After years in the making, a new Master Plan for Public Education in California attempts to promote access to higher education, recommends changes in college admissions policies, and calls for a student fee increase for university students. Read more...

In a case that tests the limits of academic liberties, UC President Richard Atkinson requested a review of course description procedures after a UC Berkeley English class sparked controversy. Read more...

Former UCLA law Professor Wesley J. Liebeler, who was a counsel for the government commission that investigated the assassination of John F. Kennedy, was killed on Wednesday after his twin-engine plane crashed in New Hampshire. Read more...

With the chancellor and Professor Judea Pearl in attendance, a Pulitzer”“prize winning journalist opened the Daniel Pearl Foundation’s lecture series Thursday at the UCLA Faculty Center. Read more...

“Our university works because immigrants do.” Posters containing phrases like this one confronted an audience as they gathered on the lawn at Meyerhoff Park to rally for the legalization of immigrant workers in the aftermath of tightened immigration restrictions since Sept. Read more...

This year UCLA will gear two groups of courses primarily toward freshmen in an effort to personalize their education within the context of a 35,000-student university. Read more...

SAN FRANCISCO “”mdash; Regent Ward Connerly suggested an external audit of comprehensive review at the meeting of the University of California Board of Regents last week before the release of an internal evaluation performed by the system-wide Academic Senate. Read more...