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Let’s Hope Someone Read the Correction

Byuclafaculty

I stumbled upon the correction article below in the LA Times that appeared last fall.  Let’s hope someone reads correction articles.  It also contains some interesting info. Readers’ Rep: University of California a big political donor — but that’s misleading Deirdre Edgar, Oct. 26, 2012 An article in Thursday’s Business section about campaign contributions in the Massachusetts Senate race between Republican incumbent Scott Brown and Democrat Elizabeth Warren included a surprising name among the list of top donors. According to the chart, the No. 5 donor to Warren was the University of California, with a total of $38,400 in contributions….

Missing King

Byuclafaculty

On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, blog readers may enjoy a recollection below of yours truly who was at the March on Washington but missed the King “I Had a Dream” speech.  Mitchell’s Musings 9-17-12: March on Washington Daniel J.B. Mitchell Originally prepared for the weekly “Mitchell’s Musings” blog on the website of the Employment Policy Research Network – EPRN. Mitchell is senior academic editor of that website. The text below has been slightly reformatted to meet requirements of this blog.  The original is at http://www.employmentpolicy.org/topic/13/blog/mitchell%E2%80%99s-musings-9-17-12-march-washington{Click on the pdf link}.  Recently, I came across a recording of a 1963 radio…

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Why the Resignation?

Byuclafaculty

They don’t seem to be looking in the same direction. President Yudof resigned shortly after last week’s Regents meeting.  Undoubtedly, the resignation was planned earlier so nothing that specifically happened at the meeting could have been the triggering event.  The official press release mentioned health, family, etc., obliquely. While the Regents meeting was not the trigger, I would guess that what happened at the meeting was no surprise and could have been anticipated by anyone who heard or attended prior meetings.  The governor wants to take a bigger role than have prior governors.  That’s fine by itself, but the question…

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Choose Me!

Byuclafaculty

Lots of potential undergraduates want to get into UC and UCLA has the highest count.  About 1 out of 5 applicants are transfers for UC and UCLA.  Has tuition slowed down applications?  All we can say is that overall, applications are up but the annual percentage increase for all-UC and UCLA is lower than it was last year: 13% vs. 9% (for UCLA also 13% vs. 9%). The Latino proportion of applicants is showing a steady rise for UC and UCLA.  The official data are at: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/28952 http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_2013_applications_table1.pdf http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_2013_applications_table2.1.pdf http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_2013_applications_table2.1.pdf http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_2013_applications_table2.3.pdf http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_2013_applications_table3.1.pdf http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_2013_applications_table3.2.pdf http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_2013_applications_table3.3.pdf http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_2013_applications_table4.pdf http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_2013_applications_table5.pdf http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-sets-new-undergraduate-applications-242778.aspx

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It’s Your Legacy Choice Governor Brown: Chinese Emperor or Dad?

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Kowtowing to the Chinese emperor This past week, Governor Jerry Brown – as he promised – came to yet another Regents meeting with a message of online education and various not-well-defined demands for more efficiency in higher education.  With a few exceptions, what the governor got was kowtowing.  The Regents sung his praise as they did at prior meetings.  Shortly after the meeting, UC President Mark Yudof quit – although he, too, did what is perceived as the requisite degree of kowtowing in announcing he was leaving office. As is well known, Chinese emperors expected those who approached them to…

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UCLA Request to Delay Japanese Garden Trial Denied

Byuclafaculty

UCLA asked the court to delay the upcoming trial on the Japanese Garden issue.  But the court denied the application and set the next hearing date at April 23.From time to time, we suggest negotiating with the concerned parties on this matter.  But our advice remains unheeded. Here is the court decision: Open publication – Free publishing – More uclaUpdate: Beverly Hills Courier article on the court decision below: Open publication – Free publishing – More ucla

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Regent Theater

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There is the Regent Theater in Westwood and there is theater at the Regents.  Yesterday, Gov. Brown continued his push for more online education from UC.  As far as I can tell from news accounts, the Regents, other than the student regent, are not resisting. We will eventually have the audio of the meeting and post it.  In the meantime, here is a TV news account. UPDATE: The Regents now are providing video and audio live and – perhaps – archived.  Is this the result of our putting the audios online and asking why the Regents don’t do it?  We’ll…

Scam to Avoid

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I received this scam message – ostensibly from a PBS reporter who I think I had some contact with years ago.  In any event, my name must have been in his email contacts.  I haven’t seen this particular fraud around for awhile.  But ignore any such messages you receive from an email account of someone you know.  It only means that the account has been stolen.  I’m writing this with tears in my eyes, I came down to London, United Kingdom for a short vacation. Unfortunately,I was mugged at the park of the hotel where i stayed,all cash and credit…

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Blogging Pause

Byuclafaculty

The 1955 UCLA medical school graduating class Yours truly normally posts on this blog daily.  However, on Monday, Jan. 14, he is having some surgery at UCLA for a non-life-threatening condition.  So blogging will halt for a period to be determined.  But there will be interesting things to watch out for this week including the Regents meetings at which Gov. Brown seems likely to participate.  We will eventually receive and post the audio of those meetings.

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Cosmetic Adjustments to the State Budget

Byuclafaculty

At the governor’s media conference last Thursday where he presented his budget proposal for 2013-14, some reporters asked about the discrepancy between the proposal – which said that at the end of this year we would have a positive reserve in the general fund – and an earlier estimate by the Legislative Analyst that there would still be a negative reserve.  Basically, the answer – from the budget director (Brown begged off on answering) – was that the governor’s budget involved different assumptions. Actually, the difference between slightly positive ($785 million) and the Leg Analyst’s negative (-$1.9 billion) isn’t all…