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Topic Archive: Academia
Cal State Long Beach psychology professor Kevin MacDonald is a hero of the anti-Semitic crowd for writing that Jews have evolved as a tribal elite...
Posted May 9, 2008 12:21 AM
The host of the long-running "Connie Martinson Talks Books" gave nearly 3,000 tapes of her cable show to Claremont Graduate University. "It's a pretty extraordinary...
Posted May 7, 2008 09:20 AM
As reported Saturday, Geneva Overholser was just announced as the new journalism director at USC Annenberg....
Posted April 14, 2008 09:16 AM
Geneva Overholser, former editor of the Des Moines Register, will be introduced Monday as the new director of the journalism school at the USC Annenberg...
Posted April 12, 2008 06:16 PM
Loyola Law School Dean David Burcham has been named provost at Loyola Marymount, a new position at the law school's parent institution. The new interim...
Posted January 11, 2008 12:28 PM
An open letter from Athletic Director Mike Garrett. Excerpt: It gives me no pleasure to write a letter of this kind, but there are issues...
Posted November 28, 2007 09:53 AM
USC alumni don't want to gather on campus Saturday mornings, touch the statue then get on a bus. They want to walk to the stadium....
Posted November 28, 2007 12:14 AM
The newly reinstated dean-to-be of the future UC Irvine law school will be next year's commencement speaker at the rival Chapman University law school. The...
Posted September 17, 2007 09:01 PM
Liberal legal scholar and pundit Erwin Chemerinsky will become dean of the new UC Irvine law school after all. Chancellor Michael V. Drake spent the...
Posted September 17, 2007 11:39 AM
Video of the columnist addressing journalism graduates at today's USC Annenberg commencement, at LAist....
Posted May 14, 2007 02:28 PM
Full professors at Harvard average $177,400 a year, those at Yale $157,600. Which full professors in California do you think make the most? Here's the...
Posted April 19, 2007 09:12 AM
From Roy Rivenburg in Sunday's LAT: When a vampire expert allegedly seduced a tipsy UC Irvine student four years ago, he inadvertently set off a...
Posted February 25, 2007 04:22 PM
Jonah at la.foodblogging got invited to the private club on a corner of the Caltech campus in Pasadena. The first formal dinner at The Athenaeum,...
Posted February 13, 2007 02:15 AM
Records containing the names, Social Security numbers and birth dates of students, faculty, employees and some applicants since the early 1990s may have been accessed....
Posted December 12, 2006 12:23 AM
USC says that Zach Fox, already elected once as spring editor of the Daily Trojan but blocked by administrators, can run again. He tells Jacob...
Posted December 1, 2006 09:09 AM
The Grill downstairs in USC's Commons was shut down by the county health department after an inspection turned up insects. After closure for 48 hours...
Posted November 30, 2006 12:55 AM
Zach Fox edits the USC student paper this semester and was reelected by the staff to do it again in the spring, but he quit...
Posted November 29, 2006 02:33 AM
For the fifth year in a row the University of Southern California has more international students than any school in the United States. The Open...
Posted November 13, 2006 02:26 PM
This weekend — apparently for the first time ever — both L.A. pro football teams play in the Bay Area on the same day: USC...
Posted November 1, 2006 01:19 PM
Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing writes extensively on what he sees as the abuses of copyright and the law's dampening effect on free exchange of ideas...
Posted August 26, 2006 12:34 PM
After El Vaquero reported accurately last month on two suicides by students in the nursing program, Glendale College president John Davitt complained that the story...
Posted July 13, 2006 10:10 AM
Boi from Troy is checking out a report that the male yell leaders won't be back on the sidelines at Trojans football games this fall....
Posted June 29, 2006 02:55 PM
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's commencement speech Friday at UCLA praised his mother Natalia for supporting him and addressed the news that African American enrollment is down....
Posted June 19, 2006 02:51 PM
Unable to conclude the search for a chancellor at UCLA, the University of California today said that professor emeritus of law Norman Abrams will become...
Posted June 15, 2006 04:16 PM
My favorite blog reading is not about politics or Los Angeles (or even ice hockey.) What I enjoy is eavesdropping on aficionados in some field...
Posted June 6, 2006 06:57 PM
Joseph Aoun, a linguist and dean of USC's College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, will be announced later this week as the new president of...
Posted May 31, 2006 08:15 AM
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