Over half of the chancellor’s cabinet have announced their resignations in the past 19 months, including all but one of the campus’s vice chancellors and vice provosts, casting doubt on UC Berkeley’s reputation and ability to govern itself effectively. The departure of 14 cabinet-level officials — the highest-ranking administrators at UC Berkeley — in such a short time frame is unusual, several campus administrators noted… “Even though there has been a great deal of turnover recently, we have a ‘deep bench’ of administrative talent across our various operating units,” Dirks said in an email to the Daily Cal. “We are using this year to position the campus, and my successor, in the best possible way to move forward.”
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by Adam Iscoe, The Daily Californian.
Posted: November 21st, 2016, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
After decades of public universities raising tuition, legislatures have learned to rely even more on tuition increases to enable them to cut funding for public higher education. Families suffer, of course, but the long-term impact transcends that. “The converting of public funding into higher tuition focuses the student on assuring her future income to cover higher costs and debt,” he writes. At stake, he believes, is a citizenry that sees college not as a place for in-depth learning and inquiry, but as a means to economic security, forcing colleges to conduct themselves more like a business, and less like a public good that all students can afford.
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by Mikhail Zinshteyn, The Hechinger Report.
Posted: November 18th, 2016, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Judge Gonzalo Curiel confirmed Friday that a deal has been reached in all three cases involving President-elect Donald Trump’s former school for real estate investors. Curiel says the agreement is subject to his approval. Curiel says the settlement totals $25 million — $21 for two San Diego cases and $4 million for a New York case… The suits had alleged that Trump University failed to deliver the quality real estate investing education it promised… the $25 million to be paid by Trump or one of his business entities includes restitution for students and $1 million in penalties to the state. The deal doesn’t require Trump to acknowledge wrongdoing.
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by The Associated Press, The Sacramento Bee.
Posted: November 18th, 2016, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
As a growing number of California officials assail President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration policies, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday called on the state’s public university systems to declare themselves “sanctuary campuses” to protect hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrant students from deportation. Newsom, a candidate for governor in 2018 and a member of the University of California Board of Regents, urged aggressive action in a letter to UC president Janet Napolitano… “If Mr. Trump’s three million goal is to be achieved, that could likely include many law-abiding and promising students within California’s public higher education system,’’ Newsom said in his letter to Napolitano. “We have both a moral and economic imperative to protect our students, the future workforce and families of California, from Trump’s stated intentions.”
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by Carla Marinucci , Politico.
Posted: November 17th, 2016, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
CSU Chancellor Timothy White, in an open letter sent Thursday to students, faculty and staff, said the university will not enter into agreements with immigration authorities and that campus police will not honor immigration hold requests. But he declined to deem the campuses as “sanctuaries.” “The term ‘sanctuary’ has several interpretations and is in many contexts ambiguous,” White wrote. “If we were to use this term it would be misleading to the very people we support and serve.
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by City News Service, Los Angeles Daily News.
Posted: November 17th, 2016, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
University of California students protesting tuition increases disrupted a UC Board of Regents meeting on Thursday and were threatened with arrest after they began chanting and refused to leave the meeting room… Students say that even without tuition increases, the rapidly climbing cost of living has made their lives difficult. “Our entrance into the conversation comes from the intersection of tuition costs and the cost of living. While one has not risen, the other certainly has skyrocketed,” said Rachel Roberson, a graduate student in education policy at UC Berkeley.
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by Filipa A. Ioannou, The San Francisco Chronicle.
Posted: November 17th, 2016, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
After serving multiple terms as chairwoman of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Education and the Workforce subcommittee on higher education, Representative Virginia Foxx is poised to assume leadership of the full committee in the next Congress. And the longtime critic of the Obama administration’s higher education policies says she and other Republicans are ready to reverse course on many of those policies… most notably on regulations issued by the Obama administration’s Education Department that target the for-profit college industry. Foxx said in an interview with Inside Higher Ed this week that Republicans will do everything they can to roll back those rules.
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by Andrew Kreighbaum, Inside Higher Ed.
Posted: November 17th, 2016, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Ten UCSF information technology workers lodged discrimination claims this week with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, alleging they were laid off because they are too old and from the U.S. The workers are being replaced by young, male technicians from India, according to the UCSF employees… Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, wrote UC president Janet Napolitano last month that the contract appears to be a misuse of H-1B visas and could imperil confidential patient information and research. The cuts amount to almost 20 percent of the IT staff.
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by Louis Hansen, The Mercury News.
Posted: November 16th, 2016, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
As the largest public university system in the nation, Cal State’s mission to provide accessibility to higher education and embrace the diversity of its 470,000 students remains unchanged, White said during a Board of Trustees meeting in Long Beach. Unless forced to by law, he said, Cal State “will not enter into agreements with state or local law enforcement agencies, Homeland Security or any other federal department for the enforcement of federal immigration law.” … Cal State does not track students’ immigration status, but an estimated 10,000 students received waivers in fall 2015 through AB 540, a 2011 state law that enables California high school students who are in the U.S. illegally to qualify for in-state tuition, administrators said.
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by Rosanna Xia, The Los Angeles Times.
Posted: November 16th, 2016, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
UC President Janet Napolitano told regents in their opening session that “understandable uncertainty and consternation” about Trump had prompted her and the chancellors to reaffirm their commitment to inclusion and equal opportunity in a public statement shortly after the election… Trump’s election also has UC officials anxious about the system’s finances. The university receives more than $8.5 billion in federal dollars for education, research and healthcare — a significant chunk of the system’s $25-billion budget. Federal funds are UC’s single largest source of research dollars, amounting to more than $3 billion… Albert Lemus, a non-voting regent-designate, asked Falle how many federal dollars could be at risk if UC chose to become a “sanctuary campus” protecting those in the country without legal sanction. “I suspect all of it could be at risk,” Falle said.
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by Teresa Watanabe, The Los Angeles Times.
Posted: November 16th, 2016, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
