Alex Schulman graduated from UCLA with a 725-page dissertation on Enlightenment political theory and one job offer.
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Not so simple
A golf ball tumbled down a chute and plunked onto the plastic seat of a chair.
Family members look back fondly on Mays’ Landing as a home
In Malibu, a house sits atop a cliff, surrounded by eucalyptus trees and overlooking a stretch of the Pacific Ocean.
Paying for out-of-state tuition
Ryan McNagny could have attended an in-state college.
He was accepted to the highly ranked Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, a three-hour drive away from his hometown, Fort Wayne.
Former UCLA Chancellor Charles Young fighting to overturn Proposition 13 in court
The year was 1978. Voters re-elected Jerry Brown as governor; University of California students paid $671 in tuition; and Charles Young was UCLA’s chancellor. That June, Proposition 13 passed with the primary aim of reducing and capping property taxes, which were dramatically increasing as the real estate market boomed.
Number of research grant fraud cases on the rise, as government works to stop trend
Reports of fraud in federal research awards have risen in recent years, and universities and the federal government are acting to halt the trend.
UCLA employee conducting research sentenced for wire fraud
In 2009, a newly hired UCLA employee obtained a $100,000 NASA research contract for a project at his private firm.