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UC on the cheap

Byuclafaculty

The Sacramento Bee ran an editorial entitled “State can’t afford UC on the cheap” dated 9/25/11. Excerpt below. Like the NY Times – see earlier blog post – the Bee seems not to have caught up with the fact that the Regents didn’t go along with the multi-year tuition increase schedule at their last meeting. Nonetheless.. The University of California “shall constitute a public trust,” states the California Constitution. That trust has eroded as state financial support has declined. The overriding question today is how much of a UC education should be considered a public benefit for which the state…

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Slow News Day at the New York Times?

Byuclafaculty

The New York Times may have all the news that’s fit to print. But it carries an article today – dated Sept. 24 – on tuition increases at UC that seems to be over a week out of date. (The article quoted below appears on the NY Times’ website with a note that it also appeared in the national print edition.) In the text we find: “Faced with drastic cutbacks in state financing, U.C. tuition increased 18 percent this school year, and the university’s Board of Regents is expected to vote on a plan to raise tuition 8 percent to…

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Looks Like Crane Won’t Fly

Byuclafaculty

From the LA Times’ LA Now blog: San Francisco businessman David Crane’s brief term as a UC regent seems likely to be over in December because Democrats in the state Senate have not moved to confirm his appointment nine months ago by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Under state rules, an appointee to the university board can serve up to a year without legislative confirmation. The state Senate is now in recess and no special session is scheduled for the rest of the year. Crane, a Democrat who was an economic advisor to Schwarzenegger, a Republican, is opposed by labor unions…

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Too Far, Too Fast?

Byuclafaculty

You may have noticed in yesterday’s LA Times or other papers that CSU Chancellor Reed said he will NOT ask for a multi-year plan involving scheduled tuition increases: California State University will not seek a second tuition increase this academic year even if it suffers a further $100-million cut in state funding, the system’s chief executive said Wednesday. Chancellor Charles B. Reed, addressing trustees who were meeting in Long Beach, also rejected adopting a multi-year budget that would incorporate annual tuition increases. Some higher education leaders argue that such a move, though controversial, would provide stability and help campus leaders,…

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Advance Audio of Regents Meeting: 2nd Part of 9-15-11

Byuclafaculty

Courtesy of Jim Chalfant – who recorded the session from the live-stream – here is the second part of the Regents meeting of 9-15-11. You can find part 1 of the advance audio by scrolling down on this blog. There is discussion on this recording of the economic impact of UC on California – a report that was prepared on the subject and described to the Regents. (See an earlier post on this blog concerning that report.) Then there is discussion of the UC budget situation. Below is the agenda for that session:8:30 am Committee of the Whole (public comment)8:50…

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How Inevitable is the Budget Trigger?

Byuclafaculty

As shown above, there is bipartisan disapproval in the latest Field Poll of the budget cut trigger that was enacted as part of the 2011-12 California state budget. Of course, what the legislature enacts, it can amend or un-enact. Readers of this blog will know that the trigger includes more cuts for UC. Given voter sentiment, perhaps – if UCOP and the Regents – work on it, what happens if the trigger is pulled is not inevitable. There was much bemoaning by the Regents at their recently-concluded meeting about what to do and whether to accept a UCOP plan for…

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Report on UC’s Economic Impact on State

Byuclafaculty

At the recent Regents meeting, there was a report on the economic impact of UC on the California economy. Yours truly has some reservations about the regional multiplier approach which is emphasized in the report. The short-term real multiplier to be emphasized, which I thought was not adequately highlighted in the report, is that the state puts about $2.5 billion into UC and gets an enterprise with a budget of around $20 billion. A lot of that budget comes from outside the state, i.e., federal research and other funds. And in the long term, the impact on California’s growth can…

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Advance Audio: Excerpt from Sept. 15 Regents Meeting

Byuclafaculty

We previously posted the audio for the July 2011 Regents meeting. Normally, we have to wait until we can get the recordings from the Regents to post the audio. However, Prof. Jim Chalfant of UC-Davis recorded part of the Sept. 15 meeting including discussion of graduate student tuition and support. Eventually, we will post the full Sept. 13-15 meeting – once we get the recordings. In the meantime, below is the Regents agenda for Sept. 15 and below that is a link to the Chalfant recording. 8:30 am Committee of the Whole (public comment) 8:50 am Committee on Compensation (open…

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Audio: July 14, 2011 Regents Meeting (3rd Day)

Byuclafaculty

The Regents met for the third day of their July 2011 meetings on July 14. Below is the agenda for that day’s session. The audio is divided into two parts. Previous blog posts have provided the audio for the first two days. Links are below the third day agenda. Below the agenda are links to the audio. 8:30 am Committee of the Whole (public comment) 8:50 am Committee on Compensation (open session) 9:15 am Committee on Finance (open session) 1:30 pm Board (open session) Part 1: Part 2:

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Audio: Regents July 13, 2011 (Second Day)

Byuclafaculty

Yesterday, we posted the audios of the first day of the July 12-14, 2011 Regents meetings. (The first day was actually meetings of two committees.) Today we post the second day audio in two parts. Below is the agenda with links to agenda documents. We again note that the Regents live-stream the audio of their meetings and record them. But they do not archive the recordings for public access. Why not? We have to request the recordings and do the posting, an unnecessary step which – as is evident from the posting at this late date – involves a delay….