May 19, 2021 at 1:27 pm by Holly Rusch
The University of California Board of Regents approved the 2021-22 UC Office of the President Budget and discussed the Eligibility in the Local Context program, along with student mental health, from the lens of student equity and inclusion on May 12 during their latest board meeting.Â
The Academic and Student Affairs Regents Committee met last Wednesday.Â
Courtesy of Regents Livestream
Budget Increase to Combat Pandemic-Related Losses
The $960.6 million 2021-22 UC Office of the President (UCOP) budget marks an uptick of $98.6 million from the more conservative planning of the UCâs 2020-21 budget. UC President Michael V. Drake attributed the increase to pandemic-related financial loss.Â
May 20, 2021 at 10:00 am by Holly Rusch
In partnership with local community organizations, the Santa Barbara County Department of Public Health has provided mobile 77 vaccine clinics around the county â 66 first-dose clinics and 11 second-dose â administering over 1,400 vaccinations.Â
The clinic received 289 appointments through the Student Health Service Gateway Portal. (Kaiyi Yang / Daily Nexus)
Locations close to Isla Vista include UC Santa Barbara Student Health, the Goleta Valley Community Center and the upcoming clinic at fraternity Sigma Chiâs chapter house. Generally, the county offers organizations a choice of providing the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine, according to Jackie Ruiz, the public information officer at the Public Health Department.Â
May 14, 2021 at 6:56 pm by Holly Rusch
The Associated Students unanimously passed a bill that raises the honorarium cap of A.S. elected and appointed officials and senators on Wednesday, to go into effect during the 2021-22 school year.
While the bill required a two-thirds majority in the Senate to pass, it was passed unanimously. Senators elected to the 2021-22 senate, as well as senators planning to work with a BCU for the 2021-22 school year, recused themselves from the vote.Â
Kaitlyn Nguyen / Daily Nexus
The bill will make Associated Students (A.S.) spaces â including Boards, Commissions and Units (BCU), the 38 organizations that work within A.S. to provide and organize student events, advocacy and leadership â more accessible to low-income, first generation and marginalized students, according to the billâs author, Senator Esme Quintero-Cubillan.
May 13, 2021 at 6:05 pm by Atmika Iyer and Holly Rusch
On the night of May 7, three UC Santa Barbara students took a trip to the local Albertsons near Isla Vista, where they found a kiddie pool. Inspired, the three housemates purchased two kiddie pools and began brainstorming on how to turn it into a boat and take it into the ocean.
The housemates built this vessel with home depot buckets, a wooden board and Albertson’s kiddie pools.
Photo courtesy of the Santa Barbara Fire Department.
Unbeknownst to them, the story of their late-night escapade and eventual rescue would soon become international news, picked up by the Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press and even a Bulgarian news outlet, an experience the boys called âweird.âÂ
May 10, 2021 at 11:01 pm by Holly Rusch
The UC Santa Barbara student organization Young Democratic Socialists of America held a march on May 8 to demand that the university distribute $900 COVID-19 relief checks to all students.Â
A protestor chalks the sidewalk outside Chancellor Henry T. Yang’s house, writing “Power to the Students.”Â
Sicheng Wang/Daily Nexus
The group of approximately 40 students and community organizers began their 2 p.m. march at Storke Tower before walking to Chancellor Henry T. Yangâs house, where Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) leadership, students and community participants gave speeches on their demands for the university in front of his home.Â