Faculty and students in the applied linguistics field are making final adjustments to prepare for the end of their department, after decades of seeing the number of full-time faculty members diminish.

UCLA’s graduate student government is considering rejoining a University of California-wide student advocacy organization in light of the coaliton’s recent push to address graduate student concerns.

Some faculty members are trying to decide how to shape a proposal for a new diversity-related general education requirement, though none have publicly started writing a formal proposition.

Students interested in running for office in the upcoming undergraduate student government elections can pick up candidate application packets starting Monday.
The Undergraduate Students Association Council elections will be held during the sixth week of spring quarter, at the beginning of May.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block called on faculty to establish a diversity-related general education requirement by the end of 2014, on Monday in an email to the campus community.

Smoothing his collar, he glanced over his shoulder at the tall wire fence surrounding the parking lot.
Howard Chung walked up the concrete steps to the Los Angeles County Probation Department’s offices and marched inside when the glass doors buzzed open for him.

CVS Caremark announced Wednesday it would stop the sale of all tobacco products at its branch stores, including its Westwood location.
The second-largest national pharmacy chain will no longer shelve cigarettes and other tobacco products at its more than 7,600 U.S.

Annie E. Clark felt that her school did not treat her report of sexual assault with enough sensitivity, so she became an activist for the rights of students who have experienced sexual assault on college campuses.

An on-campus networking event on Feb. 19 aims to connect students interested in nonprofit work with professionals from an array of organizations.
Students must register by Feb.

Teri Nguyen’s family did not know much about autism when her brother started acting aloof.
They did not even know the word for autism in Vietnamese, their first language.