By creating and subsidizing online courses for alumni, UCLA can redefine what it means to be part of the Bruin family. Starting in 2012, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology collaborated to create a nonprofit, Massive Open Online Course program called “edX,” which provides free online courses for alumni at their alma maters. Read more...
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The Daily Bruin ran two op-eds Friday in the run-up to the landmark University of California Student Association vote in favor of divesting UC funds from companies enabling Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories. Read more...
It’s one thing to say a process is inclusive. It’s another to make it so. The latter is going be the difficult part for the Undergraduate Students Association Council as May elections approach. Read more...
Dear Colleagues, We write to categorically support the proposed College of Letters and Science undergraduate diversity requirement, an amendment to Divisional Regulation A-458 (C). The College Faculty Executive Committee, the Undergraduate Council and the UCLA Academic Senate’s Legislative Assembly have all supported this requirement following extensive vetting and debate. Read more...
If the university is going to make employees divulge information about their friends and colleagues, the least it could do is give up some of its own. Read more...
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UCLA housing officials plan to spend $8.2 million over the next year to build a needlessly expensive study spot in Hedrick dining hall. Of the total cost, $2.4 million is set to go to architectural costs, including finishings and furnishings. Read more...
In my years of student advocacy at UCLA, I have been to San Francisco to the University of California Board of Regents meetings twice. I, like many students, find the regents to be aloof to student concerns. Read more...
