Recent faculty hiring commitments aim to increase scholarship at UCLA in Black, Latino, Indigenous and Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
The murder of George Floyd in 2020 and the movement for racial justice increased awareness of diversity issues and subsequently, the lack of equitable representation in higher education, said Shannon Speed, the director of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and a special advisor to Chancellor Gene Block on Native American and Indigenous affairs.

UCLA tied with UC Berkeley for first place on the U.S News & World Report’s public university rankings, earning the No. 1 ranking for the sixth year in a row but breaking its four-year streak as the sole university at the top spot. 
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This post was updated Sept. 21 at 11:08 p.m.
UCLA students and faculty are participating in a three-year study on agriculture and irrigation in East Africa funded by the National Science Foundation.

This post was updated Sept. 25 at 10:54 p.m.
When UCLA admitted Angela Robinson to its gender studies doctoral program, there were two Pacific Islander faculty members – the highest out of all the programs she was accepted into.

This post was updated Sept. 5 at 8:34 p.m.
President Joe Biden’s decision to forgive student loan debt will provide relief to many students and alumni with loans, but gaps in debt forgiveness could still persist, according to UCLA community members.

This post was updated Aug. 28 at 10:40 p.m.
The UCLA Faculty Club is fully reopening this fall after extensive renovations to update and preserve the integrity of the building over the past two and a half years.

This post was updated Aug. 28 at 10:31 p.m.
The UCLA Quarter in Washington program is expanding opportunities to better accommodate students from any major.
The program allows students to receive credits for an internship in Washington while taking courses relating to their degree and internship, according to UCLA’s registrar’s office.

This post was updated Aug. 21 at 8:33 p.m.
The University of California admitted its largest and most racially and ethnically diverse in-state student population for fall 2022 entry while its out-of-state admittance decreased.

The 2022-2023 California state budget will allocate $13 million to the University of California labor centers, allowing scholars to increase the extent of their research on working conditions and inequitable labor policies.

This post was updated August 19 at 10:34 p.m.
Feven Girmay has not heard from her grandmother in over 10 months.
Girmay, a political science alumnus of UCLA, has family living in Tigray, the northernmost region of Ethiopia.