A View from a Science Department: Part 2

A View from a Science Department: Part 2

by Anonymous, continuing Part 1 Response to future cuts The leadership of our research unit is responding to UC budget reductions by seeking to increase revenue and cut costs.  Beyond what has already been done, one near-term cost-cutting plan is the elimination of all non-SOE lecturers, thus requiring ladder-rank faculty to teach more (a rumor suggests faculty will be...

Saving Public Higher Ed: Cheaper than Christmas Shopping

Saving Public Higher Ed: Cheaper than Christmas Shopping

The folks at Keep California's Promise have written an important Working Paper on fixing public funding for California higher ed. Its results are shocking -- and pleasantly so, for a change. The authors, Stanton Glantz of UCSF and Eric Hays, CUCFA Director of Research, take 2000-01 as a baseline, and quantify subsequent fee increases and state funding cuts for all three segments...

Analysis of Charles Schwartz Plan for UC

Analysis of Charles Schwartz Plan for UC

by Gerald Barnett, University of Washington Here is my summary of Charles Schwartz's plan. It is worth considering. I apologize if I bungle stuff here. I’m aiming to draw out some of the points in the plan that recommend it to my thinking. I recast the plan’s points under 3 major heads and rearrange the parts somewhat to help me get it clear. Open Budget Make budget and...

Growth Trends in UC Administration

Growth Trends in UC Administration

by Ákos Róna-Tas, UCSD Here are several charts. The first shows the number of ladder rank faculty vs. senior managers at UCSD. This ratio dropped from...

UCOP Concepts in the Reviewing Process

UCOP Concepts in the Reviewing Process

Laurie Monahan, UCSB Wouldn’t it be nice to think that we have really made some progress after the many struggles against the budget cuts and the ideological agendas issuing from UCOP? That our demands and our questions have not fallen on deaf ears? While this isn’t quite going to deliver what we have in mind, I wanted to share a couple of observations that have made me feel...

Looking Back and Looking Forward

Looking Back and Looking Forward

By Michael Meranze“And what is wrong, again, is the whole system of values—the entire ordering of human priorities—of this insistent managerial propaganda. It is sad to see even the scholars themselves hesitate in their work and wonder about the use of what they are doing. Even they begin to feel, defensively, that a salesman or an advertising executive is perhaps a more important...

UC Responds to Yudof in Time Top 10

UC Responds to Yudof in Time Top 10

UC Reponds to Yudof in Time Top-10                                                                            ...

UC Luggnagg

UC Luggnagg

By Jonathan Lemuel “A Messenger was dispatched half a Day’s Journey before us, to give the King Notice of my Approach, and to desire that his Majesty would please appoint a Day and Hour, when it would be his gracious Pleasure that I might have the Honour to lick the Dust before his Footstool. This is the Court Style, and I found it to be more than Matter of Form: For upon my...

Bonfire of the Humanities

Bonfire of the Humanities

By Anonymous (With a New Response by David Theo Goldberg - linked below) Wherever there are enrollment-based budget subsidies (from the robust enrollments of the Social Sciences and Humanities to the increasingly expensive STEM fields with small labs and classes), all that's about to go away. This much is clear even without tallying squeezes and losses in those areas that are...