Graduate students who are struggling financially can now take time off from school, after administrators and faculty members made changes to the university’s leave of absence policy Friday. UCLA’s Graduate Council and the Graduate Division upgraded the policy in hopes of helping students who are having financial problems to stay enrolled at UCLA even if […]
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Students to hold town hall in response to offensive flier
Members of the Asian Pacific Islander communities at UCLA and USC are hosting a town hall Wednesday night in response to racist and sexist fliers that were recently sent to the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the USC Asian Pacific American Students Services. The event will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. in […]
URSA, other UCLA sites may cease in spring with MyUCLA integration
UCLA’s URSA and Financial Aid Office websites will tentatively be discontinued this spring because their features are now fully integrated into MyUCLA, officials said last week. Multiple campus departments have been working since 2011 to combine MyUCLA, URSA, the schedule of classes and Financial Aid Office services into a single website to make the sites […]
UCLA groups call for support in response to offensive flier
Cultural student groups released a statement Thursday calling for UCLA and University of California leaders to affirm their support for the Asian Pacific Islander community, in response to a racist and sexist flier recently sent to the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. The Asian Pacific Coalition at UCLA, the Pacific Islands Students Association at UCLA, […]
USAC bylaw amendment places restrictions on future stipend increases
Six months after raising their own monthly stipends, undergraduate student government officials unanimously passed a bylaw amendment Tuesday to bar future salary changes from taking immediate effect. In August, the Undergraduate Students Association Council raised councilmember stipends from $355 to $672 with an 8-1-0 vote. The decision also raised stipend caps for some other members […]
Napolitano releases UC-wide guidelines to address discrimination
University of California President Janet Napolitano released a set of requirements Friday mandating that all University of California campuses have certain mechanisms in place to effectively address discrimination, bias and harassment. The measures come in response to a report released in fall that found UCLA’s policies and procedures for addressing racial discrimination claims among faculty […]
USAC appoints Election Board chair despite qualification concerns
The undergraduate student government appointed a student to run its spring elections Tuesday despite concerns about the candidate’s qualifications for the job. Following an 8-4-0 vote, third-year biochemistry student Anthony Padilla is now responsible for setting a timeline for the Undergraduate Students Association Council elections, screening candidates and sanctioning students if they break the elections […]