Students

UC Los Angeles Campus Tour

UC Los Angeles Admissions Office

Motivating students to consider a college education and professional careers

• The Los Angeles Basin Initiative (LABI) offers a wide range of summer/intersession academic enrichment and professional development programs to high school and middle school students, teachers, and counselors from Los Angeles County.

Educators

Opportunities for prospective teachers

• Teacher intern programs through University Extension at the Berkeley and UCLA campuses provide opportunities to teach on an emergency credential while completing a credential program.

Professional development opportunities for principals

• Principals Leadership Institutes at UC Berkeley and UC Los Angeles

School & Community Partnerships

School/University partnerships

• Center X

Community collaboration

• Two Community Education Research Centers (CERCs) make UC resources more accessible to local communities and serve as a locus for collaboration. They are located in the San Francisco Bay area (through UC Berkeley, 510/987-9354) and in the Los Angeles Basin (through UCLA, 310/206-4353).

Educational Research

Urban education

• Center X at UCLA works to strengthen education for the children of Los Angeles by conducting applied research and providing professional development.

• The Urban Education Studies Center (UESC) at UCLA provides a unique setting where nationally recognized scholars and researchers collaborate with teachers and administrators to resolve cultural, economic, and language challenges facing America's public schools.

• The Center for the Study of Urban Poverty (CSUP) at UCLA sponsors collaborative research on issues of urban poverty and social welfare, disseminates study results to local policy makers, and offers research training for UC students.

Testing, assessment and evaluation

• The National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA is a federally funded center that studies the design and use of educational assessment systems.

Health and well-being of children and families

• The Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities (CHCFC) at UCLA works to provide K-12 students with the opportunity to assume productive roles within families and communities; conducts applied and policy research; trains health and social service providers; and provides technical assistance to community providers, agencies and policymakers.
• The Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA conducts research and dissemenates information on policies, programs, and practices relevant to mental health in schools.

Enrichment Activities

Museums, Galleries, and Gardens

(please note that (1) next to the name indicates that there are resources (other than tours) available for K-12 teachers and students; (2) indicates online collections available to the public.)

• The UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History (1) (2)
• Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center
• The Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden

• The UCLA Physics & Astronomy K-6 Connection provides elementary school teachers with ideas, activities, and instructional support to include basic physics and astronomy in their lesson plans.

UC websites for K-12 students and their families

• Live web-cam on UCLA's Dickson Plaza and Royce Hall

Directory of Programs

For additional programs at the UC Los Angeles campus, see the Directory of Programs.

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