Dietitians, physical therapists and other health care professionals at UC Davis Health say that, over nearly a year of bargaining, the university’s labor negotiators have been skipping sessions and have not offered raises of more than 2 percent a year… All of the unions worry that UC wants to move new union hires into 401(k)-style retirement plans and away from the traditional pension… But this is not the only shifting of risk that UC is attempting during current contract negotiations, Wine said. “They want to eliminate any cap on the shared cost of our health benefits, and they want to eliminate any cap on parking costs for their employees,” Wine said. “When you do that, what cost-of-living increase are you really getting?…Currently, we believe if we accepted the 2 percent and we accepted elimination of these caps to the costs of benefits and parking, we believe the employee would actually take home less (money).”

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by Cathie Anderson, The Sacramento Bee.

Posted: August 6th, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

There are well over 4,000 colleges and universities in the United States. And multiple attempts to catalog free speech incidents on campus, from different sources, keep coming up with numbers in the dozens. And of those dozens, a fairly large percentage of the targets are liberals, and a fairly large percentage of the others were conservative speakers who seem to have come to campus with the intent of provoking students… Some campus free speech critics, I suspect, aren’t operating in good faith. For them, the entire debate is a way to attack universities as hopelessly and dangerously liberal — to undermine higher education for nakedly partisan reasons.

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by Zack Beauchamp, Vox.

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

Powerful possibilities will open up when K-12 and our colleges and universities work together, rather than in silos, and when policies are implemented with the full K-degree pipeline in mind. Unfortunately, that is not how those in public education are currently organized, incentivized, supported, or held accountable. Our state and educational leaders must reimagine a system fully aligned around student success, and must incentivize and require collaboration between the segments, from K-12 through community colleges to CSUs and the UC.

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by Monica Lozano, The Sacramento Bee.

Posted: August 2nd, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

Californians, including many turned away by public universities in their own state, are flocking to four-year state and private universities in neighboring Arizona… Arizona State University, the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University each enrolled more than 1,000 first-time freshmen from California this year, The Arizona Republic reported. By contrast, the number of first-time freshmen from Arizona who enrolled in the University of California system or California State University schools is less than 300.

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by The Associated Press, The Sacramento Bee.

Posted: July 28th, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

“I’m not surprised that these out-of-state schools are blanketing California with ads,” said Scott Jaschik, editor of Inside Higher Ed, an online news site. “The state has had difficulty meeting all of the student demand it’s had at its public universities.There’s a market for this.” … The state’s population will hit 40 million this year and is expected to keep growing. The number of high school graduates also is on the rise, especially among Hispanics and Latinos… Things don’t always turn out well. The 2017 Online College Students survey says that many students fail to do a thorough job of examining their options, including when it comes to checking on tuition and financial aid packages.

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by Gary Robbins, The San Diego Union Tribune.

Posted: July 28th, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

“Half of all school-age children are Latino, so it’s the future we’re looking at. If we don’t improve these numbers quickly, a significant population will continue to be shut out.” Now, more than any other campus, Merced is pivoting to serve a new generation of students. If California hopes to address the vast gap between rich and poor, students such as Mr. Virgen will need to earn college degrees. It is something of a paradox: the future of the state depends on whether the University of California can grow to be more like Merced, and the future of Merced depends on whether it can grow to be more like other campuses.

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by Jennifer Medina, The New York Times.

Posted: July 19th, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

UC’s governing board will vote Thursday on a 2018-19 budget plan that proposes a tuition decrease of $60 — the first time in nearly two decades that fees would drop from one year to the next. Academic charges, including tuition and student services fees, would total $12,570 annually. The decrease comes from the elimination of a $60 tuition surcharge that the university imposed in fall 2007, and extended in 2013, to pay for nearly $100 million in damages from two class-action lawsuits related to raising fees on graduate students in the middle of a semester.

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by Alexei Koseff, The Sacramento Bee.

Posted: July 18th, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

Despite ongoing budget cuts and belt tightening at UC Berkeley, Chancellor Carol Christ just announced plans for a $30 million upgrade to the women’s beach volleyball and softball facilities… the school continues to struggle to pay off $438 million in outstanding debt from the renovation of Memorial Stadium and construction of a new training facility, and soon after the university spent $18 million in donor money to build a new aquatic center. UC Berkeley, meanwhile, is still grappling with a sports budget deficit that peaked near $22 million a couple of years ago and totaled $19.5 million for the school year that just ended… Christ said the funding for the volleyball and softball upgrades will come from “undesignated bequests” — donations that were given to UC Berkeley with no strings attached.

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by Matier & Ross, The San Francisco Chronicle.

Posted: July 18th, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

Usually, there are only two vacancies, which are due to regents reaching the end of their terms, according to Student Regent Devon Graves, and this year was former regents William De La Peña and Bruce Varner’s turn. The death of Bonnie Reiss earlier this year and the resignations of Norman Pattiz and Monica Lozano have raised the number of vacancies up to five, the highest since 2013… There is no strict timeline for when the governor must appoint regents for their 12-year terms, but Gov. Jerry Brown met with an advisory committee in April — the first time a governor had met with the committee in 17 years — to help him choose new regents. No appointments have been announced as of press time, and there are no appointments on this week’s Board of Regents meeting agenda.

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by Jackson Guilfoil, The Daily Californian.

Posted: July 17th, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

The University of California opened its doors to a record number of Californians for fall 2018, led by growth in transfer students from across the state, according to preliminary data released Wednesday. The public research university’s nine undergraduate campuses offered seats to 95,654 Californians, nearly 3,000 more students than last year. Overall, UC admitted about three-fifths of the 221,788 California, out-of-state and international students who applied.

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by Teresa Watanabe, The Los Angeles Times.

Posted: July 11th, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.