What’s your name? Your major? Where are you from? What dorm are you living in?
These questions will be the soundtrack to new students’ first few weeks at UCLA.

The latest iteration of Los Angeles’ charter reform process has ended in disappointment.
In August 2024, Mayor Karen Bass created the Charter Reform Commission to study LA’s city charter – the document that acts as the city’s constitution.

Students with aspirations in finance frantically refresh job portals, treating the application as the starting line.
But it isn’t.
By the time these finance portals go live, the students most likely to land offers have already spent months or years doing the quiet work that never shows up on a resume.

The rules of an election can influence its outcomes just as much as the candidates.
The 2026 California gubernatorial primary featured an unusually competitive field, with six Democrats and two Republicans leading among more than 60 candidates.

This post was updated Aug. 12 at 4:14 p.m.
Say you’re tasked with evaluating a high school senior.
Here’s your criteria: their high school, their sophomore and junior year transcripts, a maximum 1,400 words of their writing, their extracurricular activities and the classes they plan to take senior year.

This post was updated Aug. 2 at 2:54 p.m.
A healthy campus community is one where identities are respected.
But a recent lawsuit against the UC threatens that standard.

This post was updated Aug. 2 at 2:57 p.m.
Artificial intelligence is changing the world. We must make sure – for our future careers and for our college education – that UCLA is getting the implementation of AI right.