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• SB520 and Privatization (EastBayExpress, 6/5/13)
• James Vernon on Stopping the MOOC "Avalanche" (UK Guardian, 4/29/13)
• The Falling Rankings of Public Universities (CHE blogs Innovations, 9/6/11) 
• Ohio Board of Regents moves forward with Enterprise University Plan (The Lantern, 8/25/11) 
• Politics and the University: Views From the Campuses (CHE, 8/28/11) 
• Texas-Size Compromise (IHE, 8/26/11) 
• Reign of the Politician-Chancellor (IHE, 8/23/11) 
• Negotiating No More (IHE, 8/22/11) 
• Why Flagship Public Universities Should Stay Public (CHE, 8/7/11)
• Tuition increases average 7.9% as affordability declines (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 8/2/11)
• Guest View: Dream of higher education slipping away (San Gabriel Valley Tribune, 7/27/11)
• University of California enrolls more out-of-state freshmen (LAT, 7/1/11) 
• UCLA Joins Venture to Offer Online Education to Baby Boomers (CHE, 6/23/11)
• Inequality, power and privilege in the struggle for the humanities (Social Science Space blog, 6/20/11) 
• Doing a Grayling: your step-by-step guide to setting up a new college (Guardian, 6/14/11) 
• US universities in Africa 'land grab' (Guardian, 6/8/11) 
• What’s Next for Wisconsin? (IHE, 6/6/11) 
• The New School for Privatised Inquiry (Campaign for the public university blog, 6/5/11) 
• Top Colleges, Largely for the Elite (NYT, 5/24/11) 
• Top Colleges, Largely for the Elite (NYT, 5/24/11) 
• Crisis of Confidence Threatens Colleges (CHE, 5/15/11) 
• Billionaire's role in hiring decisions at Florida State University raises questions (St. Petersburg Times, 5/10/11)
• Regent cull 100 degrees (2theadvocate, 4/28/11)
• Budget Standoff Frays Nerves at a Regional Public University (CHE, 4/24/11) 
• UT's controversial special adviser is out of a job (Chron, 4/20/11)
• UNLV Liberal Arts reveals revised plan for budget cuts (Las Vegas Weekly, 4/6/11) 
• UW gives us what we asked for (Seattle Times, 4/5/11)
• Why straight-A's may not get you into UW this year (SeattleTimes, 4/2/11)
• "Triage for Community Colleges" (IHE, 3/30/11)
• Fundraising Is Flat in 2010, Liberal Arts Colleges do Best (2/2/11)
• Gov Cuomo Proposes 3% Cut to NY State Budget, 10% Cut to Higher Ed (2/1/11)
• Louisiana Board to Cut One-Third of All Higher Ed Degree Programs (1/27/11)
• Better Ideas for Responding to Washington State Higher Ed Crisis (Seattle Times 1/25/11)
• Universities Trading Less Funding for Autonomy? (IHE, 1/17/11)
• Texas Begins to Buy Out Faculty in Liberal Arts to Save Money (CHE, 1/3/11)
• Arizona Tries to Increase Out-of-State Students (ArizonaRepublic, 1/4/11)
• Public Universities Face Deeper Cuts (CHE, 1/2/11)
• Indiana Redistributes Cuts with New Incentives (Indianapolis Star 12/26/10)
• LSU Board to Discuss Weakening Tenure Protections (HammondStar, 11/30/10)
• Iowa Republicans Target Faculty Sabbaticals (Huffpo, 12/2/10)
• Producing the Mono-versity (Campaign for Public University 11/28/10)
• With Megagifsts Hard to Get, Colleges Chase More Donors (11/21/10)
• Ranks of Millionaire College Presidents Grow (MSNBC 11/14/10)
• North Carolina to Close a Campus? (Raleigh News & Observer 11/5/10)
• U Minnesota's Biggest College Releases Downsizing Report (11/9/10)
• Ohio a Loser in Shift in Statehouses (IHE 11/3/10)
• Arbitrator Orders Rescinding of Layoffs of Tenured Faculty in Florida (CHE 11/5/10)
• Colorado Commission Sees More Public Investment or Decline (11/4/10)
• Arbitrator Orders FSU To Rescind Layoff Notices to Tenured Faculty (CHE, 11/7/10)
• Endowments Rebound in 2010 after Record Losses in 2009 (IHE 11/3/10)
• Texas Commissioners Want to Base Funding Priorities on Grads Not Students (IHE, 11/2/10)
• Texas Moves to Tie University Funding to Statistical Measurements (Statesman, 10/28/10)
• Cuts Loom at 4 Publics (MO, NY, LA, IL) (CHE 10/25/10)
• Fundraising Down 12% at Universities Last Year (10/25/10)
• Pete Carroll Made $4.9 Million in his last year as USC Football coach (CHE 9/30/10)
• Endowments Begin to Rebound (IHE, 9/30/10)
• Research Universities Seek New Federal Support (CHE, 9/23/10)
• Washington Us Face Continuing Cuts, Steady Eerosion (9/17/10)
• Rice U's Budget Problems Prompt Suggested Sale of Student Radio Station (Houston Chron 9/16/10)
• Publics Hike Tuition All Over (IHE 8/27/10
• Death Spiral of Public Higher ED (CHE, 9/3/10)
• University of Washington Faces Increased Budget Cuts (CHE, 9/1/10)
• Tuition is 10 Grand at Michigan's Regional Colleges (Kalamazoo Gazette, 7/23/10)
• Community Colleges at the Breaking Point (MSNBC, 8/10/10)
• Higher Ed and Governor Races (IHE, 8/5/10)
• SUNY Fails to Get Right To Raise Tuition (CHE, 8/4/10)
• Iowa "Overbooks" on Admissions (NYT, 8/4/10)
• NY Passes Budget; Leaves Suny Status Uncertain (NYT, 8/4/10)
• Washington State Establishes Task Force on Higher Ed--No Faculty Members Included (GovMonitor, 7/29/10)
• SUNY Tuition and the NY Budget Crisis (NYT, 7/27/10)
• Struggles Over Suny (NYT, 7/19/10)
• Community Colleges Start to Limit Nursing Admissions (IHE, 7/21/10)
• NY and Illinois Systems Face Deepening Crises (CHE, 7/16/10)
• Oregon System Seeks Greater Autonomy and Control (IHE, 7/12/10)
• NY Budget Stalls Over Prosposal to 2-Tier SUNY Via Tuition-Setting (NYT 6/23/10
• LSU May Face 23% Cut (WAFB, 6/25/10)
• Pennsylvania Universities Freeze Enrollments in Some Small Majors (Philly.com, 6/15/10)
• Middlesex Philosophy Center Survives by Moving to Kingston U (Guardian 6/10/10)
• Ugly Showdown Seems Likely at U Puerto Rico (NY Daily News 6/11/10)
• Private College's Face Slow Economic Recovery (CHE, 6/10/10)
• How the Michigan Model Works (CHE, 6/8/10)
• Some Research Centers Leaving Public Univ. Due to Overhead and Administration (CHE, 5/23/10)
• In Seeking Prestige and Private Funds Colleges May Undermine Their Public Mission (CHE, 5/21/10)
• Wealthy Endowments Helped Fuel the Financial Crisis (CHE 5/21/10)
• Ohio U Faculty Say Athletics Subsidies Incompatible with Educational Mission (IHE 5/20/10
• Arizona and Oregon Pass Support Measures for Their Public Univs (CHE 5/19/10)
• SUNY Constructivist Responds to Hollinger (4/27/10)
• U Washington Struggles with Cuts (Seattle Times 5/1/10)
• Does Fundraising Block Presidential Leadership? (Katz, CHE 4/30/10)
• U Washington Hikes Fees 30%, Loses 30% of State Support (Seattle PI, 4/26/10)
• SUNY Strategic Plan (3/30/10)
• SUNY Chancellor Tries to Advance System in Face of Big Cuts (4/20/10)
• Rutgers Students and Faculty Rally Against Proposed Billion Dollar Budget Cuts (DailyTargum, 4/13/10)
• UT Regents' Donations to Gov Raise Questions about their Independence (CHE 4/8/10)
• SUNY Stony Brook to Shutter A Campus (IHE, 4/8/10)
• ASU Pulls Out of Medical Center Due to Finances (CHE, 4/2/10)
• With Budget Crises Universities Start Eliminating Disciplines (CHE, 3/28/10)
• University of Maine May Eliminate 16 Majors (Mainecampus, 3/24/10)
• What SUNY Needs from the State of New York
• NJ Governor Proposes to Slash Higher Ed Budget (Daily Targum, 3/21/10)
• Interactive Map of Public Education Budget Stresses (CHE, 3/15/10)
• Across the Nation Public HIgher Ed "In Peril" (CHE, 3/15/10)
• Conflicts of Interest in the College Boardroom (CHE 3/15/10)
• Non Resident Tuition Backfires (Rockefeller Institute Feb 2010)
• Brandeis Proposes Program Cuts (BrandeisNow, 2/22/10)
• Pennsylvania May Eliminate Smaller Majors at State Universities (Post-Gazette, 2/21/10)
• FLorida State Lays Off Tenured Faculty (Tallahassee Democrat, 2/19/10)
• Nevada faces devastating Higher Ed Cuts (IHE, 2/12/10)
• As Tough Times Persist, Colleges Must Live with Last Year's Decisions (CHE 2/11/10)
• Fading Stimulus Saved Public Colleges (IHE 2/11/10)
• With Shrinking Endowment Yale to Cut People, Research (NYT, 2/4/10)
• Yale President Responds to Shrinking Endowments (2/3/10)
• Donations to Colleges Drop Significantly (IHE, 2/3/10)
• Williams College to End its No-Loan Policy Due to Endowment Fall (CHE, 2/1/10)
• The Dilemmas of Tuition Freezes (IHE, 1/19/10)
• More Budget Cutting Ahead for Higher Ed (CHE, 1/18/10)
• Map of State Higher Ed Budget Cuts (CHE, 1/18/10)
• Federal Stimulus Staved off Deeper Cuts--But it is Gone (CHE, 1/18/10)
• Historic Declines in State Support for Higher Ed (IHE, 1/18/10)
• New York May Give Public Universities More Control Over Tuition (CHE, 1/15/10)
• "Opportunity Adrift": Are Public Universities Failing in their Public Obligations? (Edtrust)
• Louisiana Higher Ed Facing Devastating Midyear Cuts (Shreveporttimes, 1/9/10)
• Louisana to Send More Students to 2-Year at 1/3 the Cost? (CHE 1/11/10)
• States' Plans for HIgher Ed Amongst Budget Troubles (CHE, 1/10/10)
• University of Illinois Faces Budget Meltdown (1/5/10)
• Indiana University Facing Cuts of 59M, all Indiana Public Colleges and Universities 150M (IndianaStudent, Dec.31)
• Tennessee Governor Proposes Expanding Mission of Community Colleges (Tennessean, Dec.29)
• University of Hawaii Threatens to Cut Faculty Salaries (StarBulletin, Dec.28)
• University Endowments Down; Risky Investments Continue (NYT, 1/28/10)
• Universities Jump into Real Estate (CHE 1/28/10)
• Universities Post Worst Endowment Returns since 1930s (IHE 1/27/10)
• Proposed cuts to Indiana Higher Ed Average 6% (Dec 23)
• Harvard, Bonds, and Financial Crisis (Bloomberg, Dec. 18)
• Report Questions Southern Maine Admin's Claims of Financial Distress (Dec 17)
• Even Worse News for U of Washington (UWOP Dec 10)
• New "Cuts-Only" Reductions to Washington State Higher Ed (Dec 9)
• Budget Crisis at Indiana (Dec. 5)
• Harvard Stops Free-Tuition Public Law Program (Dec 3)
• Summers, Harvard Ignored Investment Warnings (Boston.com, Nov.29)
• Michigan Looks at Worse-Case 20% Cuts (Nov 4)
• Mid-Year Cuts Considered in New York, Iowa, Colorado Michigan . . (IHE Nov 2)
• More Cuts and Tuition Hikes in Louisiana (Nov 1)
• Michigan Higher Ed Leaders Part of Business Group Supporting Cuts-Only Budget, Elimination of Michigan Promise Scholarship (Oct 9)
• U of Arizona's Transformation Plan
• University of Hawaii faculty reject 5% pay cut 1968 to 315
• Michigan State to Cut Programs and Degrees (Oct 30)
• Dartmouth Looks to Fill $55 Million Gap (Oct 28)
• Washington State Tax Cap Measure Could Hit Higher Ed Hard (Seattle Times Oct 19)

By Catherine Liu

We are in the midst of a class war, but only Fox News dares to use that scandalous expression. According to its pundits, it’s the “havenots” with their healthcare reforms and “entitlements,” public pensions and other soul sapping “scams” who are attacking the “haves.” At least Right-wing pundits aren’t afraid of the word “class.” Liberals, Leftists and Progressives are about as eager to talk about class as they are to undergo voluntary root canal surgery. The “haves” are much more aggressive than the “havenots” about guaranteeing that they have more and more, and the “havenots” have less and less. The “haves” continue to militate against public inefficiencies while Progressive economists and analysts have tried to show that the diminished powers of the state and the financialization of global economic activity are responsible for our slow burn crisis and the concomitant loss of consumer and political confidence. The “haves” may have lost a few skirmishes after October 2008, but you can be sure that they remain vigilant and aggressive about their long-term agenda. On a Federal level, the “haves” have targeted social and public services of every sort, from Federally funded after-school care to Social Security. At the state level, they relish the idea of privatizing public universities, whose successes have been based on decades of public investment. They have also succeeded in securing profitable arrangements between privately owned testing companies and public schools, where the demand for accountability has produced a need for ever changing instruments by which teacher and student performance are measured. They continue to argue for school vouchers and school choice and they continue to make public school teachers and unions feel the heat of their reformist ardor.

By Charles Schwartz, UC Berkeley October 25, 2010


Earlier this year, perusing the published list of reports regularly provided to the Regents by the University of California Office of the President (UCOP), I noticed this item, “Annual Report on Use of Outside Counsel,” and submitted a formal request for a copy of that document, under California’s Public Records Act (PRA).

I received an official response, dated June 8, which said,

The annual report on the use of outside counsel legal expenses was an attorney-client privileged communication from General Counsel Robinson to the Board of Regents and is thus exempt from California Public Records Act disclosure. (Government Code section 6254(k)).

On August 7, I wrote again to the UCOP-PRA office:
I have just seen the 2008-2009 Annual Report of the Office of the General Counsel; and there one finds published data on the very topic I had inquired about: overall outside counsel expense was $100,000,000.
This discovery leads me to ask that you reconsider my original request for that report, perhaps in some redacted form if there are particular details that would best (in the public interest) be kept confidential.

On August 19 I received an official acknowledgment of this renewed request and was given an estimate of six weeks for the production of the documents requested.

Budget shortfalls are now frequently being used to justify decisions that clearly undermine educational goals.  In most cases, as in that of the SUNY-Albany suspension of five humanities departments, the few figures given do not offer specific evidence of the stated budgetary need.  In the case of the Browne Report that threatens to cut Britain's public funding for university teaching by 80%, the mayhem is prompted by a polemical metaphor at the start of a section on page 47 -- public funding is a "hidden blanket subsidy to institutions" -- and anchored by one entirely unexplained number for "minimum investment" -- 700 million pounds per year. The tone of this report is one of blithe immunity from counterargument, and it is superficial in a way that is possible only for a small, appointed committee that does not feel the need to make a serious case for the millions of practitioners of the professions on which it passes judgment.

In this climate, it is particularly urgent to get the numbers right, and for everyone affected to inform themselves about what the numbers actually are.  America's most prominent English professor, the New York Times blogger Stanley Fish, got into the act last week by commenting that the SUNY-Albany cuts could be rejected on professional grounds but not on budgetary ones, since the humanities "do not earn their keep."  Fish was roundly criticized for this, and takes up a couple of pieces of mine (the one he doesn't link is here) and by the UCLA English professor Robert N. Watson (UCLA Today version).  The good news is that Fish describes the much more aggressive stance university leaders need to take in relation to political and business leaders.  On the other hand, the post unhelpfully reiterates the common misconceptions about university funding that Prof. Watson, I, and others, working independently, have been trying to undo.

Despite UCOP's efforts to limit the discussion of Pension reform to PEB's Options A & B they have been unable to prevent alternative approaches from emerging.  The Senate Members of the task force argued forcefully in a Dissent  that neither of the administration's preferred options would maintain staff and faculty quality (an argument developed further by Bob Anderson).  Faculty and staff groups have moved ahead with alternative approaches.  AFT, AFSCME, UPTE, and CNA in consultation with the Council of UC Faculty Associations have endorsed a set of principles to guide reform of the pension system.  These principles have also been endorsed by the Executive Board of the UCLA Faculty Association.  The Berkeley Faculty Association while acting in solidarity with the unions and other faculty associations has also argued for an Option D.  You can see their rationale for their approach  here and here.  We have offered an analysis of the implications of the PEB task force recommendations as well.  You can get additional information here. James Chalfant and Helen Henry have responded directly to the administration's defense of Options A &B here and pointed out that Options A& B would make UC uncompetitive for faculty and staff in an op-ed. Slide presentations from the recent UCLA Town Hall on PEB are also available.

Meg Whitman raised the issue of UC pensions in her last debate with Jerry Brown arguing that the UC Pension problems were blocking access for students.  Everyone should be aware that she will most likely try to move against the pension systems if she wins.  You can hear the audios at the UCLA FA Blog.  Thanks to Dan Mitchell for catching this point.

Gov. Schwarzenegger tried and failed to covert California public pensions to 401(k)s with a special election in 2005. This year, he used the budget negotiations to force permanent reductions in the pension formula for state workers. This was a major reason for the furloughs and IOUs and uncertainty and the rest of it.  According to the California Report Sunday broadcast, this was done before the future savings for the new forumulae were quantified.  A cynic would say the Gov and his legislative allies held the state hostage so he could cut public pensions in the midst of the great recession. 

The University of California Post- Employment Benefits Task Force has also proposed significant reductions in the UC Retirement Program.  Comment on their two options, Options A & B, has been quite negative, and another major faculty critique is due out this week. 

According to a report cited below,  President Yudof now plans to end the comment period on October 14th, and that the Regents will vote on permanent changes to UCRP in a special meeting in December.  I hope this is wrong: detailed analyses are just starting to come in (see below), the Academic Senate has not yet taken any position, and a rush to dilute one of the central propellants of the University of California's rise over the past forty years makes no institutional sense.

We cite beneath the break an employee coalition's "Statement of Principles" and then provide additional links to presentations and commentaries for those wanting to catch up with the enormous changes being prepared over the summer.

The University of California's permanent base budget share of the General Fund for 2010-11 will be about $100 million below expectations. This bring in the budget somewhat below the 2006-07 level in nominal dollars. I'll discuss the UC situation in more detail below, but will start with the overall state situation, which is even worse.

Commenting on the new budget and its $1 billion in last minute gubernatorial line-item vetoes, Palladium wrote this on the Sac Bee site:

Probably the worst Governor in California's history will soon be a thing of the past, only to leave the state torched, plundered and dying from his mostly inept handling of the state's affairs. A legacy of lies, treachery, deception, mistrust, favoritism and bullying litters the landscape left behind. It appears a brutish barbarian-like THUG and his closed-door cronies have all but bankrupted California to appease their baser impulses. True to the end - doesn't even get the last budget done without causing suffering and misery to tens of millions of Californians. California can flush its toilet - good riddance!

California will still have great mountains, beaches, and deserts, but "baser impulses" have wrecked the only thing that ever made its society special:  the use of state government for public development, sometimes at full throttle. 

Taxes in post-war California weren't meant only, in the low-brow contemporary way, to create a "safety net" to keep the absolute worst from happening. Taxes expected the best to happen --the country's best roads, best hospitals, best schools, best public universities.  All this was for a population that had through no fault of its own suffered through the Great Depression and World War II, and was now going to collaboratively develop itself into something really special.

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• UCOP Report on Administrative Growth (3/10)
• Growth Trends in UC Administration (Dec 12)
• Senior Management Costs Should be Cut (Calif Aggie Oct 6)

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• Increasing Reliance on Out-of-State Students Reduces Socio-Economic and Racial Diversity (IHE, 4/30/13)
• A rupture in the everyday (San Diego City Beat, 5/23/11) 
• Equal Time for 'Traditional Values' (IHE, 4/25/11) 
• Senate Republicans Block Dream Act (Huffpo, 12/18/10)
• CA Supreme Court Debates In-State Status for Undocumented Immigrants (CHE 10/5/10)

Archive of Links Academic Freedom Arts & Letters Budget California Faculty & Governance For Profit Future University Higher Education Crisis Higher Education Protests International Universities K-12 Online Pension Problems Privatization Race, Diversity, & Discrimination Research Funding Strategies, Tactics, & Goals Students & Costs Subjects of the Past University Management

• Columbia Teachers College Students Protest President's Ties to Pearson (Inthesetimes 6/13/13)
• CSU Actually Trying to Analyze "Bottleneck" Courses before Deciding on Best Strategy (LAT, 3/19/13)
• Should the Dissertation Go? (CHE, 2/11/13)
• Lumina Foundation Presents Public Opinion Poll in Service to its Policy Aims; Interesting Data Nonetheless (IHE, 2/6/13)
• Having Worked Wonders for Berkeley; Birgeneau to repeat it across counntry (LAT, 1/28/13)
• Jerry Wants to Narrow the Goals of the Community Colleges (LAT, 1/20/13)
• Politics and the University: Views From the Campuses (CHE, 8/28/11) 
• The art of the long view: seeing UC futures (Daily Californian, 8/26/11) 
• The Out-of-State Admissions Edge (The Daily Beast, 8/18/11) 
• Guest View: Dream of higher education slipping away (San Gabriel Valley Tribune, 7/27/11)
• Academic Council Special Committee on a Plan for the University of California (Memo from Chair Simmons to President Yudof, 7/6/11) 
• Blocked Transfer (IHE, 6/14/11)
• Two Hundred Years of University "Reform" and How to Dream It (Reclamations Journal, Issue 3, Dec. 2010) 
• A rupture in the everyday (San Diego City Beat, 5/23/11) 
• Reframing the Debate (IHE, 5/18/11)
• Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education (The Nation, 5/4/11) 
• California 'Dream Act' Clears Assembly (SacBee 5/6/11)
• Q & A: Catherine Cole on Future Planning for the UC (UC State of the Arts, 4/22/11)
• Cuts to higher education: The Master Plan turncoats (LAT, 4/17/11)
• Trading Futures: Prospects for California's Universities - Catherine M. Cole UCSB (Transcript, Feb 2011) 
• Some Colleges are Ramping Up Rigor (IHE 2/2/11)
• Restoring the Faculty's Voice (IHE, 1/24/11)
• UC Panel's Plans to Raise Money Come Under Fire (SFC 12/7/10)
• Smaller Classes Mean More Learning (Robins School of Business 10/10)
• UCOF Final Report (Draft) (10/10)
• UCOF Final Report is Flawed (Bob Samuels 10/25/10)
• CSU May Add Ph.D's in Nursing and Physical Therapy (SacBee, 9/6/10)
• Senate Respone to 2nd Round of UCOF Recs (8/10)
• UCOF Posts Meaningless August 31st Meeting Agenda
• Report of Alternative Commision on UC Future
• UCOF is Asking All the Wrong Questions (Bob Samuels, 6/24/10)
• Notes on the June 14th UCOF Meeting
• Regents May Downgrade UC Education (VenturaCountyStar, 6/17/10)
• The Master Plan is Alive and Well (SacBee, 6/15/10)
• Working Group Recommendations (2nd RD) (6/14/10)
• Senate Response to UCOF First Round Recs (6/11/10)
• UCOF Proposals for June 14th Meeting with UCOP Additions (June, 10)
• Take SURVEY on UC Commission on the Future
• Opportunity to Respond to the UC Commission on the Future (AlternativeCommission, (5/28/10)
• Raw Video of UC Riverside UCOF Meeting
• UC Commision on the Future (UCOF)
• Graduate Students Respond to Edley's Plan to Use Them as Fodder in Online Ed (5/19/10)
• Graduate Student Statement to Regents Regarding On-Line Education (5/19/10)
• Draft UCSB Senate Responses to UCOF (5/12/10)
• BFA Critiques UCOF and Christopher Edley (5/12/10)
• Draft UCI Senate Response to UCOF (5/10/10)
• Revisionist Reflection on the Master Plan (Douglass, CHSE, 5/10/10
• How Far Can Online Ed Go? (NYT, 4/18/10)
• New Goals for the Master Plan (PPIC 4/10)
• The Worst of Both Worlds (Meranze, 3/28/10)
• UCOF Recommendations Safe and Predictable (Califprogrept, 3/26/10)
• Between Impotence and Noise: Systems Analysis of UCOF (Michel, 3/25)
• Education and Curriculum Recommendations (Terada, 3/24)
• Breakdown of UCOF Recs (Student Regent, 3/24)
• Funding Strategies (Newfield, 3/23)
• Comment on Yudof's Repeated Claim that English Loses Money (Krapp, (3/23)
• UCOF is Coming (Newfield 3/22)
• UCOF Offers "Timid Response" to Budget Crisis (CHE 3/10/10)
• UCOF WORKING GROUPS--FIRST RECS (3/23/10)
• UCOF Rollout of Proposals at Regents (3/23/10)
• Schwartz-Pitts Exchange on Lack of Open Discussion at UCOF (3/12/10)
• History of the Master Plan (CSHE-Bancroft Library)
• Schwarzenegger Does Little for Community Colleges (LAT, 2/22/10)
• Is Privatization Still on the Table? (SacBee, 1/7/10)
• LAO Calls for Greater Coordinated Planning in Higher Ed (1/28/10)
• Education Labor Leaders Call for Restoring Education Funding (Californiaprogressreport, 1/6/10)
• LAT Editorial: Restoring Higher Ed (Dec.28)
• SacBee Tool For Calculating Future Fees (Dec.21)
• Why Extension Can't Be a Model for Campuses (12/16/09)
• UCOF at UCLA (UCLA Today 12/10/09)
• Senate Vice Chair's Remarks to Gould Commission (12/8/09)
• Death of the Master Plan? (Peter Schrag, Dec 8)
• Rules for Acceptable Comments to UCOF (UCLA 12/7/09)
• Prof Jenny Sharpe to UCOF at UCLA on Online Education (12/7/09)
• UCOF at UC Berkeley (UCB Campus News 12/7/09)
• Report from Berkeley UCOF Meeting (12/7/09)
• Mark Yudof Comments to Master Plan Commission (Dec 7)
• CSU Restructuring Destroying Master Plan (Palermo, SacBee, Dec.6)
• Charles Schwartz: An Alternative to UCOF Strategies (Dec. 3)
• LAO Analyst Says UC/CSU Enrollment Cuts Fit with Master Plan (OC Reg Nov 27)
• UCOF Working Group Membership (Nov, 2009)
• Shift in UCOF on Distance Learning? (11/22/09)
• Remarks on Transparency (Charles Schwartz Nov 12, 2009)
• Ending the Master Plan? The 2004 UC-CSU-Schwarzeneger Compact
• The Master Plan at 50 (LAO 11/12/09)
• Gould Commision at UCSD (11/6/09)
• Gould Commission at UCI (11/2/09)
• The Master Plan for Higher Education (2002)
• The Master Plan for Higher Education (1960)