With a 10-0-1 vote, undergraduate student government officers approved language at their Tuesday meeting for a constitutional amendment that would clarify how officer vacancies are filled, extend the timeline for council to hold special elections and prevent special elections from taking place during school breaks. Undergraduate students will vote on the amendment during the upcoming […]
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Block discusses university goals during question-and-answer session
Chancellor Gene Block met with about 30 students and administrators at the Neuroscience Research Building auditorium on Monday afternoon for a question-and-answer session. Block discussed various university goals involving the health sciences, including his plan to increase UCLA’s international ranking through more interdisciplinary partnerships between the sciences and humanities. He also discussed a lack of […]
Students give feedback on desired traits in diversity vice chancellor
At a town hall meeting Monday, students called for the university to appoint a vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion who is culturally competent, creative and direct in addressing diversity issues. A search committee for the new vice chancellor held the town hall meeting to solicit opinions and concerns about the future appointment. Fifteen […]
UCLA to appoint diversity specialists from various campus departments
UCLA plans to appoint about 20 officers in various divisions and schools on campus to advise administrators on diversity issues and assist a new vice chancellor who will focus on diversity. The university has also hired two discrimination prevention officers, who started working at UCLA in recent weeks and will serve under the vice chancellor. […]
Decades later, Project India participants celebrate book’s publishing
Hairs have grayed and voices have gotten thicker, but the memory of their time in India was fresh in the minds of the alumni at the UCLA Faculty Center on Sunday. About 200 University of California alumni and their family members reunited at UCLA over the weekend to celebrate a recently published book called “Project […]
Chancellor Block to hold seminar on future of university
UCLA Chancellor Gene Block will answer questions about the future of the university in a free seminar on campus Monday afternoon. During the seminar, which will be held in the Neuroscience Research Building auditorium from noon to 1 p.m., Block will talk about the university’s budget, social topics concerning UCLA and challenges the university may […]
Student petitions for Sikh studies class
Manjot Singh covers his long hair in a turban every day as a physical manifestation of worship, a basic tenet of his Sikh faith. Because he wears a turban, the fourth-year global studies student said he sometimes thinks students on campus treat him differently or make unfair judgments about his religious beliefs. Last week, Singh […]