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My Guess: California Supreme Court Will Not Invalidate State Furloughs
Byadmin September 9, 2010

I watched the California Supreme Court hearing on state furloughs yesterday. My totally non-expert sense from the questioning by the justices of the lawyers is that they would be loathe to invalidate the governor’s furlough orders, potentially leading to monumental backpay claims. As indicated in prior posts, the UC furloughs were NOT part of this case since they were not ordered by the governor. But in the (apparently unlikely) event that the Court did invalidate those furloughs that were ordered by the governor, UC would have a hard time not making some kind of accommodation for its own employees. It…

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UCLA History: Honorary Degree in ’63
Byadmin September 8, 2010

UC President Clark Kerr and UCLA Chancellor Franklin Murphy award honorary degree to former President Eisenhower, April 4, 1963.

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Previous Posts on Whistleblower Case and Removal of Faculty from a State Board Now Seem Connected
Byadmin September 7, 2010

Note: There have been previous separate posts on this blog which are now connected by the item excerpted below. For the earlier posts, see: http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2010/08/faculty-from-ucla-and-other.html http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2010/08/ucla-researcher-firing-questioned-in.html————–Researcher files whistle-blower retaliation complaint against UCLA (excerpts) September 7, 2010 | Erica Perez | California Watch A UCLA environmental health sciences researcher whose appointment was not renewed this year has filed a whistle-blower retaliation complaint against the university, saying he’s being punished for publishing politically incorrect research findings and for previous whistle-blowing against colleagues. UCLA officials had planned to end epidemiologist James Enstrom’s appointment August 30 but extended it until March 2011 after outside…

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UCLA Management School Plans to Move Away from State Funding Due to California’s Budget Crisis
Byadmin September 7, 2010

Giving Up State Funds (excerpts)September 7, 2010Inside Higher Ed How bad are things in California? The budget cuts and fiscal uncertainty are so severe that the University of California at Los Angeles’s business school is proposing that it give up all state funding — in return for greater budget flexibility and the right to raise out-of-state tuition to the levels of private institutions. The plan has been approved by UCLA, but is awaiting a review by Mark G. Yudof, president of the university system. Leading public universities regularly complain about the decline in the shares of their budgets that come…

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More Doctorates to Be Offered by CSU?
Byadmin September 6, 2010

Bills would add CSU doctorates (excerpts) Sep. 06, 2010, Sacramento Bee, Laurel Rosenhall Two bills heading to the governor’s desk raise a fundamental question about how California educates health care workers who are not physicians: How many of them need doctoral degrees? Assembly Bill 867 would allow California State University to offer a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, which would prepare professors to educate future nurses. AB 2382 would allow CSU to offer the Doctor of Physical Therapy degree, which a professional association has deemed will be necessary to become a physical therapist in 2015 and beyond. Together, the bills…

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Labor Day Advice to Grad Students Looking for Work: Be of Good Cheer (at least, if you are an MBA)
Byadmin September 6, 2010

The National Bureau of Economic Research has released the study summarized below. In today’s tough job market for grad students, it suggests inherent optimists do better – at least for MBAs. Happy Labor Day. The Importance of Being an Optimist: Evidence from Labor Markets Ron Kaniel, Cade Massey, David T. Robinson NBER Working Paper No. 16328September 2010 Dispositional optimism is a personality trait associated with individuals who believe, either rightly or wrongly, that in general good things tend to happen to them more often than bad things. Using a novel longitudinal data set that tracks the job search performance of…

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UCLA History: Chancellor Young Inauguration, Angela Davis Controversy
Byadmin September 5, 2010

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UCLA VC Steve Olsen Endorses Subway to UCLA
Byadmin September 4, 2010

There will be increased discussion about the “Subway-to-the-Sea” and its proposed stop at UCLA now that an environmental impact report has been released. See http://www.metro.net/projects_studies/westside/images/Draft_EIS_EIR/Executive%20Summary%20DEIS.pdf In a promotional video put on YouTube last October by the LACMTA, UCLA VC for Finance Steve Olsen endorsed the project. His remarks are at about the 6-minute point on the video: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz95Gr6VVLM&fs=1&hl=en_US]

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Yudof Quits CalChamber Board Over Political Endorsement in Gubernatorial Race
Byadmin September 4, 2010

From the PolitiCal blog of the LA Times Education leaders California Chamber of Commerce board to protest Whitman endorsement (excerpt) http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/09/community-college-chief-quits-chamber-board-to-protest-whitman-endorsement.html [Updated] September 3, 2010 | 12:29 pm [Updated at 4:40 p.m.] The president of University of California and the chancellor of the California community college system has resigned in protest from the California Chamber of Commerce board of directors after the organization backed Meg Whitman’s bid for governor. Jack Scott, a former Democratic state senator from Pasadena who was appointed as chancellor by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, announced his resignation in a letter to chamber President Allan Zaremberg after the…

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Some Data to Ponder on the Labor Day Weekend
Byadmin September 4, 2010

Below are data from a table from the recently-released “The Digest of Educational Statistics 2009” published by the National Center for Educational Statistics. It shows the estimated rate of 2005-06 high school graduates attending degree-granting institutions, by state, in 2006. Note that California – despite all of the talk we hear about preparing the workforce of the future – is not particularly highly ranked. The full table is available at http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d09/tables/dt09_203.asp United States…………. 62.0% ——————————- Mississippi ………….. 75.4 New York …………….. 75.0 Massachusetts ………… 72.6 South Dakota …………. 72.1 North Dakota …………. 71.9 New Mexico …………… 71.1 New Jersey ………………

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My Guess: California Supreme Court Will Not Invalidate State Furloughs

UCLA History: Honorary Degree in ’63

Previous Posts on Whistleblower Case and Removal of Faculty from a State Board Now Seem Connected

UCLA Management School Plans to Move Away from State Funding Due to California’s Budget Crisis

More Doctorates to Be Offered by CSU?

Labor Day Advice to Grad Students Looking for Work: Be of Good Cheer (at least, if you are an MBA)

UCLA History: Chancellor Young Inauguration, Angela Davis Controversy

UCLA VC Steve Olsen Endorses Subway to UCLA

Yudof Quits CalChamber Board Over Political Endorsement in Gubernatorial Race

Some Data to Ponder on the Labor Day Weekend

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