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Californians With Student Loans Will Benefit From Forgiveness Plan

August 26, 2022
"The federal plan would forgive up to $20,000 in student loans for Pell Grant recipients and $10,000 for other borrowers earning less than $125,000 a year. About 92% of California borrowers will be eligible for the new loan forgiveness, according to Charlie Eaton, a UC Merced associate...

Daisy Reyes WAPO Analysis - Effects of the Student Loan Payment Pause on Latinx Millennials

August 12, 2022
Since March 2020, federal student loan repayments have been on pause. With that pause scheduled to end Aug. 31, many borrowers are anxiously waiting to see whether President Biden will offer any student loan forgiveness, as promised during his campaign. How has the pause affected...

Blythe George Coauthors Yurok Tribe's Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Report

August 8, 2022
Professor Blythe George, a Yurok citizen, published a 120-page foundational document covering numerous scenarios involving missing persons and murder cases, ranging from child runaways to the extemporaneous location of human remains. Published today, the Yurok Tribal Court’s To ‘See...

College Campuses See Growing Reparations Movement

August 8, 2022
"Universities across the country are studying their relationship to slavery and are being called on by students to address their histories by making symbolic and financial reparations. During the colonial era the wealth of universities, in the form of endowments and benefactors, was...

Graduate Students Eliana Fonsah and Luis Rubén González Present Research

July 8, 2022
In late June, UC Merced Sociology Graduate Students Eliana Fonsah and Luis Rubén González Marquez traveled to San Diego to present their research at the Fourth Annual Mobilization Social Movements international conference  The theme of this year’s conference centered on “...

Melissa Quesada Awarded AERA 2022–2023 Minority Dissertation Fellowship

June 30, 2022
Ph.D. candidate Melissa Quesada was named one of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)'s 2022–2023 Minority Dissertation Fellows for her research focus, "Pushed into or Pulled Away from Teaching: An Intersectional Life Course Analysis of Latinx Educational Pathways....

Ph.D. Candidate Alejandro Zermeño Successfully Defends Dissertation

June 27, 2022
We are pleased to share the news that Alejandro Zermeño has successfully defended his dissertation, Indigenous Resurgence and Mexican American Health in California! His entire committee was impressed with the contributions his work will make to his community, and to many research areas including...

Maria Duenas Wins 2022 ASA Graduate Student Contributions to Teaching Award

June 1, 2022
Congratulations to Sociology Ph.D. candidate Maria Duenas for winning the 2022 Graduate Student Contributions to Teaching and Learning Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology! Maria won the award for her classroom activity,...

Charlie Eaton and Amber Villalobos New York Times Op-Ed on Student Loan Bailout

May 24, 2022
UC Merced's Professor Charlie Eaton, Post Doctoral Scholar Amber Villalobos, and Princeton's Professor Frederick Wherry are sociologists who study higher education and student debt. They wrote this collaborative piece for the NYT about student loan debt.  "At least 43 million...

Ed Flores Receives UC Merced 2021-2022 Senate Award for Distinguished Scholarly Public Service

May 16, 2022
  Between 2017 and 2020, Ed (working with faculty and community collaborators) launched the Civic Capacity Research Initiative (CCRI) which resulted in a number of major projects and successes: 1) the design and implementation of nearly 1000 needs assessment surveys in low-income...

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