This post was updated March 24 at 9:10 a.m.
Three United Auto Workers units ratified contracts with the UC on Friday, averting a strike after months of bargaining. 
The three units – UAW Local 4811’s academic student employees unit, Research and Public Service Professionals-UAW and Student Services and Advising Professionals-UAW – represent more than 40,000 UC academic and research employees, including teaching assistants.

This post was updated March 5 at 9:51 p.m.
About 30 people gathered in Campbell Hall on Feb. 25 to honor two students and Black Panther Party members who were killed there in 1969 – and to call for the building to be renamed after the activists.

Jonli Tunstall will serve as the new associate vice provost of student diversity and director of UCLA’s Academic Advancement Program.
AAP provides first-generation, low-income and historically underrepresented students with tutoring, counseling, mentorship and research opportunities, according to its website.

This post was updated Feb. 24 at 11:37 p.m.
UC lecturers are tentatively set to begin negotiations with the University in March.
The unit of the University Council-American Federation of Teachers representing lecturers reached its current contract with the University in November 2021.

This post was updated March 3 at 10:34 p.m.
Red Darby never expected to be accepted to UCLA, especially as a transfer student coming from Columbia College.

Three unions representing about 40,000 UC academic and research employees began an unfair labor practice strike authorization vote Thursday.
The voting period for the three unions – United Auto Workers Local 4811, Research and Public Service Professionals-UAW and Student Services and Academic Professionals-UAW, who are currently in contract negotiations with the UC – is set to close Friday.

This post was updated Feb. 6 at 2:06 p.m.
Odalis Rojas grew up in an agricultural community in Ventura County, where she saw her farm worker father, uncles and cousins face various health care barriers.

This post was updated Feb. 1 at 9:51 p.m.
Hundreds of people participated in a walkout Friday afternoon to protest increased immigration enforcement activity across the United States. 
Several student organizations planned the walkout, including Students for Socialism; the Student Labor Advocacy Project; and Improving Dreams, Equity, and Access at UCLA.

This post was updated Jan. 27 at 10:08 p.m.
The UC is asking students to complete a survey about their perceptions of on-campus discrimination and harassment, as mandated by the University’s 2024 agreement with the federal government to resolve civil rights investigations.

More than 100 people gathered Wednesday in Wilson Plaza to eat Persian food, practice Chinese calligraphy and watch traditional performances as part of World Languages Day.