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UCLA Report Calls for Overhaul of Community College Transfer Process & Master Plan

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Inside Higher Ed today pointed me toward the UCLA Civil Rights Project and its series of three reports critical of the transfer process from community colleges to four-year colleges.  One of the reports was co-authored by former UC President Richard Atkinson. The summary from Inside Higher Ed is at:http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2012/02/15/racial-transfer-gap-california-community-colleges A press release from the Civil Rights Project is reproduced below: CRP Calls for Fundamental Changes in California’s Community Colleges Date Published: February 14, 2012 Almost 75% of all Latino and two-thirds of all Black students who go on to higher education in California go to a community college, yet in 2010…

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Reminder: Obama Jam Tomorrow…

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…But not in the immediate UCLA area.  Your commute in the afternoon could be affected, depending on where you are going. Traffic Notice Partial Closure Description President Obama Los Angeles Visit When: Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 3:00pm to 5:00pm Where: Los Angeles Westside Impacts: The President will be landing at LAX, then helicoptered to the VA Hospital, and finally driving to Holmby Hills. Rolling closures of streets along the route, meaning that as the motorcade passes, impacted streets and intersections will close, but open again quickly afterwards. Prolonged street closures are not anticipated. Specific details regarding the route are not…

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LA Times Editorial on UCLA Hospital/Blue Shield Dispute Has a Buried Lede*

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In yesterday’s LA Times – if you missed it – there was an editorial about a dispute between Blue Shield and the UCLA Hospital.  Yet beyond saying that controlling costs and being efficient are Good Things, the editorial seemed to miss the point – even though the point is it the text of the editorial.  Excerpt below: —— Blue Shield of California has suspended its relationship with UCLA Medical Center, one of the state’s top hospitals, in a dispute over the cost of treating patients there. It’s a disturbing sign of things to come in the healthcare industry, as insurers become increasingly…

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Love at UCLA on Valentine’s Day

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The UCLA campus is so lovable that couples come to it to have engagement photos taken, as per above. But sometimes, even at UCLA, all does not go well in affairs of the heart: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXUphyeOjko&w=320&h=195] On the other hand, boy (Houdini) did get girl (the hard way) in 1919 in Santa Monica: PS: Faithful readers of this blog will know that things can work out at UCLA, too, as we demonstrated last fall:http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2011/10/modest-proposal-at-ucla.html

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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…