Several facets of the long-awaited UC Santa Barbara Ocean Road housing project were approved by the University of California Board of Regents Finance and Capital Strategies Committee on May 18.
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Beginning Fall Quarter 2021, students joining the Letters & Science Honors and Engineering Honors programs will no longer enjoy priority registration, a longtime fixture of the honors program that granted students early access to course registration.Â
New UCSB students entering honors programs will not have priority registration starting this fall.
Daily Nexus / Cameron Hsieh
Several UC Santa Barbara administrators announced the decision in an email to students on Monday, in which they described the priority registration benefits of honors programs as creating âan unintended problem in the context of access to classes.âÂ
â[Students from minoritized groups] and first-generation students have, on average, much less access to the classes they need,â the email stated. âPriority registration is often what makes the difference between getting into a class or not, and even sometimes being able to register in 12 units of
February 25, 2021 at 8:00 am by Sean Crommelin
Over the past two decades, American universities have become more racially diverse. From 1996 to 2016, the percentage of undergraduate students of color in the United States increased from 29.6% to 45.2%, according to a report by the American Council on Education.
Currently, Tettegah and her collaborators have been gathering data from students as part of a broader self-assessment of UCSBâs current climate and practices.Â
Emily Liu / Daily Nexus
Despite these gains, however, S.T.E.M. fields remain skewed, with Black and Hispanic students significantly underrepresented. Zooming in on the demographics of faculty, staff and administrators in these fields, the majority of positions are filled by white people.