UCLA is looking for a last-minute push in this year’s Big Ten blood donation competition, as the Bruins lie in the bottom half of 18 participating universities.

About 30 students honored Indigenous history at a teach-in about the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act on Nov. 12.
The event, which was hosted at the Student Activities Center, aimed to educate the campus community about the NAGPRA – a federal law passed in 1990, which outlines requirements for federally-funded agencies and museums to return Native American human remains and funerary objects to their respective peoples.

Researchers from UCLA and other health institutions found that some inhalers produce significant greenhouse gas emissions, highlighting the need for health care providers to consider their carbon footprint when making patient care decisions.

This post was updated Nov. 22 at 9:32 p.m.
Hundreds of UCLA workers struck Monday and Tuesday, impacting UCLA’s dining halls, custodial services and medical facilities.

Two unions representing more than 60,000 UC employees plan to strike Monday and Tuesday, limiting access to dining halls and other campus services.
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, which represents 37,000 patient care, service and skilled craft workers, called for the strike because of the University’s alleged failure to reach a fair contract with union members.

The UC implemented a new general education sequence for prospective community college transfer students this fall.
The California General Education Transfer Curriculum seeks to streamline the four-year university transfer process for students in the California Community Colleges system, according to the Intersegmental Committee of the Academic Senates’ website.

This post was updated Nov. 13 at 9:20 p.m.
UCLA is launching a new leadership coalition to manage the university’s budgetary shortfall amid state and federal funding cuts, Chancellor Julio Frenk announced in a Wednesday campuswide email. 
Frenk, who will chair the Executive Budget Action Group, said in the email that the group’s creation was prompted by “structural budget deficits, federal and state funding uncertainties, and rising costs,” which challenge the university’s academic mission. 
The budget action group will create guidelines for future campus financial decisions, investigate specific areas for improvement in its investments and emphasize transparency in all of its budgetary decisions, Frenk said in the email. 
“Our North Star is to ensure that the resources entrusted to us add maximum value back to society while protecting the academic core that defines UCLA’s strength,” he said. 
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