UCLA is already a competitive university, with a first-year acceptance rate of 14% in 2018 – the same as Cornell’s that year. For students applying to programs outside the College of Letters and Science, however, the bar can be even higher. Read more...
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Three UCLA student lifeguards were awarded an American Red Cross Lifesaving Award for Professional Responders on Wednesday for their actions when a man collapsed in the Sunset Recreation locker rooms in January. Read more...
Photo: UCLA lifeguards second-year economics Jackson Lieberg (second from left), fourth-year civil and environmental engineering student Margit Maple (middle) and rising fourth-year sociology student Ted White (not pictured) were awarded the American Red Cross Lifesaving Award for Professional Responders for their actions after a man collapsed in the locker room. (Courtesy of Elise Burgos/UCLA)
A one-year agreement between UCLA and electric scooter companies will impose new restrictions on where students can use e-scooters and may also provide discounts for students using the devices. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Transportation and e-scooter companies began a one-year pilot program to restrict e-scooter use on campus and possibly offer discounts for students. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA intends to launch a nationwide search for a new vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion. Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Jerry Kang plans to step down from his role on June 30, 2020 at the end of his five-year term, according to a message sent Sept. Read more...
Photo: Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Jerry Kang plans to step down from his role on June 30, 2020. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Undergraduate students on the UCLA Academic Senate will now receive stipends for their work. Following a year of meager appointments, the Undergraduate Students Association Council Academic Affairs commissioner decided to fund stipends for appointed undergraduate student representatives on the Academic Senate. Read more...
Photo: USAC Academic Affairs Commissioner Naomi Riley helped establish stipends for undergraduate positions on the Academic Senate to encourage diversity and engagement. Her office is located in Kerckhoff Hall. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Bruin Republicans planted 2,977 American flags outside Dickson Court North on the 18th anniversary of 9/11 in remembrance of the victims of the attack. Read more...
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UCLA appointed its first vice chancellor of strategic communication, the university announced Tuesday. Mary Osako, a UCLA alumna, will oversee UCLA’s strategic communication division which includes UCLA’s marketing, media relations, executive communication, public outreach and special events and protocol units, according to a UCLA press release. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumna Mary Osako will be UCLA’s first vice chancellor of strategic communication, the university announced Tuesday. (Courtesy of Mary Osako)
