Links for Monday: Trick or Treat Edition

Links for Monday: Trick or Treat Edition

Is that a costume you're wearing? Gov. Jerry Brown comes as the Honest Republican, proosing that California seek another Bottom-5 ranking, this one for oldest workforce unable to retire on their pensions. The relevant UC Senate committee comes as the Partner in Reform, responding that the many good parts of Brown's proposal are the same as recent UC pension changes. UCLA Management...

Links for Friday, October 28th

Links for Friday, October 28th

Student Regents speak out on rising tuition.   Daily Cal has an interview.  And here is a presentation. Brown Proposes reducing pensions for public employees.   LAT can only discuss it in terms of politics. Gavin Newsom vows to change the narrative on higher education cuts.  Do you think the Regents would even understand the concept...

Links for Wednesday, October 26

Links for Wednesday, October 26

There are more concerns being raised about the proposed Negotiated Salary Program. Surprise! Higher Ed costs continue to rise.  More data can be found here. An even bigger surprise:  California leads the nation in tuition increases...

Links for Monday October 24

Links for Monday October 24

Not to worry: Dan Greenstein and other proponents of UC online assure us that it will maintain quality and not be used to downsize faculty. Students are confused by UC's new admissions guidelines. Task Force recommends changing the priorities of California's Community College System...

NSP: Eroding the Salary Scales, Undermining Faculty Governance

NSP: Eroding the Salary Scales, Undermining Faculty Governance

By Joe Kiskis A previous post here provided a brief description of the proposed APM 668 Negotiated Salary Program (NSP) and comments from Professor Stan Glantz on the detrimental consequences of the similar Health Sciences Compensation Plan (HSCP), long used in the UC health system enterprises. In this post, I offer comments directly related to language of the proposed NSP policy...

Links for Friday, October 21

Links for Friday, October 21

Opponents of California's Dream Act begin collecting petitions in favor of a referendum to overturn it. As minority enrollments in California have gone up, state funding has gone down....

Links for Wednesday October 19

Links for Wednesday October 19

UC Riverside Students grade the State on its commitment to Higher Ed and it isn't a good one. And it looks like it is going to get worse.  The Triggered Cuts seem to be on their way....

Links for Monday October 17

Links for Monday October 17

Today in Links: The Costs of Athletics; the Destructiveness of Austerity; and the Foolishness of Managerial Ideology plus much more And don't forget Stan Glantz' post on UCOP's proposal to further erode the salary scales immediately below...

Problems with UCOP's Proposed Salary Supplements for Grants

Problems with UCOP's Proposed Salary Supplements for Grants

Officials at UC and other universities have been scrambling to replace resources lost to public funding cuts.Most seem still to see extramural research funds as net positive cash flow for the institution, which they are not (one news link from our ample coverage plus one previous post).  But grants do provide funds for salaries, including partial salaries for faculty investigators,...

Links for Friday October 14

Links for Friday October 14

Looks like Goldman Sachs has moved from the housing bubble to predatory recruiting for online ed. Protesters heckle Rupert at his Education Summit with Je...

Links for Thursday, October 13

Links for Thursday, October 13

Jerry Brown is going to propose a constitutional amendment on Pensions. New report from Berkeley argues don't blame budget problems on public employees...

Links for October 12

Links for October 12

Jerry Brown signs California Dream Act.  Vetoes Bill to allow diversity to be considered in admissions. Dan Greenstein joins Jeb Bush and the President of US University at a cliché hurricaine in Dallas TX on the Future of State Universities.  As you know, it has been decided that the future of state universities is distance learning.  Greenstein, assured all and...

Links for Monday October 10

Links for Monday October 10

The Chilean police responded violently to student protesters; students' leaders targeted. The LAT has realized that UC may no longer be affordable for middle-class kids.  Yet they don't actually oppose doubling tuitio...

Links for Friday, October 7

Links for Friday, October 7

Occupy Wall Street (courtesy of Casey Blake) More today on Banks, protests, international activity on higher education, and even some California news. ...

Links for Thursday, October 6

Links for Thursday, October 6

More in today's links about protests and occupations, economic inequality, the defense of higher education and why it is that Harvard's economic influence may not be good for the country....

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Wrongness

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Wrongness

A number of former University of California chancellors met at the end of June to discuss the state of UC, and recently released a statement we linked yesterday, one called Former University of California Chancellors Urge New Funding Models for UC.  The main result is another call for a high-fee UC, this time set at $24,000 for in-state students. The word "new" has no place...

Links for Tuesday October 4

Links for Tuesday October 4

McKenzie Wark offers up some thoughts on how Occupy Wall Street is offering an allegory to counter an abstraction.  And how that is a good thing.  (H/t to Casey Blake) The AFT and Bob Samuels offer an update on Occupy LA.  And here is another view. And there is emerging information about plans for college occupations. Former Chancellors call for new funding...

Links for Monday October 3

Links for Monday October 3

Lots concerning Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots, student costs and debt, and the economic crises facing California in today's links.  Just check below the fold:...