Dr. Hannah Spungen is pictured giving a speech as one of the many healthcare professionals who gathered at Luskin Turnaround on Wednesday morning to protest patient overcrowding at UCLA’s on-campus hospital. (Izzy Greig/Daily Bruin)
About 60 healthcare professionals gathered at Luskin Turnaround on Wednesday morning to protest patient overcrowding at UCLA’s on-campus hospital.
Members of the California Nurses Association, Committee of Interns and Residents and University Professional and Technical Employees-Communications Workers of America 9119 – which represents healthcare, research and technical professionals – gave speeches calling on the University to address alleged overcrowding issues in the emergency department at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
UC students say they want a voice in University policies – and an amendment to the state constitution could be the way to get it.
Assembly Constitutional Amendment 18 would require the UC Board of Regents to appoint one undergraduate student and one graduate student to serve two-year terms on the board, replacing the current policy that only allows one student regent and student regent-designate.
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 – Nearly half of all UC undergraduates and one-third of graduate students are currently facing food insecurity, according to data presented at a UC Board of Regents meeting Wednesday.
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.
This post was updated March 19 at 1:15 p.m.
The UC Board of Regents’s Finance and Capital Strategies Committee recommended a budget of $351 million to build new UCLA student housing on Levering Ave.
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.
This post was updated Jan. 29 at 10:34 p.m.
UC community members called on the University to negotiate contracts with unions and support students’ mental health during two public comment sessions at the UC Board of Regents’ January meeting.
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