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Friday, August 5, 2011

Who Owns It?

As the 1951 fundraising letter above indicates, the UCLA Faculty Center began with contributions from various sources. (Click on the image for a clearer look.) The Regents apparently contributed less than half, perhaps a third, of the original funding. However, documents available do not make it clear who owns the building (as opposed to the land under it which clearly is university property). What is known is that over the years, there were discussions of a formal contract (Memorandum of Understanding – MOU) between UCLA and the Board of the Faculty Center.

Below you can find a draft of an MOU from 2005 – one which was never signed. It contains a statement on page 2 (of the MOU, not the pdf) that the university owns the building. So it appears that the university wanted a statement that it owned the building. But the Board never agreed to this MOU or any other version.

As the song goes:

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