Growing up in South Los Angeles, fourth-year Chicana/o studies student Maria Olivares never thought UCLA's Westwood campus was the right place for her. Read more...

As the lead plaintiff in the class action lawsuit against Enron executives, the University of California has obtained more than $7.2 billion from the executives, accountants, attorneys and financial institutions that organized the fraud. Read more...

Two graduate fellowships were recently established under the name of former Acting Chancellor Norman Abrams. Read more...

The independent investigation into the incident where a UCLA student had a Taser used on him in Powell Library has been completed, and a report has been released. The report, authored by Merrick Bobb, finds that a UCPD officer violated the department's use of force policies in this incident, and further recommends that UCPD change those policies to ban the use of a Taser on passive resisters. Read more...

The University of California has introduced new personal statement prompts aimed at giving admissions officers a more complete view of applicants and their backgrounds, as opposed to simply their grades and test scores. Read more...