UCLA and other University of California campuses dropped in more international university ranking categories than it rose in, according to an annual survey by an independent British educational marketing company. Quacquarelli Symonds published its 2018 QS World University Rankings by Subject report Wednesday, which ranked UCLA and UC Berkeley among the top-10 universities worldwide. However, […]
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Shareef O’Neal, son of Shaquille O’Neal, to join UCLA basketball next season
Shaquille O’Neal brought three straight NBA championships to Los Angeles nearly 15 years ago. This year, he’s bringing his son. Shareef O’Neal, son of the NBA Hall of Famer, has committed to play for UCLA men’s basketball next season, 247sports.com reported. He decommitted from Arizona on Saturday, where he had signed a letter of intent […]
Union members protest Supreme Court case on nonunion fees
Union members protested a current Supreme Court case in front of Powell Library on Monday that will decide whether nonunion members should pay fees to unions. About 200 members from several unions, including University Professional and Technical Employees, University of California Student-Workers Union and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees called on the […]
Supreme Court denies Trump petition against DACA renewal ruling
The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a petition from President Donald Trump’s administration challenging a lower court ruling that temporarily prevented it from ending Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. In September, Trump ended DACA, a 2012 program that deferred deportation for undocumented individuals brought to the United States as children. The University of California […]
Football coach Chip Kelly finalizes assistant coaching staff
Chip has his squad. UCLA football coach Chip Kelly hired the three final members of his assistant coaching corps, who will join three previously announced new hires and four returning coaches – according to a release from UCLA Athletics. Here is Kelly’s complete list of assistants, starting with the three hires announced Tuesday. Dana Bible […]
LiAngelo, LaMelo Ball sign with agent to play basketball overseas
This post was updated Dec. 7 at 1:22 p.m. LaVar Ball told ESPN on Thursday morning that his two younger sons, LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball, have both signed with agent Harrison Gaines with the intention of playing overseas. LaVar Ball recently pulled LiAngelo Ball from UCLA after the freshman was suspended from play indefinitely following […]
Two UCLA students nominated as Board of Regents representatives
The University of California’s governing board appointed two UCLA students to serve as representatives on the board. A Board of Regents special committee nominated Devon Graves, an graduate student, as the student regent-designate and Rafi Sands, an undergraduate student, as the first-ever student adviser. The student adviser is a nonvoting position the Regents created last […]