This post was updated May 15 at 11:20 a.m. On top of increased rent for her university-owned apartment and the COVID-19 pandemic, Zuleika Bravo’s partner was laid off from his job, her family of three faced food insecurity and she is months behind on basic expenses. Read more...

Photo: “Sometimes the students with dependents, whether they’re graduate students or undergraduates, get forgotten in the university’s eyes,” said Jenna Donohue, a parenting graduate student who lives in University Village, UCLA’s family housing. (Medha Vallurupalli/Daily Bruin)

A UCLA student-run volunteer program provides health care workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic with tutoring services for their children. Front Lines Tutoring, a UCLA student-run volunteer initiative started in April, aims to give back to health care workers battling the pandemic by providing tutoring services to their children over Zoom. Read more...

Photo: Mackenzie Lowenstein, a recent graduate in psychobiology, founded Front Lines Tutoring after seeing how students in high school and below were affected by the transition to online classes – especially the children of health care workers. (Sakshi Joglekar/Daily Bruin)