This post was updated Jan. 16 at 1:36 a.m.
Chancellor Julio Frenk completed his first full year in office Jan. 1.
News editor Alexandra Crosnoe and campus politics editor Natalia Mochernak sat down with Frenk to discuss federal research funding cuts, UCLA’s budgetary shortfall, protections for undocumented students and Time, Place and Manner policies.

Chancellor Julio Frenk announced in an email Monday that he will give students the chance to attend one-on-one meetings with him.
The new initiative – titled “UCLA Connects: Chancellor’s Office Hours” – allows students to meet Frenk each quarter through randomized selection.

The Undergraduate Students Association Council delivered a letter supporting a bill that would bar the UC from excluding undocumented students from on-campus jobs to the California State Legislature on Tuesday.

This post was updated Nov. 21 at 10:50 p.m.
UCLA representatives of United Auto Workers’ academic and non-academic units threatened to strike at a Thursday rally in Bruin Plaza if the University’s allegedly unfair labor practices continue.

This post was updated Nov. 16 at 9:49 p.m.
The California Nurses Association’s UC nurses reached a tentative agreement with the University on Sunday – and called off their Nov.

This post was updated Nov. 13 at 9:20 p.m.
UCLA is launching a new leadership coalition to manage the university’s budgetary shortfall amid state and federal funding cuts, Chancellor Julio Frenk announced in a Wednesday campuswide email. 
Frenk, who will chair the Executive Budget Action Group, said in the email that the group’s creation was prompted by “structural budget deficits, federal and state funding uncertainties, and rising costs,” which challenge the university’s academic mission. 
The budget action group will create guidelines for future campus financial decisions, investigate specific areas for improvement in its investments and emphasize transparency in all of its budgetary decisions, Frenk said in the email. 
“Our North Star is to ensure that the resources entrusted to us add maximum value back to society while protecting the academic core that defines UCLA’s strength,” he said. 
The California State Legislature and Gov.

This post was updated Nov. 6 at 11:08 p.m.
The UC eliminated its Department of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion on Oct. 27, replacing it with the Office of Culture and Inclusive Excellence.

This post was updated Nov. 5 at 1:02 a.m.
A coalition of 25 student organizations filed an amicus brief Thursday in support of a lawsuit against President Donald Trump that alleged research funding suspensions to UCLA and subsequent settlement demands violated employees’ free speech. 
The student organizations – filing under the name Students for Higher Education – said in the brief that the federal government’s “ruinous cuts to federal research funding,” its $1.2 billion settlement demand and attacks on international students obstruct the constitutionally protected free speech of students and faculty members.

This post was updated Nov. 2 at 11:29 p.m.
About 70 members of United Auto Workers Local 4811 rallied outside of Royce Hall on Wednesday afternoon to demand that the UC protect international workers. 
The union began the rally around noon, with multiple leaders speaking in support of a petition outlining its demands for international workers that has at least 10,000 signatories and was delivered to UC administrators and campus leaders earlier in the day.

The leaves have turned auburn and the air has begun to cool, but the Bruins are heating up Pauley Pavilion.
No. 25 UCLA women’s volleyball (11-7, 5-3 Big Ten) will host long-time conference foe Oregon (12-6, 3-5) Wednesday night before taking on Maryland (8-10, 1-7).