Prospective medical school students said the COVID-19 pandemic has added a layer of uncertainty to the medical school application process. Students said many of their extracurricular and research activities were either canceled, postponed or moved to an online platform. Read more...
Photo: The COVID-19 pandemic has created more difficulties for medical school applicants by affecting their standardized testing and extracurricular activities. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
Some students are concerned about how their peers are handling the COVID-19 pandemic and think UCLA could do more to enforce COVID-19 guidelines. UCLA’s outline of student conduct and policies for COVID-19 gives regulations for large gatherings, and states that students can face academic consequences or exclusion from UCLA housing for violating UCLA’s policies. Read more...
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UCLA plans to expand its Latino student population to a quarter of its enrolled student population in five years to qualify for additional federal grants, university administrators said in a campus-wide email Monday. Read more...
Photo: UCLA plans to expand its enrolled Latino population to be federally designated as a Hispanic-Serving Institution. (David Rimer/Daily Bruin staff)
International student enrollment declined because of the COVID-19 pandemic and changes in government policy, UCLA faculty said. The enrollment rate of new international students decreased nationally by more than 40% from 2019 to 2020, according to data in the Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange. Read more...
Photo: International student enrollment dropped across the United States in part because of several policy changes and uncertainty about the pandemic, UCLA faculty said. (Xuxin Zhang/Daily Bruin staff)
There are many resources students experiencing hunger and homelessness may not know about, according to UCLA student and community leaders at a panel Tuesday. The Bruin McKinney Vento Initiative supports the academic success of students experiencing homelessness by providing them with access to basic needs, 580 Cafe helps students find food resources in local communities during the pandemic, and Swipe Out Hunger collects residential Hall meal swipes and donates them to students. Read more...
Photo: There are many resources available for students experiencing food insecurity and homelessness, according to UCLA student and community leaders at a panel Tuesday. (Screen capture by Esther Li/Daily Bruin staff)
UCLA did not renew a contract for a teaching assistant, who now has to find another way to pay for his cancer treatments and tuition. Hughlin Boyd, a graduate student in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, received an email from UCLA the day before the start of the fall quarter, informing him that he was ineligible to work as a teaching assistant for the quarter. Read more...
Photo: A UCLA graduate student now has to find other ways to afford his tuition and health care after UCLA canceled his teaching assistant contract. (Esther Li/Daily Bruin staff)
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it harder for student workers to balance their studies and their jobs, a UCLA study found. Student workers experienced educational, financial and mental health hardships balancing their academic and work responsibilities, according to a September study from the Workers and Learners project at the UCLA Labor Center. Read more...
Photo: A UCLA study found that student workers are struggling with financial insecurity, lack of academic accommodations and lack of access to mental health services amid the pandemic. (Emily Dembinski/Illustrations director)
