News

politics | State Budget | tuition | UC budget crisis

The Coming Budget Brownout
Byadmin December 29, 2010

Wikipedia defines a “brownout” as follows A brownout… is a drop in voltage in an electrical power supply. The term brownout comes from the dimming experienced by lighting when the voltage sags. Wikipedia then goes on to describe the impact of a brownout on various devices. Here are some of those impacts: * The heat output of any resistance device, such as an electric space heater will vary with the true power consumption, which is proportional to the square of the applied voltage. Therefore a significant loss of heat output will occur with a relatively small reduction in voltage. Similarly,…

Read More The Coming Budget Brownout
faculty pay | faculty recruitment | tuition | UC Regents | UC-Irvine

Op Ed by Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the UC-Irvine Law School on UC Funding
Byadmin December 28, 2010

Invest in higher education: Over the years, the state’s contribution to the University of California has not kept pace with its needs. The risk is letting a great system become a mediocre one. (Excerpts) Erwin Chemerinsky, Dec. 27, 2010, Los Angeles Times The proposals for the University of California now being considered in Sacramento — limiting tuition and fees, freezing executive and faculty salaries and increasing legislative control over the UCs — are well intentioned. But they are a recipe for ruining a great public university system. A public university has only three choices: It can be subsidized by the…

Read More Op Ed by Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the UC-Irvine Law School on UC Funding
audio | video

Captain Video saves the Faculty Assn. blog videos and audios from cloud destruction
Byadmin December 28, 2010

An earlier post noted that past audios/videos of Regents meetings, UCOF, PEB, and certain radio or TV interviews or debates were in danger of disappearing from this blog due to the discontinuation of video-Yahoo. I have now transitioned these files to Facebook and embedded them on the blog in place of the video-Yahoo versions. In particular, the early materials that were part of the discontinued savingUCLA website are available on this blog at: http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2010/06/selected-non-youtube-audios-and-videos.html It is useful to preserve these materials, particularly where policy commitments are made by Regents, administrators, or others, in the event that policy changes are subsequently…

Read More Captain Video saves the Faculty Assn. blog videos and audios from cloud destruction
UCLA

UCLA History: Eric Monkkonen of the History and Public Policy Depts. was an expert on murder
Byadmin December 28, 2010

You may have seen the LA Times article last Sunday on the murder rate in Los Angeles and its surprising decline. Had he survived, there would have undoubtedly been long quotes and observations in the article from former History and Public Policy Professor Eric Monkkonen, UCLA’s expert on murder – and the history thereof. Of course, as you go back in time, data on murder rates were not routinely collected. Prof. Monkkonen, among other techniques, hired undergrads to go through old newspapers, pulling out references to murders in various cities. The LA Times article looks at various explanations by experts…

Read More UCLA History: Eric Monkkonen of the History and Public Policy Depts. was an expert on murder
State Budget | tuition | UC Regents

Regent Blum Says Consequences of More State/UC Budget Cuts Will Lead More to Internal Cuts Than Tuition
Byadmin December 27, 2010

UC regents brace for more bad news on budget (excerpt) Dec. 27, 2010, San Francisco Chronicle, Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross The University of California regents are bracing for more bad financial news from Sacramento, but board veteran Richard Blum doubts he and his colleagues could stomach another round of tuition hikes. “I think the emphasis is much more on making cuts,” said Blum, who chaired the board until recently. “I think the last thing we want to do is touch student fees, but that depends on what they do to us.” Blum said most of the newly approved 8…

Read More Regent Blum Says Consequences of More State/UC Budget Cuts Will Lead More to Internal Cuts Than Tuition
online education

Online Western Governors University Profiled
Byadmin December 26, 2010

The LA Times today contains an article about Western Governors University, an entirely online institution said to be founded by 19 western governors. Exactly what role California plays in this institution is not clear although I found some reference on line to Governor Schwarzenegger as one of the governors involved. As readers will know, the report of the University Commission on the Future contained support for expansion of this type of education by UC. Below is an excerpt from the article and below that a related TV video news report. The full article is at http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-perfin-20101226,0,1315053.column This college lets students…

Read More Online Western Governors University Profiled
UCLA

UCLA History: A Postcard View in the 1930s
Byadmin December 26, 2010

Anyone have info about the pond in the foreground?

Read More UCLA History: A Postcard View in the 1930s
CSU | State Budget | UC

Sacramento Bee Article Predicts a Not-So-Cheery Budget Outlook for Higher Ed
Byadmin December 25, 2010

A Christmas present from the UCLA Faculty Association blog. Scroll down to the large print. What budget cuts, taxes and gimmicks might Jerry Brown propose? (excerpts) Dec. 25, 2010, Sacramento Bee, Kevin Yamamura Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued grim budgets the last two years, but in many ways he had it easier than the challenge facing Gov.-elect Jerry Brown in 2011. In proposing ways to close the budget gap, Schwarzenegger relied on ideas few expected to come to pass, like eliminating CalWORKs and getting $7 billion from the federal government. But Brown has already assailed budget gimmicks, such as counting on…

Read More Sacramento Bee Article Predicts a Not-So-Cheery Budget Outlook for Higher Ed
State Budget | tuition | UC

LA Times Op Ed Says No Pay, No Say to Legislature
Byadmin December 25, 2010

Want more say over UC? Pay up (excerpts) The lawmakers outraged over tuition hikes are partly responsible for them by presiding over a sustained decline in public support for higher education. By Gary Fethke and Andrew Policano December 22, 2010, LA Times As The Times notes in its Dec. 17 editorial, California legislators — who increased state funding to the University of California system this year in exchange for greater control over finances — are incredulous over the university’s recent tuition increases. Their outrage is ill-informed. While they complain about rising costs, they fail to recognize that what has changed…

Read More LA Times Op Ed Says No Pay, No Say to Legislature
UCLA

UCLA History: UCLA’s Vermont Avenue Campus
Byadmin December 24, 2010

Postcard view of UCLA on Vermont Avenue in the 1920s.

Read More UCLA History: UCLA’s Vermont Avenue Campus

News

The Coming Budget Brownout

Op Ed by Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the UC-Irvine Law School on UC Funding

Captain Video saves the Faculty Assn. blog videos and audios from cloud destruction

UCLA History: Eric Monkkonen of the History and Public Policy Depts. was an expert on murder

Regent Blum Says Consequences of More State/UC Budget Cuts Will Lead More to Internal Cuts Than Tuition

Online Western Governors University Profiled

UCLA History: A Postcard View in the 1930s

Sacramento Bee Article Predicts a Not-So-Cheery Budget Outlook for Higher Ed

LA Times Op Ed Says No Pay, No Say to Legislature

UCLA History: UCLA’s Vermont Avenue Campus

UC Faculty Associations

Higher Ed Policy

Labor and Advocacy

UC Faculty Associations

Higher Ed Policy

Labor and Advocacy

Follow us on