While UCLA is the smallest physical campus within the University of California (UC) system, there are opportunities to expand the campus’s reach by reimagining how it uses technology and its academic calendar. “We have to do our part so we are thinking creatively on how to better use summer and spring quarter [and] how to use some remote educational opportunities,” Block said about how the UC system can grow to serve more students. The system aims to increase enrollment by 20,000 students across its 10 campuses by 2030.
“I want to thank Governor Newsom for his continued partnership as we work to strengthen the University and better serve the people of California”, University of California President Michael V. Drake issued a statement on revised budget proposal.
Diversifying the workforce was the focus of a recent panel at the Milken Global Conference, a major forum for business, finance, education and media leaders held in Los Angeles. Block joined executives from Google, the Amgen Foundation, Jobs For the Future and talent network OneTen to discuss potential solutions to remove barriers to decent-paying jobs for these workers.
Zelensky spoke and engaged in a virtual Q&A hosted by the Association of American Universities on Monday, May 16th. Discussion focused on how America’s leading research universities, including UCLA, and Ukrainian officials and educators can work together to help rebuild and transform his country’s decimated higher education sector.
On May 21, the UCLA Alumni Association will pay tribute to policymakers, activists and other leaders for their lifelong dedication to bringing Bruin values into the world. This year’s honorees are Sheila Kuehl, the UCLA Alumni Band, Debra Duardo, Monica Ebeltoft, Alberto Retana, and A. Wallace Tashima.
Highlights from the chancellor’s update include a new commitment to supporting our students, some ways in which the UCLA campus is responding to the war in Ukraine, and a memorable moment of reflection and renewal UCLA recently held in the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden.
The National Academy of Sciences, established in 1863 by a congressional act signed by President Abraham Lincoln, serves as an official advisory body to the federal government on matters of science and technology upon request. Membership in the academy is one of the highest honors a scientist can receive.
New UCLA-led research finds that in states with bans on affirmative action programs, the proportion of students from underrepresented racial and ethnic minority groups in U.S. public medical schools fell by more than one-third by five years after those bans went into effect.
