[T]he Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges – which found in 2012 that City College’s fiscal and governance systems were out of compliance with accrediting standards – has repeatedly refused requests to extend the deadline, saying the Education Department bars extensions. Now, however, the Education Department has made it clear that the commission is free to adopt a policy allowing it to extend the deadline for City College for as long as it takes the college to comply. College officials say they need 12 to 18 months. The commission will meet June 4-6, but its members have not said if they will consider extending the deadline. (The college has a temporary reprieve, pending the outcome of a trial set for October. If the commission prevails in the case against it, the college would lose public funding and have to close.)
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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.
Posted: May 15th, 2014, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
San Jose State’s embattled president has issued a public apology, vowing to “right the ship” after a rocky year and widespread criticism led the statewide chancellor to an unprecedented public review of the campus’s leadership… Last November, citing poor communication and low morale, San Jose State’s Academic Senate asked White to step in and repair the faculty’s fractured relationship with the administration. Qayoumi — a member of the Academic Senate — supported the resolution, which did not mention him by name. White agreed to intervene, possibly marking the first such review of a CSU campus…
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by Katy Murphy, The San Jose Mercury News.
Posted: May 12th, 2014, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Out-of-state students pay nearly $36,000 per year in tuition compared to $12,900 for in-state students; UC collected a half-billion dollars last year alone in out-of-state fees. So cutting off that extra tuition revenue likely would mean fewer spaces and less financial aid for everyone. It’s a dysfunctional system, but the colleges aren’t to blame, said Assemblyman Das Williams, D-Santa Barbara, who heads the Assembly’s Higher Education Committee. “If we want to have room for our kids, we’ve got to pay for it,” he said. California is spending less than half of what it did in 2000 for each UC student…
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by Katy Murphy, The San Jose Mercury News.
Posted: May 9th, 2014, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
California seems to be moving toward imposing a tax on oil pumped from the ground, either through a legislative bill or a ballot measure, a new poll suggests… The poll of 800 likely voters, conducted in late April, found 64 percent support an oil-extraction fee while 27 percent oppose it. Support for the fee crosses party lines, with 71 percent of Democrats, 67 percent of independents and 50 percent of Republicans in favor. And when told that California is the only one of 22 oil-producing states that doesn’t already have such a fee, the support of likely voters grows to 75 percent.
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by Josh Richman, The Contra Costa Times.
Posted: May 7th, 2014, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
College graduates had double the odds of being engaged at work and three times the odds of thriving in Gallup’s five elements of well-being if they had had “emotional support”—professors who “made me excited about learning,” “cared about me as a person,” or “encouraged my hopes and dreams.” Graduates who had done a long-term project that took a semester or more, who had held an internship, or who were extremely involved in extracurricular activities or organizations had twice the odds of being engaged at work and an edge in thriving in well-being.
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by Scott Carlson, The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Posted: May 6th, 2014, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
[W]hen you ask college graduates whether they’re “engaged” with their work or “thriving” in all aspects of their lives, their responses don’t vary one bit whether they went to a prestigious college or not… Those percentages did not vary based on whether the grads went to a fancy name-brand school or a regional state college, one of the top 100 in the U.S. News & World Report rankings or one of the bottom 100. A slight edge did go to those who attended campuses with more than 10,000 students, while for-profit college graduates saw worse outcomes.
by Anya Kamenetz, NPR.
Posted: May 6th, 2014, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
We’ve got other really good schools, so there is a place for a student like this. The number of California students has not been reduced by the acceptance of international or out-of-state students. Those have been add-ons. Systemwide, it’s around 10% [for nonresidents]. It is higher at UCLA and Berkeley. Other public universities we compare ourselves to, like Michigan and Virginia, are in the 30% to 40% range. Out-of-state students pay for in-state students. Half of the California kids pay no tuition. A quarter pay less than the sticker price. Everybody focuses on the sticker price; that’s bad marketing by us. We should focus on the average actual cost to students, which is much lower.
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by Patt Morrison, The Los Angeles Times.
Posted: April 29th, 2014, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Twenty picketers were arrested Wednesday for blocking traffic at UC Santa Cruz as unionized teaching assistants and tutors began a strike at two UC campuses. The walkout at Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley is expected to extend for a second day Thursday and include the system’s other seven undergraduate campuses as well, union leaders said… Caroline McKusick, an executive board member of the statewide union local, said UC has not made offers that “put academic quality first.” McKusick, an anthropology graduate student at UC Davis, said the arrests showed that the university system “would rather intimidate us than settle things right.”
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by Larry Gordon, The Los Angeles Times.
Posted: April 2nd, 2014, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
The largest sale of the week, set for Thursday, is $968.24 million in tax-exempt and taxable debt from the Regents of the University of California, with Wells Fargo Securities acting as lead underwriter. More than half of the deal, $559.5 million, will be tax-exempt. The higher education system’s negligible operating margin led Fitch Ratings to cut its credit score last month to AA from AA-plus. The University of California institutions were long considered a point of pride in the Golden State, but California’s years-long budget battles caused funding for the system to fall and its operations to suffer.
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by Lisa Lambert, Reuters.
Posted: March 28th, 2014, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
The trial that could determine the fate of City College of San Francisco will begin Oct. 27… At issue in the trial will be whether an accrediting commission properly conducted the 2012 evaluation of City College that led the commission to say it would revoke City College’s seal of approval on July 31, which would shut down the school of 77,000 students. Superior Court Judge Curtis Karnow derailed that timetable in January by ordering a trial after San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera sued the commission, claiming that it had evaluated the college unfairly. The accrediting commission is appealing the January ruling.
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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.
Posted: March 28th, 2014, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
