The first group of student advisers to the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion defined its roles this past year and hopes to expand efforts to improve campus climate next year. The EDI office created the Student Advisory Board in 2016 to help Vice Chancellor Jerry Kang address campus issues and communicate student concerns to […]
Category Archives: Campus
SJR enables student funding committee CAC to better allocate resources
One of the largest student funding bodies on campus has seen a significant improvement in fund allocations after budget increases. The Community Activities Committee allocated more than $550,000 to student groups in this year’s regular funding cycle, which is about 44 percent more than last year. The committee received more funding from the Social Justice […]
Student group for formerly incarcerated sees first graduating class
As a formerly incarcerated student, Armando Tellez’s path to higher education was far from traditional. “I got shot when I was 21. That was the same year I enrolled in college,” said Tellez, who will be graduating with other formerly incarcerated students this week as part of the Underground Scholars Initiative. Tellez will be graduating […]
UCLA Lab School encourages inquiry, applied learning in STEM and art
This post was updated June 29 at 1:25 a.m. It’s noon in the schoolyard, and laughing children swarm wooden play sets and build tunnels from plastic waffles that fit together like blocks. This is recess time at the UCLA Lab School, a pre-kindergarten through sixth grade institution nestled behind the UCLA Anderson School of Management. […]
ROTC training leader to retire, leaving legacy of respect and caring
A dozen handwritten cards fill Lt. Col. Bruce Fike’s office wall, many of them from cadets thanking him for training them and telling him about their current assignments. For Fike, those cards represent the memories he wants to take away when he leaves his position. After leading UCLA’s Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps for […]
Student services director for Luskin public policy program retires
Maciek Kolodziejczak comforted a new student at a UCLA Department of Public Policy welcome event in 2001 because she was nervous about balancing her parenting duties with her graduate studies. “There’s a lot of anxiety associated with graduate programs and with being a parent,” said Jocelyn Guihama, who is now the deputy director of the […]
Faculty, students talk free speech, entertaining controversial opinions
Students and professors at UCLA said they think conversations about controversial issues have become strained since the election of Donald Trump as president. Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Jerry Kang’s office said in an email statement that national political discourse has become polarized and that certain conservative and liberal groups are trying to […]