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	<title>Keep California&#039;s Promise</title>
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		<title>Meg Whitman’s $1 billion proposal for higher ed will require continuing large fee increases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/684/whitman%e2%80%99s-1b-proposal</link>
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		<title>How much will it cost us to restore public higher education?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Raising revenue has become such a taboo subject in California politics, nobody has gone to the trouble of actually answering that question — until now. For the median California tax return (individual or joint), restoring the entire system while rolling back student fees to what they were a decade ago would cost less than $32 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/553/working-paper</link>
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		<title>Schwarzenegger&#8217;s Higher Ed Constitutional Amendment: All PR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/628/governor-schwarzeneggers-constitutional-amendment-on-higher-ed-lots-less-than-meets-the-eye</link>
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		<title>Where Does UC Tuition Go?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/482/where-does-uc-tuition-go</link>
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		<title>Soon every faculty member will have a personal senior manager: Is this a good way to spend money?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;to address today&#8217;s major budget cuts, which come as a consequence of the state&#8217;s decade-long disinvestment in higher education.&#8221; I think there is a more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/469/soon-every-faculty-member-will-have-a-personal-senior-manager</link>
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		<title>Petitons to Support Accessible High Quality Public Higher Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[California&#8217;s public higher education is at a turning point due to the state&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/455/support-accesible-high-quality-public-education-in-california</link>
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		<title>Presentation to Regents Committee on Audit and Compliance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/452/presentation-to-regents-committee-on-audit-and-compliance</link>
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		<title>Are They Saying I’m Right? “They Pledged Your Tuition” III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/444/they-pledged-your-tuition-3</link>
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		<title>Response to Faculty Questions: “They Pledged Your Tuition” II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/433/response-to-faculty-questions-%e2%80%9cthey-pledged-your-tuition%e2%80%9d-ii</link>
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		<title>Clark Kerr’s Forgotten Legacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/425/clark-kerr%e2%80%99s-forgotten-legacy</link>
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