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UC reaches tentative deal with some striking students By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer
The bargaining units for the postdoctoral and academic researchers are celebrating a tentative five-year agreement with the University of California for 20% to 23% wage increases by October 2023. After five years in the position at UC, the current lowest-paid postdoc would see a 57% salary increase, according to the United Auto Workers, the union representing the grad students. They will remain on strike in sympathy with academic student employees and student researchers while the membership votes on whether to ratify the agreements. Student researchers last made a compensation proposal to UC on Nov. 17. From 2024 to 2027, there will be an added 7.2% annual increase for postdocs on the scale (3.5% scale increase and 3.7% experience step) and a 3% annual increase for abovescale postdocs. The tentative agreement also calls for faster timelines to
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Pedestrians cross by the bollards on G and Third streets blocking southbound traffic on Tuesday afternoon. Enterprise photo
Business owners push for open G Street By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Disagreement continues over the partial closure of G Street in downtown Davis. The closure — between Second and Third streets — was done in the early months of the pandemic in order to help restaurants survive by ensuring their customers could safely eat outside on the street and sidewalks.
But many non-restaurant business owners have been unhappy with the lingering closure and its impact on accessibility and parking for their customers — not to mention the esthetics of the area — and they continue to urge the City Council to reopen the street to twoway traffic and parking. When the matter came before the council a little over a year
ago, council members were divided, with Councilwoman Gloria Partida and Vice Mayor Will Arnold favoring the closure, while Councilman Dan Carson and Mayor Lucas Frerichs favored restoring at least some vehicle traffic. (Councilman Josh Chapman recused himself from the discussion as he owns a downtown business, Armadillo Music).
Law school withdraws from rankings By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer UC Davis School of Law will no longer provide data to U.S. News & World Report for use in compiling its law school rankings, according to an announcement by Kevin R. Johnson, dean of the law school. In a letter to the UC Davis School of Law Community, the decision “has been made after receiving guidance from the law faculty, campus leadership, students, alumni and others.” Johnson said that U.S. News “failed to meaningfully change the rankings methodology” of “welldocumented” flaws and regular corrections “show volatility and undermine
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their legitimacy.” zschool rankings,” Johnson wrote as he has in the past, JOHNSON “the U.S. UCD Law News School dean rankings discourage law schools from enrolling more diverse student bodies and do not in any way value more diverse law faculties.” The letter explains that significant weight is given to Law School Admission Test scores of students in the rankings, which “affords undue weight to test scores in the rankings,
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and effectively discourages the admission of African American, Latina/o, Native American and Asian American applicants in a country where fewer than 20 percent of all lawyers are people of color.” Earlier this spring, UC Davis Law announced its No. 15 ranking in the nation — and No. 1 in California — in a new “Access and Equity” ranking of public law schools. According to a UC Davis press release, Texas Southern leads the new rankings, reported in a study by Iowa College of Law Visiting Professor of Law Christopher Mathis in the Rutgers
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But with the council divided, the closure has remained in place.
City Council members are expected to revisit the matter in January, but during a joint
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Future of UCD grad ceremony has local leaders spooked By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Davis officials and business leaders expressed concerns Monday about UC Davis moving its June undergraduate commencement ceremonies to Sacramento beginning in 2023. During a joint meeting between city leaders and the Davis Downtown Business Association, DDBA executive director Brett Maresca said he was notified recently by a UC Davis official about the plan to move the ceremony to Sacramento following a survey of students about which
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The Davis Downtown Business Association had recommended reopening the street to two-way traffic.
location they desired. Results of that survey showed 53 percent of respondents preferred ceremonies be held in Sacramento at a venue like the Golden 1 Center where they would each be able to invite at least six guests. About 35 percent said they would prefer the ceremonies be held on the UC Davis campus even though they would be able to invite no more than four guests, as is the case now. And another 11 percent had no preference. The survey received a total of 833 responses.
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