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Ready for a ‘real’ college experience, transfer students find their hopes dashed

By Omar Rashad | CalMatters | November 9, 2020
Across California, college transfer rates have not dampened, but students face distance learning instead of hoped-for on-campus experience.
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University of California expands list of courses that meet math requirement for admission

By Sydney Johnson | EDSource | November 9, 2020
Under the new rules, data science, computer science, statistics and other quantitative reasoning courses can fulfill requirements.
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With test scores out, college essays count more this year

By Larry Gordon | EdSource | October 30, 2020
With SAT/ACT scores optional or totally off the table during the coronavirus pandemic, many colleges look to applicant essays in decisions.
education

Challenging the model minority myth: Asian-American students divided over affirmative action

By Janelle Marie Salanga | October 28, 2020
Some Asian American students and academics say they have been unfairly lumped together in discussions around Prop 16.
College

Colleges and Thanksgiving COVID risk: Fauci’s right – holiday plans may have to change

By Walter Thomas Casey II, Marcia G. Ory and Rebecca S.B. Fischer, for The Conversation | Local News Matters | October 25, 2020
Students returning to their families around the country for the holidays may bring a souvenir no one wants — COVID-19.
Bay Area

ISSI, home to generations of Berkeley scholars of color, is set to close in June next year

By Dallin Mello, Bay City News Foundation | Local News Matters | October 25, 2020
ISSI was the first institute in the UC system devoted to the study of race, stratification and societal change.
College

Campus dorm resident assistants adjust to a new role: COVID cop

By Anna Almendrala and Carmen Heredia Rodriguez | Kaiser Health News | October 6, 2020
Resident assistants are finding that the perks — like community building and mentorship — are scant, while risk, frustration and fractured relationships are plentiful.
education

State auditor blasts UC for admitting unqualified students based on wealthy connections

By Mikhail Zinshteyn | CALmatters | September 22, 2020
The state auditor found many holes in the way UC conducts its admissions process, from inappropriate donor influence to questionable student athlete decisions.
COVID-19

Students’ mass migration back to college gets a failing grade

By Victoria Knight | Kaiser Health News | September 17, 2020
Epidemiologists and disease modelers tried to predict what would happen when students moved back to campus.
education

How to make sense of affirmative action in UC admissions

By Mikhail Zinshteyn | CALmatters | September 15, 2020
Context is king in how foes and backers of affirmative action use statistics, and race would still not play as large a part in the admissions process as some fear.
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