Santa Monica Hospital was originally built in 1926 – as shown above. It was acquired by UCLA and recently renovated. The hospital is holding an open house today. Details at: http://www.smmirror.com/?ajax#mode=single&view=32890
Yesterday, we posted the audios of the first day of the July 12-14, 2011 Regents meetings. (The first day was actually meetings of two committees.) Today we post the second day audio in two parts. Below is the agenda with links to agenda documents. We again note that the Regents live-stream the audio of their meetings and record them. But they do not archive the recordings for public access. Why not? We have to request the recordings and do the posting, an unnecessary step which – as is evident from the posting at this late date – involves a delay….
We have been promising audios of the July 12-14, 2011 Regents meetings and below are links to the first day in two parts. Yours truly again raises the issue of why – since the Regents live-stream and record their meetings – they don’t then archive the audio on their website. Since they don’t, we have to request the audios and then mount them on a platform to link to this blog. That is more laborious than it might seem. And it would be unnecessary if the Regents did their own archiving. The agenda for the first day of the July…
Despite the one-time endorsement of a past ex-officio Regent (see picture at left), the new headline is “UC Regents endorse Perata’s tobacco tax measure.” (Well, we did name the UCLA hospital after him.) Excerpt from news item below: Josh Richman, September 16th, 2011 The Regents of the University of California have endorsed the tobacco-tax-for-cancer-research ballot measure co-chaired by former state Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, perhaps seeing a windfall of research dollars in their future. In a public hearing Wednesday, Perata – a 2010 Oakland mayoral candidate who now lives in Orinda – had told the Regents’ Committee on…
A full directional closure of the 405 Freeway in each direction will take place tonight for 10 hours from 10 p.m. for reconstruction work to be performed on the northern half of the Skirball Bridge, weather permitting. Only one direction of the 405 freeway will be closed at one time tonight starting at 10 p.m. …Ramps within the freeway closure limits may close as early as 7 p.m. and freeway lanes may close as early as 10 p.m., leading up to the full directional freeway closure beginning at midnight. Full article at http://www.smmirror.com/?ajax#mode=single&view=32870 And so we say:
In the Sacramento Bee’s article on the Regents meeting (see prior post), we find: …No one at the (Regents) meeting raised the possibility that UC might not need to increase spending as much as it has proposed. That view, however, could be found in the Capitol, where budget analysts said they were frustrated by the regents’ conversation. “UC is in effect saying that it plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more each year … at a time that inflation is at historic lows, when demographic growth in the college-age population is near zero and when most public agencies…
Maybe next time, UCOP might try to put the Regents meeting at the above location rather than at UC-SF. See below: UC regents balk at mandating annual tuition hikes (excerpts) Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 16, 2011 San Francisco — The University of California regents dodged a controversy Thursday by ignoring a proposal from UC President Mark Yudof that would have mandated annual tuition increases of 8 to 16 percent for the next four years. Instead, the regents turned their meeting at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus into a therapy session of sorts, gnashing their teeth about the steep drop…
Above are two charts prepared for the Regents meeting which show the rates of return for various investment funds. You can see on the lower slide that UCRP (pension) has earned around 5% per annum over the last ten years ending June 30, 2011. That is less than the assumed rate of 7.5%. The upper slide shows an annual rate of 9.35% over twenty years, above the assumed long-term 7.5% rate. (Also shown on the lower slide are the rates for the GEP = General Endowment Pool and the STIP = Short Term Investment Pool.) The full set of charts…
UC tuition no longer a bargain Sept. 14, 2011, San Francisco Chronicle Editorial Fed up with indecision and drift, the University of California is serving notice: Barring a miracle, tuition could nearly double over the next four years to more than $22,000. Don’t anyone miss the point: California’s finances and political priorities don’t favor higher education. That means the vaunted university system needs to fend for itself by asking students and their families to fill the gaps left by indifferent Sacramento. UC is at a tipping point… What’s under way is a shift in the university’s mission and character. It…
As noted in the prior blog post, the Regents are meeting this week. One item before them is a report on graduate student tuition and sources of support. You can see one typical graphic from that report above. The report concludes: Next Steps for Graduate Tuition Increases The enormous shortfall in State support of the University’s budget has required the University to make difficult and painful choices. Tuition increases have been used as a last resort to preserve the quality of a UC education. To date, the University has adopted a strategy of across-the-board tuition increases for all students –…
