Author Archives: Vanda Suvansilpakit

In a rare event, presidents of student governments in the University of California system gathered at a summit Friday to discuss ways to improve cooperation between campuses. The purpose of the summit was not to make decisions but to promote the exchange of ideas, according to Hanish Rathod, president-elect of the UCLA Graduate Student Association. […]

The Graduate Student Association swore in its new officers and outlined plans to improve graduate student resources at its forum meeting on Wednesday. During their last meeting of the year, outgoing forum members gave tokens of appreciation to President Charles Harless and Vice President-Internal Dorothy Kim for their contribution to GSA over the past two […]

In yet another response to the current budget crisis, the university is proposing to cap fee benefits received by academic student employees. Currently, graduate students who are teaching assistants, readers or tutors can have their educational and registration fees waived. With the current proposal, the university would no longer fully cover these fees. The Graduate […]

vsuvansilpakit@media.ucla.edu The Graduate Student Association awarded individuals for their service to graduate students at its end-of-the-year reception Tuesday. Given out annually by GSA, the James LuValle Distinguished Service Award and the Jeffrey L. Hanson Distinguished Service Award recognize individuals for their commitment to the graduate student community. LuValle award recipient Michael Cohn said he is […]

The University of California Students Association discussed plans for its campaign against student fee increases, policies on its own funding and a genocide resolution at the meeting at UCLA this weekend. Members of the statewide lobbying organization expressed concerns in light of a recent decision made by the UC Board of Regents to postpone voting […]

The Graduate Students Association discussed the implications of recent recommendations made by the Competitiveness Task Force on graduate student support, as well as approved its election results and budget for next year at a forum meeting Wednesday. One of the suggestions made by the task force was to reallocate the portion of graduate budget controlled […]

With a vote on next year’s University of California budget coming in less than a week, the Student Fee Advisory Committee is bracing itself to deal with the problem of distributing a projected $4.7 million cut across all student services. The committee held a town hall meeting Tuesday to seek input from students concerning the […]