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.
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…
Cars parked around site of soon-to-be-opened Westwood campus of UCLA in 1929.
We have been covering the pension initiative that has now been filed with the state and, in an earlier post, discussed some key elements of the initiative (including the coverage of UC). An interesting element in the initiative is a provision that provides for defense in court of the initiative by private parties. It is quite likely that if the initiative passed, it would be challenged in court. And the attorney general might well refuse to defend it, given the politics of the initiative. In the case of Prop 8 – the anti-gay marriage initiative – the attorney general did…
You probably saw this notice but here is a reminder. On October 17th, at 10:17 a.m., the UCLA campus community, along with millions of other Californians, will participate in “The Great California Shakeout”–a statewide earthquake drill. As part of our participation, the UCLA Office of Emergency Management (OEM) will test the BruinAlert system while airing a simulcast Shakeout drill on the campus AM radio station (AM 1630). To fully participate and maximize the effectiveness of the drill, we ask that you take these simple and potentially life-saving steps: DROP to the ground (before the earthquake knocks you down) Take COVER…
Appellate Court Verdict For Hannah Carter Garden Unique Beverly Hills Courier, Laura Coleman, 10/14/13* The 2nd Appellate District California Court of Appeal yesterday denied a request to publish the Court’s decision to uphold a preliminary injunction against the University of California, Los Angeles from selling the 1.5-acre Hannah Carter Garden. The traditional Japanese garden, which was bequeathed to the university in 1964 by former UC Regent Edward Carter sparked the ire of garden preservationists and the heirs of Hannah Carter, who subsequently filed suit against UCLA to maintain its promise, when the university undertook efforts to begin the process of selling the…
Blog readers will undoubtedly know that the U.S. Supreme Court is looking at the constitutionality of Michigan ballot proposition that bans affirmative action in, among other things, public university admissions. The Michigan proposition was a copy of California’s Prop 209. Were the Michigan proposition voided, the same would likely happen to Prop 209. Most observers seem to expect the court to uphold the Michigan proposition. Prop 209 followed the UC Regents’ action banning affirmative action in admissions. (The Regents later repealed their ban after 209 was enacted on the grounds that it was redundant.) Inside Higher Ed has an article…
Yours truly will be traveling today. However, below is a link to a talk given by former acting chancellor Norman Abrams on issues related to terrorism, courtesy of the UCLA Emeriti Association. See the cellphone picture. The talk was given at the UCLA Faculty Center on October 10. The audio isn’t broadcast quality but is understandable. Abrams was introduced by Judith Smith. Note: You can also find the link or download at http://archive.org/details/FormerActingUclaChancellorNormanAbramsOnTheLawOfTerrorism
Prior posts have alerted readers of this blog to a forthcoming public pension initiative. The group that has been working on the initiative seems to have money for a campaign. It takes $1-$2 million for signature gathering firms to get an initiative on the ballot. If an initiative is controversial, it may take loads more money for TV advertising to mount a campaign. The initiative explicitly covers UC. It has some ambiguous elements which we hope to unscramble. Government employers are given the power to modify pensions and retiree health plans going forward for incumbent employees. Note that the 2010…
In contrast to the silence the greeted the Little Hoover report on higher ed (see the previous post on this blog), a possible effort pushing for California community colleges to become four-year institutions got some attention. From the LA Times: California’s community college system is considering a controversial effort to offer four-year degrees, a move designed to boost the number of students who graduate and are more prepared for the workforce. The change would require legislation authorizing junior colleges to grant baccalaureate degrees. Colleges would also need to seek additional accreditation as baccalaureate-granting institutions. Supporters argue that it would help…
