Covel reinstates writing lab
Thank you for publishing Kavitha Subramanian’s recent article “Covel tutoring sign-ups move to MyUCLA” (Sept. 29) about the new online registration system for Covel Peer Learning Lab’s Math/Science sessions.
All of us at Covel thank the Daily Bruin for their support of our lab and services!
However, Subramanian’s story did not cover an essential component of Covel Peer Learning Labs: the reinstatement of the Composition/English as a Second Language Lab.
Because of the Lab’s suspension during the 2009-2010 academic year, we want to make sure that students are fully aware of how our Composition/ESL Lab has changed and how we may be able to better help them.
Just as sign-ups for the Covel Math/Science lab are now on MyUCLA, so, too, are appointment sign-ups for the Covel Composition/ESL lab.
However, unlike Math/Science sign-ups, all Composition/ESL Lab appointment sign-ups may be accessed through the “Surveys” function on MyUCLA.
Students eligible for Covel Composition/ESL peer learning will see the survey icon on their home page of MyUCLA.
Clicking that icon will allow the student to sign up for one-time, one-on-one Composition/ESL appointments.
We sincerely hope that students will take advantage of not only Math/Science services but also our Composition/ESL appointments.
Please refer to our website (aitc.ucla.edu) and click on the tab for “Peer Learning” to learn more about everything that Covel Peer Learning Labs offers and to read our “Frequently Asked Questions” about the Composition/ESL Lab.
We look forward to seeing students on the second floor of Covel!
Jenae Cohn is the 2010-2011 Composition/ESL Peer Learning Facilitator Supervisor and a former Daily Bruin A&E writer.
Jenae Cohn is the 2010-2011 Composition/ESL Peer Learning Facilitator Supervisor and a former Daily Bruin A&E writer.
Regents’ decisions will hurt employees
The UC Regents recently voted to raise the amounts that employees and the UC contribute to the UC Retirement System pension plan.
Employees’ contributions would go from the current 2 percent to 5 percent by 2013, while the UC’s would go from 4 percent of payroll to 10 percent. UC must negotiate changes with union-represented employees.
The regents also approved $3.1 million in bonuses for medical center executives, to be distributed among 37 executives across the state, including UCLA’s top hospital executive, whose pay will increase by $410,000, to about $1.3 million.
Ellis Stewart is the vice president of University Professional and Technical Employees at UCLA.