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2021\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003ETo: Susannah Scott, Academic Senate Chair, UCSB\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003EHenry Yang, Chancellor, UCSB\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003ECc: Michael V. Drake, UC President\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003ECecilia Estolano\u003C\/span\u003E, Chair, UC Board of Regents\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003ERobert Horwitz, Chair, \u003Cspan style=\"font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003EUC Academic Senate\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EFrom: Concerned UCSB Senate Faculty\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003ERe: The planning of Munger Hall at UCSB\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThe UCSB Academic Senate Town Hall Meeting, “Faculty Questions on the Munger Hall Project,” held on November 15, 2021, intensified pervasive and significant concerns about\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E(a) UCSB administration’s lack of response to fundamental questions about student well-being related to the Munger Hall project, including concerns about mental health, physical safety, security, and accessibility;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E(b) student housing options on campus and future housing projects;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E(c) building funding, planning and construction processes at UCSB;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E(d) abrogation of the right of faculty shared governance;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E(e) the impact of these decisions on UCSB’s stated commitment to social justice and equity;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E(f) UCSB administration’s failure to adequately take into account and address the opinion of experts in architectural design and rethink the design to ensure student well-being.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003ETo elaborate:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EOn the Design of Munger Hall\u003C\/u\u003E: A broad swath of architectural design and housing experts both within and outside the university have criticized the design. Among its many problems we call particular attention to: (i) lack of natural light and ventilation—particularly the absence of openable windows; (ii) floor plan that reveals poor organization of space at the scale of the rooms, the suites, and the entire floor space at each level; (iii) inadequate thought given to student accommodation and well-being, given what we know about virus transmission, quarantine, and recovery in situations such as COVID-19; (iv) poor wayfinding and evacuation plans that would greatly endanger students in fires, earthquakes and other disasters; (v) massing and volume; (vi) environmental sustainability.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EWe, the faculty, are gravely concerned by these issues, and we urge the UCSB administration, including Chancellor Yang, to address openly, explicitly and responsibly the many questions regarding the current design’s impact on the safety, security and mental well-being of the students. These fundamental questions were not answered at the November 15 Town Hall meeting and we urge the administration to answer them now.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EOn Due Process\u003C\/u\u003E: A key reason for the current state of affairs is that the usual design review process that has governed campus construction over the last 30 years was bypassed. The request-for-proposal stage of the design review process was ignored, thereby eliminating potential competition to Munger’s design. When the design review committee and its panel of architects were asked to comment, their views were not adequately taken into account.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EWe have two options to move forward:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E1. Stop the plans. Begin the entire design process again following the established procedures of the design review committee.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E2. Halt the process and modify the plans. Consider the advice of a joint committee of experts on design, health and safety, drawn from both outside and inside UCSB, including Academic Senate Members and student representatives. The UCSB Academic Senate must have a say in the composition of such a panel of experts, the issues they will be asked to consider, and the way in which their recommendations would be implemented.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EWe wish to send a clear message to the Chancellor, UC Office of the President, the UC Board of Regents, and the donor, that we will not accept inequitable and unsafe options for student housing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EWhile we recognize the measures that must be taken to resolve the immediate housing crisis, we call on UCSB to democratically and transparently develop a long-range housing plan that ensures safety, affordability, community responsibility, and environmental sustainability for students, faculty, and staff. Not only does UCSB have a responsibility in this regard, but so do the President of the University and the UC Board of Regents.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003ESincerely, Concerned UCSB Senate Faculty, including,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EConstance Penley\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003ESwati Chattopadhyay\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003ELaurie Monahan\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EEileen Boris\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EDominique Jullien\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EBishnupriya Ghosh\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003ELisa Hajjar\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EJeffrey Stopple\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EBassam Bamieh\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EJohn Majewski Richard Wittman\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EAnn Bermingham\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EMichael Curtin\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EAnn Jensen Adams\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EOmer Egecioglu\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003EMark A. 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They don't care what we think.\"\u0026nbsp; The idea here is that a small group of uber-regents will pop out another person whose remoteness from educational functions and faculty they will deem a virtue.\u0026nbsp; This has become a national trend: secretive searches that look for a chief executive who will preside over the university rather than develop it from within, and reflect the interests of the governing board ahead of those of the university's multiple constituencies.\u0026nbsp; Examples include presidential searches in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/opinion\/commentary\/commentary-usc-faculty-students-fight-for-university\/article_45bf00b6-a7f2-11e9-bcf2-b34831c9d865.html\"\u003ESouth Carolina\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/05\/02\/mark-kennedy-university-colorado-cu-president\/\"\u003EColorado\u003C\/a\u003E this past spring.\u0026nbsp; The conflict is also present at UC (see \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2015\/11\/the-weak-vs-wrong-and-emerging.html\"\u003Ethis post \u003C\/a\u003Efor national as well as local background).\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut the UC Regents do have a formal search process.\u0026nbsp; Called \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/governance\/policies\/7101.html\"\u003ERegents Policy 7101, \u003C\/a\u003Eit requires a number of steps.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe first is that the Board Chair forms a Special Committee comprised of six Regents and other \u003Ci\u003Eex officio\u003C\/i\u003E members (paragraph 1).\u0026nbsp; The membership of the new Special Committee is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/about\/pres-search.html\"\u003Eposted here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Chair of the Special Committee then \"consults with the full Board of Regents at the beginning of the search for the purpose of reviewing the relevancy of the criteria to be considered and approved by the Board of Regents and discussing potential candidates (paragraph 4). During the search, \"all Regents will be invited to all meetings with all constituencies.\"\u0026nbsp; The Regents then make the final appointment, although Policy 7101 does not specify whether the full Board votes or how that vote proceeds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe important features here are (1) the Board retains exclusive decision rights over the selection of the president and (2) every member of the Board has equal access to the meetings that constitute the search.\u0026nbsp; The Policy protects the rights of regents whom the Chair does not appoint to the Special Committee--the process is not to be controlled by the Board Chair's Special Committee or a small group of allied Regents--and affirms the Board's sovereignty over the search. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut there is also (3): in between the beginning and the end of the Policy comes a potentially huge and dynamic systemwide consultation process conjured in luxuriant description.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nB. The Chair of the Special Committee will invite the Academic Council to appoint an Academic Advisory Committee, composed of not more than thirteen members, including the Chair of the Academic Council and at least one representative of each of the ten campuses, to assist the Special Committee in screening candidates.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nC. The Special Committee will consult broadly with constituent groups of the University, including the Academic Advisory Committee appointed by the Academic Council, Chancellors, Laboratory Directors, Vice Presidents, students, staff, and alumni. To facilitate consultation, there shall be appointed advisory committees, each with no more than twelve members, of students, staff, and alumni. The student advisory committee shall be appointed by the Presidents of the graduate and undergraduate student associations and shall include at least one student from each campus. The staff advisory committee shall be appointed by the Chair of the Council of UC Staff Assemblies and shall include at least one staff member from each campus. The alumni advisory committee shall be appointed by the President of the Alumni Associations of the University of California and shall include at least one alumna or alumnus from each campus. Such consultation will be for the purpose of (1) reviewing the relevancy of the criteria approved by the Board of Regents and (2) presenting the nominee or nominees to members of the groups at the conclusion of the search.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nIn classic UC style, the executive decision making body has parallel advisory groups that allows the appearance of consultation but which it can also ignore.\u0026nbsp; Hence the pessimism of some Senate elders. On the other hand, the advisory committees have a power of self-constitution and also activity.\u0026nbsp; The only stated rule is a cap on the number of members. The named advisory committees are:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EAcademic Advisory Committee \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EStudent Advisory Committee\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EStaff Advisory Committee\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EAlumni Advisory Committee\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\nThe Policy puts no limitations on the activities of the committees.\u0026nbsp; How do these Advisory Committees (ACs) actually influence the Special Committee and the overall Board? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe standard theory is \u003Ci\u003Eprestige\u003C\/i\u003E: find the most prominent or trusted insider from each campus and create what management theorist Clayton Christensen likes to call a \"heavyweight team.\"\u0026nbsp; In the case of the Academic Advisory Committee (AcAC), prestige theory assumes that the regents recognize academic (or senate service-based) prestige and would honor it by adapting their views.\u0026nbsp; Each heavyweight would be recognized as speaking authoritatively for the (leadership of the) particular campus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHere's the problem: I know of no evidence that the last three presidential searches have worked this way; the evidence I do have suggests the opposite.\u0026nbsp; Business culture does not respect academic culture, the class gaps between professors and most regents are too wide, and the key feature of Christensen's heavyweights--decision rights--is stripped from the ACs.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIf this isn't enough to undermine AC leverage, there's also the structural weakness of the committee.\u0026nbsp; With the AcAC, each campus gets one person to represent its ladder faculty; this committee has a maximum of 13 people for a systemwide ladder faculty of over 11,000 (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu\/2018\/documents\/pdfs\/Accountability_2018_web.pdf\"\u003Epdf p 94\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; This faculty is divided among 10 campuses, between campuses and medical centers, across all the disciplines, which have diverse needs, and across racial groups, which also have diverse needs.\u0026nbsp; The idea of one person representing hundreds or thousands of their colleagues makes no epistemological (or political) sense.\u0026nbsp; It is also a recipe for an incoherent voice coming out of the AcAC, which Senate handpicking of membership can ease only at the price of lost diversity of views. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut the UC advisory committees \u003Ci\u003Ecould\u003C\/i\u003E affect the presidential search, by using their committees to prompt campus discussions about the presidential search in the context of the immediate future of UC.\u0026nbsp; All of the Advisory Committees could set up a series of events in which they talk with their constituents on each of 10 campuses.\u0026nbsp; They listen to hopes and fears, gather ideas about leadership needs, hash them over, and then transmit the resulting comments, recommendations, or demands to the Special Committee.\u0026nbsp; One faculty member suggested a \"UC Day\" in which town halls happen across the UC system at the same time. The ACs would have to identify a deadline that would fall before the Special Committee's long-listing and short-listing of candidates such that it (and the Board overall) could fully consider the input.\u0026nbsp; Each committee could do its work in about 6 weeks--2 campus visits a week (if not all done at once), plus a week to debate, formulate, and forward recommendations.\u0026nbsp; The scope of the issue is limited and the reports should be short.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnother benefit of using the ACs as a public fulcrum: town halls and other public events would be newsworthy.\u0026nbsp; Whatever they think of professors, unions, and students, governing boards do care about institutional reputation, media coverage, and what they hear back from VIPs as a result of that.\u0026nbsp; They also care about the public debates and collective movements that shape public opinion and apply political pressure.\u0026nbsp; A recent example is the issue of food insecurity and student homelessness.\u0026nbsp; For years, the Board were told UC financial aid took care of low-income students and they took no action to mitigate student poverty.\u0026nbsp; Then, sometime after Bernie Sanders put free college on the political map in late 2015, the media started covering student hunger and homelessness.\u0026nbsp; The UC Regents responded by forming a Special Committee on Basic Needs in late 2018.\u0026nbsp; The actual results have a long way to go, but the point is that governing boards do respond to public discourse, eventually, academic discourses included.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn short, though UC governance has a top-down 19th century structure, the Regents are most likely listen to faculty, students, alums, and staff under three conditions: their Advisory Committees (A) represent a real constituency brought together by a consultation process that (B) speaks publicly about its views of the University in a way that (C) publicly (re)frames the University's needs for its next president.\u0026nbsp; The idea is to create an interest, a buzz, an excitement, a university-wide discussion over what we do and don't need, and, more importantly, to construct a constituency which then builds discourses that have an institutional and political existence.\u0026nbsp; There are no guarantees, but the wager is that the state's media would cover a process in which a university system holds a discussion about its current goals and consequent leadership needs on all ten campuses. \u0026nbsp; The process would upgrade the level of public discussion about California higher ed both inside and outside the University.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis process would also help locate potential presidents with one vital skill, which is gathering exactly this kind of information from their own institutional grassroots.\u0026nbsp; This might seem irrelevant to the president's main job of political lobbying, but it is not. Recent history shows that a president without deep knowledge of the university's daily life simply cannot make the statewide case for the University's public benefit and fiscal needs.\u0026nbsp; UC's advisory committees could set an example of the creation of this kind of profound, inspiring knowledge that the University needs in its next president.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI do hope the current Academic Senate leadership, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/about\/chair-bio.html\"\u003EChair Kum-Kum Bhavnan\u003C\/a\u003Ei and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/about\/vice-chair-bio.html\"\u003EVice Chair Mary Gauvain\u003C\/a\u003E, rapidly set up a systemwide faculty fact-finding and deliberative process via the Academic Advisory Committee, details TBD. UC needs a new president with deep understanding of the University's issues, people, and potential, and the ability to learn directly from them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/dailybruin.com\/2015\/12\/18\/uc-divests-from-private-prisons-in-response-to-student-protest\/\"\u003EPhoto credit\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1128290734190457803\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/09\/a-systemwide-process-for-presidential.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1128290734190457803"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1128290734190457803"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/09\/a-systemwide-process-for-presidential.html","title":"A Systemwide Process for Presidential Searching"}],"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:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vsWw36gvQU4\/XZDn7SDa8jI\/AAAAAAAAECY\/toObuf9FZBwfi_XkhXI_UN6nFFORY5eugCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/StudentAssembledAfrikanBlackCoalitionUCLA2015.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-6546061472085737012"},"published":{"$t":"2019-08-21T16:44:00.002-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-08-04T17:26:11.754-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Shared Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Regents"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Epistemic Problems with Executive Appointment Power"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Fj09sESQp-8\/XV1SNK41YcI\/AAAAAAAAD_Q\/ES25-6p2lLo2pVU_YJo5xS4KNXSU_lScQCLcBGAs\/s1600\/ReillyJanet-and-Clint.-Bridge.2.-Jane-Richey.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"864\" data-original-width=\"578\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Fj09sESQp-8\/XV1SNK41YcI\/AAAAAAAAD_Q\/ES25-6p2lLo2pVU_YJo5xS4KNXSU_lScQCLcBGAs\/s400\/ReillyJanet-and-Clint.-Bridge.2.-Jane-Richey.jpg\" width=\"267\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nThe weakness of US democracy has been all over the mainstream media this summer.\u0026nbsp; For just one example, there's the title of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/08\/14\/magazine\/republicans-racism-african-americans.html?action=click\u0026amp;module=Top%20Stories\u0026amp;pgtype=Homepage\"\u003EJamelle Bouie's essay\u003C\/a\u003E on 1619\/2019: \"America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others.\"\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; On our beat, we have less catastrophic but still meaningful failures of American democratic practice: the governance of public universities, which are charged with creating democratic publics and racial justice, and which are governed autocratically nonetheless.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nThe still fairly new governor, Gavin Newsom, has \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2019\/08\/09\/governor-gavin-newsom-announces-council-for-post-secondary-education-higher-education-appointments\/\"\u003Emade some summer appointments in higher education\u003C\/a\u003E. The first is new UC regent Janet Reilly (at left, with her husband, Clint Reilly), a sometime journalist and long-time participant in the San Francisco Democratic party.\u0026nbsp; She has a bachelor's degree and a masters in journalism, but no other stated contact with higher education.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nBoard appointments have usually followed a rotten process, one \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/06\/how-to-improve-board-of-regents.html\"\u003Ewe've noted before\u003C\/a\u003E could be helped a lot just by following existing law.\u0026nbsp; This one doesn't either. Here is the official description of the appointee, in its entirety:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nJanet Reilly, 55, of San Francisco, has been appointed to the University \nof California Board of Regents. Reilly has been co-founder and president\n of the Board of Directors for Clinic by the Bay since 2008. She was \nappointed by President Barack Obama to be director of The Presidio Trust\n from 2015 to 2018. Reilly was director of the Golden Gate Bridge, \nHighway and Transportation District from 2003 to 2015, where she was \npresident of the Board of Directors from 2010 to 2012. She was executive\n producer and on-air television host of The Mix with Janet Reilly for \nNBC Bay Area – KNTV from 2014 to 2015, a trustee of the Golden Gate \nTransit Amalgamated Retirement and Health and Welfare Plans from 2010 to\n 2015 and director of public relations for Mervyn’s Department Stores \nfrom 1997 to 2001. Reilly was a district representative for Los Angeles \nMayor Richard Riordan from 1993 to 1995 and an on-air television \nreporter and anchor for KGWN-TV from 1990 to 1992. She is an advisory \nboard member of the Walt Disney Family Museum and the Leo T. McCarthy \nCenter for Public Service and the Common Good at USF, and a board member\n of the Dignity Health Foundation and the local governing board of the \nSeton Medical Center. Reilly earned a Master of Science degree in \njournalism from the Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism.\n This position requires Senate confirmation and there is no \ncompensation. Reilly is a Democrat. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nThe epistemic problems with this statement start with Newsom not saying why he likes Reilly or why she's qualified.\u0026nbsp; He doesn't say why she should be of interest to the university, that is, what her educational interests are.\u0026nbsp; This would be less of a problem had she some university management or advocacy background that pops up in her career summary.\u0026nbsp; She doesn't.\u0026nbsp; Newsom doesn't present Reilly as a person of interest to an academic community, nor does he address that community, nor does he bother to try to persuade anyone in that community that this is a good appointment.\u0026nbsp; Apparently none of that matters. The choice becomes an assertion of his power of appointment. Reilly means that Newsome can appoint anyone he wants.\u0026nbsp; The methodology silently reasserts that regents don't belong to the university but preside over it.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nSo there's this first issue of executive appointments negating an epistemic system.\u0026nbsp; Regents arrive epistemically tied to the executive with no experiential \nor cognitive links to campuses, their activities, their people.\u0026nbsp; Most people bemoan \"post-truth\" America.\u0026nbsp; But post-truth is possible only in the absence of interpretative systems that have to be constituted by ongoing discussion and debate.\u0026nbsp; We don't have to get all Habermasian to make this basic point: the unilateral, unexplained, non-consultatory appointment negates the shared understandings that constitute both \"truth\" and learning--two things unversities particularly care about.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nThere's a second issue of managerial prerogative that sidelines professional knowledge--the epistemic community in the narrower sense. This decision process says that professional competence is irrelevant in the running of a university.\u0026nbsp; Right.\u0026nbsp; I love to fly in planes but that doesn't make me a pilot. My father was a doctor but you wouldn't let me operate on your hip.\u0026nbsp; I have a long-term amateur interest in quantum mechanics and some descendant theories, but no one would make me program manager at CERN.\u0026nbsp; And yet anyone with the right connections to the governor can run a university.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nThere's a third issue of political patronage.\u0026nbsp; Politicians aren't supposed to be able to hand out jobs as favors for political support--even when the pay is prestige without a salary. It looks a lot like that's what's happening. Janet Reilly is married to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/clintreilly.com\/about-clint-reilly\/\"\u003EClint Reilly,\u003C\/a\u003E a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/clintreilly.com\/\"\u003Ecommercial real estate developer \u003C\/a\u003Ein San Francisco and\n a former political consultant.\u0026nbsp; His political clients included \nNancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein (he successfully defended her against a \nrecall campaign in 1983), Barbara Boxer, Richard Riordan, Bill Honig and many more.\u0026nbsp; They are probusiness liberals of the Jerry Brown variety.\u0026nbsp; They still control the state Democratic Party, and a good chunk of the party's national leadership posts.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-elEReEPL7nQ\/XV1UPY9eiRI\/AAAAAAAAD_c\/eleiRbUCaJEah3E8MSGJ6XM3qDR-f04ZQCLcBGAs\/s1600\/Reilly%2BClint%2BHired%2BGun.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"640\" data-original-width=\"476\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-elEReEPL7nQ\/XV1UPY9eiRI\/AAAAAAAAD_c\/eleiRbUCaJEah3E8MSGJ6XM3qDR-f04ZQCLcBGAs\/s400\/Reilly%2BClint%2BHired%2BGun.jpg\" width=\"297\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nThe Reillys operate at what old timey language would call the heart of San Francisco's Democratic power elite.\u0026nbsp; Their photographic history is that of wealthy socialites with interests in liberal charities.\u0026nbsp; In short, this looks very much like a patronage appointment for that part of the party's white establishment that wants to keep running minority-majority California.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nThe fourth issue is the neutralization of checks and balances. These are supposed to help U.S. democracy split the difference between executive autocracy and direct sovereignty.\u0026nbsp; California's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CONS\u0026amp;sectionNum=SEC.%209.\u0026amp;article=IX\"\u003EConstitution Sec 9(e) \u003C\/a\u003Elets the non-ex officio regents be appointed entirely by the governor rather than be at least partially elected or appointed by a range of officials.\u0026nbsp; On the other hand, it requires that the regents reflect the diversity of the state (Sec 9(d)), and that the governor convene a meeting of \"an advisory committee\" comprised by members of the public, a student, and a faculty member. It requires that the governor consult with this committee prior to the appointments.\u0026nbsp; Once the governor formally proposes a new member of the Board of Regents, the State Senate is supposed to accept or decline the appointment via its \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/sedn.senate.ca.gov\/\"\u003EStanding Committee on Education.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nNeither the state nor the University implement this vetting process.\u0026nbsp; Thus the public lacks even this weak pro forma voice. Neither the public nor the hundreds of thousands of UC employees have any voice at all. As one group reported, \"Despite our efforts to contact the Governor's office reminding them of Article 9, Section 9e, the Governor has just named Janet Reilly to serve as a Regent, without first holding an Article 9 Section 9e meeting.\" That's how these emails always sound. I can't find any record of State Senate review.\u0026nbsp; Meanwhile, UCOP \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/about\/members-and-advisors\/bios\/janet-reilly.html\"\u003Elisted her as a regent.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nVetting matters!\u0026nbsp; Once the regent is appointed, even pro forma checks and balances are gone.\u0026nbsp; The Board of Regents has autocratic power over the University (Constitution\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CONS\u0026amp;sectionNum=SEC.%209.\u0026amp;article=IX\"\u003E Sec 9(f)\u003C\/a\u003E) and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/governance\/bylaws\/bl22.html#bl22.1\"\u003EBylaw 22\u003C\/a\u003E are two places to start your reading).\u0026nbsp; The President is their executive agent, with similarly \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/governance\/standing-orders\/so1004.html\"\u003Eunqualified command and control \u003C\/a\u003Eover university policy and personnel. (Ten years ago, the Board gave \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/jul09\/j1attach1.pdf\"\u003EPresident Yudof emergency powers\u003C\/a\u003E virtually overnight, which he used to furlough university employees and which he could have used to close programs unilaterally.)\u0026nbsp; Faculty have two representatives to the Board of Regents, but they are \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/governance\/policies\/1201.html\"\u003Enot members of the Board and do not have a vote.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; The \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/governance\/bylaws\/bl27.html\"\u003ERegents are immunized from any communication\u003C\/a\u003E they do not seek themselves: the general public cannot contact them, but must contact the Board's Secretary.\u0026nbsp; Chancellors are required to attend regents' meetings but may not speak to regents unless spoken to.\u0026nbsp; Faculty may not communicate directly with regents, but must route messages through the Office of the President.\u0026nbsp; Public comment time at the Board meetings rabbalizes students and everyone else trying to get a word in. Most regents do not try to hide an indifference bordering on contempt during these sessions.\u0026nbsp; It's all rather medieval, isn't it?\u0026nbsp; Do not address thy sovereign lord unbidden!\u0026nbsp; Whatever we call it, this system creates cognitive bubbles of highly restricted information.\u0026nbsp; A further symptom of the closed and undemocratic nature of the system is that we all take it for granted.\u0026nbsp; Only CUCFA seems even to have noticed that no vetting has taken place.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nI'm not saying Janet Reilly will be a bad regent: she has worked as a journalist and has remained a basically\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.calitics.com\/index.php\/tag\/366\/\"\u003Eprogressive\u003C\/a\u003E Democratic party activist in spite of having not been successful in running for \npublic office (in one case she was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ebar.com\/news\/\/\/237002\"\u003Eaccused of policy plagiarism\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp; She\u0026nbsp; has a lot of experience with being appointed to boards.\u0026nbsp; She's not \u003Ci\u003Eless \u003C\/i\u003Equalified than the standard collection of governor's office staffers, business consultants, small businesspeople, and Hollywood execs appointed by \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/9c88bcf83c3c4318831df479e85b5391\"\u003EJerry Brown\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; But this gets us to a fifth issue: the cynical reason that assumes there's no bad substantive fallout from insular and autocratic procedure that we should get off our asses to avoid.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nA couple of issues spring to mind.\u0026nbsp; First, university real estate.\u0026nbsp; Berkeley chancellor Carol Christ, among others, has advocated public-private partnerships in student and faculty housing.\u0026nbsp; Student housing has become a commercial property cash cow in the US and UK ever since companies figured out they could charge by the bed rather than the room (4 student room charges per two bedrooms, for example).\u0026nbsp; These ventures drive up student costs on the back end (and encourage universities to recapture by hiking board fees some of what they've lost from tuition freezes).\u0026nbsp; They are also part of the \"multiple revenue streams\" strategy that year-in year-out is the gift that keeps on giving--it gives the state an excuse not to put any more of their own money in.\u0026nbsp; With her family business, could Janet Reilly rethink the university's privatization strategy? Is it likely she'll study revenue issues independently and come up with some new ideas?\u0026nbsp; I would guess not. That's a real loss, since the university desperately needs new strategies.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nA second issue is the UCSF-Dignity controversy, in which UCSF proposed a much-expanded alliance with Catholic hospitals that proscribe gender reassignment surgery and most reproductive health services to women (our coverage is \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/press-faculty-social-movements-why_31.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E). The systemwide Senate went to war on this, and the final report of the Nondiscrimation in Healthcare Task Force \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/reports\/rm-jn-final-report-non-discrimination-healthcare-taskforce.pdf\"\u003Econcluded\u003C\/a\u003E that, \"UC should avoid an entity such as a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or joint venture, or other forms of close legal affiliation, with any external entity that exercises discriminatory policies in healthcare\" -- like Dignity.\u0026nbsp; UCSF backed out of the proposed alliance, but a new task force is likely to try to legitimize the more local relationships UC campuses can have with religious providers who discriminate in this sense.\u0026nbsp; The issue is not over.\u0026nbsp; Next thing you know, Gov. Newsom makes as his first appointment to the Board of Regents a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/reports\/rm-jn-final-report-non-discrimination-healthcare-taskforce.pdf\"\u003Emember of the Board of Directors of Dignity Health Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; We have the same problem again:, how independent will Janet Reilly be in discussions of UC's health care policy as a public entity?\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nIf you can stand one further example: Gavin Newsom's other summer creation was a new Council for Post-Secondary Education.\u0026nbsp; It is to\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nserve as an independent consultative resource to the Governor around the\n economic and social impact of higher education in the state. They will \nexamine issues relating to future capacity, enrollment planning, \ncommunity college transfers, general education and coordination at the \nstate and regional levels, and make recommendations to the Governor for \naction.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nThis charge used to be filled by an old Master Plan body called the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cpec.ca.gov\/\"\u003ECalifornia Postsecondary Commission (CPEC).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; It was a regular state agency, not a body of political appointees.\u0026nbsp; It had a permanent professional staff that collected and analyzed every kind of higher ed data for the state's three systems.\u0026nbsp; It kept statistics on boring, essential things like assignable square feet of instructional space per enrolled student and proportions of the physical plant that were behind in maintenance.\u0026nbsp; It made recommendations--in 2007, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pe.com\/2018\/03\/25\/california-politicians-are-ignoring-the-looming-higher-education-crisis\/\"\u003Eit said the state didn't need UC Irvine to build a law school\u003C\/a\u003E--well, it lost that one. In 2011, Jerry Brown killed CPEC by line-item deleting its entire budget (of under $2 million), for reasons that never made sense.\u0026nbsp; Afterwards, no one was giving Brown professional information about higher ed--and it showed.\u0026nbsp; CPEC apparently remains established in state law as an unbudgeted shell.\u0026nbsp; Newsom could have re-funded it, hired some professional staff, and gotten the data flowing again.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nInstead, he's created a Council of Appointees, consisting entirely of people \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2019\/08\/09\/governor-gavin-newsom-announces-council-for-post-secondary-education-higher-education-appointments\/\"\u003Ewho are already running California higher ed\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; There is no checking and balancing or outside points of view.\u0026nbsp; Every single member is the chief executive of a college system or state educational agency (Janet Napolitano, Timothy White, Eloy Ortiz Oakley, etc), or someone who works out of Newsom's office.\u0026nbsp; There isn't even a UC chancellor or Cal State president, much less a faculty member, an office manager, a scientist, a librarian, etc. (There are also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/californiaglobe.com\/section-2\/gov-newsom-announces-totally-partisan-council-for-post-secondary-education-higher-education-appointments\/\"\u003Eno Republicans\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u0026nbsp; It's another epistemic bubble getting filled with hot air and flown off to write another report about how to align UC Merced with the valley's jobs of the future, or touting Fresno's K-16 Pilot program.\u0026nbsp; There's no independent input and critique in the most banal sense.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EThese executive boards are antithetical to democracy and to the nature of education, which requires massively open and diverse inputs and complex mechanisms of analysis and synthesis.\u0026nbsp; Newsom acknowledges this in a backhanded way by adding that \"the Governor has convened – and will continue to engage – higher education advocates and stakeholders to advise him.\" But he doesn't put any of them on his Council. He doesn't give it the staff and the powers of data collection that would allow it to learn, reflect, have new ideas, and change its mind.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nHigher ed is hurt when it mimics a\u0026nbsp; US culture with deep traditions of board packing and executive rule. This culture is being thoughtlessly and selfishly continued by California governors and university managers.\u0026nbsp; Executive appointment power lowers both the intelligence and the credibility of universities.\u0026nbsp; It creates mental complacency and institutional mediocrity.\u0026nbsp; It could easily be replaced with actual democratic procedures.\u0026nbsp; We could have \u003Ci\u003Egood\u003C\/i\u003E\n regents--defined as ones with democratic legitimacy within the \nuniversity, rooted in their direct epistemic connections with campuses, their local \nknowledge, their reciprocating discussion, their independent judgment regarding the university they rule.\u0026nbsp; I'd like to see UCOP and the Academic Senate work on this carefully over the next couple of years.\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6546061472085737012\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/epistemic-problems-with-executive.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6546061472085737012"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6546061472085737012"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/epistemic-problems-with-executive.html","title":"Epistemic Problems with Executive Appointment Power"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Fj09sESQp-8\/XV1SNK41YcI\/AAAAAAAAD_Q\/ES25-6p2lLo2pVU_YJo5xS4KNXSU_lScQCLcBGAs\/s72-c\/ReillyJanet-and-Clint.-Bridge.2.-Jane-Richey.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-5838286484731344209"},"published":{"$t":"2019-08-12T10:44:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-08-12T10:44:31.314-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Faculty"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Online Education"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Shared Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Teaching"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Automated University"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hU9xerz4EYo\/XVGW_cA2XCI\/AAAAAAAAD-0\/9Me8JN0s0yMYNKuDinn4x1LwSmQEETelwCLcBGAs\/s1600\/online-learning-470.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"470\" data-original-width=\"870\" height=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hU9xerz4EYo\/XVGW_cA2XCI\/AAAAAAAAD-0\/9Me8JN0s0yMYNKuDinn4x1LwSmQEETelwCLcBGAs\/s320\/online-learning-470.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003Eby Jonathan Rees, Professor of History, Colorado State University, Pueblo\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA few weeks ago, I heard from one of my former students who was upset that I had begun teaching online.\u0026nbsp; She’s a traditionalist, who didn’t appreciate it when I very politely suggested that she needs to get with the times.\u0026nbsp; “A robot will be teaching your classes in 10 years,” she told me.\u0026nbsp; Her underlying message here was that online teaching has to be robotic and automatically inferior to the face-to-face variety.\u0026nbsp; My immediate reaction was to wonder if replacing me with a robot was even possible.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou’d have to be living under a rock to be unacquainted with the idea that automation has become a job killing-machine, and that the situation will only get worse in the future as those killer robots get smarter.\u0026nbsp; Rather than recap all that literature here, I will simply point you to a good argument that \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/robots-are-not-coming-for-your-job-management-is-1835127820\"\u003EBrian Merchant makes in \u003Ci\u003EGizmodo.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E “A robot is not ‘coming for’, or ‘stealing’ or ‘killing’ or ‘threatening’ to take away your job,” he argues.\u0026nbsp; “Management is.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s certainly true for any factory setting.\u0026nbsp; There is no economic requirement that every turn of a screw that can be automated must be automated.\u0026nbsp; However, the potential cost-savings of a robot arm doing that job is so great that countless factory owners have embraced automation.\u0026nbsp; As a scholar of industrialization, I’m very familiar with the ways in which managers once broke jobs down into their component parts.\u0026nbsp; This practice is widely associated with the turn-of-the-twentieth-century management consultant Frederick Taylor.\u0026nbsp; Once this division of labor is employed, it becomes possible to replace skilled workers with less-skilled, lower-paid workers – or these days – robots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We ought to resist the Taylorization of academia,” \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/raulpacheco\/status\/1139998322704474112\"\u003Ewrites\u003C\/a\u003E the popular and prolific academic Tweeter Raul Pacheco-Vega.\u0026nbsp; “The more time I spend actually concentrating in my work, just reflecting, reading, writing, analyzing data, I realize that we need time, we need space, we need the right conditions to undertake scholarly pursuits. In fact, I’m not convinced that some of the many tasks that professors perform on a daily basis can be automated.”\u0026nbsp; Of course, heartfelt pleas like this won’t stop academic managers who prioritize efficiency over educational quality from trying to implement their vision nonetheless.\u0026nbsp; But even if managers want to bring automation to college teaching, whether this goal is even possible deserves close consideration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile it’s tempting for faculty to see the struggle between quality and efficiency as a clear cut example of good vs. evil, higher education has already benefited from a little automation when it gets properly employed.\u0026nbsp; For example, there’s an automated program on my campus that tells me or students what graduation requirements whatever student in my office still needs to complete.\u0026nbsp; Looking through all those requirements had once been the most time-consuming part of the advising process, and students often made mistakes when they tried to do this themselves.\u0026nbsp; This tool has immeasurably helped everyone involved, but the real problem with automation in a university setting is deciding exactly which parts of the higher education experience are improved by automation, and which ones are unacceptably degraded.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn his book \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/539883\/coders-by-clive-thompson\/9780735220560\/\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ECoders\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Clive Thompson argues that the main inspiration for much of the technological innovation of recent years comes from computer programmers aiming to eliminate repetitive tasks.\u0026nbsp; Don’t want to send a hundred thank-you notes or go shopping for groceries?\u0026nbsp; Automate the process.\u0026nbsp; If the computer can’t do what you don’t want to do by itself, it’ll find somebody somewhere who is willing to do it for you.\u0026nbsp; What has changed in recent years is that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become good enough that computers can now eliminate repetitive tasks that are actually rather complex.\u0026nbsp; Algorithms might not do the job quite as well as their human counterparts, but the people doing the automating may very well not care.\u0026nbsp; Still, here's the catch: faculty do so many different kinds of things that we would have to be replaced by at least several different machines of widely varying effectiveness - and possibly a whole army.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Academic Division of Labor\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen I say the word robot, what do you picture?\u0026nbsp; C-3PO?\u0026nbsp; Twiki from Battlestar Galactica?\u0026nbsp; The Cybermen from Doctor Who?\u0026nbsp; To borrow a distinction I picked up from a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/mistyrobotics\/why-the-robot-industry-is-so-focused-on-single-task-robots-3978c10cb4d7\"\u003Erobotics engineer named Tim Enwall\u003C\/a\u003E, these are multi-task robots who “can understand all languages, process any question, identify and manipulate any object, cover any terrain, etc.”\u0026nbsp; In fact, “No company in the world can come anywhere close to meeting these expectations right now nor any time soon.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERobots today are mostly single-task creations, designed to perform one function like turn a screw or weld two pieces of metal together.\u0026nbsp; They may be guided by computers, but even the most powerful computers cannot master all the functions that a skilled human worker can perform easily.\u0026nbsp; This is especially true of skilled knowledge workers.\u0026nbsp; One of the problems with the automation debate is that many of the people who are trying to engage in it from the pro-worker side tend to conflate automation, artificial intelligence, and actual robots.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETeaching is just one of the functions that modern professors perform.\u0026nbsp; In my case, my contract requires me to teach, conduct research and perform service.\u0026nbsp; Each one of these tasks can be broken down into a series of sub-tasks.\u0026nbsp; For example, lecturing, despite the ideas of the people behind Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs, as we used to say back in 2013), is only part of teaching and hardly the most difficult part of teaching at that.\u0026nbsp; The hard part is helping students process what they’re learning so that they can master its intricacies.\u0026nbsp; AI can ask follow up questions about whether you really know the Spanish word for “horse.”\u0026nbsp; Which machine will evaluate your student’s interpretation of Cervantes’ message at the center of Don Quixote?\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn my discipline, I have evolved into something of a heretic.\u0026nbsp; I no longer see the point of lecturing at all when the vast majority of information I can convey could simply be Googled up on demand whenever a student potentially needed it.\u0026nbsp; Granted the average Wikipedia page wouldn’t be as good as my lecture, but it would be good enough for most students’ purposes.\u0026nbsp; The same thing would be true of whatever automated MOOC lecture a student might watch.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERather than lecture every day, I now try to teach history as a process – namely the research process.\u0026nbsp; Even in my online survey class, I guide students through source acquisition, evaluation and the writing process so that they can appreciate where history originates rather than simply memorize facts that might help them win on Jeopardy someday.\u0026nbsp; In all of my classes, a lot of those efforts involve digital tools that can help students contribute to the vast pool of historical knowledge rather than make believe that that pool of knowledge does not exist so that I can continue to run my class like history professors did during the late-twentieth century.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn this day and age, every class on a university campus has to be about the Internet to some degree or another because the Internet permeates so many aspects of modern life.\u0026nbsp; To ignore that in your classroom is clear evidence that you are not equipping your students with all the knowledge they need to thrive after graduation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn terms of faculty research, I know that computers can write something that passes for symphonies now, but they still can’t visit archives and go through boxes.\u0026nbsp; Scan every document in every archive in the world and you’ll still need humans to go through all those documents in order to craft some of them into a compelling narrative.\u0026nbsp; Of course, engineering and science research will never be automated because that’s where the money is.\u0026nbsp; Automation in this instance would be just another excuse to establish the “humanities in crisis” narrative that predates the Internet, let alone the possibility of faculty robots.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EWin\/Lose\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe idea of automating service is a goal that both administrators and faculty could conceivably get behind.\u0026nbsp; After all, who likes going to meetings?\u0026nbsp; Let the robots decide the best way to keep the university’s lights on and let me go back to my research and teaching.\u0026nbsp; On the other hand, committee meetings are the place where the faculty most often exercise their role in shared governance – perhaps the most important thing about colleges and universities that separates them from other places of employment.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn academia, despite a long tradition of faculty autonomy, the barrier between the professional and the personal has become increasingly hazy because of technology.\u0026nbsp; There are now countless examples of faculty who have gotten into trouble for things they have tweeted in their capacity as citizens which have gotten them in trouble to one degree or another in their professional capacities.\u0026nbsp; This threat to academic freedom has come about because of technology, and that same technology offers our employers an added incentive to replace us.\u0026nbsp; Service is one thing that on-campus professors do that separates them from remote faculty.\u0026nbsp; Automate that process and the migration to offsite labor will accelerate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe situation is different for faculty who choose to perform any aspect of their duties through technologies that their employers don’t control.\u0026nbsp; I send most of my professional emails through Gmail rather than my university account.\u0026nbsp; Gmail is far more useful to me than the one my university provides on the basis of storage space alone.\u0026nbsp; As a program, I think it’s also organized more logically than the Microsoft product that I’m supposed to use.\u0026nbsp; In exchange for access to Gmail, I let Google mine the words they write so that they can show me better-targeted advertisements.\u0026nbsp; I get something good for no money, but in exchange I give up a little bit of my privacy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn his book \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/539747\/winners-take-all-by-anand-giridharadas\/9780451493248\/\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EWinners Take All\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Anand Giridharadas notes that Silicon Valley types refer to this kind of thinking as a “win\/win” situation.\u0026nbsp; For that to be true, the victory of the consumer wouldn’t have to be complete.\u0026nbsp; If I don’t care at all about Google and its advertisers knowing the topic of my emails, then I’m certainly better off using Gmail than an inferior alternative.\u0026nbsp; There are advantages and disadvantages to exercising this kind of autonomy, but the right to make these decisions is a right worth fighting for because the faculty’s very existence might ultimately be at stake.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is particularly true when you consider technology in a classroom setting.\u0026nbsp; It is extraordinarily convenient for faculty and students to have homework modules packaged with their online textbooks, but what happens if your administrations prefer to cut out the middleman and deal directly with publishers?\u0026nbsp; After all, it’s publishers, not faculty, who can easily tweak questions.\u0026nbsp; They’re the ones who keep the course data.\u0026nbsp; Any administration could conceivably contract directly with publishers who would use faculty advisors from different campuses in order to centralize the writing of both content and exams. Faculty would then become nothing but glorified teaching assistants.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis worst case scenario here requires predicting the future, but there are nonetheless plenty of examples of faculty losing their traditional prerogatives to technology that I can cite now.\u0026nbsp; The most omnipresent is the very existence of the Learning Management System (or LMS).\u0026nbsp; Invented in the 1990s so that universities could cash in on the distance education craze quickly, it has now become a stalwart presence in online and face-to-face classes alike.\u0026nbsp; On the one hand, it is a convenient way to exhibit copyrighted material in password-protected spaces and to show students how they’re doing at any point in the class, but most of them are extraordinarily difficult for faculty to customize.\u0026nbsp; We, in turn, are forced to change the way we teach to reflect the platform our administrators contracted for rather than bend the Internet towards whatever way we want to teach.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EApply job selection software to an academic setting and it becomes possible for a university’s\u0026nbsp; Human Resources department to oversee the selection of tenure track faculty, a process that was once the near-exclusive province of the professoriate.\u0026nbsp; Automate a process at the heart of a faculty member’s job – like \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2017-06-06-how-u-of-michigan-built-automated-essay-scoring-software-to-fill-feedback-gap-for-student-writing\"\u003Eessay grading\u003C\/a\u003E – and questioning why we need faculty at all becomes practically inevitable.\u0026nbsp; The problem with these win\/win situations in higher education is that faculty seldom win in the long run.\u0026nbsp; Once we give up a prerogative to our administrations through the use of technology it is going to be increasingly hard for anyone, especially future faculty members, to ever get it back.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EA Hostile Takeover of the Virtual Classroom\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENone of this means that all forms of academic automation are evil by definition.\u0026nbsp; About twenty years ago, I learned how to use Microsoft Excel and have used it ever since – not for my research, but for my grades.\u0026nbsp; I’m not a math guy at all, so it once took hours for me to generate students grades even when I employed a calculator.\u0026nbsp; Now, after writing one simple function at the end of every class, I can produce grades for any class I teach in about twenty minutes.\u0026nbsp; The lesson here is that faculty have to be the ones to decide when to automate parts of their work and which parts of their work should be automated.\u0026nbsp; The benefits from faculty controlling the way that technology gets used in their classroom involve not just creating better classes, but in improving both the morale and effectiveness of students and professors alike. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe problem with using Excel to calculate grades is that students can’t see their marks at any moment during the semester.\u0026nbsp; Yet the fact that online gradebooks hadn’t been invented yet didn’t prevent me from knowing my grade over the course of the semester back when I was in college.\u0026nbsp; I took the formula on the class syllabus, plugged in the grades I’d gotten to whatever point of the semester we’d reached and (despite my limited math abilities) figured out my grade myself.\u0026nbsp; I think it’s a good thing that students can both save time and will likely check how they’re doing more often over the course of the semester, but the fact that administrators can also see what grade students are earning has huge potential drawbacks. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe most benign suggestion that I’ve heard is that faculty should use the Learning Management System more often so that data from our gradebooks can be used to promote student retention argument.\u0026nbsp; In the long run, this means using big data to study the problem across disciplines.\u0026nbsp; On a more basic level, if the university knows when students are doing poorly, then they can send out warnings automatically, long before I even notice there’s a problem.\u0026nbsp; What I resent here is the idea that I may have to move my entire class onto a computer program that defines both the way that I interact with my students online and the structure of the entire class in exchange for a few days of early warning time and the other potential benefits of big data.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is not a win\/win situation.\u0026nbsp; It is a hostile takeover of the virtual classroom.\u0026nbsp; Faculty and their administrators could probably work out a way to use their Learning Management Systems to improve student retention without too much trouble, but only if they are all sitting at the same table.\u0026nbsp; The problem is that if faculty don’t even recognize that their prerogatives are being violated, they won't\u0026nbsp; ask for a seat at the table, and their voice will surely disappear before too long.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn their 2014 statement on “Academic Freedom and Electronic Communications,” the American Association of University Professors \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.aaup.org\/report\/academic-freedom-and-electronic-communications-2014\"\u003Esuggested\u003C\/a\u003E, “Online teaching platforms and learning-management systems may permit faculty members to learn whether students in a class did their work and how long they spent on certain assignments. Conversely, however, a college or university administration could use these systems to determine whether faculty members were logging into the service “enough,” spending “adequate” time on certain activities, and the like.”\u0026nbsp; It is not a big leap from that point to suggest that the failure to meet the goals set by monitoring software could be used to justify the replacement of teachers with artificial intelligence. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe most dangerous aspect of introducing new technology into college classes of all kinds is that it might convince both edtech companies and many college administrations that they know how to teach better (which often just means “more efficiently”) than we do.\u0026nbsp; When the decision to employ education technology is made exclusively by management, a structural imperative tends to move that technology towards its most evil iteration.\u0026nbsp; The battle for the academic means of production is a battle over priorities.\u0026nbsp; If faculty accept automation on its face for the sake of our temporary convenience, or have no role in its implementation at all, then we will have no right to complain if or when the robot professors actually arrive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5838286484731344209\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/the-automated-university.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/5838286484731344209"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/5838286484731344209"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/the-automated-university.html","title":"The Automated University"}],"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:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hU9xerz4EYo\/XVGW_cA2XCI\/AAAAAAAAD-0\/9Me8JN0s0yMYNKuDinn4x1LwSmQEETelwCLcBGAs\/s72-c\/online-learning-470.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-5502353014937595744"},"published":{"$t":"2019-05-31T05:03:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-06-07T11:40:26.906-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"abortion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Faculty"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"health care"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"LGBTQ"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Shared Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Health"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCSF"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Press, Faculty, Social Movements: Why the Opposition to the UCSF Alliance with Cathoilc Hospitals Prevailed"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dA46N476IZQ\/XO_zQ9JSVEI\/AAAAAAAAD74\/v8uEcu1zJjwtf9cxmaSPLD9nvm_Pj-lwACLcBGAs\/s1600\/Handmaids%2BProtest.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1026\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"205\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dA46N476IZQ\/XO_zQ9JSVEI\/AAAAAAAAD74\/v8uEcu1zJjwtf9cxmaSPLD9nvm_Pj-lwACLcBGAs\/s320\/Handmaids%2BProtest.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nUCSF and UCSF Medical Center have \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/chancellor.ucsf.edu\/blog\/update-proposed-affiliation-dignity-health\"\u003Eannounced that they are suspending negotiations\u003C\/a\u003E\n to expand their existing relationships with four Catholic hospitals.\u0026nbsp; The reversal--highly unusual for the UC medical system--came\n after a public and a faculty \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/Following-outcry-UCSF-ends-talks-to-expand-13902018.php\"\u003Eoutcry\u003C\/a\u003E\n against more entanglement of the University with the private Dignity \nmedical system that declines reproductive health services, \ngender-affirming surgery, and other procedures that conflict with the \nteachings of the Catholic Church.\u0026nbsp; This decision is a big deal: after providing some background, I'll\n argue that it's an example of the power of faculty effort when it \nstands on principle and in alignment with social movements--with help \nfrom sophisticated press coverage that higher ed too often has to do \nwithout.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMichael entitled his first draft of this post,\n \"Does UCSF Care about Womens' and LGTBQ Health?\" It was a good \nquestion, since UCSF Health's senior management seemed to be denying the\n restrictive reality that would be imposed on UCSF personnel operating \nin Dignity facilities. According to reporting by Nanette Asimov (April \n26, 2019),\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nDignity spokesman Chad Burns has said the Catholic hospitals require \nUCSF doctors to sign God-affirming agreements that prohibit medical care\n that violate the hospitals’ religious beliefs. He said these include \nthe \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dignityhealth.org\/cm\/media\/documents\/statement-of-common-values-m2.pdf\"\u003E“Statement of Common Values”\u003C\/a\u003E or the more restrictive \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/issues-and-action\/human-life-and-dignity\/health-care\/upload\/Ethical-Religious-Directives-Catholic-Health-Care-Services-fifth-edition-2009.pdf\"\u003E“Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services,”\u003C\/a\u003E\n which characterizes certain procedures, including sterilization, as \n“intrinsically evil.” Depending on the hospital, prohibited care can \ninclude abortions, tubal ligations, hysterectomies, sterilizations, \nmiscarriage care, gender surgery and contraceptive counseling. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nUnder\n the terms of the former, Dignity must deny abortions, along with \nin-vitro \nfertilization (which would disproportionately harm the gay and lesbian couples that depend on that procedure).\u0026nbsp; Under\n the latter, Dignity presumes that marriage is between a man and a \nwoman, forbids the prescribing of contraception as well as abortion, \nand allows the morning after pill in cases of rape but not abortion (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/about\/doctrine\/ethical-and-religious-directives\/upload\/ethical-religious-directives-catholic-health-service-sixth-edition-2016-06.pdf\"\u003Eparagraph 36\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMeanwhile, UCSF was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsfhealth.org\/about\/faq-ucsf-affiliation-with-dignity-health\/\"\u003Eassuring its personnel\u003C\/a\u003E\n that it would not have to sign any such agreements or do anything that \nviolated their professional ethics or secular standards of care. Asimov \nalso reported,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nUCSF spokeswoman Jennifer O’Brien said the medical center’s\n physicians are not required to sign those precise documents. “But they \ndo commit to provide care consistent with those value statements as part\n of their credentialing and privilege application to practice in Dignity\n Health’s hospitals. This does not impede our physicians’ ability to \nprescribe contraception medications at any Dignity Health hospital, \nregardless of its Catholic sponsorship.” \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nThe statement doesn't exactly make sense, reading from one sentence to the next, and is in any case flatly contradicted by the Dignity spokesperson.\u0026nbsp; \nThe tacit deal seemed to have been that UCSF personnel could mention or \neven advocate procedures that they could not provide at a Dignity \nfacility but that the patient could get elsewhere--though such counseling also\ncontravenes Catholic directives.\u0026nbsp; UCSF seems to have carved out wiggle \nroom in prexisiting clinical affiliations, whose complicated policies were \nthe subject of a September 2017 \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.ucsf.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/2018-03\/Joint-Review-Committee-Campus-Affiliation-Policy-Report.pdf\"\u003EAcademic Senate report\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis was a long way from UCSF Health's original August 2017 announcement that \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsf.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/407996\/dignity-health-ucsf-health-announce-bay-area-collaboration\"\u003Eit was formalizing an affiliation\u003C\/a\u003E\n with Dignity.\u0026nbsp; This press release represented the new stage as a \ndone deal that merely deepened existing affiliations between two essentially identical titans of clinical quality, \none of which, Dignity, was exemplary for its charitable medical work for \nlow-income patients.\u0026nbsp; The announcement didn't mention that Dignity \nrestricted access to some kinds of health care or even that it was \nCatholic.\u0026nbsp; So the open debate in 2019 may well have forced the parties, \nDignity and UCSF\n Health, finally to reckon with the fact that they had contradictory ideas about the \nalliance, which would make it unworkable in practice. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHow did the debate come to the surface? Several factors came together.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFirst,\n advocates for reproductive and LGTBQ rights critiqued the UCSF plan and\n publicized the critique.\u0026nbsp; The ACLU of Northern California, the National Center for Lesbian \nRights, and the National Health Law Program \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/bixby.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/UCSF-Dignity-letter-2019.03.12.pdf\"\u003Ewrote a joint memorandum \u003C\/a\u003Edetailing\n the various ways in which the alliance would require discriminatory \ntreatment of transgender patients, women, and people seeking palliative care, among others. The ACLU collected 6700 signatures on a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/action.aclu.org\/petition\/cn-dignity-health-discriminationpetition?ms_aff=CS\u0026amp;initms_aff=CS\u0026amp;ms_chan=tw\u0026amp;initms_chan=tw\"\u003Epetition\u003C\/a\u003E\n demanding that UC reject the alliance in the name of protecting health care free \nof discrimination.\u0026nbsp; Word circulated about the case of Evan Minton, a \ntransgender man, who had sued a Dignity hospital for canceling his \nhysterectomy after discovering that its purpose was gender affirmation.\u0026nbsp;\n The ACLU organized a protest for May 15th, calling on people to hold UC \naccountable to its values of non-discrimination, equity, and inclusion. \nTrans, feminist, reproductive, and other health care movements played an \nimportant role.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSecond, UCSF faculty got directly involved. \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/gdoc.pub\/doc\/e\/2PACX-1vRLe-3hPPkBons4PuypOjcSP1MQgxMUt0PliOH9kTe8eVxZkvuDb4i9ZoiAL4rsxxkmanSb9MXsRBlN\"\u003E1500 staff signed a petition opposing\u003C\/a\u003E\n the alliance.\u0026nbsp; They also found a channel to express individual opinions\n en masse.\u0026nbsp; The main agent was the Faculty Association, which decided to poll its members to confirm or deny assertions of general support.\u0026nbsp; Results\n ran 2 to 1 against the affiliation.\u0026nbsp; When the UCSF administration \ndeclared the results unrepresentative of the overall faculty, the FA \npolled the entire faculty.\u0026nbsp; They got more or less exactly the same \nresults: 2 to 1 against, with about 1\/4th in favor. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe FA also collected \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ucsffa.org\/6317\/ucsf-dignity-survey-responses\"\u003Eover 300 comments.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/a\u003EMany were quite moving, both \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ucsffa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/support-affiliation-5-21-19.pdf\"\u003Ein favor (see #1,\u003C\/a\u003E\n on experience of no restrictions in practicing at St. Marys and \nreciprocal influence in caring for uninsured patients from vulnerable \npopulations); and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ucsffa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/oppose-affiliation-5-21-19.pdf\"\u003Eagainst\u003C\/a\u003E (#8, 48, and 64, for example).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; The chair of the divisional Academic Senate favored the affiliation (see \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/opinion\/openforum\/article\/Open-Forum-UCSF-and-Dignity-Health-can-work-13834238.php\"\u003Ehis co-authored op-ed\u003C\/a\u003E),\n as apparently did much of campus Senate leadership.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut the FA persisted, \nwhich is important in itself; generated empirical evidence, which is \nequally important as a check on spin; and gathered a large set of \nindividual comments, which allows personal experience and care to be \nexpressed in a way that helps collective thinking, and that serves as a \ndisplaced form of democratic deliberation.\u0026nbsp; The faculty, so often \ninexpressive on university policy, were brought on line.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOn\n the systemwide level, Academic Council chair Robert May opposed the affiliation on principle.\u0026nbsp; Although he sees the business logic, he told\n some of us in April, the alliance would compromise the \nfundamental values of the university, not unlike the \nMcCarthy-era \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.berkeley.edu\/uchistory\/archives_exhibits\/loyaltyoath\/index.html\"\u003Eloyalty oath\u003C\/a\u003E\n of 1949.\u0026nbsp; We can debate what UC's fundamental values really are, but\n May articulated a support for absolutely equal access to health care \nregardless of any aspect of personal identity, one that allowed for no \nsplitting the difference between UCSF and Dignity.\u0026nbsp; I think it made a \ndifference to see a faculty member in May's position stating quite \nclearly what the university is for, and standing up for that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThird,\n press coverage rendered the alliance as a public concern. In addition \nto Asimov's reporting, Michael Hiltzik wrote a pair of columns in April (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/hiltzik\/la-fi-hiltzik-uc-dignity-health-discrimination-20190412-story.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/hiltzik\/la-fi-hiltzik-dignity-ucsf-catholic-healthcare-20190419-story.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E)\n describing how the details were not public, the Regents were confused, \nthe defenses were not convincing, and the ethics were disastrous.\u0026nbsp; The \nfirst column said early on: \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nDignity’s adherence to Catholic Church directives affecting medical \ncare, including a near-total ban on abortion, is hopelessly at odds with\n the values of a public institution such as UCSF. What’s worse, UCSF, by\n implicitly accepting Dignity’s model discriminating against women and \nLGBTQ patients, would empower that model’s expansion.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nand built up from there.\u0026nbsp; For the LA \u003Ci\u003ETimes\u003C\/i\u003E's business columnist --and author of a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Big-Science-Lawrence-Invention-Military-Industrial\/dp\/B00ZJFZJNO\/ref=sr_1_4?qid=1559237648\u0026amp;refinements=p_27%3AMichael+Hiltzik\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;sr=1-4\u0026amp;text=Michael+Hiltzik\"\u003Ehistory of UC science\u003C\/a\u003E--to deliver to UC a set of cogent criticisms helped\n stop the train that has always already left the station so that people \ncould think again about where the train was going.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere\n are at least two issues to keep analyzing and pushing, given the \npossibility that UCSF and Dignity will come back later with a \nrestructured deal.\u0026nbsp; The first is now widely discussed--how to develop \nfundamentally egalitarian health care in our Handmaid moment of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/18\/us\/anti-abortion-laws.html\"\u003Ecoordinated assaults\u003C\/a\u003E\n on Roe v. Wade, and more muted but pervasive opposition to transgender \nrights. UCSF's position was the kind of moderation that has made \nreproductive healthcare vulnerable (see \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2019\/05\/how-extreme-abortion-bans-in-alabama-and-georgia-happened.html\"\u003ERebecca Traister \u003C\/a\u003Eon Democrat triangulation with abortion).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe\n second is the UC medical center business model.\u0026nbsp; UCSF argued that it \nneeded Dignity to solve a capacity crisis.\u0026nbsp; But why does it have one after \nit spent 10 years building a whole second campus at Mission Bay? We've \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2013\/11\/surprising-office-politics-at-ucsf.html\"\u003Ecommented before\u003C\/a\u003E\n on the planning problems there.\u0026nbsp; After all that building, where are the beds to handle\nprojected growth? Were too many new buildings devoted to targeted projects \nof interest to donors?\u0026nbsp; I don't know the answers to these questions, but somebody should answer them.\u0026nbsp; It \nseems like something has gone very wrong with planning when two entire UCSFs, one \nbrand-new, can't handle the clinical load.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere is also another possibility, which is that UCSF doesn't have a capacity crisis, but a monopoly crisis.\u0026nbsp; There isn't actually an overall shortage of hospital beds in the Bay Area (Dignity has many empty ones), but only a shortage of beds controlled by UCSF.\u0026nbsp; This raises the thorny question of whether the UC medical enterprise is financially viable without a quasi-monopoly share of the local market that, among other things, would make it easier to raise prices on patients.\u0026nbsp; The question should be of \nburning interest to the UC system, since the US health care system is in a state of turbulent uncertainty and UC it is on the hook for its medical center losses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut\n for the moment, we should see the suspended Dignity deal as a real success for faculty-staff engagement in tandem with social movements and an intellectually active \npress.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nADDENDUM, JUNE 1ST (from Ed Yelin, Professor of Medicine, UCSF)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRe: the UCSF capacity issue: the Mission Bay hospital\nprovides different services than the Parnassus one, by design.\u0026nbsp; Mission Bay covers oncology, Ob\/Gyn,\u0026nbsp; and pediatrics while Parnassus does the rest.\u0026nbsp; That may make sense from a faculty\nperspective, so a pediatrician doesn’t have to schlep across the city to see\npatients in two places, but it means any errors of prediction in demand bump up\nagainst the lack of flexibility and lack of redundancy.\u0026nbsp; If the Ob wards are full at Mission Bay,\nParnassus can’t help.\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\nAnother issue is that they may have overbuilt lab space\n(this gets to the issue of who among the donors gets to have their names on\nbuildings) and under-built clinical capacity at Mission Bay.\u0026nbsp; Just guessing based on rumors about the lab\nand clinical buildings.\u0026nbsp; The predictions\nabout how much lab space would be supported by indirect cost returns from NIH\ngrants were probably off when the Mission Bay campus was planned; they were\nprojecting increases in real value based on the Clinton years.\u0026nbsp; The rest is history, even though from some\nperspectives NIH has fared better than much of the Federal government. Better\nto say things got bad at a slower pace!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOh, one last thing, about the Faculty Association role.\u0026nbsp; Like to take credit for some part in this\nmovement, but we were late to the game.\u0026nbsp;\nWe may be more than the straw, but definitively weren’t the anvil that\nbroke the camel’s back.\u0026nbsp; Maybe a\nmid-weight rider on the camel.\u0026nbsp; Faculty\nin Ob\/Gyn and reproductive health were ahead on this.\u0026nbsp; Glad that we contributed a lot at the end.\u0026nbsp; As to the survey: we made the call to extend\nit to the entire faculty to head off the accusation about not being fully\nrepresentative rather than reacting ex post facto to the administration’s claim\nabout that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nADDENDUM 2, JUNE 7\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHere is a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/reports\/rm-jn-nondiscrimination-healthcare-task-force-report.pdf\"\u003Elink\u003C\/a\u003E to the Interim Report of the Academic Senate Task Force on Non-Discrimination in Health Care. It recommends what has happened, which is the suspension of the affiliation pending an reconciliation of fundamental principles, which is unlikely to say the least.\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5502353014937595744\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/press-faculty-social-movements-why_31.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/5502353014937595744"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/5502353014937595744"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/press-faculty-social-movements-why_31.html","title":"Press, Faculty, Social Movements: Why the Opposition to the UCSF Alliance with Cathoilc Hospitals Prevailed"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dA46N476IZQ\/XO_zQ9JSVEI\/AAAAAAAAD74\/v8uEcu1zJjwtf9cxmaSPLD9nvm_Pj-lwACLcBGAs\/s72-c\/Handmaids%2BProtest.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-6810591418097810304"},"published":{"$t":"2019-04-09T08:52:00.002-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-04-10T07:09:09.696-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Admin Responses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Administrative Overreach"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Future University"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Shared Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Students"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Crisis of Higher Ed Realpolitik: a Visit to Connecticut"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-1gceZUHPIkc\/XKqwryTA7tI\/AAAAAAAAD3o\/17yp-KszIckrX2O5zZetL73UImVb4eMAwCEwYBhgL\/s1600\/040519%2B0005%2B01a%2BPlanning%2BCommittee%2Bselfie%2B00%2B%25281%2529.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-top: .5em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1226\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-1gceZUHPIkc\/XKqwryTA7tI\/AAAAAAAAD3o\/17yp-KszIckrX2O5zZetL73UImVb4eMAwCEwYBhgL\/s320\/040519%2B0005%2B01a%2BPlanning%2BCommittee%2Bselfie%2B00%2B%25281%2529.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nYou never know exactly where contradictory visions of higher ed are going to have an edifying head-on collision.\u0026nbsp; There was one last week in New Britain, Connecticut, where I had gone to speak at the annual meeting on shared\u0026nbsp; governance and student success of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system. It was organized by the wonderful program committee in the photo at left (photo thanks to Wanda Warshauer).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe overriding issue was the CSCU president's proposed consolidation of the state's community colleges into one college (with three regions, three presidents, twelve campus \"CEOs\" etc), a plan that continues to roil the system in spite of having been critiqued last year by the regional accreditor.\u0026nbsp; Meanwhile, in the morning, I called for a massive expansion of higher ed's social benefits, which I said would involve state buyouts of tuition and the funding of many more tenure-track instructors as well as more widely distributed research. \u0026nbsp; At lunch, Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-CT), of the\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/jahana-hayes-congress-interview-797222\/\"\u003E first-year congressional cohort that includes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar\u003C\/a\u003E, gave an excellent twelve-minute summation of the social power of education.\u0026nbsp; The question is, she said, were your students \"important enough to you for you to stand in intercession until they could stand on their own\" (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XbZ_a7v9eqc\u0026amp;t=24s\"\u003E11\" here\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp; How do we free education from its current policy shackles? This is one of the great questions of our time. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLet's go in the order of the day.\u0026nbsp; At 9 am, my lecture argued that higher ed is undermining itself by focusing on only the most familiar fraction of its value, individual wage benefits.\u0026nbsp; Policy discourse leaves most of the story blank.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--QFcrl8zWPc\/XKtojhIu7qI\/AAAAAAAAD30\/wfm6HP8XTBY9zI_RPgGg4XXJVqzeWoSOwCLcBGAs\/s1600\/PecuniaryBenefits%2B2x2.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"760\" data-original-width=\"1598\" height=\"291\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--QFcrl8zWPc\/XKtojhIu7qI\/AAAAAAAAD30\/wfm6HP8XTBY9zI_RPgGg4XXJVqzeWoSOwCLcBGAs\/s400\/PecuniaryBenefits%2B2x2.png\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nWhat's missing are the \"external\" or public pecuniary \/ monetary benefits (upper right quadrant), and all the non-pecuniary or non-market benefits, which are themselves more than half the total.\u0026nbsp; The focus on job training and wages by major is miseducating the public about what integrative higher learning really does.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe next hour featured a student panel that proved the point about non-monetary effects. Five students of varying ages described their non-traditional journeys to graduation over the kind of obstacles that our anti-social public policies have made all too common. The family of one speaker, who'd wanted to be a computer engineer, lost home and work in the 2008 crash when he was in the 7th grade.\u0026nbsp; The family spent years living in by-the-week motels as they went from city to city and state to state looking for permanent jobs. Meanwhile, their son never attended formal school again, until a GED program and various CSCU instructors helped him back into the system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOn the same panel a 53- year-old single mother said that after years of working she went back because \"I got tired of other people controlling my livelihood. I knew that I could do more, be more.\u0026nbsp; I wanted to help people, and knew that I could be of greater help.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThree other speakers related their own struggles for education. The common issue: higher ed is about knowledge, capability, personal development.\u0026nbsp; It addresses a large and varying set of \u003Ci\u003Enon\u003C\/i\u003E-monetary issues.\u0026nbsp; Better pay plays an accepted but minor part, and on this panel was not central enough to mention.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI noted that none of these working-class students at working-class colleges mentioned that pecuniary metric du jour, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.equality-of-opportunity.org\/papers\/coll_mrc_paper.pdf\"\u003Eupward mobility\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; They focused on\u0026nbsp; \u003Ci\u003EBildung\u003C\/i\u003E, a word nobody used. It is mass \u003Ci\u003EBildung\u003C\/i\u003E: arguably \u003Ci\u003Ethe \u003C\/i\u003Ecore higher ed goal is \u003Ci\u003EBildung\u003C\/i\u003E for all.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis brought us to Rep. Jahana Hayes. Her pre-Congress career was as a teacher, one who started as a teenage mom and then as a community college student who worked three jobs before graduating from Southern Connecticut State College, who then taught for years before becoming \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/147812318\"\u003EConnecticut Teacher of the Year \u003C\/a\u003Eand then \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/neatoday.org\/2016\/04\/28\/2016-teacher-of-the-year\/\"\u003E2016 National Teacher of the Year,\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/a\u003Eafter which she ran for Congress, thinking it was a test run to prepare the ground for somebody else to run and win in 2020.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHer talk was anchored in a deep personal sense of the power of teachers to \u003Ci\u003Enegate\u003C\/i\u003E their students' self-worth with dismissive talk or treatment--or to make it possible for them to fully inhabit the world.\u0026nbsp; I came from a place, she said, where we were told in a range of ways you are nothing, your community is bad, your people have no value.\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XbZ_a7v9eqc\u0026amp;t=24s\"\u003EShe said,\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nI have to remind people at every turn: nobody \u003Ci\u003Echooses\u003C\/i\u003E to struggle. . . Our responsibility as leaders, as the adults, as the community is to hold people up until they can stand on their own, and then send them off so they can pull someone behind them. . . That's what happened in my life, when people stepped in. . . . \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nShe said, \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nEverything I learned about school, I learned at school.\u0026nbsp; We have so many people who touch down on campuses like this, and for the first time have real conversations, with fidelity, about controlling the narrative about their education.\u0026nbsp; Just because they're not having those conversations at home doesn't mean their families don't care about them. Maybe it means, just maybe, that they don't have the ability or the capacity to control those conversations.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nI grew up in a family where my grandmother could not have been more loving, could not have been more giving, could not have been more invested in my success.\u0026nbsp; But she didn't know how to translate that level of investment, that level of commitment, that love she had for me, into a conversation that was academic. So as a teacher, I always stood on the premise that it's not kids' responsibility to learn different, it's my responsibility to teach different. And I think that if we always lead with that--that everybody has value, that everybody has a gift, that everybody gets to be here, and should have access,\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nand then she paused because she was on the verge of tears. So was I.\u0026nbsp; The whole room started to applaud. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nShe said,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nit's amazing how raw this is for me, because. . . there were so many people, when I was a high school dropout, or I was a teenage mom, or I was a community college student, who had just given up on me and written me off. And I tell you, we can't write people off.\u0026nbsp; We can't decide that they're \u003Ci\u003Edone\u003C\/i\u003E. What we have to do is figure out how to put them back on track, and get them in the pipeline, and on the road to success and that road is going to look different for everybody.\u0026nbsp; There are different ways of doing and being. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nAnd once you are graced with--when I started this journey I did it because I was the beneficiary of so much undeserved grace. Now I have a responsibility--I have a responsibility to use my voice, to use my platform, to use my experiences, to use my struggle, to help insure that somebody, even if it's one person, does not have to endure the same things. To help change hearts and minds, so that the people on the other side, who have already made up their minds, they have an opinion about who certain groups are, what certain groups do, how certain groups feel--about how people act--to help them change that opinion. . . . \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nIn a conference the other day . . . I had to remind people that I was a SNAP beneficiary--not because I didn't want to work, but because I was underemployed, working three jobs, going to college full time. So\u0026nbsp; when you think about someone receiving SNAP benefits, I hope that you now begin to think that that person can become a Congresswoman. There are so many people in this room, there are so many people on this campus, there are so many people in this community, who are in the journey.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nJahana Hayes would not deny education as job benefits, even as that was subsumed by education as a journey whose supreme value she had proved.\u0026nbsp; I was struck by her fully democratized idea of value--\"everybody has a gift\"--that cannot be dealt with through standardization, which is, as an administrative reflex, itself bound up with marginalization.\u0026nbsp; Thus we get to her principle of \"teach different.\" And that is essentially what every talk I heard all day was doing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn the afternoon, I went to the panel on \"Creating a Family-Friendly Campus,\" with presentations about basic issues like easily accessible lactation rooms and free child care by Meredith Sinclair,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ctmirror.org\/2019\/01\/02\/lamont-names-bye-lead-office-early-childhood\/\"\u003EState Senator Beth Bye\u003C\/a\u003E, and Fiona Pearson, who previewed arguments from her forthcoming book, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Back-School-Student-Transforming-American\/dp\/1978801882\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=fiona+pearson\u0026amp;qid=1554744967\u0026amp;s=gateway\u0026amp;sr=8-1\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EBack in School.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere was also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/padlet.com\/lmccarthy21\/egz40f8d4l3c\"\u003ELaura McCarthy's presentation\u003C\/a\u003E on transition programs for what are sometimes called at-risk students.\u0026nbsp; The programs initially had low retention and completion rates. The instructors did a reoganization based on their immersive experience, and these rates got much better.\u0026nbsp; Here are some principles:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-YePa0aXGT7g\/XKuJP1cUCFI\/AAAAAAAAD4A\/8fupSvJ08FAx3E-hV8sLnXT6im4lXJRjQCLcBGAs\/s1600\/Conn%2BProgram%2BRedesign%2BLaura%2BMcCarthy%2B0419.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"851\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"324\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-YePa0aXGT7g\/XKuJP1cUCFI\/AAAAAAAAD4A\/8fupSvJ08FAx3E-hV8sLnXT6im4lXJRjQCLcBGAs\/s400\/Conn%2BProgram%2BRedesign%2BLaura%2BMcCarthy%2B0419.png\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nFree -- hmm, interesting idea. In conjunction with the others, which are all Hayes Principles. Mass Bildung.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\nHere's what we the instructional masses looks like--with Wanda again playing Waldo, and CCSU president Toro on the left.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-hdd7hNt-wAg\/XKuKJ0gQlpI\/AAAAAAAAD4Q\/3_XRXYctmjk2QA573TaO37kRTdhL_gNYgCLcBGAs\/s1600\/040519%2B0012%2B01%2BFun%2Bselfie%2Bgroup%2Bpic%2Bwith%2BCongresswoman%2BJH%2BPres%2BToro%2Band%2BConf%2Battendees.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1229\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-hdd7hNt-wAg\/XKuKJ0gQlpI\/AAAAAAAAD4Q\/3_XRXYctmjk2QA573TaO37kRTdhL_gNYgCLcBGAs\/s400\/040519%2B0012%2B01%2BFun%2Bselfie%2Bgroup%2Bpic%2Bwith%2BCongresswoman%2BJH%2BPres%2BToro%2Band%2BConf%2Battendees.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nAnd there was also the look on Jahana Hayes's face when I said, \"at some point we'll be needing you back in education.\"\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-OSlpA_nMl-0\/XKuK1FIyyVI\/AAAAAAAAD4c\/Xi9W_JDgtPAG3nH25xOOb5ZoY8RLcbFaACLcBGAs\/s1600\/040519%2B0016%2B06%2BCongresswoman%2BJH%2Bw%2Bkeynote%2BNewfield*.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1091\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-OSlpA_nMl-0\/XKuK1FIyyVI\/AAAAAAAAD4c\/Xi9W_JDgtPAG3nH25xOOb5ZoY8RLcbFaACLcBGAs\/s400\/040519%2B0016%2B06%2BCongresswoman%2BJH%2Bw%2Bkeynote%2BNewfield*.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\"I do miss it,\" she laughed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI said she showed why her crew could change the frame in Congress: they could end the hollowing out of social structures precisely by invoking the capabilities of absolutely everyone.\u0026nbsp; It's the Great Refusal of racist and related social stigmas on which neoliberalism depends. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAt the end of the day, the Faculty Advisory Committee to the Board of Regents had a session on the issue overhanging the day--the president's CC consolidation.\u0026nbsp; It seems to have started with the claim that the consolidation could save tens of millions of dollars on a half-billion or so of a system operating budget.\u0026nbsp; It led, however, with the motto of \"Students First,\" arguing that consolidation would allow simple student access to multiple campuses.\u0026nbsp; I mentioned above that the regional accreditor seriously challenged the proposal last year, but it is back in retooled form, with a simultaneous plan to conform all 12 campuses' curricula to a Guided Pathways template.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMy own limited reading on the issue didn't explain what problem they have to which the solution is consolidation + Guided Pathways.\u0026nbsp; One good newspaper overview is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ctmirror.org\/2019\/03\/07\/accreditation-years-away-but-cscu-presses-forward-with-college-consolidation\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; A faculty petition with concise opposing arguments is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1X5DjWguOAq3OVcv78YDD0gA6m-yc0ZWM\/view\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; The systemwide update document is \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ct.edu\/files\/pdfs\/CSCU%20Students%20First%20Update%20for%20NECHE%20April%202019.pdf\"\u003Ehere, \u003C\/a\u003Ewhere a slide summary starts on p 39; a key slide at 47 claims the system must be consolidated to solve a student registration process with 35 separate steps.\u0026nbsp; (One faculty member told me the slide is \"ridiculous\"; another said, \"even if the 35 steps are real, students to whom it would apply constituted 1.12 percent of the student body in Fall 2018\" . . . with an average of 1.3 percent.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe consolidation uses the faculty's language of \"student success,\" but otherwise is a managerial initiative that seemed unrelated to the educational issues we were discussing.\u0026nbsp; It felt to me like a legacy project.\u0026nbsp; The system president who's championing the plan, Mark E. Ojakian, was the previous governor's Chief of Staff when, in 2011, he was assigned to create the current CSCU system by pushing the community colleges into a common structure with the four-year campuses. No one had much good to say about the results then--nor could anyone point me to evidence of financial savings.\u0026nbsp; That same governor later appointed Ojakian to be the president of the system he'd created, and now he's back for a second rearrangement of the arms and legs of his creature.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI spoke to him briefly at the start of the day: he was pleasant but uninvolved, and disappeared quickly (unlike the chair of the Board of Regents, who stuck around and chatted with me and various attendees).\u0026nbsp; The consolidation was not developed in consultation with faculty and staff on the campuses.\u0026nbsp; Hence the head-on collision between unrelated models of problems and solutions coming from frontline people on the one hand and a politically-wired system office on the other.\u0026nbsp; The results are predictable: demoralization and confusion, and a low chance of meaningful results.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt also seems like an example of the sort of pragmatism that finds its problems under the proverbial lamppost, and so ignores the bigger problems in the shadows.\u0026nbsp; It doesn't actually seem pragmatic to me.\u0026nbsp; So I used my talk to insist that debates in higher ed today were not between realism and idealism, but between two kinds of realism.\u0026nbsp; The dominant one is a \u003Ci\u003Erealpolitik\u003C\/i\u003E, whose opening move is always to cast its opposition as well-intentioned but naive about real-world rules.\u0026nbsp; But what this move is really trying to forestall is actualy a competing realism.\u0026nbsp; I called this \"public realism\" (still fussing with terrminology).\u0026nbsp; Public realism is much more ambitious than realpolitik, wanting among other things adequate funding for \u003Ci\u003Eall\u003C\/i\u003E of higher ed's nonpecuniary effects, which means high quality instruction and research at what are now thousands of underfunded open access institutions much like the ones Ojakian wants to consolidate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nConsolidation is a realpolitik distraction from the real issue, which is that Connecticut, though the No. 1 richest state by our preferred funding metric of personal income, has cut its funding for its CCs by nearly 12 percent just in the last four years.\u0026nbsp; The longer trend is dismal: though Connecticut appropriations are above national averages, they are still 19 percent below their 2008 levels, while tuition is 41 percent higher.\u0026nbsp; Here's the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/profile\/sheeo1303#!\/vizhome\/SHEFInteractiveData2017\/About?publish=yes\"\u003ESHEEO wave chart\u003C\/a\u003E for CT:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-nLQofvgBvHY\/XKy869IqwaI\/AAAAAAAAD40\/-33skipi8K4h1Xvz0POYWbODHD7JGXJZgCLcBGAs\/s1600\/ConnecticutWaveChart%2BSHEEO%2B1992-2017.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"917\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-nLQofvgBvHY\/XKy869IqwaI\/AAAAAAAAD40\/-33skipi8K4h1Xvz0POYWbODHD7JGXJZgCLcBGAs\/s400\/ConnecticutWaveChart%2BSHEEO%2B1992-2017.png\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nA group of faculty described this root problem in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ctmirror.org\/category\/ct-viewpoints\/troubling-numbers-the-cost-of-saving\/\"\u003Ean editorial that should be read in full\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nIn an historical context, the apparent fiscal crisis that precipitated \nthe [Board of Regents’] Students First plan grew out of years of declining levels of \nstate support for higher education that became especially acute in the \naftermath of the 2008-2009 economic crisis. The state’s eroding \nbudgetary condition imposed fiscal austerity on the system that \nsimultaneously resulted in increases in students’ costs\/debts and \ncutbacks in student services and opportunities.\u0026nbsp; Full time professors \nwere replaced by adjuncts; retiring academic advisors were not replaced;\n hours of operation were reduced.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nEducational quality declines when capacity declines: it's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Research-Universities-Need-to\/246070\"\u003Erealpolitik's own idealism \u003C\/a\u003Eto think otherwise.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Connecticut system's related root problem is that it's not affordable.\u0026nbsp; From the California vantage, Connecticut charges very high tuition for community college- \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.collegetuitioncompare.com\/compare\/tables\/?state=CT\"\u003Eover $4400 a year.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; (True, it is half the tuition charged by community college in New York State, but I'm sure we can agree that $10,000 a year for first-rung local college is insane.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOjakian might thus have been expected to focus on two things as president: lowering tuition and raising state allocations in wealthy Connecticut. \u0026nbsp; (He could also have taken care of student bureaucratic hassles the old-fashioned way, by quietly instituting a common application form, which I'm told by faculty and students was promised when he formed the system back in 2011.) But these two issuse are not the leadership's focus.\u0026nbsp; The day's last session was dominated by faculty distress at a process that they feel is headed in the wrong direction in part because they have been excluded from it. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI'd said that we had been avoiding the effort to fund public colleges as public goods, which had meant the path of \"multiple revenue streams\" (aka privatization).\u0026nbsp; The key point is that none of these have\u0026nbsp; worked out as promised. I counted 12 types.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-IIw8NstVuzk\/XKudB8B-EsI\/AAAAAAAAD4o\/LFY3ydYHt7MpE7a56rUzTR9DJN_y4dJ9QCLcBGAs\/s1600\/Multiple%2BRevenue%2BStreams%2B-%2B12%2Beffects.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"926\" data-original-width=\"1590\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-IIw8NstVuzk\/XKudB8B-EsI\/AAAAAAAAD4o\/LFY3ydYHt7MpE7a56rUzTR9DJN_y4dJ9QCLcBGAs\/s400\/Multiple%2BRevenue%2BStreams%2B-%2B12%2Beffects.png\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;There are exceptions to the rules in the \"reality\" column, but I believe these are the general rules.\u0026nbsp; Most relevant to consoidation is the second item from the last: I mentioned UCPath as a disaster that emerges from a type top-down standardization that blocks local efficiencies and if anything increases costs while making everyone's job harder. Decentralization is often more efficient than consolidation: UC Berkeley's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/bains-blow-to-berkeley.html\"\u003Efailed Operation Excellence\u003C\/a\u003E is UC's Exhibit A (see \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/the-new-normal-isnt-normal-it-erodes.html\"\u003ESection 3\u003C\/a\u003E for a 2016 update).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere are some things we can do to avoid these mistakes.\u0026nbsp; A simple one is policy rooted in history and evidence. Can you show that your last reorg saved a lot of money? Do you have an example of positive top-down curricular standardization?\u0026nbsp; If not, do you have a detailed plan that convinces the people actually doing the education? If you have none of these things, talk to people all over the system and try out something else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnother is telling the truth about the damage these public-private hybrid models have already done.\u0026nbsp; It's the old Step 1 beginning: first admit you have a problem.\u0026nbsp; We have a national higher ed realpolitik, that failed.\u0026nbsp; Frontline faculty and staff have faced this. Top level admin should do the same.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe third thing we can do is a full reframing of higher ed along public good lines.\u0026nbsp; Virtually everyone I heard speak that day, from Jahana Hayes on out, already sees the transformation that would come from that. 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In May 2007, Senate chair John Oakley and UC Provost Rory Hume arranged for me as the chair of UCPB to present the budgetary conclusions of what came to be known as the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/reports\/futures.report.0706.pdf\"\u003EFutures Report\u003C\/a\u003E.  It had, over a two year period, been researched and written by UCPB, approved by Academic Council, and submitted to President Bob Dynes for transmission to the board.  John and I spent a fair amount of time with Rory boiling the report down to the simplest possible slide deck for our 15 minutes.  We also picked the lowest-tech slide design we could find, to symbolize our humble professorial communion with the facts.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe whole project emerged from a period when it seemed that UC was capable of choosing its own path.  It also seems that the faculty as a whole would play a meaningful part in that complex choice. I had hoped it would be the first of a series of regular faculty presentations to the regents, because I thought then and now that a real dialogue would ease the governance and budgetary problems that continue to haunt the University.  Here's how it went.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI enthused at the start that there's a reason we want to see a steady upward trend of state funding: that trend had enacted the idea of 8 or 10 research universities linked together in an integrated system, which meant that top-quality education would not just go to the top .1% or 1% but to 10% and more.  Strong public funding, I said, explained why UC wasn't SUNY or the UNC or Texas system with a couple of flagships and then a miscellany of varied campuses that conducted little or no research.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSince public funding built the thing, why had funding been cut in two multi-year rounds (1992-1995 and then again 2002-05--we hadn't yet experienced the recent cuts that began the year after the presentation). Did the cuts just reflect a business cycle?  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ivNy2gpObVQ\/WR1oWgzbfzI\/AAAAAAAADUI\/G8WeeBFxkcM-R0CoQLWKSd3Ov8kwI_9PgCLcB\/s1600\/Slide02.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ivNy2gpObVQ\/WR1oWgzbfzI\/AAAAAAAADUI\/G8WeeBFxkcM-R0CoQLWKSd3Ov8kwI_9PgCLcB\/s400\/Slide02.jpg\" width=\"98%\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis is a slide that UCOP had presented to regents at least once a year. It said yes, it's up and down with a trend of state investment that is always up.  But the slide was misleading.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-g9OKjLJQ7h8\/WR1pn5b91gI\/AAAAAAAADUU\/5W_OY-VFwk8BkNgUDG1Jz3fd7ih-Iyf0gCLcB\/s1600\/Slide03.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-g9OKjLJQ7h8\/WR1pn5b91gI\/AAAAAAAADUU\/5W_OY-VFwk8BkNgUDG1Jz3fd7ih-Iyf0gCLcB\/s400\/Slide03.jpg\" width=\"98%\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBy \u003Ci\u003Eerosion\u003C\/i\u003E, we meant deterioration in core undergraduate instruction and services, deterioration in research climate and infrastructure, and, appealing to the board's perennial concern with status, loss of top applicants to graduate and undergraduate programs and of faculty.  Grad program admissions had already become a prominent worry in the 2002-05 cut cycle.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nStill working with UCOP materials, we pointed out a\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-tbQlq2OPtgI\/WR1rOTvEBVI\/AAAAAAAADUg\/5CR4XZitDg8-6Tx-nBoZvr2ux_LLARDrQCLcB\/s1600\/Slide04.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-tbQlq2OPtgI\/WR1rOTvEBVI\/AAAAAAAADUg\/5CR4XZitDg8-6Tx-nBoZvr2ux_LLARDrQCLcB\/s400\/Slide04.jpg\" width=\"98%\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut then we brought in our own research. It showed\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wMVF8m9KZ9k\/WR1rgnFj2-I\/AAAAAAAADUk\/sFj9e3ZRbFoqWzmLY-v-3aIlZ2hBoakLgCLcB\/s1600\/Slide05.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wMVF8m9KZ9k\/WR1rgnFj2-I\/AAAAAAAADUk\/sFj9e3ZRbFoqWzmLY-v-3aIlZ2hBoakLgCLcB\/s400\/Slide05.jpg\" width=\"98%\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003C!--StartFragment--\u003E\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis is a measure of the state's overall financial resources available to support higher education: it's what people actually earn, in part because of their access to education.  Between 1990 and 2005, this had been cut 35% in real dollars.  Sacramento had basically reduced UC's share of state income by half in the 20 years preceding the third round of cuts that would begin in 2009.  This is common sense now, but a secular trend of disinvestment seemed to come as news to the regents and to most of UCOP ten years ago.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe had tried for a while to get detailed budgetary data from UCOP, without success. So UCPB had decided to go ahead and do our own research with whatever was publicly available, and then ask UCOP officials to confirm or deny.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-HDCTKSbkFcI\/WR1vJOaw2wI\/AAAAAAAADUw\/AV3k-7fQX6ElC8BlDBeLk_Hx4XfxY9_4QCLcB\/s1600\/Slide06.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-HDCTKSbkFcI\/WR1vJOaw2wI\/AAAAAAAADUw\/AV3k-7fQX6ElC8BlDBeLk_Hx4XfxY9_4QCLcB\/s400\/Slide06.jpg\" width=\"98%\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\n\"Core\" budget was a kind of breakthrough, because it carved out massive UC revenues that don't much to do with campus education. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-8wPW-hytUEk\/WR1vxuDOhTI\/AAAAAAAADU4\/Jeijb8qq52Q8jvSPZbHSzmX2V1u7z04qACEw\/s1600\/Slide07.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-8wPW-hytUEk\/WR1vxuDOhTI\/AAAAAAAADU4\/Jeijb8qq52Q8jvSPZbHSzmX2V1u7z04qACEw\/s400\/Slide07.jpg\" width=\"98%\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSo it leaves out:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--kFTYbaRH_4\/WR1xMfqMrfI\/AAAAAAAADVI\/oOe9naHRrQQJcyVJKFvLPoHo5zgt4IXrACLcB\/s1600\/Slide08.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--kFTYbaRH_4\/WR1xMfqMrfI\/AAAAAAAADVI\/oOe9naHRrQQJcyVJKFvLPoHo5zgt4IXrACLcB\/s400\/Slide08.jpg\" width=\"98%\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUCOP adopted this distinction in its budget for current operations during the Yudof period.   \"Carry offsetting expenses\" was a muted way of saying that many of these activities run direct net losses for the university, even if they have indirect gains for the university later (and direct gains for outside sponsors and society as a whole).  To keep things simple, we didn't want to open that can of worms. We gave up an important opportunity, but I'd thought my Senate successors wouldcome back to the regents with followup material later on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOur report was called \"The Futures Report\" because we projected costs for several different budget pathways.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-d9M5zs9MiJo\/WR1xKIVIe5I\/AAAAAAAADVM\/cnhqIdyiOd4h_MLKhRrVzQg4MtNOKVpJwCEw\/s1600\/Slide09.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-d9M5zs9MiJo\/WR1xKIVIe5I\/AAAAAAAADVM\/cnhqIdyiOd4h_MLKhRrVzQg4MtNOKVpJwCEw\/s400\/Slide09.jpg\" width=\"98%\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThese three scenarios, plus a fourth called The Michigan Model (more on that in a minute), were compared to a benchmark that tracked the growth of state personal income.  The idea was that UC's benchmark would be \"growing with the state,\" neither more nor less, meaning we wouldn't be playing the \"make up for cuts\" game as we are still doing now.  The established pattern was Lost Decade-- which has happened again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Higher Education Compact with the Schwarzenegger administration was announced in May 2004.  It accepted previous state funding cuts, promised state general fund increases of 3-4% per year, which it paired with tuition increases of 7-10% per year.  It was a privatization prescription, because it shifted revenues from public to private sources. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut rather than critiquing the Compact as an undermining of the public good status of the university, we asked whether it would actually stabilize and sustain the university's finances.  Here's what we found (validated by UCOP budget folks late in the drafting process):\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-99kAo2VsrRE\/WR10rlsLYtI\/AAAAAAAADVU\/6CUnMY-C1XQQvWIVh1249p8ppXIO3eWOgCLcB\/s1600\/Slide10.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-99kAo2VsrRE\/WR10rlsLYtI\/AAAAAAAADVU\/6CUnMY-C1XQQvWIVh1249p8ppXIO3eWOgCLcB\/s400\/Slide10.jpg\" width=\"98%\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe 3-4% annual increases, coming on the base of much larger previous cuts, would never restore the state share of core funds.  This made the regents visibly unhappy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnd it got worse:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-2g4RPnl-PTo\/WR11XMLORLI\/AAAAAAAADVc\/lSH2DXFSfwUcz36C2pKQymMb7yTi88iYgCLcB\/s1600\/Slide11.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-2g4RPnl-PTo\/WR11XMLORLI\/AAAAAAAADVc\/lSH2DXFSfwUcz36C2pKQymMb7yTi88iYgCLcB\/s400\/Slide11.jpg\" width=\"98%\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe were tragically right about this: any series of \u003Ci\u003Emanageable\u003C\/i\u003E tuition increases would not make up for state general fund cuts. I'll return to the point that this is still true, particularly now that \u003Ci\u003Eno\u003C\/i\u003E tuition increase is manageable for a large share of today's resident students: \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-k-24nwWDXR8\/WR13Mg48nwI\/AAAAAAAADVo\/nJfAt7NMjVkKf5_cLV1M3z2aJVuNiuiZACLcB\/s1600\/Slide12.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-k-24nwWDXR8\/WR13Mg48nwI\/AAAAAAAADVo\/nJfAt7NMjVkKf5_cLV1M3z2aJVuNiuiZACLcB\/s400\/Slide12.jpg\" width=\"98%\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe 2002-05 cuts increased the student share of core funds by 50 percent.  (The post-2009 cuts doubled the student share on top of that.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI dwelt on these next slides, which are the densest in the deck. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-XHkPyPpBFr4\/WR18M54Ll0I\/AAAAAAAADV4\/GW7PBqF2xTQH3BEJEjo8FvbbRmsSWEUHgCLcB\/s1600\/Slide13.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-XHkPyPpBFr4\/WR18M54Ll0I\/AAAAAAAADV4\/GW7PBqF2xTQH3BEJEjo8FvbbRmsSWEUHgCLcB\/s400\/Slide13.jpg\" width=\"98%\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe failure of the vaunted Compact was a big deal. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nItems 2 and 3 will make more sense with the following chart. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--Q4BpryaEGQ\/WR6-H5viUiI\/AAAAAAAADWw\/9gI7EiCmm7MNHoTd0PbP0h8KlcE0sEiFgCLcB\/s1600\/SLIDE%2B17%2Bnot%2Bin%2Boriginal.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--Q4BpryaEGQ\/WR6-H5viUiI\/AAAAAAAADWw\/9gI7EiCmm7MNHoTd0PbP0h8KlcE0sEiFgCLcB\/s400\/SLIDE%2B17%2Bnot%2Bin%2Boriginal.jpg\" width=\"98%\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe decided this slide would be too complicated for the presentation so we left it out. The thin purple benchmark line represents UC \"growing with the state\" (UC's state funding rising at the same rate as state personal income). The black line represents a ramping up of state funding to rejoin the 2001 Pathway in the five years to follow the appearance of the report. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNumber 3 (two slides back) refers to a restoration to 1990 levels of high state funding and low tuition (the green line in the preceding slide that ends up at over $6 billion per year in state funding). That is twice what UC gets today. But it is merely the same share that UC had in 1990.  We thought it would be easier for the state to get its head around 2001 than around the full \"master plan\" funding model.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nOn to the next question: what is to be done?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-QtIwXVqvVbs\/WR19rddk_xI\/AAAAAAAADWE\/ryNIq_rUBa4pp_4pCkpkw-VG-RanWFcOwCLcB\/s1600\/Slide14.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-QtIwXVqvVbs\/WR19rddk_xI\/AAAAAAAADWE\/ryNIq_rUBa4pp_4pCkpkw-VG-RanWFcOwCLcB\/s400\/Slide14.jpg\" width=\"98%\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\"Research is costly\" means research runs net losses, not profits. Private fundraising works on the margins for selected programs, but not to replace lost operating funds for public good activities like high quality instruction and its direct admin support that donors assume the state and students pay for.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe only great private revenue stream for operations is student tuition, at very high levels. This caused more unhappiness in the meeting.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe headline of the next slide makes me sad.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-pcJsqWu8z6g\/WR1-bXUJbEI\/AAAAAAAADWM\/HtBuPCWdtqIgXFr_Ectauf0_Cb1QDVr5gCLcB\/s1600\/Slide15.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-pcJsqWu8z6g\/WR1-bXUJbEI\/AAAAAAAADWM\/HtBuPCWdtqIgXFr_Ectauf0_Cb1QDVr5gCLcB\/s400\/Slide15.jpg\" width=\"98%\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTen years later we're at the same crossroads. 1990 is still completely out of reach.  2001 is more remote than ever. And starting in 2009, Sacramento dumped UC onto the red line in the chart above--a funding freeze, averaged over big cuts followed by partial annual recoveries. We called this the Michigan Model, in which the state disinvests and then the university hikes resident tuition and admits many more non-resident students (reducing racial diversity, class diversity and, in Michigan's case, national ranking).   In nominal dollars (uncorrected for inflation), UC's general fund in 2017-18 will be the \u003Ci\u003Esame\u003C\/i\u003E as it was in 2007-08, somewhat above $3 billion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe takeaways were obvious to us.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-pzmExxp7JZo\/WR1-bhaKGEI\/AAAAAAAADWU\/nM3MnoTRKHQ9V58OHi4YYPUizHvW1peNwCEw\/s1600\/Slide16.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-pzmExxp7JZo\/WR1-bhaKGEI\/AAAAAAAADWU\/nM3MnoTRKHQ9V58OHi4YYPUizHvW1peNwCEw\/s400\/Slide16.jpg\" width=\"98%\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Senate was at the time solidly in favor of rebuilding public funding rather than raising tuition or increasing non-resident student tuition revenues. We were of course deeply worried that the state had gotten used to giving UC and CSU less and would be happy to let us raise tuition instead (and then campaign against us for that).  But it didn't stop us from stressing the logical budget necessity of public funding.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHow did the regents respond in the 3 minutes allotted to discussion? They didn't disagree with this last slide, but expressed unhappiness with the the budget conclusions.  Regent Marcus said, \"we need solutions, not all this negativity.\"  I replied, \"we're offering analysis; policymaking is the regents' role.\"  A couple of exchanges later and our time was up. The next topic was the national laboratories, students that were hunger-striking against nuclear weapons came in and chained themselves to tables, Regent Pattiz invited them to go have a nice lunch which further fanned the flames, the police arrived and hauled them out, and that was the end of the faculty view of the UC budget.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFast forward to this week in May 2017.  Many budgets have come and gone, and we've written dozens and dozens of budget posts, many comparing actual state funding to the personal income benchmark (with cheery titles like \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/01\/gov-gives-uc-just-about-nothing.html\"\u003EGov Gives UC Just About Nothing\"\u003C\/a\u003E and \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/11\/the-old-state-funding-model-is-dead.html\"\u003EThe Old State Funding Model is Dead\"\u003C\/a\u003E) and calling for faculty and UCOP to put out the strongest possible proposals to support \u003Ci\u003Efull\u003C\/i\u003E UC quality-- to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/05\/reframing-doomday-budget-discussion.html\"\u003Ebudget the full costs of a Real UC\u003C\/a\u003E and endlessly explain its educational necessity.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhat we are living through now is basically one half of the Compact that Arnold abrogated in 2008-09: we got the famous third round of double digit state cuts, followed by the 3-4 percent annual increases that don't really keep up with higher ed cost inflation, but not the annual tuition increases.  Like the Senate, we opposed the Compact for increasing tuition at twice the rate of state funding. This was, to repeat, the deliberate privatization of core revenue streams.  And yet the size of the combined revenue streams was in the ballpark of UC need, while our current Half-Compact has produced permanent austerity and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/11\/the-new-normal-what-does-it-mean-to.html\"\u003Estructural deficits. \u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nToday, UC's combined tuition and state funding revenues are \u003Ci\u003Ebelow\u003C\/i\u003E their 2007-08 levels.  Net tuition has in my calculations gone from about $1.57 billion to $3 billion \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ucop.edu\/operating-budget\/_files\/rbudget\/2017-18budgetforcurrentoperations.pdf\"\u003E(p 224)\u003C\/a\u003E in ten years, for an increase in tuition income of $1.45 billion when adjusted for \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dir.ca.gov\/oprl\/CPI\/EntireCCPI.PDF\"\u003Eten-year inflation\u003C\/a\u003E (20 percent). Then there's state funding.  When we adjust it for inflation and for new capital and bond servicing costs now deducted from the state funds) at around 13 percent of the total general fund allocation, we find that per student state funding wasn't even flat for ten years: it declined by one third, meaning that about $1 billion less in adjusted dollars was available for operations.  If we correct for the decade's enrollment growth of nearly 20 percent, per student general funding is one fifth less than that minus 1\/3rd, which \u003Ci\u003Eeffectively wipes out all of the net tuition gains\u003C\/i\u003E. Tuition increases have \u003Ci\u003Enot\u003C\/i\u003E made up for any of the real dollar declines in state funding, even after six years of supposed recovery.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRemember too that this is before we throw in the pension wild card.   At the current level of a 15 percent employer share of a payroll that is 47% of $31.5 billion in total UC expenditures\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ucop.edu\/operating-budget\/_files\/rbudget\/2017-18budgetforcurrentoperations.pdf\"\u003E (p 39)\u003C\/a\u003E, this is $2.2 billion annual cost for UC overall that it did not pay in 2007-08.  Even if most of the employer cost of the pension is incurred and funded by non-state payroll (medical center and national laboratory staff, etc), and\u0026nbsp; the state share is one-third of the total, the campuses need to find over $700 million a year from core funds that are mostly state general fund and student tuition. \u0026nbsp;Having gone back and forth with one UC budget insider about the share of state funding that covers the annual UC employer contribution, I think it's reasonable to conclude that the General Fund allocation for this expense has gone from $0 in 2007-08 to $200-300 million in 2017-18. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn short, we've just lived through another Lost Decade of funding, \u003Ci\u003Eand\u003C\/i\u003E through a large net operating funding \u003Ci\u003Ereduction\u003C\/i\u003E. \u0026nbsp;UC is unfortunately a textbook case of the decline cycle I analyze in \u003Ci\u003EThe Great Mistake\u003C\/i\u003E, which is created by divergence from public-good funding philosophies.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nYou might be interested in our new report, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.reclaimcahighered.org\/48dollars\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe $48 Fix\u003C\/i\u003E,\u003C\/a\u003E which shows that the 2001 Pathway is still in easy financial reach--but strictly on a public good basis.  \u003C!--EndFragment--\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C!--EndFragment--\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2020164253902616000\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/a-faculty-overview-of-uc-budget-tenth.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2020164253902616000"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2020164253902616000"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/a-faculty-overview-of-uc-budget-tenth.html","title":"A Faculty Overview of the UC Budget--Tenth Anniversary Edition"}],"author":[{"name":{"$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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-kdULSRGjqHA\/WR1ToDZ3gvI\/AAAAAAAADT4\/fKufXSKrY5QSK460IvEidHexL95hFSm7gCLcB\/s72-c\/Slide01.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-5286560327609511619"},"published":{"$t":"2017-05-07T10:47:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-05-07T10:47:23.886-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Shared Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Transparency"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Riverside"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The UCOP Audit and University Governance"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Vu_ytFLQKMQ\/WQ9bsvIURxI\/AAAAAAAABEg\/RBvkl1EiRj83BMaPsEiZ-fKwd2XMMIdPACLcB\/s1600\/Directors%2527%2BCourt%2BRoom%252C%2BEast%2B%2BIndia%2BHouse%2Bcompressed%2BMM1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Vu_ytFLQKMQ\/WQ9bsvIURxI\/AAAAAAAABEg\/RBvkl1EiRj83BMaPsEiZ-fKwd2XMMIdPACLcB\/s320\/Directors%2527%2BCourt%2BRoom%252C%2BEast%2B%2BIndia%2BHouse%2Bcompressed%2BMM1.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nAs expected, the State Auditor's report on UCOP has triggered a huge political uproar. The charges of secret reserves, out of control personnel policies, special benefits for executives, and UCOP interference into the audit process have been explosive to say the least. \u0026nbsp;There have been two legislative committee meetings that addressed it, numerous statements from politicians about its implications for UC, and editorials and op-eds expressing justifiable outrage about UCOP secrecy and management practices. Predictably enough, some legislators have called into question UC's constitutional autonomy. \u0026nbsp;Despite, or perhaps because of, efforts by UCOP and the Regents to explain away some of the problems, the damage to the University's reputation has been considerable. \u0026nbsp;This report is going to haunt the University for a good while.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAmidst all of the heated disagreement, however, there has been one fundamental, and fundamentally wrong, point at which all of the arguing parties appear to agree: \u0026nbsp;that the answer to the problems the audit revealed can and should be solved from the top down. \u0026nbsp;Wherever you turn in the discussion (whether in the auditor's suggestion that the legislature pass a separate budget for UCOP and establish an outside overseer, or President's Napolitano's assurance that she had established an internal UCOP working group to improve things, or Regent Lozano's insistence that the Regents were hard at work in ensuring their \"governance\" of the institution as well as hiring an outside consultant to help with UCOP reforms), the common element in all of the proposals is that the answer is to be found in a closed loop of decision makers shuttling between Oakland and Sacramento (with the occasional nod to the campus chancellors). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn fact, the most striking aspect of the auditor's report and UCOP's response was the almost total absence of any acknowledgement of faculty or staff knowledge or perspectives. \u0026nbsp;Where were the formal responses of Senate Committees in the report? \u0026nbsp;How exactly is the auditor to know if the programs that UCOP oversees are productive if they don't get unfiltered responses from the people who are providing the education and front-line services to students, are engaging in research, and are attempting to convey that research to the public? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMoving forward, the Regents have decided to hire an outside consultant to review UCOP's plans for reforms. \u0026nbsp;This suggests that the University has no business or public policy schools with faculty who are experts in these issues. \u0026nbsp;If only the Senate had a knowledgeable committee on Budget and Planning or perhaps one on Research that could provide meaningful and ongoing oversight of practices that are supposed to enable the university's core functions. But apparently not. \u0026nbsp;Instead we are to witness UCOP organize an internal reorganization with some review by a paid outside contractor answerable to the Regents who have never demanded from UCOP either the clarity of presentation or the documentation that everyone now seems to agree is essential going forward.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTo be fair, this problem is not limited to either UCOP or the Regents. \u0026nbsp;Although arguably an effect of the Yudof administration and the wrong turn taken by the University Commission on the Future, the proliferation of task forces, the sidelining of formal Senate oversight, the general decay of shared governance, and the centralization of management and authority is deeply embedded on campuses as well. \u0026nbsp;Task forces not only serve to tilt authority in the direction of management but also eliminate the production of institutional memory and documentation that are, or at least should be, one offshoot of standing Senate committees. \u0026nbsp;Of course, that institutional faculty memory will only matter if faculty themselves are willing to take the time and effort to press for their viewpoints to be heard and to have influence. \u0026nbsp;As one Anonymous argued in a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/what-ucop-audit-means.html?showComment=1494096844006#c2264472657759574290\"\u003Ecomment \u003C\/a\u003Eon Chris' \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/what-ucop-audit-means.html\"\u003Elast post\u003C\/a\u003E, it is up to faculty to begin to take the time to work with staff to clarify and understand university budgeting from the departments on up. \u0026nbsp;This knowledge will not solve all of our problems. \u0026nbsp;But given what we know from the audit and its responses, reform cannot depend on top-down initiatives.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI recognize that all of these things may seem to be lost causes; too many of us have accepted the new rules of the game. While we complain, we do not see any possibility of change. \u0026nbsp;To make matters more difficult, secrecy tends to protect specific rather than general interests. \u0026nbsp;But more is at stake than simply a desire for faculty voice. \u0026nbsp;The contemporary managed university does not have the internal democracy nor the free flow of information and institutional knowledge it needs to meet its purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn his \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/what-ucop-audit-means.html?showComment=1493939278475#c6548008269132910295\"\u003Ecomment\u003C\/a\u003E on Chris' last post, Bob Samuels noted that some of the changes to the audit responses made the online education program look better. \u0026nbsp;But UC's online venture is a \u0026nbsp;classic example of managerially imposed and rushed changes made in the nature of a supposed market driven necessity. \u0026nbsp;I'm sure we have all heard managers complain about how faculty do not want to change fast enough; perhaps they might consider that a rush to bad judgment marginalizes the deeper thinking that makes failure less likely. \u0026nbsp;If the University really wants to think about how to educate and create knowledge more effectively for the twenty-first century, \u0026nbsp;they would do well to recognize that in universities knowledge flows upward. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe recent experience at UC Riverside is only one example of the crises that can result from a managerial failure to learn from faculty and front line staff. \u0026nbsp; There the administration sidelined faculty input in the early stages of its planned expansion, rushed to hire despite faculty concerns, didn't think about the necessary lab and classroom space its new hires needed and marginalized departments. \u0026nbsp;In the end, the Riverside Senate had to step in and salvage the situation. \u0026nbsp;If there had been genuine consultation the situation would have been avoided in the first place rather than being redone later. \u0026nbsp;This situation was not the result of evil or self-serving administrators but rather of the collapse of the practices of shared governance and the recognition that institutions require a structured way to absorb the multiple perspectives that exceed the managerial groups. \u0026nbsp;But that is not an idea one would find in the closed managerial circuit between the State Auditor, UCOP, the Regents, the California Legislature, or, most likely, local campus administrators.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOf course, these problems are not limited to UC. \u0026nbsp;As indicated by the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/academeblog.org\/2017\/05\/03\/mitch-daniels-wants-to-sell-the-soul-of-public-education-purdue-faculty-must-stop-him\/\"\u003Eongoing revolt of the faculty \u003C\/a\u003E(including a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2017\/05\/05\/purdue-faculty-votes-against-kaplan-process\"\u003Eresolution of the university's faculty senate\u003C\/a\u003E) over Purdue University's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.jconline.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/dave-bangert\/2017\/05\/02\/bangert-law-shields-purdues-new-online-school\/101183110\/\"\u003Esecretly negotiated agreement\u003C\/a\u003E with \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/There-s-a-Reason-the\/239954\"\u003EKaplan's online education business\u003C\/a\u003E, the willingness of university administrators to seek deals without proper consultation and without due public debate is widespread. \u0026nbsp;Nor is this limited to public universities (indeed private universities are probably worse). Yale and Columbia (neither of which have robust traditions of faculty governance) \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dissentmagazine.org\/blog\/yale-columbia-trump-nlrb-graduate-employee-union-busting\"\u003Ehave sought to mobilize a seemingly endless array of technicalities\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to keep their graduate student workers from collective bargaining. Vanderbilt University has recently sought to prevent the unionization of their NTT faculty by claiming that they are managerial (a position \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/quicktakes\/2017\/05\/05\/nlrb-vanderbilt-full-time-non-tenure-track-instructors-arent-managers\"\u003Erejected by the NLRB\u003C\/a\u003E) and suggesting that their unionization would break down traditions of shared governance (although few NTT are included in that). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThese may at first glance appear to be distant from the controversies about UCOP. \u0026nbsp;But they all point to the same issue: the refusal of top managers to recognize that the cost of achieving their expanded flexibility is the increasing inability of universities to take advantage of the practical knowledge held by faculty and staff. \u0026nbsp;There is, of course, a perspective of system and of the whole that must be part of any decision-making process. \u0026nbsp;But it is only one such perspective. \u0026nbsp;And if that perspective is, as has happened, increasingly sundered from the perspectives of the faculty and staff, then we will see more and more examples of universities cut off from their purposes and surrendering to demands to serve other interests than their own.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5286560327609511619\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/the-ucop-audit-and-university-governance.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/5286560327609511619"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/5286560327609511619"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/the-ucop-audit-and-university-governance.html","title":"The UCOP Audit and University Governance"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Michael Meranze"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05336793340375780406"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Vu_ytFLQKMQ\/WQ9bsvIURxI\/AAAAAAAABEg\/RBvkl1EiRj83BMaPsEiZ-fKwd2XMMIdPACLcB\/s72-c\/Directors%2527%2BCourt%2BRoom%252C%2BEast%2B%2BIndia%2BHouse%2Bcompressed%2BMM1.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-5552428384202850451"},"published":{"$t":"2017-05-01T14:14:00.002-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-05-01T14:14:30.930-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"California"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Shared Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"State Audit"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"What the UCOP Audit Means"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-yEqYTbBAFMs\/WQM1THmhkEI\/AAAAAAAADTU\/JCvkGcKMaHQAjhENmJ4O8GO4vMVsQLFwQCLcB\/s1600\/AuditorElaineHowie.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-yEqYTbBAFMs\/WQM1THmhkEI\/AAAAAAAADTU\/JCvkGcKMaHQAjhENmJ4O8GO4vMVsQLFwQCLcB\/s320\/AuditorElaineHowie.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe new UCOP scandal is the worst in a long-running series. \u0026nbsp;This one was prompted by a state audit of the Office of the President's budget, which found issues the auditor claimed cast doubt on UCOP's honesty and competence. State officials reacted angrily to the four biggest of a number of charges from\u0026nbsp;State Auditor Elaine M. Howie (pictured):\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.auditor.ca.gov\/reports\/2016-130\/summary.html\"\u003Ethat\u003C\/a\u003E UCOP spends a good chunk of money from an \"undisclosed budget\" that is separate from its public budget; that it affords this undisclosed spending with a tax on the campuses that yields more revenue than it needs; that it spends this excess money on systemwide programs that could go instead to students on campuses; and that it\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-pol-sac-skelton-uc-audit-20170427-story.html\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;appears to have changed the results of the auditor's campus surveys\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Eto make itself look better. \u0026nbsp;The auditor also rekindled longstanding claims that UCOP hires too many administrators and then overpays them. \u0026nbsp;It even dragged pension underfunding into the mix. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe interaction\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Ebetween\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;the State Auditor and UCOP has turned a boring problem of inadequate budgetary records into another political firefight. Together the parties have produced a new round of\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/opinion\/the-conversation\/sd-university-california-audit-reactions-20170426-htmlstory.html\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Eheightened denunciations\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Efrom state officials that include calls to\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article146982464.html\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Erescind the 2.5% tuition increase\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;and to increase direct legislative oversight of UC. \u0026nbsp;The report itself runs 169 pages and includes a 34 page, single-spaced UCOP response that rejects 72 separate passages in the audit. \u0026nbsp;This is in turn followed by the auditor's blanket rejection of UCOP's rejections. \u0026nbsp;The report also includes a 6 page letter from UC president Janet Napolitano that, in spite of the confrontation elsewhere, accepts nearly all of the auditor's technical recommendations for accounting improvements. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe angry stand-off in the full document massively overshoots the stated policy differences, and the mutual hostility becomes a problem in itself. \u0026nbsp;Politicians and the press reacted as much to tone as content. Legislative hearings have been called for Tuesday. Long-time LA Times columnist George Skelton signaled renewed doubts about UC's ability to serve the state with a piece entitled,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-pol-sac-skelton-uc-audit-20170427-story.html\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\"Big Changes Needed at UC--Starting with the Kool-Aid-Drinking Board of Regents.\" \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThis fight is actually unnecessary, and marks another setback for public understanding of the deeper issues raised by the report: research costs, research benefits to undergraduates, and public-good management standards.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERaptor Budgeting?\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EFirst, on the budgetary issue, a bit of background. UCOP does two big things: performs central administrative services and manages systemwide programs. The budget statement that goes to the regents each year is split more or less 50:50 between these two categories. \u0026nbsp;UCOP used to publish budgets with more big categories (it had 4 in 2014-15, for example [\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ucop.edu\/operating-budget\/_files\/rbudget\/2015-16budgetforcurrentoperations_.pdf\"\u003Epage 144\u003C\/a\u003E]). \u0026nbsp;Multiple administrative activities appear in these baskets, divided up by function (governance, budgeting and finance, etc.) along with systemwide initiatives that can be listed with expenditures for each. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe problem seems to start with incomplete lists of programs, and continues with their being funded from two budgets, one of which the auditor calls \"undisclosed.\" The auditor charges (summary\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.auditor.ca.gov\/reports\/2016-130\/summary.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E) that UCOP accumulated $175 million in surpluses that it did not disclose, and then spent them through a process that lacks adequate controls. \u0026nbsp;The issue is summarized in the report's Figure 6. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-GySTcyxcD58\/WQbCcJdjmXI\/AAAAAAAADTk\/gKJaiQ_E6ZgRNJmF34pbrVmk1hP7tgPgQCLcB\/s1600\/AuditStateUCOPFIgure6p22.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-GySTcyxcD58\/WQbCcJdjmXI\/AAAAAAAADTk\/gKJaiQ_E6ZgRNJmF34pbrVmk1hP7tgPgQCLcB\/s400\/AuditStateUCOPFIgure6p22.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAlthough UCOP spent some of these reserves, it spent less than it accrued in each year, so the reserve grew--and grew even in years when UCOP increased its tax to the campuses. \u0026nbsp;The auditor agrees that reserves are legitimate, but doesn't understand why UC has no written policy governing their size. \u0026nbsp;It repeatedly insists that UCOP could produce a simple unified budget of revenues and expenditures in which all outlays are visible and clearly tied to specific programs. It offers a one-page sample:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-hr8sEmv_fsg\/WQbCimrSRhI\/AAAAAAAADTo\/AYebi0xJUNU55rZfvI1ZAyrHuSvja-ADQCLcB\/s1600\/AuditStateUCOPFIgure11p40.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"228\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-hr8sEmv_fsg\/WQbCimrSRhI\/AAAAAAAADTo\/AYebi0xJUNU55rZfvI1ZAyrHuSvja-ADQCLcB\/s400\/AuditStateUCOPFIgure11p40.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EI'd add a couple of lines to this myself, but this is better than what the auditor seems to have gotten from UCOP, and UCOP agrees that it will consider adopting this kind of presentation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAt the same time, UCOP resents the auditor using the term \"undisclosed,\" argues that these are little more than unspent funds carried forward from one year to the next, that its \"reserves\" are $38 million not $175 million, that all the money was spent on programs that benefit the campuses, its students, and the state, and that administrative growth merely reflects UCOP's enormously complicated set of jobs that are not duplicated in other university systems. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EYou'd think that this would be the end of it. \u0026nbsp;UCOP could say yes, we're moving budget presentations from Figure 6 to Figure 11, thank you for your help, and by the way we regret any confusion, which was entirely innocent, plus you don't understand our inner workings, which is fine because that's our job as a constitutionally independent entity. \u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThat isn't what happened. \u0026nbsp;The best of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/uc-responds-state-audit-report-university-california-office-president\"\u003EUCOP's response\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is Janet Napolitano's letter to Elaine Howie. The letter accepts most of the auditor's recommendations, deals with the charges of incompetence by saying UCOP constantly strives for improvement, lists some systemwide programs with budgetary amounts that it says are of value, and rejects the recommendation of tighter legislative control of UCOP. \u0026nbsp;The letter doesn't explain why these expenditures weren't present in the visible budget in the first place or why the initial list of programs wasn't complete. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EI completely understand the auditor's core beef. \u0026nbsp;W\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ehy can't UCOP automatically produce listings and expenditures for the systemwide programs? Why couldn't they have listed all those that are part of their response to the audit, \u003C\/span\u003Eorganize them properly (for example, into the categories, \"outside sponsors,\" \"presidential initiatives,\" and \"systemwide faculty research\")? \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI'm doubly mystified because, over ten years ago, I was personally involved in a two-year Senate inquiry into UCOP's systemwide research programs, where our planning and budget committee (UCPB) made iterative requests for full expenditure data for all programs. It was pulling teeth with pliers, but we made progress over time.\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Phase 1, a full list of all programs with UCOP outlays, should have been in place a decade ago with regular updates as programs and funding changed, which they certainly did. \u0026nbsp;Phase 2, which apparently never happened, was to be tracking expenditures from UCOP to the campuses. \u0026nbsp;Is the geospatial systems funding--to make up an example-- going directly to fund direct and indirect research costs on several campuses, or have two of the four campuses moved the funding into administrative discretionary funds or, as in one actual case, has a campus converted research money into a pseudo-permanent set of FTE lines in a local department? \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EUCOP should have a handle both on how much is going out and how it is being spent. \u0026nbsp;Apparently they don't. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn addition, why\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Edidn't\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;UCOP have a unified budget both for the regents and the state?\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;I'm also\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Ebewildered\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;by the dual budgets, which is to say that I agree with the auditor that in its multiple lengthy retorts UCOP never really explains the \"undisclosed\" budget. \u0026nbsp;Why do the books look like that? 169 pages later, I couldn't tell you.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn any case, the numbers fly. UCOP generates the gratuitous mud wrestling of Attachment 2, \u0026nbsp;which apparently seeks victory through body count. \u0026nbsp;That attachment is a masterwork of bureaucratic defensiveness. Naturally, it doesn't work. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe auditor's short final response begins,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe Office of the President’s 34-page Attachment 2 is demonstrative\u0026nbsp;of the barriers we faced throughout the course of this audit. \u0026nbsp;Ultimately, Attachment 2 contained no additional information that\u0026nbsp;would cause us to change the conclusions reached in our report.\u0026nbsp;Rather, the Office of the President goes to great lengths to describe\u0026nbsp;its dissatisfaction with the context we included surrounding the\u0026nbsp;conclusions and the underlying philosophy related to transparency\u0026nbsp;and accountability upon which we based those conclusions. As a\u0026nbsp;result, we are choosing not to comment on each of the 72 points\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethat the Office of the President included in Attachment 2 because\u0026nbsp;doing so would not ultimately change the overarching conclusion\u0026nbsp;that we convey in this report: that the Office of the President needs\u0026nbsp;to better serve its stakeholders by making decisions in a transparent\u0026nbsp;and accountable manner. (165)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bsa.ca.gov\/reports\/2016-130\/summary.html\"\u003Esummary\u003C\/a\u003E, the auditor writes,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ethe Office of the President missed an opportunity to receive feedback from its key stakeholders, and it demonstrated an unwillingness to receive constructive feedback.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nThus an official state review finds UCOP's accounting substandard and also unlikely to improve.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ENot Biting the Bullet on Research\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe report concludes that 1 (an undisclosed budgetary surplus) + 2 (unjustified staff growth) = 3 (\"significant change is necessary to ensure that the Office of the President's actions along with the mission of the University of California\"). \u0026nbsp; This is a brutal conclusion: the State Auditor is saying that UCOP isn't running UC for the public benefit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe immediate rationale for this claim\u0026nbsp;is continuous administrative growth coupled with \"poor tracking and monitoring of its systemwide initiatives\" that leads to misused funds. \u0026nbsp;The deeper rationale is what the funds are allegedly misused on--systemwide research. \u0026nbsp;The audit's own list of UCOP initiatives (Table 11, pp 71-72) shows spending in a number of categories, but research seems to be the big problem. \u0026nbsp; It concludes,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nAlthough most of these initiatives provide academic or public benefits, we question the Office of the President's decision to prioritize them over other activities such as campus spending on students especially given it has not sufficiently evaluated these initiatives' purpose and intent. (69)\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nOn its face, the statement is ridiculous: the auditor lacks the credentials to question UCOP's judgment about academic priorities, and research, the main component of most of the programs, is part of undergraduate education at a research university, not a subtraction from it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe underlying problem is that UCOP has failed over many decades to explain the centrality of research expenditures to all levels of students. \u0026nbsp;Longtime VP for the budget Larry Hershman believed the legislature refused to grasp the research mission and always would, so the University\u0026nbsp;had to act as though the state's whole allocation was going into student instruction and related services. \u0026nbsp;I don't doubt he had empirical reasons to think this, but most legislators also thought the internal combustion engine had made train travel obsolete. At some point you have to roll up your sleeves and do the tireless teaching that reframes the debate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe tragedy of this particular audit is that UCOP is so busy saying it did nothing wrong that it can't tell the more important story, which is that research is a vital public function that costs enormous amounts of money. \u0026nbsp;UCOP has to subsidize a lot of it or it won't actually happen. \u0026nbsp;It has to use state money to do this, as it always has. We could argue about how much should be funded by UCOP vs the campuses, which is what we were getting set to do in 2006. \u0026nbsp;We could also argue about whether faculty have been pushed aside in too many of them, and whether the Senate has enough control. \u0026nbsp;But the real issue here is that the state has to pay for research as well as instruction through enrollment-based general funds. \u0026nbsp;UCOP's dual budgets may have been trying to downplay this, I don't know. \u0026nbsp;The strategy stopped working years ago, and now the battle for the state's role in research has to be fought, and not like this.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EPublic-Good Management\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThen there's the other huge issue, which is the auditor's claim that UCOP doctored the auditor's survey results. \u0026nbsp;The auditor had sent two surveys directly to UC campus officials to find out whether there were redundant administrative services and how the campuses felt about what they were getting for their UCOP tax. \u0026nbsp;Here's the auditor's statement on the subject:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EContrary to the Office of the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EPresident’s assertion that we failed to send our survey to those\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Eknowledgeable about specific subject areas, we determined that\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ethe campus audit coordinator was best positioned to facilitate\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ethe response to one survey and the campus chief financial officer,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Eor an equivalent position, was best suited to respond to the other\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Esurvey. After we sent the survey, the Office of the President’s\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Esystemwide deputy audit officer contacted us and followed-up on\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Esome technical questions posed by multiple campuses. This level\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Eof coordination was appropriate and we took no issue with it.\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EHowever, four days before the survey was due, the deputy chief\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Eof staff to the president organized a conference call with all of\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ethe campuses to discuss the survey. Subsequently, the emails\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ehe provided to us show campuses sent him completed surveys\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ewhich he reviewed to determine, in part, whether the campus\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Eresponses were within the scope of our audit. However, as\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ewe discuss on page 86, the surveys that campuses sent to\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ethe deputy chief of staff were much different than the final\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Esurveys submitted to us. As is clearly shown in Table 15 on\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Epage 87, significant changes and deletions were made to the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Eoriginal surveys sent to the deputy chief of staff for the Office\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Eof the President. (166)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAs we know, universities, in\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Eexchange for academic freedom,\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;agree to conduct impartial and independent research whose findings can't be skewed by politics or money. \u0026nbsp;And yet the audit\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Eclaims\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;that senior officials of a leading research university coached the subjects of a survey until they got the answers they wanted. \u0026nbsp; UCOP thus blunders right into a culture war stereotype: academics cheat, just like everybody else. \u0026nbsp;You can't trust them not to waste your tax money. \u0026nbsp; Fake news, fake science, fake climate change, #fakeuniversity. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EA depressing part of the coverage of this alleged survey tampering was \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-pol-sac-uc-audit-interference-20170427-story.html\"\u003Ethe deference of the campus's top officials\u003C\/a\u003E to \u003C\/span\u003EBernie Jones, Janet Napolitano's Deputy Chief of Staff,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ewho was running the survey massage operation. For example:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"trb_ar_page\" data-content-page=\"1\" data-role=\"pagination_page\"\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ESeveral changes were made to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/education\/colleges-universities\/uc-santa-cruz-OREDU00829-topic.html\" id=\"OREDU00829\" title=\"UC Santa Cruz\"\u003EUC Santa Cruz\u003C\/a\u003E’s initial survey.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EJones told UC Santa Cruz to consider \n“reframing” or deleting a suggestion for greater systemwide coordination\n to recruit low-income students, asking administrators there to take \ninto account the central office’s efforts in coordinating disbursement \nof state funds for underserved schools.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E“As you will see, I \naddressed 98% of your concerns and I made a number of additional changes\n as well (all in a direction you would not find problematic),” UC Santa \nCruz Chancellor George Blumenthal wrote to Jones in a Nov. 23 email. \nJones provided the email to The Times.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EUC Santa Cruz’s initial survey raised\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Eissues about the UCPath system, which is aimed at centralizing personnel, payroll and academic processes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E“Some\n Office of the President initiatives, such as UCPath were at first very \npoorly and inefficiently run, but they seem to have figured it out and \nare on the way to bringing a huge and — often — failure prone project to\n a successful conclusion,” the initial response said. “The key issue is \nthat the Office of the President provides the leadership, vision, and \npublic relations acumen to keep the University on the best course.”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThat\n paragraph was removed and the final survey response instead read: “The \nservices and leadership provided by the Office of the President are \ncrucial for the success of the system. Especially for a smaller campus \nlike ours, it would be both expensive and inefficient to provide those \nservices ourselves. In addition, there is a true public policy benefit \nto the role that the Office of the President plays in providing uniform \nstandards….”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EUCSC's original statement was already more positive about UCPath than anything that I have heard--it was a very nice comment in fact. \u0026nbsp;UCOP apparently didn't stop with deleting the hint of UCSC criticism, but went on to exact veneration for its public service. Of course in a proper academic survey, if your subject doesn't spontaneously mention your centralized outreach program, that is the datum: it probably means they don't think this program makes much difference to them. \u0026nbsp;In the academic world, this alteration\u0026nbsp;would be research fraud. \u0026nbsp;The auditor was right to toss out the results--except she also published many of them.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThis part of the disaster seems to me to flow from UCOP's attempt to defend its executive sovereignty over the overall system. \u0026nbsp;UCSC's revised comment-- a smaller campus needs central services-- tries to nail shut the whole can of worms about campuses' frequent duplication of of UCOP expertise. \u0026nbsp;One example was the decentralizing of technology transfer, as over about 15 years one campus after another got their own office of technology licensing and industry alliances, even as UCOP's Office of Technology Transfer continued to preside. (Some of this decentralization is now being reversed.) \u0026nbsp; My simplified history is that UCOP used to curate, develop, and strategically guide campuses. \u0026nbsp;But in the twenty years, and especially in the last ten, perhaps from around the time that regent Richard Blum wrote a memo calling on UCOP to be \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/34048298\/Strategically-Dynamic-Blum\"\u003E\"strategically dynamic,\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;UCOP has become better known on the campuses for enforcing standardization and compliance. \u0026nbsp;Disconnected from everyday academic life, it offers the public a series of middlebrow tactics. \u0026nbsp;And as these tactics have failed to produce lasting solutions, it has also devoted itself to spin.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe budgeting and the survey meddling seem to me to have a common source, which is a\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Eclosed managerial culture dedicated both to its image and its decision rights. \u0026nbsp; Much if not most of UC\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;has become a culture of silence, of conformity, of handpicked task forces\nreplacing senate committees, of a small list of insiders deciding everything,\nof non-consultation, of divisional senates that provide no information much less\nactive\u0026nbsp;discussion\u0026nbsp;with their supposed constituents, of shunning or quiet retaliation in response to dissent. \u0026nbsp;Senior managers are not meaningfully accountable to their subordinates, including to the tenure-track faculty. \u0026nbsp;Some performance reviews are on a cycle and some are discretionary, but in either case comments are\u0026nbsp;generally by invitation only, and results are never publicized. \u0026nbsp; If\u0026nbsp;actions are ever taken, they are taken from above, and truthful explanations are not given. \u0026nbsp;UC's response to in this case is a good example of this closed culture at work: the chair of the Board of Regents\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/meetings\/videos\/april2017\/ChairLozano%20.html\"\u003Eposted a video pep talk that closes ranks with UCOP\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp; She didn't even mention the audit's criticisms, much less promise to deal with them. \u0026nbsp;It's hard to imagine any regent confronting\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ethe cognitive and ethical failures that closed cultures create. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C!--[if gte mso 9]\u003E\u003Cxml\u003E\n \u003Co:OfficeDocumentSettings\u003E\n  \u003Co:AllowPNG\/\u003E\n  \u003Co:PixelsPerInch\u003E96\u003C\/o:PixelsPerInch\u003E\n 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*\/\ntable.MsoNormalTable\n {mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\n mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\n mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\n mso-style-noshow:yes;\n mso-style-priority:99;\n mso-style-parent:\"\";\n mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\n mso-para-margin:0in;\n mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\n mso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n font-size:12.0pt;\n font-family:Calibri;\n mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\n\u003C\/style\u003E\n\u003C![endif]--\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003C!--StartFragment--\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C!--EndFragment--\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ELike the proverbial frog that doesn't notice the water is getting hotter, we UC faculty don't seem to have noticed our gradually increasing cynicism about our university and state. Increasing cynicism has led to lower expectations. \u0026nbsp;In my email over the past few days, a number of faculty have said \"well what do you expect,\" or \"that's politics,\" or \"that's UCOP,\" or \"UCOP's bad, but not as bad as the legislature.\" Obviously I oppose legislative control, but we can't afford to wallow year after year in this choice between the legislature's intrusive austerity and UCOP's executive autocracy. \u0026nbsp; UC will go nowhere if it can't make a\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;plausible case for its public good stature. \u0026nbsp;The prerequisite to both these things is an open culture. \u0026nbsp; Open administrative cultures depend on active governing involvement of students, faculty, and staff.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5552428384202850451\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/what-ucop-audit-means.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/5552428384202850451"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/5552428384202850451"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/what-ucop-audit-means.html","title":"What the UCOP Audit Means"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-yEqYTbBAFMs\/WQM1THmhkEI\/AAAAAAAADTU\/JCvkGcKMaHQAjhENmJ4O8GO4vMVsQLFwQCLcB\/s72-c\/AuditorElaineHowie.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-4149792345652319288"},"published":{"$t":"2016-10-04T09:00:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-10-04T09:00:19.500-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Senate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Admin Responses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Management"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Shared Governance"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Faculty Principles for Senior Management Hires"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-KToEmExleRg\/V_Ks37cR3CI\/AAAAAAAADLY\/WdzIggYcQ8s75MIXA0mPbkhtUiYWJZgpACLcB\/s1600\/bouncers.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"237\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-KToEmExleRg\/V_Ks37cR3CI\/AAAAAAAADLY\/WdzIggYcQ8s75MIXA0mPbkhtUiYWJZgpACLcB\/s320\/bouncers.gif\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nAre senior administrators now less likely to involve faculty in major management decision than before? \u0026nbsp;The Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) is worried enough to have written \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/cucfa.org\/2016\/09\/principles-for-choosing-chancellors\/\"\u003E\"A Statement of Principles for Choosing New University of California Chancellors\u003C\/a\u003E.\" The statement emerged from agreement among Faculty Association representatives from every campus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCUCFA calls on officials to hire only those candidates who \"support the value of public education.\" Everyone says they support this value, so CUCFA says what its members believe its components to be. First comes the recognition that \"efforts at privatization have failed to sustain the University's central mission of education, research, and service for the people of California.\" \u0026nbsp;The statement spells out the elements of post-privatization: focusing on core mission rather than capital projects, serving more resident students rather than more high-tuition students from out-of-state, dialing back administrative growth while capping management salaries, \"opening the budget to meaningful faculty review and input,\" and increasing contact with the surrounding society.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCUCFA's definition of \"public\" reflects national and international trends that have been slower to develop in California than elsewhere. \u0026nbsp;One is \u003Ci\u003Edeprivatization\u003C\/i\u003E. I first heard this term used to describe current changes in Poland's university system, but deprivatization is implicit in the Free College movement launched in U.S. politics by Bernie Sanders. The premise is that people can analyze the effects of privatization, and, if found negative, can lower tuition rather than raise it, raise public funding rather than lower it, reduce student debt rather than increase it, and expand research cost coverage rather than shrink it. Where there's a will there's a way, and the way here is particularly obvious.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;A second trend is \u003Ci\u003Epostmanagerialism\u003C\/i\u003E--or so I'll call it here. Large private and public organizations now operate under widespread cynicism about their good will and effectiveness. Decreasing proportions of U.S. residents think corporations are on their side. \u0026nbsp;Something similar is happening to public universities, some of which, like UC and CUNY, have tripped themselves up in a series of scandals that shed doubt on their devotion to public service. \u0026nbsp; You don't have to be familiar with the literature about learning organizations to believe that the low-information professor and the cognitively isolated senior manager each undermine universities. \u0026nbsp;Universities need smarter human systems that we have now, and strong shared governance can help bring that about.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nA third trend the CUCFA statement reflects is the demand for\u003Ci\u003E epistemological diversity\u003C\/i\u003E, driven in large part by academics working in the global South.\u0026nbsp; Societies are both internally diverse and quite different from each other, and need their university research to reflect variable demands--say for non-GMO pest-resistant crops, or for democratic theory that does not assume constitutional unity or a common language.\u0026nbsp; University diversity has, in recent decades, been undermined by audit culture, which norms universities towards \"best practices\" represented by the institutions that dominate global rankings, whose template is Anglo-American.\u0026nbsp; As part of its normal operation, audit introduces quantitative management practices that make collaborative governance seem unnecessary: a manager doesn't need to know her faculty and departments and make complex judgments based in large part on informal knowledge, but just have research output measures, impact factors, and rankings of departments and faculty members.\u0026nbsp; Such metrics make personal interactions seem superfluous, and intellectual diversity unnecessary.\u0026nbsp; Such standardization is now being contested and is likely gradually to be pushed aside. It will be replaced by multidimensional forms of evidence and judgment that require more rather than less interaction among members of universities, and more openness to one another.\u0026nbsp; CUCFA's push for shared governance makes epistemological diversity easier to achieve.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOur current, highly unrigorous definitions of the public university make sense if the future is going to extend the past two decades. \u0026nbsp;But it won't. The public university going forward will have to rediscover the effectiveness of shared resources, mutualized costs, and collaborative governance. It will need to discover much stronger meanings of \u003Ci\u003Epublic\u003C\/i\u003E. \u0026nbsp;If this is right, then CUCFA's statement is ahead of the curve."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4149792345652319288\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/10\/faculty-principles-for-senior.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4149792345652319288"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4149792345652319288"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/10\/faculty-principles-for-senior.html","title":"Faculty Principles for Senior Management Hires"}],"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:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-KToEmExleRg\/V_Ks37cR3CI\/AAAAAAAADLY\/WdzIggYcQ8s75MIXA0mPbkhtUiYWJZgpACLcB\/s72-c\/bouncers.gif","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});