Nausheen Hoosein wanted to spend the summer before her senior year of college wisely by taking community college classes near her home in Dallas, Texas.
Category Archives: Campus
New audit system replaces Degree Progress Report for incoming students
Unlike preceding classes, incoming students will not be greeted by a wall of text when they try to access their Degree Progress Reports.
Suspension on second lab GE requirement extended
Incoming students will still have to complete one laboratory course instead of two for the General Education curriculum, after the Undergraduate Council of the Academic Senate recently voted to extend a two-year suspension on the second requirement.
USAC Recap ““ July 3
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA’s undergraduate students.
New state budget holds uncertainties for UC’s funding issues
State lawmakers expect the recently enacted California budget to close a $15.7 billion state deficit through major cuts in government spending and increases in revenue contingent on tax increases ““ but officials say the budget is shrouded in uncertainties.
Student loan interest rates kept from doubling
Months of disputes finally came to an end on Friday when, just two days before its deadline to act, Congress passed a measure to keep subsidized student loan interest rates from doubling to 6.8 percent.
Typically uninsured youth can stay on parents’ health insurance plans for longer under Affordable Care Act
College graduates who might have lost their health insurance after graduation will continue to have the option to stay on their parents’ insurance programs until they are 26, after the nation’s highest court upheld the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act last Thursday.