Campus News

Questions raised over council’s purpose, administration’s commitment to students The Council on Student Affairs and Fees’ May 19, 2017 vote on an increase in student fees to support intercollegiate athletics ended in a tie, which, for the council, is an effective no. Then-Interim Chancellor and current Provost Ralph Hexter decided a month after the decision […]

AFSCME 3299 authorizes strike; nurses, healthcare workers to strike in solidarity The American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees 3299, the UC’s largest employee union, voted to enact a system-wide strike after workers rejected UC’s failure to meet demands and acceptable patient care for employees. After a year of negotiations, AFSCME members voted to […]

Released assessment of other sites in consideration discuss demographic disparities university, city project aims to address Chancellor Gary May and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg held a news conference in Sacramento on April 12 to announce the UC Davis Health Center as the site for the project Aggie Square. Aggie Square is a prospective extension of […]

Event featured parades, science shows, animals Picnic Day 2018 once again drew large crowds and great excitement with a wide range of activities from cow milking to parades and science shows. The Band-uh! kicked off the parade with its lively music and marching. Floats and processions from more than 80 different organizations in the school […]

UC Davis students share common concerns about difficulty accessing care; administrators respond This article is the fourth in a four-part series examining issues in the UC system related to the availability and accessibility of mental health care.   At the recent Town Hall on mental health held at UC Davis, first-year student Francesca Iacono held […]

New commencement speaker will be California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye Initial plans for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to speak at the UC Davis School of Law 2018 commencement have been cancelled. After a fall at her home, Sotomayor sustained a broken shoulder. The cancellation was confirmed in a statement sent out to the […]

Daniella Aloni confirmed as interim senator Vice President Shaniah Branson called the weekly Senate meeting to order at 6:10 p.m.  on April 12. Senator Danny Halawi was late. First on the agenda was a quarterly report from the Mental Health Initiative. Fourth-year English major Sam Chiang, the founder of the MHI, spoke about Mental Health […]

Zalom recognized for contributions to pest management UC Davis Professor Frank Zalom won a lifetime achievement award at the 9th International Integrated Pest Management Symposium held from March 19 to 22 in Baltimore, Md.. A distinguished professor of entomology and an extension entomologist at UC Davis, Zalom was recognized for his contributions to pest management […]

Month of events aim to engage diverse campus communities During the month of May, the UC Davis Mental Health Initiative will host empowering workshops, panels and interactive activities for students to participate in. Different days and events will feature a wide range of topics, including addiction, mental health in the face of violence and trauma, […]

Two activists arrested in 2016 Sacramento riot ask for support from community to get felony assault charges dropped On April 12, anti-fascist activist and organizer Yvette Felarca hosted a “Drop the Charges” event at the Student Community Center. Felarca’s goal was to gather community support for her campaign to get assault charges against her and […]

Aloni hopes to empower transfer, re-entry, veteran students, students with disabilities Third-year communication major Daniella Aloni was recently confirmed as an interim senator at the April 12 Senate meeting. Aloni will serve out the remainder of second-year economics major Andreas Godderis’ Senate term, which was left vacant after his recent resignation. Before her confirmation, there […]

Strike would result in UC-wide shutdown of services Recently, UC counseling psychologists voted to authorize a strike after months of bargaining negotiations with the UC Office of the President. 122 counseling psychologists total voted and 121 voted in support of striking — a 99.4 percent majority. Bargaining negotiations took place between UCOP and the University […]