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VOL. 26. NO.3 OCTOBER 11, 2005

news in brief

A study in contrasts

According to the results of a recent survey of the nation’s college and university faculty, only half of the educators surveyed say they’re satisfied with the quality of their undergraduate students, The 2004-05 survey conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies found that overall, 41% of the nation’s faculty believe that “most” of the students they teach lack the basic skills for college-level work. By contrast, findings from the institute’s 2004 freshman survey showed that record numbers of today’s entering college students (70%) rate themselves as “above average” or “highest 10%” academically. Nearly half also report earning “A” grades in high school.

Willed body programs

UC has put in place significant security and administrative procedures to enhance and strengthen the willed body programs at its five medical centers. There are now financial and criminal background checks of potential employees, security card access to certain areas and video surveillance of certain sites. A Web database is in use, accessible to the campuses and the Office of the President (OP). It provides real-time, transparent controls with respect to standard data elements for each program. “We believe these new measures reflect high standards and best practices nationally,” said Cathryn Nation, executive director of academic health sciences at OP.