This post was updated July 14 at 4:56 p.m. The federal government rescinded a policy Tuesday that would have forced international students taking only online classes to leave the United States. Read more...
Photo: The federal government agreed to rescind a new policy from the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during a lawsuit proceeding from Harvard University and MIT.
The state of California will sue the federal government over new regulations that would force international students taking only online classes in the fall to leave the United States, according to a press release from California Attorney General Xavier Becerra Thursday. Read more...
Photo: A visiting UCLA researcher was charged with destroying evidence, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.
The coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated the difficulties students with jobs face, a UCLA report found. The UCLA Labor Center and the Dolores Huerta Labor Institute released a report and supplemental brief June 23, which looked at the challenges faced by working students at public colleges and universities in Los Angeles County and how these students have been affected by COVID-19. Read more...
Photo: Challenges of student workers are being exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, a report from the UCLA Labor Center and the Dolores Huerta Labor Institute finds. (Screen capture by Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
UCLA named a new dean of undergraduate education. Adriana Galván will start as dean of undergraduate education July 1, said Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Emily Carter in a statement Thursday. Read more...
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This post was updated June 19 at 3:35 p.m. Jerry Kang is stepping down as the vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion after a five-year term and will return to teaching as a professor of law and Asian American studies June 30. Read more...
Photo: Jerry Kang will step down as the EDI vice chancellor on June 30. Anna Spain Bradley will start her term on Sept. 1. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Anna Spain Bradley will replace Jerry Kang as the new UCLA vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion Sept. 1. Bradley will be responsible for maintaining an inclusive space for all UCLA personnel through means such as diversity initiatives, training and education, research, policy initiatives and more, said Emily Carter, the executive vice chancellor and provost, in an emailed statement to the campus Monday. The search for a new EDI vice chancellor began after Jerry Kang announced his intent to step down from the role by June 30 in a statement released in September. Read more...
Photo: Anna Spain Bradley was appointed as the second person to hold the position of vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion at UCLA. (Courtesy of Anna Spain Bradley)
The University of California could lose $372 million in state funding after the state revised its proposed budget in May. The revised budget would reduce higher education funding for the 2020-2021 fiscal year by 10% of current levels, in order to offset the rising costs associated with the coronavirus pandemic. Read more...
