Author Archives: Ben Powell

To quantify the state of campus climate and of intergroup understanding on campus, UCLA conducted a Diverse Learning Environments survey in 2011 as part of an effort to gauge and improve certain areas of campus climate.

On May 1, the UC Student-Worker Union made clear its sunshine demands for 2013. Among this list of demands is an increase in wages for University of California teaching assistants.
In this financial climate, however, the union’s demands, which also include expanded health options and sabbaticals for student-workers, are unreasonable.

The California community college system is at a turning point.

Earlier this month, the Alameda County Superior Court decided that the University of California must make the performance of its venture capital investments a matter of public record – a more than reasonable request for a public institution like the UC.

Every quarter, students in the College of Letters and Science are expected to meet a set total number of units, as dictated by the Expected Cumulative Progress policy. To meet this total – 42 by the end of freshman year, 86 by the end of sophomore year – new students are expected to enroll in between 13 and 15 units per quarter for their first two years, a more than reasonable expectation given the plethora of five-unit general education classes.

Recent reductions to UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services appointments available free for students could hardly come at a worse time.