Wafiqah Basrai

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• Forum held to discuss future of higher education in California

  April 8, 2009 at 5:36 a.m.

  Staff, community members and student leaders from various political, cultural and advocacy groups met on Tuesday to discuss California’s goals for higher education.

• Fiscal woes impact admissions

  Nov. 18, 2008 at 3:13 a.m.

  In order to ease the impact of recent and anticipated budget cuts, the Chancellor’s Enrollment Advisory Committee is looking closely at a variety of options dealing with admissions, including declining the rate of transfer students admitted into the university in favor of more out-of-state and international students.

• WASC team surveys UCLA

  Oct. 9, 2008 at 1:07 a.m.

  Jessica Ngo, a fourth-year economics student, still recalls her freshman General Education cluster to be one of the best classes she has taken at UCLA. Creating the GE clusters was an initiative UCLA started 10 years ago to be reaccredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

• Web site teaches student finance

  Oct. 7, 2008 at 12:48 a.m.

  Nikki Sanders has never owned a credit card.

• Engineering team driven to create

  May 30, 2008 at 2:33 a.m.

  Andrew Chao placed the two-foot-long car, covered in green circuit boards, on a line of wire and off the car went – no motor, no controller.

• Same-sex couples deciding what to take from ruling

  May 21, 2008 at 1:51 a.m.

  Brian Navarro was driving back from work when he heard on the radio that same-sex marriage was legalized in California. He started to cry amid the traffic.

• Endowment funds study of Mediterranean Judaism

  May 19, 2008 at 2:14 a.m.

  Even though he was only four when he moved from Italy to America, Andrew Viterbi grew up in a Jewish household surrounded by Italian culture.

• New fundraising campaign reflects focus on private backing

  May 13, 2008 at 12:04 a.m.

  UCLA is working on a fundraising campaign to coincide with its centennial – an effort to secure funding for the future.

• Model of West Bank wall divides student groups

  May 2, 2008 at 1:15 a.m.

  During a week in which people were commemorating the Holocaust worldwide, several student groups were in Bruin Plaza trying to educate students about Palestinian suffering on Thursday through a representation of the security fence that currently borders Israeli and Palestine territories.

• Event reels in money for Mattel

  April 14, 2008 at 1:26 a.m.

  Despite the 93-degree weather Sunday, about 1,000 students and community members gathered in Wilson Plaza to raise money for the Mattel Children’s Hospital in UCLA’s ninth annual Run/Walk.