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Dylan Tzung | Enterprise editor
Tzung is the 2024-2025 Enterprise editor and a News senior staff writer on the national news and higher education beat. She was previously the 2023-2024 assistant Enterprise editor. Tzung is a fourth-year global studies and political science student minoring in public affairs from Pacific Palisades, California.
Tzung is the 2024-2025 Enterprise editor and a News senior staff writer on the national news and higher education beat. She was previously the 2023-2024 assistant Enterprise editor. Tzung is a fourth-year global studies and political science student minoring in public affairs from Pacific Palisades, California.

Enterprise

May 13, 2025 10:33 p.m.

‘One timeline after the other was not met’ – UCLA’s $213 million project is failing

This post was updated at 11:16 p.m.
UCLA has spent at least $213 million on the Ascend Finance Transformation project, and yet, seven years after the project’s launch, it has few concrete accomplishments.  
“I can’t say that I’ve actually seen a live screen for Ascend,” said Reem Hanna-Harwell, a former member of the project’s steering committee. 
The initial reported budget for the project was $120 million, but, according to a presentation given during the May 2024 Ascend 2.0 quarterly town hall, the estimated total cost was projected to be roughly $286 million. 
The university declined to answer exactly how much money has been spent on the project since its official start date in April 2018. 
The Ascend project involves a transformation of UCLA’s financial system – moving from the current mainframe system to Oracle Cloud, modernizing the chart of accounts and upgrading all business applications which contribute data to the central finance, research and budget systems, according to the 2021 project charter.

By Liam McGlynn, Dylan Tzung, and Dylan Winward

Higher Education

March 9, 2022 4:49 p.m.

UCLA report explores the UC’s growing reliance on adjunct faculty

The University of California is increasingly employing adjunct faculty as the state shifts away from prioritizing higher education, according to a UCLA-led report from February.
The UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy published the report titled “The Transformation of Academic Labor: Past as Prologue at the UC” as the first part of a larger three-part series from the LCHP designed to critically and constructively envision a path to build a more just UCLA community.

By Dylan Tzung

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