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UCLA’s Teofilo F. Ruiz awarded the National Humanities Medal, President Obama has announced

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Inside Higher Ed this morning pointed me to a news item from last Friday: Teofilo Ruiz, a professor of history and of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA – whose unusual faculty webpage photo appears at left – was awarded a National Humanities Medal according to a White House announcement.  The actual awarding of the medal will take place today. Excerpt from the official profile released by the White House:  Ruiz has also earned accolades for his teaching, including being named U.S. professor of the year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1995 and receiving UCLA’s Distinguished…

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UCLA History: Children’s Hospital

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Photo from LA Public Library collection.  Photograph caption dated January 9, 1958 reads, “Marion Davies presents check for $1,500,000 to build a new Marion Davies Children’s Wing at UCLA Medical Center to Edwin W. Pauley, chairman of the board of regents. Watching are Vern O. Knudsen, UCLA vice chancellor, and Dr. Stafford L. Warren (right), dean of the UCLA Medical School. An architect’s sketch of the medical center is in the background.” In 1998, the hospital was renamed the Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA in recognition of the gift made to the hospital by Mattel, Inc. 

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Audio of Regents Meeting of January 19 (Day 2 of 2 days)

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Unlike Day 1, there was a demonstration during the public comment session during Day 2.  The room was cleared by the police.  Subsequently the Regents continued the meeting but apparently could not exit.  During Part 3 it was announced that the demonstrators had left the UC-Riverside building in which the Regents were meeting. There are remarks in the record in Part 3 in which the governor is praised for giving UC permission to use general fund allocations for the pension system.  As noted previously on this blog, UC did not need permission and so the governor’s action meant little.  Indeed,…

Latest State Cash Statement

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There will be headlines about the latest cash statement – July 2011-January 2012 – issued by the state controller. Somewhat less revenue came in than forecast in the governor’s January budget proposal (which contains estimates for 2011-12 as well as a proposal for 2012-13). But expenditures were a bit less than forecast, too, although some of that reduction was due to delayed payments by the controller.  Nonetheless, it is still quite possible that the current fiscal year’s budget will be in rough balance, using common English parlance (inflow = outflow).  The issue remains of financing the past negative balance in…

Golly!

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Arizona legislators are considering a bill that would punish college instructors whose speech or actions would violate broadcast obscenity standards… Full story from Inside Higher Ed: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/02/10/arizona-debates-legislation-classroom-obscenitiy-political-discrimination#ixzz1lzq3qZof  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgoWZjHq-UY&w=320&h=195]

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Audio of Regents Meeting, January 18 (Day 1)

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The Regents met on January 18 at UC-Riverside.  Day 1 was relatively calm.  The agenda is below.  (An angry demonstration occurred in the second day.)  You can hear Day 1 at the link below. As usual, we raise the issue of why – since the Regents live-stream the audio of their meetings – they do not archive the audio.  The UCLA Faculty Association has to request the audio files and post them – which inevitably means a significant lag in availability. The full agenda with links to relevant documents is at: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/jan12.html Click on the links to listen: Part 1…

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Second Coming of the Hotel/Conference Center Business Plan

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Readers of this blog will know that the hotel/conference center business plan originally released when the structure was planned to replace the Faculty Center did not make sense. Since then, although UCLA has released conceptual hints about the hotel design and plan, no actual plan has been produced. Below is what appears to be the schedule for the second coming of the business plan and other elements of the proposal:    March 27: Plan goes to the Regents for Budget Review.  So far, the business plan is apparently still in preparation (!) and so it has not been released to…