Author Archives: Shaudee Navid

Over a decade ago, Schoenberg quad was the stage for one of UCLA’s most enduring displays of student activism ““ the student-initiated hunger strike of 1993. Lining the quad with a procession of tents, five students, a professor, two community leaders and a high school student willingly put their lives in danger as they refused […]

As most students get settled in their new classes, other students’ routines include researching rat muscles and brain morphologies of schizophrenic patients. Already attending a university nationally recognized for advances in research, UCLA students are at an advantage by being able to participate, first hand, in these breakthrough projects. Through UCLA’s Student Research Program, undergraduate […]

For UCLA outreach groups who devote endless hours of counseling and academic tutoring to K-12 students in nearby underrepresented communities, the recent state budget proposal is troubling. But even more troubling is the direct effect decreased funding for K-12 education will have in the long run ““ in terms of both diversity and accessibility ““ […]

From concerns like being “vague” or “not necessary at all,” faculty members of the UCLA College had numerous misgivings about the current diversity requirement proposal. Student leaders, proponents of the proposal and even some opponents believed the proposal would finally pass in December’s faculty-wide vote, bringing it even closer to implementation by the fall of […]

In its final stages of becoming an official policy, the proposal for a diversity requirement was rejected as faculty members of the UCLA College voted against it. Already existing at the other eight University of California undergraduate campuses, the proposal at UCLA called for students to take one course as part of their existing general […]

In its final stages of becoming an official policy, the diversity requirement proposal was rejected as faculty members of the UCLA College voted against it. Voter turnout was “somewhat low” as only 249 faculty members voted out of 1,262 eligible voters, said Robin Garrell, chairwoman of the Faculty Executive Committee of the College. The decision […]

Implementing a diversity requirement within the general education curriculum at UCLA may soon become a reality as faculty members of the UCLA College will be the first to vote on the finalized proposal beginning today. Already existing at the other eight UC undergraduate campuses, the idea to implement such a requirement at UCLA was first […]