The federal government reopened Thursday after President Obama signed a continuing resolution that passed both houses around 12:30 a.m. more than two weeks after Congress’ last funding bill expired on Oct. 1. It took 16 days for Congress to agree on and pass a budget resolution and end the shutdown – days when many furloughed […]
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UCEAP offers new, more immersive programs
The University of California Education Abroad Program will be offering six new programs for the 2014-2015 year, which students can enroll in beginning this year. For the first time, next year UCLA students will be able to study medicine in clinical rotations in the Dominican Republic and immerse themselves into the local culture of Yogyakarta, […]
Professor advises Washington state in regulation of marijuana
Mark Kleiman’s summer engrossed in Washington’s marijuana policies earned him a new nickname – the Pot Czar. “He hates being called that,” Kleiman’s colleague Beau Kilmer said with a laugh. Kleiman, a public policy professor at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, recently returned to UCLA after advising the state of Washington on how […]
Obama pitches plan to tie federal funding to college ratings system
The University of California could potentially gain or lose future federal funding depending on how its campuses fair in a new ratings system proposed by President Barack Obama on Thursday.