Wednesday, May 20


Bush pushes teacher training

As part of his agenda for the 2007 budget, President Bush plans to bring an influx of math and science professionals into elementary school classrooms across the country. Read more...



PAs phased out in Hill restructure

Next year there will be even fewer program assistants in the on-campus dorms as the Office of Residential Life continues to increase the number of resident assistants and decrease the number of PAs as part of a multiphase restructuring. Read more...


Arts activists call out to human trafficking victims

At the “Globalization and Human Trafficking” symposium held Friday, professors of the World Arts and Cultures Department, art students at UCLA, and a number of representatives from a wide array of organizations met to discuss the issue of human trafficking as a global phenomenon and demonstrate the ways in which art can be used to spread awareness of this issue and in the broader context of social activism. Read more...


Law program opens its doors

The UCLA School of Law has opened its Master of Laws (LL.M.) program to those with American law degrees this year, expanding a program that was formerly limited to international law school graduates. Read more...


Compensation reform in the works

University of California President Robert Dynes hopes to look ahead with a series of compensation reforms after facing state legislators in a Senate hearing last week, which marked the second time in just over a decade that the UC has had to answer to the state regarding its compensation practices. Read more...