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County OKs plan for Pacifico By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer
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Roughly 6,500 new and returning students are moving into dorms at UC Davis this week.
UCD students move into dorms By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer On Tuesday, UC Davis students began moving into campus residence halls ahead of fall quarter, which begins Sept. 21. Students will continue moving into on-campus housing through Thursday. In total, 8,800 students are expected to be living in campus residence halls and The Green, which primarily houses transfer
students, by the end of this week. Roughly 2,300 of those students moved into The Green earlier this month, joining about 1,000 students already living there. About 6,500 new and returning students are moving in this week. On Tuesday morning, their family and friends descended on campus to help the students wheel their belongings into the dorms. Each student has a scheduled check-in
appointment, with the appointments spaced out over three days to reduce crowding. UC Davis ended its mandatory biweekly COVID-19 testing in June. However, the campus is requiring residents to get tested once before they move in. Students living off campus will need to get tested before Oct. 7. “This precautionary measure will help to identify asymptomatic cases and mitigate the spread among our community,” UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May said in a recent message to the campus community. “If a
student arrives in Davis after Oct. 7, they should get tested within one week of their arrival.” UC Davis leaders “strongly recommended” that students wear masks when indoors, but the campus does not currently require them to do so. According to UC Davis’ COVID-19 dashboard, 99% of students are up to date on vaccine requirements. — Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@davisenterprise. net. Follow him on Twitter at @calebmhampton.
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UC Davis ranked among best public universities
Patwin, Fairfield welcome new principal As if being principal at one school wasn’t stressful enough, Ben Kingsbury has taken the reins as the new principal at Patwin and Fairfield elementary schools. Although plenty of work lies ahead, Kingsbury’s looking forward to the challenges and rewards his new roles entail. In his youth, however, Kingsbury didn’t really have a town to call his home. His father worked
Yolo County supervisors have approved a management plan for two vacant buildings at Pacifico which will now provide transitional housing for up to 38 low-income families at risk for homelessness. The board’s approval on Tuesday paves the way for work to begin renovating two of the four buildings at the South Davis complex before families move in. Those families — part of the CalWORKS housing support program — include primarily single mothers and children under 12, many of whom are currently living in motels, in cars or in other unsafe environments, according to county staff. The two other buildings at the Pacifico site, which is located on Drew Circle adjacent to the Putah Creek bike path, will continue to provide low-income housing for the residents already living there. The Pacifico property was originally designed as a 112-bed cooperative housing development for students, but it went into foreclosure and became public housing more than a decade ago. The city of Davis
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Ben Kingsbury will take over as principal of Patwin and Fairfield elementary schools in Davis. for an international oil company and Kingsbury grew up globetrotting in places like Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Holland and, finally, back to the U.S. in the East Bay. Kingsbury
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then headed down to Long Beach for college and would launch his educational career there as well. “Some of what inspired me in a way was my dad’s
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UC Davis earned more accolades this week, coming in at number 10 in the U.S. News and World Report’s 2022-23 edition of “Best Colleges,” which was released Sunday. UC Davis claimed the number 1 spot in biological and agricultural engineering and was ranked 38th overall among public and private universities in the United States. “We are proud that UC Davis is recognized for its academic excellence and the opportunities it offers our undergraduates,” said
Chancellor Gary S. May. UC Davis was ranked the 27th best-performing university for social mobility and was among the universities whose students graduate with the least debt. It was ranked the 18th best school for military veterans. The campus also scored highly in student diversity. “UC Davis was among national universities highlighted because their students are most likely to encounter undergraduates, not including international students,
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