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Fundraising problems for UC?

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A news report suggests alumni reluctance. Excerpt below: As the University of California’s regents look for new sources of money to make up for state budget cuts, they are finding that university alumni are not as willing to donate as they may have hoped. In interviews, a dozen alumni who paid more modest sums for tuition several years ago say they are less apt to give if it means maintaining existing programs or staff salaries, rather than say, expanding university offerings. “What we have found is that a lot of the alumni think back to when they went to school…

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Want to Get to Work at UCLA Today?

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Yesterday, we alerted you that there could be traffic problems going home from UCLA due to presidential travels. The President is still in town this morning and there could again be traffic problems. Problem is, no info on his route is available as of 6 AM today. The latest news from http://www.metro.net/ is no news: Presidential departure in the a.m. Posted by Kim Upton on September 26, 2011 4:50 pm We still don’t know what the traffic patterns for President Obama’s departure in the morning will look like. That info is being kept secret for the time being because of…

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Follow up on what a UCLA student did on his summer vacation

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A student at UCLA had a summer vacation he’ll never forget. (Excerpt from CBS News below – See also earlier post on this blog.): Chris Jeon traveled thousands of miles to live with the rebels battling Muammar Qaddafi in Libya. As CBS News contributor Priya David Clemens reported on “The Early Show” Monday, Jeon got a first-hand look at what he calls “one of the only real revolutions” in the world. Jeon, a math major who’s from Mission Viejo, Calif., was side-by-side with the rebels during the liberation of the town of Nofaliya. Even though he spoke no Arabic, Jeon…

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UC on the cheap

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The Sacramento Bee ran an editorial entitled “State can’t afford UC on the cheap” dated 9/25/11. Excerpt below. Like the NY Times – see earlier blog post – the Bee seems not to have caught up with the fact that the Regents didn’t go along with the multi-year tuition increase schedule at their last meeting. Nonetheless.. The University of California “shall constitute a public trust,” states the California Constitution. That trust has eroded as state financial support has declined. The overriding question today is how much of a UC education should be considered a public benefit for which the state…

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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?

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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

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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

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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…