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Before record turnout in Georgia helped Joe Biden beat Donald Trump and the Democrats win the narrowest majority in the Senate, Black women in the state had been working tirelessly to expand voting rights for decades.
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.
Housing and Development Newsletter
Bell, also a prolific podcaster and an ACLU Celebrity Ambassador for Racial Justice, is part of the robust slate of presenters assembled by UCSB Arts & Lectures for its season-long look at systemic racism and its impact on society.
Race to Justice is a suite of events featuring leading activists, creatives and thinkers, meant altogether to expand our understanding of the issues and to inspire an expansive approach to advancing racial equality.
“W. Kamau Bell manages to make us laugh while having tough conversations or as he says, awkward conversations around race, identity and more,” said Celesta M. Billeci, A&L executive director. “We’ve had a lot of very serious presentations on our Race to Justice series, and those have been important and powerful, but we’re looking forward to taking a different approach with Bell.