UCLA History: Founder’s Rock
Founder’s Rock in the 1950s stood in the central area of campus. It’s still nearby but not so central. And, since it’s Mothers’ Day today, here is something also from the 1950s:
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UCLA History: Santa Monica Blvd. in 1922
Photo shows the laying out of Santa Monica Boulevard in the Westwood area in 1922
Reality (TV) at UC-Riverside
Some time back, before “reality” TV became popular, BBC had a program in which the CEO of a firm or organization would visit worksites and perform regular jobs to see what was really happening. For an example, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfdW6mgBEG0. (In that excerpt, the CEO of a fast food chain in the UK visits a local restaurant.) Canadian broadcasting later made a similar series. Now that reality TV is much in vogue, CBS has “Undercover Boss” which is based on the same premise. However, in the CBS version, the CEO fixes the various problems discovered, hands out money and benefits to…
Half Right
UCLA researchers surmised about bin Laden’s hideout (excerpt): 5/3/11 Two years before al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was discovered in a fortified compound not far from Pakistan’s capital, a team of U.S. researchers and undergraduate students took up the search as part of an academic exercise. Their concept turned out to be generally accurate, although their target was off the mark. Using satellite imagery and fundamental principles of geography, the group at the University of California, Los Angeles predicted that the mastermind of the 2001 terrorist attacks was probably hiding not in the rugged mountains, but inside a walled compound…
Hot Potato?
The Assn. of American Universities (AAU) is a organization with major research universities as its members including UCLA. Its current president, Robert Berdahl, is a past chancellor of UC-Berkeley. UC-Berkeley is a member. Davis, Irvine, San Diego, and Santa Barbara are also members. On March 31, the AAU issued the press release below with other organizations concerning the federal deficit. (This is not a timely piece of information; yours truly just stumbled on it, a month late.) Also a signatory to the document is the Assn. of Public and Land-Grant Universities which includes the UC campuses above plus Santa Cruz…
UCLA History: Kerckhoff Hall
Kerckhoff Hall is dedicated in 1930. From left to right: Governor James Rolph, Louise Kerckhoff, UC President Robert Gordon Sproul.
Font of Wisdom
Use PowerPoint in class? Research suggests using hard-to-read fonts will increase student learning. (Of course, your teacher ratings will suffer when students complain.) See below: …New research finds that people retain significantly more material – whether science, history or language – when they study it in a font that is not only unfamiliar but also hard to read… In a recent study published in the journal Cognition, psychologists at Princeton and Indiana University had 28 men and women read about three species of aliens, each of which had seven characteristics, like “has blue eyes,” and “eats flower petals and pollen.”…
UCLA History: Westwood Before UCLA
Aerial view of Westwood area (looking north from Pico Blvd.) in 1922 before UCLA moved there from the old Vermont Avenue campus.
UCLA History: Janss
Korean-Americans sitting at the base of UCLA’s Janss steps in 1940 (right). Edward Janss, the developer who gave land to build the Westwood UCLA campus (below).
UCLA Data Source
The chart above (data for Fall 2009) is one of many charts and tables for UCLA available from the National Center for Educational Statistics. Below is an example of a table: Full-time beginning undergraduate students at UCLA who received Title IV aid by income: 2008-09 Income Average net price* $0 – $30,000 $7,495 $30,001 – $48,000 $8,331 $48,001 – $75,000 $13,190 $75,001 – $110,000 $19,706 $110,001 and more $22,971 All incomes $12,752 *Net price includes living costs, whether on or off campus, including living with family for those off campus. Obviously, the data above appeared with a lag. But you…