Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Since 2018, Robert Gurval, associate professor emeritus in the UCLA Department of Classics, has taught a course and led walking tours on UCLA’s early history and architecture.
As we celebrate the UCLA College’s 100th birthday, he invites us all to explore some of the little-known historical treasures hiding in plain sight on the campus we call home — as beloved today as it was to the College’s students, faculty and staff a century ago.
“We might think that, back then, no one could have imagined how great this newly created institution of higher learning would become 100 years later, but I expect that many did,” Gurval says. “And it’s their assurance and confidence of a better future that should inspire us today."
Since 2018, Robert Gurval, associate professor emeritus in the UCLA Department of Classics, has taught a course and led walking tours on UCLA’s early history and architecture.
As we celebrate the UCLA College’s 100th birthday, he invites us all to explore some of the little-known historical treasures hiding in plain sight on the campus we call home — as beloved today as it was to the College’s students, faculty and staff a century ago.
“We might think that, back then, no one could have imagined how great this newly created institution of higher learning would become 100 years later, but I expect that many did,” Gurval says. “And it’s their assurance and confidence of a better future that should inspire us today."
