Author Archives: Lee Bialik

California State University, Hayward is not confined to Hayward, California alone. Satellite campuses have been popping up since 1993 in Moscow, Vienna, Hong Kong, Beijing and most recently in Singapore. CSU Hayward is one of several universities that have established MBA and executive MBA programs internationally for locals whose demand is not being met ““ […]

Albert D. Hutter, a UCLA English professor since 1970 and winner of the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, died at his home on Thanksgiving of unknown causes. He was 62. Hutter took sick leave from teaching last spring quarter, but had planned to return and teach two courses during the upcoming winter quarter. The courses were […]

In the basement of Young Research Library, rare manuscripts that have sat untouched for sometimes over 40 years are being discovered by graduate students working in the Center for Primary Research and Training. E.J. Kim is one of ten students in the grant-funded program founded in July. The program pays wages competitive with teaching assistantships […]

Some people get excited when researching in certain sections of the UCLA libraries ““ more excited than is usually expected in a place filled with books. Librarian Julie Graham from the Arts Library Special Collections section said people reading in the collections sometimes jump up in excitement when they make a connection in their research […]

When UCLA alumna Andi Gustavson took two days off from teaching to recruit students on campus for Teach For America, she left her high school class with videos of herself instructing and her personal cell phone number. “I gave a cell phone number out to my students to make sure they would have absolutely no […]

To honor her graduate study and 21 years of teaching at UCLA, newly retired and renowned author Carolyn See established a $100,000 endowment for the study of Southern California and Los Angeles literature. As early as next year, any UCLA graduate student writing a dissertation in the field of Southern California literature will be eligible […]

With undergraduate application season in full swing, prospective applicants are weighing UCLA against other schools, often using published rankings such as the U.S. News and World Report. University of California officials and student advisers alike say rankings should have a limited influence on a student’s decision as to where to apply, and agree that a […]