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Budget Transparency Project

• EdX's Financial Agreement with Cornell (CHE)
• 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)
• LAO Issues Report on Brown's Higher Ed Budget (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 (1/11/13)
• LAO on the Brown's Budget Proposal (1/10/13)
• Brown's Proposed 2012-13 Budget
• 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)
• UC Office of the President releases payroll report (Daily Californian, 8/25/11)
• Battle over online class fees moves to Capitol (SFGate, 8/11/11)  
• Outgoing SF State President Slams Governor (Bay Citizen, 8/22/11)
• Reign of the Politician-Chancellor (IHE, 8/23/11) 
• UC opts out of controller’s public pay database (and shouldn't) (UCLA Faculty Association blog, 8/19/11) 
• UCSD Joins With Pharmaceutical Giant Pfizer (10 news, 8/8/11)
• Conflict disclosure plan dropped (Nature News, 8/1/11) -free registration required for viewing
• UC budget lacks transparency, state audit says (SFGate, 7/29/11)
• State auditor calls for transparency in UC funding (LAT, 7/29/11)
• Where Do California's Tax Dollars Go? (CBP policy basics, 7/11)
• Gov. blasts California universities' hiring of pricey presidents (LAT, 7/28/11)
• The 100 highest-paid California State University workers (SacBee, 7/12/11)
• A Tale of Two UCs (Changing Universities blog, 7/13/11)
• “If you have to ask”: Ten sure-fire ways to lose money on research (When worlds collide blog, 5/18/11) 
• 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)
• 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)
• U Manchester Protestors Demand to See Accounts (11/12/10)
• The Investors' Club: 8 Part Investigation of the Regents (Peter Byrne)
• UK University Finance Primer (U Sheffield)
• The Conflicted University: Special Issue of Academe (11/10)
• Supreme Court to Hear Patents Case (CHE, 11/1/10)
• 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)
• UC Berkeley To Cut 200 More Positions (SFGate, 9/22/10)
• Money Rules (IHE, 9/23/10)
• UC Construction Debt Partial Driver of Pension Cuts? (Samuels, (1/20/10)
• Has UC Violated its Own Proxy Voting Policies (NYT, 9/16/10)
• Phase 2 of Berkeley's OE
• 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)
• UCB Deans and Chairs Retreat
• GAO Report: ICR Needs to Be Updated (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, Huffp, 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)
• UC and CSU Need Greater Transparency (SFChron, 7/7/10)
• Trends In College Spending 1998-2008 (Delta Project)
• As Colleges Grow More Unequal, spending on Recreation Increases faster than Instruction (NYT, 7/9/10)
• 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)
• UCLA Task Force Report on Research Center Funding (4/10)
• The Rich Get Richer--UC Salaries at Top Continue to Rise (SFgate, 6/3/10)
• UCPB Issues Talking Points on UC Budget (May 2010)
• Will UC Administrative Reoganization Deliver Promised Savings? (CHE, 5/19/10)
• UCSD Transparency Project: Preiminary Slides (May 2010)
• 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)
• 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)
• UCFW Proposes Bonds to Support UCRP (3/3/10)
• UC, CSU Use Student Fees for Buildings and To Cover Bad Investments (LAT, 4/4/10)
• "The Meister Controversy"--Fees and Buildings (Charles Schwartz, 3/22/10)
• Judge Finds UC Illegally Raised Fees (Judge's Order 3/10)
• Budget Transparency 101 (Charles Schwartz, UCB 3/9/10)
• Different Paths to Academic Advancement? (IHE, 3/5/10)
• UC/CSU Budget Cuts--Resources
• Charles Schwartz responds to Yudof--Suggests Debate (3/2/10)
• Yudof Responds to Sacramento Bee Editorial (3/2/10)
• Sacramento Bee to UC: Cut Adminstrative Bloat (2/28/10)
• Who Pays and Who Benefits (Bob Meister, Youtube 7 parts)
• UCSD Senate Resolution on Budget Transparency (Passed Feb 10)
• UCSD Senate Establishes Task Force on Budget Transparency (2/23/10)
• San Diego Campus Report on Budget (Jan 2010)
• Riverside Campus Financial Overview (Sept 2009)
• Santa Barbara Campus Financial Overview
• Berkeley Campus Financial Overview (January 2010)
• Public Sceptical of College Costs and College Administration (PublicAgenda, 2/17/10)
• UCLA Medical Centers Have Most Profitable Year Yet (UCLAToday, 1/22/10)
• Using Pell Grants to Increase Teaching Accountability (DemocracyJournal, 1/2010)
• Trend Towards Audits by Students and Faculty (IHE Dec 23)
• More information on UC Bonds and Responsibilities (universityprobe, Dec.12)
• Saving UCSB Requests Real-Time Budget Information, Administrative Statements
• A Better Plan for UC (Charles Schwartz)
• Analysis of Schwartz Plan (Gerald Barnett) with Especially Good Comments
• Lumina Project Grants for Tying Public Funding to Graduation Rates (IHE Nov 24)
• Sen. Grassley to Pres Yudof on UCSF Financial Descripencies (Dec 7)
• Who Pays and Who Benefits (Bob Meister, Youtube 7 parts)

Budget Cut Repercussions

• UC and the Sequester (Daily Bruin, 2/27/13)
• 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 Californian, 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) 
• 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 Regents Meeting Agenda for July 14th (Official UC Document) 
• 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) 
• Countdown to 2011-12: More Deep Cuts to Higher Education on the Horizon (CB blog, 6/24/11)
• State Support for the University of California and the California State University Has Declined Since 2007-08 (CBP, graph, 2011)
• University tuition likely to rise in response to California budget (SacBee blog, 6/28/11)
• Crisis in the University (Background breifing with Ian Masters, audio file, third part of emission, 6/13/11) 
• 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) 
• 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, 2011) 
• 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)
• UCEP and UCAP Letters on Ladder Rank Faculty, Memo from Chair Simmons to Provost Pitts (4/11)
• Amid Budget Crisis, Nevada Faculty Object to Proposed Rules for Layoffs (CHE, 4/29/11)
• Declaration to defend public education (We! Rise together blog)
• Review of Budget Reduction Options for Higher Education (Legislation Analyst's Office, 4/14/11)
• Cuts to higher education: The Master Plan turncoats (LAT, 4/17/11)
• 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)
• 4 UCSD Libraries to Close, consolidate (SignOn SD, 3/29/11)
• Why straight-A's may not get you into UW this year (SeattleTimes, 4/2/11)
• Myths on Program Elimination (IHE 3/31/11)
• 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
• UCLA Establishes Restructuring Steering Committee: Surprise! Dominated by Administrators Almost No Faculty
• Budget Cuts "Wreck Havoc" on CSU Classes (SacBee, 1/31/10)
• NPR on UC Budget Cuts (AllThingsConsidered, 1/27/10)
• CSU Trying to Improve Graduate Rates; May Cut GE Requirements (LAT, 1/17/10)
• UC To Establish Waiting Lists for Admission (LAT, 1/21/10)
• Desperate Students Scurry to Snag Key Classes (LAT, 1/20/10)
• Not Her Mother's UC (LAT 1/13/10)
• Stories of How Cuts affect K-12 Students (Nov 09)
• Berkeley Budget Cuts - Additional
• Legislators Discuss Having CC's give Bachelor Degrees (ContraCostaTimes. Dec. 21)
• Community College Chancellor Jack Scott on Coping with Cuts
• Questions Arise about Unequal Campus Funding (Nov 12)
• Details of Cuts in UCSB's Dept of Spanish and Portugese
• Large Fee Hikes Proposed for UCB School of Social Welfare
• Berkeley Grad Annie McClanahan Tells Regents Audit Committee of Damage to Students
• UCI Budget BLOG (Interviews and More)
• UCLA Vice Chancellor Describes Budget Cuts (Oct 20)
• Some Sample Effects of Cuts at UCLA
• Some Sample Effects of Cuts at UCSB
• Summary of Some UCI Cuts
• UC Berkeley: Partial List of Program Cuts
• Picking Up Crumbs: Tale of the Cuts at Missouri State (IHE Oct 12)
• SAVE the University: Berkeley Teach-In Sept 23
• Updated UCPB Budget Slides for Teaching UC Cuts
• Novelist Susan Straight on the Walkouts (LAT Sept 23)
• Chris's 2-Page Q&A on the UC Budget
• UC Berkeley Faculty Presentations to Associated Students
• "It Used to be Free" Q & A on the Budget Crisis
• UCSB Message to Students and Parents
• UCSB Film Dept Chair's Letter to Students
• How We Got the Cuts (from Keep California's Promise)
• Dear Students, from UCB Prof Catherine Cole

Budget of California

• 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) 
• 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)
• Conference Committee Report on Budget Deal (10/6/10)
• 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)
• Calif College Leaders Speak Out Against Budget Delays, Cuts (KPCC 8/27/10)
• Calif to Short Schools to Service Bond Debt (Bond Buyer 8/25)
• The Dynamics of Steinberg's "Tax Swap" (CBP, 8/10)
• 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)
• How Does California's Budget Deficit Compare (SacBee, 6/23/10)
• 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, 7/191/10)
• 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)
• Department of Finance Statement of UC Program Changes
• Department of Finance Page for UC Budget 2010-11
• 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 (7/4/10)
• 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)
• Calworks is a Child Support Program (CBP, 6/15/10)
• Legislative Conference Committee on K-12 and Higher Ed. Budget (6/10)
• States Face Budget Disasters if Deficit Hawks Succeed in Cutting Medicaid Funds (NYT, 6/8/10)
• LAO Report on Economy and State Budgets (6/3/10)
• Budget Austerity in Defence of Privilege (Calitics, 6/6/10)
• LAO Analysis of Arnold's and Legislature's Budget Plans (6/4/10)
• Arnold's Budget Will Raise Unemployment (IRLE, 5/10)
• Cutting Through the Myths About CA Budget Deficit (Dan Mitchell, UCLAToday, 5/17/10)
• So Much For the Texas Model: Their Budget Deficit as Large as CAs (Calitics, 5/26/10)
• CBP Analysis of Proposed Amendments to Budget Process (CBP, 5/10)
• 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 (5/18/10)
• 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 May Revise: Don't Read After Eating
• "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 (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 (2/25/10)
• LAO Proposals on Revenues (2/3/10)
• CBP Proposals for Closing Budget Gap (2/4/10)
• LAO Gives Big Thumbs Down to Gov's Prison-Education Amendment (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)
• CBP Analysis of Arnold's Budget (1/11/10)
• Birgeneau's strategy for the future (with a little bit on the past) (1/11/10)
• Legislative Analyst's Report on Arnold's Budget (1/12/10)
• Cuts Today, Increased Spending Tomorrow (Californiawatch, 1/11/10)
• Keep California's Promise on the Gimmick of Arnold's Constitutional Amendment (1/10/10)
• CFA Responds to Budget for CSU (1/8/10)
• 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)
• SacBee: Governor's Disappointing Budget (1/9/10)

Cal State Budgeting

• CSU Trustees Say They Won't Raise Tuition This Year (SFGate, 1/22/13)
• SFSU students compete for open class spots (SFGate, 8/24/11) 
• CSU salaries shrink amid budget cuts (OC Register, 7/8/11) 
• 2007-08 CSU Support Budget
• 2008-09 CSU Budget Summary
• Alliance for CSU
• CFA Resources on Deliverology
• Mingling of Private and Public Funds at CSI's "Private" Foundations (CAprogRept, 9/2/10)
• Profile of CSU Employees
• Profile of CSU Employees - Glossary
• SacState: Buys a Building, Cuts Classes (Sacbee Dec.26)