The University of California and California State University plan to enroll more than 23,000 additional local students in the next academic year without raising tuition, according to budget proposals set for debate at separate meetings this week… Both systems are trying to do their part to prepare for the future, given projections that California will need an additional 1.1 million workers with bachelor’s degrees by 2030 to replace retiring baby boomers and meet the state’s economic demands. To get there, the Public Policy Institute of California estimates that Cal State and UC would need to graduate 481,000 and 251,000 more students, respectively, than they did in 2015-16.

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by Teresa Watanabe, The Los Angeles Times.

Posted: November 13th, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

New enrollments for the 2017-18 school year slumped 6.6 percent compared with the previous year, according to an annual survey released by the Institute of International Education. That follows a 3.3 percent decline in new international students tallied in the 2016-17 academic year… International students have become an important funding source for American colleges as traditional revenue sources, such as state funding, come under pressure… Some immigration policy experts and college administrators attribute the decline to the Trump administration’s drive to restrict immigration and an overall sense of a U.S. political climate that is hostile to immigrants and foreigners.

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by Reuters, NBC News.

Posted: November 13th, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

Leaders of the California Faculty Association said Monday they will be at upcoming committee meetings of the California State University Board of Trustees to speak out against its recent approval of executive pay raises… Shortly after the 2018-19 budget was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown with an increase in funding for the CSU system, the Chancellor’s Office proposed increases in executive pay, and the board in July approved a 3 percent increase for the 23 campus presidents, five vice chancellors and CSU Chancellor Timothy White, whose annual pay grew by $13,510 to $463,855, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The move came even though Brown had sent a strongly-worded letter to the board urging them not to move forward with the raises.

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by Chris Jennewein, Times of San Diego.

Posted: November 12th, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

According to numerous sources, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara and UC San Diego have all experienced significant overenrollment. The schools are quietly allowing this year’s overenrollment numbers to stand but are planning to admit fewer students in 2019 and 2020 to ensure match or underenrollment until this large wave of students has been absorbed and moved beyond lower-division classes. This is on top of recently published admissions data that show that both UC Berkeley and UCLA admitted not only a smaller percentage of students, but also a smaller number of students overall. Impacting admission rates at these UCs will also inevitably drive up yield at all of the other UCs, so expect all UCs to lower their admission rates and depend on waitlists, if necessary, to fill their classes in 2019 and 2020.

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by Hollis Bischoff, The Los Altos Town Crier.

Posted: October 24th, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

The campus added nearly 2,200 students this fall, pushing enrollment to a record 38,798, a figure that’s far higher than campus executives expected. Enrollment has soared by about 10,600 over the past decade, making UCSD one of the fastest growing schools in the country. The boom has been fueled by population growth in California, and the state’s success in preparing high school students to enter college. The UC system also has been recruiting more transfer students.

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by Gary Robbins, San Diego Union Tribune.

Posted: October 22nd, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

The largest employee union at the University of California, AFSCME Local 3299, announced Friday that its patient-care technical workers will go on a three-day strike Oct. 23-25 at Sacramento’s UC Davis Medical Center and the four other UC health systems across the state. The job action will involve as many as 39,000 workers statewide, composed of the 15,000 members of AFSCME 3299’s patient-care unit, 9,000 from AFSCME’s service unit and 15,000 research, technical and health-care professionals represented by UPTE-CWA. AFSCME’s service unit and UPTE-CWA voted to strike in sympathy with the patient care workers. Both AFSCME and UPTE-CWA have been negotiating with the UC for more than a year, and their leaders say negotiations have stalled over issues such as outsourcing, pay, retirement benefits and health-care premiums.

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by Cathie Anderson, The Sacramento Bee.

Posted: October 13th, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

CSU turned away more qualified applicants than ever last year — 1 in 10 students, or 31,000 people. One reason is that for years, CSU has forced tens of thousands of underprepared freshmen to take remedial, high-school level classes that provide not a single credit toward graduation. No more. For the first time this fall, CSU has disposed of those no-credit classes that not only slowed students down in their march toward graduation, but worked at cross-purposes with the university’s goal of freeing up seats and professors to enroll more students. They believe they’ve come up with a better idea: replacing the remedial classes with college-level courses — for credit — that are still supposed to help lagging students catch up.

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

Posted: October 8th, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

Democrats asking voters to elect them Nov. 6 say they have a plan for making the most of the opportunity. Eleni Kounalakis says she would bring a strong voice to the boards the lieutenant governor sits on — particularly the University of California regents and California State University trustees. “I think you can make a full-time job just fighting against higher tuition,” Kounalakis said. “This job is designed to be focused on higher education.” Her opponent, state Sen. Ed Hernandez of West Covina (Los Angeles County), said he sees a way to expand the role the lieutenant governor has as president of the Senate.

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by Melody Gutierrez, The San Francisco Chronicle.

Posted: October 5th, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

The White House engaged in serious discussions to consider the possibility of banning Chinese students from studying at American universities and colleges… The idea that Chinese people living in the United States could be spies for the Chinese government and that the US government should take action to limit their capacity for such espionage is not only ludicrous but also quite literally the same argument that was used to justify Japanese internment camps during World War II. Less chilling, but equally ludicrous, is the secondary justification that was reportedly used by Stephen Miller and his associates — that the “plan would also hurt elite universities whose staff and students have been highly critical of Mr Trump.” Although it’s true that elite universities would almost certainly suffer from this ban, the idea is the political equivalent of cutting off your nose to spite your face.

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by Christopher Rim, Forbes.

Posted: October 4th, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

University of California workers fought for and won a 3 percent raise this year. At the same time, the University of California Board of Regents just authorized 3 percent pay raises for UC’s top brass systemwide, retroactive to July 1 in most cases. And while 3 percent may not seem like much for those on the lower end of the ladder, up top it means big bucks. For example, a 3 percent boost for UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ means her salary bumps up to $547,897 — a nearly $16,000-a-year raise. UC San Francisco Chancellor Sam Hawgood’s salary rose to $844,131, or nearly a $25,000 annual hike.

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by Matier & Ross, The San Francisco Chronicle.

Posted: October 3rd, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.