Straws in the Wind

The Regents are meeting today and tomorrow.  While they are considering UCLA's loss of the neurology lab (see our earlier post), they can also consider this headline from a USC news release that was highlighted today in Inside Higher Ed:: 

Music Industry Icons and Entrepreneurs Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre Give $70 Million to Create the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation

http://universityofsoutherncalifornia.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/j/99843C9CB6AD3D5B/636A2070300EA8D9C67FD2F38AC4859C

http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/05/15/two-music-industry-icons-give-usc-70m-start-music-business-center

And they might also want to consider the new USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy: http://schwarzenegger.usc.edu/

Our earlier post on the neurology lab raid is at:
http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2013/05/lessons-to-be-learned.html

We can leave it to the Regents (and maybe the governor and legislative leaders) to think of the question.  As for the answer:

PS: From the Sacramento Bee's Capitol Alert blog:  STUDENTS DO THE GRADING: While the UC leadership discusses its agenda, UC students will publicly grade their elected representatives. The UC Student Association has scheduled a 12:30 p.m. press conference at the convention center to release a series of report cards gauging legislators' support for higher education...

http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/05/am-alert-uc-regents-arrive-in-sacramento.html

Read more here: http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/05/am-alert-uc-regents-arrive-in-sacramento.html#storylink=cpy