UCLA History: Banding Together
Recruitment for UCLA band in 1940.
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admissions | enrollment | UC
Alternative Entrance
From the Daily Bruin: University of California student leaders are proposing a new admissions criterion that would give preference to applicants from low-income schools that have special partnerships with UC campuses. Under the criterion, UC campuses would look at whether an applicant comes from a Title I high school – a school that serves a significant number of low-income students – or a community college with low transfer rates that has a partnership with a UC campus. The partnerships would involve academic preparation and outreach programs that the UC would create for these schools. Students proposing the new factor, including…
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ballot propositions | health care | pension | pensions | politics | ucrp
More Let Me Outta Here Re: Pension Initiative
I want out! Yours truly has been posting about the recently filed public pension (and retiree health care) initiative which covers UC. UC needs a strategy including first attempting to see if the sponsors will amend it or file a revised version that omits UC. This is a political battle it would be best to avoid if possible. The initiative has the potential to become a “symbol” of intergenerational conflict as a recent article in calpensions.com points out. Once things become symbols of something that goes beyond the issue at end – think “ObamaCare” – the pros and cons get…
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Don’t worry about us here at UCLA! Take all the time you need!
Back in December 2011, commuters on the 405 Freeway through the Sepulveda Pass drove by an unusual sight. A retaining wall built for the new car-pool lane was collapsing, the gray concrete panels visibly buckling and falling. Alarmed by the discovery, construction crews tore down the wall. At least 14 other walls also came down and were rebuilt. State officials moved quickly, banning the construction of similar retaining walls throughout California. Today, the 405 Freeway project is more than 15 months behind schedule, a timeline that has Angelenos bemoaning the traffic congestion caused by construction of the 10-mile car-pool lane. …
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Another don’t click reminder
Don’t click! Another reminder that when you get emails – such as the one above – that seem to have some official connection to UCLA and invite you to click here, download here, etc., be very cautious. The one above may just be harmless commercial spam but the best thing to do is to delete it. It clearly is not from a UCLA source. Clicking and downloading may infect your computer and cause damage to it.
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One report airs some dirty laundry. Another doesn’t air.
The LA Times picks up story on UCLA report circulated by email to faculty: UCLA’s policies and procedures are inadequate to deal with increasing complaints of racial bias among faculty — nearly all of whom surveyed said they had experienced some level of discrimination, according to an internal report obtained by The Times. The report also found that allegations of overt racism were not investigated and, if they were, they rarely resulted in sanctions or punishments… The review, which was launched by Chancellor Gene D. Block in 2012 after he was approached by a group of concerned faculty, found that…
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Going Up?
UC president Napolitano, on her campus tour, says she hopes not to press her luck and see tuition go up. Not a guarantee, of course. See: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_24341488/new-uc-president-keep-eye-costs Tuition will either go up, stay the same (likely for now), or go down (has happened in the past but very unlikely under current conditions). In fact, past UC presidents have gone with the (budget) flow:
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Unbranded
Odd that the undergraduate advertising and marketing group would get the Anderson School “brand” wrong, since branding is a big part of advertising and marketing. The word “business” has not been part of the School’s title (or “brand”) since the 1970s. The name used now is Anderson School of Management or just Anderson or Anderson School, although the name carved in stone on the Anderson complex is Anderson Graduate School of Management.
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Let’s Start With This Idea on the Pension Initiative: One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Don’t buy it. Editorial: The pension (and retiree health) initiative on which we have been reporting on this blog sweeps in UC for no particular reason. Yet all the propaganda concerning it so far deals with mayors and cities. UC has no mayor and isn’t a city. Were the Regents consulted by initiative proponents? Was anyone at UCOP consulted? Anyone at UC at all? Yours truly sincerely doubts it. Did anyone in the group pushing the initiative look at such issues as faculty recruitment, compensation, or any other UC issue? Did they look at the issue of the constitutional autonomy…
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UCLA History: Early Parking
Cars parked around site of soon-to-be-opened Westwood campus of UCLA in 1929.