During the Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting on Feb. 15, Academic Affairs Commissioner Angelina Quint said her office’s Campus of Care committee is reaching out to professors and departments as part of its initiative to make syllabi accessible to students prior to enrollment. Read more...
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February 19, 12:40 am
Disability rights advocate Judith Heumann talks accessibility in Regents’ Lecture
Disability rights advocate Judith Heumann spoke about the need to increase the accessibility of higher education in a Zoom lecture Thursday. Heumann has been advocating for disability rights since the 1970s and has worked on legislation including Section 504, the Individuals with Education Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, according to a UCLA press release. Read more...
Photo: Disability rights advocate Judith Heumann spoke with student leaders and at the Regents’ Professors and Lecturers Program to discuss the accessibility of higher education. (Screen capture by Sakshi Joglekar/Assistant Photo editor)
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February 17, 5:07 pm
Student leaders suspend sit-in, reach agreement with UCLA administrators
This post was updated March 1 at 6:51 p.m. Students’ 16-day sit-in is now over. Student leaders decided Wednesday morning to suspend their 16-day sit-in at Murphy Hall after reaching an agreement with UCLA administrators regarding their demands for increased accessibility and education equity. Read more...
Photo: After coming to an agreement with the university, student leaders suspended their sit-in at Murphy Hall. (Seth Van Matre/Daily Bruin)
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February 14, 9:57 pm
USAC recap – Feb. 8
The Undergraduate Students Association Council approved a resolution in support of the Buy Your Values UCLA campaign to advocate worker-friendly and environmentally sustainable apparel at UCLA stores. Read more...
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February 14, 12:26 am
Academic Senate restores unit cap to former limits for priority enrollment students
This post was updated Feb. 14 at 12:06 a.m. The Undergraduate Council of the Academic Senate unanimously voted on Jan. 21 to revoke the 15-unit cap for priority enrollment and reinstate the previous department-based 19-, 20- or 21-unit cap for priority enrollment. Read more...
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February 10, 11:31 am
USAC recap – Feb. 1
During the Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting Feb. 1, student leaders expressed their frustration with the UCLA administration’s failure to mandate universal hybrid learning options amid the return to in-person instruction. Read more...
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February 4, 9:56 pm
Sit-in for improved accessibility to continue after meeting with chancellor
UCLA student leaders decided Friday to continue their sit-in at Murphy Hall after an inconclusive meeting with UCLA administrators regarding improved accessibility, education equity and retention. Read more...
Photo: Students will continue their sit-in at Murphy Hall to push UCLA administrators to increase accessibility, equity and retention. (Justin Jung/Daily Bruin senior staff)