UCLA History: Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King, Jr. on campus with UCLA Chancellor Murphy, April 27, 1965
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A Different Meaning of Occupy at UCLA-Santa Monica Hospital
An earlier blog posting noted that the construction fencing had come down around the UCLA Santa Monica hospital’s new wing. According to the Santa Monica Mirror, there was an actual move-in of patients a week ago – the wing was officially occupied: There was a hive of activity at the new UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica on Sunday as it officially opened its doors. As part of the opening, about 125 adult and pediatric patients were carefully transported into new hospital buildings on the Santa Monica campus, as well as the existing Merle Norman Pavilion… Full article at http://www.smmirror.com/#mode=single&view=33878 The…
Info on Plans for Japanese Garden Objects
UCLA provided a listing with pictures of various objects – with valuations – located at the Japanese Garden to the California Garden & Landscape History Society. The first page of the listing is shown above. Apparently, the original plan was to remove and perhaps sell all the objects. Now it appears that three objects will be removed and put in the Fowler Museum collection on campus. Numbers 11, 21, and 22 on the listing (see link below) are definitely to go to Fowler. Numbers 2 and 19 will, for the moment, remain in the garden and might later be removed…
Afterlife of the Website for the UCLA Japanese Garden
Update from our prior post: Things on the Internet don’t completely die. Above is an image of the first page of the now-removed UCLA website for the Japanese Garden. Below is a link where you can see other parts of the website: Open publication – Free publishing – More ucla
UCLA Japanese Garden Web Address Has Disappeared
============================== As our prior blog post noted, plans are afoot to sell UCLA’s Japanese Garden. When you Google “Japanese Garden UCLA,” one of the first page entries is www.japanesegarden.ucla.edu. However, when you try to go to that address, the error message above appears. Since someone at UCLA has shut down the site, the sense that the sale of the garden is imminent is reinforced. If you go to the UCLA faculty handbook at http://www.apo.ucla.edu/facultyhandbook/5.htm the garden website is still listed:UCLA HANNAH CARTER JAPANESE GARDEN The two-acre UCLA Hannah Carter Japanese Garden, located one mile from campus in Bel Air, is an authentic…
Tuition Shares
The Legislative Analyst’s Office released the chart above on tuition shares of the state and the student. Economists will be quick to note that the figures refer to average costs, not marginal. Nevertheless, the chart tells a story. The full presentation (which notes that many lower income students pay no fees) is at http://www.lao.ca.gov/sections/higher_ed/FAQs/Higher_Education_Issue_05.pdf Note: Clicking on the link above may provide a sharper picture.
UCLA History: Fair
A Westwood Street fair near UCLA in 1980.
Upcoming Regents Meeting Jan. 18-19
The Regents will be meeting in Riverside on January 18-19. Their agenda is posted and looks rather tame. No tuition discussion. Some discussion of the state budget. Seismic upgrades. Proposal to move some MOP loan loss reserves – said to be in excess of needs – to the general budget. Wednesday, January 18 8:30 am Committee of the Whole (public comment) 9:30 am* Committee on Educational Policy (open session) 10:00 am* Committee on Finance (open session) 10:45 am* Committee on Health Services (open session) 11:15am* Committee on Oversight of the DOE Laboratories (open session) 11:30 am* Committee on Governance (open…
Chancellor Block on KPCC Airtalk
No shockers emerged from the KPCC Airtalk panel on higher ed yesterday that included Chancellor Block. There was a fair amount of discussion of online courses and related items. Chancellor Block spoke about the need to change the “funding model” given the state cutbacks. However, he used philanthropy, not tuition, as the example of the change. Description and link below: What is the future of higher education in America? Is the four-year degree model with students living on or near a campus, is the idea of creating a well-read, well-rounded cohort of critical thinkers perhaps outdated? Can the nation’s colleges…
Impending Sale of UCLA’s Japanese Garden
Bette Billet passed along the item below: A place of natural beauty and quiet retreat in the Los Angeles community of Bel Air for more than fifty years, the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden was designed by noted Japanese landscape architect Nagao Sakurai* in 1959. The beautiful hillside garden, one of the finest examples of Japanese gardens in America, evokes the gardens of Kyoto and was donated to the University of California in 1982. Its survival is now under imminent threat. Although the University accepted this gift of this garden, including an endowment to help support its maintenance, the garden is…