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HIGHER EDUCATION SPECIAL EDITION

Inventiveness pays at colleges
By Larry Gordon
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | INNOVATION: California's campuses are among the country's most prolific at receiving patents, and that means more income and greater prestige. UC has led nationally for 12 years.

On film, collegians major in life lessons
By Patrick Goldstein
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | CAMPUS SETTINGS: College is the great id of American movies. In the early days of film, universities were largely settings for outlandish comic escapades.

A study in style
By Booth Moore
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | FASHION: From top hats to back tats, from corsets to navel rings, college fashion over the last 125 years has increasingly stripped down, with students shedding inhibitions along with their clothes.

Pasadena on high road of car creation
By Dan Neil
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | DREAM MACHINES: Art Center College of Design has produced many of the automotive world's brightest stars, belying the school's low-profile location.

To pay for college, fill out the forms
By Rebecca Trounson
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | FINANCING: Regardless of income, financing higher education is matter of filing the applications.

School is all booked up
By David L. Ulin
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | LITERATURE: School is a unifying experience, one that almost everybody shares. Perhaps that's why so much has been written about it, including the children's books of Barbara Park and the novels of James Hilton and John Knowles. Still, of all the levels of education, higher learning is the most compelling, perhaps because it's where we learn to be adults. Here, then, are 10 books, fiction and nonfiction, that look at colleges and graduate schools across the country from the perspective of both faculty and students, and in so doing, tell us something about the role of academia in our lives.

Learning milestones
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | THE TIMELINE: California's educational system dates to 1849, but new campuses are still being added.

Acing the pranks
By Roy Rivenburg
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | STUDENT STUNTS: Whether it's a grudge match against `Stanfurd' or indignities heaped on Tommy Trojan, students use their brainpower to fuel feuds.

Colleges see the future in technology
By Stuart Silverstein
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | CLASSROOMS OF TOMORROW: Online classes are only the start of how schools are looking at ways to use high-tech gear and change the way students learn.

A hunger for change
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | FOOD: Culinary trends evolve (consomme a la princess, anyone?), but complaints about school fare are eternal.

L.A.'s screening gems
By Rachel Abramowitz
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | FILM SCHOOLS: Perhaps the only people who brag more about their illustrious alumni than Ivy Leaguers are the deans of film schools.

Some very special collections
By Suzanne Muchnic
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | TREASURES: Mark Twain's papers, AIDS posters, stuffed penguins and photographic treasures: Institutions gather troves of historical materials.

Treasures are drawn to academic sanctuaries
By Suzanne Muchnic
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | ARTWORKS: The state's colleges and universities are home to vast collections of art, whether donated or commissioned. Many are on public view.

Building on reputation
By Larry Gordon
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | NAMESAKES: An early death, big money, beloved character, academic brilliance: Those are some attributes that get a prominent building or plaza named after you at one of California's colleges and universities. Many schools boast landmarks bearing the monikers of generous alumni. But some can tout landmarks named after a U.S. president, the author of children's books or a motherly custodian. Here is a sampling from across the state, with a bias for architectural and historical distinction.

State's first colleges, by definition
By Tanya Caldwell
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | THE PIONEERS: Santa Clara University and the University of the Pacific both boast of being the oldest. True bragging rights are a matter of degree.

From Berkeley, challenge to authority spreads
By James Ricci
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | PROTESTS: The Free Speech Movement serves as a model for antiwar rallies, but violence increasingly becomes a factor.

A celebrated strategy
By Rebecca Trounson
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | THE MASTER PLAN: After decades, the state's tiered college system enrolls anyone and endures as an example to the world, though some suggest updating it.

State hustled to succeed
By Patt Morrison
125 YEARS | EDUCATION | AN INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE: California first marched itself into the big, bruising realm of higher education with a mortarboard on its head and a chip on its shoulder.

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