Once a quarter, every student at UCLA receives an entertaining email about Chancellor Gene Block’s student office hour. Although there are good intentions behind the idea of meeting with students personally to talk about campus issues, designating only a single hour to accommodate thousands of students is laughable. Read more...
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College graduates are facing a drastically different job market than the one that existed when our parents went to school. Where before someone might have begun working after graduation in the same company they would one day retire in, now, it is not uncommon for students to jump from job to job throughout their 20s. Read more...
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As the deadline to pass the California State Budget approaches in June, the high-stakes game of political chicken between University of California President Janet Napolitano and Gov. Read more...
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Unlike my other classes, which require me to show up nearly an hour early to secure a seat so that I don’t have to sit on the cold floor, Linguistics 1 allows me to grab a leisurely cup of coffee and take my time to load the online lecture on my laptop. Read more...
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Carolanne Link, a second-year electrical engineering student with cerebral palsy, spends roughly two hours every day riding the UCLA Office for Students with Disabilities van, but when she looks around at her co-passengers, she said, she can’t tell what each person is dealing with. Read more...
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In politics, pipelines bring to mind President Barack Obama’s veto. In education, pipelines are important pathways from underserved public schools to the state’s public universities. At the California State University system, a decade of efforts have proved less-than-stellar, with African American enrollments declining rather than growing in spite of increased outreach to underserved and minority communities. Read more...
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Before he ever tried to tear down a wall, former president Ronald Reagan had a much more local foe: the University of California. Forty-eight years ago this past Saturday, the conservative California governor delivered a stirring sermon: The state budget was tight, education was expensive, and people shouldn’t be given “intellectual luxuries” on the state dime. Read more...
Photo: Ronald Reagan shaking hands on the campaign trail in 1966, only one year before he made a speech on the role and importance of higher education as California governor. (Courtesy of Brett Tatman)
