Nearly 750,000 young people known as Dreamers have been granted deportation deferrals under the program, after giving the Department of Homeland Security their fingerprints, home addresses and other personal information. Trump has pledged to deport millions of people who are in the country illegally, and California congressional members are worried his administration will use Dreamers’ information to target the young people, many of whom have lived most of their lives in the U.S.

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by Sarah D. Wire, The Los Angeles Times.

Posted: January 4th, 2017, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

Cal sports are in big trouble. After completing the most expensive college football stadium overhaul ever, the Golden Bears now owe more money than any other college sports program. Hobbled by debt service payments, the athletic department ran a $22 million deficit last year and expects to end this fiscal year deep in the red… A high-priced coach might earn $4 million to $5 million a year. Meanwhile, according to public records, athletic departments at least 13 schools in the country have long-term debt obligations of more than $150 million as of 2014—money usually borrowed to build ever-nicer facilities for the football team.

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by Eben Novy-Williams , Bloomberg.

Posted: January 4th, 2017, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

The University of California unveiled a proposal Wednesday for the first tuition increase in six years, saying booming enrollment growth and reduced state support have left campuses scrambling to pay for more faculty, course offerings, classrooms and financial aid. Under the proposal, tuition would grow to $11,502 for the 2017-18 school year — a 2.5% increase, or $282. The student services fee would increase to $1,128, a $54 increase. But financial aid would cover the increases for two-thirds of the university’s California resident students, who number about 175,500, said UC spokeswoman Dianne Klein. Nonresident undergraduates would face a total increase of $1,668. They would pay the same increases in base tuition and student fees but also a 5% hike in their supplemental tuition, which would rise $1,332 — from $26,682 currently to $28,014 next year.

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by Teresa Watanabe, The Los Angeles Times.

Posted: January 4th, 2017, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

As state spending for public universities goes down, international student enrollment goes up. A newly published working paper seeks to quantify this relationship, estimating that for the period between 1996 and 2012, a 10 percent reduction in state appropriations was associated with a 12 percent increase in international undergraduate enrollment at public research universities — and a 17 percent increase at the most research-intensive public universities, the flagships and other institutions that are members of the exclusive Association of American Universities… “A very small number of universities have a capacity to draw in sizable numbers of domestic out-of-state students,” Turner said. But for the rest, she said, increasing international enrollment “is one tool that our paper shows they have been able to use to try to reduce the impact of the cuts on state appropriations. You can think of this as potentially benefiting all the students.”

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by Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Ed.

Posted: January 3rd, 2017, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

In a fraudulent stab at “transparency,” there’s even a “Chancellor Search” website where we’re told the names of committee members who will select the finalists for this coveted position, but we’re not given the names of the finalists themselves. It would, of course, be much too risky to let the unwashed masses in on the deliberations going on in our name at our local taxpayer-supported university… Just so you know, “No information about individual candidates will be shared before the President makes her recommendation to the Board of Regents.” So don’t even dream of asking.

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by Bob Dunning, The Davis Enterprise.

Posted: January 1st, 2017, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

From the late 1990s to today, applications from Latino Californians grew 500 percent — about five times faster than applications from Asian-Americans over the same time period, and almost 20 times faster than applications from white students. Preliminary data show that Latinos accounted for 37 percent of in-state applicants to UC for 2017, an all-time high… Of course, application and admission are two very different things. While last year more Latinos applied to a UC campus than any other ethnic group, they still trailed the much smaller Asian-American population in acceptance rate.

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by Matt Levin, The Davis Enterprise.

Posted: January 1st, 2017, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

[I]n a state with historically low college attainment among African Americans, any drop concerns advocates. It’s especially pressing as California tries to close an expected shortage of 1 million college degrees necessary to fuel its economy by 2025. Less than 23 percent of black adults have a bachelor’s degree, according to census estimates – about half the rate of white Californians, and a third have some college but no degree.

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by Alexei Koseff, The Sacramento Bee.

Posted: December 26th, 2016, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

There is little doubt that the increased use of technology has displaced large numbers of workers over the past several decades, in industries such as steel, manufacturing and textiles, and that large groups of people have been adversely affected by these seismic economic changes, which has bred understandable resistance to a new economic reality in which they don’t have the appropriate skills to compete. While much of this was evident in the voting pattern in the recent election, it has been a visible and often-ignored problem for decades. Education and appropriate training are the answers.

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by David Wilson, The Baltimore Sun.

Posted: December 24th, 2016, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

UC Riverside Provost Paul J. D’Anieri announced Friday that he would step down from his administrative post, just days after the faculty said it would meet to consider a vote of no confidence in his leadership. Some faculty members believed that D’Anieri — who has served as the university’s chief academic officer and executive vice chancellor since 2014 — had mismanaged a major campus growth plan, failed to adequately consult faculty in hiring decisions, brought too many outsiders into key positions and created a climate of mistrust and fear… D’Anieri will resign as provost next June and return to his faculty appointment in the Department of Political Science and the School of Public Policy.

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by Teresa Watanabe, The Los Angeles Times.

Posted: December 16th, 2016, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

They are first-semester freshmen at UC Berkeley, 18- and 19-year-olds who — instead of stumbling a few steps from their dorms to class — are commuting sometimes two and a half hours daily to and from class in an office building in San Francisco… After opening its doors wider, UC Berkeley has 1,122 more freshmen and transfer students this fall — a 4 percent increase — and nearly 400 more students than it planned for, as more accepted admission offers than expected, according to official enrollment figures released late last month by the campus.

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by Katy Murphy, The San Jose Mercury News.

Posted: December 12th, 2016, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.