With the new academic year arriving, the Daily Bruin sat down with Jefferson Kuoch-Seng, the incoming president of the University of California Student Association, to hear more about the association’s plan for the year. UCSA selected Kuoch-Seng, a fourth-year management student from UC Merced, as its president for the 2014-2015 year during its annual congress […]
Category Archives: Student Government
ASUCLA Board of Directors recap – Aug. 22
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. Store ASUCLA has signed up thousands of students for the ASUCLA Benefits U program so far at the New Student […]
USAC recap – Aug. 20
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA’s undergraduate students. During the summer, council meetings generally take place biweekly on Tuesdays at 8 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 unanimously approved […]
Sexual violence, accessible education the focus of new USSA campaigns
Members of the United States Student Association voted on Sunday to launch separate campaigns against sexual violence on college campuses and to promote accessible and affordable education for underrepresented students this year. Fourteen delegates from UCLA took part in USSA’s National Student Congress, which took place at the University of California, Irvine from Aug. 7 to […]
ASUCLA Board of Directors recap – July 25
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. Budgets The Board of Directors unanimously approved the 2014-2015 Undergraduate Students Association and Graduate Students Association budgets. The USAC budget […]
With special election approaching, USAC appoints Election Board chair
The undergraduate student government appointed next year’s Election Board chair on time at its meeting on Tuesday. The newly appointed chair, Shagun Kabra, a third-year mathematics/economics student, will oversee both the regular spring USAC election and a special election in the fall for the transfer student representative and general representative positions. “It’s a smaller and […]
Recent UC student regents hail primarily from flagship campuses
One student serves as the voice and the vote on the University of California Board of Regents for more than 230,000 students, but the majority of individuals who have held the job in recent years have come from just two of the 10 possible UC campuses – UCLA and UC Berkeley.