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Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"126"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"10"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-3474286349631788883"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-12T02:14:00.004-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-01-08T00:10:48.557-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Funding Model"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Graduate Student Conditions"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Newsom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"public goods"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public vs. Private"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Structural Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Student Debt"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"For UC and CSU, Newsom's *Big Funding* Budget is Flat"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgi5YvM6VnYxjHzRygSKYGNyeZIbYDT32QkfodB1LwIbLud9_k1sQ7fIKiA9IvX7p45ipSdO3DtyBRb2OVqjCVJZtubHL_78i51oM9qU5BzMi6EDqjaw1uus9tydfu391zo6lXrcz5gUuQ4OxuOjPEBOruOLHFuBNKJbnbrETX4yOJpTK1hMvDAHdnf=s2224\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1668\" data-original-width=\"2224\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgi5YvM6VnYxjHzRygSKYGNyeZIbYDT32QkfodB1LwIbLud9_k1sQ7fIKiA9IvX7p45ipSdO3DtyBRb2OVqjCVJZtubHL_78i51oM9qU5BzMi6EDqjaw1uus9tydfu391zo6lXrcz5gUuQ4OxuOjPEBOruOLHFuBNKJbnbrETX4yOJpTK1hMvDAHdnf=w400-h300\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EI've fixed the mistake in the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-01-10\/newsom-gives-california-colleges-and-universities-big-funding-pledge-with-a-catch\"\u003ELos Angeles\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ETimes\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;headline\u003C\/a\u003E on Gov. Gavin Newsom's higher ed budget proposal for 2022-23. \u0026nbsp;In fact, if you add one-time money from the current and coming years, Newsom is proposing overall cuts to UC and CSU.\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe base general fund increase is five percent next year (see summary slide above), with five percent promised each year for five years total in a new compact between the university systems and the state. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENewsom delivered \u0026nbsp;the compact promise with a joke about how he knows the people who lived through the last (broken) compacts will doubt this one too. \u0026nbsp;Newsom signaling he knows we think Sacramento compacts are worthless doesn't make Sacramento compacts less worthless. \u0026nbsp;So I assume only next year's five percent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENewsom's five percent is better than Gov Jerry Brown's annual two or three percent--apparently twice as good. \u0026nbsp;However, Newsom gets an inflation rate that is twice Brown's too. The Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Index \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bea.gov\/news\/2021\/personal-income-and-outlays-november-2021\"\u003Eaccelerated from 4.2 percent to 5.7 percent\u003C\/a\u003E from July to November 2021. CPI hit 6.8 percent, and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fanniemae.com\/research-and-insights\/forecast\/economy-finishes-2021-strong-inflation-top-risk-concern-2022\"\u003Eprojections for inflation in 2022 by Fannie Mae \u003C\/a\u003Eand others suggest a five percent increase will be entirely consumed by inflation. \u0026nbsp;Hence the term \"flat,\" and also my sense that the corrected headline is still optimistic. \u0026nbsp;For more than a decade, two Democratic governors have been giving UC and CSU flat annual budgets--when they are not cutting them. \u0026nbsp;That is not changing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe other touted feature is that the state is funding residential enrollment growth. \u0026nbsp;Newsom proposes it support\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/budget\/2022-23\/#\/Department\/6440\"\u003E6,230 new California undergraduates with $67.8 millio\u003C\/a\u003En (or $10,882.83 per student). \u0026nbsp;Again, it looks good compared to Jerry Brown. \u0026nbsp;He proposes an additional $31 million to buy out 902 nonresident slots at the three flagships (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and San Diego), at $34,368.07 per student. Don't ask me how they came up with those numbers. \u0026nbsp;What is clear is that the nonflagships are not getting state funding for the nonresident students they have been unable to admit because of the enrollment cap that emerged from the political blowback caused by the flagships. \u0026nbsp;Newsom sets up UC for a multi-year series of tuition carve-outs that allow the flagships to keep their nonresident tuition premiums, maintaining intra-campus budget inequality.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMost UC campuses are at capacity and have been for some time, so getting new students means hiring new faculty and staff and building or expanding facilities. \u0026nbsp;In practice, it means more costs and also more hardships for existing students. They will have even more trouble getting courses and housing. \u0026nbsp;Next year's per-student rate is less than half of what UCOP says is the average cost of instruction of each student (that is vastly more than most departments receive per major but never mind). We can say that $10,882.83 will at best cover costs of the new students and at worse create new deficits. \u0026nbsp;Like the base increase, this is \u003Ci\u003Enot\u003C\/i\u003E an increase in UC's per-student operating budget. \u0026nbsp;(The small \"cohort tuition\" hike will also make very little difference.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast fall, I suggested 2021 might well be, financially speaking,\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/10\/and-if-this-is-peak-uc.html\"\u003E Peak UC\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;The governor's new proposal confirms that fear about a stagnant 2020s of unfunded mandates. \u0026nbsp;Further confirmation came from UC president Michael Drake \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/uc-statement-gov-newsom-s-2022-23-budget-proposal\"\u003Eritually praising the governor's generosity\u003C\/a\u003E, putting a cap on growth in the bigger revenues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI'm not going to go into more detail on the numbers until they settle down, and won't chart any trends until spring. \u0026nbsp;Newsom is right to see budgets as \"expressing our values,\" as he said at the end, but his presentation was a numerical mess, referencing three different sizes of surplus ($42 billion, $20 billion, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/lao.ca.gov\/Publications\/Report\/4472\"\u003E$31 billion)\u003C\/a\u003E, two from his own office, and identifying dozens of individual program totals from two different budget years. \u0026nbsp;So in the meantime, let's take a look at some other issues raised by the presentation, both on the campuses and the state as a whole.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENewsom has exactly two ideas about higher education. One is that it maximize access on the basis of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). \u0026nbsp;The other is that it prepare students for jobs, and by jobs he means jobs in technology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENewsom makes state funding contingent on several 2030 goals: UC eliminating racial gaps in grad rates, getting grad rates to 76 percent for four-year students, and getting students to debt-free\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Egraduation. These are essential goals and UC must achieve them. But they require fundamental change in the UC business model. \u0026nbsp;That now depends on undergrad tuition subsidizing research and other activities--so less money is in instruction and student support, which hurts retention differentially across racial groups. \u0026nbsp;The business model also depends on saving a lot of university money (my estimate is $755 million in 2019-20 using \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu\/2021\/chapters\/chapter-2.html\"\u003EAccountability\u003C\/a\u003E data) by capping financial aid, therefore forcing undergrads to borrow and work during the academic year (see\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu\/title\/great-mistake\"\u003EStage 2 and Stage 5 respectively\u003C\/a\u003E). \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is such an important point--the need to \u003Ci\u003Efund \u003C\/i\u003Egoals rather than simply assert them--that I'll expand a bit.\u0026nbsp;You improve graduation rates in part by hiring enough instructors so that every student can get every class they need, when they need it. Because of chronic underfunding, many or most students on all UC campuses wait quarters or years to get admitted into at least a few of their core required courses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHow do you reduce racial gaps in graduation rates? You offer personalized, individual advising to every student who wants or needs it. \u0026nbsp;You don't tolerate caseloads of 740 students for each advisor, which Laura Hamilton and Kelly Nielson, in their important book \u003Ci\u003EBroke\u003C\/i\u003E, report is the case at UC Merced's school of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/B\/bo33896239.html\"\u003Epage 123\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou also reduce racial gaps in graduation rates by taking students of color out of the cafeteria job they use to reduce their borrowing and into class: you cut their work hours ideally to zero while they are enrolled full time. You do \u003Ci\u003Enot\u003C\/i\u003E impose a Self-Help Expectation of $8,500 or $9,200 or $10,000 on every student with financial aid, even if they are low income, as every UC campus does. In other words, if you want to reduce racial gaps in graduation, you don't do \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu\/2021\/chapters\/chapter-2.html#i2.3.6\"\u003Ethis\u003C\/a\u003E, for years and years: have a net cost of attendance of $10,000 per year (after financial aid) for students whose whole family earns $60,000 or less.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjVeklnoBzuLlhb189M1w2DwHnHYR8Lygu6ilog9OAdJAsoeCi2OINcpr7klBN9OHB4JMr0k0CxrfAdtT-nodH61MeUbtjQTAN0_QknQ3Xtt1SUtnjNvy1iOJpmictbxDy_mSAiLUcPG6KMuY_EXZY7nOxK05KuSVIXz_EamxQgXvtWjPeAeSeDYc_h=s1826\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1160\" data-original-width=\"1826\" height=\"254\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjVeklnoBzuLlhb189M1w2DwHnHYR8Lygu6ilog9OAdJAsoeCi2OINcpr7klBN9OHB4JMr0k0CxrfAdtT-nodH61MeUbtjQTAN0_QknQ3Xtt1SUtnjNvy1iOJpmictbxDy_mSAiLUcPG6KMuY_EXZY7nOxK05KuSVIXz_EamxQgXvtWjPeAeSeDYc_h=w400-h254\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou also don't allow the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu\/2021\/chapters\/chapter-2.html#i2.3.6\"\u003Epoorest students to have the most debt at graduation.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou stop doing these things by buying out financing gaps for poor and otherwise disadvantaged students, and then you put money into \u0026nbsp;personalized, intensive advising, well-funded student centers, and other things most UC faculty and staff could name off the tops of their heads. \u0026nbsp;When you start paying to provide these things, you're then able close your graduation gaps.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese are all things UC campuses want to do. None of them are things that either the governor or the legislature want to pay for. \u0026nbsp;None of them are things whose costs UCOP has itemized and justified in public in order to inspire the desire to pay for these essential things.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe governor mentioned diversifying university faculty. \u0026nbsp;This has been an explicit UC goal since the 1980s. Again there are racio-cultural obstacles. But the material ones are at least as important. \u0026nbsp;A diverse faculty comes from diverse doctoral programs, which means strong retention in those programs, means fully funding grad students from working-class backgrounds who are at greater risk of dropping out for lack of funds or excess debt. \u0026nbsp;UC does not fund its doctoral programs at the needed level. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThus in 2019-20, grad students went on a multi-campus strike over their rent burden, demanding a cost of living increase outside their union contract so they could cover costs in the private rental market. Nothing was done, and the students who started it (at UC Santa Cruz) were expelled for a while. \u0026nbsp;In the midst of the pandemic in early 2021, UCSD grads had to protest in the face of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/education\/ucsd-students-faculty-push-back-against-steep-rent-hikes\/\"\u003Emassive rent hikes in campus housing. \u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;In 2022,\u0026nbsp;rent burden is, if anything, even worse. The diversity of the faculty stops \u003Ci\u003Ethere\u003C\/i\u003E, with unmanageable costs of living. \u0026nbsp;If it is serious about faculty diversity, UC should announce debt-free doctoral programs. But the governor and legislature would have to pay for it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn sum, Newsom insists that UC close graduation gaps with essentially the same per-student funding that caused the gaps in the first place. \u0026nbsp;UC officials should point this out.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow, on this question of college for jobs: Newsom and most policy people continue to work with a version of Human Capital Theory (HCT) descended from the 1950s, in which \"learning equals earning.\" \u0026nbsp;In reality that is true only for a subset of students (generally already financially advantaged--for the theory's flaws see our \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/a-socialist-alternative-to-human-capital-theory\/\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ELARB \u003C\/i\u003Ereview-essay\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Policymakers are trying to fix the theory by saying, \"\u003Ci\u003Etech \u003C\/i\u003Elearning equals earning,\" and UCOP encourages this splitting of STEM from other fields by publishing wages-by-major data.).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEnter Gavin Newsom: propelled by half-baked but established neo-HCT, he\u0026nbsp;is making these five percent state funding increase contingent on \"supporting workforce preparedness and high-demand career pipelines,\" requiring 25 percent increases in degrees in STEM \"and Education or Early Education\" disciplines, as well as the same increase in \"academic doctoral degrees,\" all by 2026-27. \u0026nbsp;The requirement is not exactly water-tight, and it also has a very weak justification in existing jobs projections. \u0026nbsp;The original 2015 report that started this \"million missing college degrees\" fixation shows most new jobs appearing outside of STEM (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ppic.org\/publication\/will-california-run-out-of-college-graduates\/\"\u003EFigure 4)\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp; Did anyone in the governor's office read the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/oes\/2020\/may\/oes_ca.htm#15-0000\"\u003Ecurrent occupational breakdowns for the state\u003C\/a\u003E? It's the same story here, with tech a minor employer by size (though not by wages, which are high). But the STEM quota sails anyway, towing a legitimate fear about teaching shortages behind.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEven if the job market really did say STEM, it's an invasive step for a governor to mandate changes in degree outputs in a university. \u0026nbsp;Californians felt sorry for Floridians having to put up with Gov. Rick Scott making nasty cracks about anthropology and saying he didn't want taxpayers to foot the bill for useless degrees. Newsom is effectively doing the same thing. It raises allocation questions: Will new faculty lines to teach the expanded enrollments \u003Ci\u003Eall \u003C\/i\u003Ego to STEM plus a few for education? \u0026nbsp;Will provosts need to stop hiring in arts and humanities for a number of years to pool lines in the \"high demand careers\"? Should California's future musicians, screenwriters, architects, designers, painters, film editors, historians, novelists, and journalists avoid the experience of being second-class citizens by going to UC?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere are no answers, and this brings me to the experience of watching a governor's budget presentation on dozens of topics where the word \"education\" wasn't uttered until well after minute 70. Newsom organized his address around five existential threats. He had no vision of a New California, but ran through a series of hard problems that must be solved. I sympathize: he has not been having a joyful time. There's pandemic illness and also its political madhouse, with the recall trying to get rid of him for doing his public health job. There's drought and fire and the climate crisis behind them. There's the cost of living crisis. There's decades of underinvestment in transportation and other infrastructure. \u0026nbsp;There's a very polarized state economy, where a third of the workforce earns less than $15 per hour \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.labor.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/338\/2021\/02\/ca-future-of-work-report.pdf\"\u003E(page 3)\u003C\/a\u003E. There's a decades-old housing crisis, where so much private wealth has been absorbed into inflated housing assets that the state spent $5.2 billion last year--an additional University of California state budget--paying people's rent.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENewsom brings a lot of energy to this slate of problems. He fired dozens of powerpoint bullets at them, each carrying a $100 M or $200 M or $1 B payload. But it's all the equivalent of filling (very important) potholes, keeping the electricity on, getting the shots in arms, giving the kids something to do in school until their parents get home. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEven the tech future of green transition is remedial, trying to undig the hole of climate change in a state still almost entirely dependent on the private car. \u0026nbsp;There was something hollow in Newsom's enthusiasm for the state's green tech leadership: he cast the state's investment as bait for private investors, took it as an opportunity to hype the hegemonic tech sector that I think he quietly dislikes for its entitlement and arrogance as do most Californians, overpraised legislative honchos and others, and started referring to California as a \"leader in this space\" or that space--space being a term he used dozens of times.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContrast this with how Newsom sounds on things he cares about. Then he is serious, knowledgeable, plainspoken, and open. What he really cares about is pre-K, school nutrition, homelessness, getting people out of encampments, mental health, universal health care, summer school for poor kids, a decent access to basic goods for disadvantaged people. \u0026nbsp;Whatever his neoliberal policies might be, Newsom's deeper desire, I felt watching him, is to ease the worst suffering. \u0026nbsp;This is also where he feels useful, even perhaps a bit of a hero. \u0026nbsp;But this desire doesn't find much to feed on in higher education as officials present it to him.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt's not just Newsom: the media isn't interested in higher ed either. During question time, the press had crisp questions about Newsom's contradictions on personal exemptions from Covid vaccines, his concrete plans for supporting reproductive rights, his borrowing of his recall opponents' plans for the mental health system, and his proposed changes in the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/clinics-lawsuit-prescription-drugs-medicaid\/\"\u003EMedicaid prescription program\u003C\/a\u003E. They had nothing about higher ed. \u0026nbsp;This is a real problem for the sector. The governors' office doesn’t get vigorously questioned about higher ed, so they don’t prep for that, they rightly think the media and its consumers don't care about the details, so they never think, \"we’re going to get pounded on mandating STEM degrees so we’d better think this through.\" \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI’ve written about Biden-era Democrats assigning college to a dedicated space in the welfare state. The good news is that they want government-run social development—Biden has in fact broken with key tenants of neoliberal Obama-Clintonism. \u0026nbsp;The bad news for higher ed is that the Biden-Newsom mainstream has no intellectual developmental plan for higher ed to address. Biden-Newsom are a real policy advance on Obama-Brown--an advance for children, the food insecure, the mentally ill, the unhoused, the uninsured, but not an advance for college students or the educational system. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor them, the knowledge economy is abstract scenery, a slightly smoggy familiar sky. \u0026nbsp;We may need a million more college degrees, but that's just a logistics problem—there’s no interest in process or content or quality upgrades to say nothing of revolutions in thought or in the public's collective cultural and political capabilities. For them, UC and CSU are server farms that should run quietly in the background. There's nothing heroic about them, and they won't make a hero of any president or governor. \u0026nbsp;They are of modest interest as economic infrastructure. They are certainly not, for this Democratic party, a state engine of destiny. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis could be changed, in a couple of diverging ways. One would be all three segments busting out of the workforce preparation trap and developing exciting stories of college-fueled individual and social transformation. \u0026nbsp;I know some deans and individual faculty who could do this. I don't know anyone at the senior manager level who would. Please correct me if I've missed some folks.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe second, more plausible path is to comply fully with the mainstream Democrat welfarist passion. Inspiration is also needed here, that makes the state's politicians heroes of social justice. But that means defining the processes that would allow UC (and CSU) really to meet graduation and the other targets, and then setting their \u003Ci\u003Eactual\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Eprice.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFix the funding, or miss the goals. It shouldn't be a hard decision.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3474286349631788883\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/newsoms-big-funding-budget-for-uc-and.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3474286349631788883"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3474286349631788883"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/newsoms-big-funding-budget-for-uc-and.html","title":"For UC and CSU, Newsom's *Big Funding* Budget is Flat"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgi5YvM6VnYxjHzRygSKYGNyeZIbYDT32QkfodB1LwIbLud9_k1sQ7fIKiA9IvX7p45ipSdO3DtyBRb2OVqjCVJZtubHL_78i51oM9qU5BzMi6EDqjaw1uus9tydfu391zo6lXrcz5gUuQ4OxuOjPEBOruOLHFuBNKJbnbrETX4yOJpTK1hMvDAHdnf=s72-w400-h300-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-8454186975926959755"},"published":{"$t":"2021-11-25T10:52:00.002-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-11-25T10:52:18.426-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Faculty"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Funding Model"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Munger Hall"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Shared Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCSB"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Concerned Faculty Letter to UCSB Chancellor and Senate Chair on Munger Hall"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgi7D8PnxF4x7Pnwo5F8EPBK1CGR7GxUP8uHWxVtrtKLIa84hbwa4Glch1Gy7hDRRY-dG1KJYGRYE7oRqnH7vWKfXIcK1ukIvCrf1GDxTZggVsyBnF9a1s5KBWAK7zNkquIUpH13xldtFU\/s2048\/Munger+Charlie%2527s+Vision.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1347\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgi7D8PnxF4x7Pnwo5F8EPBK1CGR7GxUP8uHWxVtrtKLIa84hbwa4Glch1Gy7hDRRY-dG1KJYGRYE7oRqnH7vWKfXIcK1ukIvCrf1GDxTZggVsyBnF9a1s5KBWAK7zNkquIUpH13xldtFU\/s320\/Munger+Charlie%2527s+Vision.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EDate: November 23, 2021\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003ETo: Susannah Scott, Academic Senate Chair, UCSB\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003EHenry Yang, Chancellor, UCSB\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003ECc: Michael V. Drake, UC President\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003ECecilia Estolano\u003C\/span\u003E, Chair, UC Board of Regents\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003ERobert Horwitz, Chair, \u003Cspan style=\"font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003EUC Academic Senate\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EFrom: Concerned UCSB Senate Faculty\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003ERe: The planning of Munger Hall at UCSB\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThe UCSB Academic Senate Town Hall Meeting, “Faculty Questions on the Munger Hall Project,” held on November 15, 2021, intensified pervasive and significant concerns about\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E(a) UCSB administration’s lack of response to fundamental questions about student well-being related to the Munger Hall project, including concerns about mental health, physical safety, security, and accessibility;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E(b) student housing options on campus and future housing projects;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E(c) building funding, planning and construction processes at UCSB;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E(d) abrogation of the right of faculty shared governance;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E(e) the impact of these decisions on UCSB’s stated commitment to social justice and equity;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E(f) UCSB administration’s failure to adequately take into account and address the opinion of experts in architectural design and rethink the design to ensure student well-being.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003ETo elaborate:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EOn the Design of Munger Hall\u003C\/u\u003E: A broad swath of architectural design and housing experts both within and outside the university have criticized the design. Among its many problems we call particular attention to: (i) lack of natural light and ventilation—particularly the absence of openable windows; (ii) floor plan that reveals poor organization of space at the scale of the rooms, the suites, and the entire floor space at each level; (iii) inadequate thought given to student accommodation and well-being, given what we know about virus transmission, quarantine, and recovery in situations such as COVID-19; (iv) poor wayfinding and evacuation plans that would greatly endanger students in fires, earthquakes and other disasters; (v) massing and volume; (vi) environmental sustainability.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EWe, the faculty, are gravely concerned by these issues, and we urge the UCSB administration, including Chancellor Yang, to address openly, explicitly and responsibly the many questions regarding the current design’s impact on the safety, security and mental well-being of the students. These fundamental questions were not answered at the November 15 Town Hall meeting and we urge the administration to answer them now.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EOn Due Process\u003C\/u\u003E: A key reason for the current state of affairs is that the usual design review process that has governed campus construction over the last 30 years was bypassed. The request-for-proposal stage of the design review process was ignored, thereby eliminating potential competition to Munger’s design. When the design review committee and its panel of architects were asked to comment, their views were not adequately taken into account.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EWe have two options to move forward:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E1. Stop the plans. Begin the entire design process again following the established procedures of the design review committee.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E2. Halt the process and modify the plans. Consider the advice of a joint committee of experts on design, health and safety, drawn from both outside and inside UCSB, including Academic Senate Members and student representatives. The UCSB Academic Senate must have a say in the composition of such a panel of experts, the issues they will be asked to consider, and the way in which their recommendations would be implemented.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EWe wish to send a clear message to the Chancellor, UC Office of the President, the UC Board of Regents, and the donor, that we will not accept inequitable and unsafe options for student housing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EWhile we recognize the measures that must be taken to resolve the immediate housing crisis, we call on UCSB to democratically and transparently develop a long-range housing plan that ensures safety, affordability, community responsibility, and environmental sustainability for students, faculty, and staff. Not only does UCSB have a responsibility in this regard, but so do the President of the University and the UC Board of Regents.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003ESincerely, Concerned UCSB Senate Faculty, including,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EConstance Penley\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003ESwati Chattopadhyay\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003ELaurie Monahan\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EEileen Boris\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EDominique Jullien\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EBishnupriya Ghosh\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003ELisa Hajjar\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EJeffrey Stopple\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EBassam Bamieh\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EJohn Majewski Richard Wittman\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EAnn Bermingham\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EMichael Curtin\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EAnn Jensen Adams\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EOmer Egecioglu\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EMark A. 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First is the official UCOP interpretation of this year's legislative budget as one of the best increases ever, and thus a sign of state generosity to come. Second is the passage of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/watch-regents-session-on-tuition-july.html\"\u003E\"cohort-tuition\" plan\u003C\/a\u003E, which will break the decade freeze on tuition income. The lead budget officials at regents' meetings, Nathan Brostrom and David Alcocer, have stressed the value of getting increases in both the state and tuition components rather than relying on increases on the state side only, where even a 5% increase translates into a 2% improvement in core funds, once it's averaged with zero on the tuition side.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn the first point, the Academic and Student Affairs Committee was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/sept21\/a2.pdf\"\u003Einformed\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that \"The 2021-22 State Budget provides the University of California with the largest-ever single-year funding increase, totaling $1.27 billion dollars.\" \u0026nbsp;Unfortunately, this greatly inflates ongoing funding. The net increase in continuing state funding is $243.5 million. I defined this\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/the-reality-of-governor-newsoms-budget.html\"\u003Ereal increase\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in relation to Gavin Newsom's May Revision. The permanent funding increase is slightly bigger in the final budget.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"MsoTable15Grid4Accent1\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #4472c4; border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-left-width: 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-top-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 97.55pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"130\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: white;\"\u003EUC Ongoing General Fund\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #4472c4; border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 97.8pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"130\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: white;\"\u003E2019-2020\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #4472c4; border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 93.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"125\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: white;\"\u003E2020-2021 (with cut retroactively restored)\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #4472c4; border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 93.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"125\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: white;\"\u003E2021-2022\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #4472c4; border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-top-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.15pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"114\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: white;\"\u003E2 year cumulative change\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #d9e2f3; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 97.55pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"130\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EMay Revision\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #d9e2f3; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 97.8pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"130\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E$3,724.3 M\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #d9e2f3; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 93.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"125\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E$3,766.0 M\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #d9e2f3; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 93.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"125\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E$3972.1\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #d9e2f3; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.15pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"114\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E6.65%\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 97.55pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"130\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ESummer Final\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 97.8pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"130\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E$3,724.3 M\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 93.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"125\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E$3,766.0 M\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 93.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"125\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E$4009.5\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.15pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"114\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E7.66%\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBudget nerds will be pleased to see UC breaking the magic $4 billion barrier it has being aiming at for 20 years. \u0026nbsp;But the real news is the budget is the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/budget\/2021-22EN\/#\/Department\/6440\"\u003Eexplosion of earmarked funds for special purposes\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;The unallocated increase in general funding is $173.2 million. Everything else is a designated fund: for example, \"$3 million for animal rescue operations in natural disasters.\" \u0026nbsp;9 such items get permanent funding. One-time funding goes to 27 more. I've never seen budgetary reach-in quite like this. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/2016-17\/pdf\/Enacted\/GovernorsBudget\/6000\/6440.pdf\"\u003EIn 2016-17\u003C\/a\u003E, for example, there were 6+4 such earmarks. \u0026nbsp;The legislature is now treating UC as a platform for enacting pet projects, arriving from who knows where, that apparently fit less well in other state agencies. They incur costs to operate, so it's not obvious that they are even net positive in all cases. Long story short, the state reversed last year's $302 million cut and added $173 million this year, with $325 million in one-time funding for deferred maintenance (defined this year as a $7 billion systemwide problem). \u0026nbsp;Those are the meaningful items. \u0026nbsp;UC has no big boost from state funding.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe other half is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/july21\/b1.pdf\"\u003Ecohort tuition\u003C\/a\u003E, where each entering class has flat tuition for up to 6 years, but the next year's class pays more--the inflation rate plus an increment that declines annually from 2.0% to 0. \u0026nbsp;That will net in round numbers somewhat more than $100 million a year once it gets going. \u0026nbsp;UC tuition revenue is in the $4 billion range, so the new tuition plan will add 2 or 3% to the total. \u0026nbsp;Net benefit to core funds is around half that. A 1.0-1.5% increase to core funds is at best a steady-state number.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese modest increases don't reflect increased costs. \u0026nbsp;UCOP estimates\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/july21\/b1attach3.pdf\"\u003Ecosts going up 4% a year\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;no matter what. The most irresponsible omission is COVID-19 costs (including related losses). UCOP estimates somewhat more than $2 billion in lost revenues (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ucop.edu\/operating-budget\/_files\/rbudget\/2021-22-budget-summary.pdf\"\u003EDisplay 4)\u003C\/a\u003E; add to that an unknown amount of ongoing health mitigation costs (testing, quarantining, cleaning, and so on). The Democratic legislature pretended that these didn't exist when they cut $302 million at the height of the pandemic, and they are still pretending. Campuses will absorb these costs from their operating budgets, and that will mean cuts elsewhere. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe state's refusal to fund has some familiar dimensions. \u0026nbsp;Employer contributions to retirement and capital construction are the two that will be known to readers (see the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/why-public-universities-cant-take-new.html\"\u003EEssential Charts\u003C\/a\u003E for a primer). \u0026nbsp;Pandemic shortfalls were covered by new UC debt, which also funded ongoing construction and other costs: UC took on an additional $6 billion in debt in the last fiscal year. This will have to be paid down out of med center and campus operating funds. \u0026nbsp;Debt translates a short-term into a long-term cost (see Alex Usher's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/higheredstrategy.com\/global-higher-educations-post-covid-future-2-funding-challenges-forever\/\"\u003Egood cross-national discussion\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother likely unfunded mandate is new resident enrollment. \u0026nbsp;In the mid-2010s, the Democratic legislature started not liking how high non-resident enrollments had gone, but also didn't like paying full cost for resident students (around $10,000 per head). \u0026nbsp;This hurt campus quality in the 2010s, particularly during the growth years after 2015, and is a major future issue, since \"UC 2030\" could hit quality again because of the growth involved--to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2018\/09\/is-ucops-budget-plan-to-lower.html\"\u003Eincrease degree output by 251,000 in this decade \u003C\/a\u003Eto meet state workforce needs. \u0026nbsp;This has been modified to adding 20,000 more resident students this decade, some at the graduate level (see the September meeting's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/sept21\/f8.pdf\"\u003Eplanning document\u003C\/a\u003E). \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince at various points in its history UC has been hurt by underfunded growth, Brostrom and Alcocer emphasized the need for the state to follow through with funding this time: both to \u003Ci\u003Efund\u003C\/i\u003E this enrollment growth\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eand\u003C\/i\u003E to fund the replacement of non-resident students with lower-paying residents (on the latter, see Mikhail Zinshteyn's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/education\/higher-education\/2021\/09\/uc-out-of-state-tuition\/\"\u003Eoverview\u003C\/a\u003E). \u0026nbsp;They noted that the legislature has not funded some recent required growth, and showed this slide.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhOZwzuKc2Vtu9vVM6QKOiYHXPtnl-TY5-Ez90IUJ_E40zIcgHkZNYkBQE3bI3lT1Z3e3_GfZiXr4nie0cb2T9SQXdDN9WZK749FClJTDq9HQ12A4RAuaQPnAH-JPxkS2Tv5MzlKs4BS_k\/s1414\/State+Unfunded+Students+092921+Regents.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"938\" data-original-width=\"1414\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhOZwzuKc2Vtu9vVM6QKOiYHXPtnl-TY5-Ez90IUJ_E40zIcgHkZNYkBQE3bI3lT1Z3e3_GfZiXr4nie0cb2T9SQXdDN9WZK749FClJTDq9HQ12A4RAuaQPnAH-JPxkS2Tv5MzlKs4BS_k\/w400-h265\/State+Unfunded+Students+092921+Regents.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn short, UC had recently added around 10,000 students who paid tuition but didn't bring any of the state funding they might have assumed their family taxes had paid for, so couldn't take another 20,000 on the same terms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt this point, rolling all this together, you might conclude that UC campuses in the 2020s won't get better, but with all this UCOP vigilance about the state keeping its funding promises, at least they won't get worse.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis presentation occurred on the Finance and Capital Strategies Committee on September 29, chaired by Michael Cohen. \u0026nbsp;Before opening the floor for questions, he offered his response (at 2:22.30 once you scroll down\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/meetings\/videos\/sept2021\/sept2021.html#fin\"\u003Ethis page\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI've said this before, but I think it's important to repeat, particularly giving our conversation coming tomorrow about enrollment growth, that, sort of framing our budget ask in terms of, \"oh, we were shorted money five years ago, and have been living with it ever since,\" as doing this in the unfunded enrollment context, I think is absolutely the wrong approach, and it really makes the university come off as, \"well, we only serve students because we get paid for them, and we're not going to serve them if we don't get paid for them.\"\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo certainly the legislature has been very generous in its commitment to buy down our nonresident enrollment, and has really put a shining light on the need for the university to enroll students. But to suggest that we need to be paid back, for students we've been serving for years, it's just going to fall on deaf ears. And, frankly, it goes against all of the arguments the university made for years in that it wanted funding undesignated, and general purpose, so that they could decide the best way to use the funds. So, I hope that, when you bring back the budget in November, you heed these words and don't really emphasize this notion, which I don't even buy, of, you know, unfunded enrollment going back five plus years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGot that? Me neither. Clearly Brostrom and Alcocer's point was that the University\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Edid\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;serve all students that were over the targeted enrollment that the state funded. \u0026nbsp;Regardless, Cohen in effect rejected all statements that tie doing things to having resources for them, such as \"I would like to start my car, but I need gas in my tank\"; \"I would like to keep living in my apartment, but \u0026nbsp;I lost my job and can't pay rent\"; \"with extra enrollments, I need to offer 650 classes in each class period, but have only 615 classrooms\"; \"my professional staff requests a 3% salary increase, but the state has budgeted 0% for that.\" \u0026nbsp;Rejecting the need for resources makes perfect sense -- as a labor of self-exoneration, since Cohen the regent is also Cohen the former budget director for Jerry Brown, and is thus the same person who didn't send the state money with the new UC students. But never mind, and enjoy picturing the world in which all Cohen cars start without fuel, no Cohen tenants are ever evicted, and all Cohen colleges run on goodwill toward students.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECohen's outburst had the predictable effect, which was to censor budget discussion and forestall calls for UC to reject unfunded growth (since that lowers per-students resources and quality). \u0026nbsp;No one objected to teaching grossly underfunded students, including the representatives of the Academic Senate. \u0026nbsp;The show moved on.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo what is really the plan here? \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt's \u003Ci\u003Enot \u003C\/i\u003Eto insure that public university students learn about as much as private university students. \u0026nbsp;They aren't getting--or asking for--the money for that.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt's \u003Ci\u003Enot\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Eto increase access without diluting quality. Current budgets encourage, say, increasing biology B.A output by cutting math requirements, or maintaining study abroad enrollments by eliminating foreign language acquisition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt's \u003Ci\u003Enot \u003C\/i\u003Eto overcome structural racism by insuring that minority-majority campuses are as well-funded as white campuses. \u0026nbsp;That kind of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.aaup.org\/article\/budget-justice\"\u003Ebudget justice\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is not being supported.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt's \u003Ci\u003Enot\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;to reverse the shift away from tenure-track hiring or to fund significant staff cost-of-living increases.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt is \u003Ci\u003Enot \u003C\/i\u003Eto reduce financial burden for UC students. Solving grad student rent burden is off the table. So is reducing the academic costs of student debt. \u0026nbsp;A UCOP talking point has been that net cost of attendance will go up more slowly with cohort tuition increases than with flat tuition for all but the most affluent students. (The grounds are that higher tuition funds higher financial aid.) \u0026nbsp;In fact, student self-help expectation starts high even for the poorest UC students (about $11,000 per year for under $20,000 in family income, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/july21\/b1.pdf\"\u003EDisplay 6\u003C\/a\u003E), and under the cohort plan, goes higher (to around $15,000 for the under $20,000s by 2028-29). Self-help expectation is set by campus officials, and is money that students who don't have private assets must earn by working while enrolled, which reduces study, or by taking on debt. The best solution for students would be low tuition so aid covers all living costs and their self-help expectation approaches zero). \u0026nbsp;But that is not anything UCOP or the legislature would currently discuss. \u0026nbsp;The large share of UC students who struggle with daily life will continue in the 2020s to struggle with daily life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe plan is also\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Enot \u003C\/i\u003Eto increase funding for cultural and social research, which depends on institutional funds, though there is an obvious crying public need.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe plan\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eis\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;to do \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/the-reality-of-governor-newsoms-budget.html\"\u003Eworkforce-oriented enrollment growth at the lowest possible cost.\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026nbsp;It focuses on quantity rather than quality of degrees. It defines educational value through graduates' future earnings, which means directing majors towards professions that pay more. It means reserving any new direct federal funding for 2-year colleges, tweaking financial aid (increasing Pell Grant maximums), and supporting funds that go directly to students or to student support programs, like the Student Academic Preparation and Educational Partnerships (SAPEP) program, one of UC's 27 one-time earmarks. (Note also that the \"Proposed 2030 Framework Investments\" are split about 50\/50 between hiring new faculty to teach 20,000 more students and growing student support programs [\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/sept21\/f8.pdf\"\u003EDisplay 6\u003C\/a\u003E], thus halving the faculty hiring.) \u0026nbsp;It also means burying quality problems behind the marketing of UC excellence: UC dominates the public university rankings, and recent news of Berkeley as Forbes #1 and US News' Top 10 publics mostly UC campuses confirms zero incentive to increase investment. \u0026nbsp;The same is true for the extremely high rejection rates at many UC campuses, further hardening the aura of impregnable prestige. UC's per-student resources are well below their level of 20 years ago, but so what, since its rankings are so very high--and applicant demand is through the roof? People like me argue that these rankings are not only invalid but now oddly immune to matters of educational quality, and selectivity obviously conflicts with access, and yet their image-making power, and the genuinely high quality of UC faculty, staff and students \u003Ci\u003Eas individuals\u003C\/i\u003E, pave the yellow-brick road to low-cost growth. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsher sums it up well when he\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/higheredstrategy.com\/global-higher-educations-post-covid-future-2-funding-challenges-forever\/\"\u003Ewrites\u003C\/a\u003E, \"there are very few places with extra domestic billions to spend out there, and where there are . . . as often as not, they want to spend the money to make existing spaces cheaper, not expand the number of spaces or make existing education better.\" \u0026nbsp;UC is options 1 and 2--more and cheaper. This Workforce UC isn't fated, but fixing it will mean a fight.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2151187669892931862\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/10\/and-if-this-is-peak-uc.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2151187669892931862"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2151187669892931862"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/10\/and-if-this-is-peak-uc.html","title":"And if this is Peak UC?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhm_h95S4_QWWqrR9-zkiNbmDsKRkkbUwol6htdkr-ViQVjolOJYa8YHrlY0rz6p7GeNdopCAneOlV1796xsCNTNwdiEJWT6Wy_IYO5ImN8gvPcpcC2IwFNwZNLHuWZ7Xgbj71V2EzeNZI\/s72-w400-h258-c\/Durell_120905_UCOP_office_0043.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-4129274186943868834"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-24T02:20:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-09-29T01:25:44.778-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Funding Model"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public vs. Private"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Reality of Governor Newsom's Budget"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgvaexsUOvB7tZ3xAZIDQfWr3L_qjVhbV9vvVppL4cm9f7rGISlDG6bpTa73_LgeWB7HSWtafx0-O30LbOKp7aTzCJ2e6HpTPj2Xv91mAIJnFyQGhoje9ydKKNY9Bcf1VXTo8b3aveM-QQ\/s2048\/Screen+Shot+2021-05-24+at+09.20.23.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1152\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgvaexsUOvB7tZ3xAZIDQfWr3L_qjVhbV9vvVppL4cm9f7rGISlDG6bpTa73_LgeWB7HSWtafx0-O30LbOKp7aTzCJ2e6HpTPj2Xv91mAIJnFyQGhoje9ydKKNY9Bcf1VXTo8b3aveM-QQ\/w400-h225\/Screen+Shot+2021-05-24+at+09.20.23.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EA few things have happened since California Gov. Gavin \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/shortfall.html\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ENewsom proposed an austerity budget in January\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EState tax receipts came in higher than expected (though \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/initial-analysis-of-governors-may.html\"\u003Ethey will not rise next year\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA recall campaign collected signatures amounting to the required 12 percent of registered voters, so Newsom is now running for governor.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoe Biden's American Rescue Plan sent the state $27 billion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd Biden's three big Plans far outstripped anything California Democrats have offered the state since Grey Davis was recalled in 2003, leaving them paddling in Biden's wake.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENeeding to get out in front of Biden's quasi-New Deal advance, and to show some post-pandemic achievement, on May 14th Newsom announced his \"generational\" state budget, a \"historic, transformational budget.\" \u0026nbsp;Here of course we welcome with open arms Newsom's recognition that solving California's problems means massive government spending, since it is true. The K-12 increases are especially welcome, as are those trying to reduce the state's long epidemic of houselessness.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYet like Biden, Newsom sees a narrowed function for four-year colleges and universities, and is funding them accordingly, meaning meagerly.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe press did find his historic numbers hard to follow. \u0026nbsp;Writing in the LA \u003Ci\u003ETimes\u003C\/i\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-05-14\/newsom-promises-sweeping-change-california-budget-proposal-surplus\"\u003EJohn Myers noted\u003C\/a\u003E the range of the proposals\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote style=\"border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EThe governor’s list of spending priorities, which rely on a surprise cash infusion spread over several years that is projected to ultimately top $100 billion, is dizzying: money to house those who are homeless, support entrepreneurs, train workers, educate students and connect them to the internet, fix roadways, prevent wildfires and strengthen California’s power grid.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe then added politely, \"It could be some time before the numbers outlined by Newsom can be fully reconciled. The governor frequently uses unorthodox ways to measure state spending, lumping together dollar amounts that span multiple years.\" The $100 billion in economic assistance translates into a budget increase of $40 billion in the current year--still an excellent increase, but one that should be defined correctly.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EReconciliation will involve a couple of simple moves. One is to separate multi-year from single-year numbers. Myers does that in contrasting the headline $100 billion with the annual $40 billion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe other move that's especially relevant to higher ed budgeting is separating ongoing from one-time funds. The former commits the state to program building over time. The latter does not.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUC's president and Board of Regents chair issued a statement to say,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\"\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.6); caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;\"\u003EThe University of California is deeply grateful to Gov. Newsom for proposing the largest state investment in UC’s history: more than $807 million.\" \u0026nbsp;In his press conference (around minute 52 in the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/dont-miss-your-shot-california-governors-want-you-to-get-the-covid-19-vaccine\/newsom+5-14-21+May+Revise.mp4\"\u003Eversion helpfully archived by Dan Mitchell)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Newsom correctly describes the permanent investment as an increase in $506 million. It's better than the $136 million he proposed in January. But as with all these budget announcements, don't read the headline, read the top line (in the slide at the top).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.6); caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;\"\u003EHere's the table that Newsom's Department of Finance published, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/2021-22\/pdf\/Revised\/BudgetSummary\/HigherEducation.pdf\"\u003Ein the Higher Education section of the May Revision\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhUrZv_20Dam6PxjsH6jeDUtXEGZevM-AOT_GqIpZY5svWPwsQvPe6uDV-BV0WfCDZtapOScCN7_Lb7SuTw-9BhKD3uqKJtkGIK4RS1rEsbtChyphenhyphencRixb3SJKVioaar_Ei-xAatBSunKMfA\/s1906\/Dept+of+Finance+Higher+Ed+Expend+May+Revision+DOF+0521.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1382\" data-original-width=\"1906\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhUrZv_20Dam6PxjsH6jeDUtXEGZevM-AOT_GqIpZY5svWPwsQvPe6uDV-BV0WfCDZtapOScCN7_Lb7SuTw-9BhKD3uqKJtkGIK4RS1rEsbtChyphenhyphencRixb3SJKVioaar_Ei-xAatBSunKMfA\/w400-h290\/Dept+of+Finance+Higher+Ed+Expend+May+Revision+DOF+0521.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe second row of figures is UC's Ongoing General Fund. Newsom and legislative Democrats cut UC's general fund during the pandemic year; later they decided to give it back, but not until the following year (2021-22).\u0026nbsp;\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EWe can redo the table so that it tracks only the state's permanent commitment to UC, in the form of ongoing general funds. \u0026nbsp;I give the one-time general fund restoration back to the year to which it belongs--2020-21. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"MsoTable15Grid4Accent1\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #4472c4; border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-left-width: 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-top-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 97.55pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"130\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: white;\"\u003EUC Ongoing General Fund\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #4472c4; border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 97.8pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"130\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: white;\"\u003E2019-2020\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #4472c4; border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 93.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"125\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: white;\"\u003E2020-2021 (with cut retroactively restored)\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #4472c4; border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 93.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"125\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: white;\"\u003E2021-2022\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #4472c4; border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-top-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.15pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"114\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: white;\"\u003E2 year cumulative change\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #d9e2f3; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 97.55pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"130\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #d9e2f3; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 97.8pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"130\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E$3,724.3 M\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #d9e2f3; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 93.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"125\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E$3,766.0 M\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #d9e2f3; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 93.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"125\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E$3972.1\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #d9e2f3; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.15pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"114\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E6.65%\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe one-year increase is 5.5 percent. Note that UC's GF allocation still falls short of the magic $4 billion ceiling it's been trying to break through for twenty years (in unadjusted dollars, so the real problem is worse--I discussed this issue in \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/shortfall.html\"\u003EShortfall,\"\u003C\/a\u003E covering the history that made Newsom's January budget such an affront). \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis increase is obviously better, but you don't get to break the $4 B barrier by restoring a cut to permanent general funds one year late. More importantly, an average annual increase of a bit more than 3¼ percent does not qualify as \"the largest state investment in UC history.\" \u0026nbsp;It doesn't justify the \"huge budget boost\" trumpet blast in this LA \u003Ci\u003ETimes\u003C\/i\u003E \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-05-14\/uc-cal-state-community-colleges-get-historic-budget-hike\"\u003Eheadline\u003C\/a\u003E, or the statement cosigned by UC president Drake and board chair Pérez.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere are other commitments, all one time, where the main money goes to 2 things: workforce preparedness and student housing. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EState underfunding has helped turn student housing into a scandal of private development, one that has led to overpricing, blown open this March when \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/education\/ucsd-students-faculty-push-back-against-steep-rent-hikes\/\"\u003EUCSD housing announced average rent increases for doctoral and professional students of 31 percent.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Newsom proposes $4 billion (over 2 years) for a \"low-cost student housing grant program focused on expanding the availability of affordable student housing.\" The money may well go to subsidize the private developers that helped cause the affordability problem--details are sparse. \u0026nbsp;It's a major problem, but would best be solved by the state restarting continuing allocations to capital projects, which it ended around 2006.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the workforce, Newsom proposes $1 billion (over 2 years) \"to establish the Learning-Aligned Employment program, which would promote learning-aligned, long-term career development for UC, CSU, and CCC students.\" The money would form a permanent endowment. \u0026nbsp;Again there are no details: much better student advising is not mentioned, but employer partnerships are, so it may turn out to be a state subsidy for apprenticeship programs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENewsom proposes little or nothing in core needs. \u0026nbsp;Deferred Maintenance, a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/new-governor-new-higher-ed-support.html\"\u003Eproblem totaling tens of billions\u003C\/a\u003E, gets $325 million in one-time funding, which for DM is a contradiction in terms. UCLA's Asian American Studies Center gets $5 million in one-time funding to research \"the prevention of hate incidents.\" He recommends $40 million more than that for the animal shelter medicine program at Davis.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA better way to fight racist hate crimes would be to fully fund critical ethnic studies, gender, queer, and trans studies, political theory, sociology, history, and the other non-STEM fields that study these issues systematically and have long offered detailed solutions. That is not happening, and I will return to this issue a bit later this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENewsom's thinking aligns with Biden's and the national party in a few important ways. They both continue the decades-old drift toward giving public funds to students rather than to institutions. \u0026nbsp;Student money escapes the instructional and (non-sponsored) research core, whose complexity and costs keep rising, but whose growth in operating money does not keep up.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESecond, they are using higher ed as a kind of renewed welfare state. Newsom knows it is politically hard to address the state's housing affordability crisis with a massive public housing program for working- and middle-class people, but politically easy to subsidize private developers to build public housing for students. \u0026nbsp;The public colleges' working poor would be affordably housed for a few years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe same goes for health and related social services (legal support for undocumented students, food security, transition support for formerly incarcerated students). \u0026nbsp;I favor this full suite of public support systems--it's the point of the Real College movement--but want them to be integrated into the society at large, funded through progressive taxation of the overall population, and not used as a substitute for funding advanced education. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThird, Newsom and Biden see higher education as workforce training for economic growth. They also tie that mainly to community colleges rather than to four-year degrees. \u0026nbsp;Newsom bundles his two biggest one-time programs into an aggregate with a largish headline number that must be shared by the 3 segments, and which treats the segments and their students as the same. \u0026nbsp;Newsom is joining Biden in demoting four-year colleges and universities, which is an anti-progressive trend that universities will need to fight.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis budget is a lot better than a cut. But it's not the New New Deal. \u0026nbsp;I'd feel better about where it might lead had president Drake and board chair Pérez described it accurately and set out ongoing needs. \u0026nbsp;But they did not. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHere's an update of the January chart, for context.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgEPCj3ZZx39m8rT9_iapQdMgXclZnMBRHzZYxro93ru2SxxwNHQOukucN3ixcmW5FpeVFAxJYv8cyvivrjb7rOjNV-NUAPd3vouysjQu7QXwjT_kzaBU-B_ohtIygy7rexC2bYpkttOH8\/s1736\/State+Funds+for+UC+Nominal+Dollars+052421.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"932\" data-original-width=\"1736\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgEPCj3ZZx39m8rT9_iapQdMgXclZnMBRHzZYxro93ru2SxxwNHQOukucN3ixcmW5FpeVFAxJYv8cyvivrjb7rOjNV-NUAPd3vouysjQu7QXwjT_kzaBU-B_ohtIygy7rexC2bYpkttOH8\/w400-h215\/State+Funds+for+UC+Nominal+Dollars+052421.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4129274186943868834\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/the-reality-of-governor-newsoms-budget.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4129274186943868834"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4129274186943868834"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/the-reality-of-governor-newsoms-budget.html","title":"The Reality of Governor Newsom's Budget"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgvaexsUOvB7tZ3xAZIDQfWr3L_qjVhbV9vvVppL4cm9f7rGISlDG6bpTa73_LgeWB7HSWtafx0-O30LbOKp7aTzCJ2e6HpTPj2Xv91mAIJnFyQGhoje9ydKKNY9Bcf1VXTo8b3aveM-QQ\/s72-w400-h225-c\/Screen+Shot+2021-05-24+at+09.20.23.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-4500161027274020685"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-17T14:38:00.004-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-17T14:44:26.064-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Covid-19"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Covid-19 Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cuts \u0026 Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Funding Model"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"FutherCuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"More Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Structural Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Regents"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Riverside"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":" Stop Redlining UCR! "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjfCQc3sMZlxvC8Lhv1AIwJW4-xJ5HIO7Y-ctEFhz3TsNrWbpEz-2y4ZBYwCFL9oL0C7EIzpspjNsYJx-43V8Foq3QAei6tQCRYs_Ktran7YT7O9Vey7e-tIxZkUBQMrzVYRO2OFnzQqck\/s1024\/ops.editorial.ucrtoday-1024x768.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"768\" data-original-width=\"1024\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjfCQc3sMZlxvC8Lhv1AIwJW4-xJ5HIO7Y-ctEFhz3TsNrWbpEz-2y4ZBYwCFL9oL0C7EIzpspjNsYJx-43V8Foq3QAei6tQCRYs_Ktran7YT7O9Vey7e-tIxZkUBQMrzVYRO2OFnzQqck\/w400-h300\/ops.editorial.ucrtoday-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAn Open Letter to University of California President Michael V. Drake and the University of California Board of Regents\u003Cp\u003EDear President Drake and Members of the UC Board of Regents,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe write to you today with our backs against the wall. As department chairs and program directors in the most racially diverse college at one of the two most racially diverse campuses in the University of California system, we in UC Riverside’s College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS) and our staff and faculty colleagues across UCR have been struggling for years to make ends meet. Already chronically underfunded by the state, UCR was devastated by the budget decisions made by then-President Yudof and the Regents at the height of the Great Recession. We have worked in staggeringly understaffed and underfunded conditions since then. Yet on top of our chronic underfunding by the state, we now face an additional – and permanent – 11 percent budget cut. This is not just unsustainable financially, it is unsupportable on grounds of fairness, equity, and most importantly, of racial justice – pillars of the University of California’s mission.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUCR’s budget is made up almost entirely of salaries and benefits – in CHASS, the proportion is 98 percent. Thus any permanent budget cut inevitably is a cut in people. We hemorrhaged staff and faculty during the Great Recession, and although we have been able to hire additional faculty in subsequent years, our student population has grown rapidly enough to largely outpace those gains, leaving us severely overcrowded and still struggling to rebuild. Our world-class research university already operates on a shoestring; further cuts would be devastating. For many of us, this pattern of systemic neglect and chronic underfunding of a university serving a student body composed of at least 85 percent students of color is troublingly reminiscent of redlining, the practices consolidated after the Second World War that devastated thriving neighborhoods made up predominantly of people of color. We are writing to implore you to stop the redlining of UCR.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith roots stretching back to the turn of the twentieth century, UCR has a distinguished history in the UC system. A former agricultural experiment station, UCR was meant to serve as a flagship undergraduate institution in the UC system, serving the Inland region of Southern California. UCR is second only to UC Merced in the percentage of students of color, has one of the highest percentages of Pell grant recipients in the nation, and serves a student body that is well over 50 percent first-generation college students. Yet our increasingly brown and working-class campus has frequently been overlooked or sidelined within the UC system.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is not simply a symbolic move; even after a post-recession reconfiguration of the UC system’s distribution of state funds to its campuses, UCR currently receives approximately $8,500 per student, whereas UCLA receives closer to $11,500 and the Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, and San Diego campuses receive $10,000. Yet our student-to-faculty ratio is higher than the UC system average, and our student-to-staff ratio is fully 38% higher. We applaud the recent “re-benching” decision that will bring the funding of UCR and other under-funded campuses to within 95 percent of the systemwide per-student average by 2024. But as with redlined neighborhoods, the damage to UCR’s resources from decades of neglect cannot be reversed simply by bringing our support from the system up to an amount that is only slightly below average rather than grossly below average, nor will the phased-in implementation of this plan help us avoid devastation in the present moment. We were facing an 11 percent budget cut before the announcement of the re-benching; we are facing the same budget cut after its announcement, because rebenching is not enough.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt takes more funding, not less, to create an educational environment in which first-generation college students and students of color can thrive. UCR has been lauded for closing the gap in graduation rates between white students and students of color, and for the past two years \u003Ci\u003EUS News and World Report\u003C\/i\u003E has ranked us the top US university for social mobility. We have an internationally renowned faculty that includes two Nobel Laureates, close to fifty Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows, and nineteen Guggenheim Fellows. But in addition to being highly accomplished researchers, scholars, and artists, our faculty are something more: many of us came to and have remained at UCR because of our deep commitment to serving first-generation and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) students. UCR educates Californians – 96 percent of our students are California residents – and in return, because we do not expand our budget with out-of-state tuition, we suffer. Were all UC campuses facing the same dire circumstances, we would weather the storm shoulder-to-shoulder with them. Instead, we are being left out in the cold yet again: when many colleges at other UC campuses are losing only two to three percent of their budgets, we are facing the stark decisions demanded by an 11 percent permanent budget cut. This abandonment by the President’s office and the Board of Regents is a demoralizing example of structural racism.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor nearly a year, we have all witnessed the disproportionate impact of both COVID-19 and the pandemic-induced recession on BIPOC communities, some of them the same communities devastated by redlining and nearly destroyed by the Great Recession. Communities subjected to decades and, in many cases, centuries of systemic racism have few of the resources that have helped many white communities to remain safe and financially solvent during this crisis. Systematically deprived of resources through decades of neglect, our campus – with one of the brownest and poorest student bodies in the entire UC system – is facing economic devastation. How will staff who already do the work of two people take on more, if we have to cut our staffing even further? How will departments that are already stretched to breaking stretch further? Should we increase our teaching load even more, and destroy the stellar educational system we have built in favor of an impersonal factory model? Should we turn away from our research and creative production and deprive our students of the cutting-edge insights and opportunities afforded by a world-class faculty? With a globally engaged student body, should we meekly accept the elimination of UCR from the UCDC program and others like it? The UC system clearly believes that students at other UC campuses deserve these opportunities; are our students any less deserving?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe correlation is glaring between the fact that we serve one of the highest numbers of BIPOC students in the system, the historic lack of systemwide investment in our campus, and the offer of a solution that brings the UC system’s support of us to less far below average over the course of the next several years. In a time of long-overdue attention to the destruction wreaked by systemic racism in the US, it should finally be clear that UCR’s students deserve a fully equal investment from the UC system, including support to correct for years of economic marginalization. It’s time to stop redlining UCR.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERespectfully,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJuliann Emmons Allison, Director, Global Studies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESheila Bergman, Executive Director, UCR ARTS\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHeidi Brayman, Director, Liberal Studies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERogerio Budasz, Chair, Department of Music\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEdward T. Chang, Director, Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies Christopher K. Chase-Dunn, Director, Institute for Research on World-Systems Walter A. Clark, Director, Center for Iberian and Latin American Music Derick A. Fay, Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETod Goldberg, Program Director, Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing \u0026amp; Writing for the Performing Arts\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWeihsin Gui, Director, Southeast Asian Studies Program\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESherine Hafez, Chair, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESteven M. Helfand, Chair, Department of Economics\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERickerby Hinds, Chair, Department of Theater, Film, and Digital Production Tamara C. Ho, Director, California Center for Native Nations\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMatthew King, Director, Asian Studies Program\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJacques Lezra, Chair, Department of Hispanic Studies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDavid Lloyd, Chair, Department of English\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETom Lutz, Chair, Department of Creative Writing\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJohn N. Medearis, Chair, Department of Political Science\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYunhee Min, Chair, Department of Art\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJennifer R. Nájera, Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDaniel Ozer, Chair, Department of Psychology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAndrews Reath, Chair, Department of Philosophy\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEllen Reese, Co-Chair, Department of Sociology and Chair of Labor Studies Judith Rodenbeck, Chair, Department of Media and Cultural Studies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJeff Sacks, Chair, Department of Comparative Literature and Languages Michele Salzman, Chair, Department of History\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoel Mejia Smith, Chair, Department of Dance\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGlenn Stanley, Co-chair, Department of Sociology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJason Weems, Chair, Department of the History of Art\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMelissa M. Wilcox, Chair, Department of Religious Studies\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4500161027274020685\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/stop-redlining-ucr.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4500161027274020685"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4500161027274020685"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/stop-redlining-ucr.html","title":" Stop Redlining UCR! "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjfCQc3sMZlxvC8Lhv1AIwJW4-xJ5HIO7Y-ctEFhz3TsNrWbpEz-2y4ZBYwCFL9oL0C7EIzpspjNsYJx-43V8Foq3QAei6tQCRYs_Ktran7YT7O9Vey7e-tIxZkUBQMrzVYRO2OFnzQqck\/s72-w400-h300-c\/ops.editorial.ucrtoday-1024x768.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-3043768981585794273"},"published":{"$t":"2020-06-28T11:14:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-01-14T07:40:42.076-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Funding Model"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"When Are Access and Inclusion Also Racist? "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh6nOLOUYerK750GUHQPC-OkUY5JCDeONrO_AeZ9pUkCqGrlR0hr4CQY7tZ0VX7tYVYhGGHP3j_1-59iYBDNSyg6RHWqkp5GGttTnfH4JLZy8xyu4Tf-7S9r6NUYLIiaOW3FSzLcpuTCDs\/s1600\/Napolitano+Perez+DACA+Win+061820+LAT.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1078\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh6nOLOUYerK750GUHQPC-OkUY5JCDeONrO_AeZ9pUkCqGrlR0hr4CQY7tZ0VX7tYVYhGGHP3j_1-59iYBDNSyg6RHWqkp5GGttTnfH4JLZy8xyu4Tf-7S9r6NUYLIiaOW3FSzLcpuTCDs\/s320\/Napolitano+Perez+DACA+Win+061820+LAT.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EAnswer: when students of color get access to and are included in a university that has become inferior to that built for whites.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis can happen across universities, or across campuses in a university system, or across disciplines on a campus, or across time in one university.\u0026nbsp; Victories for access don't take care of the problem of unequal educational treatment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis isn't to belittle this month's access victories.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFirst, the University of California Board of Regents voted to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/admissions\/article\/2020\/05\/26\/university-california-votes-phase-out-sat-and-act\"\u003Ephase out the SAT in admissions\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; This will push UC and others towards the holistic, qualitative assessment of candidates that they should have been practicing since the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/supremecourt\/text\/438\/265\"\u003EBakke decision of 1978\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; It's true that the Academic Senate's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/underreview\/sttf-report.pdf\"\u003Ereport\u003C\/a\u003E suggests this isn't a magic bullet for increasing the presence of underrepresented minority (URM) students. It's also true that the decision was not good for faculty governance (see John Douglass's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cshe.berkeley.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/rops.cshe_.8.2020.douglass.ucvssat_briefhistory.6.25.2020.pdf\"\u003Enew paper \u003C\/a\u003Eon both points). All I'll note here is that the SAT is not just a test. It's an ideology, one that has consistently and wrongly claimed that racial inclusion lowers academic quality.\u0026nbsp; Politicians have used SAT scores to make whites think that widening access victimizes them.\u0026nbsp; It has been a technology of racial resentment that has helped unmake the public university. (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674060364\u0026amp;content=toc\"\u003ESee chapters 3-7\u003C\/a\u003E in my book of that name for an extended discussion of the structural racism of what I called \u003Ci\u003Erank meritocracy\u003C\/i\u003E, featuring 1990s Gov. Pete Wilson's use of SAT scores to induce the UC Regents to ban affirmative action.)\u0026nbsp; The SAT's suspension is a real victory for cross-racial access.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe same can be said of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2020\/06\/19\/supreme-court-rules-trump-administration-cannot-immediately-end-daca\"\u003Etemporary reprieve for the DACA program \u003C\/a\u003Ewon by a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/19pdf\/18-587_5ifl.pdf\"\u003EUC lawsuit.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; UC president Janet Napolitano and Board of Regents chair John Pérez \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-06-18\/after-high-court-daca-decision-uc-vows-to-push-forward-with-support-for-immigrant\"\u003Enoted that UC would continue to fight for full access\u003C\/a\u003E to UC and to financial aid, legal services, and other support systems for undocumented students brought to the US as children. \u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nSuch actions “expressed the desire of those of us in California to make \nsure that we expanded opportunity and worked towards broad-based \nimmigration reform as well,” Pérez said.\u0026nbsp; And so I think it would be no surprise to anybody that this university \nis going to continue to commit itself to representing the interest of \nall our students.\" \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nThis is another access victory, which universities will need to work to sustain.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnd yet access raises the question, access to what? What is the university that Napolitano and Pérez, as those most responsible for UC's finances, offer access to?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn brief, they offer today's students access to an underfunded UC.\u0026nbsp; Today's increased proportion of undocumented, first generation, low-income, immigrant, and URM students have fewer educational and related resources than did the cohorts that came before.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI documented this in a recent post.\u0026nbsp; Even after today's students pay a multiple of the tuition paid by students twenty years ago, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3d1CtZP\"\u003Etheir UC of 2020 has sixty percent of the net per-student funding compared to that earlier UC\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; I noted that Pérez, as Assembly Speaker, was a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/privatization-hits-wall.html\"\u003Eleading enforcer of this austerity.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut is this negative funding pattern a racial pattern? We can check by comparing the share of white students at UC to the share of state income the government allocates to the university.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiTUmTN9cUOirg4lx3ZGUF5qbtE-hEnTMMQ3eUhXmR4BJhbljKo2xJXdPgesYKpvkNGJxctvLyKhx6PSm6ZuRNVCrsVJpUM_NOukQXOhBhHLLNbcPA-O5geZC4PKKkFslUyYCUp8R0G1XI\/s1600\/White+Share+UC+Enroll+x+State+GF+0620.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"916\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiTUmTN9cUOirg4lx3ZGUF5qbtE-hEnTMMQ3eUhXmR4BJhbljKo2xJXdPgesYKpvkNGJxctvLyKhx6PSm6ZuRNVCrsVJpUM_NOukQXOhBhHLLNbcPA-O5geZC4PKKkFslUyYCUp8R0G1XI\/s640\/White+Share+UC+Enroll+x+State+GF+0620.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nThe state's politicians have defunded UC in the \u003Ci\u003Eexact\u003C\/i\u003E proportion of its decline in white student share.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis is not a coordinated intention, but it has happened anyway. White enrollment and funding go down hand in hand--except when funding goes down faster during major economic downturns. Republican and Democratic leaders give diverse UC less money than they gave a comparatively white UC. \u003Ci\u003EThis\u003C\/i\u003E is what racist inclusion looks like.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHigher ed funding expresses systemic racism, even as most members of college communities oppose it.\u0026nbsp; We've seen \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cew.georgetown.edu\/cew-reports\/separate-unequal\/\"\u003Ethe national pattern of \"separate but unequal\" \u003C\/a\u003Ein\n which most new white students go to selective colleges while most new\nstudents of color go to open access colleges--which have less money and \nlower graduation rates. We've seen the UC campuses with\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/racial-patterns-of-campus-budget.html\"\u003E higher shares of students of color get less funding from UCOP\u003C\/a\u003E. (\"Rebenching\" did not fully fix this).\u0026nbsp; In our UC system case, we see California state leaders--including leaders of racialized, educationally underserved communities--coming up with excuses, year after year, to fund UC in \u003Ci\u003Einverse\u003C\/i\u003E proportion to its diversity.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOne can be consciously anti-racist while supporting systemic racism.\u0026nbsp; This is a pattern in U.S. political life. The pattern is top-down austerity management for institutions devoted to racial equality and related forms of social justice.\u0026nbsp; While politicians of both major parties have deregulated and de-taxed the private sector, they have applied austerity to public institutions, which offer reduced quality of service to populations that are often minority-majority.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe historian Elizabeth Hinton recently outlined \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/02\/opinion\/george-floyd-protests-1960s.html\"\u003Ethe longer-term pattern:\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003E\nPresident Lyndon B. Johnson recognized\nthe role police brutality and socioeconomic inequality played in urban\nuprisings when he convened the Kerner Commission in 1967. Its report warned\nthat if American political and economic institutions failed to commit resources\n“sufficient to make a dramatic, visible impact on life in the urban ghetto,”\nthe nation would become increasingly divided along racial lines and plagued by\ninequality — a “spiral” of segregation, violence and police force. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\nThough the Kerner Commission and much subsequent research\ncreated \"blueprints\" for changing the “socioeconomic\nconditions that led to [George] Floyd’s premature death,” these research blueprints were\nnever implemented.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003E\nThe tragedy of the war on poverty\nis that the promise of grass-roots empowerment and representation was not\nsustained on a wider level, or for entire communities, but only for\nindividuals. While remnants of critical reforms are still with us, like the\nHead Start program, on the whole policymakers at all levels believed “maximum\nfeasible participation” worked against their self-interest. By 1965, as many\npromising grass-roots initiatives began to receive the initial [Office of\nEconomic Opportunity] grants, they were required to design programs with public\nofficials and municipal authorities in top-level positions. Soon after,\npolicymakers defunded and dissolved anti-poverty programs. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUC isn't being dissolved.\u0026nbsp; But it is being steadily defunded.\u0026nbsp; Napolitano and her OP, Pérez and his regents, aren't openly opposing the most likely scenario for the state portion of UC's 2020-21 budget--a net 7 percent cut from 2019-20's level, or -$260.8 million. This cut to the permanent budget would happen in a year when Covid-19 health and safety could \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/going-online-due-to-covid-19-this-fall-could-hurt-colleges-future-138926\"\u003Eadd at least $1 billion to the system's costs. \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe long defunding has reduced the power and vitality of UC grassroots--for example, \nof the academic departments with a fraction of their former funding for \nspeakers and internal research, which now depend on the accident of \nprivate donations. Similarly, UC's equivalent of anti-poverty \nprograms--for students facing food insecurity, housing insecurity, and \nmental health issues--are also funded at a fraction of estimated need.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nReplicating the other key post-Kerner retrenchment, UC governance is more top-down than ever. On the important matter of selecting the new president, the Board excluded the Academic Advisory Committee from basic participation in the search for the new president: even its Chair was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/reports\/assembly-resolution-presidential-search.pdf\"\u003Enot allowed to attend selection committee meetings.\u003C\/a\u003E UCOP treated the UCSC wildcat COLA strike as a breach of contract discipline rather than as a desperate attempt to communicate basic needs. Participants still face disciplinary charges at Santa Cruz \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/ucsc-assistant-professor-letter-to.html\"\u003Ein spite of faculty objections\u003C\/a\u003E. The Board of Regents remain literally inaccessible to faculty, who may not address the Board except through the president (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/governance\/standing-orders\/so1052.html\"\u003EStanding Order 105.2(e)\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nJerry Brown, Gavin Newsom, Janet Napolitano, John Pérez, and their \nlegislative comrades have replicated in higher ed the strategy that 1960s politicians applied\u0026nbsp; to cities after Black uprisings against police violence and racist \nunderdevelopment.\u0026nbsp; They have expressed support for their developmentalist \ninstitutions while taking money and power out of them.\u0026nbsp; Of course the \nsocial damage done by underfunding public services for Black and other \ncommunities has been far greater than that wrought by underfunding of \npublic universities.\u0026nbsp; But the practices are analogous. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe public university funding model is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu\/title\/great-mistake\"\u003Ebroken\u003C\/a\u003E--and\n racist.\u0026nbsp; More inclusion as such won't fix that. Funding parity will fix\n it.\u0026nbsp; That means\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/66fix.org\/\"\u003E the 66 Dollar Fix \u003C\/a\u003Eor some similar Covid-era stimulus funding that gets per-student resources to the benchmark established for white UC."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3043768981585794273\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/when-are-access-and-inclusion-also.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3043768981585794273"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3043768981585794273"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/when-are-access-and-inclusion-also.html","title":"When Are Access and Inclusion Also Racist? "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh6nOLOUYerK750GUHQPC-OkUY5JCDeONrO_AeZ9pUkCqGrlR0hr4CQY7tZ0VX7tYVYhGGHP3j_1-59iYBDNSyg6RHWqkp5GGttTnfH4JLZy8xyu4Tf-7S9r6NUYLIiaOW3FSzLcpuTCDs\/s72-c\/Napolitano+Perez+DACA+Win+061820+LAT.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-2579985297540806749"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-12T11:08:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-12T11:08:28.123-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Covid-19"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Funding Model"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Regents"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"UC Regents Face the Covid Crisis: Program Notes"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgl0LU4mlMG88yc7JEuOE5aNBxsPbB0TqyUvI-NBO3n9YAG3IUhoXVPn1YW5HUyNGQOhegU4YXGiDRck3JPAF8dS02iawLF06R_OT9zV6pU6fX9jBB87J68tNoJYyaYCYSDzs94DtHYR34\/s1600\/financial-armageddon.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1200\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgl0LU4mlMG88yc7JEuOE5aNBxsPbB0TqyUvI-NBO3n9YAG3IUhoXVPn1YW5HUyNGQOhegU4YXGiDRck3JPAF8dS02iawLF06R_OT9zV6pU6fX9jBB87J68tNoJYyaYCYSDzs94DtHYR34\/s320\/financial-armageddon.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nby Eric Hays, Executive Director, Council of UC Faculty Associations\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe UC Regents are meeting May 19-21 via Zoom. Agenda materials are now available online \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/meetings\/agendas\/may20.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome highlights follow.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn Tuesday, May 19th, at 11:30 am, there will be a public comment session followed by the Finance and Capital Strategies Committee discussing major capital projects. Then, at 2:30 pm, the Investments Committee will get an update on how hard hit UC's various investment pools are. The pension fund, for example, is down 12.4 percent in the first quarter of 2020, or down 4% from this time last year. Remember, the assumption is that UCRP will earn on average a 6.75% rate of return (already lowered last Octobeer from an assumed 7.25% return).\u0026nbsp; UC had discussed increasing employee contributions at the time.\u0026nbsp; What will they discuss in the midst of Covid-19?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere's the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/may20\/i1.pdf\"\u003Efull Investment Committee report.\u003C\/a\u003E It\u0026nbsp; includes information about UC's other major funds, like the endowment and the investment pools. You can find links to the Power Point presentations at the end of that document for more details about each fund.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen, at 4:30 pm, the Special Committee on Basic Needs will meet to discuss the report they were working on before Covid. UC students were already suffering from food and housing insecurity. What is the situation now? They do have a Covid update agendized, but without any real information.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWednesday, May 20th, starts with a closed session where the Regents will discuss hiring a new Chancellor for UC Merced.\u0026nbsp; Then it becomes Covid-19 Day.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAt 10 am the Health Service Committee is supposed to hear about the impact of Covid on UC's health services. At least half of UC's projected losses this spring stem from the Medical Centers.\u0026nbsp; But so far there are no details for this item in the agenda.\u0026nbsp; In the Academic and Student Affairs Committee that follows, the agenda material says only,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nUC campuses are actively involved in scenario planning for the fall, with options ranging from returning to on-campus instruction, continuing remote instruction, or a hybrid of in-person and remote instruction.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nSince UC's recovery depends on opening campuses for instruction, we should look for more detailed planning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis session will be followed by the Finance and Capital Strategies Committee discussing the impact of Covid on UC revenue. There are some interesting figures here: \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EUC campuses and medical centers had over $14 billion in working capital as of March 31, 2020 – an amount roughly equivalent to 155 days’ cash on hand.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ELosses to UC in March and April totaled $1.2 billion across the system, including $700 million attributable to the University’s medical centers\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\nQuantitative information peters out quickly.\u0026nbsp; The agenda describes potential reductions in revenue from tuition or from the state as \"uncertain.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is more detail about the state's finances \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/may20\/f7.pdf\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003Ehere\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nOn May 7, the Department of Finance projected a looming budget deficit of $54.3 billion for the State, including $13.4 billion in the current year and $40.9 billion in 2020-21. (The overall projected deficit is equivalent to nearly 37 percent of budgeted General Fund expenditures in 2019-20.) A report published by the Legislative Analyst’s Office on May 8 projects a deficit ranging from $18 billion to $31 billion... \u003Ci\u003EA significant reduction in ongoing State support for UC in 2020-21 is possible. \u003C\/i\u003EThe timeline and prospects for full restoration of any such cuts could be uncertain for some time. (Even today, State support for the University remains below 2007-08 levels after adjusting for inflation, California resident enrollment growth, and other factors.) (emphasis added)\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nThen (and mind you this is still supposedly before lunch on Wednesday) the full board will gather to discuss \"Principles for Responsible Operation of University Locations in Light of COVID-19 Pandemic.\" You can \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/may20\/b2.pdf\"\u003Eread a roadmap\u003C\/a\u003E to reopen campuses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt 1:00 pm, the Finance and Capital Strategies Committee meets to discuss UCOP's budget for next year.\u0026nbsp; UC says they will work really hard to get the 2020-21 Office of the President's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/may20\/f8.pdf\"\u003Ebudget down 5% \u003C\/a\u003Efrom the 2019-20 budget.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAt 2:00 pm, the Governance Committee has an agenda item about a review of board member misconduct, but the link to background material is currently broken. The committee will also discuss the policy on appointing the Student Regent. That is followed by some closed sessions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhich brings us to Thursday, the 21st. The full board meets starting at 8:30 am with public comment, followed by further discussion and then finally a vote on an issue that preoccupied the Board during their first remote Covid meeting in March: UC's use of standardized college entrance exams.\u0026nbsp; The use of the SAT\/ACT in admissions has roiled higher education for decades, and UC is no exception.\u0026nbsp; President Napolitano is recommending that the regents suspend the standardized test requirement through 2024, pending a fully revised or new equivalent test. Read all about it \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/may20\/b4.pdf\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2579985297540806749\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/uc-regents-face-covid-crisis-program.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2579985297540806749"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2579985297540806749"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/uc-regents-face-covid-crisis-program.html","title":"UC Regents Face the Covid Crisis: Program Notes"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgl0LU4mlMG88yc7JEuOE5aNBxsPbB0TqyUvI-NBO3n9YAG3IUhoXVPn1YW5HUyNGQOhegU4YXGiDRck3JPAF8dS02iawLF06R_OT9zV6pU6fX9jBB87J68tNoJYyaYCYSDzs94DtHYR34\/s72-c\/financial-armageddon.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-6972911989675686947"},"published":{"$t":"2020-02-18T13:53:00.001-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-02-18T14:26:02.132-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Labor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Employee Benefits"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Funding Model"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"CUCFA Letter to President Napolitano on the Crisis at UCSC"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgKJQLwPKsaKK7FpMNnjZ3gQ9Y8MCvEf_rfKkT5ncw6Drv0b8QJcHbomdkC-nHVv-K3OTzzdOsB0SSj4FY89lUpZC9oRdAK3VnyVS7n-FxaYlKT7b9kdvxQTD8L4qKp-a5ybzNw0brRYsGE\/s1600\/Fair+Labor+Rights.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"334\" data-original-width=\"500\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgKJQLwPKsaKK7FpMNnjZ3gQ9Y8MCvEf_rfKkT5ncw6Drv0b8QJcHbomdkC-nHVv-K3OTzzdOsB0SSj4FY89lUpZC9oRdAK3VnyVS7n-FxaYlKT7b9kdvxQTD8L4qKp-a5ybzNw0brRYsGE\/s320\/Fair+Labor+Rights.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #404040; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\nDear President Napolitano,\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\nWe share with you a commitment to the mission of the University of California. Your\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/news.ucsc.edu\/2020\/02\/letter-president-unsanctioned-strike.html\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #21759b; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFebruary 14 letter to the UC Santa Cruz community\u003C\/a\u003E, however, raises concerns among faculty across the UC system about how best to address the crisis under which many of our graduate students live. This is a crisis born of rapid increases in housing costs with which graduate student incomes have long not kept pace. A thriving graduate student body is essential to our research and teaching, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The graduate student demand for cost of living increases, begun in actions at UC Santa Cruz and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1TYYITqYa5_ZqdtLuvIK-Wmp5-jXDjVjk4DzP5sNCofE\/edit\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #21759b; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Enow\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/dailynexus.com\/2020-01-23\/ucsb-grad-students-hold-demonstration-in-solidarity-with-uc-santa-cruz-over-cost-of-living-adjustment\/\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #21759b; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Espreading\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/dailynexus.com\/2020-02-13\/across-uc-system-graduate-students-unite-for-cola-movement\/\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #21759b; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eacross\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UAW2865SD\/status\/1227024366321295360\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #21759b; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ethe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ucla4cola\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #21759b; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Esystem\u003C\/a\u003E, is an acute response to unsustainable conditions.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\"\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EA punitive response to these actions, resulting in the dismissal of hundreds of Academic Student Employees, will disrupt the education of thousands of undergraduates and will make the work of many UCSC faculty difficult or impossible. Therefore we urge you to work to achieve a speedy and satisfactory solution to the cost of living crisis that we all recognize.\u0026nbsp;We all hope for a quick solution that will both address legitimate and pressing graduate student concerns and not interfere with faculty ability to do their jobs.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\nSincerely yours,\u003Cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/\u003EThe Executive Board of the Council of UC Faculty Associations\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6972911989675686947\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/02\/cucfa-letter-to-president-napolitano-on.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6972911989675686947"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6972911989675686947"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/02\/cucfa-letter-to-president-napolitano-on.html","title":"CUCFA Letter to President Napolitano on the Crisis at UCSC"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Michael Meranze"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05336793340375780406"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgKJQLwPKsaKK7FpMNnjZ3gQ9Y8MCvEf_rfKkT5ncw6Drv0b8QJcHbomdkC-nHVv-K3OTzzdOsB0SSj4FY89lUpZC9oRdAK3VnyVS7n-FxaYlKT7b9kdvxQTD8L4qKp-a5ybzNw0brRYsGE\/s72-c\/Fair+Labor+Rights.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-2347553963041672678"},"published":{"$t":"2020-01-13T08:52:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-01-13T13:08:08.642-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Funding Model"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guest post"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Janet Napolitano"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Regents"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"First Look at the Governor's UC Budget Proposal"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjhfTDG2y7nJcfgE65-1L37GQ5w3tLmPdguIYFZ2E6PmW9c9CDOP9nyEYOUtXi2zPpOvU3kE_CrdK14zKV2fYz7riFtmfmG95mriH3GBZQdVObzJTOEYrtIGQBecOqqwmRzLdUazOsEOZGn\/s1600\/04052018-happisburgh-cliffwalk+%25281%2529.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"528\" data-original-width=\"937\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjhfTDG2y7nJcfgE65-1L37GQ5w3tLmPdguIYFZ2E6PmW9c9CDOP9nyEYOUtXi2zPpOvU3kE_CrdK14zKV2fYz7riFtmfmG95mriH3GBZQdVObzJTOEYrtIGQBecOqqwmRzLdUazOsEOZGn\/s320\/04052018-happisburgh-cliffwalk+%25281%2529.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EBy Eric Hays \u003C\/i\u003E(CUCFA)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EGovernor Gavin Newson presented his 2020-21 state budget proposal last\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EFriday. The full budget summary is \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/2020-21\/pdf\/BudgetSummary\/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Ethe detailed budget for higher ed can be found \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/budget\/2020-21\/#\/Department\/6440\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EUC Board of Regents Chair John Pérez and UC President Janet Napolitano\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Equickly\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/statement-uc-board-regents-chair-p-rez-and-uc-president-napolitano-gov-newsom-s-budget\"\u003E put out a statement\u003C\/a\u003E wherein they essentially thanked the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EGovernor for his generosity. The concluding sentence is “UC appreciates\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Ethe governor’s strong continued support of higher education and looks\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eforward to our ongoing partnership.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EWhile there is something to be said for the politics of maybe getting\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Emore of what you want by being polite rather than by being rude, I think\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Ethere is real harm in UC making such a public statement as it probably\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Egives the public the idea that UC is being generously funded by the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Estate while that is absolutely not true. And this proposed budget,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eshould it pass, will simply make things worse.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003ELet me start by pointing out that California public universities are p\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Erovided less funding per student than any state except Florida (see the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.co m\/pro file\/sheeo#!\/vizhome\/SHEF_FY18_Interactive_Data\/About\"\u003E\"Total Education Revenue per FTE\" data\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EGovernor Newsom can, and did, at the his budget release press conference\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Epoint to a 5.8% increase in general fund base support for UC to try to\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Emake this budget proposal look generous, but that ignores so many things.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EThe first point to make about the increase in funding to UC is that this\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eis a 5.8% increase only if you just look at the general fund base\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Ebudget. In past budget years, the state has provided UC with substantial\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eone time funds. This year there is substantially less one time funding.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003ESo, when you look at total state funding of UC, base plus one-time\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Emoneys, the overall increase to UC is actually 1.3% in 2020-21 relative\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eto 2019-20. This compares to a 3.5% increase in state revenue overall,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eand a 2.2% average increase in state spending across all departments,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eindicating that UC is not a priority in this budget.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003ETo be fair, the table on page 25 of the budget summary link above shows\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Ethat, at the macro scale of looking just at the grossest division of\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eexpenditures in the state budget, Governor Newsom is proposing cutting\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Espending to almost every program in state government except Health and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EHuman Services, which gets a 13% increase, K-12, which gets a 1.6%\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eincrease, and Higher Education, which gets a 0.1% increase.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EPublic higher education, and UC specifically, then are getting a small\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eincrease in funding, but such a small increase will likely be\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Ecompletely countered by inflation.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EMore importantly, while funding is growing modestly, enrollment is\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Egrowing quickly. University wide headcount grew from about\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu\/2019\/chapters\/chapter-1.html\"\u003E 200,000 in\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu\/2019\/chapters\/chapter-1.html\"\u003E2015 to 222,493 in 2018\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EState funding for UC would have to grow at least as fast as enrollment\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eis growing if we were just to maintain the current funding per student\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003E(and remember, California is 49th of 50 states on this metric), and this\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Elow rate of growth in funding to UC is just not going to do it.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EWhat's more, the budget numbers above don't consider big portions of\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EUC's budget that the state has basically walked away from since the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Erecession: namely paying for UC's pension and paying for facilities.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EThe state used to pay pension costs for UC's state paid employees. But,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eafter the contribution holiday (when the UC Retirement System was more\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Ethan fully funded such that neither employer nor employee had to make\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Econtributions into it for nearly 20 years) ended in 2010, the state\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Erefused to restart their employer contributions to UCRS. Note that the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Estate continues to pay its share of retirement contributions for other\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Estate employees, such as faculty at CSU. As\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EUC's\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E2019-20 budget proposal indicates,\u003C\/span\u003E the\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Estate has shorted the UC Retirement System a total of about $3\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Ebillion since contributions restarted in 2010. \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ucop.edu\/operating-budget\/_files\/rbudget\/2019-20-budget-detail.pdf\"\u003E(160\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003ENewsom's budget last year included a $3 billion supplemental pension\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Epayment to pay unfunded liabilities of the CalPERS retirement plan over\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Efiscal years 2018-19 through 2022-23 plus $2.9 billion for CalSTRS (the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EK-12 teachers’ pension) to pay unfunded liabilities over the same\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eperiod. Although at one point debated, in the end there was no similar\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Edebt relief for UCRS in last year's budget. This year's budget proposes\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eaccelerating the payout to CalPERS so that the 2020-21 through 2022-23\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Emoneys would be paid in 2019-20 -- but still no money for UCRS.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EFor facilities, the state is short $20 billion in education and general\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Efacilities capital funding for UC -- the buildings and other\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Einfrastructure that UC needs for its core mission of teaching and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eresearch \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov19\/f6.pdf\"\u003E(about 1\/4 of which is seismic repairs and upgrades, 1\/4 is\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov19\/f6.pdf\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Erepairs and replacement of aging plant, and half is needed for expansion\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eof educational programs caused by past and ongoing rapid enrollment\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov19\/f6.pdf\"\u003Egrowth\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EThe bottom line is that California public universities have long had to\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Edo more with less, causing real long term damage, and this budget\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eproposal is not going to change that.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2347553963041672678\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/01\/first-look-at-governors-uc-budget.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2347553963041672678"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2347553963041672678"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/01\/first-look-at-governors-uc-budget.html","title":"First Look at the Governor's UC Budget Proposal"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Michael Meranze"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05336793340375780406"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjhfTDG2y7nJcfgE65-1L37GQ5w3tLmPdguIYFZ2E6PmW9c9CDOP9nyEYOUtXi2zPpOvU3kE_CrdK14zKV2fYz7riFtmfmG95mriH3GBZQdVObzJTOEYrtIGQBecOqqwmRzLdUazOsEOZGn\/s72-c\/04052018-happisburgh-cliffwalk+%25281%2529.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-6454540036045701166"},"published":{"$t":"2019-11-12T08:42:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-01-07T10:24:58.309-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Funding Model"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"After the Successful Pursuit of Private Revenue Streams, are UC Campuses Destined for Deficits?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiKzYNRQApEFKi6_hGp6D3FlzPIeAbgEQSzAeEBE3FcB52pYjHji-I8t5ieVg14d04g-dOfrmGL8gNyqEOz847Hx_ujT3fuoaB2UxZ8_FAhhuNU6sQERXV8iQS7viB1Hz0S-AF15N9mJ50\/s1600\/UCSB+Lagoon+Ansel+Adams.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1103\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiKzYNRQApEFKi6_hGp6D3FlzPIeAbgEQSzAeEBE3FcB52pYjHji-I8t5ieVg14d04g-dOfrmGL8gNyqEOz847Hx_ujT3fuoaB2UxZ8_FAhhuNU6sQERXV8iQS7viB1Hz0S-AF15N9mJ50\/s320\/UCSB+Lagoon+Ansel+Adams.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nThe short answer seems to be yes.\u0026nbsp; At least one large campus is in and out of negative, two other big ones are heading towards it, and the state of the rest is unknown.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; All of these have been prize pupils of revenue diversification--going into every kind\n of private alternative to state funding they can find.\u0026nbsp; How is this \nworking out for them?\u0026nbsp; This is a question the UC Regents should consider when they meet this week, as they ponder the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov19\/b4.pdf\"\u003Emain budget request\u003C\/a\u003E that UCOP has put together, and its apparently large 7.5 percent increase from the state. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUC Berkeley had struggled for years with reorganizations and other deals that didn't pan out as expected (e.g. \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/bains-blow-to-berkeley.html\"\u003EOperation Excellence\u003C\/a\u003E and its \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/the-new-normal-isnt-normal-it-erodes.html\"\u003Eaftermath\u003C\/a\u003E). In late 2013, then-VC for Administration and Finance \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/vcaf.berkeley.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Time%20is%20not%20on%20our%20side%201%2011.29.13.pdf\"\u003EJohn Wilton announced\u003C\/a\u003E that Berkeley's \"current path is financially unsustainable\" (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/vcaf.berkeley.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Time%20is%20not%20on%20our%20side%201%2011.29.13.pdf\"\u003Epage 2\u003C\/a\u003E), and said that only prudent preparation (aka building reserves) had prevented the campus from already being in deficit.\u0026nbsp; In early 2016, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/grade-point\/wp\/2016\/02\/10\/berkeley-is-facing-big-budget-trouble-painful-measures-ahead-for-nations-top-public-college\/\"\u003Ethat deficit officially surfaced\u003C\/a\u003E, prompting layoffs and other measures to get rid of it, as well as a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2018\/06\/28\/gov-jerry-brown-signs-2018-19-budget-uc-receives-346-9m-funding-increase\/\"\u003Eone-time campus earmark of $25 million\u003C\/a\u003E from the legislature for 2018-19.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBerkeley appeared to have stopped losing money on operations in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/finreports.universityofcalifornia.edu\/index.php?file=retrends\/retrends_2018.pdf\"\u003EFY 2018. \u003C\/a\u003EIn September 2019, the chancellor claimed \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2019\/09\/24\/campus-officials-announce-elimination-of-150-million-deficit\/\"\u003Ethe deficit was gone\u003C\/a\u003E, crediting alternative revenue streams.\u0026nbsp; But current information suggests the campus has gone right back into deficit again. It projects a $43 million deficit for 2019-20, or a swing of $128 million from last year's surplus (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1iuZv9fVFW9W_aYVNjU6HcnK2FXhVBcrE\"\u003Eslide 7)\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOnward: here's UCLA's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ucla.app.box.com\/s\/8l94wpo8xqu7nillldbzfu6agbl9lfke\"\u003EBudget Discussion for 2018-19.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; Slide 7 contrasts the revenues the campus controls (yellow range) with those it doesn't (blue), comparing years at the beginning and the end of the period.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh2TL3iWYD6N5PnKzgymmfvTyfP6Ij15TvAtCjmsNeLIuWZCs-RWczpmYVwqcriTBXSvDlOu_FkRgEGnmiyeQjAFicEkszy3eJJh-yvBywchOBCKDY1htzUWOS35GBRSeAlwYswjBsG1bA\/s1600\/Revenue+Bars+Compared+UCLA+2007%253A2017.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1288\" data-original-width=\"1428\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh2TL3iWYD6N5PnKzgymmfvTyfP6Ij15TvAtCjmsNeLIuWZCs-RWczpmYVwqcriTBXSvDlOu_FkRgEGnmiyeQjAFicEkszy3eJJh-yvBywchOBCKDY1htzUWOS35GBRSeAlwYswjBsG1bA\/s640\/Revenue+Bars+Compared+UCLA+2007%253A2017.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\nTen years on from the last pre-cuts year of 2007-08, UCLA is still down $200 million in state funding.\u0026nbsp; It made up a lot of that with triple tuition from non-resident students (this is a gross, not a net).\u0026nbsp; It grew other tuition funds by taking more students.\u0026nbsp; (This is a more expensive way to grow revenues than charging the same student body more, since you also raise your costs.) UCLA expanded Self-Supporting Degree Programs (SSDPs) aggressively, and the revenues reflect another triple-tuition strategy in which you charge three times as much for what you hope are programs already in the can on the state side so you don't have to invent new things and staff up.\u0026nbsp; And UCLA is also investing various kinds of unspent funds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt's worth noting a few visible weaknesses: tuition loses 1\/3rd off the top for financial aid, which state funding does not. (Non-resident tuition now has a 10 percent contribution for return-to-aid.)\u0026nbsp; So $526 million gross tuition (excluding SSDPs) is actually $351 million net. Were SSDPs bringing in free money (more on that later), they would add about 6% of new funding to the core budget after 10 years of growth.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; The reasonable idea is that you put together a lot of smaller private revenue solutions and they add up to enough to make up for lost public funds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUCLA has worked its buns off, and\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ucla.app.box.com\/s\/8l94wpo8xqu7nillldbzfu6agbl9lfke\"\u003ESlide 9\u003C\/a\u003E shows the reward.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgq2PY_e2MG-CyBlfF6ePRegTCoodxGkU5n6pifM0cPsnkbJddWjCOe7JA-9Mcyq_uoaOqIwMCyitvpq0C_6Mk6zK-m_9BoNm6Rn1r-FWYNHJTTN6J1XhT0xHe21I8dmCYut0Z90GfTG4U\/s1600\/Revenue+Decline+Forecast+UCLA+2018.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1368\" data-original-width=\"1472\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgq2PY_e2MG-CyBlfF6ePRegTCoodxGkU5n6pifM0cPsnkbJddWjCOe7JA-9Mcyq_uoaOqIwMCyitvpq0C_6Mk6zK-m_9BoNm6Rn1r-FWYNHJTTN6J1XhT0xHe21I8dmCYut0Z90GfTG4U\/s640\/Revenue+Decline+Forecast+UCLA+2018.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nThe reward is to run an operating deficit of 21 percent of core funds by 2023.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNote that UCLA proposes to cut this projected deficit in half by positing no pension increases and expanding teaching revenues with no new staff of any kind.\u0026nbsp; Neither of these assumptions hold up.\u0026nbsp; Even if they did, UCLA would still run an 11 percent deficit on its core.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere's also UCSD-- a poster child of corporate-friendly non-state revenue growth.\u0026nbsp; But after years of hustle, it too faces an operating deficit, though smaller, growing to 4 percent of its $1.5 billion core budget ($58.3 million) in 2022-23.\u0026nbsp; This slide is courtesy of Mohamed al Elew in his thorough \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/triton.news\/2019\/10\/uc-san-diego-facing-potential-fiscal-disaster\/\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ETriton \u003C\/i\u003Etreatment of the issue\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEir9PpYbMRTWiRFBVMIZowtXbnCUBkf8-OUTd6bufwsKvJXYT2Wj_lp0QvH8YHubOGNhoFW4JrHilV8A2ZMzjPeij4N9ky-42H8YFid8Jl-rAlzo-VZJ6iDIR14HwuA81xe2eh-QgRRV0Y\/s1600\/UCSD+Operating+Deficit+Mo+Elew+Triton+1109.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"694\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEir9PpYbMRTWiRFBVMIZowtXbnCUBkf8-OUTd6bufwsKvJXYT2Wj_lp0QvH8YHubOGNhoFW4JrHilV8A2ZMzjPeij4N9ky-42H8YFid8Jl-rAlzo-VZJ6iDIR14HwuA81xe2eh-QgRRV0Y\/s640\/UCSD+Operating+Deficit+Mo+Elew+Triton+1109.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThese three are best-case UC campuses in different ways.\u0026nbsp; All the system's campuses have distinct mixtures of resources and liabilities.\u0026nbsp; For example, UCOP has been insisting that UC Riverside mostly self-fund its start-up medical school, creating hardships for other academic programs that it now acknowledges (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov19\/b4.pdf\"\u003Epage 13\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp; Whatever their local situation, all of the campuses have been scrambling to find non-public revenues, and they have been enthusiastic and generally done well.\u0026nbsp; So why these deficit troubles?\u0026nbsp; And will next year's overall system budget, even if passed, really help? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNot so much, because of structural issues.\u0026nbsp; Turning now to systemwide materials prepared for the Board of Regents meetings this week, we can see that 4 big problems are not being addressed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n1. First is \u003Cu\u003Einstructional revenues.\u003C\/u\u003E\u0026nbsp; UCOP calculates that per-student funds available for instruction are about 20 percent below their 2000-01 level and still under their 2005-06 level (reduced by a second round of cuts--see \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov19\/b4.pdf\"\u003EDisplay 5\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp; We're jaded about the cuts in state funding (still down 24 percent at UCLA below their 2007-08 level, for example [\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ucla.app.box.com\/s\/8l94wpo8xqu7nillldbzfu6agbl9lfke\"\u003Eslide 8]\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp; But these overall shortfalls should shock people because the figures include gross tuition \u003Ci\u003Eand \u003C\/i\u003Etuition paid by Cal Grants.\u0026nbsp; Tuition\u0026nbsp; revenues were supposed to have rescued our budgets: I assume state leaders, including the one now chairing the Board of Regents, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/privatization-hits-wall.html\"\u003Estill believe it.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; But tuition hasn't rescued overall revenues.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n2. There are also \u003Cu\u003Eresearch costs\u003C\/u\u003E. Research is essential and also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2014\/08\/how-can-public-research-universities.html\"\u003Eexpensive\u003C\/a\u003E, and costs the host university money out of pocket to perform.\u0026nbsp; In \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ncsesdata.nsf.gov\/herd\/2015\/html\/HERD2015_DST_17.html\"\u003EFY 2015,\u003C\/a\u003E Berkeley spent $174 million, UCLA spent $213 million, and UCSD spent $186 million of institutional funds to support it.\u0026nbsp; UCOP is still unable to talk about these major costs that governments and corporations ignore, or explain to the state that research is (a) the most important core function of the University of California and (b) a cost rather than a profit center. Campuses will continue to need to cover a share of research expenditures (22 percent at UC Berkeley, 21 percent at UCLA, 17 percent at UCSD).\u0026nbsp; The state and other research sponsors are going to have to fund these eventually, or we'll risk permanent deficits.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n3. \u003Cu\u003EPension contributions\u003C\/u\u003E.\u0026nbsp; Ten years ago, neither employees nor UC paid into the pension fund.\u0026nbsp; Now both do.\u0026nbsp; UCOP estimates that $400 million a year of operating funds go toward these costs across the system. Total resources have to be discounted by that amount.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n4. \u003Cu\u003EFacilities and maintenance\u003C\/u\u003E.\u0026nbsp; While it was cutting back on everything else, the state also stopped floating bonds to pay for new construction or paying to cover deferred maintenance.\u0026nbsp; Both have degraded teaching and research conditions all over the system. The state's response to complaints was to pass legislation (AB 94, 2013) to allow UC to use operating money on capital projects. This made\u0026nbsp; the shortage of operating funds even worse. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUCOP is now proposing a major new construction program, as well as one-time deferred maintenance funding.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; More \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov19\/f6.pdf\"\u003Eremarkable images ensued\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh_izbGpTc0GTq2CZmlx4ciUD_OLhNe_CqK_rsGdbRAqrnNuH5OtNS7w_PC84MpvKkB7RCnx-24SvXg1H0RQ9Wg-zDfU1Yed1QgAB3hJYb_t_iOBO6G_aq3RLqraKtfUG1phBxFNvdMw4U\/s1600\/Capital+Projects+2019-25+Funding+Status.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"572\" data-original-width=\"1488\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh_izbGpTc0GTq2CZmlx4ciUD_OLhNe_CqK_rsGdbRAqrnNuH5OtNS7w_PC84MpvKkB7RCnx-24SvXg1H0RQ9Wg-zDfU1Yed1QgAB3hJYb_t_iOBO6G_aq3RLqraKtfUG1phBxFNvdMw4U\/s640\/Capital+Projects+2019-25+Funding+Status.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUC has a capital need of $52 billion. Half of that has no funding source.\u0026nbsp; Display 2 shows that most of the \u003Ci\u003Eunfunded\u003C\/i\u003E capital need is on the campuses.\u0026nbsp; Educational activities can't fund their buildings and maintenance, while the businesses can--which is a fact of life that policymakers should face.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\nIf we use the category loosely to include seismic and life safety issues, UC has a $14 billion deferred maintenance issue.\u0026nbsp; In recent years, campuses have had nearly nothing to spend on it.\u0026nbsp; I learned from one campus that it covers such a small fraction of its actual maintenance backlog each year that it would have to double its expenditures to catch up with its 2019 maintenance backlog by the year 2119.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg0mBcMU_LEUMWlXF3O9JNcwbb-ulQAbekrTC0NCPcfJkuB4X1JRR_B7REcpbfqX2E5JTciuLnD-Ih7E3HDguKxG45XYZbtIuC0RYUy_a2UDBStl7M9HWhTVxw9n7PW5mrQ_vRDBDCXRCg\/s1600\/Capital+Projects+2019-25+Funding+Unmet+By+Category.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"910\" data-original-width=\"1492\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg0mBcMU_LEUMWlXF3O9JNcwbb-ulQAbekrTC0NCPcfJkuB4X1JRR_B7REcpbfqX2E5JTciuLnD-Ih7E3HDguKxG45XYZbtIuC0RYUy_a2UDBStl7M9HWhTVxw9n7PW5mrQ_vRDBDCXRCg\/s640\/Capital+Projects+2019-25+Funding+Unmet+By+Category.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nThere are plenty of related charts to enjoy, but you see the drift.\u0026nbsp; UC will never recover, not ever, unless it can get the state to fund solutions that match the scale of the problem.\u0026nbsp; There \u003Ci\u003Eare no alternative revenue streams that can do this\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTo stick with the last two problems I've noted: the state should provide the $2 billion it saved during the pension contribution holiday to UCRP,\u0026nbsp; in a multi-year funding plan it works out withe UCOP.\u0026nbsp; And the campuses maintenance problem needs a $14 billion general obligation bond issue.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; The \"alternative revenue streams' model has dug quite a hole. Let's admit how deep it is so we can eventually climb out of it."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6454540036045701166\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/11\/after-successful-pursuit-of-private.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6454540036045701166"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6454540036045701166"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/11\/after-successful-pursuit-of-private.html","title":"After the Successful Pursuit of Private Revenue Streams, are UC Campuses Destined for Deficits?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiKzYNRQApEFKi6_hGp6D3FlzPIeAbgEQSzAeEBE3FcB52pYjHji-I8t5ieVg14d04g-dOfrmGL8gNyqEOz847Hx_ujT3fuoaB2UxZ8_FAhhuNU6sQERXV8iQS7viB1Hz0S-AF15N9mJ50\/s72-c\/UCSB+Lagoon+Ansel+Adams.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});