UCLA’s newly created office of civil rights will receive its first lead administrator.
Chandra Bhatnagar will become UCLA’s first assistant vice chancellor for civil rights on Jan.

This post was updated Nov. 22 at 6:42 p.m.
California issued a monthlong limited stay-at-home order banning some nonessential gatherings in most counties Thursday to limit the spread of COVID-19.

This post was updated Nov. 15 at 8:16 p.m.
UCLA rejected student leaders’ proposal to create safe parking spaces for housing-insecure students, citing concerns over cleanliness and pandemic safety.

This post was updated Nov. 18 at 1:17 p.m. with an additional statement from a UCLA spokesperson.
A group of at least 20 students has tested positive for COVID-19 after a Halloween gathering, a UCLA spokesperson said.

The Graduate Students Association is the voice of graduate students on campus. The association meets for forum every three weeks and takes positions on current issues affecting graduate students.

Anna Spain Bradley became the vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion in September after Jerry Kang stepped down in June. UCLA created the office in 2014 after 30 UCLA faculty members published the 2013 Moreno Report, which highlighted concerns over the deteriorating campus racial climate.

A married pair of UCLA professors posthumously left the university nearly $9 million that will go toward scholarships, department chairs and seminars.
Bernice Wenzel and Wendell Jeffrey, two married psychology professors at UCLA who passed away in 2018 and 2015, respectively, donated $8.7 million to UCLA, said Lynn Andrews, the professors’ niece, in an emailed statement.

California’s new universal mail-in voting program could increase voter turnout but may prove difficult to conduct, UCLA faculty said.
To cope with the coronavirus pandemic, California Gov.

The Culver City police union criticized two UCLA professors for their advocacy in favor of defunding the police in an online post Sept. 30.
The Culver City Police Officers Association, the union that represents Culver City Police Department officers, criticized law professor Noah Zatz and history professor Kelly Lytle Hernandez in a Sept.

The UCLA Department of Film, Television and Digital Media is suspending applications to its graduate degree programs to reevaluate the structure of its graduate programs.
The Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, a department in the School of Theater, Film and Television, will not accept applications to its graduate programs for fall 2021 to review its programs and build a curriculum that better integrates its department programs, said interim department chair Steve Anderson in an emailed statement.