Affordability, accessibility and accountability: These are the three main goals in a new plan to improve the status of postsecondary education, announced Tuesday by Education Secretary Margaret Spellings. Read more...

The brother of one of the Israeli soldiers who was kidnapped by Hezbollah this summer spoke on campus Thursday night, discussing the harrowing experience he and his family have gone through in the 78 days since the capture. Read more...

Nine years after graduating from UCLA, Iva Toguri D’Aquino became the seventh person to be convicted of treason against the United States, charged with disloyalty for her presence as a radio personality on a Japanese station during World War II. Read more...

The UCLA Academic Senate approved a “holistic” approach to admissions Thursday evening. Starting with this year’s applicants, UCLA will change the way undergraduate applications are read and scored to allow more of an emphasis on personal achievements. Read more...

Our response to Harvard’s half-hearted nod to diversity in admissions is a quiet yawn. Several schools have joined Harvard in eliminating their early admission programs, but none of them will have any significant effect on a problem that is far larger than that. Read more...

A panel of energy analysts met Thursday to discuss the need for a renewed perspective on the world’s current energy challenges during the UCLA Anderson Forecast’s quarterly conference. Read more...

Though the housing market has entered a state of major cyclical decline nationwide, economists from the UCLA Anderson Forecast concluded in their quarterly prediction that the economy is not entering a recession, but rather a period of slow growth. Read more...