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Extraordinary students from across California.
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UC Santa Cruz–based nonprofit helps small businesses weather the COVID-19 lockdown by going analog to digital
UC Santa Cruz
May 21, 2020
Students partner with businesses to help keep local Santa Cruz standbys alive.
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Friends, family and members of the Class of 2020: Show your UC pride!
UC Newsroom
May 12, 2020
Lift up UC grads across California with our printable, shareable assets and posters.
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Missing home: Students use ‘Minecraft’ to build UC Berkeley in stunning detail
UC Berkeley
April 30, 2020
Welcome to the University of Blockeley, a student-led effort to build, one block at time, the UC Berkeley campus on ‘Minecraft.’
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UC empowers youth vote with civic engagement campaign and access to polls systemwide
UC Office of the President
March 2, 2020
College-aged voters are poised to be a major force in America’s 2020 elections — if they show up. This election season, the University of California is engaging this powerful voting bloc and making it easier for them to vote.
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How to answer UC's Personal Insight Questions
About to start the Personal Insight Questions for the UC undergraduate application? Here are some helpful tips on what the questions are about and what they cover.
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University of California offers Perkins Loan borrowers relief. Will other colleges follow?
The Washington PostApril 20, 2020
The public university system is mirroring the federal government's suspension of interest and payments, granting relief to tens of thousands of borrowers.
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‘Dreamers’ risk lives on pandemic’s front lines while they await a decision on their own futures
The Washington PostApril 17, 2020
An estimated 29,000 health workers could lose their work permits if the Supreme Court ends the program for undocumented workers brought here as children.
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‘Dreamers’ tell Supreme Court ending DACA during pandemic would be ‘catastrophic’
The New York TimesMarch 30, 2020
A filing on Friday urged the Supreme Court to consider the nearly 27,000 young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers who work in health care, many on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
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