Petition protests potential changes to UC employee health care plan

More than 1,800 University of California faculty have signed a petition opposing potential changes to the UC employee health care plan, which they say would limit options and raise costs for employees. The potential changes would eliminate insurance plans used by 70 percent of employees and would force employees to switch to a UC Care […]

Student Aid Bill of Rights calls for streamlining loan payment process

President Barack Obama announced the Student Aid Bill of Rights on Tuesday, calling for the creation of a centralized payment information and complaint reporting website to make it easier for students to pay back their federal student loans. More than 40 million Americans have student debt, and the average student loan debt is about $28,000, […]

Assemblyman proposes bill to limit UC employee salaries to $500,000

A state legislator introduced a state Assembly bill last week that would cap annual compensation for all University of California employees at $500,000 a year. Assembly Bill 837 was introduced by Assemblyman Roger Hernández, who said he thinks capping employee compensation will free up more University resources for students, according to a press statement Wednesday. […]

Walkout day highlights struggles of adjunct faculty

Alejandro Covarrubias was told by his department chair in 2013 that he would soon be let go from his lecturer position in the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies. He initially accepted the news without protest. “I thought that this was the way things went and that there was nothing I could do […]

UCLA applicants for Teach for America increase amid nationwide decreases

More UCLA students have been applying to Teach for America, a national program that recruits college graduates to teach in lower-income and disadvantaged neighborhoods, than in previous years, despite a national trend of decreasing applications to the program. Nationally, the nonprofit teaching program has been receiving a decreased number of applications for the second year […]

Report finds UC clerical employee wages fall below cost of living

The majority of support staff workers in the University of California earn less than the yearly wages needed to support a family, according to a preliminary report released by a nonprofit research group on Jan. 26. The report found that 81.9 percent of employees in the UC-wide Teamsters Local 2010 and 86.7 percent of the […]