The Trump administration is seeking to exert control over several of UCLA’s admissions, protest and health care policies in exchange for the university’s research funding, according to a draft settlement acquired by the Los Angeles Times. Read more...
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This post was updated Sept. 7 at 8:19 p.m. Research and public service professionals across the UC voted Tuesday to form a new union that will represent 7,200 workers. Read more...
Photo: United Auto Workers Local 4811 picket on the UCLA campus. A new UC union, Research and Public Service Professionals-United Auto Workers, will serve as an organizational unit of UAW. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Sept. 7 at 8:22 p.m. UC faculty are proposing the creation of a multi-billion-dollar fund to support UC researchers in the wake of the federal funding suspension to UCLA. Read more...
Photo: The California State Capitol is pictured. UC faculty are proposing the creation of a multi-billion-dollar fund to support UC researchers in the wake of the federal funding suspension to UCLA. (Edward Ho/Daily Bruin)
United Auto Workers Local 4811 demanded protections for immigrant workers, pay equity and pushback against federal funding cuts during negotiations with the UC beginning July 8. Read more...
Photo: A United Auto Workers Local 4811 protest is pictured. UAW Local 4811 demanded protections for immigrant workers, pay equity and pushback against federal funding cuts during negotiations with the UC beginning July 8. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Since March, the Trump administration has suspended the research grants of multiple elite private universities for allegedly allowing antisemitism on their campuses. But in July, it went after UCLA, a public university that experts said has fewer resources to handle the suspension of its grants and is more wrapped up in politics as one of the flagship universities of a blue state. Read more...
Photo: Royce Hall is pictured. Since March, the Trump administration has suspended the research grants of multiple elite private universities for allegedly allowing antisemitism on their campuses. (Daily Bruin file photo)
A May Reddit post showing a dumpster bin filled with books, allegedly behind Olympic and Centennial residential halls, sparked outrage and confusion among students. The post to UCLA’s subreddit with the image, entitled “UCLA IS TRASHING THOUSANDS OF BOOKS,” received about 250 “upvotes” and over 60 comments. Read more...
Photo: A May reddit post showing a dumpster filled with books sparked confusion among UCLA students. (Helen Sanders/Daily Bruin staff)
This post was updated Aug. 24 at 7:41 p.m. A court ruled Thursday that UC Regent Jay Sures must pay $150,624 of graduate student Dylan Kupsh’s legal fees after Sures unsuccessfully attempted to file a restraining order against him. Kupsh – along with around 50 other pro-Palestine protesters – demonstrated outside Sures’ Brentwood home in February, calling him “responsible for protecting UC investments in genocide and weapons manufacturing.” Lawyers representing Sures initially alleged that Kupsh was a “ringleader” among the protesters, but were unable to prove the claim in court. Read more...
Photo: Dylan Kupsh, a UCLA graduate student (left), and another pro-Palestine activist (right) speak to Kupsh’s supporters outside the Los Angeles Metropolitan Courthouse. A court ruled Thursday that UC Regent Jay Sures must pay $150,624 of Kupsh’s legal fees after Sures unsuccessfully attempted to file a restraining order against Kupsh following his participation in a pro-Palestine protest outside Sures’ home. (Maggie Konecky/Daily Bruin senior staff)
