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No pay increase for faculty to ensure UC quality says LA Times

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The LA Times ran the editorial below today. It starts out well enough. But the LAT editorial committee apparently believes that UC should be managed as wisely as a bankrupt newspaper when it gets to conclusions: Highly esteemed worldwide, the University of California is among the state’s most valuable assets, but it is in danger of being sharply devalued as its budget undergoes continual cuts and uncertainty. UC President Mark Yudof hopes to bring some stability to the university by using whatever budget he is granted this year as the starting point for a five-year deal with state government, with…

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AAUP Data on Faculty Pay

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The AAUP data for salaries and compensation of faculty in 2010-11 are now available. UCLA is reported to pay the average full professor $153,700 and $203,000 in total compensation (including benefits). The data are at http://www.aaup.org/NR/rdonlyres/1D1C8A5B-7A93-42DB-BB1F-6840B2A20387/0/ALFL.pdf Figures for other UC campuses are also reported with Berkeley at the top and Santa Cruz at the bottom. According to the AAUP documentation, the numbers include faculty in law, dentistry, nursing, and management but exclude those under the health services compensation plan. So the averages will be affected by the presence or absence of these programs on particular campuses. The relevant footnotes are…

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California Assembly Bill Would Freeze Pay of State Employees Earning $150,000+; Urges Regents to Comply

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From the State Worker blog of the Sacramento Bee, 3/30/11: Committee OKs freeze on state pay over $150,000 per year (excerpt) The Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee has approved a bill that would freeze the pay of state employees earning more than $150,000 per year. Assembly Bill 7, authored by Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, D-Pasadena, prohibits the salary increases or bonuses for those higher-end employees until Jan.1, 2014, while they are employed in the same position or job classification… Full article at http://blogs.sacbee.com/the_state_worker/2011/03/bill-introduced-to-freeze-stat.html#ixzz1I8VZTLSJ The article provides a link to the bill. The bill contains the following language related…

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A Message from Faculty Association Chair Dwight Read on Faculty Pay

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Annual Faculty Equity Adjustment The Faculty Association proposes a new annual Faculty Equity Adjustment to Salary that could incorporate a number of widely-used indicators, such as the mid-point salary point between UC’s Comparison-8 Universities, the level of the regional California Consumer Price Index (CPI), or the increased employee cost of the combined annual benefit increases (such as retirement and health). The point is that there should be an Annual Faculty Equity Adjustment. We realize that until the California economy recovers and the unending budget crisis is resolved, state funds will not be the source for funding the proposed Annual Faculty…

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Clash of the Titans: Coming to a Regents Meeting Soon

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Background: Readers of this blog will know that at the Dec. 13 Regents meeting, where changes in the retirement plan were adopted, one item was dropped from the agenda a few days before the meeting. You can hear the Regents meeting on this blog. But there is only one vague reference to the dropping. The item involved a 1999 Regents decision to seek IRS approval to exceed a ceiling on pension benefits. The approval was received but the pension plan was never modified to implement the approval. The PEB task force recommended such implementation as part of its other retirement…

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

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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…

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Gov. Schwarzenegger Argues Against Legislative Control of Higher Ed; Defends Faculty Pay

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In a farewell interview with the LA Times editorial board, Governor Schwarzenegger covered a range of topics but a couple of minutes were devoted to public higher education. He argued against legislative control of higher ed including UC and defended high faculty pay as necessary in the marketplace. And he regretted recent tuition increases but said they were necessary given the economic circumstances. The full article is at http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2010/12/arnold-schwarzenegger-exit-interview.html An audio excerpt on higher ed can be heard below:

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Boomerang Recruitment: UC-Berkeley Wins Two Back from UT-Austin

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Berkeley’s allure tugs faculty couple back from Texas (excerpt) By Matt KrupnickContra Costa TimesPosted: 11/02/2010 12:00:00 AM PDTUpdated: 11/07/2010 10:56:59 PM PST BERKELEY — They sold the house, took their son out of day care, packed up all their belongings and left for a new life at the University of Texas. Then, a year later, Jennifer Johnson-Hanks and William Hanks turned around and came right back to UC Berkeley, a rare boomerang move for professors who leave a campus. “We liked Austin, but it wasn’t home,” said Johnson-Hanks, a demographer and sociologist who was hired at UC Berkeley for her…

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Further Adventures in Invasion of Privacy & Encouragement of Identity Theft: OC Register Database of UC Salaries

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The Orange County Register joins the Sacramento Bee and San Francisco Chronicle in making available an online database of UC salaries. Although the headline reads “Find out who makes more than $200,000 at UC,” in fact it appears all salaries are in the database, including those below $200,000. See http://www.ocregister.com/articles/-273430–.html?data=1&appSession=90482558695490#article-data

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Academic Council Comments on Lower-Tier Pension Options

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The Academic Council released a statement on the pension options. It appears that the process of commenting began well before President Yudof went for a version of Option C for the new lower tier. The Council noted the Yudof announcement (see earlier post for the annoucement) but produced a document that nonetheless referred to all three options: A, B, and C. Its key point is that there should be offsetting increases in cash pay. It also opposes separating faculty and staff into two different plans. The Council letter is at https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0BzVLYPK7QI_4OWRhYTYwMDUtZjFiYy00MmZhLTgwYTQtZTA3NjRkZjJhNjg4&hl=en&authkey=CNXzgOMD