Improving BruinHub, a Space for UCLA’s Long-Distance Commuter Students
In 2019, UCLA cityLAB published a report to better understand the challenges that UCLA’s long-distance commuter students regularly face. CityLAB partnered with UCLA Transportation to conduct a survey which found that 5.6% of commuting students have one-way commutes of 90 minutes or more. This is estimated to be around 1,700 students when extrapolated to the number of off-campus students in the 2018-19 academic year. Another 5% of student survey respondents had experienced homelessness at one point during their time at UCLA (Cuff et al., 2019). In response to these findings, UCLA Campus Life, UCLA Recreation, and cityLAB came together in the fall of 2021 to create BruinHub: an on-campus space dedicated to addressing the needs of long-distance commuter students.
