Then Vice-Chancellor (later Chancellor) Charles Young deals with student demonstrators in 1965. UCLA History Project.
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The Master Plan
An article on the history of the Master Plan for Higher Ed has appeared aimed at challenging the standard history. Revisionist Reflections on California’s Master Plan @50 John Aubrey Douglass, University of California, Berkeley Summary: The 1960 Master Plan:• Is not the creation of one man, Clark Kerr, but the result of negotiations based on earlier innovations and planning studies • Did not create the tripartite system, invent existing mission differentiation, or seriously alter the allocation of function • Did not expand California’s commitment to mass higher education. The Master Plan shifted future enrollment demand to CCC, actually reducing access…
LAO Continues to Support UC Budget Cut Including Cut in Current Year
The Legislative Analyst, in a slide presentation to the legislature, continues to argue that the governor’s cuts are reasonable, given the magnitude of the state budget crisis, and that the cut should be partially in the current year rather than all next year. Slide #7 of the presentation states: LAO assessment: proposed General Fund savings are reasonable. * Given the magnitude of the state’s budget shortfall and the universities’ current-year augmentations, we believe the magnitude of the proposed cuts is reasonable. * However, we recommend achieving some of the General Fund savings by reducing the universities’ current-year augmentations. The full…
Lake Wobegon Freshmen?
The latest freshmen survey of the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute suggests that, except for “emotional” health, the students come from Lake Wobegon. (The survey is of freshmen around the country, not just at UCLA.) Summary of survey available at http://www.heri.ucla.edu/PP/Understanding%20the%20Incoming%20Freshman-AAC&U%202010.pdf
Big Money for UCLA from Chicken Feed? Hotel Project Will Still Require Big Bond Issue
Note: As you read the item below, note that the hotel project still will require considerable bond financing. See the bold italics. UCLA gets $100-million donation: Half of the gift from Meyer Luskin and his wife, Renee, will go to the School of Public Affairs…. The rest will go toward building an on-campus hotel and conference center. Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 26, 2011 A UCLA alumnus who earned a fortune in the animal feed business is donating $100 million to the Westwood campus for its school of public affairs and the controversial construction of an on-campus hotel and…
LAO | pension | pensions | State Budget | State Contribution
The Ying and Yang of the UC Pension: Brown vs. LAO?
Two views on the UC budget (cut) and the UC pension. Jerry Brown’s flack says state won’t pay (sort of). In contrast, the LAO has no objection to the state paying in the abstract (reminder: Thanks to the UCLA Faculty Assn.!!!), but seems to want unspecified assurances. From California’s Capitol: UC Faces a Budget Hole of Not $500 Million But $700 Million Jan. 25, 2011 The University of California faces a more than $200 million deeper reduction than the $500 million proposed in Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget – in part because the state refuses to make a contribution to the…
UCLA History: New Chemistry Building in 1929
Opening the chemistry building (now Haines) in 1929. UCLA History Project.
LAO to UC: You Were Prudent So We Can’t Wait. Let’s Cut You Now Rather Than Later
Bizarre! The LAO had previously said that instead of cutting UC (and CSU) next year, we should cut now – although we are more than half way through the fiscal year – spreading the cuts equally among the two years. I am reproducing a new report by LAO that makes the argument that UC and CSU were prudent and therefore taking away money this year won’t hurt as much. The relevant portions are in LARGE italics below. I reproduce the entire report. Scroll to the bottom for a link to a pdf version. January 24, 2011 The 2011–12 Budget: Achieving…
Brown’s Need for Tax Extension Could Lead to High Tension on Pension
From time to time, yours truly has noted that a public pension proposition on the ballot could override the Regents’ action last December, unless it explicitly exempted UC. It is possible there could be a proposition related to pensions as early as June. Such a proposition would not be an initiative, i.e., a proposition put on the ballot by voter petition. There is not enough time to go the initiative route. However, Jerry Brown needs to get his tax extension on the ballot by June and he needs the legislature to put it there (since, again, there is no time…
UCLA History: Need for Landscaping?
There was definitely a need for landscaping in front of Powell in 1930.