How Did We Let Him Get Away?

Byuclafaculty

Less than two years after leaving office, former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is pumping up his political and academic profile — and will head the Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy at the University of Southern California, a new think tank to advance “post-partisan” politics. The Republican former governor told the San Francisco Chronicle that he’ll formally announce the establishment of the partnership Thursday at USC, where his Institute will be housed in the Sol Price School of Public Policy.

Schwarzenegger will chair the Institute’s Board of Advisors, and he has also been appointed the inaugural Governor Downey Professor of State and Global Policy at USC, a post in honor of  the first immigrant California governor — who was also a co-founder of the university…
He evidently got away from us:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRYVIGjZk_U?feature=player_detailpage]

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USC Has a Bad Patch

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We posted yesterday about the news from UC-Berkeley that many earthquake-prone buildings are located in southern California – including in Westwood.  The Westwood-Century City Patch, in picking up the story from the LA Times, blamed USC instead of UC-B, at least in the headline.  See above.  Probably just as well.  Who wants to be the bearer of bad tidings?.

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Tops

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The governor is to propose his budget for 2014-15 this coming Friday.  And although the budget is baked by now, this headline from the LA Now blog of the LA Times can’t hurt as the budget process proceeds between now and June.  The guv loves online ed and he can’t give the money to USC. But UCLA would be happy to receive it. Full article at http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-college-online-20140107,0,7388397.story Nothing like being the top:[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc7152gQK-U?feature=player_detailpage]

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Brain Drain Story

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The LA Times today has a behind-the-scenes story of the recruitment by USC of the neurology lab entourage: …Some colleagues in Westwood were aware that Toga and Thompson “were having conversations” with USC but didn’t know the specifics, said John Mazziotta, chairman of UCLA’s neurology department and executive vice dean of the medical school. The Bruins would have tried to respond if given a chance, he said: “We always try to keep our top faculty.” …Full story at http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-usc-ucla-recruit-20130518,0,6963020,full.story All in all, seems like someone was not fully alert:[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq9hQDzQFvo?feature=player_detailpage]

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Straws in the Wind

Byuclafaculty

The Regents are meeting today and tomorrow.  While they are considering UCLA’s loss of the neurology lab (see our earlier post), they can also consider this headline from a USC news release that was highlighted today in Inside Higher Ed::  Music Industry Icons and Entrepreneurs Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre Give $70 Million to Create the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation http://universityofsoutherncalifornia.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/j/99843C9CB6AD3D5B/636A2070300EA8D9C67FD2F38AC4859C http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/05/15/two-music-industry-icons-give-usc-70m-start-music-business-center And they might also want to consider the new USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy: http://schwarzenegger.usc.edu/ Our earlier post on the neurology lab raid is…

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Lessons to be Learned

Byuclafaculty

Today’s LA Times carries the story of two neuroscientists recruited by USC from UCLA: Arthur Toga and Paul Thompson will move to the USC Keck School of Medicine campus next fall, along with scores of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and staffers who now work at UCLA’s Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, known as LONI. In establishing a new institute at the USC campus in Boyle Heights, they will also move substantial government and private grants that fund the lab’s $12-million annual budget as well as some of the highly sophisticated equipment used to investigate the brain’s inner workings.  (The move)…raises concerns…