Then & Now

University in Crisis: Disruption, Response, and Transformation During the Young Administration at UCLA

June 22, 2022 UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy Episode 21
Then & Now
University in Crisis: Disruption, Response, and Transformation During the Young Administration at UCLA
Show Notes

This episode features a conversation with UCLA graduate and undergraduate students who authored a new LCHP report exploring the history UCLA's response to crises of major scale.  Jazz Kiang, Jannelle Dang, and Nayiri Artounians join Then & Now to discuss UCLA administrators' approaches to the student movement for ethnic studies in the late 1960s, and the on-campus killings of students Bunchy Carter and and John Huggins. They also discuss the firing of Angela Davis, and the implications for present-day university administrators. This episode is moderated by Prof. Eddie Cole, an advisor for the project. 

Read the report here.