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Update: Anderson MBA Self Sufficiency Proposal Passes Legislative Assembly

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An earlier post today noted the interest of the LA Times in the Legislative Assembly’s vote on whether to override the Graduate Council’s decision rejecting the proposed MBA self sufficiency funding model.Probably, the vote will be reported in the LA Times and the Bruin tomorrow.  But below is a message from the Anderson School dean announcing that the Legislative Assembly did override the Graduate Council 53-46: To the UCLA Anderson community: Today, the Legislative Assembly of the UCLA Academic Senate approved our proposal to convert the UCLA Anderson School of Management Full Time MBA program from state-supported to self-supporting. The vote…

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Headline News?

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Meetings of the Legislative Assembly of the UCLA Academic Senate rarely get such front-page attention.  (Well, the front page of the LATEXTRA section, anyway.)  It shows there is public interest in the trend toward privatization at UC more generally, although we insist on euphemisms such as self sufficiency.  The last time I posted anything about this matter, there were grumbles from readers.  So you can just read the LA Times story at http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucla-20120607,0,6289989.story At least we made the headlines:

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UCLA Legislative Assembly to Review Anderson Self-Supporting MBA Proposal

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On June 7th, the Legislative Assembly will be taking up an appeal filed by faculty members of the Anderson Graduate School of Management regarding the Graduate Council’s rejection of a proposal to convert the “regular” MBA program to a self-supporting basis. In the Academic Senate letter transmitting this decision to the Chancellor, it is reported that “the MBA proposal in particular revealed significant and deep divisions of opinion within the Senate faculty regarding the advisability of converting programs, and in particular a ‘cornerstone’ program, to self-supporting status. The AGSM faculty voted overwhelmingly in favor of the proposal, the school’s FEC…

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UCLA Legislative Assembly to Consider Appeal on MBA Self Sufficiency Proposal

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An earlier post today reproduced an excerpt from an article by former UCLA Chancellor Young in which he endorses self sufficiency for at least some UC academic programs.  UCLA already has that issue before it.  As the notice below indicates, an appeal to the Legislative Assembly has been filed concerning the Anderson School’s MBA Self Sufficiency proposal which the Graduate Council rejected. UCLA Academic Senate May 15, 2012 RE:      Important announcement regarding June 7 Legislative Assembly meeting Dear Colleague: I am writing to you in your capacity as a representative to the Legislative Assembly (LgA).  We have an important meeting on…

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Plenty of Nothing

Byuclafaculty

Here is a quote from the governor’s recent budget proposal: “The University of California (UC) will receive an increase of $90 million General Fund for base operating costs, which can be used to address costs related to retirement program contributions.” Question: What does it mean?  Answer: Nothing.  UC has always been free to take its general revenue and put it into the pension fund.  Indeed, since the state has so far refused to resume paying the employer contribution for state-funded employees into the pension fund, that is what UC has been doing. Question: If it means nothing, why are you…

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Regents Go Off UCOP Script

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Maybe next time, UCOP might try to put the Regents meeting at the above location rather than at UC-SF. See below: UC regents balk at mandating annual tuition hikes (excerpts) Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 16, 2011 San Francisco — The University of California regents dodged a controversy Thursday by ignoring a proposal from UC President Mark Yudof that would have mandated annual tuition increases of 8 to 16 percent for the next four years. Instead, the regents turned their meeting at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus into a therapy session of sorts, gnashing their teeth about the steep drop…

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Wrong Direction

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In yesterday’s LA Times, Patt Morrison interviewed former UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale. Most of the interview dealt with other matters. But below is an excerpt on UC:What do you make of what’s happening to the University of California? We had this great public university, but you didn’t have to insert the word “public.” [It was] able to compete with the best of the privates. We’re losing that. We may already have lost it, in large measure. Students now pay more in tuition fees than the state provides. The resource gap is too great. It’s not as if all the fine…

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Yudof Ruminates on Privatization

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On his Facebook page and on YouTube, President Yudof ruminates on privatization in general, e.g., roads, postal services, and of higher ed in particular. The YouTube version is below. The Facebook written version (which skips a few ad libs) is at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150181306213379 He attributes the trend toward de facto privatization of higher ed in part to demographics and the aging of the baby boom: …Now, part of this can be explained by demographics. In the early 1960s, 57% of American families had children under the age of eighteen. Today, that number hovers around 46%. Along these same lines, American senior…

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More on the U of Wisconsin Autonomy Story

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As prior posts have noted, while the current big drama in Wisconsin revolves around Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to curtail collective bargaining for public workers, there is a second story in Wisconsin dealing with the U of Wisconsin. In fact, the two stories are joined. Insider Higher Ed pointed yours truly to Gov. Walker’s budget address given yesterday in which he said: Competing globally also means enhancing higher education. To do this we will give our flagship, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the tools it needs to remain a world leader in research and instruction – while continuing to be a…