125 YEARS | EDUCATION | INNOVATION
Inventiveness pays at colleges
The nicotine patch. Google. The hepatitis B vaccine. Music synthesizer chips. Computerized war games. And a really tasty strawberry. More...
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | CAMPUS SETTINGS
On film, collegians major in life lessons
College is the great id of American movies. In the early days of film, universities were largely settings for outlandish comic escapades. But since the arrival of the youth culture in the 1960s, college has been a happy home not just for comedy, but for rebellion, anarchy and subversion, often accompanied by a big dollop of sexual awakening. In truth, Hollywood has shown little interest in college as an institution of learning. College is where the movies go for freedom, to escape the confines and mores of real life. Here are 10 movies that run a gamut of college experiences, set on campuses both real and fictional: More...
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | FASHION
A study in style
From top hats to back tats, from corsets to navel rings, college fashion over the last 125 years has increasingly stripped down, with students shedding inhibitions along with their clothes. More...
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | DREAM MACHINES
Pasadena on high road of car creation
Stand on any street corner in Brentwood and watch the coolness, the hotness, roll by: Ferrari Enzo, Lamborghini Gallardo, BMW M6, Cadillac XLR, Porsche 911. These strange visitors from the planet Horsepower are the epitome of auto-exoticism. And yet each of them had their start up on a hill in little-old-lady Pasadena. More...
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | FINANCING
To pay for college, fill out the forms
College is expensive and getting more so. More...
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | LITERATURE
School is all booked up
School is a unifying experience, one that almost everybody shares. Perhaps that's why so much has been written about it, including the children's books of Barbara Park and the novels of James Hilton and John Knowles. Still, of all the levels of education, higher learning is the most compelling, perhaps because it's where we learn to be adults. Here, then, are 10 books, fiction and nonfiction, that look at colleges and graduate schools across the country from the perspective of both faculty and students, and in so doing, tell us something about the role of academia in our lives. More...
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | THE TIMELINE
Learning milestones
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125 YEARS | EDUCATION | STUDENT STUNTS
Acing the pranks
Airborne manure. Painted crickets. Kidnapped statues. And the Great Rose Bowl Hoax of 1961. More...
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | CLASSROOMS OF TOMORROW
Colleges see the future in technology
Coastline Community College was a higher-education pioneer in the late 1970s when it started developing television-based courses that students could take from anywhere as long as they had another innovation of the time, a video player. More...
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | FOOD
A hunger for change
On Sept. 16, 1912, the very first issue of USC's Daily Southern Californian (now known as the Daily Trojan) declared on page 3: "Cafeteria Improved." The primary advancement was "shiny new devises for keeping eatables hot," and the article was unsigned, possibly to save the writer from a big razzing by classmates. More...
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | FILM SCHOOLS
L.A.'s screening gems
Perhaps the only people who brag more about their illustrious alumni than Ivy Leaguers are the deans of film schools. More...
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | TREASURES
Some very special collections
The first order of business at colleges and universities is to dispense knowledge. Second may be collecting stuff. And institutions of higher education in California know how to bring in the goods. More...
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | ARTWORKS
Treasures are drawn to academic sanctuaries
As students rush to classes at USC, an outdoor artwork near Fisher Gallery invites them to slow down and think about a shameful chapter of U.S. history. More...
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | NAMESAKES
Building on reputation
An early death, big money, beloved character, academic brilliance: Those are some attributes that get a prominent building or plaza named after you at one of California's colleges and universities. Many schools boast landmarks bearing the monikers of generous alumni. But some can tout landmarks named after a U.S. president, the author of children's books or a motherly custodian. Here is a sampling from across the state, with a bias for architectural and historical distinction. More...
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | THE PIONEERS
State's first colleges, by definition
Higher education in the state got its start in the Gold Rush era, when Jesuits and Methodists both established institutions in the Northern California town of Santa Clara. More...
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | PROTESTS
From Berkeley, challenge to authority spreads
Beginning about noon on Oct. 1, 1964, Jack Weinberg sat in the back of a police car while hundreds of UC Berkeley students, singing "We Shall Overcome," encircled the cruiser and held it and its occupants captive for more than 30 hours. A succession of speakers, including Mario Savio, the emerging leader of the Free Speech Movement on campus, and future California Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg, addressed the throng from the vehicle's roof. More...
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | THE MASTER PLAN
A celebrated strategy
IT was a bold, utopian vision, a plan for higher education that offered hope, opportunity and -- most significant -- a place in college to all within the Golden State. More...
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | AN INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE
State hustled to succeed
California first marched itself into the big, bruising realm of higher education with a mortarboard on its head and a chip on its shoulder. More...
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