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Let’s Hope Someone Read the Correction

Byuclafaculty

I stumbled upon the correction article below in the LA Times that appeared last fall.  Let’s hope someone reads correction articles.  It also contains some interesting info. Readers’ Rep: University of California a big political donor — but that’s misleading Deirdre Edgar, Oct. 26, 2012 An article in Thursday’s Business section about campaign contributions in the Massachusetts Senate race between Republican incumbent Scott Brown and Democrat Elizabeth Warren included a surprising name among the list of top donors. According to the chart, the No. 5 donor to Warren was the University of California, with a total of $38,400 in contributions….

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Choose Me!

Byuclafaculty

Lots of potential undergraduates want to get into UC and UCLA has the highest count.  About 1 out of 5 applicants are transfers for UC and UCLA.  Has tuition slowed down applications?  All we can say is that overall, applications are up but the annual percentage increase for all-UC and UCLA is lower than it was last year: 13% vs. 9% (for UCLA also 13% vs. 9%). The Latino proportion of applicants is showing a steady rise for UC and UCLA.  The official data are at: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/28952 http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_2013_applications_table1.pdf http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_2013_applications_table2.1.pdf http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_2013_applications_table2.1.pdf http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_2013_applications_table2.3.pdf http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_2013_applications_table3.1.pdf http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_2013_applications_table3.2.pdf http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_2013_applications_table3.3.pdf http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_2013_applications_table4.pdf http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_2013_applications_table5.pdf http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-sets-new-undergraduate-applications-242778.aspx

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Push to Freeze Tuition in Legislature (That Isn’t Likely to be Enacted)

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From the Ventura County Star: Republicans in the state Legislature have proposed freezing tuition at California’s public universities and community colleges for the next seven years. The legislation, which was introduced this week before the governor announced his budget, also would increase funding to California State University, the University of California and community colleges so they don’t have to charge more to make ends meet. But it doesn’t give any specifics on how to do that… The bill originally would have penalized the UC system if it raised tuition by decreasing state funding… But (the bill’s author) said he removed…

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Listen to What the Governor Said About the Higher Ed Budget

Byuclafaculty

In an earlier post, we described the elements of the state budget for 2013-14 proposed by the governor and noted that his remarks at the news conference where the budget was presented largely mirrored prior statements he made at the Regents. Below is a link to an audio of his remarks on higher education (UC and CSU).  Although most of the time at the news conference was devoted to other aspects of the budget, higher education came up several times including once at the portion of the event with Budget Director Ana Matosantos. You can hear his remarks – and…

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Listen to Gov. Brown Say He is President of UC at Nov. 27, 2012 Special Regents Meeting

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The Regents held a special meeting to approve the new UC-Berkeley Chancellor and the interim UC-Riverside Chancellor on Nov. 27, 2012.  You can hear that meeting at the link below.  Governor Brown , Lt. Governor Newsom, and one Regent (Zettel) voted against the pay package for the new Berkeley chancellor Nicholas Dirks which paid $50,000 in sslary more than the previous chancellor.  (The increment was from private funds.)  All three voted for the appointment but against the pay. Brown’s comments are particularly interesting and occur roughly between minute 5:50 and 10:50 on the recording.  He says that the state funding…

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Things are heating up – particularly with regard to state politicos – concerning online ed at UC

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From the L.A. NOW blog of LA Times:Conference about online education attracts major players to UCLA January 8, 2013, Larry Gordon A national conference at UCLA on the future of online college education attracted some of the biggest names in the industry Tuesday, as well as politicians and faculty leaders from state universities. …Speakers at the event included Daphne Koller, the Stanford professor who is one of the founders of Coursera, a MOOC that offers courses from prestigious universities for free but usually without college credit, and Sebastian Thrun, a Stanford faculty member who co-founded Udacity, another MOOC that has…

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Apparently, UC’s Online Courses Didn’t Knock Their Socks Off

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As earlier posts have noted, the governor at a recent Regents meeting pushed for a presentation on the progress being made by UC in pitching online courses.  Such a presentation will be made at the next Regents meeting.  But it appears there will be some explaining to do: The University of California is spending millions to market an ambitious array of online classes created to “knock people’s socks off” and attract tuition from students around the world. But since classes began a year ago, enrollment outside of UC is not what you’d call robust. One person took a class. “It’s taking longer…

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Seven

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There are seven years in a sabbatical.  Snow White had seven dwarfs.  There are seven deadly sins.  And Prop 30 – the governor’s now-enacted tax initiative – raised taxes for seven years. So legislative Republicans are pushing for a seven-year freeze on public university tuitions.  Now it is true that the Republicans are in a diminished situation with Democrats holding a supermajority in the state legislature.  But the idea of a tuition freeze will have an appeal beyond Republican ranks. The PolitiCal blog of the LA Times has the story (excerpt): Legislative Republicans on Monday proposed a seven-year freeze on…

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It does no good but we’ll say it again…

Byuclafaculty

From time to time, we have complained about newspapers that feel compelled to print public payrolls – pay and names – on the grounds that the information is available.  We have noted that with some exceptions for top executives, such publication is an invasion of privacy and invites identity theft.  The newspaper answer is always some combination of a constitutional right – freedom of the press, etc. – plus the fact that the info is public.  Yes, the info has been public all along but before the internet came along, it was de facto private in that you had to…

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Understanding California

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The Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) from time to time issues out a publication called “CalFacts” which, as the name suggests, contains a variety of data on California – including the chart above.  It’s available at:http://lao.ca.gov/reports/2013/calfacts/calfacts_010213.pdf And for those who have forgotten our state song (previously posted):