Nearly half of all students who enroll in college never finish. Are colleges and universities to blame?
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University of California, Santa Barbara
UCSB is one of only 61 institutions elected to membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities. And the Newsweek guide to America’s best colleges has named UCSB one of the country’s “hottest colleges” twice in the past decade.
In addition to five Nobel Laureates, UCSB’s faculty includes many elected members or fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (25), the National Academy of Sciences (32), the National Academy of Engineering (25), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (60). Three UCSB professors also have been named MacArthur Fellows by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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The spirit of Baisakhi for Sikhs is reminiscent of the ideals of their gurus, who encouraged them to work toward building a just society.
We speak with Hilal Elver, the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and current University of California professor about the looming famine in Gaza after months of Israeli attacks.
Rapid and accelerating groundwater level declines are widespread in dry climates where groundwater is used for irrigation. But some communities have found ways to turn things around.
When President Daniel Ortega returned to power in 2006, church figures supported him. Violent repression after the 2018 protests has soured the relationship and made clergy targets for intimidation.
Hate is for the haters. Much of the thrill of posting toxic messages can come from the attention and social approval a poster gets from like-minded people.
This isn’t the first time that US authorities have criminalized civil disobedience or framed grassroots organizing as a conspiracy.
Communities along the bank of the dam have been victims of injustice since the early 1960s.
Integral ecology, a holistic way of looking at problems the world faces today, is key in the pope’s writings about the environment.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke of ‘credible allegations’ of Indian involvement in a Sikh leader’s death.
Para detectar matéria escura, é preciso um detector ultrassensível e um local ultra silencioso. Nos EUA, esse lugar fica mais de um quilômetro debaixo da terra, na Dakota do Sul
To detect dark matter, you need to build an ultra-sensitive detector and put it somewhere ultra-quiet. For one physics collaboration, that place is almost a mile under Lead, S.D.
A professor who has researched the Universal Life Church unpacks why many couples now prefer to hand-pick loved ones to perform their ceremonies.
Japan has a rich queer history and is seeing societal changes in favor of greater LGBTQ recognition. That said, national politicians have yet to catch up.
While most heterosexual couples are dual-earners, super rich couples continue to have gender-traditional arrangements in which the man is the sole breadwinner.
The founder of a violent anti-government group has been sent to prison for seditious conspiracy. Experts explain what that means.
Idaho, Montana and Florida had the highest population growth among US states between 2020 and 2022.
Do the show’s fans secretly identify with the characters’ pursuit of power and pleasure?
Amphibians have been devastated by a chytrid fungus pandemic. Researchers immunized California red-legged frogs in Yosemite to give them a fighting chance at survival, with surprising results.
President Biden denounces white nationalism as once-democratic countries around the world are threatened by increasing political support for this ideology.
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Professor of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Chair and Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Research Professor, Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Associate Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Distinguished Professor of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Assistant Professor of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliate Faculty in Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Continuing Lecturer in Writing, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Associate Professor, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Associate Professor of Water Resources, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
