National and California experts say Trump’s mass deportation plans make filling out the federal financial aid application for college a risk to students with undocumented parents. California’s own application has more safeguards.

Lawmakers approved two bills to allow some community colleges to provide bachelor’s degrees in nursing, but California State University already offers these degrees.

The growing strike may complicate matters for the more than 169,000 undergraduate students at six campuses as they wrap up instruction and take final exams.

The proposal would have meant challenging a federal law that bars employers from hiring undocumented immigrants. Advocates requesting the change argue that the University of California, as a state agency, is exempt from that law.

While the Cal State and UC systems received more money in 2023, they still face financial challenges. And they also must address labor strife.

While the numbers of transfers to four-year colleges are increasing, still fewer than 15% of local community college students take steps towards undergraduate degrees, according to CalMatters.

Community college officials said that the UC and Cal State universities rejected nearly 30,000 eligible community college applicants in the fall of 2020 — more than enough transfers to meet the community colleges system’s goal.

Accusations against neuroscientist Mark Tessier-Lavigne, first reported years ago, resurfaced in February when the student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, published a series of articles questioning the accuracy and honesty of work produced in laboratories overseen by the former Genentech executive.

Under his May budget plan, Gov. Gavin Newsom wants the UC and CSU to get more state student housing in 2023-24, but the universities would have to borrow the money through bonds. The state would pay the interest on the bonds annually.

UC leaders continue to resist a systemwide admission guarantee similar to the Associate Degree for Transfer program that offers community college students a guaranteed spot at the 23-campus California State University system.

Starting today, as many as 48,000 University of California academic workers — including teaching assistants, postdoctoral scholars and graduate student researchers — are set to strike at all 10 UC campuses, a move that could cause some classes, grading and lab work to grind to a halt just weeks ahead of final exams.

Two days before the Sept. 30 deadline, after vetoing a similar bill last year and resisting months of marches, vigils and posturing, including a note from President Biden, Newsom changed his mind on a farmworker labor bill.

University of California and Cal State campuses will all start providing medication abortion beginning Jan. 1 under a new state law. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, opening up abortion appointments on university campuses could ease pressure on local clinics.

 a 2019 state law that requires student health care services clinics on California State University and University of California campuses to offer abortion by medication. It goes into effect in 2023 but does not include the state's community colleges. 

By officially prioritizing part-time work as a way for students to pay for college, the University of California moved closer this week to its goal of students avoiding burdensome loans by 2030.

Roughly 360,000 UC and CSU students may soon receive about $1,000 to $3,000 to fund their educations this fall as part of California’s effort to make college debt-free. Another form of aid to help more community college students has a less clear path