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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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Three-Year Undergrad Degrees

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One of the ideas that has been surfaced as part of the UC Commission on the Future was a three-year undergraduate degree option. The article below notes that a campus of the U of Massachusetts is moving in that direction. UMass will offer 3-year degree plan: Amherst school, following national trend, cites costs (excerpts) By Tracy Jan, Boston Globe | September 27, 2010 Seeking to trim the cost of a college degree at a time when many families are struggling with tuition, the University of Massachusetts Amherst this fall plans to introduce a program to make it easier for students…

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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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Health Care Costs & Public Higher Ed

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In an op ed in the NY Times, Peter Orzag – former Obama OMB director – makes a point that others have also made. Public higher education nationally is squeezed indirectly by rising health care costs. When state legislatures are faced with rising costs of health care for their share of Medicaid (Medi-Cal in California), they tend to reduce public higher ed budgets to pay for those costs. Most likely, this effect is a reflection of the fact that unlike many other public programs, higher ed has a potential non-tax source of funding: tuition. In any event, some excerpts:A Health…

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UC Will Front Cal Grants Held Up By Lack of State Budget

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Excerpt from Sacramento Bee, 8/20/10. It is a perilous time to be a college student depending on the state of California to get through school. Some 335,500 students going to California colleges this fall have qualified for Cal Grants because their family incomes are so low. They need the grants to pay tuition, buy books or cover basic living expenses. But without a budget for the 2010-11 year, the state is not sending out any Cal Grants. State budgets have been late for so many years now that larger institutions have adapted. Campuses in the University of California and California…

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Ronald Brownstein Comments on UC and CSU

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The Coming Campus Collision: Public universities face expanding needs and contracting resources. Aug. 7, 2010by Ronald Brownstein IRVINE, Calif. — The orientation tours that I attended last week at two University of California campuses looked like a postcard from the next America. Demographers project that minorities will comprise a majority of all Americans under 18 as soon as 2023. But that future is already here in the sprawling University of California system, where African-Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and all other nonwhites represent 70 percent of students, up from about half two decades ago. These campuses are not only cultivating the state’s…

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New financial pain looms for UC students

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By Max Theiler | 07/15/10 12:00 AM PST Capitol Weekly Excerpts. Full article at: http://capitolweekly.net/article.php?1=1&_c=yzk5vwloidx0g9&xid=yzifhi2muolcu1&done=.yzk3mmcvqdh13b&_ce=1279208748.fe8f8ced55ac328265bddf5f6baa3706&_c=yzk5vwloidx0g9 …UC is set to raise student fees an additional 15 percent for both graduates and undergraduates when classes begin in September. On top of last January’s 15 percent increase, the new fee hike means resident undergraduates will be paying 32 percent more in fees for their education than they were a year ago – a boost of $1,334 per quarter.…In its 2010-11 budget request, UC said it would “revisit fee levels for 2010-11” if state funding requests were met. The Legislature has approved the governor’s…