Michael LevitinSTEMNew UCLA-based Manufacturing Institute Puts Academia on Economic MapIncorporating more than 200 partners across industry, academia and the nonprofit sector, the Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute aims to disrupt a dated, inefficient manufacturing sector.June 29, 2016StudentsProposed University of California System Tuition Hike Ignites FirestormThe State Assembly voted to significantly raise tuition costs for out-of-state students at UC schools and cap the enrollment number of those students at 10 percent in a bid to expand access to low-income California students.June 9, 2016InternationalIsraeli Scholar Advocates for Class-based Affirmative ActionSigal Alon compared the quality and effectiveness of affirmative action policies in the United States and Israel, and arrived at conclusions that have caused American administrators to take notice.April 12, 2016African-AmericanSan Jose State Scrambling to Address Racial TensionsLast week’s campus protest has put new pressure on administrators to hire a chief diversity officer to handle festering racial tensions at the Bay Area university.March 23, 2016Page 1 of 1
