Crunch Continues

Princeton President Shirley Tighman warns on endowment declines - 30% and not just 25%.

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Past and Ongoing Action Items

• 2 UC Petitions to Sign at "Checking Education"
• Reclamations: New Journal on Public Education Call for Submissions
• Letter Calling for UC Strike November 18
• Sign Petition: Oil Tax for HIgher Ed
• Occupy California
• Announcement by UC Movement for Effiicient Privatization
• Join "Saving UCLA" Action Group
• UC Faculty Walkout Letter for Signing
• No Confidence Vote Polling Locations
• UCOP Letter Writing Campaign
• Take the CUCFA Survey on Threats to UC Quality
• Take the CUCFA Survey on Furlough Implementation
• Option 4 Information
• Petiition: Save California's Universities (CSU)

Earlier Action Items and Events

• Mobilizing Conference: Defend Public Education and Public Services (SFSU, 10/31/10)
• Day of Action October 7th (occupyCA)
• Petition to Save University of Toronto Comparative Literature
• Alternative Commission on UC Future: Opportunity to Respond to UCOF online (5/28/10)
• Alternative Commission on Future of UC (UCLA, 5/4/10)
• Petition in Support of Ricardo Dominguez (4/7/10)
• How you Can Help the Bang Lab at UCSD (4/4/10)
• A Proposal for Action on May 4th (occupyuci, 3/10/10)
• "Students Not Banks" Campaign (firedoglake, 3/9/10)
• Map of March 4th Events
• UCSD Faculty Petition on Racism and Campus Climate
• List of Statewide Events on March 4th
• UCSB Department Chairs Express Support for March 4th Events
• UCSA: March Month of Action for Higher Ed
• SAVE flyer for March 4th
• SAVE Information on Participating in March 4th Events
• Call for Volunteers to Work for Majority Vote in California (George Lakoff)
• Sign-Up Letter for March 4th Action (Checking Education)
• NEWCLA: Organizing and Action Information
• UCLA Fights Back Schedule For March 4th Action
• Kroeber Makeover (UCB)
• Defend Public Education, Protect Public Workers (Jan. 23)
• CFT Call for March 4 Day of Action
• SF Labor Council Calls for March 4 Action in Defence of Public Education and Public Sector
• Lakoff Letter on Supporting California Majority
• Santa Barbara Petition in Defense of Master Plan
• Video of New Occupation Wheeler Hall (Dec 8)
• Map of US Student Activism
• New Occupation of Berkeley's Wheeler Hall (Dec 8)
• UC Mobilization Statement of Support
• UCLA Speakout - UCOF Comes to Covel Dec 7
• UC Comm on the Future at UCLA Dec 7 - Sign Up!
• Legislative Hearings on the Master Plan December 7
• Write the Legislature! Where to Write (KTP Map)
• CSULA March from Union Station to Gov's Field Office Dec 2
• Petitions on Accessible Public HIgher Education

Newer Earlier News 2

• UC Statement on Racism on Campuses (2/26/10)
• Noose Found at UCSD Library (Ucregentlive, 2/26/10)
• National Lawyer's Guild Protests UCLA PD (2/22/10)
• New UCSD racial incident sparks rage, confrontation (SDUT 2/20/10)
• Cities Talk Taxing Colleges for Students and Space (CHE, 2/1/10)
• Oregonians Pass Tax Increases to Protect Education and Social Services (Oregonian, 1/26/10)
• States Try to Solve Budget Crises by Cutting State Workers (SacBee, 1/17/10)
• American History Battles Heat Up in Texas (TexasTribune, 1/14/10)
• National Labor College Entering Online Education (IHE, 1/15/10)
• UCD Medical School Begins Building Telemedicine Center (Sacbee, 1/16/10)
• UC Merced and Merced Community (FresnoBee, 1/4/10)
• Judge Rules Governor's Furloughs Illegal (SacBee, Dec. 31)
• 9th Circuit Restricts Taser Use by Police(LAT, Dec.30)
• Arnold's Furloughs of Federally Paid Workers Hurt Poor and Disabled, Don't save Money (Sen Oversight Committe)
• Parents Protest Fee Increases and Budget Cuts (LAT, Dec.21)
• Latest California Budget News: From Bad to Worse (SacBee, Dec.20)
• Governor Should watch his Tongue (Ostertag, HuffPo, Dec.18)
• K-12 News: Declines in Private School Enrollments Strain Public Schools (CBP, Dec.11)
• LiveWeek on the Arrests at Berkeley Chancellor's House (Dec.12)
• After the Fall: "Some Thoughts on Tactics" (studentactivism, Dec. 12)
• "UCB Sparks" (Occupy California, Dec. 12)
• SAVE on Berkeley Violence (Dec. 12)
• 8 Arrested in Attack on Berkeley Chancellor's House (DC Dec 12)
• Arrests at Wheeler Hall (DB, Dec.11)
• Information on Wheeler Hall Arrests (Dec.11)
• Arrests at Wheeler Hall (LAT Dec. 11)
• Why UC Privatization Won't Work (Hiltzik, LAT, Dec.10)
• The Crisis of the State in California (Calitics, Dec.10)
• Keep Higher Education Affordable (CFT in CaProgRpt, Dec 8)
• Prisons vs. Higher Education (BobWilliams, Dec.7)
• Florida Chamber to Us: Now that You're Beggers, Here's What We Want You to Do (IHE Dec 7)
• Gov to Give CalPERS State Funds, not UCRP (Sac Bee Dec 6)
• Ward Connerly: Time to Privatize (SacBee, Dec.6)
• Lenders Lobby Against Student Loan Reform (Campus Progress Dec. 2)
• Abandoning Higher Education: "How Stupid Can We Be" (Rutten, LAT, Dec.5)
• Proposals for Constitutional Revision designed to achieve Center-Right outcome (Calitics, Nov.30)
• CSU Suffering Under Budget Cuts (LAT, Nov. 29)
• CA Public Universities: "Harder to Get Into" (CPB, Nov.25)
• Breaking the Myths of Taxes and the End of CA (Elias, LBPT, Nov.22)
• Walker and Brechin: California Needs A New Deal, Getting Hoovers Instead (SFC, Nov.22)
• 6 in 10 CC Students Never Make it to 4-Year (SJMN Nov 15)
• Regents "Dismantling" University (California Progress Report, Nov. 20)
• Leg Analyst's Office Report on Master Plan at 50
• The Master Plan in Tatters (Peter Schrag Nov 18)
• Mark Yudof Calls for Expansion of Federal Support for Public Us (IHE Nov 16)
• UC's Proposal to Raise Grad Fees Violates UC Policies (SFGATE, Nov, 14)
• Students Picking Privates over UC (LAT Nov 16)
• Mark Yudof to ask for Increase of $913 M from state (UCOP Nov 16)
• Private Colleges Gain from Public Higher Ed Funding Cuts (LAT, Nov16)
• Governor Promises more budget Cuts--will hit elderly and disabled extra hard (Omoto, Nov. 15)
• More Budget Cuts Coming? (WSJ, Nov. 13)
• Mark Yudof one of Time Magazines Top-10 Presidents
• Leg Analyst's Office Report on the Master Plan at 50 (Nov 12)
• Calitics on PPIC Higher Ed Poll (Nov 12)
• Californians Fear Effects of Cuts, Still Give Higher Ed Good Grades (PPIC Poll Nov 11)
• CSU Applications Up, Admissions Down (LAT, Nov, 11)
• Arnold: More Cuts Ahead (Sacbee, Nov.9)
• UC CFO Spanks CUCFA Prez on Pledging Ed Fees (Daily Cal Nov 6)
• Desperately Seeking New Models (Higher Ed Leadeship Conf Nov 6)
• Californians Between Pessimism and Defeat (LAT Poll Nov 6)
• UCSC Faculty Group Offers 10 Point Plan to Keep UC Public
• UC Berkeley Faculty to Debate Sports Debts (SFC Nov 5)
• Higher Ed Wins in Texas, Maine, Washington (IHE Nov 5)
• UC Berkeley to Take More Out of State Students (CHE Nov 4)
• Texas Voters Approve Fund to Aid Universities (Nov.3, CHE)
• Regents Pledge Bonds for New Berkeley Law Building (Nov 3)
• Shock Therapy for UC (Naomi Klein at UCB Oct 28)
• Fee Increases Destroying Public Education (Mike Rotkin, Nov 1)
• Longtime USC President Stephen Samples to Retire (LAT Nov 1)
• Internship World For Recent Grads (Bob Herbert NYT, Oct 31)
• At Public Universities: Pay More, Get Less (NYT, Oct. 26)
• Colleges Take Status Quo Approach to the Crisis (CHE Oct 25)
• Berkeley Admin Forgave $31 M Athletics Deficits (IHE Oct 30)
• CSU Bakersfield Threatens Language Depts with Closure
• CUCFA Press Release on Call for Regental Audit of Use of Student Fees (Oct 29)
• U of Phoenix Enrollments Up 22% in One Year (IHE Oct 28)
• Cal State Fullerton Reinstates 264 Courses (OCR Oct 27)
• CUCFA Calls for Regents' Audit Committee to Perform Audit
• Conservative Initiatives for a Constitutional Convention (Calitics, Oct. 28)
• AAUP Report: Conversion of Appointments to the Tenure Track (Oct 2009)
• 4 Faculty Suspended for Participating in Anti-Cuts Rally (SD Union-Tribune Oct 24)
• Colleges: Business as Usual? (CHE, Oct.25)
• Statewide Organizing Conference Held at Berkeley (DailyCal, Oct. 26)
• October 21 Protests at Fresno State (Indybay Oct.22)
• The Shrinking of Public Education (CBP, Oct. 23)
• Harvard Alums Criticize Harvard Endowment Managers (Globe Oct 23)
• UCOF Meets at UCSB (Daily Nexus Oct 23)
• Cal State Fullerton Ghost Town Protests Budget Cuts (LAT Oct 22)
• CUCFA's Meister: UC Fees Pledged For Bonds (Round 2)
• State-by-State Table of Tuition Increases (USA Today Oct 21)
• Tuition Costs On the Rise Nationally (Oct. 20)
• Plans for Differential Fees to be Postponed (Daily Cal Oct 20)
• In Hawaii, School's Out for Recession (Oct 19)
• National Interest in Out-of-State Tuition Payers (IHE Oct 16)
• Regents Drop Differential Fees--FOR NOW (LAT, Oct. 16)
• Calitics: Cal Poly Caves to Big Agriculture (Oct. 16)
• Harris Ranch Threatens to Pull Donations if Cal Poly Lets Critic Speak (LAT Oct 14)
• LA Times Readers on Differential Fees: It's Crazy (Oct. 14)
• Bailing out Banks, Why Not Student Debtors? (Lazarus, LAT, Oct14)
• LAT Editorial Opposes UC's Differential Fees (Oct 13)
• NYU: Moves Against Grad Union (Am. Prospect, Oct.8)
• CSU: Protests of Budget Cuts; Rallies for Oil Extraction Tax (SacBee, Oct.12)
• CUCFA reveals higher fees help UCOP sell bonds
• Schwarzenegger Vetos Bill Limiting UC Executive Pay (IHE Oct 12)
• UC May Charge More for Some Majors (LAT Oct 12)
• Student Visas From India to US Fall 25% (FT Oct 11)
• UC Berkeley students stage library sit-in (SF Chronicle Oct 11)
• "Fatally Flawed": CBP Analysis of Parsky Commission Proposals
• Business Week Warns of "Lost Generation" of Young Workers (Oct 9)
• Statement of U Iowa President on Budget Cuts (Oct 9)
• Another State Bites the Cuts Apple (Iowa Press Citizen Oct 9)
• Harvard to Profs: No More Free Cookies (NYT Oct 9)
• Paul Krugman's Overview of the "Uneducated American"
• CHE: UT Austin May Lessen Language Requirements due to Budget Cuts
• CUCFA Data Shows Schwarzeneger Worse for HIgher Ed than the National Bad Average
• Rejection of "Yudof's cheery resignation in the face of catastrophe" (Daily Cal Oct 7)
• Gubernatorial Candidate Gavin Newsome Pledges Proper Higher Ed Funding (Daily Cal Oct 7)
• California Transfer Pipeline is Broken (CHE Oct 5)
• Economist Dean Baker: Banks 1, California 0 (UK Guardian)
• US Higher Ed Losing its Global Edge (CHE Oct 5)
• UC Berkeley Brings in Bain Consultants (SFC Oct 5)
• California Is a Failed State (UK Guardian Oct 4)
• Colorado U President Rejects Privatization (Oct 3)
• Bain's Report for U North Carolina (ppt)
• UC Berkeley Brings in Bain Consultants for $3M (Oct 1)
• Is California a Failed State (Observer, UK)
• CUCFA reveals higher fees help UCOP sell bonds
• 4 Faculty Suspended for Participating in Anti-Cuts Rally (SD Union-Tribune Oct 24)
• Regents Pledge Bonds for New Berkeley Law Building (Nov 3)
• Students Picking Privates over UC (LAT Nov 16)
• Mark Yudof to ask for Increase of $913 M from state (UCOP Nov 16)
• Mark Yudof to ask for Increase of $913 M from state (UCOP Nov 16)
• The Master Plan in Tatters (Peter Schrag Nov 18)

Earlier News

• Bain's Report for U North Carolina (ppt)
• Is California a Failed State (Observer, UK)
• CUCFA reveals higher fees help UCOP sell bonds
• The Master Plan in Tatters (Peter Schrag Nov 18)
• Students Picking Privates over UC (LAT Nov 16)
• Mark Yudof to ask for Increase of $913 M from state (UCOP Nov 16)
• Mark Yudof to ask for Increase of $913 M from state (UCOP Nov 16)
• Regents Pledge Bonds for New Berkeley Law Building (Nov 3)
• 4 Faculty Suspended for Participating in Anti-Cuts Rally (SD Union-Tribune Oct 24)
• UC Berkeley students stage library sit-in (SF Chronicle Oct 11)
• "Fatally Flawed": CBP Analysis of Parsky Commission Proposals
• Statement of U Iowa President on Budget Cuts (Oct 9)
• Another State Bites the Cuts Apple (Iowa Press Citizen Oct 9)
• Harvard to Profs: No More Free Cookies (NYT Oct 9)
• Paul Krugman's Overview of the "Uneducated American"
• CHE: UT Austin May Lessen Language Requirements due to Budget Cuts
• CUCFA Data Shows Schwarzeneger Worse for HIgher Ed than the National Bad Average
• Economist Dean Baker: Banks 1, California 0 (UK Guardian)
• Rejection of "Yudof's cheery resignation in the face of catastrophe" (Daily Cal Oct 7)
• Gubernatorial Candidate Gavin Newsome Pledges Proper Higher Ed Funding (Daily Cal Oct 7)
• California Transfer Pipeline is Broken (CHE Oct 5)
• US Higher Ed Losing its Global Edge (CHE Oct 5)
• UC Berkeley Brings in Bain Consultants (SFC Oct 5)
• California Is a Failed State (UK Guardian Oct 4)
• Colorado U President Rejects Privatization (Oct 3)
• UC Berkeley Brings in Bain Consultants for $3M (Oct 1)
• Columnist Peter Scrag Bashes Walkout (Sept 30)
• Cal State Students It's Time to Stand Up (LAT Sept 29)
• Mark Bousquet CHE Blog on UCSC "Occupy and Escalate" (Sept 28)
• UC Davis Events (SacBee 9/26)
• University of Arizona student arrested at Pro-Education rally
• UCSD Students, Staff Protest Funding Cuts (Union-Tribune Sept 24)
• Protests at UCSC (IndyBay)
• CHE on 9/24 Protests
• UCSD 9/24 Protests
• LA Times Coverage of 9/24 Protests
• New York Times Coverage of 9/24 Protests
• Daily Cal on Berkeley Protests (Sept 24)
• University of California Protests (Guardian UK Sept 24)
• Vice Provost on "Libraries of the Future"
• KQED Forum on UC Walkout (Sept. 23)
• CHE Story on Suspected Budget Cover-Up at UC
• UCB Daily Cal Endorses Sept 24 Walkout
• AAUP Response to Senate Leadership Critique (Sept 21)
• UTexas Medical Branch Backs Away from Salary Cuts
• British Industry Group Calls for Higher UK Tuition (Sept 21)
• LAT Says Fix UC Budget by Extending the Pay Cuts (Sept 19)
• 14 Protesters Arrested at Regents' Meeting (Sept 16)
• Student Loan Default Rate Rises (IHE Sept 16)
• Saving For College Not Keeping Up with Costs (WSJ Sept 13)
• UC Davis EVC Reponds to Possible Faculty Walkout (Sept 11)
• UC Students Face Increased Fees (LAT Sept 11)
• UC Regents Document: Mid-Year Fee Hikes, Differential Fees by Discipline
• UC Proposing 32% Fee Hike (Contra Costa Times Sept 11)
• Provost Pitts Open Letter to UC Faculty (Sept 11)
• Senate Chair / Vice-Chair Reject AAUP Critique of UC Shared Governance
• Harvard and Yale Take Major Endowment Losses (Guardian Sept 11)
• Financial Woes at Yale (Sept 10)
• Rutgers Fac Accepts Delays in Raises in Exchange for No Layoffs (Sept 10)
• Robert Reich Cost-Saves in His UC Berkeley Course (Sept 10)
• Texas Gov Orders Higher Ed Efficiency Review (Sept 10)
• CPB Says Gov Tax Commission Proposals Would Increase Budget Shortfalls (Sept 9)
• Colleges Are Failing in Graduation Rates (NYT Sept 8)
• UC Davis Walkout Plans (Aggie Sept 8)
• UC Berkeley Profs Cole and Walker - see Professor Earnings Stats towards end
• CPB Labor Day Report: Jobs Down, Inequality Up (Sept 7)
• Sac Bee Denounces Walkout (Sept 6)
• Federal Student Debt Up 25% in One Year (Sept 4)
• State Universities in Decline - Seattle Post-Intel Jan 2003
• Regents Commission Starts with Market Productivity Speaker (Sept 3)
• AAUP Backs UC Faculty Collective Action (Sept 3)
• NYT's David Leonhardt Defends Value of College (Sept 3)
• What Doomed U of Illinois Online University? (Sept 3)
• First-Day Faculty Strike Shuts Down Michigan's Oakland Univ (Sept 3)
• Sac Bee Coverage of Proposed Walkout (Sept 3)
• Columnist Peter Scrag -Yudof's Message (Sept 2)
• Senate-UCOP Leaders Express Confidence in Yudof, Chide the Less Confident (Sept 1)
• Chancellor: UC Berkeley to admit more out-of-staters (Aug 26)
• CSU Students Sue Over Fee Hikes
• Pres Yudof: Furloughs or Firings, Your Choice Brother (Aug 21)
• UCSD Building Hospital with Indian University
• Maryland Furloughs Unconstitutional (WaPo, 8/19/2009)
• If They Build It U Will Pay (City Pages, 6/19/2002)
• University Compensation Study: Bad, but not California Bad (Yaffe Aug 13)
• Oddly Familiar Struggle for Basic Financial Info at Chicago Trib
• UC Sells $1.4 Billion in Bonds for Buildings Not Salaries
• States Cut Aid as Demand Booms
• CSU Furlough Memorandum (Admin Control of Furlough Days)
• Dept Chair Describes Abuse of Emergency Power at Tulane after Katrina (July 22)
• Hawaii Governor propposes 7 % Pay Cuts (July 22)
• UCI Anthro Chair on furlough as tax increase (LAT July 22)
• CSU Trustees Hike Fees, Students Protest (July 22)
• What's Bad for Education is Good for Oil Companies (Huffington July 21)
• SD Union-Tribute Scratches Head about Closing Some UC Campuses (July 18)
• Time Magazine Announces that UC has a budget problem
• Furloughs Or Firings? Says CSU Chancellor (IHE July 17)
• CSU Chancellor Reed Announces New 20% Fee Hike (July 17)
• Regents Vote 20-1 For Furloughs (July 16)
• CSU Prof on the effects of the cuts (LAT July 16)
• UCSB Prof on Effects of Cuts (Sac Bee July 15)
• KCSB Radio Coverage of Effect of Cuts
• Berkeley Law Profs Say Cuts are OK as long as we also fire lots of people
• UCSD Prof on What UC Does and Why We Are Decreasingly Able to Do IT
• UCLA Prof Responds to Crisis, Explains the Value of the University
• UC Regents to Consider Mid-Year Fee Hikes, Differential Fees by Discipline
• Newfield Glantz Op-Ed on Cuts (SF Chronicle July 14)
• Regent Chair Gould, Pres Yudof Op-Ed in SF Chronicle
• Professional and Technical Staff Union Opposes Cuts (July 14)
• UCSB Council for Planning and Budget Endorses Lakoff Letter (July 13)
• Tarnished Jewel: UC Crisis Covered by Inside Higher Ed (July 13)
• Daily Cal Response to Edley on Distance Learning (July 14)
• Unions "Wake Up" President Yudof at Home (July 12)
• UC To Cut Pay and Operations (NYT July 10)
• Yee Proposal for Legislature to Control UC is Shelved
• Penn State told it is no longer public, is denied stimulus money (June 27)
• Dept Chair Describes Abuse of Emergency Power at Tulance after Katrina (July 22)
• Oddly Familiar Struggle for Basic Financial Info at Chicago Trib
• Yudofian Pay Issues 2003

Previous Events

• UCSB Symposium:the Future of the University Nov 5)
• Day of the Dead Protest, UCB and UCSC Nov 2
• UC Santa Cruz Debate on Budget Cuts Oct 29
• Future of the University: UCSB Roundtable Oct 29
• The Crisis of the Public University UC Berkeley Oct 26
• CA Campaign to Save Public Education (Statewide Mobilizing Conference--Berkeley Oct, 24)
• CA Campaign to Save Public Education (Statewide Mobilizing Conference--Berkeley Oct, 24)
• UC Berkeley Alternative Budget Forum Oct 23
• Summary of Issues and Call to UCSB Meeting of UC Commission Oct 22 (With Resources)
• UC Commission on the Future At UCSB October 22
• Defending the Public University UCLA Oct 15 (Poster)
• UCSB Teach-In Schedule of Events Oct 14
• Save CSU Rally w/ Alberto Torrico, SJSU Oct 12
• Berkeley Study-In to Save Libraries October 9
• UCSB Teach-In's 7 PM Break-Out Sessions
• UC Riverside Day of Action Sept 24
• UCB Teach Out Schedule Sept 24
• UPTE-CWA Sept 24 Strike Locations
• UCSB Day of Action Sept 24
• UCLA Day of Action Sept 24
• UC Riverside Day of Action Sept 24
• UCI Day of Action Blog
• UCB Teach Out Schedule Sept 24
• Sept 24 UC Faculty Walkout Info (and 1100+ Signatures)
• SAVE Berkeley Faculty Teach-In Against the Cuts Sept 23 7-9 PM
• UCSB Day of Action Schedule (Sept 24)
• UCSB Flyers Sept 24
• VIDEO for UCLA's Defending the Pubilc University