UEP Senior Comprehensive Projects, "Comps" as they are more commonly referred to, often stretch beyond the classroom to interact, impact and evaluate public policy issues at the local, national and even global level.
2025 UEP Senior Comprehensive Projects
Toward Climate-Ready Schools: Advancing Environmental Justice Through Strategic Investment Within the Los Angeles Unified School District
by Maia Adams
Assessing LA’s Response to Extreme Heat and Its Effects on Unhoused Communities
by Sophia Baker
Behind the Seams: Los Angeles’ Sustainable Fashion Brands and Textile Waste Diversion
by Francis Briones
The Impacts and Barriers to Youth Outdoor Education in the Los Angeles Region
by Jodhan Fine
Weighing Health and Wealth: How Stakeholders Shape Development in the Inland Empire
by Bella Flad
The Kids Are All Fighting... For Power Through Undergrad Labor Unions: Student Labor, Democracy, and the Political Future of Higher Education
by Emma Galbraith
Equitable Afforestation in Urban Environments: A Canopy Cover Analysis of the Beijing Plain Afforestation Program
by Ethan Kerman
Organizing for a Living Wage in Los Angeles: A Case Study on Community-Labor Cooperation
by Gabriel Morton
Beyond the Ivory Tower: Gentrification and Displacement in South Central Los Angeles
by Lesly Nonoal
From Allocation to Action: How Changes in Title I Funding Transform Community Decision-Making; A Case Study of the Campbell Union High School District
by Kate Reinhard
Handing the Reins to Nature: Perceptions of Green Infrastructure in Los Angeles
by Emerson Staley
Flesh and Freedom: Applying a Care Politics Framework to Home Care and Domestic Worker Organizing
by Izzy Wang
Residing Without Representation: Housing Development in the Face of Federal Control and Influence in Washington, D.C.
by Noah Weitzner
Perceptions of Sidewalk Transit Environments: Two Sites in Pasadena, California
by Sloan Wittliff