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The Pac-12 Conference has canceled the home opener of UCLA’s already truncated college football season, a matchup with Utah planned for Saturday at the Rose Bowl, because of positive COVID-19 tests. The Utes did not have enough players available due to positive coronavirus tests, the conference said, and the game has…

It’s been said before, but it is worth saying again: diversity pays — but not in terms of checking boxes and tokenism. In a new report from the UCLA-based Center for Scholars and Storytellers titled “Beyond Checking A Box: A Lack of Authentically Inclusive Representation Has Costs at the Box Office”, researchers found…

Pac-12 Conference officials said Thursday they have decided to reinstate the college football, basketball and winter sports seasons, reversing decisions made last month that saw one of the nation’s major college sports conferences postpone its 2020-21 campaigns because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Pac-12 CEO Group…

UCLA's vaunted Department of Film, Television and Digital Media got low marks in a recently concluded eight-year review by the school's Academic Senate. The study found the department has "experienced chronic operational and procedural problems, a contentious and distrustful work environment, and generally low morale…

The Pac-12 has set a 10-game, conference-only fall schedule for football, including moving the USC-UCLA rivalry game to the first weekend of play in late September instead of its traditional closing weekend. The Pac-12 schedule will begin on Saturday, Sept. 26, the conference announced Friday. Besides USC-UCLA, the…

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television's Professional Programs has revealed winners of its 2020 Feature Screenplay, Television Pilot and Acting for the Camera Pitch competitions. The winners, who were among the 221 students who completed the yearlong Screenwriting, Writing for Television Professional and…

EXCLUSIVE: As more and more industry events shutter due to fears of the expanding coronavirus, UCLA’s 44th annual Entertainment Symposium has now been postponed too. With the now ironically "It’s the End of the World as We Know It – And We Feel Fine" entitled keynote from WarnerMedia's direct-to-consumer boss Bob…

The UCLA administration has scrapped a plan to use facial recognition technology on campus after students and outside groups protested. A report by VICE News said UCLA was planning on implementing the system before complaints surfaced. Student groups said earlier this month that a  "National Day of Action" would be…

During the From Day One conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Steve Koepp, co-founder of the conference spoke to Darnell Hunt, UCLA dean and professor who authors their annual Hollywood Diversity Report. Hunt talked about how the newly established UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute researches kindness and how it…

UPDATED with statement from Local 3299: An ongoing dispute between UCLA and the main labor union repping University of California employees has forced the Democratic National Committee to move its scheduled December debate from the university’s Royce Hall. A new venue has not yet been selected. The debate, hosted by PB…

The 17-year tenure of UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero will end in June, as the UC Regents approved a six-month extension of his contract, which was set to expire in December. Guerrero’s decision means the two major universities in Los Angeles are looking for athletic directors. Earlier this month, the University…

WGA West presidential candidate Phyllis Nagy has gotten out in front a series of anonymous critics of her teaching methods and track record as head of the UCLA screenwriting program. Following inquiries from Deadline that were fueled by interviews with a dozen former students and faculty members, Nagy has addressed…