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Planning on Going Home Today from UCLA?

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You might want to leave early, particularly if you travel on Sunset Blvd. From LAObserved: It’s sounding like President Obama will arrive at LAX on Monday afternoon about 4:40 p.m., then fly above afternoon traffic by helicopter to the Veterans Administration campus near Brentwood. From there, judging by a notice to the media from Councilman Bill Rosendahl’s office, Obama will be driven up Barrington Avenue to Sunset Boulevard, then east to the House of Blues on Sunset Strip for his first fundraiser of the evening. This keeps Obama off Wilshire and Santa Monica, the boulevards that have gotten smacked hard…

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Slow News Day at the New York Times?

Byuclafaculty

The New York Times may have all the news that’s fit to print. But it carries an article today – dated Sept. 24 – on tuition increases at UC that seems to be over a week out of date. (The article quoted below appears on the NY Times’ website with a note that it also appeared in the national print edition.) In the text we find: “Faced with drastic cutbacks in state financing, U.C. tuition increased 18 percent this school year, and the university’s Board of Regents is expected to vote on a plan to raise tuition 8 percent to…

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UC-Berkeley Bake Sale Controversy

Byuclafaculty

Racially heated posting sparks UC Berkeley outrage Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 24, 2011 A Facebook post announcing plans by a UC Berkeley Republican group to sell baked goods priced according to race, gender and ethnicity – “White/Caucasian” pastries for $2 and “Black/African American” pastries for 75 cents, for example – has drawn outrage on campus…The campus Republicans, who expect to go forward with their “Increase Diversity Bake Sale” on Tuesday, say the event is meant to mock an effort by the student government to drum up support for SB185, a bill to let the University of California and…

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Police Arrests at UC-Berkeley Anti-Tuition Demonstration

Byuclafaculty

When Tolman Hall at UC-Berkeley was dedicated in 1963 (see picture at right), things were quite peaceful. Not so yesterday when a student anti-tuition demonstration got out of hand: From the Daily Californian (UC-Berkeley student newspaper) today: Tensions between police officers and demonstrators fluctuated throughout the course of a campus protest Thursday, culminating in a violent scuffle when one man was carried from Tolman Hall by his arms and legs. At about 9 p.m., after over seven hours of protest inside the building, protesters were chanting in the lobby of Tolman and police officers began to move towards the doors…

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Looks Like Crane Won’t Fly

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From the LA Times’ LA Now blog: San Francisco businessman David Crane’s brief term as a UC regent seems likely to be over in December because Democrats in the state Senate have not moved to confirm his appointment nine months ago by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Under state rules, an appointee to the university board can serve up to a year without legislative confirmation. The state Senate is now in recess and no special session is scheduled for the rest of the year. Crane, a Democrat who was an economic advisor to Schwarzenegger, a Republican, is opposed by labor unions…

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Too Far, Too Fast?

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You may have noticed in yesterday’s LA Times or other papers that CSU Chancellor Reed said he will NOT ask for a multi-year plan involving scheduled tuition increases: California State University will not seek a second tuition increase this academic year even if it suffers a further $100-million cut in state funding, the system’s chief executive said Wednesday. Chancellor Charles B. Reed, addressing trustees who were meeting in Long Beach, also rejected adopting a multi-year budget that would incorporate annual tuition increases. Some higher education leaders argue that such a move, though controversial, would provide stability and help campus leaders,…

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Advance Audio of Regents Meeting: 2nd Part of 9-15-11

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Courtesy of Jim Chalfant – who recorded the session from the live-stream – here is the second part of the Regents meeting of 9-15-11. You can find part 1 of the advance audio by scrolling down on this blog. There is discussion on this recording of the economic impact of UC on California – a report that was prepared on the subject and described to the Regents. (See an earlier post on this blog concerning that report.) Then there is discussion of the UC budget situation. Below is the agenda for that session:8:30 am Committee of the Whole (public comment)8:50…

Where the Money Is?

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From the Merced Sun-Star comes a reminder of Willie Sutton who said he robbed banks because “that’s where the money is.” University of California at Merced Chancellor Dorothy Leland came to learn, not lecture, this week on Capitol Hill. It’s crucial terrain, after all, that could prove critical to her success with the 6-year-old university. “This is not a visit in which I’ve come with a specific request,” Leland said Wednesday, amid the hubbub of the Longworth House Office Building cafeteria. “It’s important for me to form relationships.” …The first UC Merced chancellor, the late Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, regularly traveled to…

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NCES: Shrinkage Coming in California High School Grad Pool

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Yours truly made the chart above from data contained in a report by the National Center for Educational Statistics. (I was pointed to the report by Inside Higher Ed.) The chart comes from Table 15 of the report. For California, it suggests that the pool of [public school] high school grads in California will shrink in the coming years. I found some anomalies in the data projections elsewhere in the report for California and am not an expert in this area. Of course, for UC, the pool of potential undergrad admits is not limited to California or to public schools….