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From Startup to Social Change: UCLA’s Blackstone Launchpad Social Impact Fellows
Startup companies have introduced innovative technology, unique products and even new social networks. At UCLA, four startups are also addressing some of society’s most important challenges, from reaching swing voters to inspiring leadership skills in adolescent girls.
UCLA VIP Scholars staffer Trimaine Davis named honorary Super Bowl captain
A longtime educator in Los Angeles has been named one of three honorary captains for upcoming Super Bowl LV.
UCLA alumna awarded Mitchell Scholarship, first in 20 years
This time next year, Genevieve Finn ’20 will be studying creative writing at Trinity College in Dublin as one of 12 winners of this year’s prestigious Mitchell Scholarship. She is only the second UCLA alum to win a Mitchell Scholarship, and the first to win in 20 years.
UCLA Ranks #5 Top College for Future Philanthropists
Students at the University of California, Los Angeles must be strong, considering they’re carrying around enormous hearts of gold for their community. While over 200 student organizations regularly undertake service projects, the Center for Community Learning facilitates partnerships with nonprofits and government agencies seeking students for service-learning projects.
Center for Community Engagement Debuts New Name, New Website, and Campus Database for Community Partnerships
The UCLA Center for Community Learning has a new name.
As of November 10, the Center will be known as the UCLA Center for Community Engagement, reflecting the Center’s continued goal to connect UCLA students with community partners to provide both a learning experience for students and a benefit to the communities, locally and globally.
Second annual cohort of Chancellor’s Award for Community-Engaged Research to incorporate social justice into undergraduate courses
UCLA undergraduates will soon have the opportunity to gather primary source documents about California Indian dance, interview migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, study emerging online platforms for community organizing, and other community research-based subjects.
Faculty get creative to teach about the COVID-19 pandemic
The screen shows the familiar grid of small faces but everyone’s focused on the guest speaker, a student joining the class from his home in Wuhan, China, eager for their chances to ask questions.
AAP research program renamed to honor Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter and John Huggins, Jr.
The Academic Advancement Program (AAP)’s Community Development and Social Justice Program has been renamed to honor John Huggins, Jr. and Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter, two Bruins who fought for community and justice at UCLA.
The program is now called the Carter-Huggins Community Development and Social Justice Program. The Afrikan Student Union advocated for the change.
The Community Development and Social Justice (CDSJ) Program provides AAP undergraduate juniors and seniors with a service learning opportunity that integrates research and community-based practice in preparation for graduate study in social welfare, public policy, urban planning, and public health. Additionally, students are paired with an AAP Graduate Mentor who provides mentorship in their personal and academic development as well as advisement on the graduate school application process.
Carter and Huggins were both murdered during a meeting of the Black Student Union in Campbell Hall on January 17, 1969. AAP commemorates their deaths every year at the Carter-Huggins Annual Memorial, and the new name was announced at this year’s memorial on Jan. 19.
Charles Alexander, associate vice provost for student diversity and director of AAP, said paying tribute to Carter and Huggins by renaming the program after them was long overdue.
“They both were students working to bring diversity and a new perspective to higher education as it relates to social justice and inclusion,” Alexander said.
This scholarship is appropriate to be named after Carter and Huggins because they always prioritized working for the community, and the CDSJ program encourages doing research in the same communities to make impactful change, said Alexandria Davis, fourth year political science and African American studies major and ASU chairperson.
“It was important to my staff and I because without John Huggins or Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter’s activism and sacrifice we as Black students probably couldn’t attend UCLA or do the work that we do,” Davis said. “These men were members of the High Potential Program that got more Black students to attend UCLA and became what we know as the Academic Advancement Program, which directly serves our community.”
For more about AAP, visit aap.ucla.edu