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When the Public University is a Corporate Landlord

by Charmaine Chua, Desiree Fields and David Stein

During negotiations with graduate student workers, UCLA administrators claimed that increasing stipends would effectively subsidize local landlords through higher rents and squeeze the poor in the Los Angeles housing market. The reality is that the university is an investor in a huge real estate trust that is hiking rents itself. 

What Does African American Studies Need to Thrive?

A recent eruption of dissention in UCLA's African American Studies department arguably reflects the strains caused by poor institutional support by the university, an issue faced by Black Studies departments on many campuses.

UCLA historian Gabriel Piterberg is out for sexual harassment

Students have been demanding his ouster for 2 years.

UCLA professor sanctioned over sexual misconduct allegations returns to teaching, sparking protests

UCLA spokeswoman Kathryn Kranhold said Piterberg would continue to teach his classes throughout the quarter but that his lectures would be videotaped for students who prefer not to attend in person.

UCLA history professor Gabriel Piterberg continues to come under attack after being accused of sexual harassment

by Cinnamon Stillwell

Now it’s a pro-Israel group that is targeting him.

UCLA Professor Gabriel Piterberg — accused of sexual harassment — to return in winter 2017

Many students say his punishment wasn’t severe enough.

UCLA Professor Accused Of Sexually Harassing Grad Students Is Returning

History professor Gabriel Piterberg took a European fellowship while he was serving a suspension.

Petition calls for dismissal of UCLA historian Gabriel Piterberg

He was accused of sexual assault against two students.

UCLA students and faculty protest return of historian Gabriel Piterberg

The professor was accused of sexual assault and harassment following quarter of leave.

UCLA community protests professor's punishment for sex harassment: $3,000 fine and 11-week suspension

Students and other members of the UCLA community gather on the Westwood campus to protest the university's handling of sexual harassment complaints made against history professor Gabriel Piterberg.

UCLA Condemns Anti-Semitic Facebook Post

The University of California at Los Angeles last week condemned an anti-Semitic comment that a UCLA student posted on the Facebook page of Mayim Bialik, the actress.

Q&A with UCLA history professor Joan Waugh on baseball in America’s Gilded Age

C-SPAN recently aired a recording of UCLA history professor Joan Waugh’s annual lecture on the history of baseball in the late 1800s

UCLA history Professor Gabriel Piterberg sued by 2 grad students for sexual harassment

One of the students complains he touched her bottom and put his tongue in her mouth

Archivist finds long-lost recording of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at UCLA

King’s voice can again be heard — this time online

UCLA's Embarrassment: Prof. Abou El Fadl

by Daniel Pipes

The once-promising career of UCLA law professor Khaled Medhat Abou El Fadl, once regarded as a moderate, has faded over the past decade.

UCLA’s New Cover Girl: Guess Which Far Leftist It Is!

by Ron Radosh

"This banner adds to the shadow that today is cast over so many of our major universities."

LA Times interviews Brenda E. Stevenson

Historian Brenda E. Stevenson (pictured in her UCLA office, with an African sculpture) mostly writes about the long-gone — 18th and 19th century African Americans, and the lives of enslaved women. Then came the case that made history while L.A. watched: Korean-born shopkeeper Soon Ja Du killed black teenager Latasha Harlins over a bottle of orange juice. A jury convicted Du of voluntary manslaughter, but she was sentenced only to probation and community service.Stevenson's new book, "The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins," analyzes the other "no justice, no peace" case that echoes through the 1992 riots and into the present day.Thirteen days after the Rodney King beating, Harlins was shot and killed. Where were you when all of this happened?

UCLA prof. Toby Higbie named Lloyd Lewis Fellow at Newberry Library

UCLA associate professor Tobias Higbie has been named the Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American History at the Newberry Library in Chicago for 2013-14.Professor Higbie received his PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2000, and is the author of Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930. He co-curated the joint Newberry Library/Chicago Historical Society exhibit "Outspoken: Chicago's Free Speech Tradition" in the fall of 2004.According to the UCLA announcement, Higbie will use the fellowship to conduct research for a book project entitled "Working Knowledge: Learning and Living in a Grassroots Social Movement."The full list of 2013-2014 Newberry Library Fellows will be announced in the early summer.