Some UCLA students with exceptional financial need said they were surprised to receive additional financial aid through emergency relief grants they did not apply for. The university began releasing grants from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund in spring 2020. Read more...
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Many transfer students consistently face issues enrolling in upper division courses that require prerequisites. Transfer students at UCLA who have taken lower-division courses at other institutions of higher education have expressed frustration that these courses have not transferred over to MyUCLA, the enrollment system the university uses, said Herman Luis Chavez, the Undergraduate Students Association Council transfer student representative. Read more...
Photo: UCLA transfer students often face issues enrolling in upper division courses that require prerequisites fulfilled at other institutions of higher education. (Ashley Kenney/Photo editor)
The executive director of the Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center, Dr. Chaitali Mukherjee, spoke with Daily Bruin reporter Noah Danesh about COVID-19 protocols at UCLA. Read more...
Photo: Dr. Chaitali Mukherjee from the Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center (pictured) spoke with the Daily Bruin about COVID-19 safety as the holiday season approaches. Health officials recommend all eligible adults receive their COVID-19 booster shot to protect themselves from newly identified variants of the virus. (Noah Danesh/Daily Bruin staff)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is calling for the Undergraduate Council of the Academic Senate to permanently overturn its decision to reduce the number of priority enrollment units available to students accommodated under the Center for Accessible Education. Read more...
Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council is calling on the Academic Senate to increase disabled students’ priority enrollment caps from 15 units to 19, 20 or 21, depending on a student’s college or school. (Kanishka Mehra/Daily Bruin senior staff)
UCLA released new guidelines with restrictions for on-campus events and departmental social gatherings, according to a campuswide email Wednesday. The announcement came after scientists in South Africa detected the highly transmissible omicron COVID-19 virus variant, which the World Health Organization designated a variant of concern on Nov. Read more...
Photo: UCLA announced new COVID-19 safety guidelines for on-campus events after the omicron variant of the virus was detected in California on Wednesday. (Justin Jung/Daily Bruin senior staff)
UCLA is working on a measure to add Braille signs in Boelter Hall to improve accessibility for visually impaired students. The office of general representative Passa Pungchai in the Undergraduate Students Association Council undertook the project to improve Boelter Hall. Read more...
Photo: The office of general representative 2 in the Undergraduate Students Association Council is leading an effort to add Braille signs in Boelter Hall. (Daily Bruin file photo).
This post was updated Nov. 28 at 11:50 p.m. UCLA Dining implemented the UCLA Mobile app to check the daily COVID-19 symptom monitoring survey Nov. 4 following the announcement of a Los Angeles County ordinance requiring vaccination for indoor dining. Read more...
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