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"The caliber of the students at UCLA amazes me and makes me proud to be part of the Bruin family." David Grometer ’09 Quick Facts Founded: 1919 Chancellor: Gene Block, appointed 2007 Location: Moved to Westwood in 1929 Campus Area: 419 acres Enrollment: 32,423 Undergrads, 14,007 Graduates (Fall 2023) Faculty & Staff: More than 40,000 […]
For a full and comprehensive account, check out the newly released UCLA: The First Century, the definitive history of UCLA. July 1, 1920 | ROTC Installed on Campus; June 1, 1923 | The first UCLA graduates; Dec. 10, 1923 | A ‘twig’ grows; May 5, 1925 | Rallying for Westwood; Oct. 22, 1926 | Hail, Bruin! Oct. 23, 1927 | A bridge to the future
May 1, 2019 · UCLA 100 festivities kick off on Saturday, May 18, with Alumni Day, featuring special speakers, campus tours and programs that mark UCLA’s first 100 years. On the same day, in the campus’s iconic Royce Hall, an all-star lineup of UCLA and guest speakers will ruminate on the subject of time for a special installment of the annual TedxUCLA.
UCLA History July 1, 1920 ROTC Installed on Campus On July 1, 1920, University of California President David Prescott Barrows’ request to implement a Reserve Officers' Training Corps program at the Southern Branch of the University of California (as UCLA was first known) was officially granted. Having gained approval from the U.S. secretary of war, […]
Nov 15, 2019 · In celebration of UCLA’s centennial, UCLA Film & Television Archive turns the spotlight on the university’s long history of student filmmaking. In 1947 the UCLA Department of Theater Arts was founded; in 1949, what had become the Motion Picture Division, produced its first student film.
The Founding of UCLA. UCLA was founded in 1919, as the southern branch of the University of California system. The school was created in response to the growing demand for higher education in the Los Angeles area, and was initially intended to serve the educational needs of the city’s growing population. The school was founded with a focus on ...
Aug 21, 2023 · It offered two-year undergraduate programs to 250 students in the Junior College and 1,250 students in the Teachers’ College. What is UCLA Known for? Since UCLA was founded, and for good reasons, the university has consistently earned a spot near the top of the list of the best-ranked public universities in the United States.
