Forced to complete a full course of material within a shortened time length, professors, as well as students, must find ways to work with summer sessions’ fast pace. Read more...

The door to the School of Law’s dean’s office will have a new name on it next fall, as Jonathan Varat steps down from a five-year stint at the position. Read more...

Things might get a bit crowded at this already burgeoning campus, with UCLA admitting 1,400 more transfer students this fall than it did this past year. Read more...

Five of the nine Democrats hoping to make a run at the presidency in 2004 stopped over at UCLA Thursday evening to skewer the Bush administration on everything from the environment to war in what became a roasting of the president. Read more...

Though prime-time television is widely viewed by most demographic groups in the United States, it does not necessarily reflect national racial demographics, according to a recent UCLA study released this past week. Read more...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of affirmative action last Monday, citing a compelling need for racial diversity in American education. The Court, which had been looking at two separate cases dealing with the University of Michigan, handed down a split decision. Read more...

After the California Assembly rejected two budget plans Friday, it appears Monday’s midnight Constitutional deadline will pass with no budget in sight, leaving state and University of California officials to grapple with the implications of functioning without a budget at the start of a new fiscal year. Read more...