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The following is a Businessinsider.com article by Abby Jackson, posted September 18, 2015 with the title “New ranking looks at which colleges in America are the most ‘economically diverse’”: The University of California system is dominating the field when it comes to accepting students from diverse economic backgrounds, according to a ranking by The New York Times. Of the top 10 colleges that are doing the most for...

The following is an article written for TheConversation.com by UCSB Geography Professor Emerita Catherine Gautier and posted on September 10, 2015 with the title above: As the summer ends, heat is dominating the meteorological landscape, with the warmest month ever recorded and the drought continuing unabated in California. At the same time, it is clear that an El Niño is building that is expected to culminate in the fall and last...

In a recent National Public Radio history article with the title above, Richard Gonzales comments: “While Pope Francis is in Washington this week, he is scheduled to canonize Junipero Serra — an 18th century Spanish missionary and the founder of California’s storied network of missions. The canonization of Serra prompts a robust debate: Was the Franciscan friar, as the pontiff proclaims, a saint? Or was he, as many Native...