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INDEX
2005
October 11 , 2005
(Vol. 26, No. 3)
NEWS
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....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.
BRIEFS ONLINE
HEAD OF HEALTH AFFAIRS: Wyatt R. (Rory) Hume, a former UCLA executive vice chancellor, will take over newly expanded responsibilities and another title -- vice president for health affairs. In July, Provost M.R.C. Greenwood announced Hume’s appointment as executive vice provost and vice president for academic affairs. At that time, she noted that the relationship between academic and health affairs was being evaluated for better integration.... AT THE HELM OF STAFF ASSEMBLY: UCLA Staff Assembly has a new slate of officers for the academic year. Douglas Padley, compensation analyst for Campus Human Resources, leads the Executive Board as president. Joining him are president-elect Shelley Brown, administrative analyst for Corporate Financial Services (CFS), and four vice presidents of events, information systems, and outreach and programs.... FOUNDATION LEADER: James T. “Tim” McCarthy, a philanthropist and retired corporate executive, has been named chair-elect of The UCLA Foundation. McCarthy, a San Diego resident and longtime supporter of UCLA, began his term July 1 after being elected by the foundation’s Board of Governors.... STACKS CLOSED: The stacks at UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles’ historic West Adams district will remain closed for the next six months to make way for needed renovations.... BENEFITS OF NANOTECHNOLOGY: The NSF has awarded a five-year continuing grant to a collaboration of social scientists, ethicists and environmental scientists led by Lynne Zucker of UCLA and Richard Freeman of Harvard.... HARD TO CONVINCE: An intervention program designed to promote screening for colorectal cancer - and thereby decrease the number of cancers diagnosed - failed to increase screening rates in the managed care setting, a UCLA study has found.... STEP BY STEP: Staffers from UCLA Corporate Financial Services (CFS) have been raising money for people with HIV/AIDS by participating in an annual benefit walk for the past eight years.... MOVING ON UP: If you are an administrative specialist or below and want to develop your professional skills, get career coaching, network with campuswide staff, and learn job search strategies, the Staff Enrichment Program is for you.... FREE AND ACCESSIBLE: The University of California libraries will partner with Yahoo! Inc. and the Open Content Alliance to build a new, freely accessible digital library with materials drawn from across the world.... WESTSIDE ROBBERIES: Two robberies occurred in the early morning hours on Oct. 4 on the west side of campus. Both incidents were reported to LAPD-West LA Division. At least one of the victims was a UCLA student.... DISCOUNTS FOR LEARNING: UCLA Extension’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute starts its new fall season soon, and staff and faculty are eligible for a discounted membership of $110 for the fall quarter.... ADVANCING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: The Fred H. Bixby Foundation has donated $5 million to the School of Public Health to expand the school’s research, service and training in the fields of population and family planning.
LATINO MARKET BOLSTERS ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
The Latino market is catching the attention of big business.
California’s real estate market is still red hot, but there are signs it’s starting to lose steam — and that could lead the construction-driven state economy into a period of sluggish growth over the next two years, economists at the UCLA Anderson Forecast said Sept. 27 in their third-quarter report of the year.
NEWS 2
CATCH IT LIVE, THEN REPLAY IT ON THE WEB
It’s not Hollywood, but four faculty members are putting on their own reality show, going on camera this quarter for BruinCast — online streaming video versions of class lectures. Developed by UCLA’s Office of Instructional Development (OID), the pilot program aims to prove the premise that giving students an “instant replay” of lectures helps them learn better.
REGENTS TO DECIDE ON SALARY PLAN
The Board of Regents will decide in November whether to adopt the goal of raising the salaries of UC faculty and staff over 10 years to market-competitive levels.
WHERE ARE WE?
You’re in Glorya Kaufman Hall. There are two rose windows, one in the main theater, the Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater, and another in the dance studio, Room 214. Retaining and refurbishing these beautiful features was an important aspect of the building’s restoration by Moore Ruble Yudell, the architectural firm that led the project.
PEOPLE
NEW CHAIR AIMS TO IMPROVE SENATE'S REPUTATION
Nine years ago when Adrienne Lavine joined the Undergraduate Council, an Academic Senate faculty committee that reviews UCLA’s academic programs, she found that it can be an agent for positive change.
AFTER HOURS: DEATH & FRIENDSHIP IN AFRICA
Meet John Hamilton, adviser and chief of staff to Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Daniel Neuman. A UCLA staff member for the past 23 years, Hamilton was so inspired by the work of an American doctor living in Malawi, Africa, that he helped start an organization to fund the doctor’s work in an area where 30% of the population has AIDS. Hamilton has been there three times. This past summer, he spent two months and 10 days working on a new AIDS clinic in Malawi.
APPLAUSE
Alma Corbell, Peter Sellars, E. Carmack Holmes, Timothy Rice, Hiromi Lorraine Sakata, Jacqueline Cogdell DejeDje, Ali Sayed, Jason Cong, Tony Torres, Bruce Dobkin.
NAMES & FACES: Marcia J. Bates... Russel Caflisch... Khalil Tabsh... John H. Pryor.
IN MEMORIAM:Christopher Foote.
OUT & ABOUT
SCULPTURE GARDEN SPRUCES UP FOR FALL
The Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, beloved for 38 years by the campus community for its graceful interplay between three-dimensional art and nature, will soon be turning over a new leaf.
VOICES
UNSCHOLARLY MINUTEMEN SPREAD A NEW CHILL IN TOWN
For those of us who study minority issues, today’s intellectual climate is — as it has always been — contentious. But it’s becoming chilly in new and frightening ways.
BEWARE HOW YOU AGE, BABY BOOMERS
Every 10 years, the president of the United States calls a White House conference on aging, giving the nation an opportunity to examine how Americans grow old and what might be done to help them. The fifth such seminal event will occur Dec. 11-14 and I am honored to have been chosen by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as one of his 12 California delegates to the conference. On Nov. 7, we will meet in Sacramento to prepare our plan of action for the conference.
BRUIN SHARES UC MERCED'S MOMENT IN HISTORY
This past Labor Day weekend I was part of history when on Sept. 5 I helped with the opening of UC Merced. A group of 13 residential life professionals from UCLA, myself included, headed up to the hot San Joaquin Valley to assist the campus and help some 500 students move in and settle down in just two days.
CARTOON BY CAROLE CABLE
CAMPUS
FORECAST FOR CAMPUS PROMISING
After three years of deep cuts in state support, the outlook for 2006-07 looks brighter for the university, thanks to the Higher Education Compact Agreement that has stabilized the state funding situation for now. But faculty and staff will still be feeling the effects of those cuts this year, said UCLA’s Vice Chancellor of Finance and Budget Steven Olsen . UCLA Today editor Cynthia Lee talked to him to get an overall assessment of campus’s financial health and of what may be on the horizon for faculty and staff.
RESEARCH BEAT: A GUARD AGAINST DIGITAL THEFT?
Researchers led by Professor Rajit Gadh from the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science are working on a breakthrough technology, the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to protect DVD content against unauthorized use. If successful, it could save the U.S. film industry losses totaling more than $3 billion in potential worldwide revenues annually.
A CLASSROOM SUCCESS STORY:
When Fernando Avila began teaching advanced placement calculus at Locke High in 2003, none of his 16 students passed the final exam to earn college credit. A year later, six of 18 students passed, the highest number in five years at Locke and more than in the previous five years combined.
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