Mako Fukumoto, a fourth-year world arts and cultures student, is worried about finals and graduation, but she has another pressing concern as well. She needs to find a way to keep in touch with all her friends when she leaves the United States for her home country of Japan at the end of this academic year. Read more...
James Yamazaki has a lot of stories to tell. Yamazaki, a professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, served as a combat surgeon in Europe during World War II. Read more...
Problems the University of California has had in enrolling black students may be aggravated by a “reverse migration” trend that is drawing many black families out of places such as California and bringing them to the South. Read more...
Most California community colleges began accepting students last week, and community college officials have indicated their concern over the particularly high number of students expected this year. Read more...
Fifty years after the celebrated Brown v. Board of Education decision, only a small percentage of minority students currently attend thoroughly integrated institutions. Higher education experts say that while minority students will enjoy more and more higher education access in future years, this increase will happen slowly if it follows the model set in the past 50 years. Read more...
Travel in Europe will become more convenient in the future, experts say, after the European Union welcomed 10 new members on May 1 who are expected to adopt the euro, the single EU currency. Read more...
University of California students may face higher fees for their student loans due to the possibility that the UC system may withdraw from the Federal Direct Lending Program. Read more...