The UCLA Center for Accessible Education needs to take some notes on how to better serve students with disabilities. By law and university policy, CAE is required “to provide academic support services to regularly enrolled students with documented permanent and temporary disabilities.” One of these support systems is providing notes for students with learning, psychological […]
Category Archives: Opinion Columns
Authorities must set up safety regulations for ride-hailing, e-scooter employees
School seminars and parental advice were always big on one fact: Don’t get into cars with strangers. Today, it’s just another way to get around. But these services still come with dangers – labor and safety ones. Los Angeles has taken some initial steps to take over-reaching companies to the curb. On Feb. 28, the […]
Standardized test scores are a necessary assessment to equalize UC admissions
Each year, tens of thousands of students from thousands of schools across the globe vie for the chance to call themselves Bruins. One of the few things unifying that massively varied applicant pool: sitting at a desk and taking the SAT – or the ACT, if that’s your cup of tea. Standardized test scores are […]
Standardized testing fails to reflect holistic achievement of college applicants
Applying to attend the country’s No. 1 public university doesn’t just mean being a student. Sometimes, it also entails beating a system meant to work against you. The phrase of the day is standardized tests. Standardized tests like the SAT are required of students all over the world hoping to be admitted to the University […]
UCLA wants to halve global depression by 2050. It should start with its students.
What happens when visionaries in science and scholarship unite with the community to solve one giant global problem? Apparently, a few vague promises touted as solutions. UCLA has a set of programs called Grand Challenges, which exist as a long-term set of projects involving faculty and students to tackle world problems ranging from sustainability to […]
Unproductive school-sponsored veteran facilities need to be held accountable
No community in Los Angeles faces the challenges veterans do. Their scars, mental and physical, make reintegration into civilian life a daily struggle. But what’s worse than not helping them is agreeing to and then giving them the cold shoulder. Congress passed a law in 2016 allowing the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to lease […]
Lack of study spaces at UCLA imposes unnecessary stress on students
There’s truly no worse feeling than mustering up enough energy to carry your bag filled with books to a study spot on campus, only to find hundreds of other students had the same idea. It’s all too common for students to feel angered by the lack of spaces to complete their work on campus or […]