A group of students dedicated to fostering collaboration among UCLA entrepreneurship organizations plans to hold a launch party Friday for their website – a project that took about a year to develop. The UCLA Entrepreneurship Council, which consists of 14 entrepreneurship organizations, recently launched Bruincubate, an information website aimed at providing students, faculty and the […]
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Campus Retention Committee seeks to appeal ECP policy
A student committee designed to increase retention on campus is pushing for UCLA administrators to change a policy that requires undergraduates to stay on a specific academic track. Some students in the committee said the regulations unfairly target students from minority backgrounds. Campus Retention Committee members emailed Chancellor Gene Block on Tuesday, asking him to […]
Proposal to change Afro-American Studies into department under review
A proposal to make the Interdepartmental Program in Afro-American Studies into its own department is in its final stages of review almost a year after the proposal was originally submitted. Kyle McJunkin, director of curriculum, coordination and operations at UCLA, said if all goes smoothly, the African American Studies department could be established by summer […]
Amendment against immediate USAC stipend increases proposed
Undergraduate student government officials submitted a proposal for review Sunday that would prevent future councils from raising their own stipends. The Undergraduate Students Association Council voted this past summer to increase councilmembers’ monthly stipends from $355 to $672 a month. The decision saw backlash from the student body, including a call by a coalition of […]
Bioengineering major gets new curriculum for Fall 2014
The undergraduate bioengineering curriculum will offer students more flexibility and opportunities to take bioengineering electives starting in fall 2014. The curriculum changes aim to allow students to enroll in more classes focused on bioengineering rather than classes in related fields such as chemistry or life science, said Daniel Kamei, the vice chair of UCLA’s Department […]
New plan aims to improve transparency in club financing
Undergraduate student government officials are tightening their auditing policies to make sure student groups spend funds allocated to them more efficiently. The Undergraduate Students Association Council Finance Committee will now require student groups who receive USAC contingency programming funding to report how they use the money, said Cynthia Jasso, chair of the Finance Committee. The […]
UCLA to offer chemistry lab classes during the weekend
The UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry Department will begin offering some beginning laboratory classes on the weekend next quarter in response to growing student demand.