When Patricia Turner was a teenager, she thought she would have to work for years at local stores to afford college. Then, during her senior year, she found out she had scored high enough on a standardized test to receive a regents scholarship, which would fully fund her education at a state college. Read more...

Photo: Patricia Turner, the recently appointed senior dean of the College of Letters and Science, grew up below the poverty line and is the first in her family to go to college. (UCLA College Communications)