THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES: Historical Overview

This research provides an overview of the creation and development of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). This overview covers the development of the institution over time, as well as some of the issues affecting the functioning of the university.

The first constitution of the State of California provided for the establishment of a state university. This provision of the constitution led to the creation of the University of California in 1853. Eventually, the university evolved into a system of branch universities, a development that made possible to creation of a branch of the University of California is Los Angeles in 1931. The Los Angeles campus was developed from a predecessor campus of the state normal (teachers) college system. That campus had been absorbed by the Regents of the University of California in 1919. The normal school had been established in Los Angeles in 1882. From 1919 through 1931, the former normal college was known as the Southern Branch of the University of California.

The university, as it is known and understood in the last-quarter of the twentieth century, is the current manifestation of a process which began to evolve in the Middle Ages. The universities of the Middle Ages did not have libraries, nor did they have laboratories. An institution without such facilities in the mid-1980s would not

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ion Prior to the creation of the United States, the control of higher education in Great Britain had been vested in the national government of that country. The character of political development in the American Colonies and, later, in the early years of the United States, caused the concept of strong national control of education in this country to be rejected. In great part as a consequence of the decision against national control of higher education, by the last-quarter of the nineteenth century, students in the United States were able to choose from well-established private universities in the east, rapidly developing state universities in all parts of the country, and a plethora of small private academies and other postsecondary educational institutions. The growing diversity of quality among these many institutions caused a growing concern among educators and the general public as to how the various postsecondary educational institutions should be assessed and controlled. The concern for an assessment of the quality of postsecondary education, together with a political philosophy which eschewed federal control of education, led to the creation of regional accreditation bodies. These regional provide accreditation
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