Last week Gov. Jerry Brown approved a budget with a surplus for the second consecutive year. And while the University of California did see a modest increase in state funding, it’s nowhere near enough to lessen the burden on students and maintain the high quality of the premier public university system in the U.S. Read more...

Smart decisions by undergraduate student government leaders should be consistent with their constitution and bylaws. But after Undergraduate Students Association Council General Representative Nihal Satyadev resigned on June 12, USAC was faced with a choice between following its constitution and being transparent in the replacement process. Read more...

A 2006 internal report found that the UCLA Anderson School of Management had a disproportionately low amount of female professors among similar business schools and that women felt they were in a discriminatory climate. Read more...

Whether they knew it or not, California legislators signaled last week the woeful inadequacy of the state’s guiding document for public higher education. The California Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 850, a proposal to allow certain California community colleges to grant bachelor’s degrees. Read more...

Specifically, UCLA Athletics’ recent proposal for a $30-40 million, state-of-the-art men’s and women’s basketball facility to be built south of the Los Angeles Tennis Center would be an enormous waste. Read more...

At best, Chancellor Gene Block’s campuswide email commenting on incidents surrounding this year’s student government election represents a puzzling divergence from his usual course of action on these issues. Read more...

The May revision of Gov. Jerry Brown’s state budget persists in squirreling away money into a rainy-day fund while California’s college students stand under a cloud of looming student loan debt. Read more...