Students dreaming of a Hollywood life -- and more importantly, a Hollywood paycheck -- have always flocked to Los Angeles to make their careers. To narrow the gap, out-of-state schools have followed their grads' "go west" impulse. "It proves to them empirically they can survive with the tools they have," says Syracuse in L.A. program director Andrea Asimow, explaining how the program has become the poster child for the chancellor's key themes: "scholarship in action" and "geography of opportunity."
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