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…
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…
The Hotel/Conference Center: Is a Change of Heart Possible?
In the light of last night’s public forum on the proposed hotel/conference center at UCLA, an interesting question was put subsequently to yours truly: Can a UC campus actually have a Change of Heart on spending priorities and activities in the light of the current state/UC budget crisis? Is it possible to stay focused on the core mission? From UC-San Diego comes one hopeful answer: UCSD, Cal Western talks for law school suspended (excerpt) Pauline Repard, April 6, 2011, San Diego Union-Tribune SAN DIEGO — The University of California San Diego and California Western School of Law have suspended merger…
Audio of Last Night’s Public Forum on the Proposed UCLA Hotel/Conference Center
A public forum was held on UCLA’s proposal to demolish the Faculty Center and replace it with a hotel/conference center. Most – not all – of the public comments and questions opposed the project or raised issues with it. Comments were made by neighborhood residents, local hotel operators, faculty and emeriti, and students. The forum began with comments in support of the project by EVC Scott Waugh. Chancellor Block joined the forum about half way through and indicated he had had airplane trouble that caused his late arrival. The chancellor in brief comments echoed the remarks of EVC Waugh. Below…
Court Rules for Free Speech Rights of Faculty at Public Universities
An earlier post on this blog noted the controversy over demands for a faculty member’s emails at the University of Wisconsin. Insider Higher Ed today features a story on a court ruling protecting free speech rights of faculty at public universities. An interesting side note is that earlier court rulings that seemed to limit such speech rights stemmed from a U.S. Supreme Court decision related to a situation at the LA District Attorney’s office. Excerpt: Free to Speak Out April 7, 2011, Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Ed A controversial professor suing his university in North Carolina won a key ruling…
The Faculty Center Issue: Fungibility and Purpose
Yours truly will be posting the audio from the public forum of earlier this evening on the hotel/conference center that was proposed to replace the Faculty Center. That posting won’t happen until tomorrow. (The audio needs to be converted to video and then divided into segments that meet certain technical limits.) However, one issue that came up this evening was the flexibility of use of the Luskin gift. Did the Luskins exclusively want a hotel/conference center along the lines originally proposed? That question was not precisely answered. There were general comments about donors having particular visions. On March 18, a…
Governor Brown Warns UC Tuition Will Take Off If There is a Cuts-Only Budget
From the San Jose Mercury-News today:…In an address Wednesday to the California Hospital Association, Brown said UC undergraduate fees could hit $20,000 to $25,000 a year if the Legislature approves and he signs an all-cuts budget. Current fees are nearly $12,000 for in-state students, plus thousands more for books and other fees, and are scheduled to rise by more than $900 a year next fall. Brown said California’s universities and colleges are its “engine of creativity and wealth and well-being. It’s going to make it harder for people to go to school. You have higher loans, and the quality of…
You never know what’s in the morning email
Look what we found today! Open publication – Free publishing – More parking Parking Fee Increases
Meeting Tonight on the (Postponed) Hotel/Conference Center in the (Reprieved for Now) Faculty Club
There will be a public forum at the Faculty Club tonight (7-9 PM) on the proposed UCLA hotel/conference center project which – as a prior blog entry indicated – has now be postponed for re-study. Undoubtedly, the announcement of the postponement will take some of the edge off what might have been a very contentious meeting.Yours truly suspects there will requests for clarification of what the postponement means in terms of the time frame involved, about what the process of the re-review will entail – who and how, and about other issues. Will it go as nicely as this? We…