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Delegation Leader Guide

This page is only for campus Delegation Leaders, not individual attendees. If you are a student who wants to attend, apply here. What is SOS? The Student Organizing Summit (SOS) is an annual conference focused on the intersection between organizing and student development. SOS is a unique opportunity for students to learn the tactics and […]

Barriers to Completion for UC Graduate and Professional Students

Summary: The University of California (UC) prides itself on being a world-class public research university. The success of the UC graduate student population, which generates and performs a good deal of this research work, is vital to UC meeting its mission statement. Despite the rank of many UC campuses among top national research universities, many […]

Activities Based Costing in the University of California

Summary: Higher education institutions must report costs by function. The functional categories have a common definition across the higher education industry and include broad categories such as instruction, research, and student services. Although accounting systems are set up to broadly categorize costs, institutions rarely assign costs to activities that comprise the function or break down […]

Press Releases

UCSA Students Respond to 2016-17 Budget Heard by UC Board of Regents (November 2015) UCSA Student Conference Motivates Demonstration for UC Workers’ Rights (November 2015) UCSA President’s Statement SB 376 (September 2015) UCSA Announces Plan for #HowAreYou: A Call to Reform Student Mental Health Services (September 2015) UCSA Announces “#Let’sTalk” Campaign, Leadership for 2015-16 Academic […]

In The News

Op-Ed: The Daily Californian Increased enrollment necessitates increased attention, funding (December 4, 2015) UCSD Guardian; Daily Bruin UCSA proposes opt-out fee (November 2015) SFGate; San Jose Mercury News; The Daily Californian UC regents approves plan to add 10,000 new students (November 19, 2015) TIME; The Bottom Line; The Daily Californian; Santa Cruz Independent Media Center […]

UC Students & Cal Fresh Eligibility

Summary: According to the College and University Food Bank Alliance (CUFBA) Postsecondary enrollment patterns show that college students increasingly do not fit the perception of the typical college student (18-22 years old with support from home). What has long been termed the “non-traditional” student is becoming the typical college student. Many students are supporting families […]