University of California students had cause Wednesday for some celebration: UC administrators said they would not seek an immediate tuition hike as a result of the state budget deal reached in Sacramento…. Full story at:http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0628-uc-tuition-20120628,0,1350860.story
You may have seen headlines indicating that UC-Davis has been ordered to release the names of the university police involved in the pepper spray incident. Some names have been released in earlier reports. But the new court order refers to names that were redacted from official documents. In fact, the judge involved gave the union representing the police officers who want their identities kept private a chance to appeal. For details, see http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/26/4590884/judge-release-names-tied-to-uc.html
Those who have been following the University of Virginia drama of the firing and unfiring of the university’s president by the Board of Visitors (equivalent of the Regents) may be surprised by one aspect of the outcome. The unfired president and the head of the Board who led the charge in the firing are now – in public at least – acting like love birds. Exactly how happy the ending of this story really is will undoubtedly emerge once the media attention dies down. Inside Higher Ed has a detailed story today at:http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/06/27/uva-board-reinstates-president-sullivan-and-prepares-strategic-planning-effort I guess all you need…[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ98qac2UIM&w=320&h=195]
Yet another initiative has qualified for the crowded November ballot. This one is a do-good budget reform with various features including a move to two-year budgets rather than one-year. California had two-year budgets back in Great Depression times. No miracles resulted from budgets based on the Earth cycling around the Sun twice rather than once back then. It is odd to think that such miracles will occur now. Budgets are based on forecasts of revenues and to some extent on spending. When the January budget proposal is made, the governor forecasts a period ranging from 6 to 18 months ahead. With…
As prior posts on this blog have noted, there are all kinds of last-minute developments going on regarding the state budget that affect UC including a tuition freeze in exchange for more funding – conditioned on voter approval in November of the governor’s tax initiative. While these developments were occurring, nothing seemed to be emanating from UCOP concerning what these changes in the budget might mean, what view UCOP had of them, etc. As of this writing, there is still nothing on the UCOP website about the budget changes. However, a letter from President Yudof to the Regents began circulating…
According to Inside Higher Ed, the U of Virginia Board of Visitors has unfired that university’s president. Presumably, however, the controversy as to what happened in both the firing and the unfiring will echo for some time. The news item is at http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/06/26/uva-board-reinstates-sullivan-president
This is our third posting on the budget deal now moving through the legislature that contains extra money for UC and CSU conditioned on a tuition freeze – all of which is conditioned on voters approving the governor’s November tax initiative. Concerns are being expressed by both higher ed systems about the proposed budget. CSU has already enacted a tuition increase which it would have to undo. UC has not made a tuition decision but doesn’t like its hands tied in principle. In theory, both systems set tuition independently of the legislature with UC having constitutional authority. On the other…
H.R. Haldeman, future Watergate conspirator, and – in this 1964 photo – future UCLA Alumni Association President, holds a check related to fundraising for Pauley Pavillion. The semi-official recent coffee table book history of UCLA – “UCLA: The First Century” – has very little else about Haldeman and nothing about John Erlichman, another Watergate conspirator and alum. Indeed, UCLA seems to have been a farm team for Watergate’s major league in a less boosterish article that was highlighted in LAObserved today: See the article at:http://www.guardian.co.uk//commentisfree/2012/jun/17/richard-nixon-watergate-conspirators-40-anniversary. [Title: “How a dead dog came back to bite Richard Nixon’s Watergate conspirators: Nixon operatives…
Earlier today, we posted an unconfirmed item saying the budget now going through the legislature contains some added funding for UC in exchange for a tuition freeze. That item has now been confirmed (and it is, as reported, contingent on voter approval of the governor’s tax initiative in November). So have other elements reported in earlier posts such as added and earmarked funding for the pension (but with no acknowledgment of state liability for the pension). And the legislature has declined to go along with the governor’s voiding of legislative earmarks for UC and some kind of long-term funding deal…
There is a report – so far unconfirmed – that the state budget that is yet to be fully enacted will contain some extra money for UC and CSU in exchange for a tuition freeze for this year. All of this – if confirmed – is conditioned on voters passing the governor’s tax initiative in November which is not a sure thing. The report comes from a student group, not UCOP. (Yours truly found nothing on the UCOP website as of 8 AM this morning about this matter.) See http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/06/uc-student-groups-budget-will-contain-uc-csu-tuition-freeze.html A freeze in June? Of course, it will be colder…
