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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":"89"},"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-5911648312144078525"},"published":{"$t":"2021-11-15T15:42:00.006-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-11-16T09:30:35.173-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Administrative Overreach"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Munger Hall"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCSB"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Statement in opposition to the current project for Munger Hall at UCSB"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgF9DJhGgqVGl6tzlQesump4n2A_A7DDSsJ1ueyzpMKrrU7kblyVc3f_knwoIeHmb_h7_oeJy-KSWew9bUbvPPpNq_ZilJcAF0WE4lGGwwrt5JE5cEwXVHIQ5oY4Ozj5Xo8R7OQgN1-BD0\/s1248\/Munger+Hall+Bedroom+Cluster.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1124\" data-original-width=\"1248\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgF9DJhGgqVGl6tzlQesump4n2A_A7DDSsJ1ueyzpMKrrU7kblyVc3f_knwoIeHmb_h7_oeJy-KSWew9bUbvPPpNq_ZilJcAF0WE4lGGwwrt5JE5cEwXVHIQ5oY4Ozj5Xo8R7OQgN1-BD0\/s320\/Munger+Hall+Bedroom+Cluster.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EBy Richard Wittman\u003Cdiv\u003EAssociate Professor,\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EDepartment of the History of Art and Architecture, UCSB\u003Cdiv\u003Efor today's Academic Senate Town Hall meeting,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003Ein collaboration with the UCSB Architectural Historians Group\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThank you very much for the invitation to speak here today. Time is short, so I will dive right in.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com\/2021\/10\/28\/architect-resigns-in-protest-over-ucsb-mega-dorm\/\"\u003EMunger Hall \u003C\/a\u003Eis a highly experimental design based on \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/frdrEIl\"\u003Ecompletely untested theories.\u003C\/a\u003E It crams over 4500 young undergraduates into tiny windowless bedrooms at a density comparable to some of the densest urban concentrations in the world. And yet it claims that it will have beneficial effects on student well-being, and poses them no danger. What is the evidence for this claim? There is none!\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EMunger Hall is justified uniquely by the unsupported, fact-free assertions of the billionaire architectural hobbyist who conceived it. It cannot be said often enough: no serious supporting data has been brought forth to support the claims made in favor of this outlandish design. And yet UCSB is proposing not a small experimental building, but a pharaonic investment of $1.5 billion in what would be the largest dormitory building in the world. It is difficult to exaggerate how completely irresponsible this would be: to gamble on that scale on a project whose entire rationale is untested and which is regarded skeptically by an almost universal consensus of knowledgeable professionals. And to make that gamble with the wellbeing of our UCSB students.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThis project is also a slap in the face to recent global efforts in the architecture industry to mitigate environmental degradation and climate change. A key tenet of those efforts is sustainability. Sustainability refers to passive strategies to reduce energy consumption, like considering sun orientation when sitting, or being thoughtful about window placement; it refers to using renewable energy sources like solar and wind power, and low environmental-impact building materials. The current design of Munger Hall essentially ignores these strategies, for instance by shutting out the sunlight that is one of Santa Barbara’s most abundant natural resources.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EDo not be deceived by the building’s LEED Gold certification. The LEED system is widely recognized as a problematic guideline that very often has more of a public relations value than a real connection to environmental outcomes. Munger Hall exemplifies this, as it is based on an outdated, unsustainable approach to building, in which the building fundamentally depends on mechanical systems to defeat and exclude nature, and to create an entirely artificial environment.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe design of Munger Hall is profoundly problematic in terms of our students’ mental and physical health. There is clear scientific evidence that a lack of natural light and ventilation has adverse impacts on human beings. (As the LA \u003Ci\u003ETimes\u003C\/i\u003E \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/newsletter\/2021-11-06\/essential-arts-jailhouse-design-more-progressive-ucsb-dormzilla-essential-arts\"\u003Erecently reported\u003C\/a\u003E, even prison design in the US is required to provide windows, as well as lower density.)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EBut also consider the COVID pandemic. Imagine living in a windowless cell, somewhere near the core of the most densely packed building you’ve ever lived in (or ever will live in), during a pandemic, when every knowledgeable party is telling you that the safest place is outdoors and at a distance from other people. Imagine having to quarantine for two weeks in such a windowless cell. Graduate students at Mr Munger’s Michigan dorm building have had to do just this, and have spoken wrenchingly about the effect it had on their mental health. Being ill is never fun, but being ill in Munger Hall would be hell.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EWe know that there is a severe housing crisis in the Santa Barbara area. We all have students who have been unable to find lodgings, or who are even living in cars. We are not utopians who oppose Munger Hall out of obliviousness to the problem it is meant to solve. (And we certainly don’t oppose it because we are “idiots” or because we “hate billionaires,” as Charlie Munger has so charmingly alleged in his public remarks.)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ENo, we oppose this building project because it is a disgrace. Because it will damage the wellbeing of our students. Because no serious evidence has been provided to support the claims its boosters have made about its benefits. Because it will damage the reputation of our university. Because it betrays UCSB’s commitment to safeguarding our natural environment.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EIndeed, Munger Hall has already turned UCSB into the target of critical articles in all the major US papers and in many foreign ones too. My colleagues and I launched \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/ucsb-chancellor-henry-yang-halt-the-construction-of-munger-hall-at-ucsb\"\u003Ea petition about Munger Hall\u003C\/a\u003E and received nearly 3000 signatures in a week! A petition by an undergraduate who targeted undergraduate social networks received over 12,000 signatures! Meanwhile, barely a single credible voice supports this design.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EOur petition has had dozens and dozens of comments from past, present, and potential future UCSB parents saying that they would not allow their child to live in Munger Hall, or in some cases even to go to UCSB if Munger Hall were built. The message is pretty clear: the stakes are high; the leadership at UCSB needs to step away from this monstrous project, the sooner the better, before lasting damage is done.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiAH2chIwL9P0wuFgfikCCxsEi1DwlOxfgPonhzlj5aZJSJUitPQcaQHoetKGKlp7whORc6cRCIr54Y3iKjUY2PoI9PVbdDO_H0PjpgXot6A7rkobyn62z3IYuJrrUMTnajGMJxbQtwiXY\/s1248\/Munger+Hall+Bedroom+Cluster.png\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5911648312144078525\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/11\/statement-in-opposition-to-current.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/5911648312144078525"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/5911648312144078525"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/11\/statement-in-opposition-to-current.html","title":"Statement in opposition to the current project for Munger Hall at UCSB"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgF9DJhGgqVGl6tzlQesump4n2A_A7DDSsJ1ueyzpMKrrU7kblyVc3f_knwoIeHmb_h7_oeJy-KSWew9bUbvPPpNq_ZilJcAF0WE4lGGwwrt5JE5cEwXVHIQ5oY4Ozj5Xo8R7OQgN1-BD0\/s72-c\/Munger+Hall+Bedroom+Cluster.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-2151187669892931862"},"published":{"$t":"2021-10-01T11:23:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-10-01T11:23:09.620-07:00"},"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":"Structural Racism"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"And if this is Peak UC?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhm_h95S4_QWWqrR9-zkiNbmDsKRkkbUwol6htdkr-ViQVjolOJYa8YHrlY0rz6p7GeNdopCAneOlV1796xsCNTNwdiEJWT6Wy_IYO5ImN8gvPcpcC2IwFNwZNLHuWZ7Xgbj71V2EzeNZI\/s800\/Durell_120905_UCOP_office_0043.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"518\" data-original-width=\"800\" height=\"258\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhm_h95S4_QWWqrR9-zkiNbmDsKRkkbUwol6htdkr-ViQVjolOJYa8YHrlY0rz6p7GeNdopCAneOlV1796xsCNTNwdiEJWT6Wy_IYO5ImN8gvPcpcC2IwFNwZNLHuWZ7Xgbj71V2EzeNZI\/w400-h258\/Durell_120905_UCOP_office_0043.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAs the pandemic is brought under control, will conditions on UC campuses get better, get worse, or stay the same for the indefinite future?\u0026nbsp;\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe evidence for \"better\" boils down to two things. 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; 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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-8385156372853782321"},"published":{"$t":"2020-08-10T16:51:00.004-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-10-08T02:54:20.662-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic everything"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Admin Responses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Austerity"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cal State"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Covid-19"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Politics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Regents"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Our Converging Crises V:  Weak Democrats and their Governing Boards Feed Austerity Budgets"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjH7MMeRdYDMhZdnWSd_QqjO9q85Ed3RCGZOtfVIUz3m9bQiwWAx2XPWOV83hxfq5lh99AvW-KGGB_fvNUzQGBJrMrTGs_aG619foyMOfGO3Fvo4Sd2Mfu0LLjooPrgYuHNpqrek4VdJNU\/s628\/UCRegents+SFGate+091511.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"418\" data-original-width=\"628\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjH7MMeRdYDMhZdnWSd_QqjO9q85Ed3RCGZOtfVIUz3m9bQiwWAx2XPWOV83hxfq5lh99AvW-KGGB_fvNUzQGBJrMrTGs_aG619foyMOfGO3Fvo4Sd2Mfu0LLjooPrgYuHNpqrek4VdJNU\/w402-h267\/UCRegents+SFGate+091511.jpg\" width=\"402\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThat may be my worst title ever but it's an important point.\u0026nbsp; So here we go.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EWhere are university budgets near the end of our bad policy summer?\u0026nbsp; In a bad place -- a worse place than seemed likely during the weeks of activist government from mid-March to mid-May. In this post, I'll discuss the national issue, describe a flawed university budget discourse that makes universities more vulnerable, and link this to the failure of today's mainstream Democrats to accept the economic role of government.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe federal CARES Act was signed on March 27th, and sent universities $14 billion of the $46.6 billion they'd requested (with half of that going directly to students). Having gotten 1\/6th of their stated need, higher ed advocates placed their hopes in a follow-up HEROES Act passed the House on May 15th, which Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader, sat on throughout the summer.\u0026nbsp; Thus the nation's schools and colleges planned for fall in a state of deep uncertainty and growing dread.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThis past weekend, POTUS \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2020\/08\/09\/heres-what-is-actually-trumps-four-executive-orders\/ \"\u003Esigned executive orders (mostly \"memoranda\") \u003C\/a\u003Emandating supplemental unemployment benefits \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/rachelsandler\/2020\/08\/08\/600-weekly-unemployment-check-cut-to-400-under-trump-executive-orders-and-more\/#383bbd30392a\"\u003Eat $300 rather than CARES's $600 per week\u003C\/a\u003E, with another $100 to come from the states. He extended student loan forbearance from September 30 to the end of the year.\u0026nbsp; Even if these orders go into effect, there are no provisions for supplemental funding for education at any level, including nothing for the K-12 systems that POTUS and his Department of Education secretary have been trying to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/07\/07\/politics\/trump-education-schools-reopening\/index.html\"\u003Ebully into opening\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; If the states are forced to pay part of the federal unemployment supplement, which \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-orders-states-to-fund-unemployment-boost-governors-fear-they-cant\/ar-BB17MIdA\"\u003Esome say they can't\u003C\/a\u003E, that will mean even bigger state cuts to education.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe American Council on Education has a\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.acenet.edu\/News-Room\/Pages\/ACE-Other-Associations-Outline-Key-Provisions-for-Student-and-Institutional-Aid-in-COVID-19-Emergency-Legislation.aspx\"\u003E helpful summary of the current situation\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere are technically three bills under discussion in the COVID-19 \nemergency aid negotiations. The first bill is the HEROES Act written by \nHouse Democrats and approved by the full House two months ago. The \nsecond is the HEALS Act, which represents the ideas of Senate \nRepublicans and the White House. Finally, the Coronavirus Childcare and \nEducation Relief Act (CCCERA) is legislation introduced by Sens. Chuck \nSchumer (D-NY) and Patty Murray (D-WA) that reflects Senate Democrats' \nideas about education spending in response to the pandemic. . . . The bills all include \nemergency aid for students and institutions, but the levels of funding \nproposed differ greatly. ACE has estimated that institutions have a \ntotal of $46.6 billion in increased student financial need and lost \nrevenues, and will spend at least $73.8 billion on new expenditures to \nreopen in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. While CCCERA provides a total \nof $132 billion to meet these needs, the $37 billion provided for higher\n education in HEROES and the $29 billion provided in HEALS fall far \nshort.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe federal bill that comes closest to meeting actual higher ed need--at $132 billion--has no chance of passing McConnell's Senate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERepublican control of key governing bodies has artificially induced massive state failure in suppressing SARS-CoV-2.\u0026nbsp; The U.S. has the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/06\/us\/united-states-failure-coronavirus.html\"\u003Eworst Covid-19 suppression record in the wealthy world\u003C\/a\u003E, and, by failing to build public health infrastructure (see \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/14\/magazine\/covid-19-public-health-texas.html\"\u003EJeneen Interlandi's superb overview\u003C\/a\u003E), will continue to inflict massive suffering, disparately along lines of race and class, in all of the areas where common life should offer equal treatment, including education.\u0026nbsp; The failure of public infrastructure is damaging the private economy that Republican-driven premature opening was trying to protect. Republican opposition to a new stimulus increases the odds of a new depression (see\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2020-07-29\/congress-600-unemployment-pay\"\u003EHiltzik\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/06\/opinion\/coronavirus-us-recession.html\"\u003EKrugman\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for summaries).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOperating on this familiar political landscape, it's hard for people to maintain transformative ambition.\u0026nbsp; I sketched one version at the end of April (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/our-converging-crises-iii-we-need-to.html\"\u003E\"Our Converging Crises III\"\u003C\/a\u003E), which involved massive public spending for full Covid-19 suppression, full employment, and educational experimentation. The American self-conception is of a nation that leads the world into a better future. The reality, given our decrepit social infrastructure, is a vast majority focused entirely on getting by.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Real Covid Budget Crisis\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe same is true in higher education. There's been no follow-up on the early burst of federal effort,\u0026nbsp; and higher ed is engaged in a new round of austerity, translated as operations cuts, layoffs, and program downsizing. The Cal State system threw in the towel early, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2020\/05\/14\/cal-state-pursuing-online-fall\"\u003Eannouncing on May 12th that it would be all-online\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; This was at a time when most administrations assumed Covid-19 would be well in hand by fall; Cal State's Chancellor Timothy White could see pretty clearly that they didn't have the extra billion they needed for testing, tracing, isolating, cleaning, tent classrooms, and the rest. Since then, reopening plans have gone into full reverse, including at wealthy private institutions like \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/07\/fall-2020-update-undergraduate-education-be-fully-remote\"\u003EPrinceton\u003C\/a\u003E and J\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/johns-hopkins-goes-fully-remote-for-fall-urges-students-not-to-come-to-campus\"\u003Eohns Hopkins\u003C\/a\u003E whose core value is small-scale face-to-face learning.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUniversity of California campuses are quietly joining Cal State's closures on a case-by-case basis.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/news.berkeley.edu\/2020\/07\/21\/uc-berkeley-to-begin-fall-semester-with-remote-instruction\/\"\u003EBerkeley announced\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;all-online on July 21st.\u0026nbsp; The other semester campus, UC Merced, will open August 26th with an \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/news.ucmerced.edu\/content\/update-fall-2020-instruction-and-student-housing\"\u003Eunspecified ratio \u003C\/a\u003Eof remote and in-person. Among quarter campuses, which start a month later, UCLA has dropped its in-person proportion \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/covid-19.ucla.edu\/update-on-fall-quarter-plans\/\"\u003Efrom the 15-20% announced in June to 8%\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; UCSB hasn't officially updated its \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/chancellor.ucsb.edu\/memos\/2020-06-18-covid-19-update-fall-planning#undergraduate-instruction\"\u003Emid-June\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;description of fall quarter as \"some face-to-face,\" but is heading toward basically closed. UC Irvine is keeping its students in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/uci.edu\/coronavirus\/faq\/index.php\"\u003Ethe \"most classes will start remotely\" twilight zone\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; All sorts of intensive planning is going on behind the scenes.\u0026nbsp; And so are planning for budget cuts when UC needs that same extra billion that Cal State needed to open safely.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough dominated by liberal Democrats, the California state legislature put stable CSU and UC funding in the hands of Mitch McConnell at at time when he was already holding it hostage.\u0026nbsp; In \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/2020-21\/pdf\/Enacted\/GovernorsBudget\/6000\/6440.pdf\"\u003Ethe final state budget, UC \u003C\/a\u003Ewill get a 5% increase over 2019-20 if and only if California gets $14 billion in federal stimulus.\u0026nbsp; If there's no stimulus, UC gets what UCOP calls an 8% cut from 2019-20.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, the permanent state budget is cut either way: the federal stimulus money will be treated as a one-time backfill on the state cut.\u0026nbsp; Even that was a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/budget\/2020-21EN\/#\/Department\/6440\"\u003Ebizarre combination\u003C\/a\u003E of \"augmentations totaling $212.9 million and\u0026nbsp;reductions totaling $471.6 million.\" Rather than offering higher ed affirmation and stability during the pandemic, the legislature provided a changing combination of cuts and increases that, without an unlikely Senate backfill, gives UC and CSU a major cut.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHow big a cut, actually?\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/2020-21\/pdf\/Enacted\/GovernorsBudget\/6000\/6440.pdf\"\u003EThe legislature reduced the state allocation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for UC from $3.938 billion in 2019-20 to $3.466 billion in 2020-21.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;This is a year-on-year reduction of 12.2%.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003EIts a Covid cut of a size that a red-state legislature could brag about.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt's worth remembering all the way back to November 2019, when The Regents requested an increase of $422.1M in overall state funding, which would have brought state general funding to $4.360B (see the slide\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/02\/budget-strategy-poem.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;minus $25M for the Riverside School of Medicine).\u0026nbsp; Annual base cost increases at UC are a bit more than 5%, and since that's 5% on less than half the revenues of the core budget, which comes mostly from (long-frozen) tuition, 5% state increases put core funding further behind.\u0026nbsp; Campuses have tirelessly tried all sorts of revenue workarounds, mostly involving overenrollment coupled with non-resident student growth, but it hasn't worked. (For the resulting long-term austerity, see \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/why-public-universities-cant-take-new.html\"\u003E\"Three Essential Charts\"\u003C\/a\u003E). On top of its rather brutalist history, the California legislature now proposes to cut UC by $903.5M from its November request--barring a McConnell conversion like Saul's on the road to Damascus. The is a cut of 20.7% from the Regents's November request.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERemember too that even had that $903.5 million November increase been enacted, many campuses were projecting deficits in 2020-21 or the following year. That was not a luxury budget. To repeat: because of prior cuts by Govs. Schwarzenegger and Brown, years of tuition freezes, and sub-inflation state growth, the non-miracle state budget cut that now looks likely is a 20.7% cut from pre-Covid's home for UC semi-solvency.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis would be a disaster for UC (and CSU). And it's likely enough to be treated explicitly in plans for both budgeting and the University's political engagements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EBudget Idealism at the UC Regents\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis brings is to the July 30th UC Regents meeting. The Regents have absolute authority over budgeting, revenue strategies like borrowing, as well as political advocacy. If alerted to a budgetary emergency, the Regents might be expected to instruct UCOP to mount a massive siege of Sacramento and Washington D.C., pulling in their contacts in the tech community as well as in national politics.\u0026nbsp; But UCOP's budget presentation (see the July 30 afternoon session at the bottom of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/meetings\/videos\/july20\/july2020.html\"\u003Ethis page\u003C\/a\u003E), rather than rallying the Regents, kept the real dangers behind the curtain. And Regental behavior encouraged this concealment.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUCOP presented the budget as in basically good shape.\u0026nbsp; Medical losses for March-June 2020 are $1.7 billon rather than the earlier projection of $2.8 billion.\u0026nbsp; UC Health VP Carrie Byington had already suggested that the med centers have learned so much about Covid treatment that they won't repeat spring's revenue losses during the current and future infection spikes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUndergrad enrollments are \"looking very strong,\" in the words of associate budget VP David Alcocer (11'47\"). He said the same was true of international enrollments, in spite of a very turbulent policy picture on top of Covid travel problems.\u0026nbsp; He basically claimed that enrollment targets would be hit no matter what. I'm also a bit of an optimist on enrollments because I'm a pessimist on the economy: even remote-college looks good compared to a nonexistent job market.\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/admissions\/article\/2020\/08\/10\/survey-40-percent-freshmen-may-not-enroll-any-four-year-college\"\u003EPolling data suggest we're both wrong\u003C\/a\u003E, and that colleges should expect a growing enrollment melt.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe presentation noted that housing and dining revenues will be down, but UCOP did not quantify or tie these to different durations of Covid-related reductions. A bit later, UCLA chancellor Block offered some campus numbers, and in later questions a couple of Regents clarified that only single rooms will be offered in the fall, though without revenue numbers for system losses. New VP for Research and Innovation, Teresa Maldonado, gave a candid appraisal of major disruption to research, UC's distinguishing educational activity. She was particularly direct on the damage to women and early-career researchers. But this remained a matter of delayed research progress more than a fiscal crisis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe presentation of the state budget was a delicate matter (starting around 7'40\"; I'm not following UCOP slide order). Alcocer explained the numbers in the slide below (they are different from my calculations above). He noted that the final July budget has a better upside than the May Revise and a smaller potential downside.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhdf7qhH1vWa_Qm7EBodtDoTa1jqmSzDHZ6iYdOw7dvauOTO7fxmgMQAheJnzRl_oxti-tGi5kLU6_OsECxFpEVEgBbyoQJo1GIupdjc4Oe1UhsQSuVvFTMhavW9yuY0MJF_aR0XakYlOc\/s1908\/Budget+from+State+Alcocer+Regents+0720.png\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1352\" data-original-width=\"1908\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhdf7qhH1vWa_Qm7EBodtDoTa1jqmSzDHZ6iYdOw7dvauOTO7fxmgMQAheJnzRl_oxti-tGi5kLU6_OsECxFpEVEgBbyoQJo1GIupdjc4Oe1UhsQSuVvFTMhavW9yuY0MJF_aR0XakYlOc\/s640\/Budget+from+State+Alcocer+Regents+0720.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe then went on to explain his right-hand column. He noted that \"there's a lot of uncertainty here\" because the range of outcomes is nearly half a billion dollars, or 5% of the core budget (9'20\").\u0026nbsp; I can attest that the uncertainty has created in campus planning a somewhat toxic mixture of paralysis, wishful thinking, gloom, and fatalism about cuts. Uncertainty is actually encouraging austerity by making the early stages seem very mild.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut Alcocer's statement about uncertainty incurred an interruption from Chair John Pérez, who said,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI just want to push back on the way we characterize this uncertainty. And here's why. The way this reads to me, in simple terms, is \"uncertainty is bad, and smaller uncertainty is better than greater uncertainty.\" When in fact the final budget, in both the worst-case scenario and the best-case scenario, are better for the University, than the May Revise. . .\u0026nbsp; \"Uncertainty\" is inherently a bad term, so if we want to look at \"range\"--some other way to characterize it--because we don't want a negative connotation to the spread we see in the final budget, when in fact it serves us better than the May Revise does.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis intervention forced Alcocer to repeat what he had said two minutes before, which was that the upside was better in July than in May. It suggested to me that Pérez has no idea how uncertainty is weakening the campuses. It also suggested that he would not tolerate university officials criticizing the state legislature in even a polite and indirect way. Any campaign to get a reliably flat budget from the state (not conditioned on McConnell's conversion to St. Mitch), or an increased budget that could cover Covid costs, would never get off the drawing board under Pérez.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe misty aura of fiscal stability was punctured only by Berkeley chancellor Carol Christ, who projected a $340M deficit through fiscal 2021 (or more than ten percent of the campus's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ucop.edu\/financial-accounting\/financial-reports\/campus-financial-schedules\/18-19\/berkeley.pdf\"\u003E$3 billion or so in annual revenues\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp; She read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/news.berkeley.edu\/2020\/07\/15\/update-on-budget-expense-reduction-measures\/\"\u003Ea version of her administration's July 15th statement\u003C\/a\u003E, and stressed the dependence of the campus on tuition and state revenues. She stated that the latter were $100M below their 2008 level even though the campus enrolls 8200 more students today.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf the Regents had paused to take that in, they'd get a glimpse of the system's deep structural woes. Berkeley is historically wealthier per student than any campus except UCLA, so a responsible Board might wonder what its woes say about the rest of the system.\u0026nbsp; This was the only time in living memory that a Berkeley chancellor has said point blank that privatization doesn't work and thus we need good state support. Actually Christ didn't say that, but she came closer than ever before to noting that the problem isn't just Covid but a flawed business model in which the University has let state funding massively decline.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELater, as Alcocer was about to move to UCLA chancellor Block for a campus view of losses in auxiliaries, Board chair Pérez interrupted to complain about how long the budget presentations were taking.\u0026nbsp; \"This was identified as a thirty minute discussion. . . . when an item is 30 minutes, the presentation is no more than half of that. We've now exceeded 35 minutes, before we've gotten a single Regent engaged in discussion.\" (32'30\"). The obvious remedy would be to allocate more than a half-hour to analyzing what may be most important fiscal crisis in the University's history.\u0026nbsp; The time overrun was entirely due to letting three chancellors say a few words about their campus finances outside of the UCOP PowerPoint story.\u0026nbsp; Things got even more rushed after that--and even more superficial.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn questions, terribly delayed to minute 38, Regent Makarichian performed his solo role of asking for budget numbers, and guessed at overall losses by adding some numbers in his head.\u0026nbsp; Pérez instructed CFO Brostrom to have those figures in the September meeting. I know Brostrom had versions he could have produced then, but who would dare try the Pérezian patience by pulling up another slide?\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the meantime, UC is covering its losses with borrowing. It floated a bond for $2.8 billion in July, with $1.5 billion in \"working capital\" and the rest for capital projects. (UC debt has doubled in a decade from \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/finreports.universityofcalifornia.edu\/index.php?file=09-10\/pdf\/fullreport_10.pdf\"\u003Earound $10 billion in 2009-10\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/finreports.universityofcalifornia.edu\/index.php?file=18-19\/pdf\/fullreport-1819.pdf\"\u003E$24.6 billion in 2018-19\u003C\/a\u003E). The budget discussion ended with a hopeful wait-and-see good-case scenario which, as I've said, is translated on the campuses as cuts.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EA Plausible Scenario for 2020-21\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Office of the President and the campuses are all doing projections, so I'm going to adjust some internal UC numbers to draft a plausible negative scenario.\u0026nbsp; This is not a good case, but it's not a worst-case: for example, I optimistically assume that students who can enroll do enroll, and that all are willing to pay full tuition for mostly remote instruction.\u0026nbsp; The nicer scenarios assume a return to mostly-normal after the fall term. Based on our country's failed-state approach to Covid suppression, I assume that full fall impacts last through the end of Spring 2021.\u0026nbsp; I use the governor's January budget as a base for state funding, which was $220M less than the Regents' November budget.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe assumptions:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETuition: full undergraduate enrollment.\u0026nbsp; Though 75% of admitted international students do not enroll, many are replaced by domestic non-resident and resident students. Waitlists and \"appeal\" lists are liberally used, maintaining overall totals.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHousing is converted to singles, and dining does not return to normal, costing campuses 70% of normal revenues.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGrad student enrollment. This falls 15%, slowing research, but it has little impact on revenues as campuses simply eliminate sections as necessary in remote courses, while canceled grad seminars free up some faculty to teach more undergraduates.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EResearch continues to be affected by outbreaks made worse by shortages of tracing and isolation programs.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPhilanthropy is reduced by renewed turbulence in the markets, as is UC investment income.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMedical center and clinical revenues recover from spring 2020 levels but don't get back to normal.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe Republicans block higher ed stimulus funding in the Senate. Although the Democrats win back the Senate in November, President Biden wishes to govern from the center, and decides not to antagonize the 48 remaining Republicans by giving too much help to education.\u0026nbsp; Like public universities everywhere,UC goes to its lower permanent state funding base.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EHere's a rough estimate of what this would look like by standard budget category.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"MsoTable15Grid4Accent2\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; border: medium none; margin-left: -0.25pt;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #ed7d31; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(237, 125, 49); border-image: initial; border-left: 1pt solid rgb(237, 125, 49); border-style: solid none solid solid; 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font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\" style=\"color: white;\"\u003EDecline $Millions\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #ed7d31; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(237, 125, 49); border-image: initial; border-right: 1pt solid rgb(237, 125, 49); border-style: solid solid solid none; border-top: 1pt solid rgb(237, 125, 49); padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"90\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\" style=\"color: white;\"\u003ENegative % 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: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-image: initial; border-left: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 220.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"294\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E2020-21 Base\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 76.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"102\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E39,738\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"90\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-image: initial; border-left: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 220.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"294\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003EStudent Tuition and Fees\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 76.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"102\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; 775\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"90\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E14\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-image: initial; border-left: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 220.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"294\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003EAuxiliary Enterprises\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 76.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"102\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; 1165\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"90\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E61\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-image: initial; border-left: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 220.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"294\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003EResearch Contracts \u0026amp; Grants\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 76.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"102\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; 779\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"90\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E12\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-image: initial; border-left: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 220.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"294\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003EPhilanthropy \u0026amp; Investment Income\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 76.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"102\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;555\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"90\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E19\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-image: initial; border-left: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 220.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"294\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003EMedical Centers\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 76.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"102\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; 2279\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"90\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E15\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-image: initial; border-left: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 220.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"294\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003EEducational Activities (esp Clinical Rev)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 76.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"102\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; 521\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"90\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E12\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-image: initial; border-left: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 220.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"294\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003EState General Fund Appropriation\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 76.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"102\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; 481\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"90\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E12\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-image: initial; border-left: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 220.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"294\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003ETotal Losses\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 76.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"102\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;6555\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"90\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E16.6\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\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=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-image: initial; border-left: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 220.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"294\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003EProjected 2020-21 UC Revenues\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 76.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"102\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E32,823\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"90\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EScenario B is a decent guess at one possible program for 2020-21: 17% revenue declines for the UC system overall, and 12% or so for the educational core.\u0026nbsp; Cuts like these would cause major damage to teaching and research, and of course prevent meaningful Covid-19 suppression.\u0026nbsp; If two things happen, first, Covid illness persists for several years, as some medical officials predict, and second, U.S. politics allows economic decline, then UC, like other universities, will be permanently downgraded.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Governance Problem\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Republicans are obviously the biggest problem, but so are Democrats and their governing boards.\u0026nbsp; The Republican donor base sees government as a potentially victorious competitor to business and finance in economic management (through equitable tax policy and regulation but also better social infrastructure and more productive investment).\u0026nbsp; Weak government has enabled today's \"\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/plutonomy-1.pdf\"\u003Eplutonomy\u003C\/a\u003E.\" Republican politicians logically oppose programs that will make government useful, effective, and popular and thus empower their direct rival.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut Democrats are also a problem when they reject \u003Ci\u003Eboth\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;strong \u003Ci\u003Eand\u003C\/i\u003E weak Keynesianism.\u0026nbsp; In the strong version, public agencies spend massively to reconstruct society on the principle of equal treatment. This would fund a Green New Deal in which, for example, some of our tens of millions of unemployed people would be paid by the government to insulate the country's housing stock, starting with those owned by low-income people. I pointed towards this kind of spending in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/our-converging-crises-iii-we-need-to.html\"\u003Ean April post\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; Let's call it democratic-socialist Keynesianism, Sanders and AOC-style.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere's also weak Keynesianism, a very useful combination of FDR and LBJ, in which public agencies spend massive amounts to keep an unjust and unequal status quo economy from imploding.\u0026nbsp; That would include the common-sense goal of keeping the education sector from shedding employees into a non-functional economy by giving schools and colleges stable funding. It would include the UK policy--enacted by the Conservative government--of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ifs.org.uk\/publications\/14786\"\u003Ecovering 80% of the salary of laid-off employees\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;so they can be furloughed rather than fired.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMainstream Democrats don't exactly oppose this kind of thing. But they don't promote it as their bread and butter. They also don't clearly expose the urgent need for it, or encourage others to expose it. At times, liberal Democrats like John Pérez actively block the creation of a budgetary need for weak Keynesian spending by preventing the open declaration of a budgetary problem.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe current UC Board of Regents is chaired by the former Democrat Speaker of the Assembly. It includes the Democrat Lt.Governor, the husband of California's senior U.S. senator, and several former or current members of two Democratic governors' immediate offices. It also boasts several wealthy and prominent Hollywood liberals.\u0026nbsp; There is really no reason for this group not to activate itself in centrist Keynesian fashion. They would then create an urgent obligation on the part of the state to sustain its educational workforce, infrastructure, and student population, whose lives are currently set to be permanently damaged by the Covid depression.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI don't understand the complacency that demands the current UC budgetary vagueness in which nothing is true and everything is possible, until the only possibility becomes austerity. It feels like proleptic excuse making--\"we didn't fail to act, because we didn't know.\" I don't understand the lack of ambition, even the bare ambition to keep the rising generation whole. We can \u003Ci\u003Eobviously\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Edo that, but it will take much clearer budget work at the level of senior management and governing boards.\u0026nbsp; It will take boards willing to support unprecedented mobilizations of political will for higher education, or at least willing not to block them,\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8385156372853782321\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/our-converging-crises-july-death-drift.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/8385156372853782321"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/8385156372853782321"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/our-converging-crises-july-death-drift.html","title":"Our Converging Crises V:  Weak Democrats and their Governing Boards Feed Austerity Budgets"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjH7MMeRdYDMhZdnWSd_QqjO9q85Ed3RCGZOtfVIUz3m9bQiwWAx2XPWOV83hxfq5lh99AvW-KGGB_fvNUzQGBJrMrTGs_aG619foyMOfGO3Fvo4Sd2Mfu0LLjooPrgYuHNpqrek4VdJNU\/s72-w402-h267-c\/UCRegents+SFGate+091511.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$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-4735964470946713045"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-24T11:01:00.004-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-10T03:08:59.418-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Why Public Universities Can't Take New Cuts: The Essential Charts"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgjzZHyI903AfLUY0_AFW_bQPTW9tGfgp7-ShtgmE3_F4slMD2TSrJ2L3vqV44VLUWBokP76T_2XTIYkN79pxmUfSy6XG_q5MbbA86-5Z30BDcUC2BFYNcxf6fxPhyphenhyphenFu_1agq5ARfUNu_I\/s1600\/852f22564b4cea72ef76d1f57edf5cac.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"407\" data-original-width=\"610\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgjzZHyI903AfLUY0_AFW_bQPTW9tGfgp7-ShtgmE3_F4slMD2TSrJ2L3vqV44VLUWBokP76T_2XTIYkN79pxmUfSy6XG_q5MbbA86-5Z30BDcUC2BFYNcxf6fxPhyphenhyphenFu_1agq5ARfUNu_I\/s320\/852f22564b4cea72ef76d1f57edf5cac.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nShould university officials be fatalistic about Covid-powered cuts to their core educational budgets?\u0026nbsp; Or should they work 24\/7 on their state governments to keep their current budgets whole?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhat about state governments? Should they \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2020\/04\/13\/public-colleges-face-looming-financial-blow-state-budget-cuts\"\u003Ecut higher ed yet again\u003C\/a\u003E, as various governors are doing (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/nj.gov\/governor\/news\/news\/562020\/approved\/20200522c.shtml\"\u003ENew Jersey\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/quicktakes\/2020\/05\/06\/ohio-cut-public-college-funding-110-million-over-2-months\"\u003EOhio\u003C\/a\u003E), and as Gavin \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/quicktakes\/2020\/05\/06\/ohio-cut-public-college-funding-110-million-over-2-months\"\u003ENewsom proposes\u003C\/a\u003E in California?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis post investigates the budget case for a zero-cuts policy.\u0026nbsp; If your state's public colleges and universities have an ample base budget, you can make some temporary cuts to their state funding. If they are already bare bones, further budget cuts will cut educational quality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E0. Why The History?\u003C\/b\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere are lots of ways to use numbers as proxies for teaching and research quality.\u0026nbsp; Most are bad. A pretty good one for teaching is instructional expenditures per student. To help state governments understand quality, departments could establish a set of minimum practices, then cost them out. \u0026nbsp; Campuses could figure out what their budgets must be to meet these standards. But departments haven't been invited to build the budget that would meet their needs.\u0026nbsp; And the averages for instructional expenditure that have been used by my case study here, the University of California system, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ocf.berkeley.edu\/~schwrtz\/DCAM16.pdf\"\u003Earen't reliable\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nInstead, I'll use historical budget trends as quality proxies.\u0026nbsp; I do this for two reasons.\u0026nbsp; First, the history of the state's relationship to UC controls what the state thinks UC should have.\u0026nbsp; This is a strained history and it still matters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSecond, UC's budget history expresses the idea that public universities could and should be as good as elite private universities.\u0026nbsp; Public university students should be roughly equal to private university students. The same was to be true of their faculties.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHistorical budgets expressed this \u003Ci\u003Easpiration\u003C\/i\u003E for equality through public quality.\u0026nbsp;  A detailed Senate report I co-authored identified this proxy for full quality as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/reports\/AC.Futures.Rpt.0107.pdf\"\u003EUC's 1990 budget\u003C\/a\u003E. Strong budgets expressed the quality aspiration in reality as well as in theory.\u0026nbsp; For example, previous, higher levels of public funding for UC campuses had enabled most of them to become members of the American Association of Universities, a group of North America's strongest research universities. Nearly all did this while tuition was still very low and with negligible per-student endowments.\u0026nbsp; This taught an important general lesson: Great academic quality came as readily from public support as from private capital. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nQuality wasn't just about prestige, but also about social effects.\u0026nbsp; Public universities were to educate students as well as private universities did.\u0026nbsp; There were always resource differences (though not today's resource abyss), so let's put it this way: students were not to have to accept lower cognitive benefits from their B.A. by getting it from UC Irvine instead of from Occidental College.\u0026nbsp; UCI students had more courses in large-lecture format, so UCI had also to be able to afford lots of small courses too.\u0026nbsp; Occidental College seniors could write a thesis that taught them how to produce as well as consume knowledge.\u0026nbsp; So UCI had to offer undergraduate research experiences.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe same was true in research: major public universities were\u0026nbsp; to be as good as the elite privates (Berkeley and Stanford, Urbana-Champaign and the University of Chicago, Chapel Hill and Duke, Rutgers and Princeton, etc.).\u0026nbsp; Public university doctoral and professional degrees needed to be roughly comparable to private university degrees--or at least not in different leagues. The idea was to have proverbial world-class research going on at several hundred research universities rather than mainly at eight Ivy League universities and another dozen or so wealthy equivalents. Public universities needed \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2014\/08\/how-can-public-research-universities.html\"\u003Eplenty of internal funds to support research\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; It was a national priority to have millions of really good thinkers and hundreds of really good research sites. The dominant political culture assumed that these two things--widespread intelligence, abundant research--were essential for democracy, progress, and justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSo to put the large public system on a clearly inferior resource tier was understood to be economically suboptimal and also unjust.\u0026nbsp; This was particularly clear in the wake of civil rights movements as economic inequality grew and many K-12 school systems became minority-majority--while generally giving the least funds to districts with the highest shares of Black and brown students.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHow are state legislatures doing with keeping public universities in the mix? Here are some charts to show what's happened in California. They come in three sections: UC Core Revenues, the State's Point of View, and What UC Really Has Left.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; They track funding from the turn of the century.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E1. UC's Core State Revenues\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFigure A looks at what's happened to the state's allocation to the University of California.\u0026nbsp; This is money that generally follows resident students.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn Figure A you'll see 3 lines. The \u003Cu\u003Eblue line\u003C\/u\u003E is a benchmark, tracking growth in state per-capita \nincome.\u0026nbsp; This measures the strength of the economy as it exists in \npeople's pockets.\u0026nbsp; It goes up 4-5 percent a year most of the time.\u0026nbsp; If a state wanted to fund an agency\u003Ci\u003E \u003C\/i\u003Ein an \u003Ci\u003Eaverage \u003C\/i\u003Eway,\n it would \nmake that agency's revenues rise at the same rate as per-capita income. In such a case, the legislature isn't\ntreating it as essential or special, but just letting UC or CSU or \npublic health or transportation grow with the state. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUC enrollment did not stay flat through this period, but increased by about 50 percent. The \u003Cu\u003Eyellow line\u003C\/u\u003E takes the per-capita income benchmark and corrects it for actual UC student growth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe \u003Cu\u003Ered line\u003C\/u\u003E tracks the state's actual general fund allocation in nominal dollars, not corrected for inflation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EFigure A: State Funds for UC in Nominal Dollars, Compared to Per-Capita Income Benchmark, and Benchmark Corrected for Enrollment Growth\u003C\/b\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\/AVvXsEjsd-S8P1yKl6KDfp0d4cVE-kuU0v3L7wA_89quYFFjGLvREXSC48BqsoWuH3DG0pjBTTcBa5xdhfBjVinCD4Kp7lazJlrJ0vhrSqF5WWrDnovXoPCtPrLZXuU1kKpNGRdsCg6XNi5Fqpw\/s1600\/Chart+1+Final+052320.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"830\" data-original-width=\"1386\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjsd-S8P1yKl6KDfp0d4cVE-kuU0v3L7wA_89quYFFjGLvREXSC48BqsoWuH3DG0pjBTTcBa5xdhfBjVinCD4Kp7lazJlrJ0vhrSqF5WWrDnovXoPCtPrLZXuU1kKpNGRdsCg6XNi5Fqpw\/s400\/Chart+1+Final+052320.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe story is clear. The state's allocation to the University of California fell far behind state income growth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIf UC's state funding had kept up with state per-capita income (blue \nline), its 2019-20 allocation would have been $6.6 billion--not the $3.7\n billion it actually got.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIf UC's state funding had \nkept up with this benchmark corrected for 50 percent enrollment growth \n(yellow line), its current-year allocation would be $10 billion--nearly 3\n times more than it received.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSometimes people explain this low state allocation by saying the state population just doesn't have the money. That's not true.\u0026nbsp; The state population had the money to spend on higher education, but spent it elsewhere.\u0026nbsp; 2017-18 was the first year that UC got a higher state allocation than its allocation in 2001-02 ($3.28 billion).\u0026nbsp; (2007-08 was the sole exception, at $3.39 billion.)\u0026nbsp; And remember that these nominal dollars don't reflect cumulative inflation, which has been around 46 percent.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn other words, for twenty years, the State of California has gotten all UC enrollment growth and all of its cost increases for free. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOn to another chart. Sometimes people say, \"well, the whole public sector has been falling behind.\"\u0026nbsp; That's also untrue.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb\u003EFigure B: Adding California State Budget Growth to Figure A\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\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\/AVvXsEgU6kGzoPA3MJ-VBYNlXBIJ4RFaqGpCfDVMbxPKcThYl_hJU-oj9w7WpepLJxEZbzkx3QOkSps5vrZQ3i2Zy_GJT7oEpU5xErK83vZjJ2CHHnEqzDt6E5LqFINy5ZPUQajrT1lCfw1C9jE\/s1600\/Chart+1+Final+052320+With+State+Budget.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"830\" data-original-width=\"1380\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgU6kGzoPA3MJ-VBYNlXBIJ4RFaqGpCfDVMbxPKcThYl_hJU-oj9w7WpepLJxEZbzkx3QOkSps5vrZQ3i2Zy_GJT7oEpU5xErK83vZjJ2CHHnEqzDt6E5LqFINy5ZPUQajrT1lCfw1C9jE\/s400\/Chart+1+Final+052320+With+State+Budget.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\nThe \u003Cu\u003Epurple line\u003C\/u\u003E is the California state budget (right-hand scale).\u0026nbsp; State government--health, corrections, transportation, K-12 education, etc--has grown at around the same rate as personal income.\u0026nbsp; California doesn't have an exceptional government, measured by growth rates.\u0026nbsp; It has an average-growth government--except for higher education, which state government has held down below other agencies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E2. The State's Point of View\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nState officials will often say that Figures A and B are misleading because they leave out UC's other revenues, especially tuition.\u0026nbsp; The state has in the past \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/annoying-results-of-state-audit-of-uc.html\"\u003Eclaimed that student tuition is actually state funding\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; The more plausible claim is that UC tuition hikes have offset state funding cuts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn a January 2013 UC Board of Regents meeting, a state official \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/privatization-hits-wall.html\"\u003Emade the point this way\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nThe possibility of increased funding right now: it doesn't exist. . . \n.There is no significant amount of money to backfill previous cuts. \nWe've made roughly $900 million in cuts and you've increased fees $1.4 \nbillion dollars. The [fee] increases were disproportionate to the level\n of disinvestment by the state.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nHe was accurately using Department of Finance \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/2013-14\/pdf\/BudgetSummary\/HigherEducation.pdf\"\u003Edata\u003C\/a\u003E to say that UC had $500 million more in \u003Ci\u003Egross\u003C\/i\u003E tuition revenue than the amount of the 2011-12 cut.\u0026nbsp; The official was state Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez.\u0026nbsp; Pérez, who helped install the UC tuition freeze, now serves as chair of the UC Board of Regents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTo represent the state's understanding, Figure C adds a \u003Cu\u003Egreen line\u003C\/u\u003E that shows UC core educational revenues.\u0026nbsp; These are about a quarter of UC's total budget (no medical centers, auxiliaries, or extramural grant funding (\"direct costs\").\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; The main revenue sources are state general funding, but now with various kinds of tuition added in (resident tuition, non-resident supplemental tuition, abbreviated as NRST, which mostly international students, and also the state funds that go to UC via the Cal Grants program that eligible students use to pay some of their tuition.\u0026nbsp; 1\/3rd of gross resident tuition is \"return-to-aid,\" meaning that it cannot be used as operating revenue because it is converted into financial aid. There's also some indirect cost recovery funds and other bits and bobs that the core uses.\u0026nbsp; Take a look.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EFigure C: UC Gross Core Revenues, Including Various Forms of Student Tuition and Related Funds\u003C\/b\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\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\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEinccRz6FZraJdIA1K6MvFt_wxronX9B2pLoQU5SZZfCv8Y6CdBCK6cnXtavZobBcSy3oPNp7CkVyb7IF7FtDMm4qIlG5exwxPX6fgUNMEOM5a3fMjz7InwepCObFIBic1JA6ZWd_lDEkQ\/s1600\/Chart+C+Final+052320+With+Tuition.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"808\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEinccRz6FZraJdIA1K6MvFt_wxronX9B2pLoQU5SZZfCv8Y6CdBCK6cnXtavZobBcSy3oPNp7CkVyb7IF7FtDMm4qIlG5exwxPX6fgUNMEOM5a3fMjz7InwepCObFIBic1JA6ZWd_lDEkQ\/s400\/Chart+C+Final+052320+With+Tuition.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe green line is a lot better than the red.\u0026nbsp; UC gross core revenues grow \nfaster than the income benchmark. Core revenues (mainly state funding plus various tuition streams) do a somewhat \ndecent job of keeping up with enrollment growth at the benchmarked level\n (the yellow line).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nYou might be wondering about the widening gap between the yellow and green lines in recent years: it reflects the \n\"surge\" of unfunded or underfunded resident students the state forced UC\n to take to make up for the previous growth in non-resident enrollments.\u0026nbsp; This is a key source of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/11\/after-successful-pursuit-of-private.html\"\u003Edeficits many UC campuses were projecting\u003C\/a\u003E even before the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSo here, it looks like the state has a point. UC's educational core has much better revenues than the state general fund calculation (Figures A and B) suggests.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis does \u003Ci\u003Enot\u003C\/i\u003E change the fact that the state has been free-riding for growth and upgrades on students (via their tuition), and also on other UC revenues.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut it looks like UC's \u003Ci\u003Egross\u003C\/i\u003E core revenues have at least kept up with state income growth, and slightly beaten inflation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E3. What UC Really Has Left\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHere's the problem with the state's point of view: while it was cutting or eroding the general fund allocation, the state also decided not to pay for lots of other things. The two biggest unfunded costs are (i) capital projects and (ii) that part of total compensation known as the University of California Retirement Program (UCRP).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn contrast to previous practice, UC now has to build its own buildings with a combination of University-based borrowing, private donations, and internal operating revenues.\u0026nbsp; This is the case both on the campuses and at the medical centers.\u0026nbsp; The state acknowledged the situation with legislation, AB 94, that allows campuses to use state funding to pay interest on debt.\u0026nbsp; That isn't additional money, just permission to use existing funds for debt that the state used to pay.\u0026nbsp; Three familiar symptoms are chronic student overcrowding, inadequate office and research space, and campus disrepair across the UC system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe \"pension holiday\" from 1991-2010 was also a payment holiday for the State of California, which saved many billions of dollars over the years.\u0026nbsp; The state is the only beneficiary of that ill-advised break that has not started to make payments again.\u0026nbsp; Thus the employer contribution to UCRP comes out of UC operating funds as\n well.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFigure D deducts employer pension costs and capital projects costs from UC's gross\u003Ci\u003E \u003C\/i\u003Ecore revenues. There are many ways to calculate both, and I tried nearly all that I could think of, in consultation with several other longtime budget observers.\u0026nbsp; This figure uses a UCOP report (without the underlying data) for UCRP costs (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ucop.edu\/operating-budget\/_files\/rbudget\/2019-20-budget-detail.pdf\"\u003EDisplay XIX-6, p 159\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp; Capital projects costs were based on campus-by-campus calculations of operating revenues allocated to capital projects in each individual year.\u0026nbsp; This variant, Figure D, shows the highest net revenues of all the methods, so you should see it as a best case for the state's funding practice.\u0026nbsp; Watch the \u003Cu\u003Egreen line.\u003C\/u\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EFigure D: UC Net Core Revenues (Core Revenues with Endowment Revenues, minus Employer Share of UCRP Contributions and Campus Funds Used for Capital Projects)\u003C\/b\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\/AVvXsEga7uQvMc5Xs_1IOnavZHrE97-JoDqWGzkBgcF9qtfXsUKkJohMCEPEAPiYO8ytEke7ElmsbN-JJftBH-ZRnZe4HEIF8-5FtWxRSDEF5D0HL7TglNfScszxAPWidZPlK_wPMLoKIg0Ss_A\/s1600\/Chart+D+052320+UCOP+Version.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"844\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEga7uQvMc5Xs_1IOnavZHrE97-JoDqWGzkBgcF9qtfXsUKkJohMCEPEAPiYO8ytEke7ElmsbN-JJftBH-ZRnZe4HEIF8-5FtWxRSDEF5D0HL7TglNfScszxAPWidZPlK_wPMLoKIg0Ss_A\/s400\/Chart+D+052320+UCOP+Version.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMost of the tuition revenue gains in Figure C are canceled by the state's withdrawal from capital projects and by its non-contribution to pension costs. UC revenues have not kept up with the income benchmark.\u0026nbsp; In some years, net core educational revenues are close to the flatlined state general fund allocation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe University of California comes into the Covid crisis with net core educational revenues that are well below historic quality norms.\u0026nbsp; There's no educational surplus lying around to cut.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb\u003E4. The Insufficient Base for 2020-21\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe anticipated Covid state cuts would be the fourth major round since 1990. But these would be the first without UC's traditional revenue rescue, large tuition hikes. (Existing UC reserves are a separate matter that are outside my scope here.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe first time the big cuts came, University of California officials saw them as a one-time event.\u0026nbsp; That was 1992-95.\u0026nbsp; The second time the state cut general fund support for UC and CSU, UC had a plan, which was large tuition increases.\u0026nbsp; That was 2002-5.\u0026nbsp; The \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/CALIFORNIA-State-university-deal-a-shocker-to-2759909.php\"\u003Ecompact\u003C\/a\u003E the two systems signed with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, in 2004, didn't just permit tuition increases of 7-10 percent each year, but required them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe third time state cuts happened, 2008-12, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/regents-budget-strategy-stuck-between.html\"\u003Ethe high tuition plan was in place.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; But high tuition didn't make it through the cuts cycle.\u0026nbsp; The student protests of fall 2009 and then again in fall 2011 effectively ended tuition increases on resident undergraduates. Jerry Brown removed Tuition Plan A, tuition hikes on resident undergraduates. UC then refocused on Tuition Plans B and C: increasing non-resident supplemental tuition (NRST), especially by taking more international students, and growing Self-Supporting Graduate and Professional Degree Program tuition, where UC academic units create for-profit (mostly masters) programs that can charge high tuition to residents and non-residents alike. The regents \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/may17\/b1.pdf\"\u003Ecapped Tuition Plan B in 2017\u003C\/a\u003E, and Plan C does not generate enough \u003Ci\u003Enet \u003C\/i\u003Ereturns (net of labor and facilities costs, often uncounted) to serve as a revenue fix.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAs you can see in Figure D above, UC's net revenues have stagnated for 20 years, have not kept up with the income benchmark, and are far behind enrollment growth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nState cuts and quiet general fund erosion have already lowered UC quality. They have lowered it specifically for the most economically and racially diverse population in California memory.\u0026nbsp; Sacramento's funding practice gives much less per-student educational funding to today's students-of-color majority than it gave to their majority white predecessors a generation ago--even \u003Ci\u003Eafter\u003C\/i\u003E we count revenues from tripled in-state tuition.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis losing battle has taken place in a state that has seen one of the \nmost intense accumulations of wealth in recorded history.\u0026nbsp; We don't expect Google and Apple to support high quality higher ed for all. But we do expect state government to do that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/our-converging-crises-iv-democrat.html\"\u003EAny state revenue cuts\u003C\/a\u003E now will directly cut UC quality again.\u0026nbsp; This time, the damage may be irreversible.\u0026nbsp; State government must now reverse the chronic underfunding policy of recent decades. It must keep UC (and CSU) whole for the sake of the state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAPPENDIX\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EFigure E: Version 2 of Figure D--UC Net Core Revenues (Core Revenues with Endowment Revenues, minus\n Employer Share of UCRP Contributions and Campus Funds Used for Capital \nProjects) \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\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\/AVvXsEjrWDSbYDHMJTc5wDDgCX2gH6orwDB1vcIM2rJjuhReCwE9R1Sek6fo94yfWDC7CrXv-c0HpLH4HUPWyMGDMjaWkW7YfrqjFOHrERTJUvtOgH8-X2yzGITe7IHwHo18VMXp8hgBugWM7jk\/s1600\/Chart+E-2+052320+Accural.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"798\" data-original-width=\"1524\" height=\"208\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjrWDSbYDHMJTc5wDDgCX2gH6orwDB1vcIM2rJjuhReCwE9R1Sek6fo94yfWDC7CrXv-c0HpLH4HUPWyMGDMjaWkW7YfrqjFOHrERTJUvtOgH8-X2yzGITe7IHwHo18VMXp8hgBugWM7jk\/s400\/Chart+E-2+052320+Accural.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nMany thanks to Minh Hua, the RA with inexhaustible spreadsheet stamina. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4735964470946713045\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/why-public-universities-cant-take-new.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4735964470946713045"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4735964470946713045"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/why-public-universities-cant-take-new.html","title":"Why Public Universities Can't Take New Cuts: The Essential Charts"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgjzZHyI903AfLUY0_AFW_bQPTW9tGfgp7-ShtgmE3_F4slMD2TSrJ2L3vqV44VLUWBokP76T_2XTIYkN79pxmUfSy6XG_q5MbbA86-5Z30BDcUC2BFYNcxf6fxPhyphenhyphenFu_1agq5ARfUNu_I\/s72-c\/852f22564b4cea72ef76d1f57edf5cac.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-4757279753696169402"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-15T13:01:00.003-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-12-13T03:29:48.450-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Newsom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Our Converging Crises IV: Democrat Hoovernomics  (Updated May 19th)"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjeE4CDrBQIYPi9NHkRyucQP4gDOTVq650NAsaw82pYvfQSuBtnNIgmcey__xWfMebH38Cgc_xtNmTL3qdWcl5BYt8oy-C9QgV3Xj2QK7MWxD-gayrL1iZefsfi5XKplEyeZoNd5jYcASM\/s1600\/Austerity+Osborne.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"418\" data-original-width=\"580\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjeE4CDrBQIYPi9NHkRyucQP4gDOTVq650NAsaw82pYvfQSuBtnNIgmcey__xWfMebH38Cgc_xtNmTL3qdWcl5BYt8oy-C9QgV3Xj2QK7MWxD-gayrL1iZefsfi5XKplEyeZoNd5jYcASM\/s320\/Austerity+Osborne.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nIts a simple story, as budget stories really are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn 2019-20, the University of California received $3.724 billion of its revenues from the Golden State. That was a bit under ten percent of UC's gross revenues, budgeted to be $38.394 billion.\u0026nbsp; \"Core\" revenues on the campuses are about a quarter of that. The rest are medical centers and revenues from auxiliaries like housing.\u0026nbsp; That means that state general funds are about 40 percent of UC's educational core. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn November, the UC Office of the President got the Board of Regents to ask for an increase.\u0026nbsp; The base increase was a bit over $264 million.\u0026nbsp; Throw in some other line items, like paying for undergraduate enrollment growth !!, and you had $447 million in requested increases.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt looked ambitious, but it wasn't, for reasons of withdrawn one-time funds, etc.\u0026nbsp; It was a treading- water budget. Most campuses were already \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/11\/after-successful-pursuit-of-private.html\"\u003Eprojecting structural deficits in a couple of years\u003C\/a\u003E, even after years of good-pupil pursuit of non-public revenue streams like international students and for-profit masters programs.\u0026nbsp; The system projected a deficit as well. Base conditions on the campuses have long been bad--a whole concealed story in itself--and these increases kept this status quo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis was\u0026nbsp; too rich for Gov Gavin Newsom.\u0026nbsp; In January, he offered UC half of its request - $217 million. It was a deed of anti-chivalry I heralded in my \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/02\/budget-strategy-poem.html\"\u003Ebudget poem\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; Then Covid-19 arrived and swept across the land.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLike every other university, and like every hospital system, UC took massive hits. Half were to the medical center, and half were to the campuses, more or less. The campuses had big losses in housing and dining as those were mostly emptied out. UC hospitals emptied beds and other facilities expecting a Covid-19 flood.\u0026nbsp; Long story short, UC projects total losses of $2.7 billion -- by June 30, 2020, for the current fiscal year.\u0026nbsp; Teresa Watanabe's story in the LA \u003Ci\u003ETimes\u003C\/i\u003E was rightly titled, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-04-16\/uc-reeling-under-staggering-coronavirus-costs-the-worst-impacts-all-at-once\"\u003E\"UC Reeling Under Staggering Coronovirus Costs.\u003C\/a\u003E'\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe current best case, the thinking goes, is that Covid-19 disrupts UC through Fall 2020 but then normalcy returns. 2021 would then be a fairly normal year-- face-to-face instruction, laboratories at full throttle, much higher cleaning, testing, tracing, and monitoring costs but also normal revenues.\u0026nbsp; In this best case, UC assumed a no-cut state budget.\u0026nbsp; If the state held firm, losses would be \u003Ci\u003Eonly\u003C\/i\u003E another $4.4 billion or so for 2020-21. They would come from lost non-resident tuition and various Covid-19 expenses in the fall (testing, temporary classrooms for social distancing, etc.), and not losses from the state.\u0026nbsp; UC would be out $7 billion or so from March 2020 through end of June 2021, but could possibly cover that with borrowing and additional stimulus funds--emphasis on possibly. That was still at least a 10 percent loss for 2020-21--as the best case.\u0026nbsp; And it depended, to repeat, on a flat state budget -- neither the $447 million nor the $264 million increase, but merely a $0 increase for next year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n$0 was too much for Gavin Newsom. He has now \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\"\u003Ecome back again with another cut\u003C\/a\u003E. Rather than just under $4 billion for UC, in the already-reduced January offer, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/budget\/2020-21MR\/#\/Department\/6440\"\u003ENewsom proposes $3.369 billion\u003C\/a\u003E, down about $629 million, a cut in the state share of 15.72 percent.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis pushes the best-case 2020-21 losses (on the January budget for that year) to more than $5 billion.\u0026nbsp; I'll put this another way.\u0026nbsp; About half of the $4.4 in losses were on the campuses--around $2.2 billion.\u0026nbsp; Newsom's cuts have just increased UC's core campus loses by nearly 30 percent.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nStates are supposed to help their major public systems, not disable them.\u0026nbsp; California forgot this long ago. It has forgotten this most completely with the educational pillars of its storied knowledge economy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSacramento looks for the cheapest deal, and it has gotten it with the University of California.\u0026nbsp; Newsom's new general fund figure, around $3.4 billion, is about what the state gave UC\u0026nbsp; in 2001-02, two decades ago.\u0026nbsp; Since then, inflation has run 46 percent, and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/infocenter\/fall-enrollment-glance\"\u003Eundergraduate enrollments\u003C\/a\u003E are up 52 percent.\u0026nbsp; A \u003Ci\u003Eflat \u003C\/i\u003Estate general fund share for UC, reflecting both, would be \u003Ci\u003E$7.8 billion\u003C\/i\u003E next year. Newsom has decided UC isn't worth even half of that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn effect, the state is planning yet again to do serious damage to UC quality.\u0026nbsp; Research, doctoral education, undergraduate education, and their basic infrastructure have not recovered from the 2008-11 cuts, and the governor proposes to hit them again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI'll just pull out two major issues.\u0026nbsp; UC doctoral students are the backbone of UC teaching and research.\u0026nbsp; Those in private housing need a COLA to afford rent in most UC locations. Where is that money supposed to come from when the UAW contract is renegotiated?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSecondly, racial disparity.\u0026nbsp; Undergraduate graduation rates vary by race: the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/infocenter\/ug-outcomes\"\u003E4 year rates\u003C\/a\u003E are 54\/57 percent for African American and Latinx students and 73\/76 percent for white and Asian American students.\u0026nbsp; This is the most rudimentary quality measure--not what did you learn, but simply did you finish--and yet UC lacks the funds to achieve racial parity in basic grad rates.\u0026nbsp; It costs money to (a) make up for weaker preparation coming from California's de facto segregated high schools (many lack 2nd year algebra or calculus, for example); and (b) give enough financial aid to keep poorer students from working too much. State cuts = more racial disparity, plain and simple. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThink of the difference between Newsom's $3.4 billion general fund offer and the inflation-enrollment corrected amount UC should have, $7.8 billion, like this.\u0026nbsp; In 2001, Underrepresented Minority (URM) students were 16 percent of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/infocenter\/fall-enrollment-glance\"\u003EUC's undergrad population.\u003C\/a\u003E This year, they are 29 percent.\u0026nbsp; The state now invests half as much in a student body with twice the share of black and brown students.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEveryone decries this textbook structural racism--the Regents, the governor (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\"\u003Ep 48\u003C\/a\u003E), and every liberal Democrat who also does respectability politics by saying there must be \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/abgt.assembly.ca.gov\/sites\/abgt.assembly.ca.gov\/files\/Budget%20Update%2C%20May%2011%2C%202020%20updated.pdf\"\u003E\"sizable reductions in services\"\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;or saying,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/politics\/article\/Rent-breaks-for-a-decade-California-legislators-15265373.php\"\u003E\"a hand up, not a hand out.\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; Herbert Hoover would be proud. If Democrats don't want racial disparity, they should stop producing it with austerity, as though Keynes never lived, the New Deal never happened, civil rights were a chimera, and stimulus funding didn't actually build the country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt's economically illiterate for California Democrats to revive Hoovernomics when it will hurt the most. The legislature should reject Newsom's cuts to the state's core systems.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EUPDATE 5.19.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E Yesterday, UC president \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/Additionally, Governor Newsom last week announced a revised State budget for 2020-21 that includes a 10 percent funding reduction for UC of $372 million.\"\u003EJanet Napolitano announced a pay freeze\u003C\/a\u003E for \"policy-covered staff employees,\" 10 percent salary cuts for her and the campus chancellors, and the continuation of ladder-faculty merit reviews (the coded language here will need careful parsing, and will probably be implemented somewhat differently on the various campuses).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTowards the end, she noted,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nFrom mid-March through April alone, we estimate that systemwide \nfinancial losses totaled nearly $1.2 billion, and\u0026nbsp;we anticipate these \nlosses will continue to climb in the months ahead. Needless to say, this\n significant loss of revenue is having an enormous negative effect on \nour budgets. Additionally, Governor Newsom last week announced a revised\n State budget for 2020-21 that includes a 10 percent funding reduction \nfor UC of $372 million.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nNewsom's May cut takes UC down to $3.369 billion.\u0026nbsp; Why does Napolitano describe this as a \u003Ci\u003Eten\u003C\/i\u003E percent cut for 2020-21, not 15.72 percent?\u0026nbsp; It depends on how you count. It's a\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E10 percent cut from 2019-20's general fund appropriation of $3.724 billion.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E16 percent cut from Newsom's January budget proposal (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/budget\/2020-21MR\/#\/Department\/6440\"\u003Esee Dept of Finance\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E20 percent cut from the UC Regents' November budget proposal (of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/02\/budget-strategy-poem.html\"\u003E$4.228 billion)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\nWith a 20 percent cut, Newsom joins Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown in the 20 Percent Higher Ed Cuts Club.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI don't know why Napolitano is minimizing the size of the state cut, making it seem like half of what it actually is when compared to the University's official request in November.\u0026nbsp; That November request was not large enough to make UC solvent (second budget slide \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/02\/budget-strategy-poem.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E): many UC campuses were \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/11\/after-successful-pursuit-of-private.html\"\u003Eprojecting deficits\u003C\/a\u003E on its basis.\u0026nbsp; Add in the non-state revenue losses and UC's 2020-21 is an unprecedented budget disaster. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ctable _ngcontent-c2=\"\" class=\"table table-striped table-condensed table-hover table-width\"\u003E\u003Ctbody _ngcontent-c2=\"\"\u003E\n\u003Ctr _ngcontent-c2=\"\"\u003E\u003Ctd _ngcontent-c2=\"\" class=\"title\"\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd _ngcontent-c2=\"\" class=\"currency janDols\"\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd _ngcontent-c2=\"\" class=\"currency mayDols\"\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd _ngcontent-c2=\"\" class=\"currency mayChgDols\"\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd _ngcontent-c2=\"\" class=\"percent mayChgPercent\"\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4757279753696169402\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/our-converging-crises-iv-democrat.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4757279753696169402"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4757279753696169402"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/our-converging-crises-iv-democrat.html","title":"Our Converging Crises IV: Democrat Hoovernomics  (Updated May 19th)"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjeE4CDrBQIYPi9NHkRyucQP4gDOTVq650NAsaw82pYvfQSuBtnNIgmcey__xWfMebH38Cgc_xtNmTL3qdWcl5BYt8oy-C9QgV3Xj2QK7MWxD-gayrL1iZefsfi5XKplEyeZoNd5jYcASM\/s72-c\/Austerity+Osborne.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$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"}}]}});