5 Things you need to OWN Finals
Without proper preparation, finals can wear students down physically and mentally. As a result, we have compiled a list of helpful articles to help readers tackle finals week without sacrificing their sanity.
The Inverted Classroom
Universities like my own have increasingly turned to online classrooms to accommodate more students into these already packed courses. Some educators, however, are using a hybrid of online and in-classroom courses to produce a more valuable educational experience.
Post-Grad: Make the best use of your time after college
You are about to graduate, so what’s next? Save the world? Become a billionaire? Cure cancer? What is the first thing you are going to do? And how are you going to do it?
In Photos: Protest outside UC Regents Meeting at UCLA
On Monday, students protested outside the UC Regents meeting held inside the James West Alumni Center at UCLA.
VIDEO: Occupy UCLA
In the past couple of weeks, the Occupy movement has spread to college campuses around the nation, including UCLA. Hear about what UCLA students are demanding.
VIDEO: What Students Think of Repealing Prop 209
UCLA students tell Al-Talib why they demonstrated to repeal Prop 209.
Breaking the Cycle: The Incarceration System
The American incarceration system has made it a point to imprison people, bar them from outside contact, isolate them from society and bunch them together to have “tea-parties”. Meanwhile, they fail to provide them with proper rehabilitation programs and a safe environment to foster development and change.
Why our Current Education System is Leading us to Failure
When we walk into the lecture hall, we can easily identify the seats meant for students and the single podium that belongs to the teacher. Many of the lecture halls at universities are meant to accommodate hundreds of students at a time, the seats arranged theater-style…