Clark Kerr was president of UC from 1958 until 1967. Below are some video clips from that era and then from an interview in the late 1990s on his views on problems facing UC. (The first clip has been previously seen on this blog.)[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8DTR4Qys1c&w=320&h=195]
The first UC President, Clark Kerr, viewed the university as of the mid-20th century as part of the “knowledge industry.” Video below.
The state’s Legislative Analyst has released a lengthy report on funding higher education which covers UC, CSU, and the community colleges (as well as CalGrants). The report is essentially a response to the governor’s January budget proposal with regard to higher ed. Generally, the report tends to disagree with the governor’s approach which the Legislative Analyst views as giving too much autonomy to UC and the other segments with regard to enrollment and other matters. On the other hand, it documents the trend towards reduced state funding and thus seems to continue the pay-less/say-more approach which is odd on its…
The photo shows Assembly Speaker John Pérez talking to GOP minority leader Connie Conway. Given the excerpt below from today’s online San Francisco Chronicle, let’s hope he is being super-persuasive. ==============Excerpt: California students from middle-income families would receive massive breaks on tuition and fees at the state’s colleges and universities under legislation Assembly Speaker John Pérez plans to introduce today at the Capitol. Under the plan, undergraduate students from families with household income of less than $150,000 would have their tuition and fees cut by two-thirds, bringing the cost below what it was nearly a decade ago. It would amount…
Dostoyevsky’s notes did get published. But did you know that UC has rules against students publishing notes taken in class? There are websites which make a business of publishing student classnotes. Scroll to the bottom of this entry for an example. UC threatens legal action when notes from its classes are distributed.According to CaliforniaWatch:…The policies raise questions about whether instructors or students have copyrights to the notes students take in class. While the California Education Code prohibits students and others from selling class notes – and many campuses have policies that also ban unauthorized note-selling – critics say students, not instructors, own…
The Sacramento Bee has updated its database of all state salaries by name, including UC employees. No, I won’t give you the link although you can readily search it out. Yours truly writes a weekly blog for a group called the Employment Policy Research Association. As it happens, this week’s blog for that group tells you why I won’t supply the link to the Bee‘s database. (The fact that the blog entry and the database appeared in the same week was a coincidence.) ===================== http://www.employmentpolicy.org/topic/402/blog/mitchell%E2%80%99s-musings-1-30-12-matters-degree Mitchell’s Musings 1-30-12: Matters of Degree Daniel J.B. Mitchell Let’s start with the admission…
Former UC Regent Ward Connerly who led the move to abolish affirmative action at UC in 1995 is back in the news, albeit not in a positive way. http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2012/01/18/allegations-against-prominent-foe-affirmative-action (There is a link within that link to a NY Times article with more detail.) A related news item appeared in the Sacramento Bee this morning: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/18/4195636/connerly-financial-misdeeds-alleged.html The news clip below describes the Regents’ action but focuses on then-Governor Pete Wilson. (Connerly is briefly shown.) The Regents’ resolution was made redundant by the later Prop 209 and the resolution was subsequently repealed. However, since UC is covered by Prop 209, the…
The University of California will ban smoking and chewing tobacco on all 10 campuses within two years, President Mark Yudof told campus chancellors this week. Nearly 600 other campuses nationwide have banned smoking, and many California universities either limit smokers to isolated parts of campus or keep them from lighting up at all. …The university likely would have banned smoking earlier, but smokers vehemently argued against it, said Trish Ratto, a health educator and manager of UC Berkeley’s Health Matters Wellness Program. The university will implement the ban in stages to help smokers quit gradually rather go cold turkey. By…
With a formal title and a favorable fiscal analysis in hand, backers of an initiative to broaden access to online college preparatory classes will begin gathering signatures today to qualify for the November ballot.The proposed initiative would give students the right to go elsewhere for a course required for admission to a UC or CSU campus if their school doesn’t offer it. While they could drive to a nearby district, they also could take the course online. It would establish a California Diploma, which would be awarded when a student completed the 15 required courses, known as A-G… (The sponsoring)…
Last September, UC President Yudof proposed to the Regents a multiyear tuition increase plan. The Regents argued among themselves and nothing was adopted. Today’s San Francisco Chronicle, in a report on how higher ed is dealing with the trigger cuts (see earlier blog posts), has a buried lede*: UC will offset the $100 million cut with money it over-contributed for health care, a pool of excess cash that happens to be just above $100 million, UC spokesman Steve Montiel said. “It’s a temporary solution,” Montiel said, adding that UC is in talks with the state Department of Finance to try…
