A quality higher education is a force for social mobility and the best means to realize the American Dream, she said. Students today sense that this option is growing less attainable for them. "Students today want to have the same opportunity their grandparents did with the GI bill," said Roiblatt. Though faculty members, administrators and even public officials have argued that higher education confers both personal and public good (including Governor Andrew Cuomo, who recently praised the SUNY system’s contribution to local and regional economic development), fiscal reality has been unflinchingly bleak… In addition to California, Nebraska, and New York, states with union representatives at this weekend’s meeting included Arizona, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington.
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by Dan Berrett, Inside Higher Education.
Posted: January 24th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
California’s decision to slowly defund higher education is imperiling our public educational institutions in many different ways. First, there were the staggering fee increases. Tuition at the University of California, for instance, has nearly tripled since 2002. Now, the admissions process may be in for some big changes… In his budget proposal, Gov. Jerry Brown was wise to realize that California can no longer afford to cut spending on K-12 education. But higher education is just as vital to the state’s future, and it deserves to have adequate funding as well.
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by The Editors, The San Francisco Chronicle.
Posted: January 24th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
For the University of California, the crown jewel in the state educational system, the priority must be to maintain its prestigious standing, which keeps California’s most talented students in the state and acts as an economic machine, attracting entrepreneurial minds and creating jobs. Further big increases in tuition would turn California’s elite students toward other colleges, including private institutions where merit scholarships would bring the cost of a college education close to that of UC. Although some cuts will certainly be necessary, major program reductions could harm the university’s reputation. Accepting more out-of-state students who pay full tuition is a good interim solution, but the university is already doing that, and it’s a strategy with limited growth potential. Only a few campuses have the cachet to draw outside students. Compared with those options, reducing enrollment begins to sound less draconian.
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by The Editors, The Los Angeles Times.
Posted: January 21st, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Higher education is bearing the brunt of the governor’s proposed budget cuts. The California State University system is also facing a $500 million cut. Community colleges would lose $400 million. UC regents fear the three main tenants of a UC education
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by Ana Tintocalis, KPBS.
Posted: January 21st, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
His plan is full of austerity, pain and severity, and contains no acknowledgment of the role California higher education has played in dealing with past crises, Zingg said. Brown failed to describe purpose in the pain or instill hope, continued Zingg, ever the historian, who referenced President Abraham Lincoln’s famous Second Inaugural Address. The campus’ chief called Brown
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by Melissa Daugherty, Chico News and Review.
Posted: January 20th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
In their first meeting since Gov. Jerry Brown proposed cutting $500 million from the UC budget, the UC Board of Regents decried on Wednesday the state’s treatment of the university system and questioned whether the university could survive the cut and maintain its world-class quality… Many regents at Wednesday’s meeting questioned the state’s regard for the UC in light of the severe budget cut proposal. "The budget is a financial articulation of values. It’s where you set your priorities and how you fund them and allocate resources," said Regent Monica Lozano. "Over the course of the last few years this university has been abused quite significantly."
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by Jordan Bach-Lombardo, The Daily Californian.
Posted: January 20th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Former World Bank CFO John Wilton will become UC Berkeley’s vice chancellor of administration and finance, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau announced in an e-mail to staff and administrators Thursday. Wilton will begin his duties as vice chancellor on Feb. 1. The position has been vacant since Nathan Brostrom, the University of California’s current executive vice president for business operations, left in January 2010.
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by Katie Nelson, The Daily Californian.
Posted: January 20th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
After three years of deep cuts, Yudof said, something dramatic will have to give. "The moment is fast approaching when the university will no longer be able to guarantee admission to all California applicants who meet the eligibility criteria," the central tenet of the state’s 50-year-old Master Plan for Higher Education, Yudof said. It will be "a bleak milestone, not just for the university, but for all of California," he said. Yudof estimated that 20,000 to 30,000 qualified students will be turned away because UC won’t have the money to educate them.
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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.
Posted: January 20th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Members of a union representing nearly 20,000 University of California workers demonstrated outside a UC Board of Regents meeting Thursday to protest issues ranging from executive bonus and pay increases to changes made to worker retirement benefits plans that they say will heavily impact seniors and low wage workers… "The decisions that the executives make, it’s putting the burden on everyone else — the students, the workers, the community and the tax payers" Meza said. "We’re not just here for ourselves. The community is suffering too." The university is giving priority to top executives instead of university workers and the impact will be felt by taxpayers, not only the workers, said Matias Marin, a lead organizer for the union at UC San Diego.
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by Aaida Samad, The Daily Californian.
Posted: January 20th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Layoffs, reduced enrollment and other cuts that will fundamentally change the nature of the University of California are all but a certainty. That was the message delivered to the university’s Board of Regents on Wednesday as it met at the University of California San Diego and heard a report on Gov. Jerry Brown
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by Pat Flynn, Sign On San Diego.
Posted: January 19th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
