As the national unemployment rate rose from a nine-year high of 6.1 percent in May to 6.4 percent in June, many UCLA graduates contributed to the rising percentages. Read more...

In hopes of limiting additional student fee increases, University of California students have recently taken their voices to Sacramento and have been pressuring the state legislature to bring the UC system’s funding back to sufficient levels. Read more...

When the UC Board of Regents met in May to debate then-tentative student fee increases, they were also met by protesting students from six UC campuses. Read more...

Shortly after President Franklin Roosevelt died while in office, President Harry Truman placed a now-famous sign on his desk. It read: “The buck stops here.” Now, it’s not clear where the buck stops. Read more...

After three years of negotiations, a new contract between the University of California lecturers’ union and the UC administration was overwhelmingly approved and went into effect this past week. Read more...

When the California state legislature failed to approve a 2003-2004 budget last week, government funding temporarily ceased at community colleges across the state, forcing the schools to use limited financial reserves or face closing campuses. Read more...