The automotive industry seems to have pulled itself into an economic bubble that is similar to the U.S. mortgage bubble that burst in 2008, thereby triggering a global financial crisis.
Orange County’s housing market experienced the slowest start to a year since the Great Recession in 2009. In fact, the first quarter of 2019 has been the “third-slowest-selling” quarter since 1988, as reported by the Orange County Register.
Students at California public universities will be able to access abortion by medication services at campus Student Health Centers by 2023, under the groundbreaking College Student Right to Access Act (SB 24).
The University of California launched an update which modernized its payroll system with its new project, UCPath, on Jan. 1, 2020. These changes replaced the nearly 40-year-old system that had been in place, meaning that all UC employees ensure that their personal information is up to date within the system. This includes student employees, such as Teaching Assistants, on campus food court employees, and library assistants.
The Student Outreach and Retention Center (SOAR) hosted their second Puppies and Pathfinders event to help students learn healthy coping skills for stress in the Cross Cultural Center on Thursday, Dec. 5. During the event featuring therapy dogs, students were also able to de-stress by interacting with peer educators, using DIY stress balls and participating in an essential oil workshop.
More than 100 students joined University of California (UC) employees and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) organizers to march through UCI in protest of the continual efforts by the UC school system to outsource lower wage jobs to private contractors on Nov. 13, 2019.
UCI’s Embodying Resilience Workshop Series, used movement to get its 25 participants to expand their minds throughout the four-week duration of the workshop series at the Cross Cultural Center from Oct. 10 to Nov. 7.
UCI joined American Campus Communities (ACC) to mark the official opening of Plaza Verde as the university’s first and newest all-electric student housing community on Oct. 16.
