Michigan Model

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Board to U-VA President: Here’s Your Hat; What’s Your Hurry?

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Inside Higher Ed today carries a lengthy article today on the dismissal of the president of the University of Virginia (after only a two-year term) by its equivalent of the Regents – known there as the Board of Visitors. (Technically, she agreed to resign.) U-VA has often been paired with the U of Michigan for its move toward semi-privatization (more reliance on tuition and other funding sources and less on the state).  The head of the Board issued a press release on the dismissal explaining the decision (excerpts): We see no bright lights on the financial horizon as we face…

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Moving Toward Michigan

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This blog previously noted the rise in non-California students at UC and UCLA (who pay full tuition) that has occurred as a response to the ongoing budget crisis.  See http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2012/04/it-doesnt-seem-to-add-up.html.  Today, the Sacramento Bee features the story and notes the “Michigan Model” as analogous to UC’s approach.  Although UCLA has said it just adds non-state students (as opposed to displacing in-state students), it appears from the numbers as reported in the previous post that there is some displacement. Excerpts from the Bee: …UC officials are aggressively courting non-resident students through college fairs and high school counselors… System officials say the push beyond…

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Peter Taylor, chief financial officer of UC, at Milken Conference

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At the Milken State of the State conference of Oct. 13, Peter Taylor – chief financial officer of UC – was a panelist and spoke on the economic impact of UC on California, tuition, out-of-state students, privatization, and UC-Merced. This is the same event at which Gov. Brown spoke earlier in the day. See prior post. (Cellphone picture of event on the right.) Below is an audio of the Taylor excerpts. (Video with still picture.)

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Inching Toward Michigan

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The main event of the upcoming Regents meeting is discussion (not decision) on the Yudof recommendation of Option C on the pension plan. But there is also scheduled a discussion of enrollment of out-of-state students at UC. You can find the announcement at http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/nov10/e1.pdf It is scheduled on the morning of Nov. 17, after an open public comment session. (Those open comment sessions have tended to be a bit raucous of late.) If you click on the link above to the out-of-state student session, you won’t find any back-up material. The announcement just says Provost Pitts will review past enrollment…

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The Creeping Michigan Model at UCLA

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Part of the so-called Michigan Model, sometimes called high tuition/high aid, involves recruitment of out-of-state students who pay full tuition. The article below indicates it is coming slowly to UCLA. UCLA recruits nonresidents: University to actively seek increased enrollment of high-paying international and out-of-state students (excerpt) Devin Kelly, Daily Bruin, 10/1/10 Word-of-mouth drew Meng Cui to UCLA, its basketball legends and reputation of high-level education. Raised in China, schooled in Singapore, the first-year math economics student did all of his own research before applying last fall. “UCLA is famous in China,” Cui said. But the university is no longer banking…

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Yes, Virginia: There Is No Santa Claus

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Virginia is often cited as a state which followed the “Michigan Model” in which the public system becomes semi-privatized. According to Inside Higher Ed, all is not well in Virginia as the state there seems to be grabbing money from the universities. False Ideal? (excerpts) September 28, 2010 Virginia’s “restructuring” agreements, which provided select universities greater autonomy over finances in exchange for less state support, have emerged as a model that some public institutions in cash-strapped areas of the country would like to emulate. But to hear it from finance chiefs at Virginia universities now covered by restructuring, the agreements…

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LA Times Editorial Frets About Privatizing UCLA Anderson and Implications for UC

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The writer of the LA Times editorial today on the “self sufficiency” model for the UCLA Anderson School of Management seems conflicted. (See earlier posts on the Anderson proposal – a proposal yet to be approved by UCOP and the Regents.) On the one hand, the editorial seems sympathetic to the School’s proposed plan, given current budgetary realities. It seems sympathetic to the idea of diverting money saved from state funding of Anderson to educational programs that are less able to support themselves. On the other hand, the Times is concerned that de facto privatization is occurring throughout UC via…

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More Moving Towards Michigan

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Money may not grow on trees. But under the so-called Michigan Model – after a plan adopted by the University of Michigan – out of state students are an attractive substitute for a money tree because they pay full tuition. UC-Berkeley has already headed in the direction of pulling in more out-of-staters. Now it is reported that UC as a whole is likely to be moving in that direction under a recommendation of the Committee on the Future. From the San Francisco Chronicle (Excerpt): UC sees money in out-of-state students Wednesday, September 1, 2010, Nanette Asimov Ask any University of…

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Op Ed on Michigan Model in New York State

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Prof. Shane White of UCFW forwarded the op ed below to me from the NY Times. It indicates something like the “Michigan Model” is at the center of a state budget debate in New York.——————– Stop Raiding the Ivory Tower By PETER D. SALINS Published: July 27, 2010 Stony Brook, N.Y. IT is not a disagreement about expenditures or taxes that is preventing the New York State Legislature from passing a 2011 budget. No, it is a piece of legislation called the Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act, which has the enthusiastic backing of Gov. David Paterson and grudging…

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Moving Towards the “Michigan Model”?

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UC freshmen to include record number of out-of-state and international studentsSuch undergraduates will rise from 6% to over 8% of the class. The change is concentrated mainly at UC Berkeley and UCLA.http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uc-enroll-20100715,0,2160250.story Note: The “Michigan Model” is generally seen as high tuition/high aid with out-of-state students paying full freight and cross-subsidizing a discount for state residents. The local term seems to be “self sufficiency” as in: Chancellor Block: UCLA must be more self-sufficient http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/block-ucla-must-be-more-self-sufficient-149310.aspx