Students attending California community colleges in the fall of 2011 are likely to be surprised when they look at the bill for their classes. Fees have gone up to $36 per unit in effect for fall 2011, college officials said, up from the current $26. For lower income students this could pose an effect on whether or not they attend community college this fall or work. "I may as well work full time this fall instead of going to school," says Sacramento City College student Russell Stephens. "It’s just too expensive."
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by Genevieve Jerome, Capitol Weekly.
Posted: July 21st, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Earlier this month, California State University trustees hired a new president for San Diego State — and paid him $50,000 more than his predecessor not to mention he received an additional $50,000 from the university’s nonprofit fundraising arm. Trustees didn’t stop there: They then hiked tuition to CSU campuses by another 12 percent. University of California Regents took a similar step last week. After raising tuition 9.6 percent which comes after an 8 percent hike in November, Regents approved pay raises for three top administrators… These three administrators, said UC spokeswoman Dianne Klein, are so "talented and effective" that the raises are fair. Guess that says a lot about the talent and effectiveness of everyone who didn’t get a raise.
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by The Editors, The Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Posted: July 20th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Earlier this week, a university contact tells us, the regents’ Committee on Grounds and Buildings approved a Phase 1 site remediation budget of $1.5 million (apparently reduced at the last minute from $2,897,000), to be paid for by donated funds. But that’s only the beginning of the costs to come. The old chancellor’s house has been vacant for years, ever since a plan to redevelop it as a mansion cum ceremonial conference center ran into fierce opposition from everyone from neighbors to preservationists to Native Americans… A university contact said the proposal cleared the regents’ Grounds and Buildings committee earlier this week and is set for a final vote before the entire board this afternoon.
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by Matt Potter, The San Diego Reader.
Posted: July 14th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
UC fees have more than tripled in the past decade. For the first time this fall, the university will take in more from tuition than from contributions from the state. The state has cut more than a billion dollars from the UC since 2008 alone… The UC’s fiscal woes are throwing middle-class families a sucker punch, a number of regents said. "We’ve done a lot for low-income families, but we have not substantively addressed – except rhetorically – what we’re doing for the middle class," Newsom told the regents. The proportion of UC students from middle-income families is declining, while the percent from low- and high-income families has risen, according to the UC Annual Accountability Report. One reason for the decrease may be that middle-class families no longer consider the UC affordable, the report said.
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by Andra Lim, The Daily Bruin.
Posted: July 14th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
State Treasurer Bill Lockyer warned that a spending cap that the Legislature qualified for the ballot will do untold harm to colleges and universities if approved by voters next year. The cap, approved last year by the Legislature as part of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s last budget, is unusually restrictive… The problem, Lockyer said, is that one of the fastest areas of government growth, health care spending, grows as much as three times the rate of inflation. Because no one has been able to figure out how to curb health care costs, the Legislature would have to go after easier targets, such as universities and colleges — which withstood hundreds of millions in cuts this year alone.
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by Steven Harmon, The Contra Costa Times.
Posted: July 13th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Gov. Jerry Brown has sent a letter to California State University trustees asking them to reconsider plans to give the new president of San Diego State a salary that would be $100,000 higher than his predecessor’s. The board is gathered in Long Beach today to take up a number of issues, including setting compensation for Elliot Hirshman, the new president of San Diego State, and raising student tuition by 12 percent… Brown, in a letter to CSU board chairman Herbert Carter, said he was concerned about "the ever-escalating pay packages awarded to your top administrators. I fear your approach to compensation is setting a pattern for public service that we cannot afford."
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by Laurel Rosenhall, The Sacramento Bee.
Posted: July 12th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Have you noticed that California’s decline has come as it has pulled back on its investments in higher education and our infrastructure? We are now paying for naive thinking that says reduced public investments (government spending) will spur the economy. It has done exactly the opposite, with the state deteriorating. We are the homeowner who won’t fix his roof when the sun is shining and now is scrambling because winter rains have come… We must find a moderate path that fairly compensates public employees and offers a regulatory environment that makes sense. Unfortunately, political moderation is not rewarded in California. But if we want to have a vibrant California, we must have a public education system that gives every resident a chance to excel. We must invest in our infrastructure.
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by Jim Boren, The Fresno Bee.
Posted: July 12th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Wealthy Californians will weather tuition increases. Lower-income students are eligible for financial aid, which helps defray increases. But for vast numbers of middle-class parents and their children, the tuition increase amounts to a tax hike, pure and simple. When Gov. Ronald Reagan took office in 1967, the state spent 8 percent of its budget on the University of California and 4 percent on the prison system. This year, the state will spend 3 percent of its $86 billion general fund budget on UC, and roughly 10 percent on prisons. California lawmakers and voters need to focus on priorities. The tax system needs a serious overhaul. But this state’s prosperity depends on a well-funded college and university system that is accessible to the middle class.
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by The Editors, The Sacramento Bee.
Posted: July 10th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Forget about majoring in nursing at Humboldt State
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by Laurel Rosenhall, The Sacramento Bee.
Posted: July 9th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
The compromise to close the state’s huge budget gap included cuts to
state agencies of all kinds, but none were as deep as those to the
state
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by Jennifer Medina, The New York Times.
Posted: July 8th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
