This post was update July 28, 2020 at 4 p.m. The University of California announced Monday it is extending its fall application deadline for students who have been affected by recent natural disasters. Read more...
Photo: UCLA and other University of California campuses are extending the application deadline for students affected by recent natural disasters. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated July 28, 2020 at 4:17 p.m. The University of California counseling psychologists are calling for wage increases, claiming low pay drives many of them to leave their positions and the students who depend on their services. Read more...
Photo: (Alice Lin/Daily Bruin)
The University of California student leaders are working with campuses to make it easier for students to register to vote by creating online voter registration portals and centralizing polling stations on campus. Read more...
Photo: The California Secretary of State and the UC signed a memorandum last year to increase voter registration and turnout. Student regent Paul Monge said student groups are working with the university to implement the recommendations by the 2018 congressional elections. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The University of California announced today it will establish a new free speech center in the UC center in Washington, D.C. The National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, funded by the UC presidential endowment and private philanthropic efforts, will focus on research and advocacy of First Amendment issues. Read more...
Photo: University of California President Janet Napolitano will chair the National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. (MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)
UCLA labor- and immigration-justice groups held a town hall meeting Monday night to urge UCLA to create more insourced positions for contract valet workers at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Read more...
Photo: Owen Li, a senior researcher for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, said most of the jobs UCLA is offering to current valet workers are part-time jobs and do not offer enough pay enough to live on. (Marley Maron/Daily Bruin)
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill into law earlier this month aimed at making the University of California’s financial reporting process more transparent. Assembly Bill 1655, which passed unanimously in both houses of the state legislature, adds and amends a section to the state’s education code, to prohibit coordination between UC campuses and the UC Office of the President when a state auditor requests information. Read more...
Photo: Beginning Jan. 1, Assembly Bill 1655 will prohibit coordination between University of California campuses and the UC Office of the President when a state auditor requests information. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA is updating its student records policy to remove student addresses from the campus directory, university officials announced Monday. The Registrar’s Office announced in a campuswide email it will update UCLA Policy 220, which concerns student records disclosures, in accordance with a University of California policy change last month. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Registrar’s Office announced that it will be updating the student records policy to remove student addresses from directory information. (Daily Bruin file photo)
