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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One of Robert Nakamura’s earliest memories is standing in
line for food at the Manzanar internment camp for Japanese
Americans.
“We were incarcerated for no other reason than we had the
face of the enemy,” said Nakamura, a UCLA film and television
professor.

“Show the Love” is the theme of this year’s
Israel Independence Week at UCLA, a weeklong list of events
designed to celebrate Israel’s 56th year of statehood.

UCLA officials are confident in the benefits of a recently
implemented system to track international students, though some
government agents say the system is not being thoroughly used by
customs officials.