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NIH Funding, What Does UC Have to Lose?
Late on Friday, February 7th, the National Institutes of Health announced that, rather than pay the rate carefully negotiated between the NIH and each individually research institution, “for new grant awards and existing grant awards, effective as of the date of this Guidance’s issuance. Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard…
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LAO Report: Trends in Higher Education Faculty and Staff
California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office released a report on December 4th, 2024, titled “Trends in Higher Education Faculty and Staff.” Here are a few of the more interesting data points: The number of faculty has gone up over all, but the number of tenured or tenure track faculty has actually gone down. And…
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The $66 Fix: Restore quality and access while eliminating tuition PLUS Prop 98 K-12 funding
(A PDF of this report — prettier than this web version and suitable for printing — is available.) California’s commitment to its world-acclaimed system of public higher education has declined dramatically since 2000, at tremendous loss to California’s people, economy and future prospects. It’s not too late. There are solutions. It is commonly, but mistakenly,…
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The $48 Fix: Reclaiming California’s Master Plan for Higher Education
(A PDF of this report — prettier than this web version and suitable for printing — is available. A spreadsheet with all the data and charts in this report is also available.) California’s commitment to its world-acclaimed system of public higher education has declined dramatically since 2000, at tremendous loss to California’s people, economy and…
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Reclaim California’s Higher Education Conference
Below, please find the handout that we prepared for the September 26, 2015, Reclaim Higher Education Strategic Planning Conference. It is also attached as a PDF. Professor Stanton Glantz presented the information in the handout. His slides are available as well. Restoring the Promise of California’s Master Plan for Higher Education “The University of California…
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Restoring the Promise of Higher Education: A Problem California Can Solve Now
By Stanton A. Glantz, Professor of Medicine, UCSF Once, California had abundant water and few foresaw the challenge of global warming. Governor Brown, recognizing that it is impossible to simply roll back the clock on these problems, is leading California to confront this changed reality with enormous efforts that have uncertain outcomes. But there is…
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Return out-of-state admits to UC to 10-12% of freshmen
UC has dramatically increased admissions of non-resident students since 2009, from the historical 10 to 12 percent system-wide up to 30% in 2014. The University has argued that the extra $24,000 in non-resident tuition these students pay is used to pay for more seats for California resident students. UC ignores the fact that about half…
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How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in 2015-16
Read “Financial Options for Restoring Quality and Access to Public Higher Education in California: 2015-16” below or download a PDF of it. If you’re really a policy wonk, download the spreadsheets behind this report. WORKING PAPER FINANCIAL OPTIONS FOR RESTORING QUALITY AND ACCESS TO PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN CALIFORNIA: 2015-16 Stanton A. Glantz Professor of…
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February 2015 Assembly Budget Committee Presentation on UC is Misleading
At the February 18, 2015, Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance meeting, the agenda included a short report on UC’s budget. The report is misleading for 4 reasons: • The University had already been cut by 18% between 2000-1 and 2007-8, well before most of the other agencies were cut after 2007-8, making…
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Who Is More Frugal?
Governor Jerry Brown will be releasing his state general fund budget proposal next week. He has carefully cultivated his image as a frugal fiscal disciplinarian. And he has been taking UC to task for asking for more money from the state, demanding more cuts first. At the November 19, 2014 Regents’ meeting he said he…
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A funding reset would eliminate almost all student debt for UC students
Pushing the reset button and restoring the promise of California higher education would eliminate almost all student debt for UC students Under the reset plan (restoring state funding to 2000-01 levels) undergraduate students would save $7, 821 per year (paying $5,379 rather than $13, 200 per year in tuition and fees) or $31,286 over four…
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Council of UC Faculty Statement on Proposed Tuition Increases
The Council of UC Faculty Associations holds Governor Jerry Brown’s slashing of public higher education responsible for UC President Napolitano’s recent proposal to budget for 5% tuition increases every year for the next 5 years. Raising tuition is not the solution. There is a better way: provide California students and their families high quality, affordable…
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How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in 2013-14
Read “Financial Options for Restoring Quality and Access to Public Higher Education in California: 2013-14” below or download a PDF of it. If you’re really a policy wonk, download the spreadsheets behind this report. WORKING PAPER FINANCIAL OPTIONS FOR RESTORING QUALITY AND ACCESS TO PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN CALIFORNIA: 2013-14 Stanton A. Glantz Professor of…
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Faculty Association President Meister’s Op-ed on SB 520
by Robert Meister After a decade of skyrocketing tuition, Sacramento politicians have seized on a new gimmick to avoid paying for the kind of low-cost, high quality college education California used to guarantee all its students. SB520, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Steinberg, proposes to “solve” the problem of over-enrolled gateway courses at California’s public…
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How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in 2012-13 – updated with January 2013 state budget data
Read “Financial Options for Restoring Quality and Access to Public Higher Education in California” below or download a PDF of it (January 2013, 7 pp.) If you’re really a policy wonk, download the spreadsheets behind this report. WORKING PAPER FINANCIAL OPTIONS FOR RESTORING QUALITY AND ACCESS TO PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN CALIFORNIA: 2012-13 Stanton A….
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How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in 2012-13?
This working paper has been superseded by an updated version: How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in 2013-14? Read “Financial Options for Restoring Quality and Access to Public Higher Education in California” below or download a PDF of it (November 2012, 7 pp.) If you’re really a policy wonk, download…
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How much will it cost us to restore public higher education if Prop 30 fails
This post has been superseded by an updated version: How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in 2012-13?. Read “Financial Options for Restoring Quality and Access to Public Higher Education in California” below or download a PDF of it (September 2012, 8 pp.) If you’re really a policy wonk, download the…
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Where's UC Online Now and How Will We Get Our $7 Million Back?
by Wendy Brown, Outgoing Co-Chair, Berkeley Faculty Association On July 16th and 17th, The New York Times featured stories on the launching of Coursera, a blockbuster online higher education project emerging from a spectacularly successful Stanford experiment two years ago. Still in the early stages of development but already reaching hundreds of thousands of learners,…
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Brown and Yudof Bail on the Master Plan
By Bob Meister, President of CUCFA (Professor of Political and Social Thought, UCSC) On June 27, Governor Jerry Brown vetoed language inserted by both houses of the legislature that would have tied UC funding to admitting a minimum number of students (the same enrollment target as in previous budgets). His veto message says as follows:…
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An Open Letter From a UCSD Faculty Member to UCSD's New Chancellor
by Luis Martín-Cabrera Dear Chancellor Khosla: I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature as well as an affiliated faculty of Ethnic Studies and the Critical Gender Studies Program. I am also the Vice President of the San Diego Faculty Association, a local chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). As…
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What Governor Brown's May Budget Proposal Means for UC
UC President Mark Yudof and Governor Jerry Brown are working out a deal behind closed doors that will loosen the most important ties between the university and the state. Although they will both praise the deal by saying that it “stabilizes” funding while granting greater “flexibility,” its essence is that each will let the other…
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March 1 – 5 Mobilization for Higher Education
A major mobilization is coming March 1 – 5, 2012, to put pressure on the Governor and legislature to renew support for public education in California and for raising taxes to restore the state funding that UC, the CSUs, the CCs, and K-12 to meet the needs of our people for high quality, affordable education….
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Five Theses on Privatization and the UC Struggle
The following speech by Nathan Brown, Davis Faculty Association Board Member, and Assistant Professor of English at UC Davis, was delivered at the UC system-wide strike rally held at UC Davis on November 15: Hello Everyone! It’s beautiful to see so many of you here today. On four day’s notice, this is an incredible turnout….
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How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in 2011-12?
This post has been superseded by updated versions: How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in 2012-13? How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in 2013-14? Raising revenue has become such a taboo subject in California politics, but restoring quality public higher education in California can be…
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UC’s Administrators Crossed the Line
In November of 2009, cucfa.org/ posted a report by Richard Evans titled “Soon every faculty member will have a personal senior manager” which pointed out that the number of managers at UC was growing far faster than the ranks of the faculty and that, if the trend continued, it would not be long before there…
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Brown and Whitman Debate Public Higher Ed
At California’s gubernatorial debate on September 28, 2010 Capital Public Radio’s Marianne Russ asked the question we (and others, apparently, as she attributed the question to a UC student) asked her to ask during yesterday’s debate: “As Governor would you roll back all of the funding cuts to the UC, CSU and CC systems, why…
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Public higher education students graduating with more debt than Stanford
In 2008, before the 2009 massive tuition increases at UC and CSU, students graduating from 11 public four year colleges in California graduated with more debt than students graduating from Stanford: College College Administered Debt Estimated Total Debt CSU Northridge $21,943 $44,000 CSU San Bernadino $17,872 $36,000 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo $17,848 $36,000 UC…
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Meg Whitman’s $1 billion proposal for higher ed will require continuing large fee increases
Ms. Whitman’s “Policy Agenda for a New California” recognizes the importance of higher education to California’s future and identifies the problems of declining quality in the face of escalating fees: The University of California and California State University systems are two of our state’s greatest resources. UC is the best public university system in the…
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How much will it cost us to restore public higher education?
This post has been superseded by updated versions: How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in 2011-12? How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in 2012-13? How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in 2013-14? Raising revenue has become such…
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Schwarzenegger’s Higher Ed Constitutional Amendment: All PR
On January 6, 2010, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger lamented the disastrous condition of public higher education in California and decried the fact that California now spends more on prisons than higher education. He called for a constitutional amendment to reverse this situation and commit at least 10% of the state budget to higher ed (UC and…
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Where Does UC Tuition Go?
by Bob Meister, President, Council of UC Faculty Associations Professor of Political and Social Thought, UC Santa Cruz (A PDF version of this article is available.) UC feels free to use Educational Fees however it pleases without accountability. That’s why it can pledge “ed fees” as collateral for construction bonds and use them to pay…
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Soon every faculty member will have a personal senior manager: Is this a good way to spend money?
by Richard Evans (A PDF version of this article is available.) In a letter to the UC Davis community, Chancellor Katehi and Provost Lavernia declared that we should work collectively “to address today’s major budget cuts, which come as a consequence of the state’s decade-long disinvestment in higher education.” I think there is a more…
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Petitons to Support Accessible High Quality Public Higher Education
California’s public higher education is at a turning point due to the state’s systematic defunding of the Community College, Cal State, and University of California systems. Most immediately, the University of California Regents will vote at their November 17-19 meeting on a proposal to increase student fees by 32% over the next year. This fee increase would…
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Presentation to Regents Committee on Audit and Compliance
by Bob Meister, President, Council of UC Faculty Associations I said this to the Regents Committee on Audit and Compliance. It was a “Regents” meeting in name only. Only two Regents were physically present (at least one more was on the phone). All of the other places at the table were taken by UCOP people,…
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Are They Saying I’m Right? “They Pledged Your Tuition” III
by Bob Meister, President, Council of UC Faculty Associations Professor of Political and Social Thought, UC Santa Cruz (A pdf version of this document is available.) On October 20, UC issued a press release[1] (10/20/09) in which VP’s Taylor and Lenz respond to my Open Letter to Students: “They Pledged Your Tuition.” The UC press…
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Response to Faculty Questions: “They Pledged Your Tuition” II
by Bob Meister, President, Council of UC Faculty Associations Professor of Political and Social Thought, UC Santa Cruz (A PDF version of this document is available.) Faculty colleagues have many questions about my open letter to students, “They Pledged Your Tuition.” Most of the questions come down to, “So what if students didn’t know that…
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Clark Kerr’s Forgotten Legacy
Nelson Lichtenstein Department of History Chair, Ad Hoc Teach-In Committee University of California, Santa Barbara October 14, 2009 Welcome. We expect to have an exciting day before us. The term “teach-in” had its origins in the 1960s when students and faculty sought to understand and therefore become active participants in the debate over the war…
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They Pledged Your Tuition to Wall Street (summary)
UC on Wall Street: Another Reason Your Tuition Goes Up Bob Meister, President, Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) Professor of Political and Social Thought, UCSC (Download a PDF of this document. This is a summary of a longer piece.) How does UC sell $1.3 billion in construction bonds immediately after declaring an “extreme financial…
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They Pledged Your Tuition to Wall Street
An Open Letter to UC Students From Bob Meister, President, Council of UC Faculty Associations Professor of Political and Social Thought, UC Santa Cruz (Download a PDF version of this document or view a one page summary.) As students, you pay tuition in order to get an education at UC, and you know that the…
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Schwarzenegger is not just following a national trend to cut higher ed
Is the privatization of UC just part of a national trend beyond the control of UC leadership and Governor Schwarzenegger? No. In a September 27, 2009, New York Times interview UC President Mark Yudof was asked: “UC is facing a budget shortfall of at least $753 million, largely because of cuts in state financing. Do…
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First meeting of the Gould Commission scheduled
UCOP’s press release: The University of California Commission on the Future will meet for the first time on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay Community Center. The commission was created by Board of Regents Chairman Russell S. Gould to help ensure excellence, innovation and access to opportunity across the UC system amid…
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Understanding the Crisis at UC (2 page handout)
(Download PDF for printing) Why are student fees skyrocketing at the same time courses are being cut and faculty and staff furloughed, reducing classes and services to students? Throughout his term in office, Governor Schwarzenegger has cut state support for higher education and sought to shift most of its costs to its immediate users: students and their…
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Accountability and Executive Compensation
The issue of executive compensation at UC and CSU is regularly in the news, with top salaries, “stipends,” and other perks for leaders increasing at the same time that student fees climb, quality erodes, and faculty and staff salaries backslide. Also the rate of growth of administrator ranks compared to the rate of growth of…
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Privatization Is The Issue
George Lakoff Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, UC Berkeley A pdf version of this report is available. I have been asked by colleagues to comment on the impending privatization of the University of California. Among the suggestions are that UC campuses should take more out-of-state students in order to get their higher tuitions, or that tuition…
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Moving Forward from the 2009 Budget
Stanton Glantz Professor of Medicine, UCSF Former Chair, UC Committee on Planning and Budget August 7, 2009 A PDF version of this report is available. The primary focus of budget policymaking is the Governor, not the Legislature. The University of California Office of the President’s (UCOP) strategy for setting the budget has been to cut…