This post was updated on May 14 at 9:10 p.m. University of California in-state tuition will remain flat for the next two years, Gov. Jerry Brown announced Thursday. However, nonresident students may still see supplemental tuition increase by up to 8 percent annually during that time, if it receives the UC Board of Regents’ authorization. […]
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State resolution calling on UC to condemn anti-Semitism faces criticism
A state Senate resolution urging each University of California campus to condemn anti-Semitism and racism faces opposition from civil rights and pro-Palestine groups who say they think its definition of anti-Semitism is too broad. Senate Concurrent Resolution 35, proposed in March by Sen. Jeff Stone (R-Murrieta) and passed by the Senate Education Committee last week, […]
Rally held to honor lives lost in Mediterranean migrant boat disaster
About 20 people held a rally on campus Wednesday afternoon to honor the hundreds of lives lost in last week’s boat disaster in the Mediterranean Sea. Over the weekend, a ship carrying hundreds of African migrants to Italy capsized, and the United Nations said it believed that more than 800 people died in the incident. […]
UC delays releasing admission data amid state funding uncertainties
The University of California said this week it will announce admission statistics a month late because it still does not know how many students it can afford to accept. The statistics are usually released on the University website in April. However, the University said it is delaying the announcement because it wants to make sure […]
Q&A: Peace Corps official explains new application, recruitment efforts
The Peace Corps is anticipating more than 22,000 applications for the 2015 fiscal year, an increase of at least 26 percent from last year, said an official who visited the UCLA Thursday. The organization sends many college graduates from the U.S. to different countries for service missions. Nearly 220,000 people in the U.S. have served […]
UCLA students arrested at police brutality protest
California Highway Patrol arrested at least three UCLA students in Westwood Tuesday after they blocked a 405 Freeway off-ramp during a protest against police brutality. Protesters dressed in black blocked the northbound 405 off-ramp toward the eastbound Wilshire Boulevard exit for about 20 minutes after 3:40 p.m., preventing dozens of cars from getting off the […]
UCLA faculty approves diversity requirement
This post was updated on April 12 at 7:54 p.m. UCLA faculty and students are working to organize diversity-related course curricula before fall quarter after universitywide faculty voted 916-487 to pass a diversity course requirement proposal last week. The requirement calls for students in the College of Letters and Science to take a course about […]