{"id":413,"date":"2020-10-21T14:22:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T14:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainabilityreport.ucop.edu\/?p=413"},"modified":"2020-10-21T14:22:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T14:22:57","slug":"supporting-underserved-student-and-community-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainabilityreport.ucop.edu\/2020\/2020\/10\/21\/supporting-underserved-student-and-community-populations\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting Underserved Student and Community Populations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">UC Santa Cruz ranked as the fourth best university in the country for social mobility, according to the 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/best-colleges\/university-of-california-santa-cruz-1321\/overall-rankings\">U.S. News and World Report<\/a> rankings. In 2020, the campus will educate more than 5,700 students from low-income backgrounds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compelled by values of social justice and equity, UC Santa Cruz rose to the challenge COVID-19 presented its students and community and took multiple actions to address economic disparities, including:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Implementing the Slug Tech program, which provided laptops and internet modems to over 260 students.<\/li><li>Creating the Zoom Student Corps, a service that kept students employed by providing Zoom and virtual class assistance to faculty and provided on-demand support to student attendees.<\/li><li>Establishing a molecular diagnostics lab and worked with county and community partners to provide COVID-19 testing for low-income patients and members of the campus community.<\/li><li>Winning a county contract to provide approximately 1,000 daily meals to local shelters and emergency-service operations.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UC Santa Cruz ranked as the fourth best university in the country for social mobility, according to the 2020 U.S. News and World Report rankings. 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