Campus Art
Art can be found in various locations around UCLA. The item above is in the Anderson complex. See description below.
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Factoid
Factoid: When UCLA first moved to Westwood in 1929 (dedication ceremony above), the state’s population was far less likely than today to have been born in California. (See below.) The contrast of today with the situation just after World War II was even more dramatic on that score. Thus, although we think of today’s California population as “diverse,” in terms of state nativity, it is less diverse than in the past.
Let’s Hope the Courts Are Again Sensible
Van burned by animal rights terrorists, June 2008 From the Daily Bruin website: An animal rights activist group filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the University of California Board of Regents demanding that UCLA release documents regarding its use of animals in research. Stop Animal Exploitation Now, the organization that filed the lawsuit, claimed the organization does not know whether UCLA is violating any laws regarding animal use in research. The lawsuit seeks to obtain information that would enable the organization to learn whether any violations have occurred, the organization said… Stop Animal Exploitation Now said it submitted a request for…
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Dividing the $5 Million Pie for Undocumented Students
The Daily Bruin is carrying a story on its website detailing how the $5 million for undocumented students allocated by President Napolitano is to be spent: [excerpt] …UCLA will receive $848,000 of the total $5 million for undocumented student services and financial aid, the most out of any UC campus, according to the letter. UCLA currently enrolls more than 450 undocumented students, a 65 percent increase from last year. There are about 900 undocumented students in the UC system. Of the amount allocated to UCLA, $250,000 will provide services for undocumented students and $598,000 will go toward undocumented student financial…
Closing
The I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project contractor is scheduled to implement a full directional closure of the Southbound I-405 between Santa Monica Boulevard and National Boulevard in West L.A. the night of Tuesday, December 17, from midnight to 5 a.m. on Wednesday morning, December 18. The closures will facilitate the realignment of lanes to accommodate roadway widening and drainage work along the freeway median. · Lanes will begin to close at 10 p.m.· Southbound Sunset on-ramp closes at 7 p.m.· Southbound Wilshire on-ramps close at 10 p.m.· Southbound Santa Monica on-ramp closes at 10 p.m. Full article at http://centurycity.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/southbound-lanes-on-405-freeway-to-close-overnight-on-westside-centurycity Seems like we are always closing:
Transfer Program With UCLA (or not)
On the one hand, there is an article that says UCLA has joined a for-profit program to encourage community college transfers: The for-profit company Quad Learning announced Friday it has recruited UCLA and Occidental College to be part of a national community college transfer alliance — but the program doesn’t come cheap. For about twice the cost of regular tuition, American Honors gives community college students extra support, coaching and smaller classes to help them transfer to 27 partner universities, including Purdue University and Ohio State.Chris Romer, co-founder of American Honors, said the universities have agreed to be “transfer friendly” to American…
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Maybe It’s Better to Get Than to Give
We have been following the issues of online education on this blog. $10 million has been earmarked by UC for online course development. So what is currently on offer? And who is doing the offering? Above is the current listing. [Click to enlarge and clarify.] Berkeley, Riverside, Davis, and Irvine seem to be doing the offering. UCLA students can take these online courses (Spanish is now fully enrolled) but UCLA isn’t offering any such courses to other campuses, at least according to the UC websites below. So, despite the holiday season, maybe it’s better to get than to give.http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/30393 http://crossenroll.universityofcalifornia.edu/about/all-courses.html…
Community College Transfers to UCLA
Yours truly came across a news article indicating that Santa Monica College provided more undergraduate transfers to UC than any othre community college. You can find the article at: http://www.smmirror.com/articles/News/Santa-Monica-College-Number-One-In-Transfers-To-University-Of-California/39064 So he poked around the website for the community college system to find out which community colleges led in transfers to UCLA. The pie chart above shows the results for all community colleges providing at least 100 transfers in academic year 2012-13. [Click on the chart to enlarge and clarify.] More than half of the transfers came from colleges providing under 100 students. Santa Monica was again the leading transfer…
Wait a Minute!
In case you were wondering what your students are doing during exam week, the Daily Bruin provides a clue on its website in the form of a “radio” interview at the link below: http://dailybruin.com/2013/12/09/ucla-students-find-many-ways-to-procrastinate-during-finals-week/ The audio didn’t play on Firefox but it did work on Chrome. [Maybe someone just didn’t have the time to make it compatible with Firebox.]
The GSEIS “Problem” Continues
Inside Higher Ed continues its coverage of the controversy in a course at GSEIS involving… well, it’s not quite clear what is involved, despite the lengthy article. It does seem like the kind of development that needs some Academic Senate review. [Excerpt] For the first time since graduate students staged a sit-in during a class they said exemplified what’s wrong with race relations at the University of California at [sic] Los Angeles, the course met again late last week. But in an apparent attempt at compromise between the aggrieved students and the instructor, its configuration was changed – raising concerns…