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* List of University of California, Los Angeles people. A. List of UCLA Anderson School of Management people. C. Elizabeth L. Cless. Nathaniel P. Conrey. D. Robert A. Daly. Emil C. Danenberg. Vine Deloria Jr. F. Michael E. Fourney. G. Sam Gilbert (businessman) Henry Gluck. K. Glorya Kaufman. L. Rex Lotery. N.
- Early Years
- Move to Westwood
- Growth of The University
- UCLA During World War II
- UCLA in The Mccarthy Era
- The California Master Plan
- The Charles Young Era
- A New Century
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California State Normal School
In March 1881, at the request of state senator Reginaldo Francisco del Valle, the California State Legislature authorized the creation of a southern branch of the California State Normal School (now San José State University) in downtown Los Angeles to train teachers for the growing population of Southern California. On March 14, 1881, Governor George C. Perkins signed the bill into state law. On March 24, the trustees of the existing normal school in San Jose arrived in Los Angeles, where th...
Southern Branch of the University of California
On May 23, 1919, the Southern Californians' efforts were rewarded when Governor William D. Stephenssigned Assembly Bill 626 into law, which acquired the land and buildings and transformed the Los Angeles Normal School into the Southern Branch of the University of California. The same legislation added its general undergraduate program, the Junior College. The Southern Branch campus opened on September 15 of that year, offering two-year undergraduate programs to 250 Junior College students and...
Under UC President William Wallace Campbell, enrollment at the Southern Branch expanded so rapidly that by the mid-1920s the institution was outgrowing the 25-acre Vermont Avenue location. The Regents appointed a Committee of Seventeen, which entertained proposals that ranged from Ventura County to San Diego. The group selected the Letts' Estate (l...
The first undergraduate classes on the new campus were held in 1929 with 5,500 students. (Glenn T. Seaborg was a member.) Also in 1929, the Bruin and Trojan football teams met for the first time, with the Bruins losing 76–0. The first building dedicated to housing was built in the early 1930s. Titled Hershey Hall, the building was named after Almir...
The December 7, 1941 airstrike on Pearl Harbor immediately put the campus on a wartime basis. Faculty adjusted the curriculum and academic schedule to assist students entering military service. A student defense committee, later called the Student War Board, was organized to coordinate emergency services. Japanese-American students issued a stateme...
With the rise of the anti-Communist Red Scare in the late 1940s, the UC system became suspected of harboring un-American activities. The Regents on March 25, 1949 had adopted a policy which required all faculty and staff to swear a loyalty oath that disavowed membership in the Communist Party. At a special session of the UC Academic Senate's Northe...
Within the framework of the new California Master Plan for Higher Education, signed into state law in 1959, Chancellor Murphy worked to develop a long-range plan for further development and increased autonomy for UCLA. He rapidly increased the number of interdisciplinary institutes and specialized research centers, including various international a...
Chancellor Murphy resigned in 1968 to take over as head of the Times Mirror Company. Under his tenure, enrollment had increased to 29,000, $150,000,000 in new buildings were constructed, 1000 new faculty were hired, and UCLA's annual operating budget increased from $14,000,000 to $95,000,000. The Regents selected Murphy's right-hand man, Charles E....
Activism and complications
In 1995, 2001, and 2004, Mother Jonesmagazine named UCLA in its annual listing of the Top 10 Activist Campuses, reflecting the rallying spirit of its student bodies over the years. The Bruin Republicans held the first affirmative action bake sale protesting racial preferences in 2003, a practice which has been copied by other conservative student groups at universities across the country. In 2006, Andrew Jones, former Bruin Republicans president and Daily Bruin columnist, founded the IRS-reco...
Present day
On May 13, 2007, the Women's Water Polo team beat Stanford University5–4. The victory gave UCLA its 100th NCAA championship title; it is the first school with this distinction. In October 2009, a student was slashed in the throat in an organic chemistry class at Young Hall. Damon Thompson of Belize was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The student was in a pool of blood but was saved by her teaching assistant who slowed down the bleeding.
Anderson, Keith W. The Los Angeles State Normal School: UCLA's Forgotten Past: 1881-1919(2015).California of the Southland: A History of the University of California at Los Angeles(University of California at Los Angeles Alumni Association, 1937)Dundjerski, Marina. UCLA: The First Century (2012) guide to contents; a major scholarly historyFLORELL, DAVID M. "ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES" (PhD dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing...Hamilton, Andrew and Jackson, John B. UCLA on the Move, During Fifty Golden Years 1919-1969(Ward Ritchie Press, 1969).Hayes-Bautista, David E., et al. "Reginaldo Francisco del Valle: UCLA's Forgotten Forefather." Southern California Quarterly 88.1 (2006): 1-35. online"UCLA in the Sixties". Archived from the originalon 2007-07-08.Alison Dundes Renteln (J.D. 1991) – political scientist, Professor of Political Science, Anthropology, Public Policy and Law at the University of Southern California. Ian Roberts (Ph.D. 1985) – linguist; Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge [36] Bernard Salick (M.D. 1964) – medical entrepreneur, nephrologist.
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