California
April 2, 2026 10:10 p.m.
Murphy Hall, where UCLA’s Title IX office is located is pictured. A UCLA student organization sponsored a state bill to require California colleges to create policies that address technology-facilitated sexual harassment. (Daily Bruin file photo)
A UCLA student organization sponsored a state bill to require California colleges to create policies that address technology-facilitated sexual harassment.
The bill, if passed, would require California community colleges, California State University and the UC to provide students who have digitally generated sexually explicit materials made of them with funds of up to $1,000 to help them identify and remove the material.
By Josephine Murphy
A Closer Look
April 2, 2026 9:44 p.m.The UC implemented a virtual language education initiative in January, sparking pushback from instructors amid language program cuts.
The Global Language Network, which was designed by UC humanities deans, allows faculty from different UC campuses to provide digital foreign language instruction to all University students.
By Phoebe Huss
Higher Education
March 20, 2026 11:20 p.m.UC basic needs programs might be in danger. What now?
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.
By Maggie Konecky
Higher Education
March 20, 2026 8:04 p.m.Committee recommends removal of Chávez’s name from Chicana/o studies department
This post was updated March 29 at 8:09 p.m.
UCLA’s Honorific Naming Committee unanimously recommended the removal of Cesár E. Chávez’s name from the Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies on Friday, following a New York Times investigation that revealed his alleged sex abuse.
The committee – which received the request from the department Wednesday – sent its recommendation to Chancellor Julio Frenk and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt, according to a Friday letter obtained by the Daily Bruin.
By Natalia Mochernak
Academics
March 20, 2026 6:54 p.m.United Auto Workers units finalize agreements with UC, avoid strike
This post was updated March 24 at 9:10 a.m.
Three United Auto Workers units ratified contracts with the UC on Friday, averting a strike after months of bargaining.
The three units – UAW Local 4811’s academic student employees unit, Research and Public Service Professionals-UAW and Student Services and Advising Professionals-UAW – represent more than 40,000 UC academic and research employees, including teaching assistants.
By Delilah Brumer
National
March 19, 2026 12:42 p.m.UC investment officer discusses assets, what constitutes war-related investments
Pro-Palestine students and advocates have called on the UC to disclose and divest from companies allegedly associated with the Israeli military.
But at a Tuesday UC Board of Regents meeting, the UC’s Chief Investment Officer said he believes it is difficult to consider what constitutes supporting war – whether directly or tangentially – when it comes to the University’s investments, especially with regard to U.S.
By Josephine Murphy
News
March 18, 2026 4:01 p.m.UC Regents committee recommends $351 million for UCLA student housing project
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.
By Maggie Konecky
Los Angeles
March 18, 2026 2:25 p.m.UC approves $298.2 million budget to convert LA building into UCLA Health complex
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.
By Josephine Murphy
Academics
March 13, 2026 10:30 p.m.UC reaches tentative agreements with 3 United Auto Workers units
The UC reached tentative agreements with three United Auto Workers units that had threatened to strike, the units announced Friday.
The tentative agreement, if approved, will become the first contracts for Student Services and Advising Professionals-UAW and Research and Public Service Professionals-UAW, which were officially recognized by the University in April and September, respectively.
By Josephine Murphy
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