If we learned anything from the Class of 2020’s commencement plans, it’s that the day does define the journey. Unfortunately for the Class of 2021, students have once again been left dreading a graduation day that was supposed to define our entire college experience. Read more...
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“The time is always ripe to do right,” Chancellor Gene Block quoted in his Martin Luther King Jr. Day email statement to students. Yet, ongoing delays of the promised Black Resource Center on campus serve to seriously undermine the credibility of Block’s message. Read more...
This post was updated Jan. 24 at 8:21 p.m. Money can buy school supplies and faster internet for students, but it can’t buy them protection from COVID-19. Read more...
Photo: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s multibillion-dollar proposal to incentivize schools to return to in-person instruction amid the state’s slow vaccine rollout contributes to inequity. The money should instead go to schools struggling to continue remote learning. (Christine Kao/Daily Bruin staff)
Project Students for Progress in Employee Language Learning, Bruin Excellence and Student Transformation Grant Program and First To Go were just a handful of UCLA community programs whose operating budgets were slashed last year when the California Legislature stared down a $54 billion COVID-19-induced deficit. Read more...
