Category Archives: Campus

UCLA applied linguistics prepares for disestablishment

Faculty and students in the applied linguistics field are making final adjustments to prepare for the end of their department, after decades of seeing the number of full-time faculty members diminish. This quarter, the UCLA Academic Senate, the faculty body governing curriculum changes, plans to vote on a proposal to discontinue or transfer the department’s […]

USAC to revisit elections calendar amid voting period concerns

Undergraduate student government officials plan to reconsider an elections calendar they approved last quarter after some expressed concerns about a shortened voting time span. Polls are currently set to open for three days in May for the Undergraduate Students Association Council elections, though voting periods generally lasted four days in recent years. The USAC elections […]

USAC Recap – April 1

The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA’s undergraduate students. Council meetings are held on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students Agenda With a 10-0-1 vote, the council allocated $1,500 in discretionary funds to cover the costs of promotional materials for the 7,000 in […]

UC to offset pension and healthcare costs with pay raise

To mitigate rising pension and healthcare costs, University of California staff and faculty who are not represented by unions will receive a 3 percent pay raise starting July 1 this year, according to recent announcements by UC President Janet Napolitano. Officials have acknowledged that the University’s pension liabilities pose the greatest threat to the system’s financial sustainability, […]

Students to help choose UCLA’s vice chancellor of diversity

Four months after announcing a new vice chancellor for diversity, UCLA is looking for two students to be on a committee to find someone to fill the position. The new search and advisory committee, which administrators expect to finalize by the end of spring quarter, will aid the university in a search for the new […]

Variety of candidates in GSA election raises competition

Students running for office in next week’s graduate student government elections will see contested races for the first time in several years. The Graduate Students Association, the representative governing body for UCLA’s graduate and professional schools, currently has two slates campaigning for positions on next year’s council. Slates are a group of students who run […]