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November 29, 5:57 pm

American Indian and Alaska Native faculty seek greater representation at UCLA

This post was updated Dec. 3 at 7:19 p.m. Shannon Speed knows every American Indian and Alaska Native faculty member at UCLA. “It’s uncomfortable being a faculty member where you know every other faculty member of your demographic category,” said Speed, who is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and a professor of gender studies and anthropology. Read more...

Photo: Native American faculty members Shannon Speed (top left), Kyle Mays (bottom left) and Mishuana Goeman (right) said UCLA should do more to increase the number of American Indian and Alaska native faculty members. In the 2019-2020 academic year, there were 13 American Indian and Alaska Native faculty members. (Photo illustration by Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor; Left to right: Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor, Harold King Ho Lee/Daily Bruin)

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October 29, 4:46 pm

Bruins for Prop 16 encourages students to vote in favor of affirmative action

Undergraduate student leaders are organizing in support of a 2020 election ballot proposition that would allow universities in California to consider race as a factor in admissions. Read more...

Photo: Melody Satele (left), Aidan Arasasingham (center) and Angela Li (right) are some of the several UCLA student leaders who are campaigning for the passage of Proposition 16, which would repeal Proposition 209 if passed. Proposition 209 bans state entities from considering race, sex, ethnicity and national origin in their employment, admissions and contracting. (Sakshi Joglekar/Daily Bruin staff)

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October 22, 11:13 pm

Graduate health, science programs offer some in-person courses with precautions

Some UCLA graduate schools are now operating with increased COVID-19 safety precautions for in-person instruction. In-person classes are limited to essential workforce training programs that cannot be deferred to an online format, said UCLA spokesperson Ricardo Vazquez in an emailed statement. Read more...

Photo: UCLA graduate schools will conduct in-person classes and labs with extra COVID-19-related health protocols. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin senior staff)

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October 22, 6:27 pm

Posthumous $9M donation from married professors to support students, faculty

A married pair of UCLA professors posthumously left the university nearly $9 million that will go toward scholarships, department chairs and seminars. Bernice Wenzel and Wendell Jeffrey, two married psychology professors at UCLA who passed away in 2018 and 2015, respectively, donated $8.7 million to UCLA, said Lynn Andrews, the professors’ niece, in an emailed statement. Read more...

Photo: UCLA will use posthumous donations from two professors to offer scholarships to students and financially support department faculty. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)


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