Students will gather Wednesday night to plan ways to lobby faculty for the upcoming vote on the academic diversity requirement proposal. The Undergraduate Students Association Council Academic Affairs Commission is hosting the event to build student support for the requirement and teach students how to encourage faculty members to vote “yes” on the proposal. The […]
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GSA forum to allow student input on diversity vice chancellor position
Students who want to give input on the vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion position can talk with members of a search committee Wednesday at the graduate student government forum. At the Graduate Students Association meeting, which will be its first of the year, forum members will also examine procedures for filling the vice […]
USAC recap – Oct. 21
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every week on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Watch a live stream of the meeting on the USAC Live! YouTube channel. Agenda The council approved contingency […]
Court rules in favor of UC in conference center construction lawsuit
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has ruled in favor of the University of California in a lawsuit challenging the construction of the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference and Guest Center. The lawsuit, filed in 2012 by neighborhood nonprofit organization Save Westwood Village, alleged that UCLA officials did not analyze alternatives to the project […]
Referendum would extend student fee funding sustainability projects
Students will vote on a referendum this week that would indefinitely extend a $4.80 quarterly student fee used to fund campus sustainability projects. Mandatory students fees for The Green Initiative Fund, or TGIF, have raised about $200,000 per year since it was created in 2008, according to the fund’s website. Over the years, the fund […]
Referendum would fund increased budgets for diversity-related programs
Campus diversity and retention programs may see their budgets increase by tens of thousands of dollars in spring quarter if students vote to raise student fees this week. The Bruin Diversity Referendum calls for an increase in undergraduate student fees by $9.93 per student each quarter. In total, the fee increase would raise more than […]
BruinsVote! campaign events exhibit low student turnout
Behind a crowd of about 100 students lay dozens of unclaimed chairs and a barely used photo booth. Though the room is able to hold 2,000 people, students clustered mostly around the stage at the BruinsVote! concert Friday night. To the side, Pat Simmons, a fourth-year physics student, and his friend were planning to run […]