The UCLA Daily Bruin announced the internment of Japanese-American students in 1942. See yesterday’s post on this blog concerning UCLA’s retroactive awarding of honorary degrees to these students in 2010.
A bill in the state Assembly that would have frozen pay of most state workers above $150,000 until 2014 has died. The bill would not have covered UC would contained language urging UC to follow its guideline. Specifically: (9) (A) At a time when the University of California Board of Regents is raising student fees, it is imperative that they show leadership and fiscal responsibility for two years by not granting raises or bonuses for employees that make in excess of $150,000 per year. (B) The Legislature urges the Regents of the University of California and the Board of Directors…
On May 15, 2010, UCLA awarded honorary degrees to Japanese-American students whose academic careers were interrupted by the forced internment during World War II in California and the West Coast. Video of the ceremoney is below:
U. of Virginia Agrees to Release Climate Researcher’s E-Mails May 25, 2011. Chronicle of Higher Ed The University of Virginia has agreed to turn over a potentially enormous trove of climate-research e-mails and other documents to a conservative group that filed a demand for them under the state’s Freedom of Information Act. The demand centers on more than a decade’s worth of e-mail messages from, to, and about Michael E. Mann, a climate scientist who left the university in 2005 to become director of a research center at Pennsylvania State University. The organization, called the American Tradition Institute, joined with…
As noted in a prior entry on this blog, Gov. Brown in his May revise budget proposed terminating the California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC). CPEC is supposed to coordinate the various public segments of higher ed and the private higher ed institutions. The Leg Analyst has issued a second document indicating it sees a continuing role for CPEC but suggests reforms including more data analysis of higher ed. Undoubtedly, CPEC agrees. The Leg Analyst’s document is at http://www.lao.ca.gov/handouts/education/2011/LAO_Recommendations_on_Governor%E2%80%99s_Proposal_to_Eliminate_CPEC_052511.pdf The governor’s May revise had plans to kill many boards and commissions of which CPEC is just one. And there are the…
Yours truly was asked by the Daily Bruin (5-26-11) to respond to the following question: What will be the state of the UC in five to 10 years? Below is my response: DANIEL J.B. MITCHELL, Professor Emeritus at the Anderson School of Management and the Luskin School of Public Affairs “Never (make) forecasts, especially about the future,” advised Sam Goldwyn (the G in media company MGM). I will take his advice and instead suggest two scenarios. I don’t know which one UCLA, and the larger UC, will follow. But I know which one I prefer. The first scenario is an…
From Capitol Alert (Sacramento Bee): The third time is shaping up to be the charm for Sen. Leland Yee’s push to bring more transparency to the state’s public universities. The University of California and California State University systems have dropped their opposition to the San Francisco Democrat’s bill, Senate Bill 8, which would require university associations and foundations at the state’s universities and community colleges to comply with the California Public Records Act…http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifFull article at http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/05/leland-yee-california-university-public-records-act.html (Yee is running for Mayor of San Francisco.) UPDATE: A more detailed account is at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/26/MN971JKSNG.DTL
From the Sacramento Bee State Worker blog today: Former Republican Assemblyman Roger Niello said he will not pursue a signature-gathering campaign for his pension reform proposal because of the diminishing likelihood of a special election on taxes later this year. “Our urgency is gone,” he said. “The reason for filing this measure was to have something in line for a November election alongside the measure on taxes, but that appears unlikely to happen now.” … Full article at: http://blogs.sacbee.com/the_state_worker/2011/05/niellos-pension-reform-initiat.html#ixzz1NNCGZ65A Possible translation: I don’t have $1 million+ needed to get the signatures.
The UCLA Faculty Assn. has been requesting recordings of Regents meetings. Again, it must be noted that although the Regents meetings are live-streamed, the recordings are not archived on the Regents website or elsewhere. Why that isn’t done is unclear. However, below you will find a link to the audio of the May 5th meeting of the Regents Committee on Compliance and Audit. Compliance and Audit encompasses both compliance with financial reporting as well as other matters. Various federal and state regulations and UC regulations require training on such matters as sexual harassment. Because of some racial incidents, an initiative…
The pension initiative that was filed by legislative Republicans negotiating with Gov. Brown on the state budget now has a title and summary language and so it can be circulated for the needed signatures. It includes UC and would override the Regents’ pension changes enacted last December. Like all initiatives, however, unless someone wants to spend $1-$2 million for commercial firms to get those signatures, it won’t go beyond this stage. The added summary language is below. The actual text of the initiative is below that:May 23, 2011Initiative 11-0007 (Amdt. #1-NS.) The Attorney General of California has prepared the following…
