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Eileen Strempel and Stephen Handel share insights on how to best serve neo-traditional students
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April 5, 2021
There’s a lot more to Eileen Strempel than her title and academic record might suggest. While the inaugural dean of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and accomplished soprano’s scholarly interests have advanced understanding of the contributions of history’s most influential female composers, Strempel is a longtime champion for transfer students and a firm believer in the democratizing effects of high-quality public education.
Strempel and UCLA alumnus Stephen Handel, former chief admissions officer for the University of California system and executive director of higher education assessment use for the College Board, have previously worked together on the two-volume book “Transfer and Transformation: Fostering Transfer Student Success.” The authors recently discussed the ideas highlighted in their new book “Beyond Free College: Making Higher Education
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Vaccinating a certain portion of teachers and staff has been a sticking point for reopening public schools in Los Angeles County and other areas of California hit hard by COVID-19, and the state’s plan to earmark a percentage of vaccine doses for educators starting next month won’t do much to hasten the return of classroom instruction. Still, pressure to restart on-campus learning, especially in places where public schools remain closed and private schools are open, greatly increased earlier this week when Los Angeles County announced all elementary students could return to the classroom with precautions, because the overall case rate was low enough.
February 18, 2021
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(Commentary by UCLA’s Jennifer Mnookin and Eileen Strempel) Faculty, staff
and students need to be given access to the vaccine sooner rather than later so that a full university life can resume in the fall. We aren’t arguing that students should be at the front of the vaccine line. They should stand behind the elderly, at-risk front-line workers and those at elevated health risk.
D&I boards tend to comprise people who experience the harm and inequity in the workplace. “You don’t want to overtax them because there’s this thing called the minority tax the stress that minorities often feel when they’re asked to engage in this work repeatedly,” says Julian A. McNeil, an organizational development consultant who collaborates with Slater and the first Anti-Racism Program M
Milken Foundation Gifts UCLA with Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
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UCLA announced on Dec. 3 the opening of its first permanent academic home for the study of American Jewish music. Housed in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, the new Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience will foster artistic creativity, scholarship, performance, and other cultural expression, all through a Jewish musical lens.
“The Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience will unite the academic and the artistic, showcasing the artists, scholars and educators who reveal to us the authentic voice of our shared humanity,” Eileen Strempel, dean of the school of music said in a statement to the Journal. “We are incredibly grateful to Lowell Milken for his generous gift to endow this center, which builds on our latest learnings, establishes a standard of excellence and a