Monday, December 15

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)




Department of Film, TV and Digital Media suspends fall 2021 graduate applications

The UCLA Department of Film, Television and Digital Media is suspending applications to its graduate degree programs to reevaluate the structure of its graduate programs. The Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, a department in the School of Theater, Film and Television, will not accept applications to its graduate programs for fall 2021 to review its programs and build a curriculum that better integrates its department programs, said interim department chair Steve Anderson in an emailed statement. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA Department of Film, Television and Digital Media is suspending applications to its graduate programs for fall 2021. (Daily Bruin file photo)



Contract negotiations between UC-AFT Local 1990 and UC likely to reach impasse

This post was updated Oct. 5 at 12:50 a.m. The contract negotiations between the UCLA lecturers union and the University of California are deadlocked, as the UC braces for budget cuts amid financial deficits. Read more...

Photo: University Council-American Federation of Teachers Local 1990 remains in negotiation deadlock with the University California, dropping demands of higher salaries to ensure job security amid the pandemic. (Bernard Mendez/Daily Bruin senior staff)