This post was updated Feb. 7 at 3:15 p.m. Student fee allocators offered mixed views on whether their committee takes enough student input into consideration in light of the committee’s rejection of a proposal to cap UCLA administrators’ salaries. Read more...
Photo: The Student Fees Advisory Committee rejected a proposal to cap UCLA administrators’ salaries. Some members of the committee said they think this overlooks students. (Ashley Luu Kenney/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Feb. 7 at 3:17 p.m. One of UCLA’s activists-in-residence has been campaigning for change since he was 13 years old. Now, he said he hopes to teach students about activism. Read more...
Photo: Micah White is an Activist-in-Residence at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs’ Institute on Inequality and Democracy. He’s best known for co-creating the Occupy Wall Street movement. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)
Parents of students at the UCLA Lab School said they were frustrated by the unexplained administrative leave of a teacher at the school, a year after administration also put a former principal on similar leave. Read more...
Photo: A math teacher at the UCLA Lab School was placed on administrative leave with pay twice in the past year. The school’s principal was also put on unexplained leave last year, and did not return for the following year. (Daily Bruin file photo)
A UCLA alumnus aims to combat sudden cardiac arrest by creating more efficient devices to treat the condition. Sameer Jafri, who graduated in 2017, co-founded Revive Solutions after graduation to make automated external defibrillators. Read more...
Photo: Sameer Jafri, a UCLA alumnus, co-founded Revive Solutions after graduation to make automated external defibrillators. Jafri said it is in the process of getting approval from the Food and Drug Administration for its product, and hope to commercialize it in the next few years.(Courtesy of Sameer Jafri)
Quarter system got you down? Have you fallen and can’t get up? Bruin Tea is a series investigating student questions and petty concerns about UCLA. The white metal chairs outside Ackerman Union and other dining locations on campus are controlled by Associated Students UCLA. Read more...
This post was updated Feb. 5 at 2:25 p.m. University of California librarians and the UC Office of the President have been out of contract for four months but are still negotiating. Read more...
Photo: University of California librarians fundraised for a potential strike. UC and the librarians’ union have been out of contract for over four months, with no end to negotiations in sight. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA Health and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA administrators halted their search for a new psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences department chair to address faculty concerns about diversity, leadership logistics and transparency. Read more...
Photo: Faculty members said in two town halls that the search committee was not sufficiently diverse. Out of the 11 original members on the search committee, 10 were white and eight were men.(Anirudh Keni/Daily Bruin)
