Former UCLA Health gynecologist James Heaps is appealing his sexual battery and penetration convictions.
Heaps – who was sentenced to 11 years in prison April 26 – is appealing on the basis that the trial court may have erred in procedure and denied Heaps a fair trial, his attorney Leonard Levine said.

The UC plans to give certain staff and academic employees a general 4.6% raise if the finalized California state budget allocates the same amount as current drafts.

Dozens of UC employees gathered outside a UC Board of Regents meeting at Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center to call for higher wages.
The rally, put on by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 – which represents more than 30,000 UC service workers and skilled craft workers – called for minimum wages of $25 per hour, said Frank Valdez, the strategic communications director for AFSCME Local 3299.

This post was updated March 27 at 12:21 a.m.
A UC student research collective found that survivors of sexual violence are dissatisfied with resources across all 10 campuses.

Student Researchers United and United Auto Workers Local 2865, unions representing graduate student researchers and academic student employees, respectively, merged to become known solely as UAW Local 2865, it announced Monday.

This post was updated Feb. 22 at 11:10 pm
Around 100 UCLA community members gathered Wednesday afternoon at Murphy Hall to protest reports of administration-backed cuts to graduate student admissions in light of recently won wage increases.

This post was updated Feb. 13 at 3:27 p.m.
The University of California has allocated $16.4 million in grants toward programs across the system focused on addressing climate change and health inequity.