Yudof, 63, will come to UC’s Oakland headquarters as the chief executive of a 10-campus system in turmoil. Budget cuts have sliced deeply into academic departments. Yudof already has mentioned his intentions to shake things up in California. His primary mission will be halting the slow, steady erosion of UC’s budget…
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by Matt Krupnick, The San Jose Mercury News.
Mark Yudof should level with the people of California, so they understand that only public funding can restore the University of California’s tradition of top quality and wide access.
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by Stanton Glantz and others, The Los Angeles Times.
This fall, California’s public institutions of higher education should be embracing the state’s largest high school graduating class. Instead, significant numbers of qualified students may be denied access because of the state’s $17.2 billion budget deficit and cuts in state support for higher education… We recognize and appreciate that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s revised budget for 2008-09 restores a portion of the drastic cuts proposed in January. Yet it still falls far short of meeting the needs of education at all levels.
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by George R. Blumenthal, Martha J. Kanterand and Don W. Kassing, The San Jose Mercury News.
California’s 670,000 public university students got a double-barreled blast of bad news Wednesday when the governing boards for both the UC and the California State University systems took steps to raise tuition – for the sixth time in seven years.
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by Tanya Schevitz, The San Francisco Chronicle.
With the price of college skyrocketing out of sight, and a proposed budget which includes $1.1 billion in cuts for higher education and additional tax hikes on our students, how many young people will give up their hopes of college because it’s unaffordable? We can’t sacrifice a generation of young people by putting their dreams too far out of reach. What is California, if not the state where our children believe that anything is possible?
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by John Garamend, The Pasadena Star-News.
The California budget crisis has taken a toll on the University of California at Berkeley’s department of East Asian languages and cultures, which has announced that this fall it will eliminate classes for 1,500 students to make up for an unexpected financial shortfall. The cuts are a response to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed state budget, which would reduce spending on Berkeley by $30-million to $40-million…
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by Staff, The Chronicle for Higher Education.
HP executive Rich Friedrich said the budget for academic partnerships isn’t changing, but he wants to spend the money more strategically and also consider more proposals from overseas. In the past, he said, a majority of HP’s academic partnerships have been in the United States.
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by Brandon Bailey, The San Jose Mercury News.
Students are worried about rising fees. Faculty members feel overworked. And all over campus, people are anxious about how Sacramento’s budget deficit will affect the university. The new president of San Jose State University will face several challenges, money chief among them. Three finalists are competing for the opportunity to replace President Don Kassing, who retires July 1.
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by Dana Hull, The San Jose Mercury News.
The foundation gift comes as the community college system faces a proposed $483 million cut to its $6.7 billion budget as the state struggles with a budget deficit that could reach $20 billion. Woodruff made clear the Osher Foundation gift cannot be used to fill any budget shortfalls – it’s restricted to scholarships.
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by Carrie Sturrock, The San Francisco Chronicle.
The University of California expects to increase undergraduate tuition by 7.4 percent in autumn, and that comes with a warning that there could be another boost midyear if the state’s budget situation continues to worsen, a top official said Monday. The warning of a midyear increase came from UC Provost Rory Hume during a meeting with The Chronicle’s editorial board. Hume said any additional increase would not bring the total to more than 10 percent.
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by Tanya Schevitz, The San Francisco Chronicle.