The UC system can’t rely on state funding alone to maintain its excellence if for no other reason than uncertainty in state revenues. But UC, do your homework. Explain to Californians how much tuition increase is needed to cover costs for the next generation of students, not just the next five years. And Governor, the UC system is more important to California than trains and tunnels — work with the Legislature to increase state funding for UC.
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by Garrett Keating, KQED.
Posted: February 10th, 2015, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
At its meeting in San Francisco last week, the university’s board of regents signed off on creating the new position of senior vice president of government relations and gave the job to Nelson Peacock, an aide to Napolitano when she ran the Department of Homeland Security under Democratic president Barack Obama… Prior to signing on with Napolitano in California, Peacock was a vice president at Cornerstone Government Affairs in Chevy Chase, Maryland, which he joined in May 2013. The big influence-peddling boutique has a list of clients ranging from Walmart to the United Egg Producers.
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by Matt Potter, The San Diego Reader.
Posted: January 29th, 2015, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
A handful of doctors providing medical services to students at UC San Diego — and their colleagues at nine other University of California campuses — went on strike Tuesday. It’s the first time in 25 years that fully licensed doctors are picketing a U.S. employer, according to the Union of American Physicians and Dentists, which represents the physicians at the UC schools.
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by Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune.
Posted: January 26th, 2015, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
More than 80 percent of University of California (UC) support staff employees are paid wages too low to provide the basic necessities of life in the areas where they live and work, according to preliminary findings of a study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute. As Governor Brown and UC President Janet Napolitano meet to discuss the financial future of the UC, it’s imperative that they recognize the dire financial situation of many UC employees.
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by Jason Rabinowitz, Calitics.
Posted: January 26th, 2015, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Ever feel like you just sat down at the educational equivalent to Burger King or Taco Bell? … Do many new students come to Chico State with an informed desire to pursue a certain major? How are we supposed to know what we really wish to pursue as a professional career if we don’t get the chance to experience the fullness of the academic spectrum? I can only close with: “Thank you for choosing Chico State. Please have your order and method of payment ready at the window or when ordering online.”
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by Joseph Rogers, The Orion.
Posted: January 20th, 2015, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
UC doesn’t know exactly how it spends its money — and maybe it honestly can’t know. Is the salary for a teaching assistant — who is also a doctoral candidate working in her mentor’s lab — money for undergraduate instruction, for research or for graduate education? How do you distinguish a professor’s teaching from his research on a spreadsheet? How do you allocate the budget for the library or for the custodians and groundskeepers? More fundamentally, how do you resolve the inherent tension between trying to be a highly ranked, selective research institution competing with Harvard, Stanford and other lavishly endowed private universities and trying to be a public university as well? Can you be meritocratic and democratic too?
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by Peter Schrag, The Los Angeles Times.
Posted: January 18th, 2015, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
In November, the UC Board of Regents – at Napolitano’s urging – voted to increase tuition by five percent for each of the next five school years unless the governor and state lawmakers give the UC an additional $100 million each year. But Brown is holding firm to his terms from 2012, when he promised both the UC and California State University state funding increases of four-to-five percent for four consecutive years – as long as both systems froze tuition. Capitol sources familiar with the governor’s budget proposal – to be released Friday morning – tell Capital Public Radio that the governor will propose four percent funding increases for the UC and CSU as long as they do not increase tuition. That equates to additional funds of just under $120 million.
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by Ben Adler, Capital Public Radio.
Posted: January 8th, 2015, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Aiming to dramatically expand access to higher education, President Obama on Thursday proposed making community college virtually free for millions of high school graduates — a potential boon for California’s system, the largest in the nation. The federal government would pay 75% of the costs of community college, requiring states to pick up the rest, under the proposal that White House officials said would be included in the 2016 federal budget and require congressional approval… Officials said the [California] system could accommodate an influx of more students, since so many were turned away amid severe budget cuts during the recession. Between 2007 and 2012, the system lost $1.5 billion in funding, a quarter of course offerings and nearly 500,000 students.
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by Jason Song, Teresa Watanabe and Christi Parsons, The Los Angeles Times.
Posted: January 8th, 2015, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
“Thoughtful coffee w/ @calstate Chancellor Tim White this morn. Pleased #tuitionhikes aren’t on table for CSU,” Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, posted on Twitter on Tuesday after meeting with California State University Chancellor Timothy White. University of California President Janet Napolitano faced a more skeptical audience during a closed-door Capitol meeting with lawmakers who represent UC campuses. They challenged Napolitano over her push for tuition increases of up to 5 percent annually. There also were questions about the system’s bureaucracy, which some faculty unions call bloated. Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, has suggested the lower house will ask UC officials to justify their budgets line by line.
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by Jim Miller, The Sacramento Bee.
Posted: January 7th, 2015, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
The online education market showed “no discernible growth” between the fall of 2012 and 2013, according to a preliminary analysis of the federal government’s data on students enrolled in distance education courses… “Think of the implications here if online education has stopped growing in U.S. higher education,” Hill wrote. “Many of the assumptions underlying institutional strategic plans and ed-tech vendor market data are based on continued growth in online learning. It is possible that there will be market changes leading back to year-over-year growth, but for now the assumptions might be wrong.”
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by Staff, Inside Higher Ed.
Posted: January 7th, 2015, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
