bump over five years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Annual increases of 3% to 7.2% for most postdoctoral workers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Eight weeks of paid parental and family leave (up from the current four weeks), paid at 100%.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>New child care subsidies starting at $2,500 annually and increasing to $2,800.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Longer appointments to improve job security, and stronger protections against bullying and to support workers with disabilities.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Transportation benefits, including a commitment for free transit passes within three years and an e-bike discount of at least 15%.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For academic researchers, the agreement includes similar enhanced job-protection and family-leave benefits, as well as an average 29% salary increase over the five-year contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 6 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe strike by University of California academic workers is now entering its third week, continuing what organizers have called the largest higher-education labor action in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With final exams and the end-of-semester grading period looming, nearly 48,000 graduate students, post-docs and researchers from across the system’s 10 campuses have continued to participate in the work stoppage, which began Nov. 14. Union organizers say little progress has been made in meeting \u003ca href=\"https://www.fairucnow.org/cola/\">their key demands\u003c/a>, which include significant wage increases tied to the cost of housing; transportation and child care subsidies; and guaranteed accommodations for workers with disabilities.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11932746,forum_2010101891301,news_11932147\"]“It’s been 11 days now since the university bargained with us at all over the most important thing right now, which is compensation and generally the economic portions of our contract. So the university is just choosing to stall us out at the moment, and we find that unconscionable,” said Tanzil Chowdhury, a graduate student research assistant at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a bargaining team member for Student Researchers United, one of the four academic worker bargaining units represented by the United Auto Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It shows that they’re willing to put just about everything that this university stands for at risk,” he added. “The research that we do [and] the teaching that we provide are very important to the functioning of the university and, I think, to the whole state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, a representative for the university system said that there had been a pause in negotiations after Nov. 23 for the Thanksgiving break, and that talks were scheduled to resume this week. Ryan King, associate director of media relations at UC’s Office of the President, emphasized that there have been more than 50 bargaining sessions with union leaders since last spring that have yielded 95 tentative agreements “on issues ranging from workplace accessibility, to respectful work environments, to nondiscrimination in employment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, “the union’s proposal to tie wages and pay increases to housing rents would have a large-scale and unpredictable financial impact on the University,” King said in the email. He added that “the rents assessed to graduate and undergraduate students for University housing are already 20-25 percent below market rates, with some campuses providing even deeper discounts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UAW has accused UC of unfair bargaining practices, alleging that UC has improperly withheld information about wages and stipends on some campuses — in one case for two years. 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Strikers are calling for improved wages and benefits at the 10 UC public university campuses across California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the strike drags on, a growing number of professors across the UC system have voiced support for the workers: As of Monday, around 300 faculty members have signed a \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/ucfacultypledgeofsolidarity/home\">solidarity pledge\u003c/a> promising to honor the workers’ picket lines by, among other actions, “withdrawing our instructional labor, including teaching classes (with or without TA’s; virtual or in-person), advising, and grading, for as long as the strike endures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of signatories includes notable names such as renowned activist Angela Davis, who teaches at UC Santa Cruz, and philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler, of UC Berkeley, as well as UCSF doctor and musician \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13855177/doctor-musician-and-activist-rupa-marya-offers-a-healing-balm-on-new-april-fishes-album\">Rupa Marya\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chowdhury said the striking workers have received “overwhelmingly positive” support from undergraduate students as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think undergrads know how critical we are to the mission of the university,” he said. “I think they understand that the working conditions we face result in worse learning conditions for them. 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So the university is just choosing to stall us out at the moment, and we find that unconscionable,” said Tanzil Chowdhury, a graduate student research assistant at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a bargaining team member for Student Researchers United, one of the four academic worker bargaining units represented by the United Auto Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It shows that they’re willing to put just about everything that this university stands for at risk,” he added. “The research that we do [and] the teaching that we provide are very important to the functioning of the university and, I think, to the whole state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, a representative for the university system said that there had been a pause in negotiations after Nov. 23 for the Thanksgiving break, and that talks were scheduled to resume this week. Ryan King, associate director of media relations at UC’s Office of the President, emphasized that there have been more than 50 bargaining sessions with union leaders since last spring that have yielded 95 tentative agreements “on issues ranging from workplace accessibility, to respectful work environments, to nondiscrimination in employment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, “the union’s proposal to tie wages and pay increases to housing rents would have a large-scale and unpredictable financial impact on the University,” King said in the email. He added that “the rents assessed to graduate and undergraduate students for University housing are already 20-25 percent below market rates, with some campuses providing even deeper discounts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UAW has accused UC of unfair bargaining practices, alleging that UC has improperly withheld information about wages and stipends on some campuses — in one case for two years. 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Brown said, “I respect their choice” to strike, and acknowledged the “significant challenge” that California’s soaring housing costs create for students and employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said that the union demand to tie compensation to housing costs “could have overwhelming financial impacts on the University.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One review of the Union’s proposal predicts an annual unfunded obligation of at least several hundred million dollars, with inflationary pressure and no cap,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown also pushed back against the demand to waive out-of-state tuition for international scholars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we were to provide remission of out-of state supplemental tuition, non-California student employees would in effect receive a larger compensation package than California resident student employees for doing the same work,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown noted that the university is offering academic workers multiyear pay raises — including up to 10% increases within the first year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that is far short of the 100% increases the union is pushing for. Organizers argue their demands are essential for academic workers to earn a living wage, and would total no more than 3% of UC’s entire $44 billion budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the money that we need to be able to address the cost of living and housing in California,” said Neal Sweeney, president of United Auto Workers Local 5810, which represents postdoctoral instructors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Academic workers have long been underpaid and undervalued, he added, noting that “our work brings in about $5 billion in research grants each year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the California Labor Federation, which sanctioned the strike, called on guest speakers and elected officials to cancel scheduled events at UC campuses until a fair agreement is reached. 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It’s completely absurd,” Feijó said. “The amount of stress and pressure that we are under is ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feijo also has to pay thousands of dollars each year in nonresident fees, an extra burden that union negotiators are seeking to reduce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932309\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932309\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with a baby strapped to her chest holds a sign that says: 'Our working conditions = their learning conditions"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anaya Hall, a graduate student instructor at UC Berkeley, brought her baby Mazie to the picket line on the west side of campus Monday. \u003ccite>(Jean Zamora/UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are not just here in a symbolic demonstration,” Feijó said. “We are really intended on disrupting this university until the administration is forced to recognize how much they depend on us and our labor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike comes amid a surge of labor actions and union organizing this year, both in California and across the country, as demand for workers in multiple industries has spiked. 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The UAW locals at UC have been forced to file more than 20 unfair labor practices to address their refusal to provide the information we need to bargain unilateral changes to our working conditions and more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fairucnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CA-Leg-Letter.pdf\">a group of 33 state lawmakers sent a letter in support of the academic workers\u003c/a>, urging UC President Michael Drake “to avert strikes by ceasing to commit unfair labor practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The UC is one of the top public university systems and research institutions in the world, in no small part because of its ability to attract the most talented scholars from a wide array of backgrounds,” the letter reads. “But the UC system cannot live up to its mission and reputation if its own employees do not feel respected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC officials told students they should plan to continue attending their classes, but warned that some could be canceled depending on how many people participated in the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Department chairs and faculty will work together to ensure the least amount of disruption to the delivery of instruction and grading, as well as research,” UC Berkeley wrote in an email to its students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932391\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932391\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"People holding signs demonstrate on a sidewalk, near a UCSF bus.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers demonstrate at the UCSF Mission Bay campus on Nov. 15, 2022, the second day of an open-ended strike among nearly 48,000 academic employees across all 10 University of California campuses. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators were out in force Monday at UC’s 10 campuses across the state, which are attended by some 300,000 students. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fairucnow.org/cola/\">Demonstrators are demanding\u003c/a> a minimum annual salary of $54,000 for graduate workers and $70,000 for postdoctoral workers, and a 14% pay bump for academic researchers. The union is also pushing UC to offer child-care subsidies, better health care for dependents, public-transit passes, better accessibility for workers with disabilities and lower tuition costs for international scholars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pê Feijó, a graduate student instructor in UC Berkeley’s Rhetoric Department, was among the throng of academic workers who walked off the job Monday morning. Feijó said about 75% of the $26,000 a year they earn goes toward rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just and not fair. It’s completely absurd,” Feijó said. “The amount of stress and pressure that we are under is ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feijo also has to pay thousands of dollars each year in nonresident fees, an extra burden that union negotiators are seeking to reduce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932309\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932309\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with a baby strapped to her chest holds a sign that says: 'Our working conditions = their learning conditions"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anaya Hall, a graduate student instructor at UC Berkeley, brought her baby Mazie to the picket line on the west side of campus Monday. \u003ccite>(Jean Zamora/UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are not just here in a symbolic demonstration,” Feijó said. “We are really intended on disrupting this university until the administration is forced to recognize how much they depend on us and our labor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike comes amid a surge of labor actions and union organizing this year, both in California and across the country, as demand for workers in multiple industries has spiked. In recent months, the Bay Area has been a hotbed of labor activism, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/nurses-strike\">particularly among nurses\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929713/kaiser-mental-health-workers-appove-new-contract-ending-10-week-strike\">other health care workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/UAW\">UC officials said they had entered the talks with a “genuine willingness to compromise,”\u003c/a> adding that “many tentative agreements” on issues such as health and safety had been reached.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“UC’s primary goal in these negotiations is multiyear agreements that recognize these employees’ important and highly valued contributions to UC’s teaching and research mission with fair pay, quality health and family-friendly benefits, and a supportive and respectful work environment,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC also said it had offered multiyear wage increases, ranging from 4% to 26%, depending on the bargaining unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Neal Sweeney, president of UAW 5810, which represents more than 11,000 postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers, said negotiations had dragged on for more than a year, and accused UC officials of failing to bargain in good faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC has left us no choice but to escalate our campaigns,” he said, earlier this month. “Rather than coming to fair agreements, the university has engaged in a wide variety of unlawful tactics. The UAW locals at UC have been forced to file more than 20 unfair labor practices to address their refusal to provide the information we need to bargain unilateral changes to our working conditions and more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fairucnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CA-Leg-Letter.pdf\">a group of 33 state lawmakers sent a letter in support of the academic workers\u003c/a>, urging UC President Michael Drake “to avert strikes by ceasing to commit unfair labor practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The UC is one of the top public university systems and research institutions in the world, in no small part because of its ability to attract the most talented scholars from a wide array of backgrounds,” the letter reads. “But the UC system cannot live up to its mission and reputation if its own employees do not feel respected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC officials told students they should plan to continue attending their classes, but warned that some could be canceled depending on how many people participated in the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Department chairs and faculty will work together to ensure the least amount of disruption to the delivery of instruction and grading, as well as research,” UC Berkeley wrote in an email to its students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932391\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932391\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"People holding signs demonstrate on a sidewalk, near a UCSF bus.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers demonstrate at the UCSF Mission Bay campus on Nov. 15, 2022, the second day of an open-ended strike among nearly 48,000 academic employees across all 10 University of California campuses. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators were out in force Monday at UC’s 10 campuses across the state, which are attended by some 300,000 students. On some campuses, students joined in solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lex Von Klark, a 22-year-old political science student at UCLA, was among several hundred people on campus holding signs and participating in the picket line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am out here primarily because these people are my teachers, and their working conditions are my learning conditions,” he said. “Basically, if my teachers are getting paid less than a living wage and have to work multiple jobs, it makes it hard for me to get a high-end education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even at UC Merced, the system’s newest campus, which is located in one of California’s most affordable regions, academic workers on the picket line said inflation and the rising costs of rent make it tough to get by on their low salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It used to be very cheap to rent apartments here, and now it’s not that way anymore,” said Albert Dibenedetto, a graduate student in the school’s physics department, who makes just over $30,000 as teaching assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at UC Berkeley, Mariagrazia De Luca, a doctoral student in the Italian Studies program, makes only slightly more than that, despite living in one of the most expensive parts of the state. Her $34,000 salary, she said, is not nearly enough to cover her rent and the rising child care expenses she has to pay for her only child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would love to have a second one, but I’m a little bit scared and concerned about the financial burden, so we stick with one,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from The Associated Press, KQED’s Julia McEvoy and KVPR’s Esther Quintanilla.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court is set to soon decide whether race-based programs in admissions are lawful. California, where voters banned affirmative action in 1996, has already been down that road, and University of California officials have asked the court to allow race-conscious admissions policies elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11844364,news_11844254,science_1970355\"]The proof of their need, officials and college access advocates say, is in UC’s series of failed efforts to increase diversity without affirmative action. The system’s latest attempt to make admissions more equitable was its high-profile decision to eliminate standardized test scores, but that too has so far had little impact in improving racial diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conservative-leaning Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on October 31 in two cases, against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and could overturn a long-standing precedent allowing the consideration of race in college admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California voters in 1996 approved Proposition 209, which banned affirmative action in college admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC has since implemented a number of policies designed to increase diversity, from outreach efforts targeted at students from lower-income families to admission guarantees to more students. But while those policies improved geographic diversity and increased enrollment among students from lower-income families, they have failed to bring racial diversity that’s representative of the state to UC’s student body, \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1199/232355/20220801134931730_20-1199%20bsac%20University%20of%20California.pdf\">UC acknowledged in an amicus brief\u003c/a> it filed with the Supreme Court this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC told the Supreme Court that “despite its extensive efforts, UC struggles to enroll a student body that is sufficiently racially diverse to attain the educational benefits of diversity. The shortfall is especially apparent at UC’s most selective campuses, where African American, Native American, and Latinx students are underrepresented and widely report struggling with feelings of racial isolation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s high school seniors in 2021 were 54% Latino and 5.4% Black. But that fall, UC’s incoming freshmen were 26% Latino and 4.4% Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC concluded to the court that its decades-long experience with race-neutral admissions “demonstrates that highly competitive universities may not be able to achieve the benefits of student body diversity through race-neutral measures alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/UCB_039-1200x750-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11928982\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/UCB_039-1200x750-1-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"college students in a study hall\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/UCB_039-1200x750-1-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/UCB_039-1200x750-1-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/UCB_039-1200x750-1-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/UCB_039-1200x750-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">University of California at Berkeley students on campus in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union. \u003ccite>(Alison Yin/EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The university’s newest policy change — eliminating standardized tests — could be the latest evidence that even admissions policies that remove barriers can’t achieve racial diversity to the degree that affirmative action would. Critics of the SAT and ACT have said the tests are biased in favor of affluent, mostly white and Asian students with better access to test preparation, tutoring and the ability to take the exams multiple times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the system of nine undergraduate campuses eliminated standardized tests in admissions, a decision that college access advocates hoped would result in higher enrollments of Black and Latino students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in fall 2021, the first term when incoming students weren’t required to take the SAT or ACT, UC enrolled roughly the same percentage of new Black and Latino students as it did in previous fall terms. Enrollment data for fall 2022 likely won’t be released until January, but UC admitted about the same proportion of Black and Latino students as it did last year. Since eliminating the tests, UC has seen a large spike in the number of Black and Latino students applying to the system, but more white and Asian students also have been applying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some UC officials say it shouldn’t be surprising that eliminating the tests hasn’t made a major difference in the racial makeup of UC students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s mostly because test scores were already a small part of admissions decisions, which considered 14 factors, said Michelle Whittingham, associate vice chancellor of enrollment management at UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think individuals all throughout the country and throughout the world that were watching the University of California kind of made an assumption that things drastically changed. And that’s not the case,” Whittingham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1204097836.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11928989\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1204097836-800x527.jpg\" alt=\"students bicycle on a college campus\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1204097836-800x527.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1204097836-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1204097836-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1204097836.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students cycle past Kearney Hall on the campus of UC Davis. \u003ccite>(Nick Otto/The Washington Post)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the same time, officials note that test scores are just one barrier for underrepresented students. Access to supports like college counseling, Advanced Placement classes and small class sizes remain unequal across California and the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are cautioning, though, that it’s too early to draw conclusions because the system has been through only two admissions cycles without standardized tests and because there have been many other factors at play since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the amicus brief UC filed with the Supreme Court, the university wrote that it’s not yet clear what the impact of eliminating the tests will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would hesitate to draw conclusions from any singular data point over the last two years. Combining the effects of the global pandemic, with all the various things that went on, and then with the SAT requirement changes on top of that, I think it’s going to take a while before any of that makes sense in context,” said Dale Leaman, executive director of undergraduate admissions at UC Irvine.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A real dampening effect’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Proposition 209 banned UC from considering race in admissions, “freshmen enrollees from underrepresented minority groups dropped precipitously at UC,” the system wrote in the brief it filed with the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was true for each of UC’s campuses, but especially at its most selective campuses: UCLA and UC Berkeley. At UCLA, for example, Black students made up 7.13% of the freshman class in 1995 but just 3.43% in 1998. The proportion of Latino students dropped from 21.58% to 10.45% over the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no question that when Prop. 209 passed, there was a real dampening effect on racial equity efforts,” said Audrey Dow, senior vice president at Campaign for College Opportunity, a group that advocates for better access to California universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Proposition 209 was approved by voters, UC has tried to increase diversity through several initiatives. The system has spent more than half a billion dollars implementing outreach programs, such as its \u003ca href=\"https://eaop.universityofcalifornia.edu/\">Early Academic Outreach Program\u003c/a> in which UC works directly with students from underserved high schools and helps them complete all admissions requirements and apply for financial aid. While those kinds of programs have helped UC enroll more students from lower-income families, they haven’t been as effective in enrolling higher percentages of Black and Latino students, according to the Supreme Court brief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-513161022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11928992\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-513161022-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Black students march on a college campus during a protest\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-513161022-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-513161022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-513161022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-513161022.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Black Student Union at UC Riverside march during a 2016 solidarity protest following the assault of an African American student at UC Davis by three white men. A recent amicus brief from the University of California system to the US Supreme Court stated that ‘African American, Native American, and Latinx students are underrepresented and widely report struggling with feelings of racial isolation.’ \u003ccite>(Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2001, UC also implemented a local program that now guarantees admission somewhere in the system to California residents who are in the top 9% of their high school class. The program is a way to ensure that students at schools across the state have access to UC, and it has helped the system improve its geographic diversity. However, like the outreach programs, the local guarantees “have not substantially increased the racial diversity of students admitted to UC, and they have had little impact at the most selective campuses,” UC wrote in the brief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in 2001, UC introduced holistic review in admissions. The system went from primarily using grades and test scores to determine whether a student was admitted to, instead, using the 14 factors — now 13 with the elimination of test scores. Among the factors that UC now considers is the location of a student’s high school as well as a student’s accomplishments in light of special circumstances, such as whether the student comes from a lower-income family or is the first in their family to attend college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But UC acknowledged in its Supreme Court brief that holistic review “has not been sufficient to counteract the declines in diversity after Proposition 209.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California voters recently had a chance to reverse course and allow UC to consider affirmative action. Proposition 16, on the ballot in 2020, would have repealed Proposition 209, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/voters-appear-to-be-rejecting-proposition-16-to-restore-affirmative-action/642910\">but it was defeated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Admissions without test scores\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before UC got rid of standardized tests from admissions decisions, admissions officials were already considering test scores “in context,” said Whittingham, from UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, if one applicant scored a 1,200 on the SAT and had the highest score at their school, that might be more impressive to application readers than an applicant who scored a 1,300 but went to a school where that score was only average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the critical piece,” Whittingham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may explain why UC’s freshman cohort that entered in fall 2021 didn’t look significantly different from previous fall cohorts. About 4.4% of the class were Black students, compared to 4.1% in fall 2020. The share of Latino students was 26%, compared to about 25% the previous year, and that slight uptick may be attributed at least partly to demographic changes in California’s high school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whittingham added that she thinks there’s “potential” for the elimination of test scores to eventually lead to more enrollment of Black and Latino students, but she doesn’t expect it to be a dramatic change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dow of the Campaign for College Opportunity said that eliminating the SAT and ACT from admissions was a “huge signal to students that you have a spot, you are welcome at the University of California.” That’s why, Dow said, UC saw a huge increase in applications for fall 2021 admissions, when freshman applications were up by about 18%, which included large spikes in the number of Black and Latino students applying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dow added, however, that UC won’t see those application trends translate into enrollments unless it can significantly expand capacity. “There simply isn’t the capacity to fit everybody that is eligible and deserving of a seat,” Dow said. “I think as we figure out the capacity challenge, we will continue on the track of eliminating barriers to students of color to the UC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"students walk through a plaza at UC Berkeley\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-1536x1057.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-2048x1409.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-1920x1321.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk through Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC has made it a priority to expand capacity and \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/uc-plans-to-expand-enrollment-with-more-online-summer-programs-and-more-transfer-students/675641\">plans to add another 23,000 students by 2030\u003c/a>. However, that could be challenging at some campuses, especially the most competitive ones like Berkeley, which already is overcrowded to the point that it turns away thousands of students from on-campus housing every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some UC officials are optimistic that eliminating the SAT and ACT will eventually translate to more enrollments of Black and Latino students. Leaman from UC Irvine as well as admissions officials with UC San Diego and UCLA told EdSource that they think it’s possible their campuses will see a higher percentage of those students enrolling in the coming years. That could be especially true if the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic lessen since Black and Latino students have been \u003ca href=\"https://latino.ucla.edu/research/fact-sheet-education-covid/\">more likely to have their educational plans disrupted\u003c/a> by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that happens, it would be a divergence from UC’s past measures that have failed to increase racial diversity across the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its brief to the Supreme Court, UC wrote that its own experience demonstrates that universities need to “engage in limited consideration of race” in admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Such consideration remains justified by universities’ compelling interest in achieving the educational benefits of diversity — in bringing together young adults from all walks of life, who have had varying experiences informed by their localities, socioeconomic background, upbringing, and race, and instilling in them a capacity to appreciate each other’s viewpoints,” UC wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/as-supreme-court-considers-affirmative-action-case-university-of-california-offers-cautionary-tale/679692\">This story was originally published by EdSource.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The proof of their need, officials and college access advocates say, is in UC’s series of failed efforts to increase diversity without affirmative action. The system’s latest attempt to make admissions more equitable was its high-profile decision to eliminate standardized test scores, but that too has so far had little impact in improving racial diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conservative-leaning Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on October 31 in two cases, against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and could overturn a long-standing precedent allowing the consideration of race in college admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California voters in 1996 approved Proposition 209, which banned affirmative action in college admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC has since implemented a number of policies designed to increase diversity, from outreach efforts targeted at students from lower-income families to admission guarantees to more students. But while those policies improved geographic diversity and increased enrollment among students from lower-income families, they have failed to bring racial diversity that’s representative of the state to UC’s student body, \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1199/232355/20220801134931730_20-1199%20bsac%20University%20of%20California.pdf\">UC acknowledged in an amicus brief\u003c/a> it filed with the Supreme Court this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC told the Supreme Court that “despite its extensive efforts, UC struggles to enroll a student body that is sufficiently racially diverse to attain the educational benefits of diversity. The shortfall is especially apparent at UC’s most selective campuses, where African American, Native American, and Latinx students are underrepresented and widely report struggling with feelings of racial isolation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s high school seniors in 2021 were 54% Latino and 5.4% Black. But that fall, UC’s incoming freshmen were 26% Latino and 4.4% Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC concluded to the court that its decades-long experience with race-neutral admissions “demonstrates that highly competitive universities may not be able to achieve the benefits of student body diversity through race-neutral measures alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/UCB_039-1200x750-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11928982\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/UCB_039-1200x750-1-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"college students in a study hall\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/UCB_039-1200x750-1-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/UCB_039-1200x750-1-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/UCB_039-1200x750-1-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/UCB_039-1200x750-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">University of California at Berkeley students on campus in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union. \u003ccite>(Alison Yin/EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The university’s newest policy change — eliminating standardized tests — could be the latest evidence that even admissions policies that remove barriers can’t achieve racial diversity to the degree that affirmative action would. Critics of the SAT and ACT have said the tests are biased in favor of affluent, mostly white and Asian students with better access to test preparation, tutoring and the ability to take the exams multiple times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the system of nine undergraduate campuses eliminated standardized tests in admissions, a decision that college access advocates hoped would result in higher enrollments of Black and Latino students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in fall 2021, the first term when incoming students weren’t required to take the SAT or ACT, UC enrolled roughly the same percentage of new Black and Latino students as it did in previous fall terms. Enrollment data for fall 2022 likely won’t be released until January, but UC admitted about the same proportion of Black and Latino students as it did last year. Since eliminating the tests, UC has seen a large spike in the number of Black and Latino students applying to the system, but more white and Asian students also have been applying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some UC officials say it shouldn’t be surprising that eliminating the tests hasn’t made a major difference in the racial makeup of UC students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s mostly because test scores were already a small part of admissions decisions, which considered 14 factors, said Michelle Whittingham, associate vice chancellor of enrollment management at UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think individuals all throughout the country and throughout the world that were watching the University of California kind of made an assumption that things drastically changed. And that’s not the case,” Whittingham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1204097836.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11928989\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1204097836-800x527.jpg\" alt=\"students bicycle on a college campus\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1204097836-800x527.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1204097836-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1204097836-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1204097836.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students cycle past Kearney Hall on the campus of UC Davis. \u003ccite>(Nick Otto/The Washington Post)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the same time, officials note that test scores are just one barrier for underrepresented students. Access to supports like college counseling, Advanced Placement classes and small class sizes remain unequal across California and the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are cautioning, though, that it’s too early to draw conclusions because the system has been through only two admissions cycles without standardized tests and because there have been many other factors at play since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the amicus brief UC filed with the Supreme Court, the university wrote that it’s not yet clear what the impact of eliminating the tests will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would hesitate to draw conclusions from any singular data point over the last two years. Combining the effects of the global pandemic, with all the various things that went on, and then with the SAT requirement changes on top of that, I think it’s going to take a while before any of that makes sense in context,” said Dale Leaman, executive director of undergraduate admissions at UC Irvine.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A real dampening effect’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Proposition 209 banned UC from considering race in admissions, “freshmen enrollees from underrepresented minority groups dropped precipitously at UC,” the system wrote in the brief it filed with the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was true for each of UC’s campuses, but especially at its most selective campuses: UCLA and UC Berkeley. At UCLA, for example, Black students made up 7.13% of the freshman class in 1995 but just 3.43% in 1998. The proportion of Latino students dropped from 21.58% to 10.45% over the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no question that when Prop. 209 passed, there was a real dampening effect on racial equity efforts,” said Audrey Dow, senior vice president at Campaign for College Opportunity, a group that advocates for better access to California universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Proposition 209 was approved by voters, UC has tried to increase diversity through several initiatives. The system has spent more than half a billion dollars implementing outreach programs, such as its \u003ca href=\"https://eaop.universityofcalifornia.edu/\">Early Academic Outreach Program\u003c/a> in which UC works directly with students from underserved high schools and helps them complete all admissions requirements and apply for financial aid. While those kinds of programs have helped UC enroll more students from lower-income families, they haven’t been as effective in enrolling higher percentages of Black and Latino students, according to the Supreme Court brief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-513161022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11928992\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-513161022-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Black students march on a college campus during a protest\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-513161022-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-513161022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-513161022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-513161022.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Black Student Union at UC Riverside march during a 2016 solidarity protest following the assault of an African American student at UC Davis by three white men. A recent amicus brief from the University of California system to the US Supreme Court stated that ‘African American, Native American, and Latinx students are underrepresented and widely report struggling with feelings of racial isolation.’ \u003ccite>(Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2001, UC also implemented a local program that now guarantees admission somewhere in the system to California residents who are in the top 9% of their high school class. The program is a way to ensure that students at schools across the state have access to UC, and it has helped the system improve its geographic diversity. However, like the outreach programs, the local guarantees “have not substantially increased the racial diversity of students admitted to UC, and they have had little impact at the most selective campuses,” UC wrote in the brief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in 2001, UC introduced holistic review in admissions. The system went from primarily using grades and test scores to determine whether a student was admitted to, instead, using the 14 factors — now 13 with the elimination of test scores. Among the factors that UC now considers is the location of a student’s high school as well as a student’s accomplishments in light of special circumstances, such as whether the student comes from a lower-income family or is the first in their family to attend college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But UC acknowledged in its Supreme Court brief that holistic review “has not been sufficient to counteract the declines in diversity after Proposition 209.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California voters recently had a chance to reverse course and allow UC to consider affirmative action. Proposition 16, on the ballot in 2020, would have repealed Proposition 209, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/voters-appear-to-be-rejecting-proposition-16-to-restore-affirmative-action/642910\">but it was defeated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Admissions without test scores\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before UC got rid of standardized tests from admissions decisions, admissions officials were already considering test scores “in context,” said Whittingham, from UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, if one applicant scored a 1,200 on the SAT and had the highest score at their school, that might be more impressive to application readers than an applicant who scored a 1,300 but went to a school where that score was only average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the critical piece,” Whittingham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may explain why UC’s freshman cohort that entered in fall 2021 didn’t look significantly different from previous fall cohorts. About 4.4% of the class were Black students, compared to 4.1% in fall 2020. The share of Latino students was 26%, compared to about 25% the previous year, and that slight uptick may be attributed at least partly to demographic changes in California’s high school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whittingham added that she thinks there’s “potential” for the elimination of test scores to eventually lead to more enrollment of Black and Latino students, but she doesn’t expect it to be a dramatic change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dow of the Campaign for College Opportunity said that eliminating the SAT and ACT from admissions was a “huge signal to students that you have a spot, you are welcome at the University of California.” That’s why, Dow said, UC saw a huge increase in applications for fall 2021 admissions, when freshman applications were up by about 18%, which included large spikes in the number of Black and Latino students applying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dow added, however, that UC won’t see those application trends translate into enrollments unless it can significantly expand capacity. “There simply isn’t the capacity to fit everybody that is eligible and deserving of a seat,” Dow said. “I think as we figure out the capacity challenge, we will continue on the track of eliminating barriers to students of color to the UC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"students walk through a plaza at UC Berkeley\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-1536x1057.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-2048x1409.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-1920x1321.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk through Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC has made it a priority to expand capacity and \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/uc-plans-to-expand-enrollment-with-more-online-summer-programs-and-more-transfer-students/675641\">plans to add another 23,000 students by 2030\u003c/a>. However, that could be challenging at some campuses, especially the most competitive ones like Berkeley, which already is overcrowded to the point that it turns away thousands of students from on-campus housing every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some UC officials are optimistic that eliminating the SAT and ACT will eventually translate to more enrollments of Black and Latino students. Leaman from UC Irvine as well as admissions officials with UC San Diego and UCLA told EdSource that they think it’s possible their campuses will see a higher percentage of those students enrolling in the coming years. That could be especially true if the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic lessen since Black and Latino students have been \u003ca href=\"https://latino.ucla.edu/research/fact-sheet-education-covid/\">more likely to have their educational plans disrupted\u003c/a> by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that happens, it would be a divergence from UC’s past measures that have failed to increase racial diversity across the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its brief to the Supreme Court, UC wrote that its own experience demonstrates that universities need to “engage in limited consideration of race” in admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Such consideration remains justified by universities’ compelling interest in achieving the educational benefits of diversity — in bringing together young adults from all walks of life, who have had varying experiences informed by their localities, socioeconomic background, upbringing, and race, and instilling in them a capacity to appreciate each other’s viewpoints,” UC wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Students at California’s public colleges and universities will begin returning to campuses this month, and many of them will be welcomed back to full in-person classrooms, no mask mandates and few COVID-19 testing requirements. At some community colleges, students won’t even be required to be vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than two years into the pandemic, COVID-19 restrictions have been significantly eased across the University of California, California State University and the state’s system of 116 community colleges, which together enroll some 2.5 million students. That’s the case even as the colleges prepare to deal with another virus — monkeypox — potentially spreading on their campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11911266,news_11900125\"]It’s a stark contrast to last fall when indoor mask mandates were the norm at colleges across the state and many campuses also routinely tested all students for the virus. Amid the threat of the delta variant at that time, campuses were also preparing to move classes online if necessary. At least one CSU campus, Stanislaus State, delayed in-person classes for about five weeks at the start of the fall 2021 term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The specific protocols in place this year vary across the campuses, especially at the 72 brick-and-mortar community college districts governed by locally elected boards. Some of those districts never had vaccine mandates, and some have rescinded vaccine mandates ahead of the fall term, which is underway at some colleges and begins later this month at others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Systemwide vaccine mandates are still in effect at UC and CSU, but many campuses in those systems no longer require students and staff to mask indoors and have stopped requiring students to be regularly tested for the virus. Fall classes have started at most CSU campuses and begin this week at two UC campuses, Merced and Berkeley. UC’s other seven undergraduate campuses are on the quarter calendar and resume classes in mid-September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11923270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"students walk through a plaza at UC Berkeley\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1761\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-1536x1057.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-2048x1409.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-1920x1321.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk through Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus. More than two years into the pandemic, COVID-19 restrictions have been significantly eased across the University of California system. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gone also are the days of online classes aimed at preventing the spread of the virus. UC and CSU are at full capacity in their dorms, are holding almost all classes face-to-face and have no plans to shift to online classes. A bigger share of community college courses are being offered remotely, but that’s largely due to student demand for online instruction and not due to COVID. Many community college students, who are typically older and often work or have family obligations, have told the colleges they prefer remote learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even campuses that want strict COVID restrictions are finding it difficult to keep them in place because, in many cases, it would run counter to public health guidance to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Contra Costa Community College District, home to three colleges, had an indoor mask mandate as recently as this summer but decided to lift that requirement ahead of the fall term to align with Contra Costa County’s public health department. Tim Leong, a spokesperson for the district, said district officials were torn over that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are students and employees that still feel very concerned about their health, but we also are realistic to know that it’s hard to have an answer that’s going to win with every person,” Leong said. “I think to be the only entity that’s requiring masks — that’s difficult when everybody is running to places like the grocery store or the mall and there’s no mask mandate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fewer masks, less testing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many of the state’s other large community college districts also have done away with requiring masks, including the Los Angeles Community College District, the Sacramento-based Los Rios Community College District and the Fresno-based State Center Community College District.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tim Leong, spokesperson, Contra Costa Community College District\"]‘It’s hard to have an answer that’s going to win with every person … [T]o be the only entity that’s requiring masks — that’s difficult when everybody is running to places like the grocery store or the mall and there’s no mask mandate.’[/pullquote]The same is true at many CSU campuses, including Maritime, Chico State and San Luis Obispo, as well as at UC campuses such as Davis and UCLA, which lifted its mandate on August 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just because masks aren’t required doesn’t mean they won’t be worn. Most campuses that aren’t mandating masks are still strongly recommending them. At UC Riverside, students living on campus are required to wear masks while moving into campus housing, but not after that. Riverside also didn’t have a mask mandate in the spring, but most students still have chosen to wear masks around the campus, said Sheila Hedayati, executive director of the Environmental Health and Safety department at the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our students are fantastic and very conscientious. I see more masks than I see full faces,” Hedayati said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few colleges do still require indoor masking, including UC Irvine, which last month reinstated that requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the CSU system, Long Beach is among the campuses that will require masks indoors to start the new academic year because of an “ongoing wave of Covid-19 infections from the current dominant variant,” President Jane Close Conoley said in a message to the campus community earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether students need to be tested for the virus also depends on where they attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some campuses, like College of the Canyons in northern Los Angeles County and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, testing isn’t required. Other campuses, including those in the Los Rios and State Center community college districts, require routine testing only for students who aren’t vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few campuses, including UC Davis and UC Irvine, require students living in campus housing to be tested upon moving in, but routine testing isn’t mandated after that, except for unvaccinated students at Irvine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Riverside has one of the stricter testing policies in the state. In addition to requiring weekly testing of unvaccinated students, the campus also will mandate testing every two weeks for students living on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1235588015-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11923283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1235588015-scaled.jpg\" alt='students walk in front of large letters that read \"UCR\" on the UC Riverside campus' width=\"2560\" height=\"1751\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1235588015-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1235588015-800x547.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1235588015-1020x698.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1235588015-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1235588015-1536x1051.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1235588015-2048x1401.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1235588015-1920x1313.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Riverside students walk past the UCR letters in the quad in 2021. The school is heading into the 2022-2023 academic year with one of the stricter testing policies in the state. \u003ccite>(Terry Pierson/The Press-Enterprise via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The easing of COVID-19 restrictions at some colleges also applies to vaccine rules. The state’s largest community college district, the Los Angeles district that’s home to nine colleges, rescinded its vaccine mandate over the summer, said William Boyer, a spokesperson for the district. The Coast Community College District, based in Orange County, also rescinded its vaccine mandate this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some community colleges, though, continue to require vaccines for students taking classes in person, including the Contra Costa, Los Rios and State Center districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The systemwide vaccine mandates at CSU and UC also remain in effect and soon may require an additional shot for students. Currently, both systems require students to have their booster shots, and a second booster could soon be available to college-age students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Davis officials are anticipating that a second booster will be available to students as soon as next month, said Cindy Schorzman, medical director of Student Health and Counseling Services. If that happens, students across UC would need to get the booster. Schorzman added that there likely will be a grace period for students, but it probably won’t be a long one.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Back to in-person classes, more online at community colleges\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Across UC and CSU, face-to-face instruction is the norm entering the new academic year. At Chico State, 80% of classes will be in person. At San Luis Obispo, about 98% of courses will be in-person, a 13% increase from last year. UC Irvine is holding all classes in person except for a few that are being held online for academic purposes and not for reasons related to the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classes were also mostly held in person last fall, but with the delta variant spreading rapidly at that time, campus officials across UC and CSU were preparing to quickly pivot to online classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fall, moving courses online across the systems is highly unlikely, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think any of us really want to see a point where we go back to a stay-at-home situation, with online classes,” said David Souleles, director of UC Irvine’s COVID-19 response team. “Across the country, if you look at state and local governments, that’s not on the table for the most part.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Murphy, a spokesperson for Chico State, said the campus successfully held classes last year during the delta and omicron surges. Officials there are confident they can do the same this fall, though he added that “we have the mechanisms in place to change the mode of instruction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1234977936-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11923284\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1234977936-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a young woman with dark hair in a green jacket sits with a black mask at a laptop\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1578\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1234977936-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1234977936-800x493.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1234977936-1020x629.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1234977936-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1234977936-1536x947.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1234977936-2048x1263.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1234977936-1920x1184.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First-year student Karla Pulgarin was among the students who attended in-person instruction at Los Angeles City College beginning in 2021. The Los Angeles Community College District, which includes nine schools, rescinded its vaccine mandate over the summer. \u003ccite>(Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The situation is much different at most community colleges, which are still offering more courses online than before the pandemic. In the Los Rios district, 50% of classes are still being offered online, compared with 15% pre-pandemic. About half of courses are also online at College of the Canyons and the Los Angeles district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, those colleges are offering many online courses not for public health reasons, but because students have indicated they prefer remote classes. Community colleges across the state have suffered dramatic enrollment declines since the onset of the pandemic, with the system as a whole losing hundreds of thousands of students. Colleges are doing what they can to bring students back, and that often means offering online classes, which often receive more enrollments than in-person classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At College of the Canyons, about three-quarters of students attend part-time and are often “doing other things, like working or caring for family or both,” said Eric Harnish, a spokesperson for the college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, having the flexibility to attend online is something they really appreciate,” he added. “And by having significant numbers of classes online, we’re giving them the opportunity to actually attend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Monitoring monkeypox\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To varying degrees, many California colleges are ready to confront positive cases of the monkeypox virus on their campuses, which has already happened at a few universities across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with campuses across the three systems said they are consulting with their local health officials on plans and possible responses. Supply of the monkeypox vaccine is low across the country, but officials said they have requested vaccines as soon as they’re available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UC Davis, if a student believes they have monkeypox symptoms, that student will get a telehealth appointment and, if needed, will be tested for the virus. If that student needs treatment, the campus plans to work with Yolo County’s public health department to secure that treatment, or the student can get treated through UC Davis Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the experience of dealing with COVID-19 could help colleges respond to monkeypox, the virus also will present new challenges, said Souleles, the UC Irvine official. One of the main differences is that if a student contracts monkeypox, the isolation period could be much longer than is required for COVID. Instead of the five or seven days of isolation that COVID requires, a positive case of monkeypox could necessitate that a student isolates four to six weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to think through what that means and how that might be managed, like where that isolation takes place, whether it’s on campus or at home or case-by-case-dependent. So we’re making sure we have a plan and that we’re communicating that in advance of our return to fall, so that families and students know what to expect,” Souleles said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/california-colleges-open-for-fall-term-with-relaxed-covid-rules/677040\">\u003cem>This story was originally reported by EdSource.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It’s a stark contrast to last fall when indoor mask mandates were the norm at colleges across the state and many campuses also routinely tested all students for the virus. Amid the threat of the delta variant at that time, campuses were also preparing to move classes online if necessary. At least one CSU campus, Stanislaus State, delayed in-person classes for about five weeks at the start of the fall 2021 term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The specific protocols in place this year vary across the campuses, especially at the 72 brick-and-mortar community college districts governed by locally elected boards. Some of those districts never had vaccine mandates, and some have rescinded vaccine mandates ahead of the fall term, which is underway at some colleges and begins later this month at others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Systemwide vaccine mandates are still in effect at UC and CSU, but many campuses in those systems no longer require students and staff to mask indoors and have stopped requiring students to be regularly tested for the virus. Fall classes have started at most CSU campuses and begin this week at two UC campuses, Merced and Berkeley. UC’s other seven undergraduate campuses are on the quarter calendar and resume classes in mid-September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11923270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"students walk through a plaza at UC Berkeley\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1761\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-1536x1057.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-2048x1409.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1385201995-1920x1321.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk through Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus. More than two years into the pandemic, COVID-19 restrictions have been significantly eased across the University of California system. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gone also are the days of online classes aimed at preventing the spread of the virus. UC and CSU are at full capacity in their dorms, are holding almost all classes face-to-face and have no plans to shift to online classes. A bigger share of community college courses are being offered remotely, but that’s largely due to student demand for online instruction and not due to COVID. Many community college students, who are typically older and often work or have family obligations, have told the colleges they prefer remote learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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I see more masks than I see full faces,” Hedayati said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few colleges do still require indoor masking, including UC Irvine, which last month reinstated that requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the CSU system, Long Beach is among the campuses that will require masks indoors to start the new academic year because of an “ongoing wave of Covid-19 infections from the current dominant variant,” President Jane Close Conoley said in a message to the campus community earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether students need to be tested for the virus also depends on where they attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some campuses, like College of the Canyons in northern Los Angeles County and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, testing isn’t required. 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The school is heading into the 2022-2023 academic year with one of the stricter testing policies in the state. \u003ccite>(Terry Pierson/The Press-Enterprise via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The easing of COVID-19 restrictions at some colleges also applies to vaccine rules. The state’s largest community college district, the Los Angeles district that’s home to nine colleges, rescinded its vaccine mandate over the summer, said William Boyer, a spokesperson for the district. The Coast Community College District, based in Orange County, also rescinded its vaccine mandate this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some community colleges, though, continue to require vaccines for students taking classes in person, including the Contra Costa, Los Rios and State Center districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The systemwide vaccine mandates at CSU and UC also remain in effect and soon may require an additional shot for students. Currently, both systems require students to have their booster shots, and a second booster could soon be available to college-age students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Davis officials are anticipating that a second booster will be available to students as soon as next month, said Cindy Schorzman, medical director of Student Health and Counseling Services. If that happens, students across UC would need to get the booster. Schorzman added that there likely will be a grace period for students, but it probably won’t be a long one.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Back to in-person classes, more online at community colleges\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Across UC and CSU, face-to-face instruction is the norm entering the new academic year. At Chico State, 80% of classes will be in person. At San Luis Obispo, about 98% of courses will be in-person, a 13% increase from last year. UC Irvine is holding all classes in person except for a few that are being held online for academic purposes and not for reasons related to the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classes were also mostly held in person last fall, but with the delta variant spreading rapidly at that time, campus officials across UC and CSU were preparing to quickly pivot to online classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fall, moving courses online across the systems is highly unlikely, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think any of us really want to see a point where we go back to a stay-at-home situation, with online classes,” said David Souleles, director of UC Irvine’s COVID-19 response team. “Across the country, if you look at state and local governments, that’s not on the table for the most part.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Murphy, a spokesperson for Chico State, said the campus successfully held classes last year during the delta and omicron surges. Officials there are confident they can do the same this fall, though he added that “we have the mechanisms in place to change the mode of instruction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1234977936-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11923284\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1234977936-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a young woman with dark hair in a green jacket sits with a black mask at a laptop\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1578\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1234977936-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1234977936-800x493.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1234977936-1020x629.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1234977936-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1234977936-1536x947.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1234977936-2048x1263.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1234977936-1920x1184.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First-year student Karla Pulgarin was among the students who attended in-person instruction at Los Angeles City College beginning in 2021. The Los Angeles Community College District, which includes nine schools, rescinded its vaccine mandate over the summer. \u003ccite>(Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The situation is much different at most community colleges, which are still offering more courses online than before the pandemic. In the Los Rios district, 50% of classes are still being offered online, compared with 15% pre-pandemic. About half of courses are also online at College of the Canyons and the Los Angeles district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, those colleges are offering many online courses not for public health reasons, but because students have indicated they prefer remote classes. Community colleges across the state have suffered dramatic enrollment declines since the onset of the pandemic, with the system as a whole losing hundreds of thousands of students. Colleges are doing what they can to bring students back, and that often means offering online classes, which often receive more enrollments than in-person classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At College of the Canyons, about three-quarters of students attend part-time and are often “doing other things, like working or caring for family or both,” said Eric Harnish, a spokesperson for the college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, having the flexibility to attend online is something they really appreciate,” he added. “And by having significant numbers of classes online, we’re giving them the opportunity to actually attend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Monitoring monkeypox\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To varying degrees, many California colleges are ready to confront positive cases of the monkeypox virus on their campuses, which has already happened at a few universities across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with campuses across the three systems said they are consulting with their local health officials on plans and possible responses. Supply of the monkeypox vaccine is low across the country, but officials said they have requested vaccines as soon as they’re available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UC Davis, if a student believes they have monkeypox symptoms, that student will get a telehealth appointment and, if needed, will be tested for the virus. If that student needs treatment, the campus plans to work with Yolo County’s public health department to secure that treatment, or the student can get treated through UC Davis Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the experience of dealing with COVID-19 could help colleges respond to monkeypox, the virus also will present new challenges, said Souleles, the UC Irvine official. One of the main differences is that if a student contracts monkeypox, the isolation period could be much longer than is required for COVID. Instead of the five or seven days of isolation that COVID requires, a positive case of monkeypox could necessitate that a student isolates four to six weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to think through what that means and how that might be managed, like where that isolation takes place, whether it’s on campus or at home or case-by-case-dependent. So we’re making sure we have a plan and that we’re communicating that in advance of our return to fall, so that families and students know what to expect,” Souleles said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Instruction will likely halt for two days for thousands of undergraduates at University of California campuses beginning Wednesday as lecturers strike over allegations of unfair labor practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike planned for this week is related to, but separate from, the larger saga of contract sticking points. At issue is what the union says are \u003ca href=\"https://ucaft.org/content/uc-management%E2%80%99s-pattern-bad-faith\">seven instances of unfair labor practices by UC leadership going back 20 months.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC lecturers typically teach a third of the instruction UC undergraduates receive. About 6,500 lecturers are union members but roughly 4,500 teach at any given time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lecturers’ union, University Council-American Federation of Teachers, has been negotiating for a new contract with UC leadership since April 2019. Because the two sides have been unable to strike a deal, a state labor mediator got involved this summer, a sign of how deeply rooted the labor dispute is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials said the strike will occur regardless of what happens before Wednesday. “Our strike notification is not conditional,” said Caroline Luce, a lecturer and spokesperson for the lecturer union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tuesday morning, the union walked back the absolute certainty that a strike will happen. “It is likely, but it is not inevitable,” said Mia McIver, the lecturer union president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC negotiating team can offer two things Tuesday that may call off the strike. Both are the latest unfair labor practices the union filed against the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, McIver said the union wants all of its lecturers to be eligible for paid family leave for eight weeks at 100% of pay. She said the UC isn’t budging on its offer: paid family leave at 70% for lecturers who worked 1,250 hours in a year, which excludes most lecturers because of how many are part-time. The union also wants the UC to stop sending out summaries of the contract negotiations to its members, which the union argues are misleading.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Ryan King, a spokesperson for the UC office of the President']'The union’s unfair labor practice claims against UC are neither supported by the facts nor any finding by the California Public Employment Relations Board.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classes taught by instructors who aren’t striking or canceling classes in solidarity will continue as normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lecturer union says the \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VddkuVCxfI4hs5Go3C-L7jtwSzMglSmk/view\">UC violated labor law\u003c/a> by going outside of mediation last month and issuing a proposal to lecturers that had an expiration date of just four days, including a take-it-or-leave-it $500 bonus for every lecturer if the union agreed to the UC’s contract. The timing of that was suspicious, the union claims, because it happened just before lecturers were staging protests at campus. “This was an unlawful pressure tactic,” the union alleges in a labor court filing last Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lecturers also accuse UC President Michael Drake of misrepresenting the system’s offer \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/PMVD-Kalra-re-AFT-Negotiations-102621.pdf\">in a letter to lawmakers.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The union’s unfair labor practice claims against UC are neither supported by the facts nor any finding by the California Public Employment Relations Board,” said in an emailed statement Ryan King, a spokesperson for the UC office of the President.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>UC workforce churn: Why a quarter of lecturers don't return each year\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/uc-workforce-lecturers/\">The UC workforce has a churn problem.\u003c/a> About a quarter of the more than 6,000 lecturers at the University of California don’t return annually. Relatively low pay and little job stability are some of the reasons why, a CalMatters analysis shows. If lecturers strike, more than a third of classes will be canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While state labor court cases indicate a union cannot strike while it’s in mediation, it can strike over what it sees as unfair labor practices. The UC could seek injunctive relief from a judge to stop the strike, but so far that hasn’t happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Wednesday strike deadline “will result in the widest possible labor disruption,” wrote McIver in an email to CalMatters. The union called for a strike in advance because its legal counsel recommended giving a 72-hour notice to the UC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC system called the strike unnecessary. “The University of California is disappointed with UC-AFT’s decision to pursue a two-day strike — withholding instruction is grossly unfair to our students and a strike does not move us closer to a contract,” wrote King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming despite a flurry of activity that saw several powerful \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/uc-workforce-strike/\">state senators and assembly members pressure the UC last month to settle the labor dispute,\u003c/a> the impending strike may signal the limits of state lawmakers’ ability to pressure the university to meet the lecturers’ demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not every lecturer working at the UC can strike this week. Some lecturers in specific fields — medical centers, medical clinics, student health centers, and K-12 schools — have different guidelines for notification about a strike and aren’t part of the work stoppage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The threat of a more prolonged strike is still in play if the union doesn’t get what it wants from the UC once the state-sponsored mediation process ends.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Caroline Luce, a lecturer and spokesperson for the lecturer union']'This strike is not about that bargaining process. This strike is about a pattern of unfair labor practices and bad faith bargaining by the UC.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somewhat unusually, the UC and lecturers are negotiating behind closed doors through the state mediator and more publicly in collective bargaining. Adding to the confusion — and awkwardness — is that the union and UC management met to try to settle the new contract Monday and will meet again today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it would be a great relief to everyone if in these past two days of bargaining, a deal was reached,” said Luce. “However, this strike is not about that bargaining process. This strike is about a pattern of unfair labor practices and bad faith bargaining by the UC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC lecturer union is trying to line up state lawmakers to speak at the UC campuses during the strike. Assemblymember Ash Kalra, a Democrat from San Jose who spearheaded \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/uc-workforce-strike/\">a letter from 12 assembly members pressuring UC’s president to settle the dispute,\u003c/a> will be speaking at UC Davis at 10 a.m. Wednesday. He leads the Assembly’s committee on labor and employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalra said workers have a right to strike and to show their frustration. “I hope that this strike will be the final action necessary in order to get both sides to an agreement and to get the UC to recognize that urgency,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/uc-workforce-lecturers/\">A CalMatters investigation found that a quarter of lecturers leave the UC annually\u003c/a> even as the system hires more of them. The reasons — virtually no job security and employee reviews until at least six years of continuous employment that few lecturers achieve plus poor pay coupled with assigning lecturers to part-time work — are at the crux of the labor standoff and contract negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"78\">While there \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/uc-workforce-strike/\" data-reader-unique-id=\"79\">have been some breakthroughs\u003c/a>, the two sides are far apart:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul data-reader-unique-id=\"80\">\n\u003cli data-reader-unique-id=\"81\">The UC for the first time last month promised employee contracts ranging from one to three years and a review process after the second year. (The union wants reviews after the first year). The union calls those a big deal, but still fears that the UC will churn out a lot of lecturers before that contract — if approved — goes into effect next year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli data-reader-unique-id=\"82\">The lecturers also want more money. The UC is promising raises of about 4% while the union wants more, in part because the UC got a 5% increase in state support this year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli data-reader-unique-id=\"83\">The union wants employee pay to reflect the work they do outside the classroom and more consistency around how much each course weighs as a percentage of full-time work — which helps to determine not only pay but also whether lecturers get health insurance.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Adding to the learning disruption are the roughly 700 tenure and tenure-track professors who pledged to join the lecturers at the picket lines. Other faculty work, such as meetings and workshops, will also halt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cucfa.org/2021/11/faculty-respecting-uc-aft-picket/\">In a letter sent to Drake Sunday,\u003c/a> the faculty association of UC professors wrote that Drake’s office “will be responsible for the disruption to campus operations if they do not settle this contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impending strike adds to the labor headache besetting the university system and higher education in California more broadly. Two other UC unions with a combined 28,000 members are voting this week on whether to authorize a strike. The two labor groups — the \u003ca href=\"https://uaw5810.org/postdoc-bargaining/postdoc-sav/\">union of academic researchers\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://studentresearchersunited.org/\">unrecognized-by-the-UC student researchers\u003c/a> — work on the billions of dollars in UC research, including nearly $3 billion in federal research grants. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somewhat unusually, the UC and lecturers are negotiating behind closed doors through the state mediator and more publicly in collective bargaining. Adding to the confusion — and awkwardness — is that the union and UC management met to try to settle the new contract Monday and will meet again today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it would be a great relief to everyone if in these past two days of bargaining, a deal was reached,” said Luce. “However, this strike is not about that bargaining process. This strike is about a pattern of unfair labor practices and bad faith bargaining by the UC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC lecturer union is trying to line up state lawmakers to speak at the UC campuses during the strike. Assemblymember Ash Kalra, a Democrat from San Jose who spearheaded \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/uc-workforce-strike/\">a letter from 12 assembly members pressuring UC’s president to settle the dispute,\u003c/a> will be speaking at UC Davis at 10 a.m. Wednesday. He leads the Assembly’s committee on labor and employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalra said workers have a right to strike and to show their frustration. “I hope that this strike will be the final action necessary in order to get both sides to an agreement and to get the UC to recognize that urgency,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/uc-workforce-lecturers/\">A CalMatters investigation found that a quarter of lecturers leave the UC annually\u003c/a> even as the system hires more of them. The reasons — virtually no job security and employee reviews until at least six years of continuous employment that few lecturers achieve plus poor pay coupled with assigning lecturers to part-time work — are at the crux of the labor standoff and contract negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"78\">While there \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/uc-workforce-strike/\" data-reader-unique-id=\"79\">have been some breakthroughs\u003c/a>, the two sides are far apart:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul data-reader-unique-id=\"80\">\n\u003cli data-reader-unique-id=\"81\">The UC for the first time last month promised employee contracts ranging from one to three years and a review process after the second year. (The union wants reviews after the first year). The union calls those a big deal, but still fears that the UC will churn out a lot of lecturers before that contract — if approved — goes into effect next year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli data-reader-unique-id=\"82\">The lecturers also want more money. The UC is promising raises of about 4% while the union wants more, in part because the UC got a 5% increase in state support this year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli data-reader-unique-id=\"83\">The union wants employee pay to reflect the work they do outside the classroom and more consistency around how much each course weighs as a percentage of full-time work — which helps to determine not only pay but also whether lecturers get health insurance.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Adding to the learning disruption are the roughly 700 tenure and tenure-track professors who pledged to join the lecturers at the picket lines. Other faculty work, such as meetings and workshops, will also halt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cucfa.org/2021/11/faculty-respecting-uc-aft-picket/\">In a letter sent to Drake Sunday,\u003c/a> the faculty association of UC professors wrote that Drake’s office “will be responsible for the disruption to campus operations if they do not settle this contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impending strike adds to the labor headache besetting the university system and higher education in California more broadly. Two other UC unions with a combined 28,000 members are voting this week on whether to authorize a strike. The two labor groups — the \u003ca href=\"https://uaw5810.org/postdoc-bargaining/postdoc-sav/\">union of academic researchers\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://studentresearchersunited.org/\">unrecognized-by-the-UC student researchers\u003c/a> — work on the billions of dollars in UC research, including nearly $3 billion in federal research grants. A work stoppage could imperil those research efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the 29,000 faculty members who teach nearly 500,000 Cal State University students are in their own drawn-out labor dispute. That union, the California Faculty Association, is also in state-sponsored mediation with Cal State’s management. The talks are going poorly and the union is signaling \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mzinshteyn/status/1458152217869905921\">a strike vote is near.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With the threat of multiple strikes this fall that could cancel instruction for a third of undergraduate students, the University of California has inched closer to meeting some demands of its more than 6,000 lecturers. It’s a move that coincides with increased pressure from state lawmakers to resolve the labor dispute that has been going on for more than two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lecturers say the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/LS-ltr-to-IX-unit-re-AFT-proposal_101221_FINAL.pdf\">UC’s latest offer from last Monday\u003c/a> — which promises increased job security — is a step in the right direction. But they’re not pleased yet because it falls way short of the salary bumps they seek and includes other loopholes they find troubling. Chief among them? The new job stability provisions would kick in next summer, creating the possibility for mass dismissal of current lecturers, the union representing lecturers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no “ulterior motive,” said Letitia Silas, head of labor relations for the UC, the state’s third-largest employer, in an interview with CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now there may be signs of resolution for the two sides. On Friday, for the first time since June, the lecturer union and UC officials will meet, to discuss the latest contract proposal. [aside postID=\"news_11796182\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that our comprehensive package proposal is fair and competitive, including our proposal on wages,” said Silas, adding that the UC’s latest offer “does respond to the issues that the union has raised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a meeting lecturers have sought since last week and threatened to strike over if they had not gotten it. Still, another strike may occur later in the fall if the lecturer union doesn’t get the contract terms it wants. Hundreds of tenured and tenure-track professors of the UC have pledged to cancel classes in solidarity with lecturers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do believe it’s the UC administration’s fault for not coming to a resolution sooner, and for not ending this impasse,” said Assemblymember Ash Kalra, a Democrat from San José and chair of the Assembly committee on labor and employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and 11 other assemblymembers have signed a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/UC-AFT-Letter-1.pdf\">letter addressed to UC President Michael Drake\u003c/a> that went out Tuesday, urging him to “prioritize labor peace and job stability for lecturers.” Other lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Sen-Pan-Letter-to-President-Drake.pdf\">have issued their own letters\u003c/a> with the same sentiment, such as Dr. Richard Pan, a former UC faculty member who’s now a Senate Democrat representing Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there may be limits to mutual understanding. The UC denies that lecturers are being pushed out of their positions to make way for cheaper instructors, a chief union allegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether lecturers leave of their own volition, Silas, the head of UC’s labor relations, said, “Yes, some do.” Does that imply most leave for other reasons, such as being pushed out? Silas didn’t directly answer that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The term ‘pushed out’ is a mischaracterization,” Silas said. “The university has proposed to continue the dialogue with the union … if there does appear to be an issue of a trend, and to address those things with the union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-how-did-we-get-here\">How did we get here?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For more than two years UC-AFT, the union representing lecturers, has been at a standstill with the UC Office of the President over a new labor contract that provides them with greater job stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/uc-workforce-lecturers/\">A CalMatters investigation\u003c/a> showed that a quarter of lecturers — instructors typically with doctorates who provide about a third of the instruction undergraduates at the UC receive — don’t come back annually. Though the data CalMatters obtained doesn’t show why lecturers churn at rates higher than other education workers, a key grievance among them is that the UC doesn’t offer continuous work. Instead, most lecturers have to reapply for their jobs every quarter or year and rarely know whether they’ll have a job after their short contracts expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Core to the union’s demands is a promise to have lecturers evaluated so that their bosses can make informed hiring and dismissal decisions. Such a review system doesn’t exist at the UC for most lecturers, though it does at the larger California State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some students, the lack of an evaluation for lecturers is perplexing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want my teacher to be someone that knows what they’re doing,” said Sofia Stuart, a second-year biology major at UCLA who took part in a protest organized by lecturers last week. Without lecturer reviews, the UC could just hire inexperienced lecturers or renew ineffective ones, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natalie Lim, another UCLA student at the protest, held a sign calling for multiyear contracts for lecturers. “I want my institution to have morals and it doesn’t really feel like that right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter from lawmakers zeroes in on the lack of an evaluation process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By refusing to evaluate lecturers or use a merit-based retention process, the University also fails to foster a skilled teaching faculty, instead punishing experience and letting excellent faculty go arbitrarily,” the letter said. “Sadly, UC students are being cheated of educational continuity and dependable mentorship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-job-stability-and-evaluations\">Job stability and evaluations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The latest UC offer would go a long way to assuring more job stability for lecturers, but with key caveats. [aside tag=\"education\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system now proposes three types of contracts of increasing length that add up to six years: a one-year contract, then a two-year contract and finally a three-year contract. That’s more stability than the UC’s previous offer of two one-year contracts followed \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor/news/2021/bargaining-update-for-non-senate-instructional-unit.html\">by two two-year contracts\u003c/a>. None of those came with any promise of evaluations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC is also proposing a formal review before the three-year contract, the first such offer in these negotiations and a big win for lecturers. But UC is proposing just an “assessment” before the two-year contract. And the union doesn’t really know what that means. Lecturers don’t have clarity on the factors upon which a review would be based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC’s summary of its latest offer last Monday mentioned a review process after three years but not after one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silas, the UC labor relations chief, disputes that lecturers after their first year wouldn’t get an evaluation based on their teaching ability. “I’ll have to say that that’s probably an oversight on my part,” she said, in response to a question about why the summary letter omitted a reference to a first-year review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the average duration for a lecturer at the UC is two years, having job security earlier in their tenures would likely go a long way to lowering lecturer churn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The formal offer’s language on a review after the first year “doesn’t even come close to the robust evaluation after the third year,” said Mia McIver, president of the lecturer union and herself a lecturer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even the new review process after three years comes with asterisks that alarm the union. One says that a lecturer who passes their evaluation and is owed a three-year contract can still be hired for just a year if the department thinks the class the lecturer is teaching won’t be around the following year.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Natalie Lim, UCLA student\"]“I want my institution to have morals and it doesn’t really feel like that right now.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McIver said that may look fair, but what happens if the department decides to keep the class anyway? The lecturer still won’t be able to have the class back, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s less movement on matters of pay. The union wants bigger raises than what the UC is offering, which is about 4% in the first year of the five-year contract and 3% annually thereafter. Other lecturers would get additional bumps and extra merit pay. The lecturers say the UC can offer more across the board, citing the 5% increase in state support the recent state budget sent the UC’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC argues it offers some of the best pay to lecturers among top research universities. “In October 2019, UC systemwide’s average salary on an annualized basis was $71,068 for pre-six lecturers and $92,693 for continuing lecturers,” wrote Ryan King, a UC spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-the-uc-offer-on-pay\">The UC offer on pay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But that number is misleading: More than half of lecturers are part-time, according to a CalMatters review of UC data the lecturer union shared, meaning most lecturers don’t get that annualized pay. And many lecturers work one term but not the next. A CalMatters analysis of wage data shows that lecturers on average make close to $33,000, while more permanent academic faculty make three to six times as much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major issue is how much a lecturer is paid per class. Basically, lecturers get paid a percentage of an annual salary based on the “workload” of each class. The union is upset that the same classes can be counted as, for example, one-seventh of full-time work or one-ninth depending on the campus. 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So every extra fraction of workload goes a long way to determining whether a lecturer has health insurance through the UC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The University of California should be a responsible employer and provide accessible, affordable, quality health benefits and a living wage for all of its employees so that no UC employee must rely on public assistance,” wrote Sen. Pan. His letter noted that some UC lecturers rely on Medi-Cal because they’re ineligible for UC health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-will-lecturers-strike\">Will lecturers strike?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>McIver, the union president, doesn’t know whether lecturers will strike. She said they’d rather have a settled contract. “The things that we need to cross the finish line of this contract are not onerous for our employer,” McIver said. As far as the union is concerned, the ball is in UC’s court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s bargaining meeting with the UC “is a positive step,” McIver said. 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