| INDEX 2001
June 26, 2001 (Vol. 21, No. 19)
NEWS
LOOK WHO'S COMING THIS FALL
Extensive outreach efforts by the campus community have yielded some very big numbers for the fall: the largest number of freshmen and transfer students combined in the last 20 years. New admissions data show that approximately 6,924 new students have declared their intention to register at UCLA this coming fall...
REGENTS TO VOTE ON DUAL ADMIT PLAN
The University of California Board of Regents could approve as early as July a new pathway for students to enter the state's flagship university system, after the UC Assembly of the Academic Senate's nod to the Dual Admissions Program (DAP) last month.
SENATE QUICKENS STUDENTS' PACE
Beginning with the freshman class entering UCLA this fall, undergraduates will have to enroll in at least 13 units per quarter, instead of 12, and maintain a pace that will allow them to complete 180 units in 12 quarters.
NEWS 2
PROPOSALS WIN NEW GRANTS
The Academic Senate's Council on Research awarded 18 faculty grants of about $20,000 to support their research.
OLD AGE, DISEASE FORCE REMOVAL OF 70-YEAR-OLD TREES
A familiar piece of UCLA's landscape is disappearing from campus this sumer, the victim of old age, pests and disease...
PEOPLE
STAFFER EXTRAORDINAIRE JUGGLES JOBS WITH EASE
On any given day, Patricia Anaya may be delivering 150 surgical sutures to a dozen classrooms at the medical school. While coordinating the schedules of some of the hundreds of faculty members who teach there. Before offering a faculty committee her seasoned views on a proposed curriculum change. And calming an upset professor or counseling a distraught student.
NAMES AND FACES
In Memoriam: Donald J. Cram and Traugott Heinrich Karl Frederking.
THE COLLEGE
BRUIN FRIENDS GIVE HIM THE BREATH OF LIFE
For most people, friends are a source of comfort and happiness. But for 27-year-old Daniel Monarrez, who was recently given the ultimate gift of life by two friends, they are as important as the air he breathes. Literally.
HAPPY ENDINGS FOR GRADS LEAD TO NEW BEGINNINGS
For more than 9,000 students, this was the ultimate payoff for their years of effort -- the jubilant culmination of lectures attended, textbooks pored over, papers pennedm projects produced, and finals triumphantly passed...
VOICES
EXCELLENCE NOT MEASURED BY GRADES ALONE
The University of California Board of Regents' repeal of SP-1 is but one of several issues related to UC admissions that have been making headlines in recent months. I welcome the debate that has been generated over these issues...
CHALLENGES IN SHAPING NEW ADMIT POLICY
In May, the University of California Board of Regents took the historic step of returning to the university's Academic Senate authority over the admissions policy at UC. Along with that authority came a large tas, to reconsider UC's undergraduate admissions policy on an accelerated timetable...
LETTERS
CLOSEUP
CLOSEUP: FUNDING PICTURE DIMS FOR UC, UCLA
With California's economy slowing and state revenues shrinking faster than initially forecasted, Gov. Gray Davis submitted his revised 2001-2002 budget last month that reduced proposed new funding for the University of California... |
