How to Have a Major Conference Without a Campus Hotel

As a follow up, readers of this blog will recall an earlier entry about the 2-day Governor's Conference on Local Renewable Energy Resources which was held at UCLA recently without the need for a new hotel/conference center.

If you don't recall it, check out http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2011/07/rooms-at-inns.html

The first day of the governor's conference was held at Covel and the second at the Faculty Center, the very Faculty Center that was slated to be demolished for the hotel/conference center.

For a more complete photo montage, below is a full collection of pictures of the event. Click on the arrow to start the automatic show:

An official statement about the event reports that "The conference embodied the Governor's vision along with the Luskin Center for Innovation's purpose to unite the intellectual capital of UCLA with forward-looking civic leaders to address the most pressing issues confronting our community, nation and world."