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Who is supposed to salute the poll on the hotel/conference center?

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We now have confirmation that the telephone poll on the hotel/conference center was in fact sponsored by the capital projects folks at UCLA. (See our earlier post of a recording of the poll.) Apparently, the goal is to have 400 completed interviews. Whether we will get info on the details of the polling methodology – how many call recipients refused to participate, etc. – is unclear. Reports have come in from people at some distance from campus that they have received poll calls. Obviously, the neighborhood opposition – presumably that is the subject of the poll – will be concentrated…

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Data on California Higher Ed

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Inside Higher Ed today pointed me towards a report on data concerning higher ed in California from the Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Policy (CSU-Sacramento). The report covers the three systems of higher ed (CCs, CSU, UC) although often not breaking out the three separately. For example, the chart above (from Figure 14 of the report) shows that while college-going directly from high school by race is qualitatively in line with stereotypes, the main gap quantitatively between whites, Latinos, and blacks occurs at the K-12 level, i.e., dropouts and late high school finishers. (Asians are substantially above the other…

Med at UC Merced

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UC Merced picks 5 students for medical training (excerpts) Jul. 19, 2011, Yesenia Amaro / Merced Sun-star The doctor is not quite in. But he’s on the way. University of California at Merced on Tuesday announced its first group of five students in its medical program set to begin this fall. The new program to train doctors is intended to address the lack of physicians and health gaps in the San Joaquin Valley… The UC Merced San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education (PRIME) was born out of a partnership program between UC Davis and the UCSF’s Fresno facility. Students…

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UCLA History: 1964 Commencement

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Lower photo shows Bernice Brown, wife of Gov. Pat Brown, Eva Sámano de López Mateos, wife of Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos, Lady Bird Johnson, wife of President Lyndon Johnson, and Catherine Kerr, wife of UC President Clark Kerr at 1964 UCLA commencement. Upper photo shows the three presidents with Gov. Brown in the background looking upwards. UCLA Chancellor Franklyn Murphy is on the left. Kerr is on the right. (There is a man behind Kerr who looks a lot like US Secretary of State Dean Rusk, although I have not checked whether he attended.)

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Governors’ (not Governor’s) Report on Public Higher Ed

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At the recent National Governors Association conference – which Gov. Brown did not attend – there was a report on higher education, mainly public higher education. The general theme was that there would be budget pressures on public higher ed indefinitely but that higher ed was important for workforce reasons. The report emphasizes metrics for measuring the output of higher ed such as graduation rates, transfer rates, job finding of grads, etc. You can read the report below: Open publication – Free publishing – More governors

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“They Control Funding”

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Bill to curb California college execs’ pay raises (excerpts) Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, July 19, 2011 Days after California’s public universities handed lucrative new pay and bonuses to three executives and a chancellor while raising student tuition, a state senator has introduced a bill to make such pay increases illegal in tough economic times. The bill, filed Monday by state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, would prohibit executive pay increases at the University of California and California State University in years when the state does not raise its allocation to the schools… On Friday, UC regents gave a 24…

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Raiding the Bank

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California’s University of ATM Joe Mathews, PropZero (KNBC), 7-19-11 California’s public university systems aren’t cash machines. But the state is treating them as such. Consider what’s happened just this year to the University of California and the California State University systems. In March, the legislature and governor took $500 million from each system to balance the budget. Then in June’s budget agreement, the state took another $150 million each. But the withdrawals from this strange ATM doesn’t stop there. The budget includes provisions that could trigger another $100 million each in cuts in the likely event that tax revenues don’t…

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Recording of Phone Poll Concerning Hotel/Conference Center

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A resident of the area around UCLA received a call from the pollster who has been posing questions about the proposed campus hotel/conference center to replace the Faculty Center. He made a recording of the call WITH PERMISSION OF THE POLLSTER. At the outset of the recording, the pollster acknowledges that the recipient has set up recording equipment to record the call. You can click on the option below and hear the call. The final questions which were for personal information have been omitted at the request of the call recipient. None of the omitted questions deal with the hotel/conference…

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Governor Brown, meet MIT President Susan Hockfield

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Governor Brown did not attend the National Governors Association conference last week. Had he gone, he would have heard MIT President Susan Hockfield speaking on job creation and innovation related to higher ed and research. Of course, Brown hears from time to time about such matters from UC officials. But what they say can always be put aside as just pleading from another state agency. MIT is not a state agency, not even a public university, and is on the other side of the country. Here is the audio of Hockfield’s remarks:

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Dial H for Hotel? Part 3 – Questions from the Script

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An earlier posting noted that the caller for the poll on the hotel/conference center, ostensibly being conducted on behalf of UCLA, refused to talk to a female neighborhood resident because there were too many women in the sample. Apparently, women are now being allowed to answer. Another recipient of a call (a woman) took notes on the questions and reported that it included the questions in italics below. She reported that the pollster was reading from a script and seemed to know nothing about the hotel/conference center other than what was on the script. In the script, the hotel/conference center…