As flood waters clear in New Orleans, uncertainty clouds the future of the city’s black colleges, as many of the institutions’ faculty and students have found new homes far away from Bourbon Street. Read more...

In an effort to provide greater public access to books, the University of California recently announced a partnership with the Open Content Alliance, a project that plans to scan and upload thousands of print materials onto the Internet. Read more...

Elected officers of student government are all politicians, but some are trying to reduce the council’s political activity outside of matters directly relating to the university. Read more...

There was no sugarcoating it this week in practice. Players and the coaching staff admitted it. No. 20 UCLA escaped last weekend against Washington. And if anything, it was yet another test for the Bruins. Read more...

The UC Sudan Divestment Taskforce will publicize its official proposal on Monday for divestment of University of California funds from companies with holdings in Sudan. The campaign was started at UCLA through the Darfur Action Committee, a group put together last year which was recipient of extensive funding from USAC this year. Read more...

On a campus lined with groves of citrus trees left over from its roots as an agricultural research station in the early 1900s, UC Riverside now serves a large student body with a significantly higher percentage of ethnically underrepresented students than most other UC campuses. Read more...

High school seniors across the state have taken the new high school exit exam for the first time this year and about 20 percent of them ““ nearly 100,000 ““ failed, according to a report released last week by the Human Resources Research Organization. Read more...