Friday, February 20

UCLA reviews collaborative mental health call response program on campus

UCLA is reviewing a proposed program that would send mental health providers to student-related mental health calls instead of university police. The program would create a mobile mental health crisis response unit led by responders from campus departments – including UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services – to respond to student-related mental health calls to UCPD, said UCLA spokesperson Katherine Alvarado in an emailed statement. Read more...

Photo: A proposed program at UCLA would create a team of mental health responders to respond to student-related mental health calls in place of the university police. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Class of 2021 expresses disappointment with likely remote end to time at UCLA

This post was updated Jan. 24 at 6:48 p.m. The grand finale of Alexa Kinoshita’s two-year journey at UCLA will be on Zoom. Kinoshita, a fourth-year transfer sociology student, had less than two quarters to experience campus life before the COVID-19 pandemic caused universities across the world – including UCLA – to shutter in-person instruction and start remote learning. Read more...

Photo: Graduating students of the class of 2021 will end their final year at UCLA over Zoom. Alexa Kinoshita, a fourth-year sociology transfer student, is one of them. (Tess Horowitz/Daily Bruin)


UCLA plans for remote instruction in summer, reopening of campus in fall

This post was updated Jan. 24 at 6:56 p.m. UCLA plans to offer remote classes during summer sessions and will likely reopen campus but not offer triple-occupancy housing in the fall, a university administrator said at a meeting with graduate students Wednesday. Read more...

Photo: UCLA is planning to offer most classes in person in the fall, but is not planning to offer triple-occupancy housing. (Ashley Kenney/Assistant Photo editor)





UCLA announces its vaccination plan for faculty and staff

This post was updated Jan. 18 at 5:12 p.m. UCLA plans to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to some faculty and staff within the next few weeks, university administrators announced at a town hall Thursday. Read more...

Photo: Some faculty might be able to receive COVID-19 vaccines from UCLA by as early as February, UCLA administrators announced at a Thursday town hall. (Ariana Fadel/Daily Bruin)



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