There is a need for a refocusing of undergraduate education away from grades and tests toward learning. Education in primary school, secondary school and undergraduate programs emphasizes assessments and ranking of students to the detriment of learning. Read more...
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If the secret to good magic is misdirection, then Gov. Jerry Brown might soon be the next David Copperfield. On Thursday, Brown and University of California President Janet Napolitano announced a budget and tuition agreement as part of California’s May budget revision that will freeze tuition for the next two years for residents. Read more...
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All of us cheered when Gov. Jerry Brown struck a “historic” deal with the University of California and its president, Janet Napolitano, freezing tuition increases for two years and promising annual 4 percent budgetary increases over the next four. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students occupied Murphy Hall to remember a student who died when the National Guard shot at a crowd of activists at UC Berkeley. (Daily Bruin file photo)
For many Palestinians, today doesn’t mark 67 years since the Nakba, but rather 67 years of the Nakba. In 1948, an estimated 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homeland in what Palestinians call the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” that gave birth to the State of Israel. Read more...
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For as much effort as UCLA has put toward increasing its undergraduate diversity through outreach programs, one group of individuals – women in engineering – is consistently overlooked. Read more...
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Three years and four months sober, first-year psychology student Marissa Ericson still wakes up in the middle of the night from the same recurring dream of shooting up heroin, a drug she has never touched. Read more...
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If the University of California held its national summit on undocumented students last week to improve its public image, the students in attendance made sure that effort did not go unchallenged. Read more...
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