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Watsonville Filipino history digital archive now available for public viewing
The Watsonville is in the Heart Digital Archive is now viewable online and features oral history recordings, original documents, photos, and family artifacts highlighting Filipino history in the Pajaro Valley.
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Seed funding grants for early-stage research, creative projects given to 19 awardees
The UCSC Office of Research has awarded funds this month to 19 projects through its inaugural Seed Funding for Early Stage Initiatives program
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Santa Cruz Starbucks unionization push follows national trend of increased union approval
Associate Professor of Sociology Steve McKay spoke with KSBW about national trends in unionization, and Joseph Thompson, a UC Santa Cruz student who is leading the local push to establish the first Starbucks union in California, discussed the motivation behind that effort.
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Film screening to commemorate 1930 Watsonville Race Riots
Good Times interviewed Associate Professor of Sociology Steve McKay about a film screening hosted as part of a community-driven effort to preserve Watonsville's Filipino history. This story originally appeared in The Pajaronian.
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Campaign launches for Santa Cruz empty homes tax
Santa Cruz Sentinel discussed findings from the No Place Like Home report, by Sociology Department Chair Miriam Greenberg and Associate Professor Steve McKay, in an article about a new proposed housing policy.
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UCSC professors studying Santa Cruz housing crisis look to eviction moratorium expiration
Sociology Professor Miriam Greenberg and Associate Professor Steven McKay talked with Santa Cruz Sentinel about the pandemic's effect on the local housing crisis.
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Solving the housing crisis: a talk with Prof. Steve McKay
Associate Professor of Sociology Steve McKay talked with KSQD about affordable housing issues in Santa Cruz, the impact of the pandemic, and possible solutions.
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‘Precarity & Belonging’ captures insights from global discussion of citizenship, migration, socioeconomic mobility
A new book from an interdisciplinary group of UC Santa Cruz scholars culminates more than five years of collaborative research and discussion that positioned the university as a convener of global thought leaders.
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AAPI Heritage: Remembering the Watsonville Riots of 1930
Associate Professor of Sociology Steven McKay was interviewed alongside history doctoral candidate Meleia Simon-Reynolds and history undergraduate Nick Nasser for a KSBW story about efforts to preserve the history of Watsonsville's first Filipino immigrants.
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Preserving the legacy of Watsonville’s first Filipino immigrants
In partnership with the university, the community-led Tobera Project will develop an oral history archive and digital exhibition to be housed at McHenry Library.
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Two programs will support undergrads in research, service learning, and peer mentoring
Undergraduates in the Division of Social Sciences will soon benefit from two programs that will provide paid opportunities to do research, engage in service learning, and mentor their peers.
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Social Sciences recognizes outstanding research, teaching, and staff
The Division of Social Sciences presented several major awards recognizing outstanding accomplishments by faculty, staff, researchers, and emeriti faculty.