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Tuesday, June 8, 2021

First Graduates of New Public Affairs Major

In the fall of 2018, the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs welcomed the first class of undergraduates into the school’s newly launched bachelor’s degree program in public affairs, a major designed to foster future leaders dedicated to public service and social change.

That tight-knit cohort of about 70 students — the “Trailblazers,” the school calls them — is set to graduate June 11 after spending their senior year under stay-at-home orders and other pandemic restrictions. Those constraints may have seemed especially daunting for a program committed to active learning and community engagement, but the class of 2021 demonstrated that their resourcefulness, creativity and fortitude could overcome the obstacles...

Full news release and video at https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-luskins-first-undergraduate-class.

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