Update from our prior post: Things on the Internet don’t completely die. Above is an image of the first page of the now-removed UCLA website for the Japanese Garden. Below is a link where you can see other parts of the website: Open publication – Free publishing – More ucla
============================== As our prior blog post noted, plans are afoot to sell UCLA’s Japanese Garden. When you Google “Japanese Garden UCLA,” one of the first page entries is www.japanesegarden.ucla.edu. However, when you try to go to that address, the error message above appears. Since someone at UCLA has shut down the site, the sense that the sale of the garden is imminent is reinforced. If you go to the UCLA faculty handbook at http://www.apo.ucla.edu/facultyhandbook/5.htm the garden website is still listed:UCLA HANNAH CARTER JAPANESE GARDEN The two-acre UCLA Hannah Carter Japanese Garden, located one mile from campus in Bel Air, is an authentic…
A Westwood Street fair near UCLA in 1980.
No shockers emerged from the KPCC Airtalk panel on higher ed yesterday that included Chancellor Block. There was a fair amount of discussion of online courses and related items. Chancellor Block spoke about the need to change the “funding model” given the state cutbacks. However, he used philanthropy, not tuition, as the example of the change. Description and link below: What is the future of higher education in America? Is the four-year degree model with students living on or near a campus, is the idea of creating a well-read, well-rounded cohort of critical thinkers perhaps outdated? Can the nation’s colleges…
Bette Billet passed along the item below: A place of natural beauty and quiet retreat in the Los Angeles community of Bel Air for more than fifty years, the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden was designed by noted Japanese landscape architect Nagao Sakurai* in 1959. The beautiful hillside garden, one of the finest examples of Japanese gardens in America, evokes the gardens of Kyoto and was donated to the University of California in 1982. Its survival is now under imminent threat. Although the University accepted this gift of this garden, including an endowment to help support its maintenance, the garden is…
Atop 300 Medical Plaza, UCLA seems to have discovered a new Roman numeral for 4: IIII. Update: Laura G. Mitchell pointed out that the IV may be in use inside the medical building. And then there is:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHsb6SylPNw&w=320&h=195]
You may have seen an article in the LA Times about a possible change in direction at California community colleges. UCLA says about 40% of its graduates (undergrads) are transfer students. Not all of these transfers come from California community colleges, however. But poking around on the web suggests that around 90% of them are from the state’s community college system. The original Master Plan viewed community colleges as colleges of last resort. Anyone with a high school degree could enroll. (Indeed, some enrollees may not have high school degrees.) If an enrollee got on an academic track (some courses…
Another color photo of Westwood in the 1940s. The top picture shows Westwood Blvd. approaching Wilshire Blvd. back then. Below that is the current view from Google maps.
A movie opens in Westwood in 1937.
There was a nice review in yesterday’s LA Times of the new history of UCLA that recently was published. Lots of old photos are included in the book. You can learn such things as while Berkeley may have been the main connection to the World War II Manhattan Project, UCLA handled the payroll! The book can be ordered at http://www.uclahistoryproject.ucla.edu/Book/default.asp I’d like to give you the web address of the LA Times review but the Times’ website is so clunky that all you will find if you try to locate the book review – and if you are very lucky –…
