Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris sits in an office at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Loukaitou-Sideris will become the school’s permanent dean June 1 after serving as interim dean since 2023. (Courtesy of Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris)
A distinguished professor in urban planning will become the permanent dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs on June 1.
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, who has worked at UCLA for 35 years and served as the interim dean since January 2023, said her appointment represents a continuation of initiatives she began as interim dean – including new academic programs and expanded student support.
UCLA historians launched a revamped digital labor history archive in April, preserving materials from movements led by Southern California unions.
The Memory Work Research Initiative at UCLA – which the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment oversees – digitized documents, images and flyers on an online archive called Power from the Past.
This post was updated May 19 at 11:32 p.m.
Sina Sinbari, a student at the UCLA School of Law, died April 20. He was 24.
Sinbari, a volleyball player who played for the University of Charleston and Fairleigh Dickinson University during his undergraduate years, planned to pursue athletic management after graduation.
A UCLA committee urged the university to consider a new definition of antisemitism, enforce anti-discrimination policies and ask faculty not to participate in anti-Israel boycotts in a report released Thursday.
This post was updated May 17 at 10:23 p.m.
Undergraduate students rejected $87 in referendum fees, approved changes to the Undergraduate Students Association Council constitution and chose new officers in the 2026 USAC election.
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