The Mercury News April 22, 2021 By Emily Deruy The California State University and University of California systems are moving forward with plans to require students, faculty and staff to be vaccinated against the coronavirus before on-campus instruction begins this fall. Stanford University also announced Thursday that it will require students to be vaccinated. The

Los Angeles Times April 22, 2021 By Nina Agrawal, Teresa Watanabe, Colleen Shalby The University of California and California State University announced Thursday that they will require COVID-19 vaccinations for all students, faculty and staff on campus properties this fall once the Food and Drug Administration gives formal approval to the vaccines and supplies are

Golden Gate Xpress April 22, 2021 By Eve DeBord The California State University and University of California systems announced on Thursday that they would be requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for faculty, staff and students effective Fall 2021, or whenever the Food and Drug Administration fully approves the vaccine — whichever comes later. While the CSU has

LAist April 21, 2021 By Adolfo Guzman-Lopez Like colleges nationwide, California universities are beginning to reveal whether they'll require students to be vaccinated if they want to return to campus in the fall. Chico State told its students this month that those wishing to live in the dorms in the fall, as well as student

The College Post April 19, 2021 By Marianne Besas The Cal State Student Association (CSSA) passed a resolution supporting the addition of castes — a rigid system of social stratification native to India — as a protected category of California State University (CSU) 23 campuses’ anti-discrimination policy by a 22-0 vote. The resolution stipulates that

Aljazeera April 16, 2021 By Raqib Hameed Naik San Jose, California, US – An association representing nearly half a million university students in California, United States has passed a resolution seeking a ban on caste-based discrimination faced mainly by the Dalit students, with rights groups calling the move “historic”. Formerly referred to as “untouchables”, Dalits

EdSource March 17, 2021 By Ashley A. Smith, Michael Burke, and Larry Gordon For many, the coronavirus pandemic was expected to last a few weeks, at most. Instead, after more than a year, it’s completely changed higher education in a way that will persist even after campuses have repopulated and California and the U.S. reach

The California Aggie March 8, 2021 By Annette Campos Students say the pandemic and increased housing insecurity have contributed to the need to increase the grant, which provides aid to many UC Davis students The UC Student Association, in partnership with the UC, has launched the Double the Pell campaign as part of a nationwide

The Chronicle of Higher Education February 26, 2021 By Eric Kelderman Last May, just weeks after college campuses shuttered in response to the coronavirus, the California State University system announced a decision that would send a sort of ripple across the nation’s higher-education landscape. Long before many institutions had set their plans — and despite

Daily Titan February 15, 2021 By Michelle Ibañez Efforts to allow students to identify as Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA), instead of identifying as white on the Cal State application continue. A Cal State Fullerton student presented the possible passing of the resolution to the Cal State Student Association (CSSA) on Saturday. “Since our