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UCLA Faculty Association: UCLA Med Art - still more
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Thursday, August 13, 2015. UCLA Med Art - still more. Bruce End of Day, by Osamu Saito (200 Medical Plaza Building). Yours truly is in transit. Light blogging next few days. Posted by California Policy Issues. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Higher Ed. News and Commentary. Chronicle of Higher Education. AAUP Chapter at UCLA. Council of UC Faculty Associations. American Association of University Professors. California Faculty Association (NEA). What would PERB say?
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UCLA Faculty Association: No bikes on Westwood Boulevard?
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Friday, August 7, 2015. No bikes on Westwood Boulevard? From the Daily Bruin. Two Los Angeles City Council committees approved the city’s mobility plan and heard councilmembers’ amendments Tuesday, including an amendment that would remove plans to add bike lanes on Westwood Boulevard. Councilmember Paul Koretz, who represents Westwood and surrounding neighborhoods, submitted an amendment that could invalidate proposed Westwood Boulevard bikes lanes. Between Le Conte Avenue and Wellworth Avenue. What woul...
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UCLA Faculty Association: We Can Wonder
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Saturday, August 8, 2015. The website for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Is currently down. But yours truly did find this headline from that newspaper in the news aggregation website rtumble.com today:. So there seems to be a lot of excitement in the Union-Trib's news coverage about the expansion of the health care facilities at UC-San Diego. However, we can wonder what will happen when the newspaper discovers what kind of salaries are paid to top staff of such a facility. Posted by California Policy Issues.
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UCLA Faculty Association: Task force charged with making a silk purse out of you-know-what
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Saturday, August 8, 2015. Task force charged with making a silk purse out of you-know-what. From the UCLA Newsroom:. UC task force named to advise on 2016 retirement benefits. President Napolitano has stressed to task force members that their recommendations must meet two important criteria:. That UC retirement benefits continue to be competitive in the context of total employee compensation;. And that the UC Retirement Plan remains financially sustainable. The members of the task force are:. Greta Carl-...
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UCLA Faculty Association: Lost UCLA data may be gain for someone
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015. Lost UCLA data may be gain for someone. From the Daily Bruin. Full story at http:/ dailybruin.com/2015/08/11/ucla-health-faces-lawsuit-for-privacy-breach-in-recent-cyber-attack/. Yours truly continues to advise freezing access to your credit at the three credit rating agencies. It's not hard to do. It is. Posted by California Policy Issues. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Higher Ed. News and Commentary. Chronicle of Higher Education.
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UCLA Faculty Association: Lilly problems in the UC-San Diego vs. USC dispute
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Lilly problems in the UC-San Diego vs. USC dispute. Watch out for Lilies. For blog readers who have followed the legal battle between UC-San Diego and USC over a poached faculty member and research contract, there is the latest installment:. Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly. We're very happy to be moving forward with this study to assure its success," said Dr. Paul Aisen, an Alzheimer's expert who headed the ADCS until June, when he left UC San Diego to lead a new Alzheimers'...
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UCLA Faculty Association: What are UCLA's magic words?
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015. What are UCLA's magic words? Admission used to be easier. From: USE THESE TWO WORDS ON YOUR COLLEGE ESSAY TO GET INTO HARVARD. WHAT DO YOU CALL YOUR PARENTS? The terms "father" and "mother" appeared more frequently in successful Harvard essays, while the term "mom" and "dad" appeared more frequently in successful Stanford essays. HARVARD LIKES DOWNER ESSAYS. WHAT THE OTHER IVIES CARE ABOUT. It turns out, Brown favors essays about volunteer and public interest work, while these to...
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UCLA Faculty Association: Repeat: UC-Berkeley History
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Thursday, August 6, 2015. Today is the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The Manhattan Project which developed the bomb was co-directed by Prof. J. Robert Oppenheimer of UC-Berkeley’s physics department. In 1980, BBC produced a seven-part series about the Project, Oppenheimer, and goings on at the time at Berkeley. You can now see the whole series on YouTube. Highly recommended by yours truly. Part 1: https:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Part 2: https:/ www.youtube.com/watch? AAUP Chapter at UCLA.
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UCLA Faculty Association: The tainted money that didn't go to Berkeley
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015. The tainted money that didn't go to Berkeley. And the honorary dinner money that ultimately Berkeley declined? Maybe not, so go to http:/ uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2015/03/no-dough-dinner.html. To refresh your memory. Apparently, where the money did. Go has yet to be told:. Full story at http:/ www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/aug/03/fppc-peevey-party-proceeds-investigation/. Posted by California Policy Issues. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Yet More Med Art.
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UCLA Faculty Association: Gimme that ol' time parking!
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Gimme that ol' time parking! The Google map of UCLA still shows the pre-Grand Hotel satellite view. You can clearly see the multi-story parking structure the Grand Hotel displaced (marked with a downward arrow). Not only can you see it, but the nearly 1,000 students on the parking service waiting list can see it, too. From the Daily Bruin. Full story at http:/ dailybruin.com/2015/08/10/nearly-1000-ucla-students-are-waitlisted-for-fall-2015-parking-permits/. AAUP Chapter at UCLA.