Christian Green was born in the San Bernardino City Jail. He lived with his grandmother until she passed away when he was 15 years old, and moved into a foster home afterward. Read more...
Photo: A graduate student in the department of African American studies is sharing his experiences of living in the foster care system in a new book. (Anna Moreno-Takegami/Daily Bruin)
UCLA Community Programs Office has raised student work hours and expanded projects with the extra funds received from increased student fees. CPO has received $603,000 from the 2016 Social Justice Referendum, said Antonio Sandoval, the office’s director. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Community Programs Office, made up of student projects that emphasize access to college and community service, received $603,000 from the Social Justice Referendum.(MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated May 23 at 12:35 a.m. A new website aims to connect underclassmen who want to declare or switch their majors with upperclassmen mentors. Read more...
Photo: DevX, a club that creates apps and online products geared toward UCLA students, held a soft launch earlier this month for BQuest, a website that links students considering different majors with upperclassmen ambassadors from similar fields of study. (Photo courtesy of Linea Anderson)
Workers throughout the University of California represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 went on strike from May 7 to 9. Read more...
Haya Kaliounji and her family were forced to flee their hometown in 2012 after a civil war broke out in Syria. After staying in Lebanon for six months, her family moved to the United States on her mother’s work visa in search of a new life in Los Angeles. Read more...
Photo: Haya Kaliounji, a third-year physiological sciences student, created the nonprofit Rise Again to support people living in Syria. Her project helps create prosthetic limbs to help her old community in Aleppo. (Eda Gokcebay/Daily Bruin)
A new student-run organization aims to provide professional mentorship for students. Bruin Bridges, which launched in April and held its first meeting Friday, connects students to leaders in various industries who will advise and mentor them. Read more...
Photo: Mindy Lin, Carolina Rubini, Giulia Sperandio and Jeremiah Barnett are board members of Bruin Bridges, a new student organization that connects students to leaders in various industries who will advise and mentor them. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin staff)
Maria Mena, a janitor at Santa Monica College, brought her son to UCLA on Saturday to motivate him to pursue higher education. “A lot of kids in our community aren’t motivated to go to college because they don’t think it’s for them, so they don’t go,” she said. Read more...
Photo: Families of garment, janitorial and domestic workers involved in UCLA Labor Center’s Parent Worker Project came to UCLA on Saturday to spend a day on campus and learn more about how they can access higher education. (courtesy of Wil Prada)
