The dean’s office at the UCLA School of Law will now be occupied for the time being, as Norman Abrams was appointed this past week to serve in the interim by Chancellor Albert Carnesale. Read more...

UC faculty approves teaching code revisions University of California faculty members voted on July 30 to revise the 69-year-old guidelines designed to keep professors from pushing their personal agendas on students. Read more...

After weeks of deadlock and political squabbling, the California Assembly passed a budget Tuesday that spells out $410 million in cuts to the University of California ““ cuts that will most likely lead to funding slashes in all UC non-instructional programs, increases in student fees and enrollment growth caps for the 2004-2005 academic year. Read more...

A group of eight University of California students filed a class-action lawsuit against the UC Board of Regents on July 24, claiming the UC breached contracts made with students when raising student fees. Read more...

As the California legislature argues over how to cope with a $38 billion shortfall, the state budget deadlock claimed another casualty last week ““ a financial aid grant that is distributed to over 220,000 college and junior college students. Read more...

The UCLA Library will cancel over 1,400 academic journals and database subscriptions this coming year as it faces budget cuts and serial price inflation. Associate University Librarian Cynthia Shelton said the cancellations ““ the first of their kind in over five years ““ are expected to save $450,000 at a time when the budget outlook for coming years is unpromising. Read more...

Suddenly California ““ the “Left Coast,” that bastion of liberal politics ““ is held hostage by a few right-wing activists who can’t accept election results. After the right combination of millions of dollars, professional signature gatherers and a fiscal disaster managed to mobilize the small portion of voters necessary to demand a recall, Lt. Read more...