They Pledged Your Tuition Index
CUCFA President Robert Meister has written a series of articles about UC's use of tuition as collateral for construction bonds. This page is an index to those articles and to related materials.
They Pledged Your Tuition Part I
Keep California's Promise prepared a two-page summary of "They Pledged your tuition Part I"
They Pledged Your Tuition Part II: Response to Faculty Questions
Between publication of parts II and III, UCOP responded with the following article: "Faculty union leader's claim about student fee increases called misleading"
They Pledged Your Tuition Part III: Are They Saying I’m Right?
Peter Taylor, chief financial officer for the University of California, responded to the "The Pledged Your Tuition" series with an Op Ed in the November 6 issue of the Daily Californian called Misinformation: the Enemy of Excellence
Robert Meister continued exploring the use of UC Tuition, moving on from bond pledges to how tuition is distributed among the ten UC campuses in Where Does UC Tuition Go?
Presented at UCSB's October 14 Teach-In
CUCFA President Robert Meister's presented these materials at the UCSB teach-in on October 14, 2009. This presentation formed the basis of a five minute news item from the Santa Barbara Newspress TV. The 22 minute presentation, as recorded by UCSC's Ashley Craig, is available via Vimeo:
Why Your Tuition is Rising on Vimeo video hosting site.
UC Bond Documents Referenced in They Pledged Part III
Commercial_Paper_Definition.htm
10th_Supplemental.pdf
11th_Supplemental.pdf
12th_Supplemental.pdf
13th_Supplemental.pdf
14th_Supplemental.pdf
15th_Supplemental.pdf
16th_Supplemental.pdf
7th_Supplemental.pdf
8th_Supplemental.pdf
9th_Supplemental.pdf
Author_for_CP_borrowing_from_STIP.pdf
CA_Regents_of_the_Univ_of_CA_2009_Ser_Q_and_Ser_R_POS.pdf
Commercial_Paper_2002_db.tif
GRB_Indenture_Supplementals_1-6v3.pdf
GRB_Indenture_Supplementals_1-6.pdf
Regents_2003_on_indenture_General_Revenues_IIf.pdf
Regents_2003_on_indenture_General Revenues.pdf
Regents_of_UoC_Hosp_Rev_Bonds_UCLA_Series_2004A_B_Indenture.pdf
Tab_2_17th_Indenture.pdf
Tab_3_18th_Indenture.pdf
taylor_resume.pdf
Taylor_PPT_06_OCT_2009.pdf
Presentation to Regents Committee on Audit and Compliance
Press releases prepared by AFSCME and CUCFA about the Regents Committee on Audit and Compliance:
Media Advisory of October 27
Media Advisory of October 28
Poor quality audio recording of the public comment period of Committee on Audit and Compliance (the audio feed from the event dropped out before the end of the public comment period) Very large - 32 meg mp3 file.
Fortunately you do not have to listen to the poor quality audio. Individuals who presented at the committee meeting have kindly provided their notes:
Bob Meister's presentation
Presentation of Chris Rosen, Secretary of the Council of UC Faculty Associations
Presentation of Charles Schwartz, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley
Presentation of Derrick Wortes, AFSCME
Presentation of Annie McClanahan, graduate student in English