UC expects $142 million from the state for 2014-15 — a 5 percent increase over this year — but is asking for $121 million more, including money for pensions and enrollment expansion. Brown says don’t count on it. “I don’t have a Nobel Prize, but I know the political climate in California probably better than anybody else,” Brown said. ” … the 5 percent we’re going to give you is pretty much all you’re going to get.” … UC Regent Sherry Lansing said she was “not ready to give up” and that she believed in the system’s “power of advocacy.” Those advocates will likely start with a fairness argument: The state supports the California State University and the community college pension funds, but not UC’s.

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by Katy Murphy, The San Jose Mercury News.

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