After several weeks of internal unrest, the UC Academic Senate is set to hold a special meeting on Monday to decide whether to remove its top official. The Academic Senate, which represents and sets policy for the 15,000 University of California faculty members at all 10 campuses, gave Senate Chair Clifford Brunk a vote of […]
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Initiative to help transfer students at select schools
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation will partner with eight elite universities in an effort to increase the number of low-income community college students who transfer to top-ranked schools, the foundation announced Monday. Though UCLA is not part of the $27 million initiative, both UC Berkeley and USC are to participate. The initiative aims to increase […]
Mexican voting system problematic
Born in the Baja town of Guymas, Luisa MartÃnez lived in Mexico for 18 years before enrolling in a San Diego junior college. Yet, when MartÃnez, now a 24-year-old UCLA student, votes for the first time in this year’s Mexican presidential election, she will be participating in the political process of a country she never […]
Stem cell research growing
In an example of the rapid expansion of stem cell research in the state of California, USC announced late last week plans to build a new stem cell research institute on its health sciences campus. Coming on the heels of similar projects at UCLA, UC San Francisco and UC San Diego, the USC Keck School […]
Legislation aims to keep Master Plan on target
In an effort to shore up the promises made in the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California, a coalition of organizations and a bipartisan group of state senators have collaborated to produce legislation to ensure access to college for all eligible California students. The bill, called the College Opportunity Act of 2006, was […]
Colleges may be put to the test
Concerns over accountability in higher education could result in the use of standardized tests for college and university students across the country. The Commission on the Future of Higher Education has begun looking into the possibility of using standardized testing in higher education following a Jan. 24 memorandum written by the commission’s chairman, Charles Miller, […]
Alternative energy gets new fuel for future
With the release of the 2007 federal budget Monday, President Bush began making good on his State of the Union proposal to increase funding for alternative energy research. Despite reducing or eliminating 141 government programs in an effort to corral the projected $354 billion deficit for 2007, the budget provides funding for several alternative energy […]