A planned faculty housing building on Hilgard Avenue will continue to prioritize tenure-track faculty over adjunct professors or lecturers, according to UCLA media relations. Ladder-rank or tenure-track faculty are prioritized for faculty housing over appointees in the clinical professor series, adjunct professor series and lecturers at UCLA. Read more...
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March 11, 11:57 pm
UCLA among 5 UC campuses to offer in-house COVID-19 testing
Five University of California medical centers will use their own tests for the coronavirus, according to the Sacramento Bee. The five medical centers in the UC are either currently using or obtaining approvals for the tests. Read more...
Photo: Medical centers at UCLA, UC San Francisco, UC San Diego, UC Irvine and UC Davis will use in-house tests for the coronavirus. The University of California system is one of the first health systems in the country to offer such testing. (Daily Bruin file photo)
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March 8, 11:15 pm
UC makes open-access deal with PLOS to reform academic journal publishing
This post was updated March 9 at 3:57 p.m. The University of California made a two-year open-access agreement Feb. 19 with the Public Library of Science, which researchers say is part of an upending of the traditional academic publishing model. Read more...
Photo: The University of California announced a two-year open-access agreement Feb. 19 with the Public Library of Science, under the deal, the UC Library will cover the first $1,000 of the article processing charges required for researchers to publish in PLOS journals. (Daily Bruin file photo)
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March 6, 12:43 am
UCLA cancels study abroad programs in delayed response to coronavirus
Clarissa Pham had already arrived at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, when she found out the University of California was suspending her study abroad program. Read more...
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March 5, 5:24 pm
UCLA graduate students vote to strike for COLA, pending approval from 10 departments
This post was updated March 5 at 6:01 p.m. Nearly 100 graduate students voted Thursday to go on strike starting next week, pending the approval of graduate students in at least 10 departments. Read more...
Photo: Hundreds of students rally Thursday in support of cost-of-living adjustments for graduate student workers. They voted to strike next week pending the approval of graduate students in 10 departments. (Niveda Tennety/Assistant Photo editor)
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March 2, 11:29 pm
UC San Diego considers joining Berkeley, Merced in adopting semester system
UC San Diego may become the third University of California school to ignore the quarter system for the semester system. The San Diego campus is considering ending the 10-week quarter system, according to UCSD spokesperson Christine Clark. Read more...
Photo: UC San Diego may join UC Berkeley and UC Merced by adopting the semester system in order to reduce stress on students and make it easier to transfer classes from the California Community Colleges system.
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March 2, 11:28 pm
UCLA graduate students to stage protest in support of recently fired UCSC TAs
More than 100 UCLA graduate students voted to strike Thursday in solidarity with the 54 graduate students from UC Santa Cruz who were fired for withholding grades. Read more...
Photo: Hundreds of students marched to the Fowler Amphitheater on Monday to vote on whether to strike in solidarity with 54 recently fired UC Santa Cruz graduate students. (Lauren Man/Daily Bruin)