The University of California attracts the top graduate students in the United States, but vital research programs could be hampered in the future if the university can’t continue to draw the best students because of funding challenges… UC leads the nation in drawing high-quality graduate students to its 10 campuses, according to the Biennial Accountability Sub-Report on Graduate Academic and Professional Degree Students, which originally was scheduled for presentation to the UC Regents on July 15 but will be reported instead at the September meeting. In 2009, UC had 7 percent of all the graduate students in the United States, but they won 20 to 30 percent of the most competitive and prestigious fellowships in science, arts and humanities.

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by Andy Evangelista, University of California News.

Posted: July 2nd, 2010, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

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by Jack Stripling, Inside Higher Ed.

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UC and CSU are sponsoring an unrelated bill, AB1971, authored by Democrats Bonnie Lowenthal of Long Beach and Tom Torlakson of Antioch. It would extend the universities’ right to share alumni contact information with insurance firms, travel agents, credit card companies and other vendors for five more years after the law expires at the end of this year… UC takes in about $3.6 million a year by sharing contact information of alumni who don’t opt out of the program.

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

Posted: July 2nd, 2010, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

The state government’s budget issues are having a ripple effect when it comes to many critical services, and one area of life in California that’s being affected is education — not just for elementary and high schools, but for colleges and universities as well. Included in that mix are community colleges, which are seeing increased demand for their educational services as enrollment pressures continue to mount for the University of California and California State University systems.

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by Elizabeth Larson, Lake County News.

Posted: June 30th, 2010, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

The new campaign comes on the heels of PRO/UAW filing an Unfair Labor Practice charge on June 9th and unprecedented and growing pressure from Congressional leaders encouraging UC to reach an agreement. UC’s failure to come to agreement after 15 months prompted an April 30, 2010, House Committee on Education and Labor field hearing, after which Chairman George Miller wrote UC President Yudof expressing "deep concern" about UC’s slow-paced approach to the negotiations, saying he "left the hearing thoroughly disappointed" in UC

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by Steven Maviglio, California Progress Report.

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The net cost to attend a public college, after all grant aid is taken into account, represents an increasing share of income for low- and moderate-income families, the report says. For example, the net price of a four-year public college was 41 percent of a low-income family’s annual income in 1992 and rose to 48 percent by 2007… the report projects that the percentage of low-income students who earn bachelor’s degrees will drop from 38 percent for those who graduated from high school in 1992 to 31 percent of those who graduated in 2004.

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by Beckie Supiano, The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Now under construction, UCR’s medical school is scheduled to accept its first students in 2012. Supporters say the institution is needed to remedy a chronic shortage of doctors in the Inland area and improve the health of residents. Riverside County leaders, private foundations and the federal government have each pledged millions of dollars for the school. But one key source of money is conspicuously absent: the state of California.

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by Jim Miller and Ben Goad, The Press-Enterprise.

Posted: June 25th, 2010, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

Enrollment at for-profit colleges has grown by 225 percent over the past 10 years, with most students borrowing to pay for their education. While for-profits enroll fewer than 10 percent of American college students, they accounted for 23 percent of Pell Grants and federal student loans in 2008, and for 44 percent of defaults among borrowers who entered repayment in 2007… She praised the Education Department’s proposed new rules on for-profits, which would tighten the ban on incentive compensation, among other things, and called for stricter rules on distance education. She also suggested that the government track student-loan borrowers all the way through repayment, to get a better measure of how many students default. The government now tracks loans through only two years…

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by Kelly Field, The Chronicle for Higher Education.

Posted: June 24th, 2010, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

Much as the government failed to fully consider the effects of encouraging millions of people to buy homes they could not afford, it doesn’t have firm data on how many millions of potential students can truly afford a college education… However complicated to derive, lifetime loan-default figures loom large over the Obama administration’s commitment to make Americans the world’s leader by 2020 in their proportion of college graduates. That’s because the goal, which would require almost doubling the current level of 20-million students graduating from college in a year, will almost certainly require a vast expansion of the sector most capable of rapid growth: for-profit colleges. And the limited loan-default data now available show students who attended for-profit institutions fare the worst.

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by Paul Basken, The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Posted: June 22nd, 2010, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

This decades-old assault on government employees has acquired new potency at a time of widespread economic suffering and populist rage. But the attacks have little basis in reality. A recent study by the Center for State and Local Government Excellence and the National Institute on Retirement Security finds that when such factors as education and work experience are accounted for, state and local employees earn 11 to 12 percent less than comparable private sector workers. Even when public employees’ relatively decent pensions and health coverage are included, their total compensation still lags behind workers in private industry.

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by Amy Traub, National Public Radio.

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