June 27, 2010 Senator Denise Moreno Ducheny, Chair Budget Conference Committee State Capitol, Room 5035 Sacramento, CA 95814 fax (916) 327-3522 Re: Support LAO compromise budget language of June 14, 2010, for Higher Education (I), page 34, issue 508; support removal of Education Code Sec. Section 92612.5 language which prohibits General Fund contributions to UCRP….
June 8, 2010 Assemblymember Ira Ruskin State Capitol P.O. Box 942849 Sacramento, CA 94249-0021 Fax: (916) 319-2121 Re: AB 1901, Support Dear Assemblymember Ruskin, The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) is please to support AB 1901 as amended May 20, 2010. This bill reaffirms the essential tenets of the Master Plan: universal access, affordability…
May 11, 2010 Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor Legislative Analyst’s Office 925 L Street, Suite 1000 Sacramento, CA 95814 Fax 916-324-4281 Dear Mr. Taylor, As the release of the May revise approaches, and the discussions that will come with it, I felt it was important to write to you about the issue of state funding for…
Abstract A group of preliminary recommendations of the UC Commission on the Future Working Groups, viewed in combination with Dean Edley’s current plan for a “cyber campus,” threaten the quality of UC undergraduate education, the right and ability of Senate faculty to safeguard educational standards, and the existence of a public university in which excellent…
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…
This post has been superseded by updated versions: How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in 2011-12?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…
UC Berkeley professor of political science Wendy Brown was among the more than 200 Berkeley faculty members who traveled to Sacramento on March 4. A co-chair of the Berkeley Faculty Association, she gave the following address on the capitol steps during the “Educate the State” rally. Not long ago, California public education was an international…
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…
January 8, 2010 Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger California Legislature State Capitol Sacramento, CA 95814 To Legislators and the Governor: How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in California? Raising revenue has become such a taboo subject in California politics that nobody has gone to the trouble of actually answering that question —…
December 10, 2009 Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Fax: 916-558-3160 Re: Restart funding of UCRP Dear Governor Schwarzenegger, The Sacramento Bee on Sunday December 7th reported that your administration is considering making a contribution of $4.8 billion to the CalPERS retirement fund. There was no mention in that article of your plans for the University of California…