UCLA History: Work in Progress
Even after UCLA’s Westwood campus opened, this 1929 photo indicates that there was still ongoing construction, at least in the vicinity of Powell.
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Hospital Takeover?
The original St. John’s Hospital in the early 1940s A report in the LA Times today suggests UCLA is considering a bid to take over St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica. St. John’s is only a few blocks from Santa Monica Hospital which UCLA previously acquired. UCLA and the nation’s largest Catholic healthcare system are teaming up on a potential acquisition of St. John’s Health Center, a storied Santa Monica hospital up for sale after a recent management shake-up. The partnership between UCLA Health System and Ascension Health Alliance in St. Louis is one proposal under consideration by St. John’s…
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New Beginnings, Courtesy of LBNL
A supercomputer in downtown Oakland has identified the most ancient light in the universe, assembling an image that reveals that the universe is older, and slower, than we thought. The powerful Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory computer, housed in a former Wells Fargo Bank vault near the Paramount Theatre, analyzed data sent by NASA from Europe’s Planck space telescope. It compiled a portrait of an infant cosmos that was hot, small and crowded — and traced our creation back 13.8 billion years, about 100 million years older than previous estimates. Its analysis also revealed a rate of expansion that is slower than seen…
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Divergent Views (and that’s all we know)
Apparently, a meeting on the legislative proposal to create some kind of commission for approving online courses at UC, CSU, and the community colleges took place Tuesday. Exactly what transpired at that meeting, however, is unclear. The only comment so far has come from the legislative side. Excerpt from the Contra Costa Times: …(State Senate President Darrell) Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said the first-of-its-kind legislation is aimed at relieving classroom bottlenecks that are making it more difficult to graduate. Faculty leaders counter that course access is not an acute issue within the UC system, which has some of the highest graduation rates…
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LAO on Cost of College and Cost to State of Cal Grants
The chart above is self-explanatory. The chart below shows that budget cuts produce tuition increases which then increase the cost of the state’s Cal Grant program. The LAO’s full report is at:http://www.lao.ca.gov/handouts/education/2013/Financial-Aid-and-the-State-Budget031313.pdf
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Timberrr!!!
Awhile back, we posted about a plan by the Westwood Business Improvement District to remove eighteen trees. The proposal had sparked controversy. Now LAObserved has posted a photo showing that the trees in question have indeed been cut down. No additional information is given with the photo. So it looks as if that’s it for the lumber: The earlier posts can be found at:http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-westwood-tree-issue-continues.htmlandhttp://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-tree-may-or-may-not-grow-in-westwood.html
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The Never-Ending Story of the UC-Riverside Med School
UC-Riverside’s quest for $15 million from the state budget – not supported by the governor – seems unending. From the Desert Sun: An Inland Empire lawmaker’s bill to secure $15 million in annual state funding for the UC Riverside School of Medicine cleared its first legislative hurdle Tuesday. AB 27, sponsored by Assemblyman Jose Medina, D-Riverside, was approved by the Assembly Higher Education Committee and is now bound for the Assembly Appropriations Committee… Much of the school’s start-up funding has come from philanthropic and other non-state sources, though the county committed $20 million over the last two years. Full story…
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Your collapsing privacy rights…
Prior posts on this blog have noted that public universities such as UC are subject to public records requests under state law. Such requests can include emails you have sent or received. Some faculty members may be under the impression that if they use personal accounts (such as gmail, etc.) or a home computer, their emails are not subject to such requests. Note, however, that emails sent from personal accounts to public ones would clearly be subject to public records requests. Moreover, a recent court decision suggests that emails sent from personal (non-public) accounts can be requested as long as…
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Bad PR on MOOcs – But Don’t Be Cowed
We noted yesterday that an article in the San Francisco Chronicle indicated that faculty leaders from UC would be meeting today with state senate president Darrell Steinberg to discuss his bill on online higher ed. As the headline/extract below from the conservative news aggregator Flashreport suggests, it is easy to portray faculty objections as obstruction. In fact, the objection is that the bill creates an external mechanism for course approval. The challenge, therefore, is a) to make the faculty objection clear and b) to try to persuade the relevant politcos (and the Regents?) that there is an established mechanism for…
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Who Owns the Course?
Inside Higher Ed today carries a story about concerns at UC-Santa Cruz about the ownership of MOOCs. UC-Santa Cruz is the one UC campus at which the local faculty association has collective bargaining rights: Faculty union officials in California worry professors who agree to teach free online classes could undermine faculty intellectual property rights and collective bargaining agreements. The union for faculty at the University of California at Santa Cruz said earlier this month it could seek a new round of collective bargaining after several professors agreed to teach classes on Coursera, the Silicon Valley-based provider of popular massive open…