This year’s Graduate Students Association elections will have four uncontested candidates running with the Moving Forward slate. Elections will take place from April 11-18. Graduate students can vote on MyUCLA, and results will be announced at the April 19 GSA forum meeting. Below is a list of each candidate’s platforms and experience. Michael Skiles Running […]
Category Archives: Student Government
USAC Election Board outlines campaign guidelines for spring election
Student leaders discussed spending limits and social media regulations for spring undergraduate student government elections at a candidate orientation Wednesday night. The election board chair and directors spoke to this year’s Undergraduate Students Association Council election candidates about upcoming events, rules and due dates. Applicants officially became candidates during the orientation. [Read more: USAC election […]
USAC election introduces new slate, to have one presidential candidate
This post was updated on April 24 at 2:50 p.m. This year’s student government elections will have an unopposed presidential candidate. Bruins United candidate Arielle Yael Mokhtarzadeh is the only person running for the Undergraduate Students Association Council president. This year’s election will also have a new slate, Defend Affirmative Action Party, which will run […]
USAC recap – April 4
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Watch a livestream of the meetings on the USAC Live! YouTube channel. Special presentations Emma Brower, a California Public Interest […]
UCLA groups introduce six new scholarships for transfer students
This post was updated on April 5 at 4:40 p.m. Transfer students can now apply to six new scholarships. Several transfer groups and students in the undergraduate student government collaborated to create two $1,000 and four $500 scholarships that will be awarded week six. Interested students can pick up applications at the Bruin Resource Center […]
Graduate students express discontent over projected housing plan
Many graduate students are upset with the university for planning new housing projects that do not benefit graduate students. Graduate students organized a meeting with Chancellor Gene Block and created an email campaign to press officials to include them in their housing plans. Vice Chancellor Steve Olsen and Assistant Vice Chancellor of Housing and Hospitality […]
USAC recap – winter quarter 2017
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council members are elected by the student body and hold a stipend of more than $10,000. Council members shared platforms and candidate statements when they ran for office last spring. Below, The Bruin summarized what each council member […]