Academics and students from UCLA and beyond gathered for a symposium Thursday on immigrant youth, their education, and political and social activism. The various presenters provided ideas and perspectives from how to improve inner-city immigrant education, to using oral history to engage students, to how students can use covert means to dissent. Read more...

When Binh Tran went to sign her first lease, she said she was met with a landlord who had little patience for explaining the document's legal technicalities and fine print. Read more...

In response to the recent shootings at Virginia Tech, UC President Robert Dynes addressed the California State Senate Education Committee on Wednesday about giving campuses more flexibility in sharing information on students who officials believe may be threats. Read more...

Nearly $3 million in mandatory student fees flows through the undergraduate student government each year, and much of this money is allocated by the council to student organizations. Read more...

As delegates and visitors milled around the San Diego Convention Center on Saturday, UCLA students volunteered at candidate booths, handed out fliers for California Young Democrats and listened attentively to candidate speeches. Read more...

Data from 1995 to the present recently released by UCLA shows that students who identify as black and Latino or Chicano are admitted with lower average high school GPAs and SAT scores than white and Asian students. Read more...

When UCLA announced its decision last year to adopt a holistic admissions process, some expressed hope that the new system would help increase the number of underrepresented minorities admitted to the university. Read more...