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Washington Dysfunction to be Reflected in Your Paycheck

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Excerpt from an email circulated at Anderson – in case you did not get one similar: This notice is in regards to the Social Security (OASDI) tax deducted from the January 3, 2012 paychecks. In 2010, President Obama signed into law the Tax Relief Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010.  Included in the Act was a provision that reduced the Social Security withholding rate from 6.2% to 4.2% for 2011.  This change was effective with wages paid on or after January 1, 2011 and included an expiration date of December 31, 2011.   In order to comply with…

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Tuition Bargain at UCLA

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Despite skyrocketing tuition costs, three University of California schools were named among the nation’s best public school bargains in rankings published Tuesday by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UC San Diego finished seventh, ninth and 10th, respectively, in the magazine’s annual analysis, which honors 100 schools for their combination of quality and affordability. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was ranked first for the 11th consecutive year… Full story at http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/01/uc-schools-ranked.html What a bargain!  We just need someone to get the word out: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QeWO9K7Egs&w=320&h=195]

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KPCC Radio Event on Higher Ed

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A KPCC AirTalk Event: Higher Education – What Is Its Future? Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. The Crawford Family Forum 474 South Raymond Avenue Pasadena, CA 91105 Rising tuitions, student unrest, and trimmed budgets — what is the future of higher education? Join AirTalk’s Larry Mantle on Wednesday, January 11th as he hosts a distinguished panel of university heads representing California’s diverse higher education institutions. Chancellor Gene Blockassumed the chief executive officer position at UCLA in 2007 and President C.L. Max Nikias was appointed president of USC last year, but has been a part of the…

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A Thought for the New Year on Some Unfinished Business from the Last Year: Business Plan, That Is

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And it should be noted that not all optimistic business plans work out in which case – one way or another – someone has to pay:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTEpbIrYh-E&w=320&h=195]PS: 1959 – the date of this commercial – was the year the Faculty Center opened.

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UCLA Professor Charged in 2008 Lab Fire Death

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From the LA Times: On Dec. 29, 2008, Sheharbano “Sheri” Sangji, 23, was severely burned over nearly half of her body when air-sensitive chemicals burst into flames during an experiment and ignited her clothing. Sangji, who was not wearing a protective lab coat, died 18 days later.  Her death raised questions about lab safety practices at UCLA and about Sangji’s training and supervision by Professor Patrick Harran, a prominent researcher who joined the faculty in July 2008. On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office charged Harran and the UC regents with three counts each of willfully violating occupational…

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Don’t Look for Holiday Cheer from the Washington Post

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The Washington Post has looked west of late: UC-Berkeley and other ‘public Ivies’ in fiscal peril Daniel de Vise, Dec. 26, 2011, Washington Post Across the nation, a historic collapse in state funding for higher education threatens to diminish the stature of premier public universities and erode their mission as engines of upward social mobility.  At the University of Virginia, state support has dwindled in two decades from 26 percent of the operating budget to 7 percent. At the University of Michigan, it has declined from 48 percent to 17 percent.  Not even the nation’s finest public university is immune….