The University of California consistently attracts the country’s best and brightest, pays those professors well, and rarely sees any of them quit to take another job, a pattern that hasn’t changed despite the recession and years of budget cuts, according to a nonpartisan state report released Thursday… Now it’s up to the state Legislature to decide whether to back a UC budget that not only includes raises for those folks, but also funding for a lot more faculty to accommodate increased student enrollment while also reducing faculty-student ratios, the report found. “We chose this topic because the faculty is central to the university’s education and research missions, and there have been concerns about their recruitment/retention due to budget cuts and the recession,” said Paul Golaszewski, who prepared the report.

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by Jill Tucker, The San Francisco Chronicle.

Posted: December 13th, 2012, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.