Chancellor Robert C. Dynes will speak to the Imperial Valley educational community Thursday, May 9 as part of an effort toward increasing UC enrollment of the region’s students.
The chancellor’s visit will begin at 8:30 a.m. with a Community Breakfast at the Barbara Worth Resort where he will address business and civic leaders, alumni, as well as educators and students. He is expected to speak on developing gifted students into future leaders.
Dynes will present the keynote address at the College-Going Initiative Educator’s Conference, also at the resort, later in the day. The UCSD Early Academic Outreach Program co-sponsored the conference.
The daylong trip to the valley will conclude at Brawley Union High School where students will be able to speak to the chancellor about how to get into college and get advice on how to prepare for it.
Two professors receive Guggenheim fellowships
Associate professor of visual arts Lev Manovich and associate history professor Takashi Fujitani have been awarded Guggenheim fellowships for their distinguished achievement in the past and for exceptional promise for future accomplishment.
This year, 184 scholars were selected out of 2,800 applicants. Fellows receive $6,740 as part of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s goal of nurturing promising scholars. The Guggenheim Foundation has provided more than $200 million in grants in its 78-year history.
Student-experience survey to begin later this month
Researchers will be conducting a systemwide study measuring the “”student experience”” at the University of California. The study, to start later this month, will survey respondents who entered the eight UC campuses as freshmen between fall 1998 and fall 2000, and transfers from fall 2000 and fall 2001.
The study, titled “”The University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey,”” will ask respondents meeting the qualifications to reflect upon whether they feel they have made the most of the opportunities given to them at the University of California.
UC president Richard Atkinson will send e-mails to about 60,000 undergraduates in the system, informing them of the study and requesting their participation to better assess the university’s performance. Instructions on how to access the online questionnaire will be sent within a few days of Atkinson’s e-mail.
UCSD Bookstore gift certificates for $100 will be awarded to 10 UCSD respondents via a random drawing that will also give $2,002 to a grand-prize winner.
The survey reportedly takes about 30 minutes to complete. More information is available via the internet at http://ishi.lib.berkeley.edu/cshe/seru21/.
Geffen gives UCLA largest donation ever to a med school
The UCLA School of Medicine has received $200 million from David Geffen, the single largest donation ever given to a school of medicine.
Gerald Levy, provost for the medical sciences and dean of the UCLA School of Medicine, said he expects the gift to enhance the research capabilities and teaching programs of the school.
The endowment will allow the school to retain and recruit better scientists, researchers and physicians, Levy said. The gift is also expected to allow the school to create new programs and initiatives.
Geffen co-founded DreamWorks SKG, an entertainment production company with Steven Speilberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
The gift is the largest ever given in the history of the University of California.
