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LA Times Editorial Calls for Cutting UC Enrollment Due to Budget Crisis
Byadmin January 21, 2011

Editorial: LA Times To save UC, cut enrollment: The options are all grim, but the priority must be to maintain the system’s prestigious standing. (excerpt) Jan. 21, 2011 In response to Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to slash $500 million from the University of California budget, UC President Mark G. Yudof said this week that he might be forced to flout the state’s 50-year-old Master Plan for Higher Education by reducing enrollment by thousands of students who otherwise would qualify for entrance. It’s unclear whether Yudof meant that as a strategic threat or as a plan, but we’re afraid it may…

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Regents Contemplate the Budget & Admissions 1-19-11 – Part 2
Byadmin January 21, 2011

This posting continues from Part 1. Please see the text of Part 1. Part 6 UC-San Diego / Holistic Admissions Part 7 Holistic Admissions – continues Part 8 Holistic Admissions – continues Part 9 Holistic Admissions / Student Response to Budget Part 10 Budget Part 11 Budget Part 12 Budget Part 13 Budget Part 14 Budget (end of morning session)

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Can We Drop the High Paid Pension Thing Now Rather than Wait for March, Regents?
Byadmin January 20, 2011

I have posted some of the audio of the January Regents meeting and will get around to posting more soon. However, the issue of the demand for high-paid UC exec pensions – see earlier posts if you have been buried in a cave for the past month – continues to be a blemish on UC. Moreover, it exacerbates the entire state budget scene. At the January Regents meeting, it was pointed out that the demand is not helpful to UC at all. But the matter is apparently being deferred to the March Regents meeting. That delay means it continues to…

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Regents Contemplate the Budget & Admissions 1-19-11 – Part 1
Byadmin January 20, 2011

I am going to be posting the Regents meeting audio from the session of 1-19-11, morning. This session was devoted to the budget outlook and a proposal to expand “holistic” admissions. It takes me some time to get the audios in shape for posting. I am going to post four which deal primarily with the budget and one which gets into the holistic discussion. When I have time, I will continue the posting. However, the budget discussion – although no decisions were taken – may well be significant. If you listen to the speeches by Regent Gould, President Yudof, and…

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LAO Perspective on Higher Ed in Governor’s Budget
Byadmin January 19, 2011

Below is the report on higher ed and the governor’s proposed budget just issued by the Legislative Analyst. In certain respects, the report tends to minimize the problem. For example, a chart below (Figure 5) shows the budget through the current year but omits the cut for next year. That cut brings the budget down to last year’s. In its earlier report, and now this one, the Leg Analyst repeats the idea that the legislature should tell UC how to make the cuts. At today’s Regents meeting, there was much talk about the budget cuts; the idea that the legislature…

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Regents Approve UCLA Student Housing Construction Project
Byadmin January 19, 2011

The Regents meetings are audio-streamed. Sadly, as pointed out previously on this blogsite, they are not archived. Yours truly cannot record them all and post them since he has other activities and responsibilities. If there is a good reason why Regents meetings cannot be audio-archived, I have yet to hear it. I did hear, but not record, a bit of yesterday’s Regents meeting at which a construction project for UCLA was among the items approved. The Regents approved the project – replacement and expansion of various student apartment houses near campus. For the proposal, see http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/jan11/gb2a.pdf However, they did so…

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UCLA Faculty Assn. Chair Dwight Read Suggests a Budget Forum to the Chancellor
Byadmin January 18, 2011

Below is the text of a letter sent today by UCLA Faculty Association Chair Dwight Read to Chancellor Block suggesting a budget forum. Gene D. BlockChancellor, UCLA2147 Murphy HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1405 Jan. 18, 2011 Dear Chancellor Block, As Chair of the Faculty Association at UCLA, an independent, voluntary organization of Academic Senate members on this campus, I am writing to you again about the welfare of the University in the current budget crisis.Governor Brown¹s budget proposal cuts $500 million from UC’s budget if the voters extend tax increases for another 5 years. If this source of revenue fails, there…

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Former Chancellor Young Reviews Funding Options for UC in the Face of the State Budget Crisis
Byadmin January 18, 2011

In a chapter for the current edition of California Policy Options, former UCLA Chancellor Charles Young reviews funding options for UC. He discusses status quo funding, privatization, and “modified self-sufficiency” in this chapter and suggests the last as the most viable of the three. California Policy Options 2011 will eventually be available in full on the web. However, you can access the Young chapter at https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BzVLYPK7QI_4MzhmMjMyMmUtN2Y0Zi00Njc4LWEyMWQtOWE0MWVkMjdlNjY0&hl=en&authkey=CMLHxK4O A related item is an op ed by yours truly in today’s Daily Bruin: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BzVLYPK7QI_4Y2E4OTFjZmQtM2QzNy00NjA2LWI4MDAtZWNkYTRhODdiMWI2&hl=en&authkey=CLeVhc8JAnd finally, if you really want to know more than you should about the way state budget sausage is made,…

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UCLA History: Drink Me or Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Byadmin January 18, 2011

Just a little experiment by a UCLA professor in the 1950s with giving a nice lady LSD at our neighboring VA Hospital: The footage is discussed in the UK Daily Mail at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1348080/Grandma-acid-Researcher-finds-rare-footage-1950s-housewife-LSD-experiment.html Here is a bio of Prof. Cohen, shown in the video: Sidney Cohen conducted early LSD research in the 1950s and was a noted U.S. public expert on drug abuse from the 1960s to the 1980s. Cohen was a Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and served in the Nixon Administration as the first Director, Division of Narcotic Abuse and Drug Addiction at the National Institute of Mental…

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UC budget crisis | UC Merced

There’s No Stopping Expansion at UC-Merced: Budget Crisis or Not
Byadmin January 17, 2011

UC Merced marks site for $89m science building Yesenia Amaro / Merced Sun-Star / 1-16-11 University officials, students, and local and state elected officials convened at the school’s library on Friday for a dedication ceremony for the new $88.8 million Science and Engineering Building 2. The 102,000-square-foot, three-story building will be located across from the Science and Engineering Building. The new building is expected to open its doors in 2014. Chancellor Steve Kang said the new building “will allow UC Merced to continue to provide exceptional academic and research opportunities.” … UC Merced was allocated more than $100 million from…

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LA Times Editorial Calls for Cutting UC Enrollment Due to Budget Crisis

Regents Contemplate the Budget & Admissions 1-19-11 – Part 2

Can We Drop the High Paid Pension Thing Now Rather than Wait for March, Regents?

Regents Contemplate the Budget & Admissions 1-19-11 – Part 1

LAO Perspective on Higher Ed in Governor’s Budget

Regents Approve UCLA Student Housing Construction Project

UCLA Faculty Assn. Chair Dwight Read Suggests a Budget Forum to the Chancellor

Former Chancellor Young Reviews Funding Options for UC in the Face of the State Budget Crisis

UCLA History: Drink Me or Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

There’s No Stopping Expansion at UC-Merced: Budget Crisis or Not

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