Staff, community members and student leaders from various political, cultural and advocacy groups met on Tuesday to discuss California’s goals for higher education.
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Fiscal woes impact admissions
In order to ease the impact of recent and anticipated budget cuts, the Chancellor’s Enrollment Advisory Committee is looking closely at a variety of options dealing with admissions, including declining the rate of transfer students admitted into the university in favor of more out-of-state and international students.
WASC team surveys UCLA
Jessica Ngo, a fourth-year economics student, still recalls her freshman General Education cluster to be one of the best classes she has taken at UCLA.
Creating the GE clusters was an initiative UCLA started 10 years ago to be reaccredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
Web site teaches student finance
Nikki Sanders has never owned a credit card.
Engineering team driven to create
Andrew Chao placed the two-foot-long car, covered in green circuit boards, on a line of wire and off the car went ““ no motor, no controller.
Same-sex couples deciding what to take from ruling
Brian Navarro was driving back from work when he heard on the radio that same-sex marriage was legalized in California. He started to cry amid the traffic.
Endowment funds study of Mediterranean Judaism
Even though he was only four when he moved from Italy to America, Andrew Viterbi grew up in a Jewish household surrounded by Italian culture.