Friday, February 13

Academic Senate report finds UCLA generates $400 million annual budget deficit

UCLA is generating a nearly $400 million annual structural budget deficit, according to a Jan. 29 Academic Senate preliminary report. The report – created by the Academic Senate’s Council on Planning and Budget – said data provided by UCLA administrators showed that the university is projected to run a combined $829.7 million deficit across the 2025 and 2026 fiscal years if it has not taken and does not take any corrective action. Read more...

Photo: The Academic Senate Council on Planning and Budget’s 14-page report on UCLA’s budget is pictured. The council found that UCLA is generating a nearly $400 million annual deficit. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)



Compas at UCLA provides resources, supports California farm workers amid ICE raids

This post was updated Feb. 6 at 2:06 p.m. Odalis Rojas grew up in an agricultural community in Ventura County, where she saw her farm worker father, uncles and cousins face various health care barriers. Read more...

Photo: Jacob Thene, a third-year business economics and geography student; Sarai Ceceña, a fourth-year political science student; Alexandra Vazquez, a third-year biology student; and Odalis Rojas, a second-year nursing student, sit by Royce Hall. The students are part of Compas at UCLA, an organization dedicated to advocating for California’s farm worker communities. (Chenrui Zhang/Dailu Bruin)


John Wooden Center introduces fresh equipment, expanded space

The John Wooden Center expanded weightlifting zones and installed new equipment over winter break. The on-campus gym added about 100 new strength-training units – including plate-loaded and free-motion cable machines – in its renovations, said Daniel Jauregui, the gym’s manager. Read more...

Photo: A sign in the John Wooden Center’s advanced circuit zone is pictured. The on-campus gym added about 100 new strength-training units over winter break as part of the JWC Improvement Project. (Amanda Velasco/Daily Bruin senior staff)


SWC’s Peer Support Lounge provides wellness resources, study space for students

This post was updated Feb 8. at 10:44 p.m. The Peer Support Lounge in Kerckhoff Hall offers free wellness resources – including free snacks, emergency contraceptives and toiletries – to students. Read more...

Photo: The inside of the Student Wellness Commission’s Peer Support Lounge is pictured. The PSL offers free wellness resources such as snacks, emergency contraceptives and toiletries for students. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Pulitzer Prize winner, former chair of UCLA History Daniel Walker Howe dies at 88

Daniel Walker Howe, the former chair of UCLA’s history department and a Pulitzer Prize winner, died Dec. 25. He was 88 years old. Howe was a faculty member in UCLA’s history department from 1972 to 1993 and served as the department’s chair from 1983 to 1987. Read more...

Photo: Daniel Walker Howe, the former chair of UCLA’s history department and a Pulitzer Prize winner, died Dec. 25 at 88 years old. Howe – a historian of 19th-century religion – studied religious movements and their impacts on American culture. (Courtesy of the Howe family)