California

2019

• California’s New Online Community College Under Faculty Fire (Academe Blog 8/8/19)
• Union Settlement News (UCLAFA 7/31/19)
• Trump China Trade: The Effect on UC Campuses (LAT 7/22/19)
• Audit Finds Weaknesses in UC Udmissions Process, Echoing National Scandal (SFChronicle 7/17/19)
• Calif. Lawmakers Consider Legislation Aimed at For-Profits and Online Revenue Sharing (IHE 5/9/19)
• California's Online Community College Chooses Its Leader (IHE 2/6/19)
• California Higher Education Leaders Have High Hopes for Newsom's Spending Plans (EdSource 1/2/19)

2018

• The California (Pension) Rule (UCLAFA 11/15/18)
• The Golden State’s Scientific White Supremacist (Boom California 11/5/18)
• A Long-term View of Higher Education Funding (PPIC 8/16/18)
• Listen to the Regents Meeting of July 18, 2018 (UCLAFA 7/19/18)
• Cal and UCLA offer admissions to fewer in state students this year- UC admissions decisions, latest round... (Cloudminder 7/11/18)
• UC Opens Doors to Record Number of Californians, Led by Growth in Transfer Students (LAT 7/11/18)
• California High School Grads Increasingly Leave State for College. Here’s Where They Go. (Sac Bee 6/16/18)
• Is Jerry Brown’s Chipotle Model the Right Recipe for California Universities? (CALmatters 6/12/18)
• Letter to Congress (UCLAFA 6/11/18)
• UC Students Deliver Chipotle as They Lobby CA for Funding (Sac Bee 5/31/18)
• Jerry Brown: Higher Ed Should Be Like Chipotle (IHE 5/25/18)
• Next Governor Must Step Up on Higher Education (Fox & Hounds 5/21/18)
• California: Spend Some of That Surplus on Homeless, Higher Ed, Rape Kits (Sac Bee 5/21/18)
• 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)
• State Spending Per Student at CSU and UC Remains Well Below Pre-Recession Levels, Despite Recent Increases (Cal Budget Center 3/18)
• The Racial Implications of California's Proposed Online University (IHE 3/20/18)
• UC President Napolitano Calls for Guaranteed Admission of All Qualified Community College Students (LAT 3/19/18)

2017

• California Sues Trump Administration Over Corinthian Students' Unresolved Debt Relief Claims (LAT 12/14/17)
• College Tuition May be Source of Conflict in Next State Budget (KPCC 11/28/17)
• Chastise, admonish, apologize, resign, bid, ashamed...the UC Regents... (Cloudminder 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)
• UC Berkeley Not in Compliance With 2015 Fair Wage Plan, Internal Audit Finds (Daily Cal 10/25/17)
• California May Fund First Year of Community College (IHE 10/16/17)
• Jerry Brown Signs Bill to Make Community College Free Statewide For First Year (SFGate 10/13/17)
• University of California System Didn't Follow Its Own Contracting Rules, State Audit Finds (LAT 8/22/17)
• Stealth Regents Item (UCLAFA 7/2/17)
• UC Community Expresses Dissatisfaction With New Regent nominees (Daily Bruin 6/26/17)
• Follow the law, Gov. Brown (SF Chronicle 6/12/17)
• Is Janet Napolitano Deepening Economic Inequality at the University of California? (Salon 6/11/17)
• Are Governors Ignoring Law When Appointing UC Regents? (SF Chron 6/10/17)
• Faculty Votes No Confidence in President of Cal State San Bernardino (CHE 5/10/17)
• Lost Confidence (UCLAFA 5/10/17)
• Effort to Restore California’s Master Plan Advances (Academe Blog 4/7/17)
• CA Bill Would Tax Millionaires to Pay for Free College Tuition (Sac Bee 3/20/17)
• Meant to break it? (Cloudminder 2/16/17)
• Here's What Would it Take to Give California Students a Debt-Free College Education (LAT 2/1/17)
• Assembly votes to confirm Becerra as attorney general, more candidates enter the race to replace him in Congress (LAT 1/13/17)
• Equity, Interrupted: How California is Cheating Its Future (Academe Blog 1/12/17)
• UCSA Campaign Aims to Reform Prop 13 to Increase UC Funding (Daily Bruin 1/11/17)

2016

• PPIC Statewide Survey Californians and Higher Education (PPIC 12/16)
• Californians Rate Public Colleges Highly and Back Giving Them More State Dollars, Survey Shows (LAT 12/8/16)
• Spending on Corrections and Higher Education (PPIC 8/4/16)
• 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)
• The State Audit of the UC: The Problem with Non-Resident Admissions (Changing Universities 3/29/16)
• End of the Freeze (UCLAFA 2/15/16)
• UC Enrollment of Californians Dropped Last Year - again (Cloudminder 1/15/16)
• The Governor’s Proposed 2016-17 Budget: An Exercise in Creative Writing? (Cal Budget Center 1/12/16)

2015

• 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)
• To Fix California's Colleges, Reform Prop. 13 by Taxing Corporations More (LAT 11/2/15)
• UC Fails to Reach $25 Million Incentive to Add Californians (SF Gate 8/27/15)
• Corporate Welfare in California (Huff Po 8/20/15)
• Is UC Going to Turn Down $25 million? (UCLAFA 6/12/15)
• This Is the New Frontier in the Fight Against Campus Rape (Time 6/5/15)
• Democrats Release Dueling Spending Plans (Mercury News 5/27/15)
• UC Rising Tuition - Whose Fault? The 'CAism' or the 'UCism' or? (Cloudminder 4/13/15)
• Sacto Hearings On CA Higher Ed (Cloudminder 4/8/15)
• 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)
• UC President, Gov. Brown to Jointly Review University Finances (LAT 1/17/15)
• Budget Proposal Prioritizes Austerity, Lacks Plan for Helping Ensure Broadly Shared Economic Recovery (CBP 1/12/15)
• 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)
• If Jerry Had a Hammer (UCLAFA 1/7/15)
• California Higher Ed Leaders Make Pitches to Lawmakers (Sac Bee 1/7/15)
• Jerry Brown Adviser Joins Sacramento Lobbying Firm (Sac Bee 1/7/15)

2014

• Finally, UC Gets Budget Attention (LAT 12/29/14)
• Count, Look, Get In Line (Cloudminder 12/7/14)
• Bad Deal for State Involves a UC Regent (UCLAFA 12/3/14)
• Berkeley Isn't Berkeley (Cloudminder 12/3/14)
• Big State Tax Decisions Lie Ahead for California Voters (LAT 11/27/14)
• UC Regents: Brown Appoints an Ex-Assembly leader and a Community College President to Board (Mercury News 11/17/14)
• Predictable (Reclaim UC 11/16/14)
• UC Faces Opposition from Brown on Tuition Increase Proposal (Sac Bee 11/6/14)
• Is it really a surprise? (UCLAFA 10/20/14)
• Jerry Brown is Getting Too Much Credit for Fixing California (Vox, via Cloudminder 10/16/14)
• Jerry Brown Vetoes Extra $100 Million for UC, CSU (SacBee 9/27/14)
• The Future of College Degrees and Jobs in California (Changing Universities 9/2/14)
• Bill Allowing Community Colleges to Grant 4-Year Bachelor’s Degrees Goes to Governor (Daily Cal 8/28/14)
• Student and Faculty Raise Concerns about Confirmed UC Regent Nominees (Daily Bruin 8/25/14)
• Lack of Consultation or just Being Ignored? (UCLAFA 8/25/14)
• California Legislature Approves Bachelor's Degrees at Community Colleges (IHE 8/22/14)
• A Changing Economy Changes Online Education Priorities at the U. of California (IHE 8/13/14)
• State Cash (UCLAFA 8/11/14)
• Loss of Mid-Wage Jobs Hampers State's Growth (LAT 8/8/14)
• Property Taxes not High Enough to Trigger Extra Money for UC, CSU (SacBee 7/16/14)
• Passage of SB 850 proves state Master Plan in grave need of update (Daily Bruin 6/2/14)
• Increased Student Loan Debt Creates Ripple Effects That Could Hinder Economic Growth (CBP 5/29/14)
• Does California Need More Jail Construction Funding? (CBP 5/27/14)
• Brown Saves for Rainy Day, UC Hung out to Dry (Daily Bruin 5/18/14)
• Read Jerry Brown's State of the State Speech, As Delivered (SacBee 1/22/14)
• 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)
• Jerry Brown is Said to Support Ballot Measure for Rainy Day Fund (LAT 1/4/14)

2013

• Oil Severance Tax Advocates are Primed for Battle (LAT 12/22/13)
• Warning From California's Governor (IHE 11/15/13)
• Brown's Solid Approval Rating May Not Translate Into Votes (LAT 11/11/13)
• Career Politician Teams Up With Enron Billionaire to Gut Californians’ Retirement (California Labor Federation 10/15/13)
• Calif. Accuses Corinthian Colleges of False Placement Rates, Predatory Ads (CHE 10/11/13)
• Struggling, San Jose Tests a Way to Cut Benefits (NYT 9/23/13)
• 5 Vacancies on UC Board of Regents Go Unfilled Under Gov. Jerry Brown (LAT 9/3/13)
• Jerry Brown Considers Prison Alliance Between Private Company, Union (HuffPo 8/22/13)
• California Moving Away From Washington’s Corporate Education Reform (EdSource 7/23/13)
• Most Californians Would Cut Back on Mass Incarceration (LAT 6/9/13)
• House Republicans Want More Info on Graduates' Salaries, Less Knowledge of Social Conditions (IHE 2/6/13)

2012

• NBC Bay Area Editorial Favoring More Public Support (NBC 3/23/12)

2011

• In California, Amazon Pushes Hard to Kill a Tax (NYT 9/4/11)
• SFSU President Robert Corrigan (KQED radio, mp3 8/26/11)  
• Outgoing SF State President Slams Governor (Bay Citizen 8/22/11)
• The Texas Unmiracle (NYT 8/14/11)
• Did Rick Perry Sink the Texas Economy? (CEPR 8/13/11)
• Ahh, Texas: Dirty air, cheap jobs and uneducated (Capitol Weekly 7/28/11)
• Gov. blasts California universities' hiring of pricey presidents (LAT 7/28/11)
• The UC Looks Beyond California for Students … and Dollars (CBP 7/13/11)
• California looks to UC, CSU for lending hand (SacBee 7/11/11)
• Gov. Jerry Brown vetoes farmworkers' bill (LAT 6/28/11)
• California budget talks head down twin paths -- for now (SacBee 6/23/11)
• California: Reforming Ourselves Into Oblivion (CPR 6/20/11)
• USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences/Los Angeles Times Frequency Questionnaire Results (GQRR 4/7-17/11) 
• Who Pays? (CBB 4/15/11)
• State Senate hearing on all-cuts budget solution (SFGate 4/8/11)
• Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult (Truthout 3/9/11)
• Brown Prepares to Give State of the State (SFGate 1/31/11)
• How Brown Can Save California (SFGuardian 1/4/11)
• Brown's "Shock Doctrine" (Calitics 1/4/11)

2010

• Don't Let Sacto Run UC & CSU (LAT 12/17/10)
• The Tragedy of Schwarzenegger's Governorship (LAT 12/17/10)
• Sacramento Wants More Say in University Budgets (LAT 12/16/10)
• How Bad is the Budget? (Brown Budget Summit 12/8/10)
• Corp Tax Burden is Average in Calif, Half of Its Rate in 1981 (LAT 10/24/10)
• Public Employees are Not Overpaid (Calitics 10/19/10)
• Student Responds to Whitman's Attack on Dream Act (Calitics 10/5/10)
• Whitman Opposes DREAM Act (Calitics 10/3/10)
• Jerry Brown Comes Out as Moderate Republican (SFC 9/4/10)
• UCI Announcement on Suspension/Probation of MSU (Rameen Talesh 9/3/10)
• UCI Shortens Suspension, Lengthens Probation of Muslim Student Union (DailyPilot 9/3/10)
• Yudof and Jack Scott Resign from Chamber of Commerce Over Whitman Endorsement (LAT 9/3/10)
• Pete Wilson Sponsored, Now Edorses Whitman for Gov (Sac Bee 8/30/10)
• Sacto Dems Set to Sell Out MIddle Class (Meyerson LAT 8/24/10)
• "Fiorina's Right-Wing Extremism" (Calitics 8/16/10)
• "The War on Public Employees" (FDL 8/9/10)
• The Politics of California's Collapse(Calitics 8/7/10)
• Steinberg's Tax Proposal is Upside Down (CBP 7/30/10)
• Arnold Governs From the Right (CPR 7/30/10)
• Brown Offers Plans on Education (SacBee 7/29/10)
• UCSD Police Investigate Another Possible Noose Incident (LAT 7/28/10)
• The Politics of the "Cultural Generation Gap" (Brownstein 7/24/10)
• NYT Does another Puff Piece: This Time on Arnold (NYT 7/9/10)
• The Real Story of the Primary Election: Voters Checked Out (Schrag 6/21/10)
• Californians Again Vote for Tax Increases (Calitics 6/11/10)
• Arnold Wants To Punish State Workers for Budget Disagreements (Sacbee 6/10/10)
• 5 Myths about California Politics (Bruce Cain, WaPo 6/6/10)
• The Democratic Party Machine In LA (LA Weekly 6/3/10)
• Don't Be Fooled By California Forward (Schrag, Califprogrept 5/21/10)
• Arnold's Budgetary Wedge Politics (Calitics 5/17/10)
• Dick Cheney Endorsed Meg Whitman (Calitics 5/16/10)
• The Politics of California's New Demographies (Calitics 5/10/10)
• Overcoming California's "Institutional Sclerosis" (Calitics 5/9/10)
• CA Voters Pessimistic about the Economy and Jobs: Want Action (PPIC 5/10)
• Chico State Student Government President Stabbed in Suspected Bias Crime (studentactivism 4/19/10)
• Whither the CA Democratic Party? (Calitics 4/18/10)
• Overview of State's Public Workforce (CBP 4/10)
• More Racial Slurs at UCSD (HuffPo 3/10/10)
• What Kind of Economic Recovery Will We Get? (Calitics 3/8/10)
• Tax Oil Companies, Not Students (Calitics 3/4/10)
• Council of UC Faculty Associations Statement in Support of California Democracy Act (UCFA 3/2/10)
• Arnold Happy to Tax People Just Not Corporations (SacBee 3/1/10)
• Racist Imagery at UCSC (SantaCruzSentinel 3/1/10)
• UCSD Guardian Prints Apology From Student Who Hung Noose (studentactivism 3/1/10)
• Swastika Carved into Davis Student's Dorm Room Door (News10 2/27/10)
• In California Who Speaks for the Public Good (Schrag 2/26/10)
• LGBT Resource Center at Davis Vandalized (TheAggie 2/26/10)
• Arnold Blocks Faculty Representation on CSU Board (LAT 2/22/10)
• Californians More Worried About Budget Cuts than Taxes (Calitics 2/22/10)
• Big Oil and Amazon.com Lobbyists Fight Taxes (SacBee 2/21/10)
• California Unraveling (Calitics 2/21/10)
• Steinberg Won't Seek General Tax Increase to Balance Budget (SacBee 2/18/10)
• New Effort to Reform Prop 13--Get Split Roll (SF BayGuardian 2/17/10)
• Higher Ed Funding CAN Be Fixed (Stan Glantz, Daily Cal 2/17/10)
• Hoovermania Sweeps State Capitol (LAT 2/11/10)
• Legislative Analyst Tells State to Balance Budget on Backs of State Workers (SacBee 1/30/10)
• Latest PPIC Polling ON Californians and Their Govt. (PPIC 1/28/10)
• New Poll Demonstrates Large Confusion on How California Raises Revenue and Spends Money (CBP 1/28/10)
• Arnie Can't Blame the Feds for the Budget (Hiltzik 1/25/10)
• Are Educational Foundations Leaving California? (CPR 1/25/10)
• Arnie Can't Blame the Feds for the Budget (Hiltzik 1/25/10)
• Are Educational Foundations Leaving California? (Califprogrept 1/25/10)
• Save Money and the Future: Send Inmates to School (SacBee 1/21/10)
• The Failure of Corporate Centrism in CA (Calitics 1/17/10)
• Arnold's False Solutions (Guardian 1/16/10)
• Prisons Vs. Higher Ed: The Spending Pattern (SacBee 1/14/10)
• California Must Return to Social Investment (Sacbee 1/14/10)
• Is Arnold Setting Up a Special Election? (CPR 1/13/10)
• Fixing Higher Ed as Publicity Stunt? (Bob Samuels 1/8/10)
• Gov Partially Restores Budget Cuts (UCOP 1/8/10)
• Arnold's Budget: Destroying the State one Last Time (Calitics 1/8/10)
• Worst Chief Executive in Recent Memory (FDL 1/7/10)
• You've Got to be Kidding (Calitics 1/7/10)
• Arnold's Gift to Private Prison Companies (Sac Bee 1/7/10)
• Arnold's Address: Prisons, Universities and Protests (NYT 1/7/10)
• Prison vs Higher Ed Spending Trends (Sacbee 1/6/10)
• The Budget: How did we get here? (CBP 1/6/10)
• 2010 State of the State: Commentary and Text (Calitics 1/6/10)
• Arnold Delivers Last State of State: Promises no education cuts, proposes constitutional change to rebalance education and punishment (SacBee 1/6/10)
• Phil Ting: Corporate Loopholes in Prop 13 (SacBee 1/6/10)
• Ten New Year's Resolutions for a Just and Responsible CA (CBP 1/4/10)
• Peter Schrag's Top Ten List of Budget Suggestions (californiaprogressreport 1/4/10)
• Lame-Duck Arnold? (LAT 1/4/10)
• California's Scary Sneak Preview (WaPo 1/3/10)
• Democratic Reform vs. Corporate Centrism (Calitics 1/3/10)

2009

• 5 Worst Budget and Policy Choices of 2009 (CBP 12/31/09)
• 2009: The Death of the California Dream (Calitics 12/30/09)
• Governor Scrooge to California: Cuts, Cuts, and more Cuts! (Calitics, 12/23/09)
• California Needs a New Deal (Calitics 11/22/09)
• Poor California: No Money and No Leadership (LAT 11/22/09)
• Minority Tyranny in Washington and Sacramento (Calitics 12/21/09)
• The Politics Creating the Budget Crisis (Calitics 11/15/09)
• State Cuts more funding for low-income Seniors and People with Disabilities (CBP 11/2/09)
• California's Deficit: Common Sense (LAT 11/1/09)
• Judis: Is California Over? (Carnegie Endowment 10/26/09)
• How to Revive a Failed State (Calitics 10/17/09)
• Parsky/Edley Commission--Raising Taxes on Middle-Class Parents (CBP 10/15/09)
• Field Poll Shows No Change Without New Vision (Calitics 10/14/09)
• Governor's and Legislature's Popularity Hit New Lows (Field 10/13/09)
• Hiltzik: The Realities of Tax and Budget Politics (LAT 10/12/09)
• Arnold Takes Hostages at the Capitol (Calitics 10/11/09)
• CUCFA Data Shows Schwarzeneger Worse for Higher Ed than the National Bad Average (Keep California's Promise 10/6/09)
• Protests--Governor Weighs In (SF Gate 9/25/09)
• California Budget Crunch: The Universities Protest (Time 9/25/09)
• California Cuts Protested (NYT 9/24/09)
• More Cuts for California Community Colleges (Contra Costa Times 9/23/09)
• California Community Collges Struggle (IHE 9/23/09)
• Another Refutation of "California's Reckless Spending" Type Nonsense (Calitics 9/20/09)
• Parsky Proposals Are Bad for Good Jobs (CBP 9/10/09)
• Poverty Booms in California 2007-08 (CBP 9/10/09)
• Assembly Approves Exec Comp Limits for CSU (SF Gate 9/10/09)
• Arnold the Job Killer (Calitics 9/8/09)
• Sluggish Support for Public Universities (CHE 8/17/09)
• Perils of Privatization-More on Higher Ed Bubble (Examiner 8/10/09)
• California Budget Deal Threatened by Lawsuits (LAT 8/10/09)
• California Budget: What Happens When Gimmicks Expire (SD U-T 8/2/09)
• L.A. County Will Sue State to Block Budget Deal (LAT 7/22/09)
• Overview of Effects of Calif Budget Cuts (LAT 7/22/09)
• Arnold's History of Cut Revenues and Borrow Money (LAT 7/20/09)
• Public Cuts Raise Overall Costs! (LAT 7/19/09)
• We want 2 Santas: California Paralysis Explained (Calitics 4/30/09)

2003

• Yudofian Pay Issues 2003 (UT Watch 2003)

Ongoing

• UCOP Furlough Facts (UC Budget News)
• Yudof on "Hyrbrid University" (UT System 2002)