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Former Chancellor Young on Modified Self Sufficiency

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The 2011 edition of California Policy Options is now available and contains a chapter by former UCLA Chancellor Charles Young entitled “Policy Options for University of California Budgeting.” Click on the website address below (not the picture on the right) and go to chapter 5 for the Young chapter in which he advocates “modified self sufficiency.” You can also find a chapter on the state budget (chapter 1) by yours truly entitled “Government by (Hot) Checks and (Im)Balances.” Go to http://issuu.com/uclapubaffairs/docs/cpo2011 Other chapters on current California issues are included as well.

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Columnist Peter Schrag on Privatization at UC

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Berkeley: A privatized public university? (excerpts) Sacramento Bee, Feb. 12, 2011 Peter Schrag A year ago, when the University of California announced sharp boosts in tuition, staff furloughs and other measures to cope with declining state funding, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis and other UC campuses seethed with protests. Among the loudest complaints from students was that the higher costs would make it financially impossible for them to continue at UC. The most common refrain was the call to protect what the demonstrators called “our university.” But this summer and fall, after Berkeley included some 900 fewer California residents in…

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A CSU President Declares Master Plan Dead

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State plan for higher education ‘dead,’ CSUSM president declares: Haynes says universities must seek private partners to protect programs, services (excerpt) North County Times, 2-3-11, Deborah Sullivan Brennan California has abandoned its commitment to higher education, compelling Cal State San Marcos and other universities to seek private partnerships for their programs, university President Karen Haynes told hundreds of guests Thursday in her annual Report to the Community. “The California master plan for higher education is dead because the social compact itself is broken,” she said. “There is no longer the same sense of obligation to the next generation of Californians…

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Former Chancellor Young Reviews Funding Options for UC in the Face of the State Budget Crisis

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In a chapter for the current edition of California Policy Options, former UCLA Chancellor Charles Young reviews funding options for UC. He discusses status quo funding, privatization, and “modified self-sufficiency” in this chapter and suggests the last as the most viable of the three. California Policy Options 2011 will eventually be available in full on the web. However, you can access the Young chapter at https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BzVLYPK7QI_4MzhmMjMyMmUtN2Y0Zi00Njc4LWEyMWQtOWE0MWVkMjdlNjY0&hl=en&authkey=CMLHxK4O A related item is an op ed by yours truly in today’s Daily Bruin: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BzVLYPK7QI_4Y2E4OTFjZmQtM2QzNy00NjA2LWI4MDAtZWNkYTRhODdiMWI2&hl=en&authkey=CLeVhc8JAnd finally, if you really want to know more than you should about the way state budget sausage is made,…

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Yudof on Budget, Privatization, Pensions

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There is an interview in the LA Times today (1-15-11) of President Yudof by Patt Morrison. Below are excerpts. …Morrison: You’ve used the Ed Koch line, “How’m I doing?” After 2 ½ years, how’re you doing? Yudof: I think we’re doing well, and I don’t mean to be Pollyanna-ish. We have a $20-billion shortfall, long run, in the pension plan. I think it’s going to take 20 years to dig our way out, but we have a plan. We put the new [student] eligibility standard into effect; it’s going to be a less mechanical admission [process], looking at the whole…

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In Radio Interview with Marketplace Yudof Eschews Privatization; Says Most State Politicians Don’t Understand UC

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In a radio interview today, UC President Mark Yudof discussed UC in the context of the state budget crisis. Issues that came up include privatization, faculty pay, and relations with the state in the context of the budget crisis. The portion aired was an excerpt. A full transcript – not just the excerpt – and audio of the full interview is below: Yudof Full Interview on Marketplace Jeremy Hobson: Mark Yudof is the President of California’s system and he joins us now. Mark Yudof, welcome to Marketplace. Mark Yudof: Well thank you. Thank you for inviting me. Hobson: The University…

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Regent Gould Talks About Pensions, Tuition, Concerns About Creating New Programs, and Anderson Self-Sufficiency

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UC Regents Chair Gould Talks Funds, Pension Plan Jordan Bach-Lombardo, November 30, 2010, Daily Californian http://www.dailycal.org/article/111368/uc_regents_chair_gould_talks_funds_pension_plan The Daily Californian interviewed UC Board of Regents Chair Russell Gould – who previously served as director of the California Department of Finance from 1993 to 1996 – on Nov. 23 about the University of California’s pension fund, which is facing significant changes due to its multibillion dollar funding deficit. Since the state halted contributions to the pension fund in 1990, the fund’s liabilities grew as its assets shrank, resulting in a $14 billion deficit as of August 2010. The regents voted in September…

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Powers-That-Be at UCLA Still Positive About Anderson Self-Sufficiency Plan

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The letter below from EVC Scott Waugh suggests that he and Chancellor Block (cc’d on the letter) remain positive about the Anderson School’s financial self-sufficiency plan, despite the negative Academic Senate reaction. As earlier posts have noted, some critics are concerned about setting a precedent for privatization – although the actual plan falls short of privatization. Others saw budgetary risk to UCLA. See the bold text in the letter (boldface added by yours truly) for the supportive comments by Waugh. On the other hand, additional review is indicated in the letter and how long that process might take is not…

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Another Take – This One from Insider Higher Ed – on Pushback on Anderson’s Self-Sufficiency Plan

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Inside Higher Ed’s take on the Anderson self sufficiency issue (with a nice plug for our blog) Pushback on a B-School’s Bold Plan (excerpts) November 23, 2010, Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed The blog of the Faculty Association of the University of California at Los Angeles features a video, labeled “a little self-sufficient music” — the Supremes singing “Stop in the Name of Love.” The clip starts not with the famous title line of the song, but with the refrain: “Think it o-o-ver.” The reference to “self-sufficient music” is a play on the plan of the business school at UCLA…

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End of the Line for Anderson Self Sufficiency?

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The LA Business Journal carries a report today on the Academic Senate’s negative report on the Anderson plan for self sufficiency. (See earlier post on this topic.) Dean Olian characterizes the report as “misinterpretations.” The report suggested a more detailed review was needed, which would delay the plan. On the other hand, Senate chair Ann Kargozian said the Senate ultimately “isn’t closed” to self sufficiency. One has a sense that underneath the debate, the Anderson plan is seen (feared?) by some as quasi-privatization that could spread to other schools or the larger UC system. Some excerpts below: UCLA Business School…