Author Archives: Dmitri Pikman

Mako Fukumoto, a fourth-year world arts and cultures student, is worried about finals and graduation, but she has another pressing concern as well. She needs to find a way to keep in touch with all her friends when she leaves the United States for her home country of Japan at the end of this academic […]

James Yamazaki has a lot of stories to tell. Yamazaki, a professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, served as a combat surgeon in Europe during World War II. He was captured by German forces and was a prisoner until the end of the war. He studied the effects of the atomic bomb […]

Problems the University of California has had in enrolling black students may be aggravated by a “reverse migration” trend that is drawing many black families out of places such as California and bringing them to the South. A study undertaken by the Brookings Institute last week found that an increased number of black professionals are […]

Most California community colleges began accepting students last week, and community college officials have indicated their concern over the particularly high number of students expected this year. The increase in the number of community college students is partially attributed to University of California and California State University eligible students who were redirected to the community […]

Fifty years after the celebrated Brown v. Board of Education decision, only a small percentage of minority students currently attend thoroughly integrated institutions. Higher education experts say that while minority students will enjoy more and more higher education access in future years, this increase will happen slowly if it follows the model set in the […]

Travel in Europe will become more convenient in the future, experts say, after the European Union welcomed 10 new members on May 1 who are expected to adopt the euro, the single EU currency. Since its inception in 1999, the euro has consistently been stronger in comparison to the dollar, and the expansion of the […]

University of California students may face higher fees for their student loans due to the possibility that the UC system may withdraw from the Federal Direct Lending Program. The program, created by Congress in 1993, mandates that colleges provide loans directly to students without going through a third party. California higher-education institutions are talking with […]