International graduate students will once again have their own group on campus as the International Graduate Student Association begins re-establishing at UCLA. Even though they currently make up about 16 percent of graduate students, international students are underrepresented in many activities and organizations on campus, organizers say. Read more...

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Updated at 3:45 p.m. Shortly after 1 p.m. today, the Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad detonated an explosive device outside the Midvale Plaza apartment building on the 500 block of Midvale Avenue after residents said they heard a small explosion earlier in the day. Read more...

While the federal No Child Left Behind legislation has forced California schools to focus on raising standardized test scores of low-achieving students, even high-achieving schools may have trouble meeting the performance targets required by the act in future years. Read more...

As flood waters clear in New Orleans, uncertainty clouds the future of the city’s black colleges, as many of the institutions’ faculty and students have found new homes far away from Bourbon Street. Read more...

In an effort to provide greater public access to books, the University of California recently announced a partnership with the Open Content Alliance, a project that plans to scan and upload thousands of print materials onto the Internet. Read more...

It is not uncommon for a student to miss a lecture every now and then. He overslept; she was sick; he was arrested for his unpaid parking tickets and could not make bail. Read more...