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No Pay Today: State Budget Update
Byadmin June 22, 2011

As noted in an update to one of yesterday’s blog entries, state controller John Chiang has ruled that the budget passed by the legislature (but vetoed by the governor), was not “balanced.” However, he took a relatively narrow view of what the imbalance was, which would open the door to some other budget deal that might have funny elements in it. Chiang’s ruling means legislators don’t get paid. So far, no one has filed a legal challenge to his ruling. There is a report that the governor has a plan for passing a budget by majority vote, i.e., without Republican…

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Faculty Center Election Results
Byadmin June 21, 2011

The Faculty Center just emailed the results of its recent election. If you did not receive the email, the results are listed below, along with the campaign statements of the winning candidates. These are the individuals that will have to deal with the UCLA administration with regard to the hotel/conference center issue. The Election Committee has completed the task of counting the ballots and the following candidates have been elected to served on the 2011-12 Faculty Center Board of Governors President-elect: Joseph NagyTreasurer: Lawrence Kruger Members-at-large: Charles Berst, Laura Lake, R. Michael Rich Candidate Statements:President-electJoseph Nagy, Professor of English I’ve…

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athletics | State Budget | UC budget crisis

State Budget (Whenever There Is One) to Ban Funding UC Athletics
Byadmin June 21, 2011

The story below somehow got away yours truly on Sunday. But Inside Higher Ed alerted me so here it is belatedly: Budget plan bans taxpayer funds for UC athletics (Excerpt) Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, June 19, 2011 With a few words in the new state budget, lawmakers will ban spending taxpayer money on intercollegiate athletics – and end a controversy that started when a sharp-eyed UC Berkeley professor found that university officials had changed details of the law. University of California officials acknowledge asking the state to remove athletics from the list of programs required to be “self-supporting and…

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Straws in the Fiscal Winds: State and Campus
Byadmin June 21, 2011

Various straws in the state and UCLA budgetary winds today. The controversy over whether legislators will get paid after having passed a budget by the constitutional deadline which was then vetoed remains. Politicos are waiting state controller John Chiang’s decision on whether the vetoed budget was “balance” by some definition. Whatever he decides seems likely to be litigated. No one who has been state controller has ever said that his/her sole political ambition since age 4 has been to be state controller. I would venture to say that all of them would like to “advance” to some other office eventually….

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tuition | UC enrollment

Higher Summer Tuition Possible for Out-of-State Students or Maybe Everyone
Byadmin June 20, 2011

The oddity that for summer session UC charges out-of-state students that same tuition as in-staters that was noted in a prior post on this blog may end. Alternatively, UC summer tuition may be raised for everyone. Excerpt from the Sacramento Bee website: A taxpayer subsidy that out-of-state students have been receiving for years is under scrutiny as the University of California system searches for extra revenue. …But partly due to measures taken to boost enrollment, (out-of-staters) don’t pay higher fees for summer classes… A decade ago, the UC system moved from a self-supported summer quarter to one funded by the…

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miscellaneous | UCLA

UCLA History: The Kirkeby
Byadmin June 19, 2011

Kirkeby Center – which is now the building housing the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum at Westwood and Wilshire – was once topped by an upscale restaurant, The Kirkeby.

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miscellaneous | UCLA

UCLA History: Blimp View (of and from)
Byadmin June 18, 2011

View of the Goodyear Blimp over UCLA in 1930 (below) and a view from the Blimp of UCLA (right).

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UC budget crisis

Whoops: Non-Californians at UC get summer subsidy
Byadmin June 17, 2011

A taxpayer subsidy that out-of-state students enrolled in the University of California system have been receiving for years is under scrutiny as the schools search for extra revenue. During the regular school year, nonresidents pay up to three times as much as students from California, bringing the universities a few hundred million dollars. But partly due to measures taken to boost summer enrollment, they are spared from paying higher fees for summer classes… Unlike the UC campuses, the California State University system doesn’t give nonresidents a break. They pay an extra $372 per unit year-round. Full article at: http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/06/university-of-california-nonresident-summer-school.html

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politics | State Budget | UC budget crisis

UCLA Forecast Chart Tells the Underlying Story
Byadmin June 17, 2011

Above you see my favorite chart from the UCLA Anderson Forecast. It appears each quarter in the publication that accompanies the Forecast conference. This version is from the most recent Forecast conference which took place on campus in Ackerman last Wednesday. (My brilliant cellphone photo of the conference on the left reminds us that there is – after all – space on campus to hold big conferences, but that is another story.) What the chart tells us is that California has essentially never recovered from the recession of the early 1990s. The trend line is the Cold War employment growth…

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Radio Interview on UC Budget Cut (in Now-Vetoed Budget)
Byadmin June 17, 2011

UC Exec VP for Business Operations Nathan Brostrom was interviewed earlier today by Madeline Brand, KPCC, shortly before the governor vetoed the state budget. Brostrom asserts that the governor could have line-item vetoed the UC cut. It’s not clear that the governor could do that but, in any event, vetoing the entire budget ends the issue for now. Click below for the interview. Note that it is uncertain where we go from here. The governor and the legislative Democrats are now at odds. The state controller, John Chiang, is deciding whether the budget that was passed but vetoed was “balanced”…

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