The UCLA Academic Senate approved a “holistic” approach to admissions Thursday evening. Starting with this year’s applicants, UCLA will change the way undergraduate applications are read and scored to allow more of an emphasis on personal achievements. Read more...

Our response to Harvard’s half-hearted nod to diversity in admissions is a quiet yawn. Several schools have joined Harvard in eliminating their early admission programs, but none of them will have any significant effect on a problem that is far larger than that. Read more...

A panel of energy analysts met Thursday to discuss the need for a renewed perspective on the world’s current energy challenges during the UCLA Anderson Forecast’s quarterly conference. Read more...

Though the housing market has entered a state of major cyclical decline nationwide, economists from the UCLA Anderson Forecast concluded in their quarterly prediction that the economy is not entering a recession, but rather a period of slow growth. Read more...

Patients at hospitals nationwide may not be receiving adequate information about their prescription medicine, according to a recent UCLA study. “We found that physicians are often just not communicating essential information when prescribing new medications,” said Derjung Tarn, lead researcher and assistant professor in the department of family medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. Read more...

UCLA is not the only school to make changes in recent weeks to its admission process that are aimed at promoting more fairness in evaluating applicants. Read more...

During the first Gulf War, Peter Kovach was an officer in a public policy bureau working in the Middle East. In the mid 1990s he was in Jordan aiding peacekeeping efforts before and after their first elections. Read more...