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‘He lived for the music’: Jim Ladd, ‘The Last DJ’ who inspired Tom Petty song, dies aged 75
In 2011, when Ladd and a number of his colleagues were sacked from KLOS after it was acquired by Cumulus media, Petty paid tribute during an intimate performance with the Heartbreakers at Cal State Northridge. -- Yahoo! News
California Is Desperate for Affordable Housing But Can’t Stop Getting in Its Own Way
Housing costs and homelessness have become the top political issue in the state, prompting officials to set ambitious goals to build more housing, faster. Los Angeles is aiming to construct more than 450,000 new homes by 2029, a feat that would require five times as much construction as occurred in the previous decade, according to a May report from researchers at the University of California Los Angeles’ Ziman Center for Real Estate and California State University Northridge. -- The Wall Street Journal
In Los Angeles, a 49-unit apartment complex is taking 17 years to complete, the result of complex laws that exacerbated California's affordable housing crisis
According to a UCLA and CSU-Northridge analysis of building permits from 2010 to 2022, constructing an apartment building in California took an average of four years during that period. -- Business Insider
Governance Reform Advocates Share Final Recommendations for City of L.A.
The Los Angeles Governance Reform Project (LAGRP), a coalition of academic experts from USC, CSUN, UCLA, Pomona College, among others, held a Zoom meeting to discuss their final recommendations for governance reform. Experts from Catalyst California, Common Cause and other organizations joined the professors to discuss their thoughts on the topic as well. -- MyNewsLA
Developing Opportunities: L.A. County, Cal State System and More
The trustees of the California State University system announced Wednesday that they are seeking statements of qualifications (SOQ) from interested and qualified entities capable of doing a design-build to take part in a competitive request for proposals (RFP) process to construct the Matador Success and Inclusion Center (MSIC) at Cal State Northridge. It will be a new campus building housing the Identity Based Resource Centers, the Ethnic Studies Center for Research, Activism, and Community Empowerment, the Community High Impact Programs group, the Matador Achievement Center, and the Athletics Administration offices. The building will be a standalone structure of roughly 40,000 gross square feet. The RFP will follow submission of an SOQ. Maximum acceptance cost is estimated at $50.8 million, with rounding. -- Industry Insider, Government Technology
Travels with Charles
Back in Kyiv, Charles and I head to the Premier Palace, a historic hotel built in 1912 and a favorite of the rich and famous. Charles has wanted to visit for a long time and regales me with its storied past as we settle into the beautifully panelled cigar lounge and light up. We discuss literature and quote poems back and forth, and Charles tells me about the great writers he has known. He does this utterly without pretence—in fact, the stories seem to crop up by accident. He spoke French to Jack Kerouac at parties at his parents’ house, “a nice enough fellow but perhaps a little forlorn.” His father called Kerouac “Jean-Louis.” He also knew Ray Bradbury quite well—when they first met, he asked the writer about Rudyard Kipling. Bradbury told him that when he’d asked the great Anglo-Irish novelist Lord Dunsany who the greatest English writer of the 20th century was, Dunsany told him Kipling—“and I have never found any reason to disagree with that opinion.” Charles also knew Aldous Huxley’s wife, “bright eyes, a halo of white hair, thick Italian accent,” and met Christopher Isherwood at Cal State Northridge. -- The European Conservative
'General Hospital' Actor Jack Axelrod Dies at 93
Axelrod shared his passion for acting by teaching at various universities such as Penn State, Temple University, Cal State Northridge & Bakersfield, and CalArts. Additionally, he served as a guest instructor at the Speiser/Sturges Acting Studio in Los Angeles.-- Newsmax
#164 California State University, Northridge
California State University, Northridge is a public university located in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, Calif. The nation’s second-largest public master’s university, CSU Northridge’s 353-acre campus boasts a community of nearly 40,000 students. Students at CSU Northridge can choose from more than 100 academic programs across nine colleges, with psychology, radio television broadcast, and criminal justice being among the most popular. -- Forbes Magazine
CSUN Professors Offer Advice on Gift Giving for Kids
In an era where there seem to be endless options when shopping for kids’ toys, California State University, Northridge experts in child development and the dynamics of play are offering advice on holiday shopping this season. -- SCV News
Reform advocates share strategies to fix LA redistricting
The Los Angeles Governance Reform Project is a coalition of academic experts from USC, CSUN, UCLA, Pomona College, among others -- Los Angeles Daily News