On May 15, 2010, UCLA awarded honorary degrees to Japanese-American students whose academic careers were interrupted by the forced internment during World War II in California and the West Coast. Video of the ceremoney is below:
About a block away from the scene on the left in downtown LA, UC ran an extension service. Extension operated at that location before the general campus moved from Vermont Avenue to Westwood and afterwards. The scene in the picture is 7th Street and Hill in the 1930s. Extension was at 815 South Hill, a block away. (Sorry, I can’t find a picture closer than this one.) It is not clear if the Extension program reported to UCLA or connected directly to Berkeley. (Any historians out there who know?) The catalog below indicates that people take extension courses aimed “at…
UCLA has long taken credit for pioneering work on the Internet (originally the Arpanet). The 1970 photo above purportedly shows unidentified UCLA folks using a SIGMA-7 computer on the Arpanet. Absent such work, presumably there would be no UCLA Faculty Association blog or, indeed, any blogging at all. Given that achievement and its impact on the blog world – and since there is little UC-related news today (Sunday) – I will take the time to salute another blog – LAObserved http://www.laobserved.com/ – for the best juxtaposition of two consecutive blog entries of the past week. You can see the two…
Westwood had a sign in 1945 advertising ample free parking
The Fox Theater in Westwood in 1938. Today is a travel day and therefore slow blogging day. Flying out of LAX. Luckily, there are black robed angels at LAX that wake up daydreaming air controllers. (Funny how they look like Nicholas Cage.)
Yesterday’s post dealt with the current attempts to revive Westwood via (re)creation of a Business Improvement District (BID). In 1937 (top photo) and 1945 (bottom), Westwood looked a lot different with – among other things – a line of gas station towers.
No, not that kind of bid. BID stands for Business Improvement District. Essentially, through a process permitted under state law, local businesses form a BID which provides services (such as street cleaning and security) above and beyond what the city provides. In effect, the businesses tax themselves to pay for the added services. There are several BIDs in downtown LA, for example. Westwood went into decline after a shooting in the late 1980s seemed to scare away tourism and shoppers. The action went to Century City and Santa Monica. A BID was formed at one point but someone ran off…
Inside Higher Ed today pointed me to a Pew survey of the general public and of college presidents concerning higher ed. Below is a summary. A link to the full report is at the bottom. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report is based on findings from a pair of Pew Research Center surveys conducted this spring. One is a telephone survey taken among a nationally representative sample of 2,142 adults ages 18 and older. The other is an online survey, done in association with the Chronicle of Higher Education, among the presidents of 1,055 two-year and four-year private, public, and for-profit colleges…
Google-Blogger had a heart attack and was down for awhile on Friday the 13th. In principle, the missing posts will be restored. On verra… UPDATE: All videos restored as of 5-13-11, 3 PM. There is a lesson here on the dangers of relying solely on “the cloud” for data storage.
Yours truly produced the chart above from recently-released 2010 Census data for California. The changing demographics of the state will have long-term political and budgetary effects on UC. More Census info is available (not entirely user-friendly) at http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml
