University of California President Janet Napolitano met with community college leaders in Northern California last week to plan ways to make it easier for transfer students to apply to and get more information about the University, the UC said in a press release Wednesday. Read more...
Photo: Last week, University of California President Janet Napolitano met with leaders of community colleges to discuss ways to make it easier for transfer students to apply to the UC. (Daily Bruin file photo)
For three days every week, marathon runners take on short jogs that offer an opportunity to branch out from the traditional slow distance trots that are the staple of marathon training regimens. Read more...
Photo: Different running strategies can increase one’s speed and make training more interesting. (Katie Shepherd/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The undergraduate student government may change its bylaws in coming weeks to eliminate wording that says councilmembers should avoid the perception of a conflict of interest. Read more...
An interim sexual harassment and Title IX officer will begin work at UCLA Monday, after former Title IX officer Pamela Thomason left UCLA earlier this month to oversee Title IX training and education in the California State University system. Read more...
The original version of this article contained information that was unclear and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for more information. Five faculty working groups will help plan UCLA’s first Grand Challenges project toward achieving a completely sustainable Los Angeles by 2020, vice chancellor for research James Economou announced Tuesday. Read more...
Chloe Liu spent her first Thanksgiving at UCLA in her friend’s apartment eating homemade Chinese food for three days. While many other students on her floor went home, Liu, a second-year communications studies student from China, said she enjoyed the holiday with friends at school. Read more...
The undergraduate student government unanimously passed a resolution to support a diversity course requirement for College of Letters and Science students Tuesday night. The Undergraduate Students Association Council vote is an informal step toward the implementation of the diversity requirement, which will have first-year students entering UCLA in 2015 and transfers entering in 2017 take a course about inequalities by examining two or more factors such as race, gender, sexual orientation, religion or ethnicity. Read more...
Photo: Undergraduate Students Association Council Academic Affairs Commissioner Allyson Bach brought a resolution to support the College of Letters and Science diversity requirement to council Tuesday. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
