LA universities see long road to recovery after wildfires

Institutions themselves may have escaped major damage but hundreds of staff and students have been displaced in most destructive fires in Californian history

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January 23, 2025

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January 27, 2025

Kathryn Palmer for Inside Higher Ed

The Pacific Palisades fire burns near Los Angeles, California

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