By creating and subsidizing online courses for alumni, UCLA can redefine what it means to be part of the Bruin family. Starting in 2012, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology collaborated to create a nonprofit, Massive Open Online Course program called “edX,” which provides free online courses for alumni at their alma maters. These […]
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UCLA Consent Week turnout not enough to spread awareness on campus
UCLA’s second annual Consent Week aimed to use five days to spread awareness of sexual violence and prevention, but failed to adequately expand its outreach to all affected communities on campus.
Dashew Center, Gen Rep 3 to provide Thanksgiving meals
Chloe Liu spent her first Thanksgiving at UCLA in her friend’s apartment eating homemade Chinese food for three days. While many other students on her floor went home, Liu, a second-year communications studies student from China, said she enjoyed the holiday with friends at school. For more than 300 students staying on the Hill during […]
Student brings back stories from relief mission in typhoon-struck Philippines
One of Alana Sanchez-Prak’s larger host families during her trip to the Philippines relied on coconut trees as its primary source of income. The mother of the family remembered watching the roof fly off her home and seeing the trees collapse while trying to get her family to safety. Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines eight […]
SOOF allocations for student groups decrease from 2013-2014 year
Some student leaders are questioning the efficacy of one of the primary undergraduate student government funds after hundreds of groups received allocations last week that were the lowest in recent years. The average allocation per student group this fall from the Student Organizations Operational Fund decreased by about $140 from last year. The Undergraduate Students […]