Textbook affordability advocates worry that the transition to online learning will limit access to course materials for low-income students. Many academic institutions have had to transition to at least partial remote instruction because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...
Photo: Higher education’s transition toward remote instructions could undermine accessibility to course materials and textbook affordability, advocates said.
UCLA decreased the amount of in-person courses for fall quarter because of an increase in COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles, according to an announcement by the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Emily Carter. UCLA will now offer about 8% of courses in person or as a hybrid in the fall, which includes some lab, studio and clinical classes, according to the announcement. Read more...
Photo: Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Emily Carter announced a decrease in in-person courses for fall quarter. (Tanmay Shankar/Daily Bruin senior staff)
A faculty-led initiative aims to make social and community issues more accessible for K-12 students through a series of data presentations and research briefs. Researchers for Data for Democracy compile data about issues in Los Angeles neighborhoods, such as access to parks, immigration and housing, and present it in different charts and graphs to help K-12 students think critically about issues impacting their communities. Read more...
Photo: Data for Democracy, a faculty-led centennial initiative, aims to make social and community issues more accessible to K-12 students in the Los Angeles area through briefs and data representations. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The state of California will sue the federal government over new regulations that would force international students taking only online classes in the fall to leave the United States, according to a press release from California Attorney General Xavier Becerra Thursday. Read more...
Photo: A visiting UCLA researcher was charged with destroying evidence, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.
UCLA named a new dean of undergraduate education. Adriana Galván will start as dean of undergraduate education July 1, said Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Emily Carter in a statement Thursday. Read more...
Photo: (Daily Bruin file photo)
On top of their already pressing challenges, transfer students now face the task of funding over $135,000 to sustain their own resource center. The Cultivating Unity for Bruins Referendum, which would have paid rent for the Transfer Student Center, failed in the 2020 spring Undergraduate Students Association Council election. Read more...
Photo: (Lily Lee/Daily Bruin)
UCLA named professor Tracy Johnson as the new dean of the division of life sciences Tuesday. Johnson, a professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UCLA who has been a member of the faculty since 2013, will assume the position starting Sept. Read more...
Photo: UCLA named Tracy Johnson, a professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology, as the new dean of the division of life sciences, effective Sept. 1. (Daily Bruin file photo)
