This post was updated April 9 at 9:41 p.m.
UCLA community members discussed California’s role in protecting LGBTQ rights at the Williams Institute’s annual update conference last Friday.

This post was updated April 2 at 8:45 p.m. 
A February report from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA found that suburban schools have been increasingly experiencing educational policy trends previously restricted to urban districts.

A resolution written by Alette Laughton, a third-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics transfer student, was introduced as a bill in the California State Legislature.
If passed, Assembly Bill 1818, which was introduced by Assemblymember Corey Jackson on Jan.

UCLA faculty and union leaders discussed the recent California State University faculty strike, which ended Jan. 22 with a new contract.
The California Faculty Association – a labor union representing 29,000 lecturers, professors, counselors, librarians, coaches and other faculty in the CSU – planned a weeklong strike after over half a year of failed negotiations with the CSU to amend previous contracts and raise faculty wages.

The UC Board of Regents opened its application to become the 2025-2026 student regent.
The selected student regent will serve next year for a one-year, nonvoting term as regent-designate, which is followed by a one-year, full-voting term through 2026.

This post was updated Nov. 28 at 5:56 p.m.
UCLA and Getty Research Institute scholars recently released a digitized version of the Florentine Codex, a 16th century indigenous Mexican history record, making it a publicly accessible resource for research across the globe.