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...

Pushing a New Measure of UC Budgets in Sacramento

Pushing a New Measure of UC Budgets in Sacramento

UCOP's budget request for 2010-11 was good (see the summary).  It goes looking for a big bounce - from down over $800 million this year, to in principle...

A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal

To Enable the Young, Poor, and Sick to Contribute to Fixing the BudgetBy Jonathan LemuelEveryone knows that California is facing a crisis. But the increases in fees for UC, CSU, and Community College students, the recent proposals of the Parsky Commission to shift the tax burden more onto the poor and the middle class, the legislature’s limited changes to California’s criminal...

Where Should We Go After the Fee Hikes?

Where Should We Go After the Fee Hikes?

legitimacy and the great public absence by Kris Peterson, UC Irvine I just finished watching a YouTube video of Regents Bonnie Reiss and Eddie Island make a quick get-a-way to their vehicle at UCLA - just after they voted to increase student fees by an unprecedented 32%. They were surrounded and followed by students chanting, “Shame on you!” Reiss represents the banking and finance...

Doomsday Medicine

Doomsday Medicine

The only good news coming out of UCLA has been the student protests. They attracted lots of media coverage of the financial hardships caused by the...

UCOP Says Fee Hikes Don't Hurt Students; Students Disagree

UCOP Says Fee Hikes Don't Hurt Students; Students Disagree

From SAVE UCLA: Subject: TOMOR- ROW: PART II, Statewide Mobili-zation Against the Fee Hikes at Covel Commons! Today was hard and unexpected, but tomorrow...

What the Regents should do instead of increasing fees

What the Regents should do instead of increasing fees

If you are going to inflict pain on students, the least you can do is feel their pain.  The second thing you can do is broadcast their pain to the Governor and the legislature that caused it.    Maybe then they’d think twice about forcing more fee hikes with more cuts. Maybe even the fanatical governor would think twice, since he is promising still deeper cuts,...

The Public and Higher Education

The Public and Higher Education

by Michael MeranzeAs we head into this week’s Regents meeting and the imminent increase of student fees, Andrew Dickson is right to draw attention to the political and funding implications of the recent PPI poll on higher education. The results, as he makes clear, are sobering. The public, at least as represented in the poll, thinks well of the Community Colleges, CSU, and UC,...

The Politics of Solidarity

The Politics of Solidarity

The Department of English at Riverside has issued a letter of solidarity in response to the Budget Crisis. President Yudof has responded her...

NOtes on UCOF Meeting November 12

NOtes on UCOF Meeting November 12

Thanks to Bob Samuels for these notes on the UC Commission on the Future meeting this past wee...

Rose colored glasses -- do we need a new prescription?

Rose colored glasses -- do we need a new prescription?

Yesterday there was a Town Hall meeting at UCSD to discuss campus budget recommendations:"This open forum will provide an opportunity for faculty, staff and students to communicate directly with members of the Joint Senate-Administration Task Force on Budget. The Task Force is charged with providing recommendations for sustaining UC San Diego’s academic excellence during budget...