The 2022 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count will be conducted in person in Westwood by two local organizations on Jan. 26, following a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...
Photo: Two local organizations will execute the city’s annual homeless count in Westwood on Jan. 26 for the first time since 2019 after a cancellation last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA will return to remote instruction for the first two weeks of winter quarter amid a rise in COVID-19 cases due to the omicron variant in Los Angeles County, according to a campuswide announcement from UCLA administrators Tuesday. UCLA is the sixth University of California campus to announce that they will return to remote instruction for the first two weeks of winter quarter as of Tuesday. Additionally, all students and staff in the UC system will be required to receive the COVID-19 booster shot, according to the message from President Michael V. Read more...
Photo: UCLA will be operating remotely from Jan. 3 to Jan. 18 amid a rise in COVID-19 cases due to the omicron variant. (Ashley Kenney/Photo editor)
Bruin Parenting Scholars urged the Undergraduate Students Association Council to help raise awareness about the challenges students with dependents face, including the inaccessibility of in-person classes. Read more...
Some UCLA students with exceptional financial need said they were surprised to receive additional financial aid through emergency relief grants they did not apply for. The university began releasing grants from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund in spring 2020. Read more...
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Many transfer students consistently face issues enrolling in upper division courses that require prerequisites. Transfer students at UCLA who have taken lower-division courses at other institutions of higher education have expressed frustration that these courses have not transferred over to MyUCLA, the enrollment system the university uses, said Herman Luis Chavez, the Undergraduate Students Association Council transfer student representative. Read more...
Photo: UCLA transfer students often face issues enrolling in upper division courses that require prerequisites fulfilled at other institutions of higher education. (Ashley Kenney/Photo editor)
The executive director of the Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center, Dr. Chaitali Mukherjee, spoke with Daily Bruin reporter Noah Danesh about COVID-19 protocols at UCLA. Read more...
Photo: Dr. Chaitali Mukherjee from the Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center (pictured) spoke with the Daily Bruin about COVID-19 safety as the holiday season approaches. Health officials recommend all eligible adults receive their COVID-19 booster shot to protect themselves from newly identified variants of the virus. (Noah Danesh/Daily Bruin staff)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is calling for the Undergraduate Council of the Academic Senate to permanently overturn its decision to reduce the number of priority enrollment units available to students accommodated under the Center for Accessible Education. Read more...
Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council is calling on the Academic Senate to increase disabled students’ priority enrollment caps from 15 units to 19, 20 or 21, depending on a student’s college or school. (Kanishka Mehra/Daily Bruin senior staff)
