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From Inside Higher Ed comes the story of the intern who worked for free at UC-SF, and then didn’t.
A former doctoral student who worked as a psychology intern at the University of California, San Francisco was awarded more than $14,000 in back wages after filing a complaint with the California labor commissioner over uncompensated work…
Full story at http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/08/09/former-intern-wins-back-wages-university
On the other hand, the new chancellor at UC-Riverside won’t work for free over the objections of Governor Brown:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uc-riverside-20130809,0,942774.story
Background at http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/meetings/past-meetings/approved-actions.html#aa-aug13
Our earlier post had the Regents audio for the first part of the meeting of 9-17-13. There was then a closed session. The audio link below picks up the meeting again when the public component resumed. We also noted in the previous post that there was a inadvertent hot mike at the beginning of the meeting in a supposedly closed session which transmitted sensitive material online. We have not archived that portion. However, when the meeting reopened in a public session, apparently some Regents were not sensitive to what was going out. The audio begins with one Regent telling another…
UCLA co-generation plant California’s cash-strapped public universities would save millions of dollars under legislation by Orange County state Sen. Mimi Walters, but the bill’s prospects are uncertain because it would alter a landmark global warming law beloved by environmentalists. Walters’ proposal seeks to exempt University of California and California State University campuses from the new cap-and-trade program established under the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, otherwise known as Assembly Bill 32 or AB32, one of the nation’s most ambitious environmental laws… At least five UC campuses, including Irvine, UCLA and San Diego, qualify for the cap-and-trade program in 2013……
The UC Board of Regents, Committee on Grounds and Building met on the afternoon of Nov. 13, 2012. On the agenda were public comments, approval of the UC capital budget plan, discussion of a long term plan for student housing at UC-Santa Barbara, and design approval of a $118.6 million faculty office building project at UC-San Francisco. Two speakers in the public comments session referred to out-of-state students although exactly what was being suggested was unclear. The capital budget is a wishlist of projects that it would be nice if the state funded through general obligation bonds. However, given the…
This audio is a direct recording of the Regents’ afternoon session of July 28, 2012. At the end of the recording, it is announced that the governor is coming and that the Regents – who were going into closed session – would go back into open session when he arrived. However, the live-stream audio was shut off at that point. When we get the full audio from the Regents, if there are remarks from the governor on it, the audio will be posted. (Presumably, the governor wanted to talk about the Regents’ earlier endorsement of his tax initiative.) Otherwise, this…
Inside Higher Ed today has a lengthy article on recent proposals to give the various UC campuses more autonomy. These proposals have primarily been emanating from UC-Berkeley and UC-San Francisco. The article goes over some of the past statements and documents relating to this issue and provides a review of related developments in other state systems. The article is at:http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/05/11/university-california-faces-questions-about-its-governance-structure Clearly, breaking up the system would be difficult: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbad22CKlB4&w=320&h=195]
Inside Higher Ed reports that UCLA is among the top ten universities in research and development spending. It has been in that group for some time. Basically, the key determinants are having a med school and getting a lot of federal research funding. The top ten are: Johns HopkinsU of Michigan (Ann Arbor)U of Wisconsin (Madison)U of Washington (Seattle)DukeUC-San DiegoUCLAUC-San FranciscoStanfordU of Pennsylvania Data from http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2012/04/02/hopkins-again-leads-rd-spending. There is a link in this article to NSF data. When you click on the link to the article, go to Table 5. It’s good to be among the tops:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6oGytt0Hiw&w=320&h=195]
