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“Los Angeles runs on a premium blend of expertise and innovation. Its unique,
start-up-centric economy couldn’t work without a highly educated work force.
And vice versa.”
Dick Ziman, chairman of American Value Partners and founder and former CEO of Arden Realty, the largest commercial landlord in Southern California, talks about the importance of UCLA to California and to his company.
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 “Lots of institutions dispense existing knowledge. The mission of a research university is something more: to produce new knowledge.”
Paul Boyer, UCLA professor emeritus and 1997 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, talks about the challenges of research and his most valued colleagues.
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 “Forty-seven
years ago, the president of the University of California introduced an
idealistic, untested and truly immodest plan to build the finest public
higher education system in the nation. . . . That freshman you just passed
on Bruin Walk may be the next Bill Gates . . . That professor . . . could
create an an unforgettable piece of music, a cure for a deadly disease
. . . ”
Sherry Lansing, UC Regent and former CEO of Paramount Pictures, talks
about the need to nourish the university that benefits so many of us.
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 "So,
what role should UCLA have in all this? The role it's always had: to
identify, select, nurture and educate successive generations of California's
leaders in business, government, the sciences and the arts."
Diane Watson, U.S. House of Representatives, talks about her
UCLA experience and the voyage that begins on a student's first day
of classes — and continues lifelong.
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“Who knows what my company’s going to be doing in 20 years? Probably something that was discovered at a university.”
Henry Samueli, chairman and chief technology officer of Broadcom Corporation, talks about the need for research and development, and the role UCLA plays.
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“Among the nation’s major research universities, UCLA has the most students receiving federal financial assistance. . . . Nearly one in four UCLA undergrads is the first in the family to attend college.”
Warren Furutani, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles Community College District, talks about the way a publicly-owned, world-class research university like UCLA can achieve access and excellence.
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“If UCLA were simply a world-class university, it would still be exceptional. But it happens to be a world-class research university, and that makes it extraordinary. . . . From their first day, undergrads are drawn into the company of leading thinkers and doers they would never expect to know if there weren't a research university in the neighborhood."
Betsy Wood Knapp, founder/CEO of BigPicture Investors LLC, talks about undergraduate education at UCLA.
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