Layoffs

From the Daily Bruin: [The project director of the UCLA Samahang Pilipino Education and Retention] was... laid off from her job at SPEAR on June 30. Project directors said in a July 2 letter addressed to program members that Campus Life – a division of Student Affairs overseeing UCLA’s Community Programs Office – told [them] the layoffs were due to federal directives that “reinterpret diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives as potentially non-compliant with anti-discrimination laws.” [The SPEAR director was] one of five project directors of student-initiated retention and access programs who were laid off by Campus Life in June... UCLA Media Relations did not respond to a request for comment on the layoffs...

Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2025/07/06/ucla-lays-off-some-retention-access-program-staff-amid-federal-dei-scrutiny.