Category Archives: Campus

UCLA researchers to study success of online mental health therapy

UCLA researchers will study whether peer support increases the effectiveness of online therapy for patients diagnosed with mild depression, stress and anxiety. The two-year study, conducted by the UCLA Office of Campus and Student Resilience, hopes to identify a more effective way of treating patients with mild depression or anxiety, said Elizabeth Gong-Guy, director of […]

ASUCLA Services Committee recap – April 15

Associated Students UCLA is a multimillion-dollar organization that provides student services and activities that the university does not fund. It oversees the Undergraduate Students Association Council, Graduate Students Association, Communications Board, campus services and enterprises. Board of Directors meetings are monthly and open to the public. Executive and committee reports Executive director Bob Williams said […]

Kara Chang, from silence to a fighter for LGBT acceptance

Kara Chang stepped out in front of 8,000 incoming UCLA freshmen during Welcome Week in the fall and told the story of how she had come out as transgender five months before. “When I look in the mirror now, I see a strong, independent, queer, transgender, non-binary Taiwanese-American human being,” Chang told the students. “Today […]

Head of BlackRock, alumnus Laurence Fink to speak at 2016 commencement

Laurence D. Fink, UCLA alumnus and businessman, will be the keynote speaker at the UCLA College of Letters and Science commencement ceremonies on June 10 in Pauley Pavilion, UCLA officials announced Thursday. In 1988, Fink helped create finance management company BlackRock, which has managed more than $4.6 trillion on behalf of clients. BlackRock manages pension […]

UCLA employees protest restrictions on union representation

About 200 UCLA employees called on administrators to stop the university’s alleged restrictions on union representation at a protest Wednesday in front of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The UCLA Skilled Trades Workers, a group that consists of employees who manage buildings, electricity and other campus operations, is in the process of gaining representation […]

Million Student March protestors demand university reforms

Protesters marched through campus Wednesday to advocate for lowering tuition and adopting the new $15 hourly minimum wage immediately, among other university reforms. About 20 UCLA students, alumni and workers chanted and spoke about issues such as mental health funding and sexual assault as a part of the Million Student March, organized by the community organization […]