This post was updated June 5 at 5:40 p.m. Chancellor Julio Frenk said UCLA must remain resilient amid threats to higher education during his inauguration Thursday. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk speaks at his Thursday inauguration. Frenk said UCLA must remain resilient amid threats to higher education. (Maggie Konecky/Daily Bruin)
Visa holders at UCLA expressed concern following the Trump administration’s decision to halt Harvard University’s enrollment of international students. This decision was the latest in the ongoing battle between President Donald Trump and Harvard, which began after the Trump administration accused the university of allowing antisemitism and withheld over $2 billion in Harvard’s federal funding. Read more...
Photo: The outside of Tom Bradley International Hall is pictured. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated June 4 at 9:48 p.m. Ahead of his Thursday inauguration, UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk spoke with National News and Higher Education editor Alexandra Crosnoe and News editor Dylan Winward to discuss his experience in higher education and tenure to date. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk is pictured. Frenk, whose inauguration is on Thursday, discussed with the Daily Bruin his experience working in higher education and tenure to date. (Video still by Carolina Barsakov/Daily Bruin)
On Oct. 16, 2023 – nine days after an attack by Palestinian political party and militant group Hamas killed around 1,200 people in Israel, and more than 2,700 Palestinians were killed by Israeli retaliatory airstrikes – UCLA Health administrative leaders sent an email to the medical community. Read more...
Photo: The David Geffen School of Medicine is pictured. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The UC is considering transitioning all its campuses to a common semester calendar – but some faculty members are concerned about costs, workload and a lack of staff input. Read more...
Photo: The Bruin Bear in Bruin Plaza is pictured. The UC is considering transitioning all its campuses – including UCLA – to a common semester calendar. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Maya Abdallah stopped eating May 9 in support of Palestine. Eight days later, she left campus in an ambulance after losing consciousness from hunger. Abdallah, a third-year film and television student, went on a hunger strike to demand that the university divest from companies associated with the Israeli military and disclose its financial investments. Read more...
Photo: Maya Abdallah, a third-year film and television student, wears a shirt marking the seventh day of her hunger strike. Abdallah went on a nine-day hunger strike to demand that the university divest from companies associated with the Israeli military and disclose its investments. (Courtesy of Maya Abdallah)
This post was updated May 29 at 12:33 a.m. The head of the Trump administration’s federal antisemitism task force said Tuesday that the UC should expect discrimination lawsuits. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA campus is pictured. The head of the Trump administration’s federal antisemitism task force said Tuesday that the UC should expect discrimination lawsuits. (Daily Bruin file photo)
