Faculty approve undergraduate diversity requirement
April 13, 2015
Policy takes effect for freshmen entering UCLA College this fall and transfer students entering in fall 2017.
True colors: Hollywood’s diversity dilemma
April 1, 2015
The country has never been so diverse — but not so in Hollywood. The numbers of nonwhite and female actors and others in the entertainment industry remain distressingly low.
Law professor named UCLA’s first vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion
March 31, 2015
Jerry Kang draws praise for his commitment to fairness and his leadership skills.
Shooting for the stars
March 11, 2015
Mexican Space Agency hopes partnership with UC Irvine will help develop program’s ‘human capital.’
Transcending borders through education
February 26, 2015
UC San Diego is one of several U.S. and Mexican institutions of higher education to launch the CaliBaja Consortium for Higher Education with the goal of becoming a leader in cross-border education by 2020.
Girls of color face harsher school discipline than white peers
February 5, 2015
Girls of color are disproportionately impacted by school discipline policies and excluded from current efforts to address the school-to-prison pipeline, according to a new report co-authored by two UCLA law professors.
UC leads nation’s top universities in serving Latino students
January 28, 2015
UC Santa Barbara is the fourth UC campus designated a Hispanic-Serving Institution; it's the first AAU member to be so named.
Grant aims to increase faculty diversity
December 15, 2014
Riverside undergraduates will be able to take part in a research and mentoring program designed to increase diversity among faculty in American universities.
Growing diversity with a fast track to tenure
October 8, 2014
At 30, UC president's postdoc program has groomed dozens of the country's best emerging scientists and scholars for UC academic careers.
Soon to become a minority in the U.S., whites express declining support for diversity
October 2, 2014
Many white Americans are becoming less enthusiastic about diversity and multiculturalism as the U.S. moves toward becoming a minority-majority nation.