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UCLA History: Warren

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In 1970, former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice visited the UCLA campus to take part in a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the Institute of Industrial Relations (IIR).  As governor of California, Warren had signed a law creating the IIR at the Berkeley and UCLA campuses in 1945.  Shown above are U.S Secretary of Labor James Hodgson, Prof. Lloyd Ulman of the UC-Berkeley IIR, Warren, and UCLA IIR director Prof. Benjamin Aaron.  The IIR is now called the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.  Other photos from the event are shown below.

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Chancellor at Staff Town Hall on Hotel, Climate Survey, Pensions, Donor-Community Relations

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Chancellor Block, Vice Chancellor Steve Olson, and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Campus Human Resources Lubbe Levin participated in a staff Town Hall on April 4. The session was videoed but the video works poorly and the commercial service utilized includes ads.  Below is a link to the audio of the session which works much better. There were no exhibits at the session so nothing is lost in the audio-only format. There were specific questions, some in-person/some submitted in advance, on the proposed hotel/conference center, the upcoming (systemwide) campus climate survey, pensions, and donor-community relations.  Links just to those questions are…

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More Westside Hotels Coming Along

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We have already reported on a new hotel planned in Santa Monica on Wilshire and 7th Street with 285 rooms. Two more hotels are planned in Santa Monica at 5th Street and Colorado.  One would have 131 rooms and the other would have 138 rooms.  Seems like a lot of potential competition is opening up for staying on the Westside in other than the proposed UCLA hotel/conference center, now in some difficulty regarding justification at the Regents.  See prior blog posts on the hotel issue.  The two new Santa Monica hotel projects are described athttp://www01.smgov.net/cityclerk/council/agendas/2012/20120410/2012%200410%208-B.htmandhttp://www01.smgov.net/cityclerk/council/agendas/2012/20120410/2012%200410%208-A.htmThe earlier Wilshire and 7th hotel…

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Time to Learn from Students?

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On the one hand, from spin central, there is: Faculty committee backs plan for conference and guest center  An Academic Senate committee has expressed support for UCLA’s proposal to build a conference and guest center, calling the project a potentially valuable enhancement to the campus. In its review of the proposed operating plan, the Council on Planning and Budget determined that the financing model for the project is sound and that UCLA could benefit from additional conference space and affordable guest rooms. Vice Chancellor Steve Olsen, UCLA’s chief financial officer, was appreciative of the committee’s review…   Full press release at…

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UCLA Among Top 10 Universities in R&D Spending in Fiscal Year 2010

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Inside Higher Ed reports that UCLA is among the top ten universities in research and development spending.  It has been in that group for some time.  Basically, the key determinants are having a med school and getting a lot of federal research funding. The top ten are: Johns HopkinsU of Michigan (Ann Arbor)U of Wisconsin (Madison)U of Washington (Seattle)DukeUC-San DiegoUCLAUC-San FranciscoStanfordU of Pennsylvania Data from http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2012/04/02/hopkins-again-leads-rd-spending.  There is a link in this article to NSF data.  When you click on the link to the article, go to Table 5. It’s good to be among the tops:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6oGytt0Hiw&w=320&h=195]

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Inconsistent Construction?

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When UCLA presented its plan for the Weyburn Terrace Grad Student Housing in 2009, it included a $2,193,000 parking buyout.  You can find a link to the plan below.  The parking buyout is reported in footnote “e” of Attachment 1.  The business plan for the hotel/conference center deviates from the parking buyout policy.  Undoubtedly, when UCLA  comes back to the Regents with answers to questions raised at the Regents meeting last week, it will want to explain the deviation. (Or maybe it won’t; we will see.) Open publication – Free publishing – More parking

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Protest Reported Planned Today for Carter Open House at Japanese Garden

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Bette Billet passed me a link to a Curbed LA article reporting that there will be a protest at the open house of the Carter residence adjacent to the Japanese Garden. Readers of this blog will know that UCLA is planning to sell both the house and the garden, a matter of controversy. The Curbed LA article is at:http://la.curbed.com/archives/categories/belair.php(Scroll down a bit to find it.) A similar article appears in the Beverly Hills Courier athttp://www.bhcourier.com/article/Local/Local/Open_House_Protest_Sunday_to_Stop_the_Sale_of_the_Hannah_Carter_Japanese_Garden/86879 Excerpt:Supporters of the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden will stage a protest at the Open House of the property on April 1st from 2:00pm to 5:00pm….