Graduate Students Association Statements & Releases
February 28, 2012 - 10:30am
At its last meeting, the GSA Forum approved a proposed referendum item that would increase student dues to GSA, providing more money for the Graduate Writing Center and for GSA Events. The last time that GSA increased fees was in 2006.
The...
February 24, 2012 - 10:30pm
"Space" is a nebulous concept, but the very difficulty in pinning down how a spatial discussion of media should proceed is why Mediascape thought this would be an appropriate discussion to tease out in our non-traditional format. With media today...
February 17, 2012 - 10:00am
The editors of InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies are pleased to announce the release of issue 8.1. Interactions is an Open Access, "peer-reviewed on-line journal committed to the promotion of interdisciplinary and...
February 14, 2012 - 2:00pm
The agenda has been set for tomorrow's (Feb. 15) forum meeting and is available for download here. The meeting will feature a presentation about parking fees, an update on a proposed referendum item to increase dues to GSA, and mid-quarter officer...
February 4, 2012 - 2:00pm
Beginning Tuesday, Feb. 7, Melnitz Movies is proud to announce a new, sustainable ticketing system that reduces wait time in line! The new numbered, laminated, and reusable tickets replace the previous paper tickets with a responsible, sustainable...
February 2, 2012 - 9:30pm
GSA is launching a new communications initiative for the winter quarter. Rather than being distributed to SAOs, weekly emails will be sent to the GSA email list, gsa-l@lists.ucla.edu (sign up at http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gsa-l...
January 30, 2012 - 10:30am
The Graduate Students Association is seeking to appoint a new Director of Communications. This is a stipended position.
All interested graduate and professional students are encouraged to apply. The deadline is Wednesday, Feb. 8 at 5:00 p.m. (...
January 30, 2012 - 10:30am
The Graduate Students Association is seeking to fill vacancies in three Academic Senate committees: 1) the Committee on Planning and Budget (CPB), 2) the Committee on Continuing and Community Education (CCCE), and 3) the College Faculty Executive...
January 26, 2012 - 11:30am
The Italian Graduate Student Association is hosting a conference, with the theme of "(Dis)Unity in Italy", this weekend, Jan. 27-28. It will be held in Royce Hall room 314.
The keynote speaker is Prof. Laura Wittman from Stanford University,...
January 25, 2012 - 4:30pm
Graduate students and faculty are invited to the Charles E. Young Research Library on Friday, January 27, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. for an open house in the new research commons.
If you’ve been wondering how to use the collaborative pods equipped...
January 23, 2012 - 7:00am
The agenda for the first Forum meeting of winter quarter, on Wednesday, Jan. 2 is available for download here.
Also available are minutes from the previous forum meeting (Nov. 30, 2011), and the mid-quarter reports from the Cabinet officers.
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January 22, 2012 - 6:00pm
Want to start a student group? All it takes is you and two friends! The Center for Student Programming's winter registration period goes through January 24.
If you did not register your group in the fall, or if you're starting a new organization,...
January 22, 2012 - 5:30pm
Better late than never -- the Kinross Recreation Center, or K-Rec, is now scheduled to open on Feb. 1!
K-Rec will be open only to graduate students, staff, and faculty. It will have meeting and study space, a convenience store, and of course,...
January 19, 2012 - 10:30pm
The UC Student Association (UCSA) is leading a campaign to:
* Create additional student representation on the Board of Regents
* Support the November ballot initiative to raise tax revenue for education
* Reform corporate tax loopholes created by...
January 18, 2012 - 9:00pm
Sign up is now available for "Dinner for 12 Strangers":
* A UCLA “bucket list” tradition
* An evening of great conversation, laughter and fun
* Meet students from outside your daily routine
* Hosted by alumni who care about UCLA and you
* Engage...
December 23, 2011 - 3:00pm
Now in its 27th year, the Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology has been renamed and reconfigured as the Ethnomusicology Review, a "multimodal" (Shorter, 2011) Open Access journal.
Begun in 1984 with just a few editors and a typewriter, EMR now...
December 13, 2011 - 10:00am
On a cold, January morning of 2007, four playwrights in the MFA program in Playwriting at UCLA huddled in the Murphy Sculpture Garden discussing their desire to see new works read, staged, and produced for future production. They immediately started...
December 5, 2011
"In consideration of Italy’s long history of politically engaged and committed artists, we are pleased to present Volume Seven of Carte Italiane featuring work presented at the UCLA Italian Graduate Student Association’s (IGSA) 2010 conference,...
December 5, 2011
"The current editorial board of Crossroads of Language, Interaction and Culture is proud to present work by advanced graduate students and emerging scholars. Volume 8 of Crossroads includes selected proceedings from the 2010 CLIC GSA at UCLA and the...
November 28, 2011 - 9:00pm
The last Forum meeting of the Fall quarter will be held on Wed., Nov. 30. The agenda is available for download here.
Also available are minutes from the previous forum meetings (Nov. 2, 2011), and end-of-quarter reports from the Cabinet officers.
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November 15, 2011 - 11:00am
Graduate students from Drexel University have started a petition to restore the tax-exempt status of graduate student stipends. They are looking for support from graduate students from across the country. If you're interested, you can view and sign...
November 7, 2011 - 2:00pm
As the official voice of the UC students, UCSA nominates students to sit on UC system-wide committees. These committees deal with critical policy issues that affect every student in the UC system (e.g. admissions policy, budget prioritization, and...
Issues in Applied Linguistics 18.2: Proceedings of the Linguistic Diversity Conference (Summer 2010)
November 4, 2011 - 8:00am
"A little over a year ago, graduate students and faculty from the department of Applied Linguistics at the University of California at Los Angeles took the admirable initiative to organize a conference to respond to the polemic Wall Street Journal...
November 1, 2011 - 5:30pm
The agenda for the Forum meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 2 is available for download here.
Also available are minutes from the previous two forum meetings (May 25, 2011 and Oct. 12, 2011), mid-quarter reports from the Cabinet officers, and the proposed...
October 31, 2011 - 2:30pm
For its 18th volume, Critical Planning explores migration with a particular focus on its causes, consequences, and responses. Migration is rarely a painless process, and almost never a voluntary one. People move from the countryside to the city,...