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Work Study Program Benefits Students and Businesses
Cristo Rey High School
Established in 2006, Cristo Rey High School Sacramento helps prepare our region’s future workforce.
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Transformative Arts Education Elevating Life Skills
Northern California School of the Arts
“Theater arts can represent all the business community’s desirable traits,” says Michele Hillen-Noufer. “The personal skills needed for business — communication, collaboration, creativity — can be gained in theater arts. People must communicate and work well in teams, and have self confidence and self-knowledge, and that’s what theater arts teaches.”
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How An Education Leadership Organization Leads By Innovation
Teach for America California Capital Valley
Teach for America California Capital Valley (TFA) is working to confront educational inequity by building a diverse network of leaders in teaching and related fields.
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Funding Pathways to Employment for People with Disabilities
PRIDE Industries
In 2020, PRIDE Industries renamed its fundraising arm in honor of the organization’s beloved late CEO, Michael Ziegler. The Michael Ziegler PRIDE Industries Foundation furthers Ziegler’s legacy of championing the orga
Debt-Free College
California is on the verge of spending $632 million to help 360,000 students lessen their college debt
Roughly 360,000 UC and Cal State students may soon receive about $1,000 to $3,000 to fund their educations this fall as part of California’s effort to make college debt-free. Another form of aid to help more community college students has a less clear path.
Getting to Know: Dr. Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
A celebrated Asian American studies professor leaves the ivory tower for entrepreneurship
Encountering barriers in academia has prompted Dr. Robyn Magalit
Rodriguez to launch into entrepreneurship. She is leaving her
post as a full professor at UC Davis to create her own school,
farm and learning center.
Squaring Up With Aggie Square
As construction begins at Aggie Square in Sacramento, UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May reflects on the project’s evolution
After five years of planning, Aggie Square has broken ground in Oak Park. We chat with Chancellor May about how the project’s partners are responding to concerns and what Aggie Square aims to bring to the region.
Historic UC Davis Building Reopens as Graduate Center
After 10 years vacant, Walker Hall becomes a home for the university’s graduate, professional and postdoctoral scholars
UC Davis’ new dedicated Graduate Center opened this month, giving graduate students access to offices, lounge space, meeting rooms, a kitchen and more.
Women in Leadership: Estella Atekwana
Our annual salute to extraordinary women breaking barriers and rising to the top
Estella Atekwana surmounted language barriers, family pressures and more on her journey to become a pioneer of biogeophysics and dean of UC Davis’s largest college.