Chancellor Block sent the following message to the UCLA campus community. Dear Bruin Community: I am excited to announce a collaboration that pairs UCLA, one of the nation’s top public research universities, with Apple, one of the world’s leading technology companies, to help address one of society’s biggest problems. The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge, whose…
Dear Bruin Community: Last Friday, our nation lost one of the towering figures of the American civil rights movement: longtime Georgia Congressman John Lewis. He was a public servant whose self-sacrifice, character, courage and compassion made him one of the country’s most enduring examples of true leadership. In the 1960s, Lewis was brutally beaten as…
Chancellor Block sent the following message to the UCLA campus community. Dear Bruin Community: I am very concerned by yesterday’s announcement from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that international students cannot remain in the United States if they are exclusively attending online classes this fall. Decisions like this are contrary to our core values…
Chancellor Block sent the following message to the UCLA campus community. Dear Bruin Community: I am delighted to share that the University of California Board of Regents has appointed Michael V. Drake as the next UC president. UC is fortunate to be gaining a leader with Dr. Drake’s experience as a former chancellor of UC…
Chancellor Block sent the following message to the UCLA campus community. Dear Bruin Community: Saturday is the Fourth of July, a day usually celebrated with parties, parades and fireworks. But in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and with the recent reminders of our nation’s unhealed racial wounds, the holiday will certainly feel different this…
Chancellor Block and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Carter sent the following message to the UCLA campus community. To the Campus Community: The ongoing principled protests around the nation — and around the world — calling for racial justice have been inspiring and humbling. In this moment we rightfully have been moved to ask what…
Chancellor Block and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Carter sent the following message to the UCLA campus community. To the Campus Community: On June 19, 1865, enslaved Black people in Texas finally found out that they had been freed from bondage. President Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation a full two years earlier, but Texas…
UC President Napolitano and UC Chancellors sent the following message to the UCLA campus community. To the UC community: We write to you on a historic day for the University of California, for our nation, and for the hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients across the country who live, work, and study in our communities….
[Aug. 22, 2022 Update: The contact number listed for Praesidium in the message below is no longer active. Any individuals with concerns or in need of supportive services can find information on how to contact UCLA’s Title IX office using this link.] To the Campus Community: Our university’s first and highest obligation is to the…
To the Campus Community: Over the past week, against the backdrop of a global pandemic that has further exposed the gross inequalities in our society, and following news of the horrific killings of yet again more African Americans, we have been inspired to see thousands of peaceful protesters speaking out and taking to our streets….