This post was updated on Jan 10 at 4:58 p.m. At least three academic departments will not alter their degree plans to allow students to use pass/no pass courses to count toward certain degree requirements in the winter 2021 quarter, despite recommendations from the Academic Senate. Read more...
Photo: Student leaders asked the Academic Senate to pressure individual academic departments to implement pass/no pass grading accommodations. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
This post was updated Dec. 16 at 3:16 p.m. to clarify statements from Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Emily Carter. Graduate student leaders are asking UCLA to include students on the search committee for a new dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Read more...
Photo: The search for a new dean at the School of Education and Information Studies lacks student input, graduate students said. (Finn Chitwood/Daily Bruin)
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)
More than 50 first-year students tune in to a Zoom lecture every Tuesday and Thursday to learn about Islam from a cluster of perspectives. UCLA debuted a new course, Cluster 27: “Global Islam,” to its cluster program this academic year. Read more...
Photo: (Vaibhavi Patankar/Daily Bruin)
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)
Editor’s Note: In accordance with AP style, The Bruin refers to the Filipino community as “Filipinos” and uses “Pilipino” in reference to organizations or terms which have that spelling in their names. Read more...
Photo: (Firyal Bawab/Daily Bruin)
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)
