Several UCLA students and administrators said they are concerned with President Donald Trump’s budget request for federal funding for higher education. The proposed budget request would cut the Department of Education’s discretionary spending by $9.2 billion or 13.5 percent, impacting student aid and financial loans as well as research grants. UCLA’s federal advocacy program held […]
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Black Male Institute conference outlines black, Latino student issues
Speakers presented research on the challenges black and Latino students face in education at a conference Wednesday. The Black Male Institute hosted its 2017 Think Tank conference, called “Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline,” at UCLA’s Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center. Joanna Navarro, a fourth-year statistics student, introduced an assessment of the impact of the courses […]
Students express dissatisfaction with French presidential candidates
French students at UCLA may live more than 5,000 miles away from their country, but many still find themselves invested in the events of the French presidential election. The first round of the French presidential election took place April 23. Emmanuel Macron, the centrist independent candidate, received 24 percent of the vote and Marine Le […]
Fraudulent scheme targeting students steals $12M from UC SHIP
University of California students were targeted in an allegedly fraudulent scheme that stole almost $12 million from the UC Student Health Insurance Plan. UC officials announced Thursday that multiple defendants falsified medical prescriptions under students’ names. These defendants created California Clinical Trials LLC, a company under which the scheme was operated. The UC filed a […]
Rep. John Lewis awarded UCLA Medal at Winston C. Doby Lecture
As a young man living in Nashville, Tennessee, Rep. John Lewis sat at whites-only lunch counters in protest of segregation and was told that he would get arrested if he continued. Lewis acknowledged this and went to purchase a suit. If he was going to get arrested, he said, he wanted to look clean and […]
UCLA to propose new dorms, apartments to match enrollment increase
UCLA has a proposal to build three new residence halls and two apartment complexes by 2021 to accommodate increased enrollment. The initiative would add about 6,900 beds to the Hill and guarantee students more years of housing. UCLA officials expect to request preliminary plan funding at the May Regents meeting, which would allow UCLA to […]
UCLA Democrats feel hopeful new DNC chair will unify party
Democratic student groups on campus said they hope the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee will work to unify the party to win back power in the government. Tom Perez, Secretary of Labor under former President Barack Obama, was elected the new chairman of the DNC on Saturday, and promptly appointed his rival in […]