Former U.S. Sen. Laphonza Butler emphasized the importance of local governments in enacting political change at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs 2026 Luskin Summit on Wednesday.

This story was updated April 13 at 10:37 a.m.
Trevor Griffey drives more than 200 miles every week to teach at both UCLA and UC Irvine.

This post was updated April 5 at 9:46 p.m.
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration Friday from requiring California universities to share the personal data of applicants and admitted students with the federal government.

A UCLA student organization sponsored a state bill to require California colleges to create policies that address technology-facilitated sexual harassment.
The bill, if passed, would require California community colleges, California State University and the UC to provide students who have digitally generated sexually explicit materials made of them with funds of up to $1,000 to help them identify and remove the material.

This post was updated March 24 at 9:07 a.m.
UC community members called on the University to support basic needs initiatives, repatriate Indigenous cultural items and restore funding for certain academic support programs at the UC Board of Regents’ March meeting.

SAN FRANCISCO – The UC Board of Regents approved a tuition increase for UCLA’s dentistry program at its Wednesday meeting.
The academic and student affairs committee approved the tuition increase for the dentistry program – as well as for a nursing program at UC Irvine and pharmacy programs at UCI and UC San Francisco – at its bimonthly meeting, held Tuesday and Wednesday at UCSF.

Pro-Palestine students and advocates have called on the UC to disclose and divest from companies allegedly associated with the Israeli military.
But at a Tuesday UC Board of Regents meeting, the UC’s Chief Investment Officer said he believes it is difficult to consider what constitutes supporting war – whether directly or tangentially – when it comes to the University’s investments, especially with regard to U.S.

The UC Board of Regents approved a $298.2 million budget Wednesday to convert a Los Angeles building into a UCLA Health complex.
The project will convert an office building in El Segundo into UCLA Health South Bay, which will house a Sports Medicine Institute and create community fill and specialty pharmacies.

The UC reached tentative agreements with three United Auto Workers units that had threatened to strike, the units announced Friday.
The tentative agreement, if approved, will become the first contracts for Student Services and Advising Professionals-UAW and Research and Public Service Professionals-UAW, which were officially recognized by the University in April and September, respectively.

Union members representing UC academic and research employees said at a demonstration Thursday that they plan to strike as soon as next week if the University does not meet their contract demands.