Author Archives: Melinda Dudley

Presidential appointments have been a flash point of political conflict for undergraduate student government this summer, but councilmembers have come to a compromise over heavily contested appointments. Ending a bitter battle over appointments to the Student Fee Advisory Committee, the Undergraduate Students Association Council approved second-year sociology student Gregory Cendana and fourth-year Chicana/o studies and […]

The drama and frustration of slate politics have already taken hold of undergraduate student government, impeding progress after only its first meeting of the academic year. Councilmembers who campaigned with the Bruins United slate blocked presidential appointments using a loophole in the Undergraduate Students Association constitution at the meeting last week. General representative Brian Neesby, […]

The year 2025 is coming, and it’s going to bring ever-escalating congestion, funding problems for infrastructure, and a lack of college-educated workers to sufficiently man the expanding service sector of the economy, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. On Aug. 9, Ellen Hanak, a research fellow from the Public Policy Institute of California, […]

The University of California, which is being sued for raising professional student fees, is now increasing fees even higher to cover its losses. The temporary educational fee increase, which was approved by the UC Board of Regents on July 21, will be allocated to cover the estimated $20 million in fees the UC has been […]

Undergraduate student government reconvenes this week to plan programming and campaigns for the year and work at the campus level for national and statewide student advocacy goals. Representatives from UCLA attended the United States Student Association annual national student congress in Wisconsin last week, taking part in the discussion of action agenda items for student […]

Over the next two years, University of California students can expect pressing issues such as fee increases and admissions accessibility to come before the Board of Regents. As student regent, UCLA graduate student Maria Ledesma will be one of the only voices representing the concerns of the more than 200,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students […]

SAN FRANCISCO “”mdash; The University of California Board of Regents voted last week to raise fees thousands of dollars for professional school students, a move the regents said is to compensate for the state budget crisis and to make up for anticipated losses in lawsuits filed regarding previous fee increases. The regents, who met July […]