UCLA Community Programs Office has raised student work hours and expanded projects with the extra funds received from increased student fees. CPO has received $603,000 from the 2016 Social Justice Referendum, said Antonio Sandoval, the office’s director. CPO used the additional funds to increase student worker wages and address food insecurity on campus by improving […]
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Club launches website to connect inquisitive students with upperclassmen mentors
This post was updated May 23 at 12:35 a.m. A new website aims to connect underclassmen who want to declare or switch their majors with upperclassmen mentors. DevX, a club that creates apps and online products geared toward UCLA students, held a soft launch in January for BQuest, a website that links students considering different […]
Video: UC’s largest employee union strikes
Workers throughout the University of California represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 went on strike from May 7 to 9. The strike, which was voted into effect with 97 percent approval among AFSCME Local 3299 members, followed disputes between the union and the UC over its contract negotiation.
UCLA student’s nonprofit provides prosthetics for people affected by Syrian war
Haya Kaliounji and her family were forced to flee their hometown in 2012 after a civil war broke out in Syria. After staying in Lebanon for six months, her family moved to the United States on her mother’s work visa in search of a new life in Los Angeles. Kaliounji, a third-year physiological science student, […]
Mentorship organization to build bridges between Bruins, professionals
A new student-run organization aims to provide professional mentorship for students. Bruin Bridges, which launched in April and held its first meeting Friday, connects students to leaders in various industries who will advise and mentor them. Twenty-one students are participating in the program this quarter. Giulia Sperandio, president of Bruin Bridges and a third-year economics […]
Children from working-class families invited to UCLA to see opportunities
Maria Mena, a janitor at Santa Monica College, brought her son to UCLA on Saturday to motivate him to pursue higher education. “A lot of kids in our community aren’t motivated to go to college because they don’t think it’s for them, so they don’t go,” she said. “This can give some firsthand insight for […]
Professor dies at 74, remembered for curiosity, linguistic advances
UCLA faculty remember Charles Goodwin for making strides in researchers’ understanding of human speech. Goodwin, a distinguished professor emeritus in the department of applied linguistics, died on March 31 due to cancer. He was 74. Goodwin and his wife, Marjorie Goodwin, professor emerita in the department of anthropology, started working at UCLA in 1996. The […]