Colleges and Universities

Obama urges Morehouse College graduates to help others

2013-05-19 11:48:00

WASHINGTON — President Obama urged graduates of a celebrated historically black college Sunday to use their education to help others and to work for "something larger than yourself," citing the example of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr....

What's in millennials' wallets? Fewer credit cards

2013-05-18 18:05:00

Ringed by the posh shops of Beverly Center, Tim Ratliff said no — he didn't have a credit card. He didn't need one. "I just hear so many horror stories about people being in debt," said Ratliff, 21, who studies psychology at Ohio State University....

Stolen-artifacts case has cost much, yielded little, critics say

2013-05-18 22:09:00

When hundreds of federal agents raided four Southern California museums early one January morning in 2008, it set the art world ablaze, suggesting that even amid an international looting scandal, museums had continued to do business with the black...

Little attention paid to race in huge community college district

2013-05-18 22:38:00

An incumbent who styles herself as an outsider and a reform-minded community activist and political aide will face each other in a runoff election Tuesday for the final seat on the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees. Unlike the...

Vampire Weekend braces for bright lights with big-idea 'City' album

2013-05-19 00:00:00

Ezra Koenig wanted to be clear about this: The frontman of Vampire Weekend was not comparing his band to the Beatles. "What we're talking about is making me think like a fan, which is a little bit dangerous because it could come across as me trying to...

Hedda Bolgar, renowned psychoanalyst, dies at 103

2013-05-18 14:04:00

Hedda Bolgar, a psychologist old enough to have attended Sigmund Freud's lectures in Vienna but youthful enough to have treated patients until just a few weeks ago, has died. She was 103. Her mind was sharp, her zest for work keen, and her social...

Reagan the Berkeley basher

2013-05-18 00:00:00

Responding to Seth Rosenfeld's May 10 Op-Ed article linking then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan's harsh condemnation of student protests in the 1960s to the eventual decline of the University of California system, reader Bruce Bates wrote in a letter...

USC made its offer to neuroscientists a no-brainer

2013-05-18 05:00:00

The courtship that has riveted the neuroscience world blossomed at a Saturday night dinner in a tony Brentwood restaurant. USC provost Elizabeth Garrett and executive vice provost Michael Quick kept the conversation light. Over chicken with braised...

Spanish book festival LéaLA aims to further cultural communication

2013-05-17 10:15:00

When Carmen Cervantes was growing up in the 1960s in East Los Angeles, it would've been nearly as surprising to find a Spanish-language bookstore in her neighborhood as it would be to unearth an Aztec pyramid in the middle of Beverly Hills. The...

Students raised in foster system honored for completing college

2013-05-17 17:57:00

Soon they’ll walk across stages at college campuses around Southern California, accepting their degrees and celebrating with classmates.�But at a smaller, more low-key event on Friday, they were honored with a closer set of peers: fellow foster...

Hofstra student, captor killed in home invasion near university

2013-05-17 12:19:00

NEW YORK -- A Hofstra University student being held hostage during a home invasion was shot dead and her captor was also killed as police arrived at the scene of the break-in early Friday, just two days before commencement ceremonies at the college on...

California Latinos face stark workforce training gap, study says

2013-05-17 08:00:00

With community colleges turning students away for lack of available slots, Latinos are projected to face disproportionately higher workforce training gaps, a study released Friday found. That means lower wages over the lifetime of an estimated 840,000...

The University of Central Florida's first medical school students at their graduation ceremony on Friday, May 17, 2013.

2013-05-17 00:00:00

UCF president John Hitt shakes hands with Ruth Strakosha during the University of Central Florida's first medical school graduation ceremony on Friday, May 17, 2013.

2013-05-17 00:00:00

UCF president John Hitt gives the commencement address at the University of Central Florida's first medical school students graduation ceremony on Friday, May 17, 2013.

2013-05-17 00:00:00