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UCLA History: 1964 Commencement

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Lower photo shows Bernice Brown, wife of Gov. Pat Brown, Eva Sámano de López Mateos, wife of Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos, Lady Bird Johnson, wife of President Lyndon Johnson, and Catherine Kerr, wife of UC President Clark Kerr at 1964 UCLA commencement. Upper photo shows the three presidents with Gov. Brown in the background looking upwards. UCLA Chancellor Franklyn Murphy is on the left. Kerr is on the right. (There is a man behind Kerr who looks a lot like US Secretary of State Dean Rusk, although I have not checked whether he attended.)

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Governors’ (not Governor’s) Report on Public Higher Ed

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At the recent National Governors Association conference – which Gov. Brown did not attend – there was a report on higher education, mainly public higher education. The general theme was that there would be budget pressures on public higher ed indefinitely but that higher ed was important for workforce reasons. The report emphasizes metrics for measuring the output of higher ed such as graduation rates, transfer rates, job finding of grads, etc. You can read the report below: Open publication – Free publishing – More governors

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Governor Brown, meet MIT President Susan Hockfield

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Governor Brown did not attend the National Governors Association conference last week. Had he gone, he would have heard MIT President Susan Hockfield speaking on job creation and innovation related to higher ed and research. Of course, Brown hears from time to time about such matters from UC officials. But what they say can always be put aside as just pleading from another state agency. MIT is not a state agency, not even a public university, and is on the other side of the country. Here is the audio of Hockfield’s remarks:

Why Johnny Can’t Write

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More on why Johnny – in your class – (often) can’t write: From the San Francisco Chronicle technology advice column today: Q: I am a play write. I write comedies and I want to sell them, a scene at a time, on social networks. I have yet to create a website. What do you recommend? A: First, learn how to spell. The name of your profession is playwright, not play write… Full article at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/10/BUOC1K6OTN.DTL

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Money to Burn?

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UCLA hospitals to pay $865,500 for breaches of celebrities’ privacy By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times July 8, 2011 UCLA Health System has agreed to pay $865,500 as part of a settlement with federal regulators announced Thursday after two celebrity patients alleged that hospital employees broke the law and reviewed their medical records without authorization. Federal and hospital officials declined to identify the celebrities involved. The complaints cover 2005 to 2009, a time during which hospital employees were repeatedly caught and fired for peeping at the medical records of dozens of celebrities, including Britney Spears, Farrah Fawcett and then-California First…

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All A-Twitter at the U of Iowa

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Inside Higher Ed today points to a U of Iowa $37,000 scholarship for a student with the best Twitter tweet. Despite President Obama’s recent Twitter town hall, yours truly hopes UCLA can resist the impulse to follow the Iowa example. Excerpt: One question. One hundred and forty characters. $37,000. It’s no game show — the University of Iowa’s Tippie MBA full-time program is awarding one full financial award package to an applicant who most creatively answers the question, “What makes you an exceptional Tippie MBA candidate and full-time MBA hire? Creativity encouraged!”, in 140 characters or less on Twitter. The…

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UCLA Says No Thanks to Running MLK Hospital Despite Regents Involvement

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Although the Regents took on the revival of the Martin Luther King Hospital that was shut down by LA County after numerous problems, UCLA has declined to operate the revamped facility when it reopens. From a report to the Regents July session: Martin Luther King Hospital Update: … A contract for design/build was executed with Hensel Phelps on April 14, 2011. The construction is on schedule with the 120-bed hospital to be “substantially completed” by March 15, 2013, with occupancy by September 15, 2013. Operation of the facility: A “request for solutions” was issued to 12 pre-qualified organizations. The Board…