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faculty pay | UC

You Might Not Know It But We Are In the 3rd Year of a 4-Year Plan to Raise Faculty Salaries to Market Competitiveness
Byadmin October 15, 2010

Nostalgia Department: Just to let you know, below is a letter from then UC-President Robert Dynes to campus chancellors: September 25, 2007 CHANCELLORS Dear Colleagues: I am writing to convey good news with regard to faculty salaries. Now that the California State budget has been passed, The Regents have approved the first year of a four-year plan of faculty salary increases designed to raise faculty salaries to market competitiveness and to restore the integrity of the rank and step system of faculty advancement. In 2006, the Academic Senate systemwide Committee on Academic Personnel prepared a report on the present status…

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Berkeley Faculty Association Calls for “Process D”
Byadmin October 15, 2010

The UC Berkeley Faculty Association (BFA) issued a report yesterday roundly criticizing the proposals of the Post Employment Benefits task force (PEB). The report recommends rejecting options A and B put forth by the PEB majority, and also finds Option C (the faculty/staff dissenting report) lacking. BFA calls for “Process D.” You can download the full report (PDF) here, or read the short version on the BFA website.

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pension | pensions | politics | UC Regents | uc retirement

More Focus on the Outside Political Scene Needed When We Review Retirement Options?
Byadmin October 15, 2010

Uncomfortable Question: Are we too focused on internal UC politics in evaluating the various pension and retiree health care proposals? Is it a form of UC GroupThink? That issue was raised in a conversation with an administration official. We have tended to worry about what President Yudof thinks, what the Regents think, what various UC officials think, what Academic Senate leaders think, what UC unions think, etc. But in fact we could come up with a plan that somehow balances all these views but fails a public sniff test. Below is a straw in the wind from the San Diego…

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transportation | UCLA

UCLA Blog Reports Santa Monica Big Blue Bus Has Been Added to Google-Transit
Byadmin October 15, 2010

Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus is a major transit line into UCLA. For some reason, it was not included in Google’s public transit information until now. UCLA’s official “Be a Green Commuter” blog reports this problem has been resolved. See: http://www.beagreencommuter.com/blog/?p=2716

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CSU | miscellaneous

CSU Seeks to Ban Commercial Sales by Students of Class Notes
Byadmin October 15, 2010

The LA Times reports that a student at Cal State who sells notes taken in classes as a business was warned by CSU to cease doing so on the grounds that the materials are the property of the instructors under California law. Excerpt: Entrepreneur gets a stern lecture from Cal State October 15, 2010, Carla Rivera, Los Angeles TimesRecent graduate Ryan Stevens sought to put his business degree from Cal State Sacramento to use by creating a website where students can buy and sell lecture notes, old homework, study guides and other class materials. The site, NoteUtopia.com, which was launched…

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tuition | UCLA

Applied Semantics: UCLA Senate Considers “Fees” vs. “Tuition”
Byadmin October 15, 2010

Academic Senate to vote on renaming ‘fees’ to ‘tuition’ (except) Kelly Zhou, Daily Bruin, 10/13/10 The UCLA Academic Senate will vote this week on a UC-wide proposal to officially change the term “educational fees” to “tuition,” which would clarify a confusing term for many students in the UC system. All UC campuses are currently evaluating the proposal, said Ann Karagozian, chair of the Academic Senate. After the schools provide input on the proposal, the Systemwide Academic Senate will make a recommendation by Oct. 22 to the UC Office of the President, according to Undergraduate Council Vice Chair Richard Weiss. “My…

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Audio of UCLA Academic Senate Forum on Post-Employment Benefits: 10-14-10
Byadmin October 14, 2010

Audio is now available of the UCLA Academic Senate forum on Post-Employment Benefits and the various options for the pension system and retiree health care. Cellphone photo from the forum is at the left. The audio (video with a still picture) is divided into seven parts due to time limits of Yahoo-video. Participants were Chancellor Block (welcoming remarks), Senate Chair Ann Karagozian, Chair of the campus Council on Planning and Budget David Lopez, Chair of the campus Committee on Faculty Welfare Shane White, and VC for Finance, Budget, and Capital Programs Steve Olsen. Click on the various parts below. PEB…

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health care | UC | uc retirement

UC Manhattan Project Legacy Potentially Blows Up Over Issue of Retiree Health Care
Byadmin October 14, 2010

For many years, going back to the Manhattan project, UC Regents were in charge of the “nuclear labs.” Various scandals revolving around lab security arose and the management system was eventually shifted to a consortium involving UC and others. At the time, there was concern about the UC pension implications. Lab employees had been part of the basic pension plan. The question was essentially how the assets of the plan (and the liabilities) would be split off to cover them. There was less attention paid to the issue of retiree health care, an unfunded liability for which, unlike the pension,…

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There May Always Be an England But It May Also Cost More to Go to University There
Byadmin October 14, 2010

Inside Higher Ed is running two articles today on a new official report which calls for rising tuition, reduced public subsidies, and more efficiencies in the British higher ed system. Britain Goes to Market (excerpt) October 14, 2010 Dozens of British universities could face a struggle for survival after a landmark report paved the way for a massive cut in teaching funding and an open market in fees and student numbers. The independent review on higher education funding and student finance, unveiled this week, concedes that fees of £6,000 (or $9,500) are unlikely to bridge the loss of public investment…

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admissions | UC

Evolving Jurisprudence on UC Admissions
Byadmin October 13, 2010

Christian schools lose appeal bid in UC case (excerpt) October 13, 2010, San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Elko The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Tuesday from Christian schools that want the University of California to grant college-prep credit for courses with religious viewpoints – using textbooks, UC says, that replace science with the Bible. The justices, without comment, denied a hearing to the Association of Christian Schools International, which accused the university of violating freedom of speech and religion with its policy on the classes applicants take in high school. UC requires certain high school courses for admission and says…

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You Might Not Know It But We Are In the 3rd Year of a 4-Year Plan to Raise Faculty Salaries to Market Competitiveness

Berkeley Faculty Association Calls for “Process D”

More Focus on the Outside Political Scene Needed When We Review Retirement Options?

UCLA Blog Reports Santa Monica Big Blue Bus Has Been Added to Google-Transit

CSU Seeks to Ban Commercial Sales by Students of Class Notes

Applied Semantics: UCLA Senate Considers “Fees” vs. “Tuition”

Audio of UCLA Academic Senate Forum on Post-Employment Benefits: 10-14-10

UC Manhattan Project Legacy Potentially Blows Up Over Issue of Retiree Health Care

There May Always Be an England But It May Also Cost More to Go to University There

Evolving Jurisprudence on UC Admissions

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UC Faculty Associations

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