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Peter Schrag on Yudof Retirement
Byadmin January 26, 2013

Peter Schrag, a former columnist for the Sacramento Bee, wrote an op ed about President Yudof’s retirement. Excerpt: …All told, the UC is in far better shape now than when he came. But it’s unlikely that it can ever again exercise the kind of influence, both in this country and abroad, that it did in its glory days under Clark Kerr in the 1950s and 1960s. It was an era when new UC campuses and new programs were created one after another, when students paid low “fees” and not tuition, and when California adopted a master plan that promised every…

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governor | online education

Do as the governor says online; but not as he does
Byadmin January 26, 2013

Gov. Brown has been pushing online education as the key to closing the gap between what he proposes to give UC in his budget and what UC requests. Various prior posts on this blog have dealt with that issue. He also wants to foreclose tuition increases as a way to close the gap. So let’s take a look at the governor’s use of online communications: Above is a screenshot of the governor’s multimedia element of his website: http://gov.ca.gov/home.php [click on multimedia]. It was taken at around 6 AM this morning. [Click on the image to enlarge it.] If you are…

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enrollment | governor | online education | tuition | UC Regents

Student Regent Asks Why Students Weren’t Consulted About Online Education (and no one quite answers)
Byadmin January 26, 2013

At the Jan. 16 session of the UC Regents dealing with online education, student regent Jonathan Stein asked why UC students were not consulted. Various regents spoke in response. Notably, Gov. Brown responded with the admonition to “get real” about the budget, but he did not address why students were not consulted. In addition, UC-Berkeley Law Dean Christopher Edley – who has been active in UC online efforts – was asked to respond. His response dealt with potential access by non-UC students. But he also did not address the question of why UC students were not consulted. Stein’s remarks refer…

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governor | online education | politics | tuition

Jerry Brown on Higher Ed Funding in the State of the State
Byadmin January 25, 2013

In case you missed it, Gov. Brown’s State of the State message yesterday contained only a brief paragraph on public higher education. Most of his education remarks were directed at K-12. Below is what he said about higher ed: “With respect to higher education, cost pressures are relentless and many students cannot get the classes they need. A half million fewer students this year enrolled in the community colleges than in 2008. Graduation in four years is the exception and transition from one segment to the other is difficult. The University of California, the Cal State system and the community…

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fund raising | health care | UC Regents | UCLA

Regents Again Approve a UCLA Building Despite Cost Concerns
Byadmin January 24, 2013

Blog readers will recall that at a prior Regents meeting, UCLA produced a very sketchy and high cost plan for a new medical building, a “teaching and learning center.” The presentation was so sketchy and the costs were so worrisome for the Regents to ask for a revised plan. At the Jan. 16 meeting of the Grounds and Building Committee, UCLA came back with a revised plan for a $104.7 million project – said to be significantly scaled back – with more details.As with the earlier hotel project, UCLA apparently had offline meetings with Regents after the prior meeting (such…

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admissions | governor | legislature | politics | State Budget | tuition | UC enrollment | UC Regents

California Assembly Speaker John Pérez on the UC Budget, Tuition, Access, and Other Matters
Byadmin January 23, 2013

At the January 17, 2013 UC Regents meeting John Pérez spoke about the state budget and other issues. Pérez is an ex officio regent. A summary follows and there is a link to an audio of his remarks at the bottom of this post: Summary: UC is unrealistic about increased funding from the state, backfilling of past budget cuts, or predictability for the university. It is not addressing predictability for students. UC was good at protecting the neediest students but not so good at protecting the middle class. There are legislative concerns about graduate and professional school students, not just…

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governor | Master Plan | online education | politics | State Budget | UC Regents | UC-Riverside

Gov. Jerry Brown on Executive Pay at the University of California & Many Other Topics
Byadmin January 23, 2013

At the University of California (UC) Regents meeting of Jan. 17, 2013, Regent Leslie Tang Schilling asked Gov. Brown not to protest about UC executive pay. The state portion of executive pay can be capped, she seemed to agree, but the Regents should then be free to raise private donations for increments of pay above the state portion. She argues that UC will need high-quality leadership and must be free to compete for talent. She expresses skepticism about psychic income. Brown responds at length with a learned discourse ranging from his one-time vow of Jesuit poverty to the history of…

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diversity | enrollment | State Budget

Demographic Shifts and Lulls
Byadmin January 22, 2013

The governor’s budget contains demographic projections for California. A number of news stories have picked up on the fact that by mid-2013, the Latino and non-Latino-white populations will be equal, according to the projection. It was pretty obvious from the 2010 Census that this development would occur soon. However, another aspect of the projections – one more closely related to UC and budget issues – is the chart below: Apart from the fact – well known – that the population is aging, note there is little growth in the college-age population projected for the next few years. Moreover, the K-12…

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politics | UC

Let’s Hope Someone Read the Correction
Byadmin January 22, 2013

I stumbled upon the correction article below in the LA Times that appeared last fall. Let’s hope someone reads correction articles. It also contains some interesting info. Readers’ Rep: University of California a big political donor — but that’s misleading Deirdre Edgar, Oct. 26, 2012 An article in Thursday’s Business section about campaign contributions in the Massachusetts Senate race between Republican incumbent Scott Brown and Democrat Elizabeth Warren included a surprising name among the list of top donors. According to the chart, the No. 5 donor to Warren was the University of California, with a total of $38,400 in contributions….

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Missing King
Byadmin January 22, 2013

On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, blog readers may enjoy a recollection below of yours truly who was at the March on Washington but missed the King “I Had a Dream” speech. Mitchell’s Musings 9-17-12: March on Washington Daniel J.B. Mitchell Originally prepared for the weekly “Mitchell’s Musings” blog on the website of the Employment Policy Research Network – EPRN. Mitchell is senior academic editor of that website. The text below has been slightly reformatted to meet requirements of this blog. The original is at http://www.employmentpolicy.org/topic/13/blog/mitchell%E2%80%99s-musings-9-17-12-march-washington{Click on the pdf link}. Recently, I came across a recording of a 1963 radio…

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Peter Schrag on Yudof Retirement

Do as the governor says online; but not as he does

Student Regent Asks Why Students Weren’t Consulted About Online Education (and no one quite answers)

Jerry Brown on Higher Ed Funding in the State of the State

Regents Again Approve a UCLA Building Despite Cost Concerns

California Assembly Speaker John Pérez on the UC Budget, Tuition, Access, and Other Matters

Gov. Jerry Brown on Executive Pay at the University of California & Many Other Topics

Demographic Shifts and Lulls

Let’s Hope Someone Read the Correction

Missing King

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