UCLA History: The Lake Arrowhead Resort Back in the Day
This photo from the UCLA digital archives shows festivities at Lake Arrowhead in 1944.
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privatization | tuition | UCLA
UCLA Academic Senate Opposes Anderson Self Sufficiency
The Academic Senate has sent a letter to EVC Scott Waugh dated Nov. 1 opposing the Anderson “self sufficiency” funding plan (which some see as a form of privatization). Among the complaints are that salaries at Anderson are already at competitive levels with other business schools, that the proposal might overemphasize teaching relative to research, and that if the revenues projected fell short, there might be a financial risk to UCLA. You can find the Senate evaluation and other documents related to this issue at http://www.senate.ucla.edu/documents/AGSMFSS_AcademicSenateResponse.pdf A little self sufficient music: UPDATE: The Daily Bruin has an account of a…
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UCLA History: Marching Forward
The UCLA Marching Band in 1928 with John Phillip Sousa. Photo from UCLA digital archives.
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health care | pension | pensions | UC Regents
More Reality Comes to the Regents on Nov. 18
Even more reality will arrive on the morning of Nov. 18 at the Regents, when they take up pensions and retiree health care. The documentation for that session is at http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/nov10/j3.pdf A quick review of that documentation suggests that the $2 for $1 issue is not well explained when borrowing from STIP is discussed. But that is not new; it wasn’t well explained at the campus sessions. In a previous post, you can hear yours truly make that point at the UCLA session. Anyway, in a few decades we can all sing:
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Reality Dawns on the Morning of Nov. 17 (at the Regents)
The Regents will consider (and presumably approve) the switch in terminology from “fees” to “tuition” at their Nov. 17 meeting. (Actually, reality is scheduled to arrive after lunch, not dawn.) See http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/nov10/j1.pdf So problem over. Right?
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pension | pensions | State Budget | tuition
The Horror, The Horror, the State Budget
The Legislative Analyst has come out with his budget outlook. Guess what? It’s a horror story. In rough terms, last year’s budget (with all the trickery involved) was “balanced” in the sense of inflows = outflows. But it contained a legacy of past sin to the tune of about $6 billion. The budget recently enacted for this year is also roughly “balanced,” but it also carries forward the $6 billion in past sins. So if that were the extent of the problem, we would probably do what Schwarzenegger did when he took office, i.e., finance the past sins by some…
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Do Onto Others But Not Onto You
Background: With the late Keith Richman, OC supervisor John Moorlach has been a major figure in the movement to move public employees in California from defined-benefit pension to defined contribution. (Meg Whitman had favored DC and might have put it on the ballot, had she been elected governor. That possibility – a ballot initiative – still exists.) When confronted with changing his pension to DC, Mr. Moorlach seems to be having second thoughts: Supervisors Will Study Giving Up Pensions November 9, 2010, Voice of OC Newly elected Orange County Supervisor Shawn Nelson made another baby step Tuesday toward his goal…
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Faculty Hiring: Not Looking for Support
Inside Higher Ed carries a story today that letters of support for female faculty job candidates use words that make hiring less likely. Excerpt below: You are reading a letter of recommendation that praises a candidate for a faculty job as being “caring,” “sensitive,” “compassionate,” or a “supportive colleague.” Whom do you picture? New research suggests that to faculty search committees, such words probably conjure up a woman — and probably a candidate who doesn’t get the job. The scholars who conducted the research believe they may have pinpointed one reason for the “leaky pipeline” that frustrates so many academics,…
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CSU Does Two-Step on Tuition
At least UC is not dancing alone on raising tuition. Excerpt from the Sacramento Bee: A panel of the California State University board of trustees voted Tuesday to raise tuition in two steps over the next year for a total increase of 15.5 percent. If the plan is approved by the full board of trustees today, tuition will go up 5 percent in the spring semester and 10 percent next fall. That would bring annual tuition for a full-time undergraduate to $4,884 in the fall. That does not include fees charged by individual campuses that are typically around $950. And…
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pension | pensions | State Budget | tuition | uc funding | Yudof
Yudof Explains Tuition Increase in Public Letter: Tries to Mitigate Bad News with Good News But Comes Across as an Apology
Most of the media coverage in fact focuses on the tuition increase, not the mitigating subsidies to lower income student nor the material on the quality of UC. Whether intended or not, the letter was likely seen as an apology for the increase.———————–Open letter to California fromUC President Mark G. Yudof 2010-11-08 The University of California was conceived in the immediate aftermath of the Gold Rush, and ever since the fortunes of the state and those of the university have been entwined. One would not be the same without the other. The university is both a creation of and the…