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How the Post-Secondary Pie Divides

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The Legislative Analyst produced the interesting pie charts above showing where students are and where degrees are produced after high school.  Note that some students in the community colleges (CCCs) may transfer to UC or CSU.  The Leg Analyst also provides the following counts of the various types of schools: University of California: Ten campuses, 234,000 students, Baccalaureates, masters, doctorates/professional California State University: 23 campuses, 424,000 students, Baccalaureates, masters, several applied doctorates California Community Colleges: 112 campuses, 1.5 million students, Associates degrees, certificates Nonprofit/Independent Colleges and Universities: 73 institutions, 263,000 students, Associates, baccalaureates, masters, doctorates  For-Profit/Private Institutions: Roughly 1,500 institutions,…

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Yudof notes UC support for corporate tax bill

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Excerpt from the Fresno Bee: …(UC President Yudof indicated that) UC has supported, with amendments, a bill proposed by Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) that would provide students with a family income less than $150,000 a scholarship to cover about two-thirds of college fees. About 42,000 UC students would receive the Middle Class Scholarship, saving up to $8,169 per year, according to an analysis by the Assembly Democratic Caucus. Approximately 150,000 California State University students would save $4,000 each year, and the California Community Colleges would get $150 million for financial aid.  The money to fund the scholarship…

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Leaving California

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The Sacramento Bee today carries the graphic on the left accompanying a story about an increase in California high school grads who are leaving the state for college elsewhere due to rising tuition here in public higher ed and restricted admissions slots. Even though out-of-state privates have higher sticker prices for tuition than California public universities, aid of various types brings down the gap.Click on the graphic for a sharper view or go the article at the link below. The article is at http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/06/4469074/more-college-bound-californians.html Whatever happened to: Things seem to have reversed:

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Systemwide Pepper-Spray Report Released

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After the pepper-spray incident at UC-Davis, various reports were prepared.  Among them is one recently released for comment by UC General Counsel Charles Robinson and UC-Berkeley Law School dean Christopher Edley.  Below are some excerpts from the Robinson-Edley Report followed by a link to the full report.  Note that unlike other reports, this one is meant to be advisory to the entire UC system rather than just UC-Davis.  News accounts have noted the report’s idea of musing “mediation” to defuse conflicts.  See, for example, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2012/05/05/MN3P1ODI4S.DTL Excerpts from “Robinson-Edley Report” …We have divided our recommendations into the following nine thematic categories:…

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Moving Toward Michigan

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This blog previously noted the rise in non-California students at UC and UCLA (who pay full tuition) that has occurred as a response to the ongoing budget crisis.  See http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2012/04/it-doesnt-seem-to-add-up.html.  Today, the Sacramento Bee features the story and notes the “Michigan Model” as analogous to UC’s approach.  Although UCLA has said it just adds non-state students (as opposed to displacing in-state students), it appears from the numbers as reported in the previous post that there is some displacement. Excerpts from the Bee: …UC officials are aggressively courting non-resident students through college fairs and high school counselors… System officials say the push beyond…

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UC History: April 30, July 2, whatever, whenever

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“Today” in the tweet on the right was actually yesterday. The Morrill Act of 1862 was also known as the Land Grant College Act. It was a major boost to higher education in America. The grant was originally set up to establish institutions in each state that would educate people in agriculture, home economics, mechanical arts, and other professions that were practical at the time. The land-grant act was introduced by a congressman from Vermont named Justin Smith Morrill. He envisioned the financing of agricultural and mechanical education. He wanted to assure that education would be available to those in…

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The Odd Brown/GOP Pension Initiative

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Gov. Brown has proposed a pension revision affecting all state and local employees in California.  It would override UC’s changes in its pension system made by the Regents.  The governor’s plan is a hybrid of defined benefit and defined contribution with a pension cap of 75% of salary for new hires.  Brown wants the legislature to put his plan on the ballot but the legislature’s Democratic majority instead is studying alternatives. Legislative Republicans, however, have endorsed the governor’s plan and filed an initiative to put it on the ballot.  Unclear at this time is whether they will spend the $1-$2…

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UC-Berkeley’s explosive call for more campus autonomy

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You probably saw the article in today’s LA Times about a report from UC-Berkeley calling for more campus autonomy within UC.   The Times article is at: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0424-uc-20120424,0,4754981.story The Berkeley report is at: http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/docs/ROPS.Birgeneau%20et%20al.UC%20Gov.4.23.2012.pdf ABSTRACT The University of California (UC) needs to respond to the fundamental and ongoing changes that are occurring around it if it is to remain financially sustainable, accessible, and academically excellent. As the campuses that make up UC have matured in the past 50 years they have, rightly, developed unique strengths and challenges.  The uniqueness of individual campuses has been a natural response to the increasing…

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LA Times is Yes and No on Legislation to Lower Tuition

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The LA Times today is unhappy with proposed legislation that would change corporate taxes and raise money for lowering public higher ed tuition. (Excerpt) …SB 1500 and 1501, by Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) would …eliminat(e) a tax loophole for businesses and us(e) the resulting revenue to provide large scholarships to middle-class students in the state’s public colleges and universities, (and) reduc(e) their tuition costs by two-thirds… We can think of more pressing needs than tuition relief for families earning between $80,000 and $150,000, and no doubt so can Pérez. A properly funded welfare-to-work program, for example, or…

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Not Our Scandal

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You may have noticed the article in today’s LA Times that is circled in the accompanying picture.  There is a long background story involved, but essentially a commission that sets legislators’ salaries cut their pay during the current state budget crisis and eliminated the practice of providing them with a state-owned car.  The car elimination step was supposed to save money but at the state reimbursement rate of 53 cents per mile for use of a private car, apparently the savings have not materialized. The current university reimbursement is 55.5 cents per mile for use of a personal car on…