UCLA History: Vermont Trolley
UCLA students at the old Vermont Avenue campus board local transit in the 1920s.
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No pay increase for faculty to ensure UC quality says LA Times
The LA Times ran the editorial below today. It starts out well enough. But the LAT editorial committee apparently believes that UC should be managed as wisely as a bankrupt newspaper when it gets to conclusions: Highly esteemed worldwide, the University of California is among the state’s most valuable assets, but it is in danger of being sharply devalued as its budget undergoes continual cuts and uncertainty. UC President Mark Yudof hopes to bring some stability to the university by using whatever budget he is granted this year as the starting point for a five-year deal with state government, with…
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Follow Up
The dismissal (or is it nonrenewal of funding?) of a researcher at UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has periodically made the news, particularly on the right, over the past year or so. His website at UCLA no longer operates but the Google-cache function produces the past page with the following description: Since 1974 Dr. James Enstrom has conducted research on the epidemiology of cancer, particularly examining the health practices and cancer risk in several well-defined populations within California and the United States. His significant findings relevant to cancer include: identification of unusually low-risk populations, like health-conscious Mormons; measurement of an…
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Gambling on Online?
Prof. Michael Meranze pointed me to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed concerning UC’s apparent change in policy regarding funding for its online education initiative. Apparently, there will now be borrowing to launch the project, although previous plans were to rely on fund raising. Dan Simmons, chair of the Academic Senate, was quite cautious about the initiative in the Chronicle article: (excerpt) Daniel L. Simmons, chair of the system’s academic senate, said on Friday that he supported the pilot program and understood the need to experiment with online education even during times of crisis. The senate formally endorsed…
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AAUP Data on Faculty Pay
The AAUP data for salaries and compensation of faculty in 2010-11 are now available. UCLA is reported to pay the average full professor $153,700 and $203,000 in total compensation (including benefits). The data are at http://www.aaup.org/NR/rdonlyres/1D1C8A5B-7A93-42DB-BB1F-6840B2A20387/0/ALFL.pdf Figures for other UC campuses are also reported with Berkeley at the top and Santa Cruz at the bottom. According to the AAUP documentation, the numbers include faculty in law, dentistry, nursing, and management but exclude those under the health services compensation plan. So the averages will be affected by the presence or absence of these programs on particular campuses. The relevant footnotes are…
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Something that could be done on the UC Budget: Time to Ask
On The Record (Excerpt) Gov. Jerry Brown recently announced that he was ending talks with Republican legislators over a temporary tax increase. What can be done to prevent partisan standoffs in Sacramento and improve the UC’s financial circumstances? Daniel Mitchell, 4-11-11, Daily Bruin When the state legislature spends time in the midst of a major budget crisis debating about whether to ban shark fin soup, you know we’re in trouble. The current focus on soup is not because legislators don’t know about the dire budget situation. Rather it means they don’t know what to do about it. And that is…
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UCLA History: Daily Bruin Staffers in 1950
Daily Bruin staff pose for photo in 1950.
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UCLA History: Taking Aim in Two Places
Left below: Archery at UCLA at the old Vermont Avenue campus.Right: Archery at UCLA at the new Westwood campus in 1930.
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Is There Any Construction Work Needed Apart from a Hotel/Conference Center?
A year ago, California Watch published a listing of buildings in the UC system with poor or very poor seismic ratings. Below is a subset from that listing of just the UCLA buildings. Scroll below the list for a link to information on each building. If someone at UCLA is looking for construction work to undertake, apart from a new hotel/conference center, here is a possible list: UCLA: Center for Health Sciences – Jules Stein Eye Institute UCLA: Center for Health Sciences – Marion Davies Children’s Center UCLA: Center for Health Sciences – Neuropsychiatric Institute (low-rise) UCLA: Center for Health…
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Some Pleasant Thoughts for the Weekend
State Senate hearing on all-cuts budget solution Wyatt Buchanan, San Francisco Chronicle, April 8, 2011 Democrats in the state Senate raised the prospect of closing some University of California campuses, shortening the school year and reducing the number of law enforcement officers as they began considering what California would look like if the Legislature took an all-cuts approach to solving the budget deficit… Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, said she has spoken with distinguished faculty members at UC Berkeley who have told her they would leave the school because of cuts. Hancock raised the prospect of closing some UC campuses to…