Year: 2012

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Yesterday’s Letter to the Editor by the Chancellor and Senate Chair: What’s It All About?
Byuclafaculty May 27, 2012

Some blog readers may have seen a letter to the editor in the LA Times by Chancellor Gene Block and Senate Chair Andrew Leuchter which responded to an earlier op ed in the Times by John M. Ellis and Charles L. Geshekter of a group called the National Assn. of Scholars and its California branch. Yours truly suspects that many blog readers did not peruse the letters section of the Times this holiday weekend so here is a summary and explainer. The op ed was based on a larger document published by that group and sent to the Regents. It…

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UCLA History: T’was Not to Be
Byuclafaculty May 27, 2012

A peace rally at UCLA in 1937 as events in Europe increasingly pointed towards war.

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graduate education | privatization | State Budget | tuition | UC budget crisis | UCLA

UCLA Legislative Assembly to Review Anderson Self-Supporting MBA Proposal
Byuclafaculty May 26, 2012

On June 7th, the Legislative Assembly will be taking up an appeal filed by faculty members of the Anderson Graduate School of Management regarding the Graduate Council’s rejection of a proposal to convert the “regular” MBA program to a self-supporting basis. In the Academic Senate letter transmitting this decision to the Chancellor, it is reported that “the MBA proposal in particular revealed significant and deep divisions of opinion within the Senate faculty regarding the advisability of converting programs, and in particular a ‘cornerstone’ program, to self-supporting status. The AGSM faculty voted overwhelmingly in favor of the proposal, the school’s FEC…

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The UC Budget in the May Revise: Allusion Leads to Illusion
Byuclafaculty May 26, 2012

The Legislative Analyst has released a summary of its recommendations regarding UC and CSU reflecting the governor’s May Revise budget proposal. Below, in italics are excerpts related to pension funding for UC. As noted in prior blog posts, in January, the governor designated a sum of $90 million which he said could be used (or not) for UC pension funding. The problem with that approach is that UC has always been free to allocate what it gets from the state for the pension. By alluding to use for the pension, the governor triggered a recommendation from the Leg Analyst that…

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Scam-A-Lot (More Phony Emails to Delete)
Byuclafaculty May 26, 2012

Scammers seem to be aiming at UCLA these days. As an earlier post noted, you may receive messages such as the one below saying that through UCLA someone is trying to reach you. Just click on a link to find out. Don’t click. Delete. Here is the latest version as received by yours truly: Bruin OnLine Info Center Inbox Hello You have a private message from your old friend who wished to get in-touch with you, use the Private link below to login and view your message if possibly get in contact with your old friend again. {link} Sign, Computer…

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admissions | enrollment | State Budget | UC Berkeley | UC budget crisis

UC-Berkeley Chancellor Protests Proposed Constitutional Amendment Pending in Legislature Capping Out-of-State Enrollment
Byuclafaculty May 25, 2012

(Any thoughts from UCLA about this issue?) Media Release from UC-Berkeley Below: Chancellor expresses concerns about proposed constitutional amendment Public Affairs, UC-Berkeley, May 24, 2012 A message from Chancellor Birgeneau On May 16, California state Sen. Michael Rubio introduced a proposed amendment to the state’s constitution that would restrict the enrollment of out-of-state and international students on University of California campuses to 10 percent of undergraduate enrollment. If cleared for the ballot by both houses of the Legislature and passed by voters this November, Senate Constitutional Amendment 22 would take effect in the fall of 2013. Its provisions would mandate…

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community colleges | CSU | governor | State Budget | tuition | UC

Concerns Over Proposed Cal Grants Cuts in May Revise Budget
Byuclafaculty May 25, 2012

Cal Grant program faces cuts in governor’s budget (excerpts) Wyatt Buchanan, San Francisco Chronicle, May 25, 2012 Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing to cut a state program that helps thousands of low- and middle-income California university students pay for tuition and other costs. Under Brown’s revised budget plan, thousands of California college students who start their education in fall of 2013 would either be unable to qualify for a Cal Grant or would receive a much smaller grant than if they had applied this year. Currently, students who qualify and attend either the University of California or California State University…

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Carmageddon II Now Rescheduled for August or September (Thanks to the FBI?)
Byuclafaculty May 25, 2012

From today’s LA Daily News: Officials initially hoped to shut down a segment of the San Diego (405) Freeway next month, but delays to the $1 billion project are pushing the massive closure back to August or September. Unexpected utility work, a $300 million lawsuit and bickering with FBI representatives over security clearances are all delaying completion, Metro officials said Thursday… … A $300 million lawsuit – filed last year by a Bel Air landowner – forced Metro to move a freeway on-ramp near the Getty Museum 150 feet to the west. …And then there’s the FBI. The agency works…

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Listen to Audio of Regent Committee on Compliance & Audit: Feb. 28, 2012
Byuclafaculty May 24, 2012

The Regents Committee on Compliance and Audit met on February 28, 2012 ahead of the March meeting. When the Faculty Association requested a copy of the audio for this meeting, as it now always does, it turned out that the meeting had been taped (analog-recorded) rather than recorded digitally. Thus, the Regents’ office sent the analog recording out for conversion to digital format. There were then other delays which account for why only now are we able to post the audio. It remains unclear why the audio of meetings of the Regents, which are streamed live, cannot simply be posted…

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Opening the Pepper
Byuclafaculty May 24, 2012

Sacramento Bee, LA Times sue to force UC disclosure of pepper spray officer names Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee, 5-23-12 The Sacramento Bee and the Los Angeles Times filed suit today against the University of California Board of Regents in a bid to force the release of police officer names that have been kept secret from the public since last November’s pepper-spray incident on the UC Davis campus. The lawsuit, filed in Sacramento Superior Court, seeks a court order forcing the release of the names that were redacted from a task force study of the incident that was released in April… Full story at: http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/05/sacramento-bee-la-times-sue-to-force-uc-disclosure-of-pepper-spray-officer.html…

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Year: 2012

Yesterday’s Letter to the Editor by the Chancellor and Senate Chair: What’s It All About?

UCLA History: T’was Not to Be

UCLA Legislative Assembly to Review Anderson Self-Supporting MBA Proposal

The UC Budget in the May Revise: Allusion Leads to Illusion

Scam-A-Lot (More Phony Emails to Delete)

UC-Berkeley Chancellor Protests Proposed Constitutional Amendment Pending in Legislature Capping Out-of-State Enrollment

Concerns Over Proposed Cal Grants Cuts in May Revise Budget

Carmageddon II Now Rescheduled for August or September (Thanks to the FBI?)

Listen to Audio of Regent Committee on Compliance & Audit: Feb. 28, 2012

Opening the Pepper

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