Napolitano told regents that the 10-campus system responded to deep state funding cuts during the Great Recession by saving more than $320 million through more efficient energy use, reforms in procurement practices and other changes. Despite such efforts, she said, campuses are struggling with higher student-faculty ratios, fewer courses, fewer teaching assistants and overtaxed student services. “We have done more with less, but at a cost,” she said. The regents will vote on the proposal Thursday… UC has enrolled about 7,400 more California undergraduates since 2015-16 — the largest increase in 70 years — and plans to add 2,500 more this fall. One consequence of the swelling enrollment has been a rise in the student-to-faculty ratio from the historical level of about 18 to 1 to the current 21 to 1, UC officials said.

Read full article [here].
by Teresa Watanabe, The Los Angeles Times.

Posted: January 25th, 2017, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.