Louis Gomez, a new professor in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, said he plans on working with the UCLA Community School to improve the community college system. Read more...

A new student writing center will be operational starting on Monday, offering face-to-face tutoring and online sessions for undergraduates. Read more...

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The new Undergraduate Student Writing Center will open in the Humanities building on Monday. Bruce Beiderwell, director of writing programs (left), and Christine Holten, director of the writing center (right), sit in the new center that will fill the void left by the closure of Covel Peer Learning Labs last year.

A heated rivalry for Los Angeles supremacy on the football field and in the rankings has not stopped collaboration between UCLA and USC in the classroom. Read more...

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Professor of history and Chicana/Chicano studies Eric Avila teaches a joint seminar about the history of Los Angeles at the Huntington Library in San Marino. The seminar is available to graduate students from both UCLA and USC.

Stepping onto campus for the first time, some of the high school foster students participating in the First Star UCLA Bruin Guardian Scholars Summer Academy could barely look their instructors in the eye. Read more...

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The Bruin Guardian Scholars Program aims to encourage high school foster students to go to college. Participants will visit UCLA monthly as part of a year-round outreach project. (courtesy of Walter Kappeler)