Larry Gordon
Larry Gordon was a higher education writer for the Los Angeles Times and covered issues affecting colleges and universities in California and around the nation. He has been an assistant city editor and an urban affairs writer at The Times. He previously worked at the Bergen Record and Hudson Dispatch in his native New Jersey. He won a mid-career Fulbright grant to teach journalism in Bulgaria. Gordon has a bachelor’s from Georgetown University and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. He left The Times in 2015.
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A 30-year-old man who appeared to be mentally ill was apprehended walking on a restricted service roadway inside Los Angeles International Airport on Friday morning, airport police said.
Dec. 25, 2015
Schools are closed during Thanksgiving week in the Pasadena Unified School District but counselor Alejandra Diaz will be on duty from home.
Nov. 28, 2015
Before he ever knew they might be topics to study in college, food business and farming played an important part in Charlie James’ life.
Nov. 26, 2015
El pasado jueves, los Regentes de la Universidad de California (UC) aprobaron por unanimidad un plan para aumentar la inscripción de estudiantes universitarios de California en la UC en 5,000 para el próximo otoño y otros 5,000 adicionales para el 2018, pese a las inquietudes sobre si la Universidad podría contratar suficientes profesores y proporcionar suficiente espacio de dormitorio.
Nov. 24, 2015
UC regents on Thursday unanimously approved a plan to increase enrollment of California undergraduates at UC by 5,000 next fall and an additional 5,000 by 2018, despite concerns over whether the university will be able to hire enough professors and provide enough dorm space.
Nov. 19, 2015
UC regents on Thursday approved a long-planned expansion to outfit UC Merced with new classrooms, dorms and labs over the next five years and an enrollment boost of nearly 4,000 students.
Nov. 19, 2015
The University of California is facing an unusual math problem: How do you divide up 5,000 by 9?
Nov. 19, 2015
If the University of Missouri was the spark, then the fire didn’t take long to spread.
Nov. 18, 2015
El multimillonario de la industria del entretenimiento David Geffen quien previamente había otorgado $300 millones de dólares para apoyar a la escuela de medicina de UCLA, ha donando ahora $100 millones para construir una secundaria y preparatoria privada para los hijos del personal docente y administrativo de UCLA, la escuela estará ubicada en el plantel de la universidad en Westwood.
Nov. 13, 2015
Student leaders at Claremont McKenna College on Friday savored their victory at the departure of a high-ranked administrator deemed insensitive to minorities and won promises that the liberal arts school would seek to add more diversity among faculty and staff.
Nov. 13, 2015