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2019
- UC and Tuition and Masters Programs... (Cloudminder 8/12/19)
- 2021 - and maybe 2020 - Health Care Changes - Part 2 (UCLAFA 5/25/19)
- UCSF’s Proposal to Expand Partnership With Dignity Health Faces New Critique (SF Chronicle 4/26/19)
- Food & Housing in California Higher Ed, Especially UC (UCLAFA 4/26/19)
- Mind Your Business: UCLA Hotels Detract Funding From More Pressing Issues, Compromise Local Business (Daily Bruin 4/25/19)
2018
- Troubled UC PATH Hits $750 Million and Counting (Cloudminder 11/17/18)
- UC Office of the President Spends $735k on Report, Begins Structural Overhaul (Daily Cal 11/14/18)
- Richard Blum, a $100 Million UC Investment, Feinstein Campaign Donations: Business As Usual at UC? (Capital & Main 10/15/18)
- Crisis at Jagdeep Bachher’s University of California Investment Office (Institutional Investor 9/6/18)
- Even as UC Enrollment Has Increased, State General Fund Support Has Declined (Cal Budget 5/18)
- Money with a proviso (UCLAFA 5/30/18)
- BlackRock Goes to College to Bolster Private Equity Dealmaking (Bloomberg 5/30/18)
- Crowded, Crumbling Classrooms—Will One-Time Cash Infusion Be Enough to Fix the University of California? (CALmatters 5/15/18)
- UC Issues in the May Revise (UCLAFA 5/14/18)
- Must go faster! (UCLAFA 5/2/18)
- $3.4 million (UCLAFA 2/1/18)
2017
- Some of the Response to UC Audit Interference Reports, More (Cloudminder 11/25/17)
- Drama and Accusations Grow Over University of California Audit (IHE 11/16/17)
- UC President Janet Napolitano's Aides Interfered in Audit of Her Office, Investigation Finds (LAT 11/15/17)
- UC Regents to Release Findings on Whether Napolitano's Office Interfered in State Audit (LAT 11/15/17)
- Advice and Common Sense (UCLAFA 3/4/17)
- Entrepreneurial/Innovation Funding From State (UCLAFA 1/18/17)
- UC Needs a Tuition Hike, But Also a Clearer Vision of its Identity (LAT 1/16/17)
- Opposition, real reasons, 'mrakleaks'?, More (Cloudminder 1/11/17)
2016
- California Budget Deal Seeks Nonresident Enrollment Cap at UC (Sac Bee 6/10/16)
- A University of California, for California (Capital & Main 6/9/16)
- State Must Increase Funding to Grow UC Enrollment by 20,000 (Hare and Chalfant, SF Chron 6/8/16)
- Micro-Management (UCLAFA 5/24/16)
- As UC Berkeley Tries to Close its Deficit, Administrators Feel the Ire of Traditional Faculty Allies (LAT 4/20/16)
- On the University of California, I: The Funding Challenge (Academe Blog 4/13/16)
- Update to Campus Academic Realignment Initiative Outlines Potential Cost-Cutting Changes (Daily Cal 4/5/16)
- No Out-of-State Enrollment Cap (UCLAFA 3/16/16)
- UC President Janet Napolitano: Davis Chancellor Should Stay Despite Mistake (Sac Bee 3/9/16)
- Corporatizers Gone Wild! (Academe Blog 3/5/16)
- UC Davis Chancellor Apologizes, Will Donate Textbook Stock to Student Scholarships (Sac Bee 3/4/16)
- UC Davis Chancellor Received $420,000 on Book Publisher’s Board (Sac Bee 3/3/16)
- End of the Freeze (UCLAFA 2/15/16)
- UC Officials Scramble to Prep Housing for Biggest Boost in California Students in Years (LAT 1/20/16)
2015
- How much more budget wizardry will we demand of UC? (Sac Bee 11/19/15)
- LAO's State Budget Outlook (UCLAFA 11/18/15)
- UC Seeks to Boost Californians' Enrollment by 10,000 by 2018 (LAT 11/9/15)
- UC Budget Plan Will Provide for 10,000 More California Students (UC 11/9/15)
- Is UC Spending Too Little on Teaching, Too Much on Administration? (LAT 10/17/15)
- UC Cash (UCLAFA 10/11/15)
- Texas Professors Warn Allowing Guns In Class Will Inhibit Free Speech (Huff Po 10/5/15)
- Difficult to Admit (UCLAFA 8/10/15)
- UC Estimates Budget for Long-Delayed Payroll Upgrade Will More than Double (Sac Bee 7/23/15)
- The LAO Is Getting Higher Ed Wrong (Fox and Hounds 7/14/15)
- Is UC Going to Turn Down $25 million? (UCLAFA 6/12/15)
- UC Rising Tuition - Whose Fault? The 'CAism' or the 'UCism' or? (Cloudminder 4/13/15)
- State to Audit UC Nonresident Enrollment, Rebenching Progress (Daily Bruin 3/5/15)
- University of California plans to Limit Resident Enrollment (SacBee 3/3/15)
- UC Falsely Describes Tuition Plan as "Robin Hood" Scheme (Vernon, DailyCal 3/3/15)
- Budget Standoff Leaves California College Hopefuls in Limbo (ABC 3/2/15)
- Higher Ed Report from LAO (UCLAFA 2/27/15)
- A Different Kind of LLP (Cloudminder 2/27/15)
- UC Maintains AA Bond Rating, Reflecting Stable Financial Outlook (Daily Bruin 2/27/15)
- Is the UC Spin Spinning Out of Control? (Changing Universities 2/20/15)
- Can UC Answer These 5 Big Questions About Its Spending? (KQED 2/19/15)
- Stage III (UCLAFA 1/30/15)
- Essay Sees the Possible Collapse of Austerity Politics Around Higher Education (Christopher Newfield 1/12/15)
- Securitization, Risk Management, and the New University (Reclaim UC 1/9/15)
- Gov. Jerry Brown’s Budget Plan (Sac Bee 1/9/15)
- UC-AFT Proposes New Way to Create Affordability and Access with Quality (Changing Universities 1/9/15)
2014
- Finally, UC Gets Budget Attention (LAT 12/29/14)
- Rising Retirement Costs Help Drive UC Plan to Raise Tuition (SacBee 11/16/14)
- Jerry Brown Vetoes Extra $100 Million for UC, CSU (SacBee 9/27/14)
- University of California Chancellor Pay was Already Excessive. And Then They Got Raises. (Slate 9/22/14)
- A Changing Economy Changes Online Education Priorities at the U. of California (IHE 8/13/14)
- State Cash (UCLAFA 8/11/14)
- Big-Name VCs, Others Tagged to Weigh Changes to UC Investment Policy (Biz Journals 7/28/14)
- California Students Feel UC Admission Squeeze (LAT 4/18/14)
- UCLA Changes Travel Rules, but Not Before Deans' New Luxury Expenses (Fresno Bee 4/8/14)
- University of California Debt Tops U.S. Municipal Bond Calendar (Reuters 3/28/14)
- The Hidden College Problem: When Universities, Not Just Students, Take On Debt (Forbes 3/19/14)
- UC Davis Student Fees are Highest in State System (SacBee 3/16/14)
- 2014-2015: Funding for CSU and UC Would Be Nearly One-Quarter Below Pre-Recession Levels (CBP 2/27/14)
- University of California Loses Millions in Wall Street Casino (The American Interest 2/26/14)
- Risky Deals Costing University of Calif. Millions (Mercury News 2/23/14)
- Understanding Financial Aid in the UC and Beyond (Changing Universities 2/19/14)
- UCLA's Jim Mora is Likely Pac-12's Second-Highest Paid Coach at Public School (LAT 2/18/14)
- Yet Another $450,000 Man Arrives at UCSD (SD Reader 2/13/14)
- UC Has a Labor-Relations Problem (SacBee 1/31/14)
2013
- The Old State Funding Model is Dead: What Will Replace It? (Christopher Newfield 11/14/13)
- That Was the Week That Was (Michael Meranze 6/16/13)
- The Old State Funding Model Is Dead: What Will Replace It? (Christopher Newfield 11/14/13)
- Tuition Hikes Ahoy! (Michael Meranze 9/17/13)
- Gov Brown Could Take An Important Step Towards Fixing Higher Ed (Christopher Newfield 2/11/13)
- Addressing The Austerity Lock-in At Public Universities (Christopher Newfield 1/14/13)
2012
- The UC Regents' Budget: The Trouble With The Prop 30 Norm (Christopher Newfield 11/12/12)
- Yes On Both Of California's Education Propositions (Christopher Newfield 11/6/12)
- The Election And Higher Education (Christopher Newfield 10/22/12)
- UCSB Budget Forum, Or California After Apple (Christopher Newfield 10/18/12)
- The Undercover Chancellor (Christopher Newfield 10/8/12)
- Progress At The UC Regents' Retreat (Christopher Newfield 9/19/12)
- The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly In Bain's Higher Ed Funding Report (Christopher Newfield 7/25/12)
- UC's Zero-degree State Budget, And What The University Should Do (Christopher Newfield 7/16/12)
- Brown's Budget Sacrifices The Present, Gambles The Future (Michael Meranze 7/5/12)
- What Is The Future Of Rebenching At UC? (6/27/12)
- Quality Public Higher Ed: From Udacity To Theory Y (Christopher Newfield 6/6/12)
- UCOP's Latest Threat To Faculty Freedom (5/21/12)
- Ending The Master Plan Won't Even Help The Budget (Christopher Newfield 5/18/12)
- Jerry May Revise California Out Of Existence (Michael Meranze 5/14/12)
- Reframing The Doomday Budget Discussion (Christopher Newfield 5/9/12)
- Up in the Berkeley Hills (Michael Meranze 4/26/12)
- Net Negatives Of Private Fundraising (Christopher Newfield 3/28/12)
- Have We Protected Poor Students From Debt? (Christopher Newfield 2/9/12)
- Racial Patterns Of Campus Budget Inequality: The State Audit Part II (Christopher Newfield 1/17/12)
- What The Governor's Proposed Budget Means For UC (Christopher Newfield 1/7/12)
- Gov Gives UC Just About Nothing, Continuing The Gradual Termination Of UC (updated 1/7, With Revised Chart) (Christopher Newfield 1/6/12)
2011
- When The Public University Can No Longer Afford Itself: The Impending Crisis In UC Graduate Programs (12/13/11)
- There Are Alternatives To The Yudof Privatization Story (Christopher Newfield 12/12/11)
- We Can Restore California's Higher Education...If The Leaders Lead (11/1/11)
- Problems With UCOP's Proposed Salary Supplements For Grants (Christopher Newfield 10/17/11)
- A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Wrongness (Christopher Newfield 10/5/11)
- The Problem is Privatization, And it Can be Reversed (9/29/11)
- Regents Budget Strategy: Stuck Between Stations (Christopher Newfield 9/21/11)
- Annoying Results Of The State Audit Of UC, Pt 1: No Cuts, You're Fine! (Christopher Newfield 7/31/11)
- Statement From Three Members Of Academic Council On Preserving Quality (7/16/11)
- Feeding the Cuts, Part I (Christopher Newfield 7/13/11)
- She Knows There's No Success Like Failure And That Failure's No Success At All (Michael Meranze 6/28/11)
- Change The Culture Of Helplessness (Christopher Newfield 5/15/11)
- Ending a Bad UC Week: What Points Might Help Turn Things Around? (Christopher Newfield 1/16/11)
- Pay Even More to Get Even Less (Christopher Newfield 1/12/11)
- Brown's Budget--A Preliminary Look (Michael Meranze 1/10/11)
2010
- The Debt Crisis And The Austerity Trap (Christopher Newfield 12/20/10)
- Rethinking The UC Future (2): The UCOF Report's View Of Revenues (Christopher Newfield 12/15/10)
- Rethinking The UC Future (1): The UCOF Report's Impacts On Students (Christopher Newfield 12/11/10)
- Losing Greater California (Christopher Newfield 10/9/10)
- Noir Track Intact (Christopher Newfield 6/30/10)
- UCOF Financial Recommendations (Christopher Newfield 6/13/10)
- UC Budget Reality 3: The Per-Student Disaster (Christopher Newfield 6/11/10)
- Same Flat Revenues, Same Flat Pitch: How To Do Better (Christopher Newfield 6/6/10)
- UC Budget Reality: 2 Graphs (Christopher Newfield 5/26/10)
- Arnold's Modest Proposal (Michael Meranze 5/17/10)
- Notes From the Field (Christopher Newfield 5/12/10)
- Remaking the University--A Jeremiad (Michael Meranze 5/11/10)
- Does the Faculty Have a Voice? (Michael Meranze 4/13/10)
- Lesson Number Three, And My Beef With Bob (Christopher Newfield 2/19/10)
- Budget Lessons for 2010 (Christopher Newfield 1/29/10)
- One Way Forward (Michael Meranze 1/13/10)
- A Method to the Madness? (Michael Meranze 1/9/10)
- A View From A Science Department: Parts 3 And 4 (Christopher Newfield 1/3/10)
2009
- A View From A Science Department: Part 2 (Christopher Newfield 12/28/09)
- Saving Public Higher Ed: Cheaper Than Christmas Shopping (Christopher Newfield 12/22/09)
- Analysis Of Charles Schwartz Plan For UC (12/15/09)
- UCOP Concepts in the Reviewing Process (12/8/09)
- Bonfire of the Humanities (12/1/09)
- Pushing A New Measure Of UC Budgets In Sacramento (Christopher Newfield 11/25/09)
- Where Should we Go After the Fee Hikes? (11/21/09)
- A Modest Proposal (11/24/09)
- What The Regents Should Do Instead Of Increasing Fees (Christopher Newfield 11/17/09)
- The Public and Higher Education (Michael Meranze 11/16/09)
- Rose Colored Glasses -- Do We Need A New Prescription? (11/13/09)
- A View From A Science Department (Christopher Newfield 11/9/09)
- There is NO Alternative (Christopher Newfield 9/23/09)
- And Sometimes We Get Bohemian Dream Visions (9/18/09)
- UC Student Association Endorses Walkout (Christopher Newfield 9/14/09)
- Non-resident Tuition: “Profit” = Revenues - Costs (9/9/09)
- Regents Commission's First Speaker: Overview Of The Delta Project (Christopher Newfield 9/7/09)
- Can Doubling Out-of-state Students Save Berkeley's Budget? (Christopher Newfield 9/1/09)
- Robert Williams: Press Conference Statement (7/29/09)
- Talking Points for Option 4 Press Conference (Christopher Newfield 7/26/09)
- Option 4 Press Release (7/26/09)
- UC Irvine Petition (7/25/09)
- Responding to the Regents: A Possible Prototype (Christopher Newfield 7/24/09)
- UCSB Budget Forum Video (7/23/09)
- SF Chronicle: Dueling Views on UC Budget (Christopher Newfield 7/14/09)
- Yudof Recommendations: Shrink Your Pay With Furloughs And Your Campus With Cuts (Christopher Newfield 7/10/09)
- Confrontational UCSB Town Hall On The Budget Crisis (Christopher Newfield 7/10/09)
- Changing The Budget Climate: What Happens If We Don't (Christopher Newfield 7/9/09)
- UCSF Faculty Association Resolution (7/8/09)
- Suggested Better Budget Process (Christopher Newfield 6/30/09)
- UC And CSU: Cut Again (Christopher Newfield 2/20/09)
2008
- Talking Points (Christopher Newfield 5/11/08)
Budget Transparency Project
2019
- What Do Students Get in Return for Their Tuition? (IHE 7/29/19)
- Tuition-Free College Could Cost Less Than You Think (NYT 7/19/19)
- Ethics Fly Out of the Window at Oxford University When Big Donors Come Calling (Guardian 6/22/19)
- How Teach for America Evolved Into an Arm of the Charter School Movement (Propublic 6/18/19)
- Civil Liberties Watchdog Accuses Rutgers of Using Unconstitutional Process to Fund Student Press (IHE 6/10/19)
- 4 Years of College, $0 in Debt: How Some Countries Make Higher Education Affordable (NYT 5/28/19)
- USC Gave Nearly $1 Million to Medical School Dean Linked to Drugs (LAT 5/18/19)
- White House Wants to Use Pell Surplus to Fund NASA (IHE 5/15/19)
- Donors Endowed Coaching Positions of Programs to Which Children Applied (IHE 5/13/19)
- Cambridge University to Study How It Profited From Colonial Slavery (The Guardian 4/29/19)
- Stanford Moves to Stop Supporting Its University Press (IHE 4/29/19)
- Mind Your Business: UCLA Hotels Detract Funding From More Pressing Issues, Compromise Local Business (Daily Bruin 4/25/19)
- 3 Takeaways From a New Survey on Administrative Pay (CHE 4/24/19)
- New Revelations Link Donations and Admissions at UCLA (IHE 4/15/19)
- UCLA Knew of a Cash-for-admissions Deal, Years Before the Scandal (LAT 4/12/19)
- These 20 colleges took in 28% of donations to universities last year — they educate 1.6% of undergrads (MarketWatch 2/20/19)
- We’re Suing SDSU for Records to Shed Light on Mission Valley Plans (Voice of San Diego 2/19/19)
- Linfield College Is Moving Forward With a Plan to Cut Its Faculty -- Apparently With or Without Professors' Input (IHE 2/11/19)
2018
- UW Stevens Point Faculty Oppose Restructuring (Academe Blog 11/27/18)
- Wait, Is Bloomberg’s $1.8-Billion Donation to Johns Hopkins a Good Thing? (CHE 11/19/18)
- Ministers Can’t Ignore the UK’s Higher Education Debt Crisis (Guardian 11/10/18)
- Proportion of State Financial Aid Awarded Based on Financial Need Grows (IHE 11/5/18)
- More Budget Cuts and Tuition Hikes at U of the Pacific Lead to Student and Faculty Unrest (IHE 10/25/18)
- Black Colleges Have to Pay More for Loans Than Other Schools (The Atlantic 8/22/18)
- A Long-term View of Higher Education Funding (PPIC 8/16/18)
- Amid Worsening Financial Picture, UW President Ana Mari Cauce Returns $95k in Deferred Compensation (Seattle Times 7/17/18)
- Essay on Emerging Culture of Patronage at Michigan State (IHE 6/11/18)
- Financialization of Higher Education (Roosevelt Institute 6/6/18)
- Even as CSU Enrollment Has Increased, State General Fund Support Has Declined (Cal Budget 5/18)
- Even as UC Enrollment Has Increased, State General Fund Support Has Declined (Cal Budget 5/18)
- Oxford and Cambridge University Colleges Own Property Worth £3.5bn (Guardian 5/29/18)
- Revenue Forecast: LAO vs. Governor (UCLAFA 5/13/18)
- California Stands to Lose Billions in Future Economic Returns by Continuing to Underfund CSU and UC (CA Budget Center 5/9/18)
- What Charles Koch and Other Donors to George Mason University Got for Their Money (NYT 5/5/18)
- America's Declining Investment in Higher Education (The Atlantic 5/3/18)
- Revelations Over Koch Gifts Prompt Inquiry at George Mason University (NYT 5/1/18)
- Documents Show Ties Between University, Conservative Donors (APNews 5/1/18)
- The Importance of Counting an Institution's Research Expenditures in the Humanities (IHE 4/23/18)
- State Spending Per Student at CSU and UC Remains Well Below Pre-Recession Levels, Despite Recent Increases (Cal Budget Center 3/18)
- State Support for Higher Ed Increased in 2017, but So Did Tuition Revenue (IHE 3/29/18)
- The Tuition Limit and the Coming Crisis of Higher Education (The New Inquiry 3/26/18)
- George Mason Lands $5 Million Koch Foundation Donation for Economics Department (Wa Po 3/22/18)
- Being Set Up to Fail? The Battle to Save the UK’s Universities From Speculative Finance (Critical Legal Thinking 3/16/18)
- Dan Slilaty: The University’s Single Reason for Being (Academe Blog 3/15/18)
- Downgrading Harvard (The Baffler 3/5/18)
- UC Berkeley Spent $4 Million on ‘Free Speech’ Events Last Year (Daily Cal 2/4/18)
- University of Michigan Endowment Invests Billions with Donor-Run Funds (Detroit Free Press 2/1/18)
- State Support for Higher Ed Grows 1.6 Percent in 2018 (IHE 1/22/18)
- Missouri Expands Performance Funding for Public Colleges (IHE 1/4/18)
2017
- The New Tax on Harvard (Politico 12/22/17)
- Understanding the Political Economy of Academia Through the Tax Bills (LPE Blog 12/19/17)
- Large Endowments Would be Taxed Under Final GOP Tax Plan (IHE 12/18/17)
- Final Tax Bill Would Spare Some Higher-Ed Worries, but Could Lead to State Budget Cuts (CHE 12/15/17)
- These Schools Get Millions Of Tax Dollars To Discriminate Against LGBTQ Students (HuffPo 12/15/17)
- Poem About Your University President’s Completely Reasonable Four Million-dollar Compensation Package (McSweeney's 12/12/17)
- Uncertainty for Grad Students as Tax Bill Goes to Conference (IHE 12/6/17)
- U.S. House Committee Leaks Summary of Broad Plan for Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act (IHE 11/30/17)
- Open Letter From University of Nebraska Faculty (Academe Blog 11/29/17)
- Uncertain Political Environment for Higher Ed (UCLAFA 11/29/17)
- Elitists, Crybabies and Junky Degrees (Wa Po 11/25/17)
- Some of the Response to UC Audit Interference Reports, More (Cloudminder 11/25/17)
- Philadelphia Fed Study Debunks Main Argument for Student Debt Slavery (Naked Capitalism 11/22/17)
- GOP Bill Would Force Students Who Don’t Graduate to Repay Pell Grants (CHE 11/17/17)
- UC President Janet Napolitano's Aides Interfered in Audit of Her Office, Investigation Finds (LAT 11/15/17)
- UC Regents to Release Findings on Whether Napolitano's Office Interfered in State Audit (LAT 11/15/17)
- Republican Class Warfare: The Next Generation (NYT 11/13/17)
- How the Ivy League Hides Its Cash (NYT 11/10/17)
- Endowments Boom as Colleges Bury Earnings Overseas (NYT 11/8/17)
- UC Berkeley to Tap Academic Funds to Help Bail Out Memorial Stadium (SF Chron 11/3/17)
- A Case Study in Academic Crime:
Koch at Florida State University (UnKoch My Campus 11/17)
- How Rich Universities Get Richer (CHE 10/27/17)
- After Scathing Audit, UC Will Have to Be More Transparent in Reporting Costs (LAT 10/14/17)
- Millions for Security, Cuts to Critical Theory Program Underscore Need for Transparency (Daily Cal 10/3/17)
- UC Ripped Again in Latest Audit That Finds Bungling of Payroll Upgrade (SFGate 8/24/17)
- Campus Unveils Revenue-Driven Budget That Cuts $15M (The Daily Cal 8/10/17)
- USC Bosses Flunk the Leadership Test Amid Shocking Allegations About Former Medical School Dean (LAT 7/20/17)
- USC’s Silence On Its Medical School Dean’s Double Life is Deafening (LAT 7/19/17)
- Correction to an Article on Google's Academic Influence (Fox 7/1/17)
- At UMass Boston, Hires Come With Political Connections (Boston Globe 7/4/17)
- Is Janet Napolitano Deepening Economic Inequality at the University of California? (Salon 6/11/17)
- In Unprecedented Move, JFC Republicans Allot Millions to Establish Partisan, Conservative Think Tank at UW-Madison (Cognitive Dissidence 6/2/17)
- Endgames | Confessions of a Community College Dean (IHE 5/30/17)
- UC Reverses Policy, Won’t Pick Up Tab For Regents’ Parties (SF Gate 5/29/17)
- Inequality University (Jacobin 5/22/17)
- Faculty Voice on the Audit (UCLAFA 5/20/17)
- The Audit of UC's Management Shows that the Real Threat to Higher Education is Inside the House (LAT 5/5/17)
- Assembly Speaker: "Not Our Desire" To Strip UC's Constitutional Independence (Capital Public Radio 5/3/17)
- Janet Napolitano Braces for Showdown in Sacramento Over UC ‘Slush Fund’ (Mercury News 4/30/17)
- CA Assembly Speaker Rendon Calls for UC Tuition Hike Reversal (Sac Bee 4/26/17)
- After Scathing UC Audit, California Leaders Look to Stop Recent Tuition Hike (SD Union Tribune 4/26/17)
- State Audit Report on UCOP (Cloudminder 4/25/17)
- $504 Million and Four Years Behind Schedule - That's UC PATH (Cloudminder 4/17/17)
- Federal Higher-Ed Tax Breaks Now Exceed Cost of Grants for Lower-Income Students (Hechinger Report 2/23/17)
- Endowment Sweepstakes: How Tiny Houghton College Beat Harvard (NYT 2/9/17)
- Dismal Endowment Returns Shed Light on Faulty Financial Model (Academe Blog 2/7/17)
- States Report 3.4 Percent Increase in Higher Education Appropriations (IHE 2/6/17)
- Equity, Interrupted: How California is Cheating Its Future (Academe Blog 1/12/17)
- UC Tuition Hikes? First Justify Your Administrative Bloat (SD Union Tribune 1/6/17)
- The Problems With the New York Tuition-Free Public College Plan (IHE 1/6/17)
- Study Looks at Impact of Adjunct Hiring on College Spending Patterns (IHE 1/5/17)
2016
- Growing Gap Between Flagship State Universities & Public Colleges (Academe Blog 12/9/16)
- University Debt & Financial Monitoring (Andrew McGettigan 11/25/16)
- A Deep Dive - on Cal, more. (Cloudminder 11/17/16)
- Kentucky's University Senate Opposes Terms of $10M Deal for Free Enterprise Center (IHE 10/12/16)
- University of California Posts 3.4% Investment Loss in Endowment (Bloomberg 9/9/16)
- How the University of California And Other Public Schools Use Reserve Funds to Keep Pace (Wa Po 8/25/16)
- Not Just Students Are Leaving Illinois (Academe Blog 8/4/16)
- More on the Illinois Budget Battle and Higher Ed (Academe Blog 7/30/16)
- How Financialization Left Michigan Footing the Bill for Wall Street’s Bad Deals (Roosevelt Institute 7/7/16)
- University of Chicago Professors, Students Upset by Layoffs and School Finances (Chicago Tribune 6/24/16)
- More on the High Cost of Intercollegiate Athletics (Academe Blog 6/11/16)
- University of Chicago Cost Cutting Draws Objections (IHE 6/9/16)
- University of Washington Campus (Academe Blog 6/8/16)
- Mismanagement and No Meaningful Oversight (Academe Blog 6/2/16)
- How Hedge Funds Loot College Endowments (Debt & Society 5/10/16)
- Some UC Regents Fret that Critical State Audit Resulted in Unfair Attacks on Out-of-State Students (LAT 5/10/16)
- Unfunded Mandate: Columbia College, Arts and Sciences, and the Bollinger Era (Columbia Spectator 5/5/16)
- George Mason Faculty Senate Asks University to Hold Off on Koch-Funded Law School Renaming (IHE 5/5/16)
- Arizona, Amid Cuts to Higher Ed, May Help Centers Supported by Charles Koch (IHE 4/25/16)
- On the University of California, I: The Funding Challenge (Academe Blog 4/13/16)
- Federal Spending Protects Most Vulnerable Students from State Disinvestment, Study Finds (IHE 4/7/16)
- UC Issues Its Own Version of Recent Trends (UCLAFA 3/30/16)
- The State Audit of the UC: The Problem with Non-Resident Admissions (Changing Universities 3/29/16)
- Amid Rough Seas for UW System, Wave of Distinct Challenges Hits UWM (Journal Sentinel 3/5/16)
- Profs, Admins Clash over Budgeting (Yale News 3/3/16)
- UC Davis Chancellor Received $420,000 on Book Publisher’s Board (Sac Bee 3/3/16)
- Rhode Island Governor Tapped Public College Foundations to Pay for State Business (IHE 2/19/16)
- As Illinois Becomes Louisiana (Academe Blog 2/16/16)
- Endowment returns at 2.4 percent in fiscal year 2015 (IHE 1/27/16)
- State Support on the Rise (IHE 1/25/16)
- Cuomo to Continue Shrinking State’s Share of CUNY’s Costs (NYT 1/14/16)
- Delta Cost Project Report Outlines Trends in College Spending (IHE 1/13/16)
- Trends in College Spending: 2003-2013 - Where Does the Money Come From? Where Does It Go? What Does It Buy? (AIR 1/12/16)
- Universities Left Footing the Bill as Budget Crisis Looms in Illinois (IHE 1/7/16)
2015
- Penthouse for N.Y.U.’s President Gets a Costly Upgrade (NYT 12/21/15)
- UC Berkeley Facing Budget Challenges Hires Another Vice Chancellor (Daily Cal 12/16/15)
- Executive Compensation at Private and Public Colleges (CHE 12/6/15)
- 32 Leaders of Private Colleges Earned More Than $1 Million in 2013 (CHE 12/6/15)
- Meal Plan Costs Tick Upward as Students Pay for More Than Food (NYT 12/5/15)
- LAO's State Budget Outlook (UCLAFA 11/18/15)
- UNC Faculty Upset by Raises for Chancellors (IHE 11/6/15)
- Changes in Public Funding for Public Research University (AAAS 11/15)
- Mergers? Cuts? UWM Efficiency Team Floats Big Changes (Media Milwaukee 10/24/15)
- New Paper Details Extent of BB&T Bank's Ayn Rand-Inspired Grant Program (IHE 10/16/15)
- Report: 11 States Spend More on Corrections Than Higher Ed (IHE 10/1/15)
- How Big Corporations Are Starving Public Schools of Billions of Dollars (Naked Capitalism 7/29/15)
- Understanding the UC $15 minimum wage (UCLAFA 7/24/15)
- Pushing Back on Vanderbilt's Compliance Cost Claims (IHE 7/23/15)
- Closure Concerns and Financial Strategies: a Survey of College Business Officers (IHE 7/17/15)
- The LAO Is Getting Higher Ed Wrong (Fox and Hounds 7/14/15)
- Moody's Reports Portray Stabilizing Higher Ed Finance Picture (IHE 7/8/15)
- Questions about the UC Budget Deal (Changing Universities 6/29/15)
- Proposed 2016 U.S. Spending on Education, Health, Labor Programs (IHE 6/29/15)
- Are Lazy Rivers and Climbing Walls Driving Up The Cost of College? (IHE 6/15/15)
- Study: U.S. Higher Education Receives More From Federal than State Governments (IHE 6/12/15)
- LSU President Brings State Higher Education Funding Battle to National Stage (nola 6/3/15)
- Louisiana and Illinois May Escape Massive Cuts to Higher Education, But Wisconsin Could See $300 Million Cut (IHE 5/28/15)
- As Rich Universities Get Richer, Are Poor Students Being Left Behind? (IHE 5/21/15)
- Platinum Pay in Ivory Towers (NYT 5/20/15)
- Report Says Administrative Bloat, Construction Booms not Largely Responsible for Tuition Increases (IHE 5/5/15)
- Communication an Issue for College Administrators and Faculty During Era of Financial Change (IHE 4/28/15)
- UW Tuition: Going the Wrong Way (Language Politics 4/17/15)
- Leaders of Australian Universities see Pay Rise as they Seek More Tuition Funds (IHE 4/15/15)
- State Spending on Higher Education Shows 'Sizable' Increase (CHE 4/13/15)
- How Christie’s Budget would Cut Direct Aid to Colleges (Philly Inquirer 3/13/15)
- Cuomo Ties Business Initiative to SUNY Funding (Capital Network 3/4/15)
- UC Falsely Describes Tuition Plan as "Robin Hood" Scheme (Vernon, DailyCal 3/3/15)
- The Financial-Aid Fine Print (CHE 2/23/15)
- State Assembly Proposes Audit of UC Budget (New University 2/17/15)
- California Assembly to apply Zero-Based Budgeting to UC Budget (Sac Bee 2/14/15)
- Joint Legislative Oversight Hearing on University of California: Transparency and Accountability (Cloudminder 2/11/15)
- Higher Ed Spending Up in Most States, but Recession Still Stings (IHE 1/19/15)
- Cutting Louisiana Higher Education By $300 Million, Putting it Into Perspective (NOLA 1/13/15)
- Budget Proposal Prioritizes Austerity, Lacks Plan for
Helping Ensure Broadly Shared Economic Recovery (CBP 1/12/15)
- Securitization, Risk Management, and the New University (Reclaim UC 1/9/15)
2014
- Senate’s Funding Proposal Places Burden on UC Students (Daily Bruin 12/8/14)
- Rensselaer President Leads List of Highest-Paid Private College Leaders (NYT 12/7/14)
- Birgeneau on Parenting and Tuition Hikes (Cloudminder 12/4/14)
- On the Democrats' Education Plan, Part 2: Resegregation (Reclaim UC 12/3/14)
- Rising Retirement Costs Help Drive UC Plan to Raise Tuition (SacBee 11/16/14)
- At College Where Alumni Pockets Are Shallow, a Struggle to Raise Money (NYT 11/14/14)
- The Problems with UC's Tuition Proposal (Changing Universities 11/11/14)
- Blum Capital Partners Reducing Exposure as the Stock Keeps Falling (Insider Monkey 10/22/14)
- The 5 Least-Flattering Details in Report on San Jose State’s Tech Spending (CHE 10/7/14)
- San Jose State's Costly High-Tech Upgrade with Cisco Faces Setbacks, Questions (Mercury News 10/4/14)
- On Our Minds: Public Higher Education (Christopher Newfield 9/14/14)
- Koch Brothers Sought Say in Academic Hiring in Return for University Donation (Guardian 9/12/14)
- Consultants' Best Case Scenarios Rarely Reality (IHE 8/20/14)
- University of California’s $220 Million Payroll Project Reboot (e-Literate 7/20/14)
- States Give Slightly More Money to Higher Education, Raising Expectations (CHE 7/14/14)
- Humanities Indicators Funding Report (Humanities Indicators 6/14)
- CUNY Chancellor James Milliken Moves into $18,000 Apartment for Free (NY Observer 6/9/14)
- Sports | College (USA Today 6/14)
- An Uproar in Australia Over Proposal to Deregulate Tuition (NYT 6/1/14)
- UCLA Bamboozle: After Pauley Renovation Debacle Guerrero Begs for More Money for New Hoops Facilities (BruinsNation 5/22/14)
- ?What Makes Ohio State the Most Unequal Public University in America? (The Nation 5/19/14)
- Even with Fiscal Contraction Universities Find Money to Hire Administrators (Academe Blog 4/21/14)
- Maybe You Should Get a Job in University Fundraising (CHE 4/21/14)
- Krugman and the Problems of Superstar Hiring (IHE 4/21/14)
- Despite Some Growth, States are Spending Less Per Student Than They Did In 2008 (IHE 4/21/14)
- UCLA Changes Travel Rules, but Not Before Deans' New Luxury Expenses (Fresno Bee 4/8/14)
- Colleges Increasing Spending on Sports Faster Than on Academics, Report Finds (NYT 4/7/14)
- Higher Ed Cuts in GOP Budget (IHE 4/2/14)
- The Skills Zombie (NYT 3/29/14)
- UF Won't Disclose Consultant Fees for UF Online (Gainesville 3/21/14)
- The Hidden College Problem: When Universities, Not Just Students, Take On Debt (Forbes 3/19/14)
- Many Colleges ‘Hoard’ Endowments During Rough Economic Times (CHE 3/4/14)
- Rutgers Boosts Athletic Subsidies to Nearly $50 Million (IHE 2/25/14)
- Understanding Financial Aid in the UC and Beyond (Changing Universities 2/19/14)
- How To Make Higher Education Free Without New Taxes Or More Government Spending (Naked Capitalism 2/15/14)
- UCOP to Forgo Budget Increase for 2014-2015 Fiscal Year (Daily Bruin 1/28/14)
- Groups Condemn Removal of Professor's Email Account (IHE 1/22/14)
- State Higher Ed Budgets Rebound (IHE 1/20/14)
2013
- Assembly Democrats Announce Plans to Increase Funding to UC (Daily Cal 12/11/13)
- The Skinny on Sports Spending (IHE 12/4/13)
- Tax-Hike Scare Goes Up in Thin Air (FDL 12/1/13)
- The Leg Analyst Summarizes the Higher Ed Budget (UCLAFA 11/4/13)
- How Higher Ed Fits Into New Budget Talks (IHE 11/1/13)
- University Of California Budget Still Rocky After Years Of Drastic Cuts (HuffPo 10/19/13)
- How Elite Law Schools Are Offering Free Rides on the Taxpayers' Dime (CHE 8/13/13)
- How the Rich Steal from the Young (BeatThePress 3/6/13)
- Cost Accounting at Research University (Schwartz 2/27/13)
- Variations in Tuition (Quick and Ed 2/26/13)
- EdX's Financial Agreement with Cornell (CHE 2/21/13)
- LAO Issues Report on Brown's Higher Ed Budget 2013-2014 (LAO 2/12/13)
- NYT Repeats Conventional Wisdom on Brown and Higher Ed; Ignores Role He played in their weakening (NYT 1/29/13)
- Shocker! Delta Finds that Colleges Spent Far More Per Athlete on Athletic Spending that Per Student on Academic Spending (IHE 1/16/13)
- Calitics on the Budget (Calitics 1/11/13)
- LAO on the Brown's Budget Proposal (LAO 1/10/13)
- Jerry Prepares to Release Budget--Will Try to Change Higher Ed (LAT 1/10/13)
- Jeff Selingo Pats himself on the Back (CHE 1/10/13)
- Brown's Proposed 2012-13 Budget
2011
- UC Office of the President releases payroll report (Daily Californian 8/25/11)
- Reign of the Politician-Chancellor (IHE 8/23/11)
- Outgoing SF State President Slams Governor (Bay Citizen 8/22/11)
- UC opts out of controller’s public pay database (and shouldn't) (UCLAFA 8/19/11)
- Battle over online class fees moves to Capitol (SFGate 8/11/11)
- UCSD Joins With Pharmaceutical Giant Pfizer (10 news 8/8/11)
- Conflict disclosure plan dropped (Nature News 8/1/11)
- Where Do California's Tax Dollars Go? (CBP policy basics 7/11)
- UC budget lacks transparency, state audit says (SFGate 7/29/11)
- State auditor calls for transparency in UC funding (LAT 7/29/11)
- Gov. blasts California universities' hiring of pricey presidents (LAT 7/28/11)
- A Tale of Two UCs (Changing Universities blog 7/13/11)
- The 100 highest-paid California State University workers (SacBee 7/12/11)
- US universities in Africa 'land grab' (Guardian 6/8/11)
- Supremes Rule Against Stanford (IHE 6/7/11)
- So You Say You're Broke? (IHE 5/27/11)
- "If you have to ask": Ten sure-fire ways to lose money on research (When worlds collide 5/18/11)
- A 4 Billion Dollar Mystery in UC Funds (UniversityProbe 2/10/11)
- UC Under Investigation (Aggie 2/1/11)
- Alternatives in the Present UC Budget Crisis (Schwartz 1/26/11)
- Scientists Criticize Universities for Overemphasing Research Against Teaching (CHE 1/13/11)
- A Plan to Reduce the UC Budget (Samuels 1/13/11)
2010
- Phase 2 of Berkeley's OE
- The Investors' Club: 8 Part Investigation of the Regents (Peter Byrne)
- UK University Finance Primer (U Sheffield)
- U Manchester Protestors Demand to See Accounts (Guardian 11/12/10)
- Supreme Court to Hear Patents Case (CHE 11/1/10)
- The Conflicted University: Special Issue of Academe (AAUP 11/10)
- Oregon Athletics Used Academic Funds, In Spite of Claims (Oregonian 10/7/10)
- Arnold Vetoes Transparency for College Foundations (CHE 10/1/10)
- UCB Eliminates 5 Smaller Academic Programs, Protects Football (NYT 9/29/10)
- Money Rules (IHE 9/23/10)
- UC Berkeley To Cut 200 More Positions (SFGate 9/22/10)
- UC Construction Debt Partial Driver of Pension Cuts? (Samuels 9/20/10)
- Has UC Violated its Own Proxy Voting Policies (NYT 9/16/10)
- Bain Could Destroy Innovation at Berkeley (SFBizJournal 9/15/10)
- Yale's Endowment Shrinks; But Investment Managers Make Millions (Yale Daily News 9/10/10)
- GAO Report: ICR Needs to Be Updated (GAO 9/10)
- CA Assembly Passes Bill to Increase Transparency of University-linked Foundations (SacBee 8/16/10)
- Have Colleges Broken the "Prudent-Investor Rule"? (CHE 8/8/10)
- Who Pays For University Research? (Schwartz 8/9/10)
- Should UC Be in the Weapons Business? (Solomon, HuffPo 8/6/10)
- More Questions about Berkeley-BP Ties (HuffPo 7/31/10)
- Critique of the Cuts at Minnesota (IHE 7/27/10)
- University of Illinois Raises Student Fees and Administrator's Salaries (HuffPo 7/21/10)
- Arnold Actually Signs Whistleblower Protection Act (Cloudminder 7/16/10)
- As Colleges Grow More Unequal, spending on Recreation Increases faster than Instruction (NYT 7/9/10)
- UC and CSU Need Greater Transparency (SFChron 7/7/10)
- UC Researchers Take Contract Fight Online (CalifProgrept 6/30/10)
- UCSF Chancellor Decides to Sell Tobacco Stock (NYT 6/29/10)
- Senate-Administrative Task Force Proposes Making Faculty More Like Independent Contractors (UCLAFAblog 6/25/10)
- State Assembly Passes UC Whistleblower Protection--Will Arnold Sign it? (Cloudminder 6/25/10)
- US Senate Begins Investigation into For-Profit Colleges (IHE 6/25/10)
- CEO Compensation at For-Profit Universities (CHE 6/23/10)
- UC Loses Millions on Research Costs (SFGate 6/16/10)
- At UC The Rich Get Richer and the Rest... (SacBee 6/16/10)
- The Rich Get Richer--UC Salaries at Top Continue to Rise (SFgate 6/3/10)
- UCPB Issues Talking Points on UC Budget (4/29/10)
- Will UC Administrative Reoganization Deliver Promised Savings? (CHE 5/19/10)
- Exec Salaries Responsible for Budget Gap (Daily Cal 5/10/10)
- Grassley Questions Universities Use of Tax Free Bonds for Investment Income (CHE 5/2/10)
- UCSD Transparency Project: Preiminary Slides (4/27/10)
- Bain and Cost Cutting at Berkeley (samefacts 4/9/10)
- UCLA Decides They Don't Need to Divert Fees To Pauley Restoration (LAT 4/8/10)
- UC, CSU Use Student Fees for Buildings and To Cover Bad Investments (LAT 4/4/10)
- UCLA Task Force Report on Research Center Funding (UCLA EVC 4/10)
- Judge Finds UC Illegally Raised Fees (Judge's Order 3/10)
- "The Meister Controversy"--Fees and Buildings (Charles Schwartz 3/22/10)
- Budget Transparency 101 (Charles Schwartz, UCB 3/9/10)
- Different Paths to Academic Advancement? (IHE 3/5/10)
- UCFW Proposes Bonds to Support UCRP (UC Academic Senate 3/3/10)
- Charles Schwartz responds to Yudof--Suggests Debate (Charles Schwartz 3/2/10)
- Yudof Responds to Sacramento Bee Editorial (3/2/10)
- Who Pays and Who Benefits (Bob Meister, Youtube 2/26/10)
- UCSD Senate Establishes Task Force on Budget Transparency (2/23/10)
- Public Sceptical of College Costs and College Administration (PublicAgenda 2/17/10)
- UCSD Senate Resolution on Budget Transparency (Passed 2/10)
- UCLA Medical Centers Have Most Profitable Year Yet (UCLAToday 1/22/10)
2009
- Trend Towards Audits by Students and Faculty (IHE 12/23/09)
- Analysis of Schwartz Plan (Gerald Barnett) with Especially Good Comments (Remaking 12/15/09)
- Saving UCSB Requests Real-Time Budget Information, Administrative Statements (Saving UCSB 12/12/09)
- More information on UC Bonds and Responsibilities (University Probe 12/11/09)
- Sen. Grassley to Pres Yudof on UCSF Financial Descripencies (12/7/09)
- Lumina Project Grants for Tying Public Funding to Graduation Rates (IHE 11/24/09)
- Riverside Campus Financial Overview (UCR 9/17/09)
- A Better Plan for UC (Charles Schwartz Fall 2009)
Ongoing
- Trends In College Spending (Delta Project
Budget Cut Repercussions
2019
- Alaska's Governor is Sabotaging a Crucial Tool in the Fight Against Climate Change (Newsweek 8/15/19)
- ‘Everybody Is Panicking’: Thousands of Alaska Students Scramble With Scholarship Money in Jeopardy (CHE 7/16/19)
- Political Chaos Roils Alaska as Universities Face Devastating Cuts (Wa Po 7/13/19)
- UA President: Dunleavy Veto Unprecedented, ‘Devastating’ (ADN 6/28/19)
- Academic Freedom at Risk After Decades of Right-Wing Attacks and Cuts to Education (Democracy Now 4/10/19)
- The True Crime in Higher Education: How We’ve Abandoned Public Universities Like CUNY (Daily News 4/2/19)
2018
- More Budget Cuts and Tuition Hikes at U of the Pacific Lead to Student and Faculty Unrest (IHE 10/25/18)
- Richard Blum, a $100 Million UC Investment, Feinstein Campaign Donations: Business As Usual at UC? (Capital & Main 10/15/18)
- What Can Research Tell Us About Steep Cuts for Public Colleges? (CHE 6/6/18)
- University of Montana Creative Writing Program at Tipping Point as Budget Cuts Loom (Missoulian 4/22/18)
- Why Teachers Are Adopting a More Militant Politics (New Republic 4/18/18)
- A University of Wisconsin Campus Pushes Plan to Drop 13 Majors — Including English, History and Philosophy (Wa Po 3/21/18)
- Laboratories of Austerity (Academe Blog 3/19/18)
- Dan Slilaty: The University’s Single Reason for Being (Academe Blog 3/15/18)
2017
- Uncertainty for Grad Students as Tax Bill Goes to Conference (IHE 12/6/17)
- Elitists, Crybabies and Junky Degrees (Wa Po 11/25/17)
- The House Just Voted to Bankrupt Graduate Students (NYT 11/16/17)
- The Fragile State of the Midwest’s Public Universities (Atlantic 10/15/17)
- Facing Poverty, Academics Turn To Sex Work and Sleeping in Cars (Guardian 9/28/17)
- Campus Unveils Revenue-Driven Budget That Cuts $15M (The Daily Cal 8/10/17)
- New Study Attempts to Show How Much State Funding Cuts Push Up Tuition (IHE 7/24/17)
- Federal Research Support for Universities Dipped in 2015 (IHE 7/12/17)
- Senate Health-Care Bill is Bad News for Teaching Hospitals and Universities, Groups Say (IHE 7/6/17)
- Why the US Needs to Revive a Massive Student Movement: The Case of Higher Education in California (Truthout 6/5/17)
- A Postscript to “One Faculty and Academic Governance” (Academe Blog 5/30/17)
- Endgames | Confessions of a Community College Dean (IHE 5/30/17)
- Reported Details of Trump Budget Include Big Cuts to Financial Aid (IHE 5/19/17)
- State Support for Higher Education Increased in 2016, Not Counting Illinois (IHE 4/20/17)
- White House Calls for More Cuts to Pell (IHE 3/29/17)
- Trump’s Budget Calls for Seismic Disruption in Medical and Science Research (WaPo 3/16/17)
- Amid Budget Cuts, North Dakota University System Considers Tenure Policy Change (IHE 1/26/17)
- IA and MO: Proposals to Eliminate Tenure, Cut Higher-Ed Allocations (Academe 1/25/17)
- Trump Team Prepares Dramatic Cuts (The Hill 1/19/17)
2016
- A Deep Dive - on Cal, more. (Cloudminder 11/17/16)
- OCAAUP 2016 Annual Meeting: Resolution 1–Increased State Funding (Academe Blog 11/8/16)
- A CUNY Student Bill of Rights (Academe Blog 11/3/16)
- Disturbing Photos Highlight Need for Investment in CUNY (Academe Blog 10/9/16)
- After Years of Neglect, Public Higher Education is at a Tipping Point (WaPo 10/7/16)
- University Bureaucracies Grew 15 Percent During the Recession, Even as Budgets were Cut and Tuition Increased (The Hechinger Report 10/6/16)
- Be Wary of Easy Answers to Higher Ed Problems (Academe Blog 9/21/16)
- University of California Debt Soars to $17 Billion; Regents Consider New Borrowing Policy (Mercury News 9/14/16)
- Michigan—Like Ohio, But Somewhat Worse (Academe Blog 9/9/16)
- A New Academic Year Brings Fresh Anxiety at Illinois’s Public Colleges (CHE 8/23/16)
- Oberlin College Offers Buyouts to Faculty and Staff (Cleveland 6/24/16)
- University of Chicago Cost Cutting Draws Objections (IHE 6/9/16)
- Degrees of Austerity (Jacobin 6/4/16)
- Higher Education in Illinois Is Dying (NYT 6/3/16)
- Kansas Parents Worry Schools Are Slipping Amid Budget Battles (NYT 5/31/16)
- Dreams Stall as CUNY, New York City’s Engine of Mobility, Sputters (NYT 5/28/16)
- Leaving UW: Reduced Funding, Politics Force Fond Faculty to Say Farewell (Madison.com 5/14/16)
- UW Struggle: The Toy in the Plastic Bubble (Chuck Rybak 5/13/16)
- On Campus: Regents Meeting Won't Include Presentation on Impact of UW Budget Cuts (Madison 4/5/16)
- “Thucydides” on Higher-Ed Funding (Academe Blog 3/26/16)
- Cuomo Faces Loud Backlash Over Push to Cut State’s CUNY Funding (NYT 3/24/16)
- UWM Introduces Plan to Cut $41.25 Million From Budget (Biz Times 3/22/16)
- Illinois Cuts off Funding for its Public Universities (Marketplace 3/18/16)
- As a New Fiscal Year Approaches, Who will Fund CUNY's Senior Colleges? (IHE 3/11/16)
- In Illinois and Pennsylvania, Budget Stalemates Force Colleges to Cover their Losses (IHE 3/8/16)
- Iconic Ethnic Studies College at San Francisco State Says it Can't Pay its Bills (IHE 3/3/16)
- The Beginning and End of Ethnic Studies (Tequila Sovereign 2/22/16)
- For Illinois's Public Colleges, No State Money Means Plenty of Pain (CHE 1/21/16)
2015
- What Is the Future for Public Universities Like the University of Kansas? (Atlantic 10/21/15)
- New Paper Details Extent of BB&T Bank's Ayn Rand-Inspired Grant Program (IHE 10/16/15)
- Educational Spending by Public Universities Increases Despite State Disinvestment (IHE 8/27/15)
- University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Responds to Massive Cuts in State Support (IHE 7/29/15)
- What Wisconsin Can Learn From Louisiana’s Budget Debates (Wiscape 7/9/15)
- In Heated State-Budget Fights, Students Strive to Be Heard (CHE 6/10/15)
- Budget Cuts, Layoffs, and a $1.5 Billion Campus Remodeling—What’s Wrong With This Picture? (The Nation 6/8/15)
- Louisiana and Illinois May Escape Massive Cuts to Higher Education, But Wisconsin Could See $300 Million Cut (IHE 5/28/15)
- This Is What Happens When You Slash Funding for Public Universities (Nation 5/19/15)
- Years of Cuts Threaten to Put College Out of Reach for More Students (CBPP 5/13/15)
- Bobby Jindal, Budget Cuts, and the Uncertain Fate of Louisiana's Universities (Atlantic 5/7/15)
- Communication an Issue for College Administrators and Faculty During Era of Financial Change (IHE 4/28/15)
- Anxiety over Massive Proposed Cuts to Louisiana's Colleges Felt Across the State (IHE 4/27/15)
- LSU Prepares Financial Exigency Plan (IHE 4/23/15)
- How Christie’s Budget would Cut Direct Aid to Colleges (Philly Inquirer 3/13/15)
- Arizona Unprecedented in Defunding Community Colleges (IHE 3/12/15)
- Oklahoma Higher Education Officials Warn of Devastating Cuts (KJRH 3/11/15)
- As California University Costs Rise, College Students Tap Food Pantries (KPCC 3/9/15)
- Mass Firing in the History Department at Boise State (The Clutter Museum 3/8/15)
- Arizona Budget Deal Would Eliminate all State Funds for 3 Large Community College Districts (IHE 3/6/15)
- Education Is Newest Target of Kansas Budget Cuts (NYT 2/11/15)
- Decrease in State Funding Leads to Higher Student Debt (Daily Bruin 2/4/15)
- Study Finds Link Between Cuts in State Budgets and Out-of-State Enrollment (IHE 1/28/15)
- Wisconsin Looks to Cut Higher Ed By $300M, Tries to Give Something in Return (IHE 1/28/15)
- UW Could Face $300 Million Revenue Loss, Changes to Tenure, Shared Governance (Media Milwaukee 1/23/15)
- Basic Arithmetic Is Catching Up with Bobby Jindal (Academe 1/17/15)
- Cutting Louisiana Higher Education By $300 Million, Putting it Into Perspective (NOLA 1/13/15)
2014
- Robbed of Their Futures: How Austerity Cuts Hit Young People Hardest (Guardian 11/17/14)
- 2 More Programs to Be Cut at U. of Southern Maine (CHE 10/27/14)
- Ebola Vaccine Would Likely Have Been Found By Now If Not For Budget Cuts: NIH Director (Huff Po 10/12/14)
- This Is What Happens When Republicans Try to Destroy Public Education (The Nation 10/8/14)
- 300 Protest Take-Backs in UMass Amherst Contracts (MTA 9/14)
- Controversial Higher Education Reforms in Doubt (University World News 8/22/14)
- California’s Higher Education Systems Need More Cash, Not More Catchwords (SacBee 7/25/14)
- The University of California Acts Like a Private School (KCRW 7/24/14)
- Cal State Lowers Enrollment Growth, Other Expenditures for Fall (LAT 7/22/14)
- Brown University Ph.D Students Protest Cutbacks in Funding (CHE 4/29/14)
- America's Top Young Scientists Warn Of Systemic Brain Drain: Colleagues 'Sort Of Disappear' (Huff Po 4/16/14)
- Area Studies Mismatch (IHE 4/14/14)
- Higher Ed Cuts in GOP Budget (IHE 4/2/14)
2013
- American Law Schools: The New Economic Realities (HuffPo 12/29/13)
- Teachers Seek to ‘Reclaim’ Education (FDL 12/14/13)
- Wither Pennsylvania (IHE 12/2/13)
- Battle Over Budget Cuts (IHE 11/20/13)
- UCLA Chancellor On Sequestration Science Cuts: 'People Will End Up On The Street' (Huff Po 11/11/13)
- More Public Universities Cap Enrollment, Even as State Finances Improve (CHE 11/8/13)
- Sequester's Cuts Will Endure Because of Budget War (LAT 10/1/13)
- Sequestration Cuts To Research 'Like A Slowly Growing Cancer' (HuffPo 7/10/13)
- UC and the Sequester (Daily Bruin 2/27/13)
2011
- State Support for the University of California and the California State University Has Declined Since 2007-08 (CBP, graph 2011)
- UCSD library cuts mean 150,000 books must go (California Watch 8/26/11)
- SFSU President Robert Corrigan (KQED radio, mp3 8/26/11)
- UC Office of the President releases payroll report (Daily Cal 8/25/11)
- SFSU students compete for open class spots (SFGate 8/24/11)
- State colleges, universities may need to make more budget cuts (LAT 8/22/11)
- UC income from tuition will surpass state funding for the first time (LAT 8/22/11)
- The Out-of-State Admissions Edge (The Daily Beast 8/18/11)
- UC Regents Meeting Agenda for July 14th (Official UC Document 7/14/11)
- The UC Looks Beyond California for Students … and Dollars (CBP 7/13/11)
- Middle class feels tuition squeeze at UC, CSU (SacBee 7/12/11)
- California Cuts Weigh Heavily on Its Colleges (NYT 7/8/11)
- CSU
salaries shrink amid budget cuts (OC Register 7/8/11)
- UC president seeks 9.6 percent tuition hike (SFGate 7/2/11)
- University
of California enrolls more out-of-state freshmen (LAT 7/1/11)
- Academic
Council Resolution on Tuition and Fees (Official UC Document 6/30/11)
- University tuition likely to rise in response to California budget (SacBee blog 6/28/11)
- Countdown to 2011-12: More Deep Cuts to Higher Education on the Horizon (CB blog 6/24/11)
- Robbing Peter (IHE 6/21/11)
- Amid budget cutbacks, California colleges reduce or eliminate summer school (LAT 6/20/11)
- Blocked Transfer (IHE 6/14/11)
- Crisis in the University (Background breifing with Ian Masters, audio file, third part of emission 6/13/11)
- Mad as Hell in California, and Students Should Be, Too (CHE 6/5/11)
- Why They Move (IHE 5/31/11)
- Latest Budget Victim: Adult Education (Bay Citizen 5/30/11)
- UCSD loses 3 star scientists to Rice University (SignOn SD 5/27/11)
- Running on Empty: International Education Funding Gets Deep Cuts (Jadaliyya 5/25/11)
- Letters to the editor, May 19 (SFGate 5/18/11)
- President responds to revised state budget (UC Newsroom 5/16/11)
- Cal State considers drastic contingency plan in case of an 'all cuts' budget (LAT 5/10/11)
- Yudof warns of drastic turn with all-cuts budget (DailyCal 5/6/11)
- Amid Budget Crisis, Nevada Faculty Object to Proposed Rules for Layoffs (CHE 4/29/11)
- UCEP and UCAP Letters on Ladder Rank Faculty, Memo from Chair Simmons to Provost Pitts (Academic Senate 4/19/11)
- Cuts to higher education: The Master Plan turncoats (LAT 4/17/11)
- Review of Budget Reduction Options for Higher Education (Legislation Analyst's Office 4/14/11)
- Radical changes may be on the table for UC (DailyCal 4/11/11)
- State Support for a UC Student’s Education Hits a 20-Year Low (CaliBudgetBites blog 4/6/11)
- Why straight-A's may not get you into UW this year (SeattleTimes 4/2/11)
- Myths on Program Elimination (IHE 3/31/11)
- 4 UCSD Libraries to Close, consolidate (SignOn SD 3/29/11)
2010
- Sacramento State to Cut Enrollment by Nearly 11% (SacBee 7/8/10)
- The UC-BP Connection (SFC 5/23/10)
- CSU Cuts 18% of its Lecturers in One Year (CHE 5/21/10)
- CSU to Limit Student Course Loads (SacBee 4/23/10)
- UC and CSU Begin Wait-Listing Students (SacBee 4/3/10)
- Cuts and Consolidation at UC Davis (IHE 3/17/10)
- "We're Tired of Student Services Bearing the Brunt of the Budget Cuts" (UC Davis 2/4/10
- Budget Cuts "Wreck Havoc" on CSU Classes (SacBee 1/31/10)
- NPR on UC Budget Cuts (AllThingsConsidered 1/27/10)
- UC To Establish Waiting Lists for Admission (LAT 1/21/10)
- Desperate Students Scurry to Snag Key Classes (LAT 1/20/10)
- CSU Trying to Improve Graduate Rates; May Cut GE Requirements (LAT 1/17/10)
- Not Her Mother's UC (LAT 1/13/10)
2009
- UCI Budget BLOG (2009-2010)
- Legislators Discuss Having CC's give Bachelor Degrees (ContraCostaTimes 12/21/09)
- UCLA Establishes Restructuring Steering Committee: Surprise! Dominated by Administrators Almost No Faculty (UCLA EVC 12/8/09)
- Community College Chancellor Jack Scott on Coping with Cuts (11/19/09)
- Questions Arise about Unequal Campus Funding (City on a Hill Press 11/12/09)
- Details of Cuts in UCSB's Dept of Spanish and Portugese (Christopher Newfield 11/04/09)
- Large Fee Hikes Proposed for UCB School of Social Welfare (11/04/09)
- Berkeley Grad Annie McClanahan Tells Regents Audit Committee of Damage to Students (Annie McClanahan 10/30/09)
- Some Sample Effects of Cuts at UCLA (Christopher Newfield 10/22/09)
- UCLA Vice Chancellor Describes Budget Cuts (UCLA Today 10/20/09)
- Some Sample Effects of Cuts at UCSB (Christopher Newfield 10/19/09)
- Summary of Some UCI Cuts (Christopher Newfield 10/18/09)
- UC Berkeley: Partial List of Program Cuts (Christopher Newfield 10/13/09)
- Picking Up Crumbs: Tale of the Cuts at Missouri State (IHE 10/12/09)
- SAVE the University: Berkeley Teach-In (Youtube 9/23/09)
- Updated UCPB Budget Slides for Teaching UC Cuts (Remaking 9/23/09)
- Novelist Susan Straight on the Walkouts (LAT 9/23/09)
- "It Used to be Free" Q & A on the Budget Crisis (Christopher Newfield 9/21/09)
- UCSB Message to Students and Parents (9/21/09)
- UC Berkeley Faculty Presentations to Associated Students (9/19/09)
- UCSB Film Dept Chair's Letter to Students (UCSB 9/18/09)
- How We Got the Cuts (Keep California's Promise 9/4/09)
- Dear Students, from UCB Prof Catherine Cole (Remaking 9/4/09)
- Berkeley Budget Cuts - Additional (UCB Budget Crisis 7/17/09)
- Chris's 2-Page Q&A on the UC Budget (Christopher Newfield 2009)
Budget of California
2019
- California’s State Universities Are a Path to Mobility and Tuition Needs to Be Free (LAT 5/30/19)
- California Higher Education Leaders Have High Hopes for Newsom's Spending Plans (EdSource 1/2/19)
2018
- Report Asks Whether University of California Funding Is Nearing 'tipping Point' (IHE 8/21/18)
- A Long-term View of Higher Education Funding (PPIC 8/16/18)
- Budget Deal Leaves Higher Education Short (Fox&Hounds 6/15/18)
- Even as CSU Enrollment Has Increased, State General Fund Support Has Declined (Cal Budget 5/18)
- California: Spend Some of That Surplus on Homeless, Higher Ed, Rape Kits (Sac Bee 5/21/18)
- A Serious Push for Free College in California (The Nation 2/6/18)
- In New Budget Proposal, California Higher Ed Gets Modest Funding and a Big Online College (CHE 1/10/18)
2017
- Restrained Budget Proposal Reflects Uncertainty About Federal Commitments and Economic Conditions (CA Budget 1/12/17)
- UCSA Campaign Aims to Reform Prop 13 to Increase UC Funding (Daily Bruin 1/11/17)
- Opposition, real reasons, 'mrakleaks'?, More (Cloudminder 1/11/17)
- What We’re Watching for in the Governor’s Budget Proposal (CA Budget 1/6/17)
2016
- Spending on Corrections and Higher Education (PPIC 8/4/16)
- The Governor’s Proposed 2016-17 Budget: An Exercise in Creative Writing? (Cal Budget Center 1/12/16)
2015
- Why You Should Worry About the Legislature's One-Time Allocation to the UC Pension (UCLAFA 8/24/15)
- Democrats Release Dueling Spending Plans (Mercury News 5/27/15)
- Budget Standoff Leaves California College Hopefuls in Limbo (ABC 3/2/15)
- UC Maintains AA Bond Rating, Reflecting Stable Financial Outlook (Daily Bruin 2/27/15)
- Don’t Sell Public Higher Education Short (Fox and Hounds 2/9/15)
- Jerry Brown Favors Two-Year Colleges Over UC, CSU (OC Register, Via Dan Mitchell 1/23/15)
2014
- Count, Look, Get In Line (Cloudminder 12/7/14)
- Proposition 2: Should California Prioritize Paying Down Debt and Significantly Change State Budget Reserve Policies? (CBP 9/14)
- State Cash (UCLAFA 8/11/14)
- University of California’s $220 Million Payroll Project Reboot (e-Literate 7/20/14)
- Property Taxes not High Enough to Trigger Extra Money for UC, CSU (SacBee 7/16/14)
- 2014-15 Budget Agreement Prioritizes Fiscal Austerity, Takes Only a Small Step Toward Reinvesting in Shared Prosperity (CBP 6/26/14)
- Bending the Prison Cost Curve (CBP 3/26/14)
- California Sued Over Diversion of Money From National Mortgage Settlement (NYT 3/14/14)
- Analysis of the 2014-2015 Higher Education Budget (LAO 2/12/14)
- 2014-2015 Spending Would Be More Than $1 Billion Above 2012-2013 (CBP 2/13/14)
- Opinion: State Officials Must Prioritize Higher Education (Daily Cal 1/27/14)
- Child Care and Preschool in the Governor’s Proposed 2014-15 Budget (CA Budget Bites 1/22/14)
- Chloe Lew: UC Should Focus on Pension During Budget Revision (Daily Bruin 1/15/14)
- California Budget Project on Brown's 2014 Budget Proposal (CBP 1/13/14)
- Jerry Brown's $154.9 Billion Budget Proposal (SacBee 1/8/14)
- Budget Brief: Poverty in the Golden State (CBP 1/7/14)
2013
- 2013-14 California Budget
- Online Instruction and Cutting Middle Managers, and It is a UC labor story, too (Cloudminder 12/26/13)
- New CBP Report Looks at What It Takes to Make Ends Meets Across California (CBP 12/12/13)
- Assembly Democrats Announce Plans to Increase Funding to UC (Daily Cal 12/11/13)
- New Normal for UC in the UCLA Anderson Forecast (UCLAFA 12/6/13)
- Jerry Brown Says Lawmakers Should Save Budget Surplus for Rainy Day (Fresno Bee 11/21/13)
- California's Budget Outlook is the Best in a Decade, Analyst Says (NYT 11/20/13)
- Starting Strong: Why Investing in Child Care and Development Programs Is Critical for Families and California’s Economic Future (CBP 11/13)
- Brown Backs Away from His Accountants On University Metrics (LAT 6/13/13)
2011
- Calif. budget provides money for prison changes (Mercury News 7/4/11)
- Democrats pass austerity budget for California (LAT 6/29/11)
- Gavin Newsom focuses on economic development plan (SFGate 5/27/11)
2010
- CA Budget Deficit Worse Than Expected (LAT 11/11/10)
- Arnold Slashes Support for the Needy (LAT 10/9/10)
- Miserable Budget Finally Passes (Sac Bee 10/9/10)
- Comparing Budget Plans (CBP 10/7/10)
- 2010 Budget Frame Revealed (SacBee 10/6/10)
- Is CA Taking the Low Road in Economic Policy (CBP 10/5/10)
- CA Higher Ed to Receive Over 200M in Stimulus Funds (LAT 9/17/10)
- Arnold Proposed Tax Changes Would help Wealthy and Hurt Lower and Middle-Income Californians (SacBee 9/2/10)
- The Dynamics of Steinberg's "Tax Swap" (CBP 8/10)
- Calif College Leaders Speak Out Against Budget Delays, Cuts (KPCC 8/27/10)
- Now Arnold Wants to Borrow From CalPers to Save Budget (SacBee 8/21/10)
- Small Group of Businesses Benefit From Arnold's Tax Cuts (CBP 8/17/10)
- Steinberg Vows to Protect Schools and Welfare (SacBee 8/13/10)
- Arnold To Borrow From Budget to Build New Death Row (SacBee 8/11/10)
- CA Dems Propose Budget Plan; Arnold Doesn't Like It (SacBee 8/4/10)
- Arnold Imposes Furloughs Again (SacBee 7/29/10)
- Some UC Campuses to Increase Faculty Hiring (CHE 7/29/10)
- Judge Stops Arnold From Paying Workers Minimum Wage (NYT 7/16/10)
- Does California Prove that Republicans Can Starve the Govt to Death? (Leonard, Salon 7/14/10)
- UK Austerity Budget Raises Chance of Double-Dip Recession (Guardian 7/13/10)
- Tax Cuts Widen Budget Gaps (CBP 7/12/10)
- Federal Stimulus Money Starts to Run Out (SacBee 7/12/10)
- Illinois Rivals Califonia for Fiscal Dysfunction (NYT 7/2/10)
- Arnold Attacks Public Workers Again: Orders They Be Paid Minimum Wage (SacBee 7/1/10)
- Sacramento Dems Have Unified Budget Position (SacBee 6/30/10)
- How Does California's Budget Deficit Compare (SacBee 6/23/10)
- Calworks is a Child Support Program (CBP 6/15/10)
- States Face Budget Disasters if Deficit Hawks Succeed in Cutting Medicaid Funds (NYT 6/8/10)
- Budget Austerity in Defence of Privilege (Calitics 6/6/10)
- LAO Analysis of Arnold's and Legislature's Budget Plans (LAO 6/4/10)
- LAO Report on Economy and State Budgets (LAO 6/3/10)
- Arnold's Budget Will Raise Unemployment (IRLE 5/10)
- CBP Analysis of Proposed Amendments to Budget Process (CBP 5/10)
- So Much For the Texas Model: Their Budget Deficit as Large as CAs (Calitics 5/26/10)
- Senate Dems Propose New Revenues to Avoid Arnold's Budget Cuts (Calitics 5/24/10)
- Problems with the LAO Response to the May Revision (Calitics 5/18/10)
- LAO Response to Governor's May Revision (LAO 5/18/10)
- Cutting Through the Myths About CA Budget Deficit (Dan Mitchell, UCLAToday 5/17/10)
- Arnold's Budget:: Let's Become Mississippi (Schrag 5/17/10)
- May Revise Designed to Buy Off Middle Class; Sacrifice the Poor (Calitics 5/17/10)
- "The Battle for California's Future" (Jean Ross, Calbuzz 5/14/10)
- California Budget Project Analysis of May Revise (CBP 5/14/10)
- The Politics of the Budget--Reject Spending Cuts (Calitics 5/14/10)
- UCOP "Extremely Grateful" for Gov's Budget Revise (UC 5/14/10)
- Arnold Proposes to Balance Budget on the Backs of the Poor (LAT 5/14/10)
- Median Tax to Restore Higher Education: $32 (Glantz, SFC 3/24/10)
- LAO Analysis of Higher Ed Budget: Cut it More (LAO 2/25/10)
- CBP Proposals for Closing Budget Gap (CBP 2/4/10)
- LAO Proposals on Revenues (LAO 2/3/10)
- CBP Analysis of Arnold's Budget (CBP 1/29/10)
- LAO Gives Big Thumbs Down to Gov's Prison-Education Amendment (LAO 1/26/10)
- Arnold's Budget: and The Race to the Bottom (CalifProgRept 1/18/10)
- Arnold's Budget May Cut Maintenance for K-12 schools (SacBee 1/17/10)
- CFT Responds to Arnold's Budget (CalifProgRpt 1/14/10)
- Legislative Analyst's Report on Arnold's Budget (LAO 1/12/10)
- Birgeneau's strategy for the future - with a little bit on the past (UCB 1/11/10)
- Cuts Today, Increased Spending Tomorrow (Californiawatch 1/11/10)
- The Gimmick of Arnold's Constitutional Amendment (Keep California's Promise 1/10/10)
- How Big is the State Workforce Really? (SacBee 1/10/10)
- Arnold's Education Claims Challenged (SacBee 1/10/10)
- 2010: Arnold's Budget v. The Environment (CaliforniaProgressReport 1/10/10)
Cal State Budgeting
Budget of 2011