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Robert Anderson’s Presentation on the Future of UC Funding (With Slides)

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Robert Anderson The prior post on this blog carried the audio (only) of the forum sponsored by the Faculty Association at UCLA on the Future of University of California Funding held November 7, 2012 at the UCLA Faculty Center.Each of the three presenters used slides as part of their talks.  Below you will find two (alternative) links to the slides used by Prof. Robert Anderson along with the coordinated audio for his presentation.  Use whichever works best for your connection.

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Millionaires

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The Sacramento Bee today has a table of UC millionaires (gross earnings in 2011).  You won’t be surprised that the list, with one exception, consists of athletic coaches and medical center faculty. The one exception is the UC Treasurer. The listing is at http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/08/the-university-of-california-spent.html But you don’t want to be on the list, right?[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG6UllZwj9c?feature=player_detailpage]

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Psychic Income

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Old time faculty who remember UC during Jerry Brown’s earlier terms as governor will get nervous when he talks about “psychic income.” Jerry Brown on pay cut: ‘I derive a lot of psychic income’ Don’t expect Gov. Jerry Brown to lose much sleep over the Citizen Compensation Commission’s decision to slash his salary by $8,699.  “I’d run for governor whether it was a paid job or not,” he said today. “I derive a lot of psychic income.” The seven-member panel, which sets pay levels for legislators and constitutional officers, voted 5-1 today to reduce pay for the elected officials by…

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State Pay Ceiling to be Considered in Legislature (but not for UC)

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A bill – SB1368 – that would impose a ceiling on pay of state employees of about $174,000 (the governor’s salary) is being reviewed at a state senate hearing today. The bill, introduced by a Republican state senator, does not apply to UC but would apply to CSU.  It appears to have been sparked by pay offered to presidents at various CSU campuses. Even though UC is exempted, thanks to its constitutional position, any such enactment would have an indirect effect on UC pay.  The bill in fact “recommends” that UC adhere to the pay ceiling. A news report on…

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More and More Getting Off Scale

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The Daily Bruin today has a piece on proposals for dealing with faculty salary scales which have grown increasingly outmoded.  As the table, based on a graphic in the Bruin, illustrates, most faculty at UCLA are paid off-scale.  The University, for recruitment and retention purposes, tries to meet the external academic labor market.  In effect, since there are only so many dollars to go around, paying more than the official scale has to mean a higher student/teacher ratio than would otherwise prevail. Percent of faculty off scale as of 10/2010:Merced 88%UCLA 80%Santa Cruz 73%Berkeley 72%Irvine 66%Santa Barbara 66%San Diego 64%Riverside…

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The 2009 “Toolbox” Report and the Japanese Garden (& Other Issues)

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Given the ongoing budget crisis, UCLA formed a task force to look at various revenue-generating options.  The report of the task force is dated April 24, 2009.  Among the possibilities considered was the sale of various properties including the Japanese Garden.  The report indicates that consultations with the state Attorney General were underway well before the 2010 court decision that permitted the sale, even though it was inconsistent with the existing terms of the donation.The report explores other areas such as faculty pay, fund raising, “branding,” and tuition.  You can read the full report at the link below (scroll towards…

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No Bee Link Here

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The Sacramento Bee has updated its database of all state salaries by name, including UC employees.  No, I won’t give you the link although you can readily search it out.   Yours truly writes a weekly blog for a group called the Employment Policy Research Association.  As it happens, this week’s blog for that group tells you why I won’t supply the link to the Bee‘s database.  (The fact that the blog entry and the database appeared in the same week was a coincidence.) ===================== http://www.employmentpolicy.org/topic/402/blog/mitchell%E2%80%99s-musings-1-30-12-matters-degree Mitchell’s Musings 1-30-12: Matters of Degree Daniel J.B. Mitchell Let’s start with the admission…

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New Payroll System Coming: Maybe You Should Save Some Cash Just in Case

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The Daily Bruin today carries an article about a new systemwide payroll system that is supposed to be installed in stages through 2013.  However, an initial phase is starting soon at UCLA: Although details for the program are still being sorted out, the UCPath Project will essentially create a more simplified process for paying university employees than in the past.Proposed changes to the current system include standardized pay cycles among all 10 campuses. For example, all academic employees and postdoctoral scholars within the UC will be paid bimonthly. Temporary employees and health systems staff will be paid biweekly. Right now,…

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Washington Dysfunction to be Reflected in Your Paycheck

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Excerpt from an email circulated at Anderson – in case you did not get one similar: This notice is in regards to the Social Security (OASDI) tax deducted from the January 3, 2012 paychecks. In 2010, President Obama signed into law the Tax Relief Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010.  Included in the Act was a provision that reduced the Social Security withholding rate from 6.2% to 4.2% for 2011.  This change was effective with wages paid on or after January 1, 2011 and included an expiration date of December 31, 2011.   In order to comply with…