University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Academic Medical Expertise and Public Policy CredentialingDescription
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) appears as one of Joey Lucas’s alma maters, cited to establish her educational credentials and social provenance during the Oval Office interrogation. It functions as a recognizable higher-education institution that confers legitimacy and reputational context for characters; the processed material depicts no internal governance, policy actions, or institutional interventions, presenting UCLA solely as background credentialing.
Event Involvements
Events with structured involvement data
S3E11
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100,000 Airplanes
Bartlet and Sam Lamentably Shelve the Cancer-Cure Pledge
UCLA flagged as key university brain trust for press-ready oncologists, its recruitment infeasibility sealing the draft's fate.
Active Representation
Directly referenced in expert assembly list
Power Dynamics
Academic autonomy trumping urgent White House demands
Institutional Impact
Underscores tensions between politics and academia
Organizational Goals
Uphold research independence
Manage faculty availability
Influence Mechanisms
Decentralized expertise deployment
Bureaucratic response lags