UCLA alumna Lauren Betts scored one more for the Bruins, winning the 2026 Big Ten Conference Female Athlete of the Year on Wednesday, the LA Daily News reported. Betts, of the National Championship-winning 2025-2026 women’s basketball team, had already won Big Ten Conference Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year in the same season, a first.
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Why UCs don't need to go back to using the SAT for admissions (opinion) | Los Angeles Times
Li Cai, a UCLA professor who was on the task force and who serves as the director of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing, told Anita Chabria, who wrote an opinion piece for the LA Times, that he supports bringing back standardized testing and that the test-blind decision process is a “failed” experiment.
California’s Latino community turns to an old standby to build financial security | KQED-FM’s “The California Report”
Saving money through community contributions is not new. In fact, it's a very old technique. Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, a professor of Chicano/a studies at UCLA, says that the origins go back centuries. “They’re not new,” Hinojosa-Ojeda said. “There’s multi-thousand-year-old roots of communal labor in Mexico, there’s 1000-year-old roots in Asia of communal work and communal savings and lending.”
