A former assistant attorney general for civil rights will serve as the next executive director of the Williams Institute, officials announced Monday. Jocelyn Samuels will replace the Williams Institute’s founding executive director, Brad Sears, who held the position for 16 years, July 1. Read more...
Photo: Jocelyn Samuels, a specialist in civil rights law, will replace Brad Sears as executive director of the Williams Institute. (Courtesy of the Williams Institute)
As a police officer, Tony Lee said he has been able to make people’s days better. For instance, he once helped find a celebrity’s purse that contained irreplaceable photos and jewelry. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Chief of Police Tony Lee said he hopes to meet regularly with student groups and the UCLA community to solicit their feedback. (Angelina Ruiz/Daily Bruin)
Students can now learn about immigrants’ migration across cultural, legal and political borders by taking the new international migration studies minor. The international migration studies minor, approved in fall 2016 by the UCLA Academic Senate, is recruiting its first cohort for fall 2017. Read more...
Officials announced a new interim executive director for UCLA’s child care centers Friday. Deborah Shine Valentine will replace Jayanti Tambe on May 15 as director of the UCLA’s Early Care and Education centers, which provide child care for children of UCLA faculty, staff and students. Read more...
Photo: UCLA officials announced new leadership for the Early Care and Education child care centers. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)
Explore the relationships between 100 academic subjects as we use natural language processing algorithms to “read” course descriptions. Read more...
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Associated Students UCLA is a multimillion-dollar organization that provides student services and activities that the university does not fund. It oversees the Undergraduate Students Association Council, Graduate Students Association, Communications Board, campus services and enterprises. Read more...
Westwood leaders are finding it difficult to donate to a UCLA student organization due to grant fees and a slow administrative process, some council members said. Read more...
Photo: The Westwood Neighborhood Council decided not to process the grant through UCLA and instead will work with the UCLA Foundation to donate to the CPO Food Closet. (Habeba Mostafa/Daily Bruin)
