For the first time in 17 years, the Governor’s Advisory Selection Committee for the Regents of the University of California was convened to aid a California governor in the selection of a new regent… Joseph Kiskis, a member of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, wrote various letters to Brown and other government officials in 2011, reminding them to consult the selection committee properly. The letters requested more thorough consulting procedures and claimed that the lack of consultation was detrimental to the goal of creating a UC Board of Regents representative of the entirety of California.

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I think we have to begin to address housing as an issue directly with the Legislature. … I think that the state government has not recognized how serious that issue is for students who are not economically in the same position as we all were when we were coming through the university. … We need to highlight housing the way we highlight tuition. Students chasing tuition is a misdirection on where the problem is.

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by Amanda Bradford, The Daily Californian.

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

The increase will generate $34.8 million in revenue, according to the proposed budget plan. The Thursday decision by the board comes after it was initially approved by the Finance and Capital Strategies Committee on Wednesday… Despite the finance committee’s recommendation, Thursday’s vote still had its fair share of pushback from several regents, and the vote passed 12-3 with Regents Paul Monge, John Pérez and Newsom dissenting. The board is set to vote on a proposed tuition increase for in-state students of $348 at its May meeting… At the meeting, regents and campus representatives discussed other UC issues, including the student population growth outpacing the growth of faculty, classrooms and housing spaces. They also presented a recent poll about the UC student experience, which was shown to be in decline.

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by Ani Vahradyan and Mary Kelly Ford, The Daily Californian.

Posted: March 15th, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

The regents also increased professional degree supplemental tuition at 23 graduate programs in the university… Undergraduate student government External Vice President Chloe Pan said one of the reasons why student leaders do not support the tuition increase is because they believe it could lead to an increase in food and housing insecurity for nonresident students… “This application cycle was the first time in a few years that we saw a dip in international student applicants,” she said. “We don’t want (nonresident students) to think they are cash cows.” Rebecca Ora, a doctoral student of film at UC Santa Cruz, said during the meeting’s public comments session she thinks UC graduate schools are falling in rankings because of high cost of attendance.

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by Omar Said and Isabella Gago, The Daily Bruin.

Posted: March 15th, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

The senator pledged his support for increased university funding, calling state funding an investment in California students. He also called for lower tuition costs for students or to “abolish it altogether… Life is paying for your rent,” de León said. “Life is paying for your meals. The issue of life and having the means of paying for it is what’s forcing people to not attend four-year universities… I don’t think you can balance the budget on the backs of students.” Currently the president pro tem, or leader, of the California State Senate, de León is running for U.S. Senate against incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California.

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by Alexandra Stassinopoulos, The Daily Californian.

Posted: March 14th, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

Overall public support for free speech is rising over time, not falling. People on the political right are less supportive of free speech than people on the left. College graduates are more supportive than non-graduates. Indeed, a 2016 Knight Foundation survey showed that college students are less likely than the overall population to support restrictions on speech on campus. Among the public at large, meanwhile, the group whose speech the public is most likely to favor stifling is Muslims. The alarm about student protesters, in other words, though not always mistaken about particular cases, is generally grounded in a completely mistaken view of the big-picture state of American society and public opinion, both on and off campus.

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by Matthew Yglesias, Vox.

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

It’s beyond time to reinvest in the university and the legislature has an obligation to reinvest for this generation and the next generation of Californians. And if we don’t do so, we are going to lose what is probably considered the crown jewel of California, and that is the University of California. We are going to lose the reputation and standing and we will not give this generation, and the next generations of Californians, the same opportunities that we gave my generation, and so that’s a call for reinvestment.

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by Evan Ismail, The Highlander.

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

We cannot understand the drive toward pension “reform” by looking only at the liability side of the balance sheet: how much we owe workers and what it will cost to pay them. We must look at the asset side, too: how these pensions invest their money, and their ability to exercise shareholder voice that the rest of us lack. If the Kochs and their allies succeed in smashing and scattering these last remaining pension funds into millions of 401(k)s, they will do more than just undermine the retirement security of millions of Americans. They will silence their economic voice. The pension reform drive should be understood, at least in part, as a campaign of economic voter suppression.

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by David Webber, The New York Times.

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The new chairman of the Federal Reserve questioned why struggling borrowers can’t discharge their student loans in bankruptcy. “Alone among all kinds of debt, we don’t allow student loan debt to be discharged in bankruptcy,” Jerome Powell told members of the Senate Banking Committee Thursday. “I’d be at a loss to explain why that should be the case.” Powell’s comments came in response to a question from Senator Brian Schatz, a Democrat from Hawaii, about whether high levels of student debt create a drag on the economy. More than 40 million Americans hold nearly $1.4 trillion in outstanding student loans.

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by Jillian Berman, Market Watch.

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

International students are America’s “golden goose.” They provide billions of dollars to the U.S. economy every year, subsidize the education of U.S. students and are a key source of talent that help make American tech companies the envy of the world. So why is the Trump administration trying to drive away international students? More important, is the administration succeeding? New data suggest the answer may be “yes.” … Research has shown a positive connection between international students and U.S. student enrollment. “At the graduate level, international students do not crowd-out, but actually increase domestic enrollment,” according to a study by economist Kevin Shih. “Foreign student tuition revenue is used to subsidize the cost of enrolling additional domestic students.”

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by Stuart Anderson, Forbes.

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