UCLA will offer a new intensive language program this summer that will use Los Angeles’ language-rich community in teaching students to speak, read and write. The program, “Language Intensives in L.A.,” will feature classes in seven tongues: Spanish, Arabic and Russian, along with Amharic, spoken in Ethiopia, Catalan, spoken around Barcelona in Spain, and Swahili and Yoruba, spoken in Tanzania and Nigeria, respectively. Read more...

People elect to come to UCLA to get a good education, and a good education combines academic excellence with a worldly environment outside of class. So what happens when UCLA students are denied one of those two ingredients? Read more...

Located in downtown Los Angeles, in a gated red brick building with security guards patrolling the street, is Para Los Niños Charter School, an elementary school that teaches children from the poorest families in Los Angeles. Read more...

When Associated Students UCLA representatives speak at their monthly board meetings, the room is usually relatively quiet. But at the ASUCLA board of directors’ meeting this past Friday, it was hard to hear their voices over the shouts and cheers of about 20 students demonstrating outside Kerckhoff Hall and the muffled murmurs of another 50 or so students gathered on both sides of Kerckhoff Stateroom. Read more...

Aiming to improve compensation transparency, the UC Board of Regents will meet for the second time this month to discuss an external audit, which is to be released before they meet today. Read more...

UCLA students, along with Armenian students from across Southern California, came together with the Armenian community Saturday night for “Blinded by Injustice: Rally Against Denial” to remember those who were killed in the 1915 Armenian Genocide and campaign for international recognition. Read more...

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