UC Student Association (UCSA)

Last week, UCSA attended the California Senate Elections Committee to advocate for our sponsored constitutional amendment, ACA 18, and the Assembly Health Committee to speak in support of UAW’s research bond, SB 895.
⚖️ ACA 18 (Assemblymember Jessica Caloza), the Student Regent Empowerment Amendment, will double the voting membership on the UC Board of Regents & codify undergraduate & graduate/professional representation!
🔬 SB 895 (Senator Scott Wiener), the California Health & Science Research Bond Act, will allow the state to backfill federal funding cuts to crucial, life-saving research in cancer, diabetes, and other critical health & science breakthroughs at the UC and beyond.

Thank you to Disability Justice Officer Nataliah and UC Berkeley LD Clarinde Sanft for their advocacy. 🙌💙🗣️ Special shoutout to Alexis Zaragoza for her testimony on the Student Regent Empowerment Amendment, and UCLA GSA EVP Jack Feng for his tireless leadership supporting research funding.

Let’s get these bills over the finish line! Assemblymember Jessica Caloza Senator Scott Wiener UCGPC UAW Local 4811 🎉🙏

UCSA’s sponsored legislation, ACA 18 by & just passed the Assembly Floor with overwhelming & unanimous support! 🏆🙌🥳

💐 Thank you to our incredible authors for championing this effort to increase student voice at the decision-making table, and to the Assembly for passing the Student Regent Empowerment Amendment to give students a promising issue to vote for this November. On to the Senate! 💙🏟️🗳️

When UC Regents meetings are met with overpolicing, surveillance, and intimidation, student voices are not being heard; they’re being controlled.

Free speech on our campuses must include the right to dissent, organize, and speak truth to power without fear.

Students deserve transparency, accountability, and safety…not suppression. ✊📢

Apply to the Student Organizing Summit!! 💫

This conference is a unique opportunity for students to enhance their individual and collective organizing skills, and determine the UC Student Association’s goals for the 2026-2027 academic year!

Link: tinyurl.com/UCSOS26
Deadline: Friday- June 19th @ 11:59 PM (PST)

*Application is open to all campuses*

UCSA at the Rally for Science on May 4th to support SB 895, the Health & Science Research Bond Act of 2026, by Senator . Excited to support this bill forward to ensure has stability in research funding for thousands of students, researchers and faculty across the state who conduct groundbreaking discoveries. 🧬🧫🔭🧪🥼🔬

Our fourth and final quarterly meeting with UCSA’s External Vice Presidents and our President, JB Milliken for the 2025-26 academic year. ⚖️📆

We appreciate the deliberation around key issues facing students across the UC, especially relating to disability services, basic needs, free speech, diversity programs and federal cuts to research, SNAP & healthcare. UCSA looks forward to continuing the longstanding tradition of partnership and shared governance, especially as President Milliken hits his one-year anniversary taking helm of UC this August! 🙌🗣️🤝

🚨 See UCSA’s Statement on the Governor’s May Revise:

As students and our families face growing cost pressures, it’s important now more than ever for the Governor and Legislature to make good on a State Budget that prioritizes our needs. 🗣️