Undergraduate student governments in the University of California system range in size and structure. While UCLA is the only UC campus that organizes its student government in commissions with specialized responsibilities, students on other campuses govern themselves based on other forms of representation. The 14 UCLA undergraduate student leaders each have specific duties to fulfill […]
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Heather Rosen fuels USAC presidential candidacy with social advocacy
Seeing a need for a social justice club at her high school, Heather Rosen decided to create her own club as a freshman – despite not knowing anyone at her new school. By the end of her senior year, Rosen’s club, Lions for Africa, was one of the largest groups at her high school and […]
USAC unanimously passes resolution calling for bike lanes around UCLA
The undergraduate student government unanimously passed a resolution calling for the Los Angeles City Council to install a bike lane along Westwood Boulevard near UCLA. The Undergraduate Students Association Council worked with Westwood neighborhood groups and the Graduate Students Association to develop the resolution. GSA unanimously passed a similar resolution during its March 4 meeting. […]
Academic Senate accepts statements for, against diversity requirement
All UCLA Academic Senate members can submit statements for or against the diversity requirement proposal during the next two weeks leading up to a new faculty-wide vote on the measure. On Feb. 12, a group of 64 UCLA professors and administrators from multiple departments and schools submitted a new petition to challenge a previous vote […]
Faculty to resubmit diversity requirement petition with wording changes
The professors and administrators who petitioned for another vote on a diversity course requirement proposal withdrew their petition Thursday to make wording changes. The wording changes, which come from the Academic Senate Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction, are meant to clarify that the requirement would only apply to students in the UCLA College of Letters […]
UCLA Division of Social Sciences holds panel on racial inequality
An image of a black student with a graduation cap with “stop killing us” written across it stuck in Jessica Barragan’s mind on Wednesday. Before seeing the image at a panel on race relations in the United States, the third-year sociology student said she had never thought about race relations and police brutality in such […]
UCLA to hold faculty-wide vote on diversity requirement
This post was updated on Jan. 23 at 3:29 p.m. UCLA Academic Senate members will vote on the diversity requirement after dozens of professors petitioned to broaden the vote to include faculty of all the colleges in the university. A group of 59 professors and administrators are calling for an all-faculty vote to challenge the […]