We posted yesterday about the news from UC-Berkeley that many earthquake-prone buildings are located in southern California – including in Westwood. The Westwood-Century City Patch, in picking up the story from the LA Times, blamed USC instead of UC-B, at least in the headline. See above. Probably just as well. Who wants to be the bearer of bad tidings?.
The governor is to propose his budget for 2014-15 this coming Friday. And although the budget is baked by now, this headline from the LA Now blog of the LA Times can’t hurt as the budget process proceeds between now and June. The guv loves online ed and he can’t give the money to USC. But UCLA would be happy to receive it. Full article at http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-college-online-20140107,0,7388397.story Nothing like being the top:[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc7152gQK-U?feature=player_detailpage]
Yes, to meet the academic challenge, what we need is a Grand Hotel. It must be so because we are directing large sums and a major area of the central campus to the project which has its groundbreaking today. So strike up the (hotel) band!
The LA Times today has a behind-the-scenes story of the recruitment by USC of the neurology lab entourage: …Some colleagues in Westwood were aware that Toga and Thompson “were having conversations” with USC but didn’t know the specifics, said John Mazziotta, chairman of UCLA’s neurology department and executive vice dean of the medical school. The Bruins would have tried to respond if given a chance, he said: “We always try to keep our top faculty.” …Full story at http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-usc-ucla-recruit-20130518,0,6963020,full.story All in all, seems like someone was not fully alert:[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq9hQDzQFvo?feature=player_detailpage]
The Regents are meeting today and tomorrow. While they are considering UCLA’s loss of the neurology lab (see our earlier post), they can also consider this headline from a USC news release that was highlighted today in Inside Higher Ed:: Music Industry Icons and Entrepreneurs Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre Give $70 Million to Create the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation http://universityofsoutherncalifornia.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/j/99843C9CB6AD3D5B/636A2070300EA8D9C67FD2F38AC4859C http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/05/15/two-music-industry-icons-give-usc-70m-start-music-business-center And they might also want to consider the new USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy: http://schwarzenegger.usc.edu/ Our earlier post on the neurology lab raid is…
Today’s LA Times carries the story of two neuroscientists recruited by USC from UCLA: Arthur Toga and Paul Thompson will move to the USC Keck School of Medicine campus next fall, along with scores of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and staffers who now work at UCLA’s Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, known as LONI. In establishing a new institute at the USC campus in Boyle Heights, they will also move substantial government and private grants that fund the lab’s $12-million annual budget as well as some of the highly sophisticated equipment used to investigate the brain’s inner workings. (The move)…raises concerns…
From Inside Higher Ed today: The philosophy department at… the University of Southern California has hired almost a dozen new professors in the last decade. USC’s hiring has caused the program to rocket up 35 spots on the Philosophical Gourmet Report, which ranks graduate programs in philosophy based on the reputation of their faculty members. “[N]o department has improved more over the last decade than USC,” Brian Leiter, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School who edits the report, said in an e-mail. He said USC, tied at No. 11, is likely to crack the top 10 if…
Some readers of this blog may recall the popular TV series from the late 1980s and early 1990s: LA Law. Folk wisdom at the time was that applications to the UCLA law school went up during the show’s run and dropped when it was cancelled. In any case, things are not what they were according to some data – shown below – that appear today in the LA Times in connection with a story on the jobs problems of recent law school grads. Here are percentages of California law school graduates in 2011 who had found full-time, long-term jobs as…
USC recently announced a gift from philanthropist Glorya Kaufman to establish a new school of dance. In a radio interview on KCRW, Kaufman said she had given money for renovation of a dance building at UCLA but the building wasn’t being used as intended. Excerpt: …Glorya Kaufman, the philanthropist funding USC’s new dance school, won’t reveal exactly how much money she’s putting into it. “That’s not the important part. The important part is what it’s doing … that’s why I’m withholding that amount,” she says. But whatever the pricetag, it’s large enough to pay for a brand new building and at least…
Neon Tommy is an online student news service of the USC Annenberg School. The service features a news item dated Nov. 28 which reviews UC’s “Onward” fundraising campaign. That’s right; USC is reviewing UC. What is interesting about the piece is what isn’t in it. Back in the day – say, the 1950s or 1960s – any such story would deal with the impact of a public university competing with privates in fundraising. Private universities would complain about the competition and say UC should be getting its funding from the state. But despite the traditional USC-UCLA rivalry, no such view…
