A majority of 2005’s graduating seniors reported high satisfaction with their overall academic and college experience at UCLA in what was the first comprehensive senior survey. Read more...

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation will partner with eight elite universities in an effort to increase the number of low-income community college students who transfer to top-ranked schools, the foundation announced Monday. Read more...

As finals approach, many students are trying to find the most effective ways to study, evaluating what worked and did not work in the past. Appropriately enough, researchers at UC Irvine and University College London are examining which environmental factors best prepare the mind to learn new information as part of a new study on memory. Read more...

Today, UCLA’s Campus Events Commission will present actor Morgan Freeman with an award to honor his lifetime achievement in drama. This year’s Spencer Tracy Award is the first award to be given since 2000, when Jack Lemmon was recognized. Read more...

In a unanimous decision Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that universities must allow military recruiters on campus even if schools oppose the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which prohibits openly gay people from serving. Read more...

When Laura Willeford went to Powell Library to research a paper last week, she left feeling frustrated. Willeford, a first-year undeclared student, said she had trouble finding useful sources for her art history paper. Read more...

When Mo Kashmiri graduated from the UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law in 2004, he left with $130,000 of debt. But as a result of a ruling in his favor Monday, Kashmiri will likely see a few thousand taken off that amount. Read more...