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issues."},"link":[{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/-\/Strategies+%26+Goals?alt=json-in-script\u0026max-results=10"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Strategies%20%26%20Goals"},{"rel":"hub","href":"http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"},{"rel":"next","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/-\/Strategies+%26+Goals\/-\/Strategies+%26+Goals?alt=json-in-script\u0026start-index=11\u0026max-results=10"}],"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"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"59"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"10"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-6171331357554082296"},"published":{"$t":"2016-08-30T08:59:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-08-30T08:59:50.210-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Labor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Employee Benefits"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Privatization"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Strategies \u0026 Goals"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Corporate Universities are Shocked to Learn They have Graduate Student Employees"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VFb4anxO1ec\/V8NFsfRjbaI\/AAAAAAAAA7Y\/M1i9JTi5okAwhbnITqqYCsdYUE4eDVBvgCLcB\/s1600\/20140704_NLRBsign495x200.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"129\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VFb4anxO1ec\/V8NFsfRjbaI\/AAAAAAAAA7Y\/M1i9JTi5okAwhbnITqqYCsdYUE4eDVBvgCLcB\/s320\/20140704_NLRBsign495x200.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EAs you may know, a 3-1 majority of the National Labor Relations Board \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/apps.nlrb.gov\/link\/document.aspx\/09031d45821c20d4\"\u003Eruled\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that Columbia University's Teaching Assistants (known at Columbia as Instructional Officers) are to be considered \"employees\" under the terms of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/resources\/national-labor-relations-act\"\u003ENational Labor Relations Act\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;As a result of this ruling, Columbia's TAs (and by implication those at other private universities) now have the legal authority to seek an election to select a union to collectively bargain with the University. \u0026nbsp;In so ruling, the Board Majority overturned a previous decision concerning Brown University but also, and more significantly, rejected the argument that if a graduate student's relationship with their university was \"primarily educational\" (6) they could not be considered employees when serving as Teaching Assistants. \u0026nbsp;Instead, using the legal equivalent of \"if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...\" the Board Majority ruled that when graduate students functioned as common law employees (under the power and direction of managers subject to sanction and receiving compensation) then they should be considered employees. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EMoreover, the Board majority noted quite correctly that whatever may have once been the case, in the modern corporate university graduate student employees provide important economic service to their university. \u0026nbsp;As the majority noted (16):\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003ETeaching assistants frequently take on a role akin to that of faculty, the traditional purveyors of a university’s instructional output. The teaching assistants conduct lectures, grade exams, and lead discussions. Significant portions of the overall teaching duties conducted by universities are conducted by student assistants. The delegation of the task of instructing undergraduates, one of a university’s most important revenue-producing activities, certainly suggests that the student assistants’ relationship to the University has a salient economic character.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EThe Board thereby acknowledged the current structure of university labor--that Teaching Assistants (like adjunct faculty and tenure track faculty) provide important economic value to universities above and beyond the educational benefit they may receive. \u0026nbsp;That economic value is generated by teaching classes and sections that bring in tuition.\u0026nbsp; Without this revenue, private universities could not exist. Moreover, this\u0026nbsp; labor takes place under the determination of the university's needs and not of the educational logic of graduate education. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EIn doing so, the Board recognized the logic that has been systematically imposed by university managers onto their teaching forces for decades now. \u0026nbsp;As is common knowledge, a substantial amount of the actual teaching in higher education is done by graduate students and adjuncts (of course the amounts vary institution by institution). \u0026nbsp;Despite all the worries expressed about how collective bargaining will intrude inappropriate economic questions into academic life, it is, in truth, the changing labor strategies of universities that have already subordinated academics to economics.\u0026nbsp; The never ending cries to make universities more like \"businesses\" (i.e. lower labor costs) is only the most obvious symptom of this transformation.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EPredictably, the managers of leading private universities have objected to this recognition of reality in the discussion of graduate student employment. \u0026nbsp;As Corey Robin has\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/coreyrobin.com\/2016\/08\/24\/great-minds-think-alike\/\"\u003E pointed out\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160607225609\/https:\/\/provost.uchicago.edu\/initiatives\/graduate-student-unionization-faqs\"\u003EChicago,\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/unionization.provost.columbia.edu\/content\/be-informed\"\u003EColumbia\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/gradschool.princeton.edu\/unionization\"\u003EPrinceton \u003C\/a\u003Eand \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/gsas.yale.edu\/about-gsas\/overview-graduate-student-education-yale-university#SectionE\"\u003EYale\u003C\/a\u003E all quickly released statements warning graduate students that they might lose their individual voice in the overweening collectivity of a union. Implicit in all of these discussions is the threat that if graduate students voted to be represented by a union on issues relating to their working conditions, these negotiations would interfere with the educational relationship of faculty and graduate students. \u0026nbsp;As Columbia's Provost John Coatsworth put it in a letter to staff: \"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/news.columbia.edu\/content\/Provost-Letter-National-Labor-Relations-Board-Ruling\"\u003EFor my part—and, in this, I speak for my colleagues in the University administration and for many faculty members—I am concerned about the impact of having a non-academic third-party involved in the highly individualized and varied contexts in which faculty teach and train students in their departments, classrooms, and laboratories\u003C\/a\u003E.\" \u0026nbsp;But this claim is absurd on its face.\u0026nbsp; As Provost Coatsworth must well know, if the graduate student employees vote for collective bargaining it will be graduate students and not some \"non-academic third party\" conducting the negotiations in a situation in which universities have long let non-academic (financial) considerations shape their programs.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EIt is hard to tell whether these responses are a sign of managers' \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/academeblog.org\/2016\/08\/29\/an-open-letter-to-columbia-provost-john-coatsworth\/\"\u003Efailures of self-awareness or truthfulness.\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026nbsp;After decades of transforming themselves on the model of the financial industry (and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/what-campus-activists-are-complaining-about\/\"\u003Eensuring that many of their students end up in finance\u003C\/a\u003E), they now worry that economic interests may disrupt academic relationships. \u0026nbsp;But graduate student employees at Columbia and elsewhere are seeking an institutional mechanism to address a power imbalance between them and university management. It is in fact this power imbalance that is destroying the academy from within, and not bargaining rights designed to correct it. \u0026nbsp;The NLRB recognized that. \u0026nbsp;Reality made a rare appearance in the discourse about the economics of higher education.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6171331357554082296\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/08\/corporate-universities-are-shocked-to.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6171331357554082296"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6171331357554082296"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/08\/corporate-universities-are-shocked-to.html","title":"Corporate Universities are Shocked to Learn They have Graduate Student Employees"}],"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\/-VFb4anxO1ec\/V8NFsfRjbaI\/AAAAAAAAA7Y\/M1i9JTi5okAwhbnITqqYCsdYUE4eDVBvgCLcB\/s72-c\/20140704_NLRBsign495x200.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-8101185396538464518"},"published":{"$t":"2016-02-26T17:19:00.001-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-07-22T06:32:09.547-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Politics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public vs. Private"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Strategies \u0026 Goals"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Berkeley"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The New Normal isn't Normal--It Erodes Democracy"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-82tfVotZh6E\/Vs9C92JwBOI\/AAAAAAAADFs\/Mhc9NrQWkmg\/s1600\/SFSU%2BWe%2BMake%2BCommencement%2BHappen.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-82tfVotZh6E\/Vs9C92JwBOI\/AAAAAAAADFs\/Mhc9NrQWkmg\/s320\/SFSU%2BWe%2BMake%2BCommencement%2BHappen.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWe've been told that public colleges and universities have entered a New Normal. It's supposed to be stable and sustainable. It gives colleges less--to make them learn to do more. \u0026nbsp; Happy scenes like commencement at San Francisco State, at left, are to carry on unimpeded, with lower costs but no loss of learning or research.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis week, this insidious narrative was again undone by several stories about San Francisco State, UC Berkeley, and their private cousin Stanford University. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1. Defunding Democracy\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFirst, a rehearsal: The democratic vision of U.S. higher ed was that the burgeoning masses could get a degree that was cognitively the same as that of elites, even though they lacked the latter's social networks and private resources. \u0026nbsp;Twins separated at graduation, one going to Stanford, say, and one to UC Berkeley, with a sibling already enrolled at San Francisco State, would have student experiences that would differ in trappings but not essentials. \u0026nbsp;The great faculty and facilities at the two public universities would allow them to offer cognitive gain that was functionally similar to that received by the Stanford twin, who would have social but not intellectual advantages. \u0026nbsp;No one thought they were dooming public university students to second- or third-tier status in a secret caste system. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf course four years of Stanford seminars, where the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-colleges\/stanford-1305\"\u003Estudent:faculty ratio is now 4:1,\u003C\/a\u003E had advantages that SF State's 50-student courses or Berkeley's 600-student lectures did not. But economists calculated that by 1980, public colleges spent 70 cents for every dollar spent by the privates (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Why-Does-College-Cost-Much\/dp\/0199744505\/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1385895631\u0026amp;sr=8-1-spell\"\u003Ep 237\u003C\/a\u003E). The assumption was that the gap would continue to close. As it did, artificial and unjust barriers of gender, race, religion would continue to erode as the wider society became more prosperous and more enlightened.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead, by the 1990s public colleges were spending only 53 cents on the private dollar. \u0026nbsp;The five public flagships that had been in the top 20 in \u003Ci\u003EUS News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/i\u003E's first ranking, in 1987, later all fell out of that bracket (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Why-Does-College-Cost-Much\/dp\/0199744505\/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1385895631\u0026amp;sr=8-1-spell\"\u003Ep 237\u003C\/a\u003E). \u0026nbsp;By 2013, public research universities were on average spending 45 cents on the private research university dollar. \u0026nbsp; Public masters universities like SF State were spending 21 cents. \u0026nbsp;Community colleges, the favored political cure to our national attainment ills, were spending 14 cents on the private research university dollar (all from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.deltacostproject.org\/sites\/default\/files\/products\/15-4626%20Final01%20Delta%20Cost%20Project%20College%20Spending%2011131.406.P0.02.001%20....pdf\"\u003EFigure A2)\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;Meanwhile, UC Berkeley's Pell Grant rate--a proxy for low family income--is 35% while Stanford's is 15%. Since UC Berkeley enrolls over 27,000 undergrads to Stanford's 7000, UC Berkeley educates 9 times the number of low-income students each year. \u0026nbsp;It has much less money per poorer student to educate them. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe have been taught to call this efficiency. \u0026nbsp;It is grossly inefficient, socially speaking. It is also unjust.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E2. A Tale of Two Universities\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis week, Nike chairman Phil Knight announced that he was \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/02\/24\/467937476\/nike-co-founder-donates-400-million-to-stanford-university\"\u003Egiving $450 million to found Stanford's Knight-Hennessy Scholars program\u003C\/a\u003E, which would bring the best and brightest from around the world to study at Stanford so they could return to their home countries to address major problems there. \u0026nbsp;Press coverage likened them to\u0026nbsp;the Rhodes Scholarships. Stanford will apparently contribute another $300 million, for a total endowment of $750 million. \u0026nbsp;The statements of the two principals, donor Phil Knight and Stanford president John Hennessy, made it clear that the goal is to create global leaders. \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/a\/forum\/R201602241000\"\u003EKQED's Forum interview with Mr. Hennessy\u003C\/a\u003E features repeated claims that the program will not only offer the best academic training but will create the world's top leadership in every domain. The key word was leadership. \u0026nbsp;Hearing the elaborate plans for special treatment of a very small group of international students, I concluded the program is tightly focused on deluxe training for a worldwide super-elite. \u0026nbsp;They would preside over the broad democracy of intelligence rather than be part of it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe micro scale of the student output is important. \u0026nbsp;Leaving aside the tarnished public image of university fundraising, increasingly\u0026nbsp;defined as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/rich-people-will-not-stop-giving-huge-unnecessary-dona-1761010957\"\u003Erich people giving huge, unnecessary donations to rich colleges\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;it looks as though the gift money goes to cover full cost of attendance for \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2016\/02\/24\/stanford-launching-knight-hennessy-scholarship-to-attract-top-graduates\/\"\u003Ea total of 100 students for three years\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp; The program will have at most 300 students at a given time. A 5% annual return on the overall endowment will generate $125,000 per student per year. \u0026nbsp;This is not enormously more than what a private research university normally spends on each student ($90,000 in the Delta Cost figures linked above). And yet Knight-Hennessy has overnight become the #\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nacubo.org\/Documents\/EndowmentFiles\/2014_Endowment_Market_Values_Revised.pdf\"\u003E130 endowment in the country\u003C\/a\u003E, about the size of Bucknell University's, itself a fairly posh school with 3,565 undergraduates. It is twice the endowment of that of the University of Wisconsin system. \u0026nbsp;In short, the Knight-Stanford gift is effective as micro-scale elite training but woefully inefficient as a mode of democratic higher education. \u0026nbsp;It just isn't part of that world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis might seem unfair to the Knights, since they have given generously to Oregon's flagship public university, the University of Oregon. \u0026nbsp;But of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/playbooks-profits\/index.ssf\/2014\/08\/phil_and_penny_knight_thanks_t.html\"\u003E$1 billion the Knights had donated to charity\u003C\/a\u003E prior to this gift (on an estimated net worth of $19 billion), $34.7 million went to public university campus academics (non-medical). \u0026nbsp;The figure rises to $76.4 million by counting their gift to UO's athlete tutoring center.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile, also this week, San Francisco State \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tequilasovereign.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/22\/the-beginning-and-end-of-ethnic-studies\/\"\u003Eprofessor Joanne Barker revealed \u003C\/a\u003Ethat the SF State central administration has proposed that the College of Ethnic Studies be cut by 13.8% next year. This would bring post-2008 cuts to 25% of COES's budget (in nominal dollars). \u0026nbsp;COES is the only college of ethnic studies in the United States and its founding and development are a matter of national legend. \u0026nbsp;Each year it teaches most of a Stanford (6000 enrollments) with a current-year budget of $3.6 million. \u0026nbsp;COES is required to do this, on a per-student budget, expressed as a share of 6\/7ths of Stanford's instructional expenditures -- which I estimate from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/bondholder-information.stanford.edu\/pdf\/SU_AnnualFinancialReport_2015.pdf\"\u003Ethis financial report\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E(p 54)\u0026nbsp;and the Delta averages\u0026nbsp;to be between $440 and $540 million--well, the fraction is too gruesome even for me.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Prof. Barker's post, I was riveted by what few faculty discuss: the public college working conditions as they affect student learning. She noted that Cal State defines their basic teaching load to be 5 courses a term, which is similar to the load at a community college or high school. Faculty members then buy out courses with administration and research, generally one course per term for each activity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003EThe other three courses they teach, and they are expected to enroll 50  students each. The overwhelming majority of faculty in the CSU are not  provided with teaching assistance. This means that faculty are expected  to teach three courses and grade the work of 150 students per semester  without aid.\u003C\/blockquote\u003EIdeally, a humanities or social science course would assign each student two papers in a semester and then offer detailed grading of the kind that allows students to see their full range of issues and address them. \u0026nbsp;But one professor can only grade 300 papers on top of the rest of their teaching, research, and administrative job by sacrificing the rest of their life. \u0026nbsp;The other solution is to cap the quality of feedback at a modest level, by replacing at least one paper with an exam and standardizing the exams as much as possible. \u0026nbsp;The normal workload sharply limits the intensity and detail available to an individual SF State student. \u0026nbsp;Politicians who like the \"efficiency\" of these low costs are not thinking about the cost to educational quality for non-elite students.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECSU faculty are also expected to do research. \u0026nbsp;These days, state college tenure-track faculty have research university doctorates and the intellectual lives and research ambitions to match. \u0026nbsp; SF State students are supposed to be exposed to the same up-to-date material as their siblings at research universities in order to avoid the educational class system we're discussing here.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EProf. Barker described the SF State\/ Cal State system for research support:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003EThe only viable support for faculty research—the foundational basis  on which curriculum design, publications, and conference presentations  are produced—has to come from a modicum of CSU and campus-based grants  and one-term sabbaticals. These grants and awards are highly  competitive.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003EAt SFSU and in the COES, faculty wanting time for the  professional development of their research and writing or for travel  expenses to vet their work at conferences and workshops generally must  secure outside funding from equally competitive sources. The policy has  been that faculty are “charged” $10-12,000 per course per term for  course release. Meaning, effectively, that a faculty person who wants  time off teaching for research and does not have a CSU or SFSU grant to  do so must secure an outside grant or fellowship at a \u003Ci\u003Eminimum\u003C\/i\u003E  of $30,000 for a term and $60,000 for the academic year. Since most  national fellowships, such as the Ford Foundation, average $45,000\/year,  CSU and SFSU has created a situation that essentially disqualifies  faculty from being able to apply\u0026nbsp;for these awards unless they are  willing to make up the difference out of pocket.\u003C\/blockquote\u003EOur colleagues in the CSU system already teach too much to do the expected research at scale, and apparently are also asked to supply from their own salary a\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2014\/08\/how-can-public-research-universities.html\"\u003E subsidy that normally comes from \"institutional funds.\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; These conditions demand their heroic efforts to maintain their research programs while single-handedly developing higher-order skills in 150 undergraduates at a time. \u0026nbsp;The simple reason is that the CSU system is not funded to support research, and the very limited funding they do allot to this will not go in any quantity to the arts, humanities, and qualitative social sciences.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is the context in which the New Normal demands the public university be cut yet again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E3. Berkeley's Failed Formula\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe other widening gap is between a university like Stanford and one like UC Berkeley. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe post-2008 cocktail of cuts and austerity has been very hard on UC Berkeley's budgets. \u0026nbsp;Officials followed the post-public formula to the letter: accept the public funding era is over and keep increasing fundraising and sponsored research. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey also renewed the fixation on inefficiency. \u0026nbsp;The Birgeneau administration hired outside consultants, and they generated a plan for administrative savings called Operation Excellence (OE), which had a number of component programs. \u0026nbsp;The idea was that the projected annual savings of $75 million would help the campus weather the latest round of major public funding cuts (from 2002 to 2012, UC Berkeley's state general fund appropriation went from nearly $500 million to under $300 million per year, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/vcaf.berkeley.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Time%20is%20not%20on%20our%20side%201%2011.29.13%20FINAL.pdf\"\u003Ea drop of 54% in real terms). \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome of OE's programs made a lot of sense, like simplified equipment sourcing. \u0026nbsp;Others would provide little or no return in exchange for degraded service, like the herding of departmental staff into a separate building off campus under Campus\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2012\/05\/21\/uc-berkeley-staff-members-to-move-to-new-campus-shared-services-center\/\"\u003EShared Services\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;The promises of savings were always overblown (see \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/bains-blow-to-berkeley.html\"\u003E\"Bain's Blow to Berkeley\")\u003C\/a\u003E, and the implementation seemed to be undermining the efficiency of distributed innovation rather than reinforcing it. Faculty were being separated from staff, and it appeared that different departments were going to get different speeds and quality of service depending on their ability to pay, United Airlines style. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut neither the staff segregation nor the new service inequalities have had budgetary benefits. The overall OE annual savings are about \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/vcaf.berkeley.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/2015ProgressReport_final_web.pdf\"\u003Ehalf of the projected $75 million\u003C\/a\u003E (page 12). \u0026nbsp; Campus Shared Services has failed completely. Its annual savings are now expected to be zero--actually negative, since the campus has lost millions on this program so far. \u0026nbsp;Even if everything had gone according to plan, OE is a classic example of a \"nickel solution\"-- $75 million a year is 3.33% of the campus's $2.25 billion annual budget, and this benefit would never have fixed larger budgetary problems. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome of these figures come from outgoing Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration John Wilton's 2013 budget commentaries, \"Time is Not On Our Side\" (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/vcaf.berkeley.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Time%20is%20not%20on%20our%20side%201%2011.29.13%20FINAL.pdf\"\u003EPart 1\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/vcaf.berkeley.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Time%20is%20not%20on%20our%20side%202%20%2011.29.13%20FINAL.pdf\"\u003EPart 2)\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;The structural deficit was already well known to officials by then, and in fact had been a topic of discussion quite a bit earlier. \u0026nbsp;But the strategies that were part of the deficit's formation were still expected to fix it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe half-way privatization model has been broken for a long time, and is now scaring everyone, even the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article45547677.html\"\u003ESacramento\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EBee\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and Los Angeles \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/editorials\/la-ed-future-uc-20160223-story.html\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ETimes \u003C\/i\u003Eeditorial boards. \u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;They are right to be scared. Public flagships no longer have the resources to do teaching and research at the top level of quality--and for new social conditions-- that the state assumed for\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eall\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;its non-elite students.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI don't know which of the old ideas UC Berkeley officials thought would fix the structural problems. Perhaps they hoped that growth in non-resident tuition, coupled with a doubling in professional school fees (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/education\/article\/Tuitionbreakis-nearly-erased-at-Cal-6829326.php\"\u003Esince 2005)\u003C\/a\u003E, plus a few big fundraising wins, some new industry partnerships, and more non-operating revenues, would get them to the other side of the Jerry Brown austerity era where they would see serious tuition increases again. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPerhaps they \u003Ci\u003Edidn't\u003C\/i\u003E think they could fix the structural problems. \u0026nbsp;John Wilton \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/vcaf.berkeley.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Time%20is%20not%20on%20our%20side%201%2011.29.13%20FINAL.pdf\"\u003Emade this case very well.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EWhile it is tempting to believe that 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Berkeley's Faulty Forum\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is the context for Chancellor Dirks's \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/chancellor.berkeley.edu\/announcement-comprehensive-planning-and-analysis-process\"\u003EAnnouncement of Comprehensive Planning and Analysis Process.\"\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Its most important move is to announce the structural deficit. \u0026nbsp; It also describes short- and long-term measures. They won't have much effect: they have all been in place for years, and their effects are already baked into the budgetary cake.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe sole exception is \"realignment\" of academic structures. \u0026nbsp;That will make a meaningful difference only if it involves (a) mass staff layoffs, perhaps in the company of (b) faculty layoffs, accomplished by shrinking some academic departments and closing others. \u0026nbsp; Staff groups have already been raising the alarm about this prospect, which was the lead-in to the Forum the campus's senior leaders held last week.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChancellor Dirks et al. defined four major planning areas: athletics, fundraising, administrative initiatives, and academic realignment. \u0026nbsp; Faculty members from whom we've heard thought there was little news about the actual planning. \u0026nbsp;One wrote,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote 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mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;  mso-fareast-language:JA;} \u003C\/style\u003E\u003C![endif]--\u003E   \u003C!--StartFragment--\u003E                     \u003C!--EndFragment--\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003EThat writer also noted that Berkeley Faculty Association Co-Chair Michael Buroway made a statement that seemed to speak for many faculty, judging from the applause that greeted his questions:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;\"\u003EOver the last decade there have been a number of costly ventures – from the renovation of the stadium to the Lower Sproul Plaza development; from Operation Excellence and Campus Shared Services to the experiment in On-Line Education; from the Energy Biosciences Institute to CITRIS. Each project is rolled out with great fanfare as a lucrative investment to be recovered sometime in the future, whereas each one has proven to be a financial albatross.\u0026nbsp;There seems to be systemic pattern of fiscal irrationality. But from where does it come?\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;\"\u003EIf I may answer my own question - a major part of the responsibility lies with the administration itself. The university appears to have been hijacked by what we might call spiralists – those who advance their careers by spiraling from one organization to the next. They stay for a few years, advancing their portfolio with a signature project that then launches them into a higher orbit and plunges the university into a downward spiral of accumulating debt. The latest case in point is the outgoing VC for Finance and Administration, John Wilton, who arrived five years ago to replace another spiralist, Nathan Brostrom. Like Brostrom, Wilton is now moving on, leaving behind a train wreck.\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;\"\u003EWill Wilton’s replacement be yet another spiralist from the financial world?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"apple-converted-space\" style=\"font-family: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;\"\u003EWhy don’t we replace him with one of our own great economists? If we are a recruiting ground for the chair of the Federal Reserve Board and for the Director of the National Economic Council, why not for the VC for Finance and Administration?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;\"\u003EI’ve really only got one question: is the administration prepared to acknowledge its own contribution to our annual deficit and, if so, what does it propose to do about it?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThere were apparently no answers to these questions. \u0026nbsp;But the trend is clear. Without restored public funding, the New Normal means the permanent downgrading of all levels of public higher education, and the reversion of top-quality learning and research to small elites. \u0026nbsp;Unless we restore cut public funding, California will continue to pioneer educational post-democracy."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8101185396538464518\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/the-new-normal-isnt-normal-it-erodes.html#comment-form","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/8101185396538464518"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/8101185396538464518"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/the-new-normal-isnt-normal-it-erodes.html","title":"The New Normal isn't Normal--It Erodes Democracy"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-82tfVotZh6E\/Vs9C92JwBOI\/AAAAAAAADFs\/Mhc9NrQWkmg\/s72-c\/SFSU%2BWe%2BMake%2BCommencement%2BHappen.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-248733592757177807"},"published":{"$t":"2016-02-17T12:01:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-04-07T12:51:09.348-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"California"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Humanities"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Income"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Inequality"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public vs. Private"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Strategies \u0026 Goals"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Where I Implant UC, There Shall Inequality Be"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VK_VIzC8GLk\/VsSsywzZLpI\/AAAAAAAADE8\/16OOjBAR4_A\/s1600\/CA%2BInequality%2BTop-1-Precent%2BIncreased%2BShar1.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"317\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VK_VIzC8GLk\/VsSsywzZLpI\/AAAAAAAADE8\/16OOjBAR4_A\/s320\/CA%2BInequality%2BTop-1-Precent%2BIncreased%2BShar1.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EI realize there are many other factors, but the geography of the state inequality boom does not put the University of California system on the side of broad income growth.\u0026nbsp; Take a look at the figure at left, from a new report by the California Budget and Policy Center.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf the top 12 regions that have seen the highest percentage of growth go to the top 1%, 7 have UC campuses.\u0026nbsp; Of the others, one has Stanford and SJSU, another has a Cal Poly, and two are something akin to agricultural plantations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E3 UC campuses serve more egalitarian regions (Davis, Merced, and Riverside).\u0026nbsp; They are also lower-income--and not associated with California's famous tech economy.\u0026nbsp; (I mean tech broadly to include related (and well-paying) financial and other services, and retain the murkiness of the term, whose aggregate employment generally remains \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-la-tech-economy-20150608-story.html\"\u003Eless than 10 percent of any regional tota\u003C\/a\u003El.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch universities do not only serve their local regions, but there is national pressure for them to shift the balance back in this direction, and UC's D-M-R campuses can plausibly invoke regional service in their pitch for funds. Partial proof was the Riverside campus's successful bid to start a medical school that the state promised not to fund properly, but that carried the day on the basis of its location in a medically-underserved region that could also use new jobs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat can we make of the kind of stretched correlation I've just produced? We can focus on the politics of the links rather than on the economic causalities.\u0026nbsp; The latter are very hard to identify. But politics generally works with exactly this kind of loose association.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo generations ago, UC's association with the \"knowledge industry\" was an association with rising incomes distributed widely in the population. This reflected the rise in general individual productivity, which could in turn be traced to all levels of educational advancement, particularly bachelor's degree attainment.\u0026nbsp; UC could say it was building a broad middle-class. Politicians of both major parties had little reason not to fund that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EToday, UC's association with the tech economy is an association with the inequality boom.\u0026nbsp; While the productivity of middle-income people does not rise more slowly than those at the top, their wages do.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; (Explanations for income growth at the top are generally about market pricing power of specific skills, not about their superior productivity growth.)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Going to a UC does not now insure that your wages will rise with your increased productivity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf course it never did \u003Ci\u003Einsure\u003C\/i\u003E this, and universities cannot fix the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/apples-attack-on-knowledge-economy.html\"\u003Eplutocratic tendencies of the tech economy,\u003C\/a\u003E by which I mean that cluster of practices that insure that the \"regional advantage\" we touted in the 1990s will never produce a tech manufacuturing empire staffed by white-collar armies on the model, of, say, the South Bay aerospace empire of the 1950s and 1960s.\u0026nbsp; The point is that UC can no longer make the same political claims to resources on the basis of an ever-more democratic distribution of knowledge and income. Compared to CSU and the CCs, it is comparatively rich and also located in fairly rich places that look the least in need of public funding help.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe solution is not \u003Ci\u003Eonly\u003C\/i\u003E to stress the large numbers of low-income students enrolled at UC. (UC policymakers should stop weakening this important case by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/the-impact-of-tuition-hikes-on.html\"\u003Eexaggerating the immunity of low income students to burdensome \u003C\/a\u003Estudent debt).\u0026nbsp; The solution will involve explaining the concrete contribution UC instruction and research make outside of the tech industry as well, and for the vast majority of California counties that have no UC-sourced start-up companies and limited tech employment.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; All UC disciplines make major contributions to the present and future workforce.\u0026nbsp; Until UC can make the broader case for all the fields and all the skills it offers, budget politics will continue to run against it."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/248733592757177807\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/wherever-i-implant-uc-there-shalt.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/248733592757177807"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/248733592757177807"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/wherever-i-implant-uc-there-shalt.html","title":"Where I Implant UC, There Shall Inequality Be"}],"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\/-VK_VIzC8GLk\/VsSsywzZLpI\/AAAAAAAADE8\/16OOjBAR4_A\/s72-c\/CA%2BInequality%2BTop-1-Precent%2BIncreased%2BShar1.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-7058838133398301617"},"published":{"$t":"2015-08-07T11:15:00.003-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-18T18:52:56.910-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Austerity"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Politics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Shared Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Strategies \u0026 Goals"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Can Faculty Deal with Policy Drift?  A List of Options"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-1EIocZ7QV_E\/VcIlmxxjLWI\/AAAAAAAAC9Y\/ys6OCn7Twhg\/s1600\/JeremyCorbynNoCuts.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-1EIocZ7QV_E\/VcIlmxxjLWI\/AAAAAAAAC9Y\/ys6OCn7Twhg\/s320\/JeremyCorbynNoCuts.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAt his blog \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Emainly macro\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E, the economist Simon Wren-Lewis \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/07\/corbyns-popularity-and-relativistic.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ecomments\u003C\/a\u003E on how the Labour party members who like \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/labour-leadership-veteran-leftwing-mp-jeremy-corbyn-declares-candidacy-10295719.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJeremy Corbyn\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(at left) for his anti-austerity policies have been misdescribed as radical: \"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ETalk to some, and being anti-austerity has become synonymous with being well to the left. Of course in reality it is just textbook macroeconomics, . . . [and in] \u0026nbsp;2009 . . . the need for fiscal stimulus rather than deficit reduction was the position advocated by a centre\/left Labour party in the UK, and the Democrats in the US. It cannot be surprising, therefore, that among a relatively well informed electorate that is the Labour party membership an anti-austerity position is still seen as a sensible policy.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe explanation for mislabeling \"sensible\" as radical, Prof. Wren-Lewis writes, is that while most of the Labour base stayed where it was, the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/07\/academic-freedom-among-very-serious.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EVery Serious\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/07\/academic-freedom-among-very-serious.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EPeople\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ein Labour have moved to the right, in the direction of austerity.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ESomething similar happened long ago in public universities in North America. \u0026nbsp;Senior managers and governing boards adopted a view that had previously been confined to conservative think tanks and political subcultures, which was that voters now saw a bachelor's degree as a private good, meaning that \"the era of public funding was over.\" \u0026nbsp;This view became VSP common sense, and public funding\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Ehas never recovered. \u0026nbsp;The two halves of that last sentence are related. There isn't a simple linear causal link between assuming austerity and receiving it, but the belief facilitates the practice. \u0026nbsp;VSP and voter preferences diverge, as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Unequal-Democracy-Political-Economy-Gilded\/dp\/0691146233\/ref=la_B001IGOFNI_1_1?s=books\u0026amp;ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1438969227\u0026amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELarry M. Bartels has shown,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and austerity politics are \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~bartels\/economic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Emore popular \u003C\/a\u003Ewith the former.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor those late to the party, I'll retell a UC example. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn the spring of 2007, an aide to the Board of Regents chair gave me a friendly hallway lecture\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Eat a UC Board of Regents meeting\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Eon the end of public funding\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ejust after I'd spoken on the need to rebuild public funding. This was\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ea year and a half before the 2008 crisis hit, so the austerity paradigm was not tied to economic conditions.\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp; Austerity was also not tied to financial rationality: UC's budget was still in trouble from the 2002-05 cuts, as I had just been explaining\u0026nbsp;on behalf of the Academic Senate, and it has not re-stabilized since. \u0026nbsp;But the austerity paradigm was tied to many kinds of regental convenience, starting with its use as an excuse for political passivity. \u0026nbsp;The aide\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;was using the \"end of public funding\" to tell me why the Board would ignore the Senate's\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/reports\/AC.Budget.resolution.01.07.pdf\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E formal recommendation\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E that they request a funding increment that would get UC back on its 2000-01 funding track. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EI\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Edon't enjoy recalling this story, but I sometimes do because it was the moment I belatedly realized that our post-public, austerity-UC was the operating assumption within the University leadership itself. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EWe know what happened next. After 2008, this paradigm has made it easier for governors and legislatures to cut and not restore, since it established a \"new normal\" that defined down the limits of reasonable budget requests. \u0026nbsp;The results have been predictable. \u0026nbsp;A\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/research\/state-budget-and-tax\/years-of-cuts-threaten-to-put-college-out-of-reach-for-more-students\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Erecent report \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Econcluded that \"forty-seven states — all except Alaska, North Dakota, and Wyoming — are spending less per student in the 2014-15 school year than they did at the start of the recession.\" \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EIt's worth noting that the mechanism that entrenched austerity at public universities was similar to Prof. Wren-Lewis's description of Labour party shift. We had a widely accepted if rarely argued notion\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;that universities mostly produce\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Epublic\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E benefits\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Ewith a high\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Enon\u003C\/i\u003E-market\u0026nbsp;value\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;(public knowledge through research, complex intellectual development through mass quality instruction, deep learning for good jobs)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E. This implied the need for strong public funding and low private costs, meaning no or low tuition. This was the \"sensible\" position that was\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ppic.org\/main\/pressrelease.asp?i=892\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Estill out there \u003C\/a\u003Eas austerity was digging in. \u0026nbsp;But the end-of-public-funding folks did not stage debates where people could show up. There were no venues for defending the public good position and opposing the others, no time and energy to discover and fight what Foucault called the micropolitics that transform institutions and governance itself. \u0026nbsp;One day voters woke up to find that their common sense\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ehas become oppositional or even radical not because general opinions changed but because the \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Eleadership\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E consensus drifted right. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003ESo the question then and now was, how should regular citizens and employees respond? \u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EPermanent austerity's many tangible effects continue to unfold. Some are\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Ehard to measure, like reductions in grad and undergrad educational quality. \u0026nbsp; Some are easy to measure, like the reductions in the value of employee pension and health benefits that we've seen at UC and elsewhere. These effects are controlled by the VSP austerity paradigm against which all \"saltwater\" economists rail, to no avail.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ELong ago, Albert O. Hirschman outlined canonical responses to situations like this. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E1. Loyalty. \u0026nbsp;This means accepting the new normal as normal and getting on with things--writing the grants, grading the papers, reviewing the files etc. in familiar competent ways. \u0026nbsp;In the short term this keeps things going, so it works if the problem is temporary. If it's not a temporary problem, loyalty makes the problem worse by failing to search for a solution and sometimes obstructing or marginalizing those who do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E2. Exit. \u0026nbsp;Employees quit the organization or a specific unit. They can modify this to \"neglect,\" in which they stay in place but minimize their contribution to an organization they no longer like or feel at home in. \u0026nbsp;Exit can provide lots of information about conditions at a university. \u0026nbsp;The examples that receive press coverage are usually departures of large STEM labs (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2011\/05\/ucsd-and-crisis-in-public-university.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Efrom UCSD to Rice in 2011\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/05\/ucla-loses-loni-why-budget-silence-is.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Efrom UCLA to USC in 2013\u003C\/a\u003E, from \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/2015\/jul\/07\/usc-legal-response\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EUCSD to USC this year,\u003C\/a\u003E in a case that has already been in court). \u0026nbsp;One of the PIs who went to Rice said that their group was fleeing the effects of the \"support gap\" between public and private universities around the country. \u0026nbsp;This resource gap is a critical problem that is already affecting the role of public research universities in the country's science ecosystem (I go into some detail \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/08\/how-can-public-research-universities.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E). \u0026nbsp;Someone whose work is endangered by such shortfalls will look to see whether senior managers are addressing the problem directly, and have any hope of solving it. If they don't see these things, they are more likely to leave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E3. Lawsuits. \u0026nbsp;Albert Hirschman didn't name this, but Jerry Brown has. It works for individual remedies but not so much for collective ones.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E4. Voice. \u0026nbsp;This covers a whole range of efforts to fix the larger system, from departmental retreats to faculty blogging to committee and commission service to regents' meeting protests and much much more. \u0026nbsp; Within voice we can identify a few major styles.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne is \u003Ci\u003Epoliticization\u003C\/i\u003E, as when people try to discredit school \"reform\" by tracing it to anti-union ideologies and to money provided by foundations or people who are anti-union; or UC Regents' austerity policies by tracing them to their largely plutocratic status. \u0026nbsp;Whatever one thinks of it, this mode is hard to use in the situation we're in now, which has been nicely described by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Winner-Take-All-Politics-Washington-Richer---Hardcover\/dp\/B004AGUBV8\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1438970074\u0026amp;sr=8-2\u0026amp;keywords=winner+take+all+politics\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJacob Hacker and Paul Pierson\u003C\/a\u003E as \u003Ci\u003Epolicy drift.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPolicy drift\u0026nbsp;has\u0026nbsp;some basic features. \u0026nbsp;It is marked by a\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;new normal that was not openly debated\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Ebefore\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;it was announced as true or irreversible or both. \u0026nbsp;Second,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Ethe new normal is established by a series of small, technical, and\/or disguised compromises that are driven by one party and supported by the opposition party. \u0026nbsp;In the case of tax and service cuts, the Democrats have served as the \u003Ci\u003Eenabling opposition:\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;they don't share the theory (public services hurt prosperity) but they co-author the practice (austerity). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThird, the post-facto debate that is triggered by the general discovery of a new normal like austerity, which most affected people don't actually want, \u0026nbsp;is confined or neutralized by the bipartisan consensus that produced it. \u0026nbsp;When Democratic regents are as convinced as Republicans that the era of public funding is over, discussion of a reversal will not get beyond \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/11\/wild-day-at-uc-regents-stakes-of.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ethe complaining stage\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESimilarly, it's hard to have an open discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of UC privatization when the mere use of the term is opposed by senior university officials who are progressive Democrats. \u0026nbsp;Drift brings endless lamentation and \"tough choices\" that don't fix anything, but it can't be stopped by logic and evidence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnother example is the tenure issue I've been writing about (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2015\/07\/20\/essay-calls-new-strategy-protect-faculty-rights\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EInside Higher Ed\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/07\/academic-freedom-among-very-serious.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ERemaking\u003C\/a\u003E): there was no popular shift in the land away from \"just cause\" employment--the core principle of tenure--and toward at-will firing. The shift took place among decision-makers in a wide range of sectors across the country for\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Big-Squeeze-Tough-American-Worker\/dp\/1400096529\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1438787833\u0026amp;sr=8-1\u0026amp;keywords=steven+greenhouse\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Evarious economic\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Disposable-American-Layoffs-Their-Consequences\/dp\/1400034337\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1438787872\u0026amp;sr=8-1\u0026amp;keywords=disposable+american\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Epolitical reasons\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;And yet the bipartisan forms of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Esupport\u003C\/i\u003E for academic tenure make it harder to make the more general case for just-cause employment that would solidify public support. The default situation is that at-will firing will remain the norm, and academic tenure will stay an endangered exception.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYet another example of policy drift: defined benefit (DB) pensions used to be seen as a sensible provision for low-cost retirement security. \u0026nbsp;Then decades of counter argumentation--brought to us by the financial services industry, market economists, and pension raiders--redefined DB pensions as an expensive luxury that employees didn't deserve. \u0026nbsp;Most people didn't change their minds about the enormous value of a safe retirement, or embrace philosophical critiques of DB pensions as the best means to that end. They succumbed to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Piece-Action-Middle-Class-Joined\/dp\/0671667564\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1438938268\u0026amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eget-rich stories, various financial incentives,\u003C\/a\u003E and a general sense of inevitability created by a long series of technical compromises.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe University of California still has a DB pension. \u0026nbsp;In the midst of the Great Recession, the Academic Senate and the UC Commission on the Future reaffirmed its efficiency for employees and its value to the University (in attracting and retaining top faculty and staff, and in encouraging a large, unquantifiable \u003Ci\u003Eloyalty effort \u003C\/i\u003Efrom them). But recently President Napolitano has been\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/cucfa.org\/2015\/07\/statement-to-uc-regents-about-new-ucrs-tier\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ebargaining bits of it away\u003C\/a\u003E--there will be a cap on accrual, and now she has defined as inevitable a non-DB tier for new employees. \u0026nbsp;The latter apparently came not from the state (which does want the salary cap) but from UCOP. \u0026nbsp;An indirect\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article25517704.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eexplanation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;appeared in a newspaper.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E“This is where the pension world is moving, and for public institutions, it makes a lot of sense,” Napolitano told The Sacramento \u003Ci\u003EBee\u003C\/i\u003E editorial board in May. “It’s much more portable, so for many people that will be an attraction. There are lots of gives and takes in all of this.”\u003C\/blockquote\u003EThis is indeed \"where the pension world is moving\"--for the VSPs who control pension policy. It is not where the pension world is moving when that includes the people who pay into pensions. \u0026nbsp;People didn't change their mind about the value of DB pensions and demand a new portability even with a lower and less-secure benefit. \u0026nbsp;But some VSPs did. \u0026nbsp;The pension world that includes financial analysts now also worries about a Baby Boomer\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Retirement-Heist-Companies-Plunder-American\/dp\/1591845653\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1438783255\u0026amp;sr=8-1\u0026amp;keywords=retirement+heist\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eretirement crisis\u003C\/a\u003E, and some of them are calling for a return to formula-based pension pools. \u0026nbsp; But the absence of an inclusive, evidence-based discussion\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Ebefore\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;the decision is allowing\u0026nbsp;UCOP to restructure UC employee retirement and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/11\/uc-health-care-whats-coming-in-2015.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehealth benefits\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;slowly, boiling-frog style.\u0026nbsp; (I understand that UC unions are opposing the new DC tier, as are the Faculty Associations. \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/underreview\/pastissues.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWhere is the Academic Senate?)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EMy point here is that policy drift is great at keeping an opposition from forming. It is\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Ebetter at this than open ideological warfare. \u0026nbsp;The upshot is that academic \"voice\" strategies have to adapt themselves to policy drift. To wit, \u003Ci\u003Evoice \u003C\/i\u003Ewill need to:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(A) Show how a particular policy is the product of drift, meaning that it is neither necessary nor intellectually coherent nor inherently stable (its maintenance requires lots of effort and money).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(B) Show how the policy drift detracts from working life and overall well-being. People won't get involved in organizational redesign unless it will make a difference to their working lives.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(C) Accept the enormous amount of effort required to dislodge a \"drift\" consensus. \u0026nbsp; For example, the education economist Walter McMahon has confronted the private-good drift by writing a fantastically detailed \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Higher-Learning-Greater-Good-Education-ebook\/dp\/B00368B86S\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1438787127\u0026amp;sr=8-3\u0026amp;keywords=mcmahon+walter\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Efour-hundred page book\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to show that private market benefits are a fraction (at most one-third) of the total, most of which is non-market and\/or public benefit, such that the current market framework will cause society to underinvest in universities. \u0026nbsp;Of course the book wasn't enough to break the paradigm. \u0026nbsp;The media's reduction of a B.A.'s value to lifetime wage increments continues without a break, which means that many more people need to give Prof. McMahon a hand.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(D) Address the consensus on the basis of professional ethics and expertise. A familiar example is Paul Krugman: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/07\/opinion\/paul-krugman-from-trump-on-down-the-republicans-cant-be-serious.html?action=click\u0026amp;pgtype=Homepage\u0026amp;module=opinion-c-col-right-region\u0026amp;region=opinion-c-col-right-region\u0026amp;WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region\u0026amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehis column today\u003C\/a\u003E says the Republicans \"can't be serious,\" not because they are conservative but because they have stuck themselves with \"crank economics, crank science, crank foreign policy.\" \u0026nbsp;Prof. Krugman writes as though politics must be intelligent and that it is his professional obligation to hold it to standards of argument and evidence. He's right. \u0026nbsp;Faculty and staff should do the same in relation to institutional policy. The founding principles are fundamental: the right to professional self-definition; the obligation to articulate the ethics of one's professional practice; the obligation to act on them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;(E) Create a counter narrative, an alternative paradigm. In the absence of clear framing principles, continuously advanced, debated, and rearticulated by faculty and staff, the senior managers \u0026nbsp;of any organization will naturally respond to the demands of powerful actors inside and outside the institution. \u0026nbsp;Governor Brown, various party leaders, influential business people, the most senior faculty et al. always outweigh the assembled faculty and staff--unless there is a strong culture or guiding ethos\u003Ci\u003E \u003C\/i\u003Eas critical theorist \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Way-We-Argue-Now-Cultures\/dp\/0691114048\/ref=la_B001HOJF0O_1_2?s=books\u0026amp;ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1438788398\u0026amp;sr=1-2\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAmanda Anderson uses the term\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp; \u003Ci\u003EThe silence of the faculty means the politicization of the administration.\u003C\/i\u003E \u0026nbsp;Only an articulated ethos can hold the parts together.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E(F) Build what the artist Céline Condorelli calls a \u003Ci\u003Esupport structure\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;for building these counter narratives. \u0026nbsp;Departments or Senates or unions could sponsor working groups focused on addressing specific problems created by drift. \u0026nbsp;A better idea would be free-standing centers not tied to existing units. \u0026nbsp;Professors Ann Bermingham and Catherine Cole hosted a \"charette\" that brought faculty, administrators, and senate leaders together for several days. \u0026nbsp;It was a strong start on a process that needs to happen regularly over time to build trust, common terms, have long drawn-out fights, and evolve new ideas into systems and practices. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnother example: the education anthropologist Susan Wright once got a large grant to fund a UK research center (the Centre for Sociology, Anthropology, and Politics) whose \"approach [was] to try and create 'space' for staff and students, in the midst of fast-moving changes in Higher Education, to reflect on their own values, aspiration and practices, and determine their own agendas for developing their learning and teaching.\" The center re-granted to groups to set up discussion and decision processes. The goal--this is me projecting a bit--was to take the values, expectations, and practices of particular groups and articulate them into an ethos. \u0026nbsp; Such a project has to be bottom-up: the UC Commission on the Future didn't change the paradigm as it had hoped because it was top-down and therefore intellectually narrow.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI realize what a hassle this sounds like. \u0026nbsp;I too had always wanted a job where there wouldn't be too many meetings. \u0026nbsp;But the alternative to having open, long form debates and getting our everyday practices into full public view is what we have now: unending policy drift.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; width: 1px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERead more here: http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article25517704.html#storylink=cpy\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7058838133398301617\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2015\/08\/can-faculty-deal-with-policy-drift-list.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/7058838133398301617"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/7058838133398301617"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2015\/08\/can-faculty-deal-with-policy-drift-list.html","title":"Can Faculty Deal with Policy Drift?  A List of Options"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-1EIocZ7QV_E\/VcIlmxxjLWI\/AAAAAAAAC9Y\/ys6OCn7Twhg\/s72-c\/JeremyCorbynNoCuts.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-352559368085672504"},"published":{"$t":"2015-07-28T10:23:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-18T18:50:30.503-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Employee Benefits"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Funding Model"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public vs. Private"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Strategies \u0026 Goals"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Regents"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"University of Wisconsin System"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Academic Freedom Among the Very Serious People"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-PW5DtFdfyMY\/VbeN_ByR-HI\/AAAAAAAAC84\/KTaAS1J12mY\/s1600\/Empty-boardroom-001.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"192\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-PW5DtFdfyMY\/VbeN_ByR-HI\/AAAAAAAAC84\/KTaAS1J12mY\/s320\/Empty-boardroom-001.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EI'm tired of band-aids on university policy problems that never heal the underlying wounds, so I asked that we faculty do some new things in a piece that appeared in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EInside Higher Ed\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;last week. \u0026nbsp;Called \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2015\/07\/20\/essay-calls-new-strategy-protect-faculty-rights\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\"Time for a New Strategy,\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;it argues that defenses of tenure and academic freedom will increasingly fail, as they did in Wisconsin this year, unless we call for the same protections for all employees. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe big advantage, I argue there, would be that we faculty would no longer base our claim to academic freedom on an exceptional status that most of the public doesn't accept. Another advantage would be that we would no longer have to rely on our university boards and executives to protect us, which is also not working well. \u0026nbsp;A third advantage would be that we could broaden our claims to public benefits beyond the competitive excellence that we generally mention first as tenure's product. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor a crib on all this, the Wisconsin-Madison School Education does a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.wiscape.wisc.edu\/wiscape\/news\/2015\/07\/22\/newfield-calls-for-new-strategy-to-protect-faculty-rights\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ebetter job of excerpting it\u003C\/a\u003E than I just did. \u0026nbsp;And I wrote a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/unike.au.dk\/news-archive\/single-news\/artikel\/new-essay-on-inside-higher-ed-by-christopher-newfield\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eheadnote\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to a link for the Universities in the Knowledge Economy (UNIKE) project of which I'm a part. \u0026nbsp;Do have a look at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2015\/07\/20\/essay-calls-new-strategy-protect-faculty-rights\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Epiece\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;if you have time. I was surprised that none of the \u003Ci\u003EIHE\u003C\/i\u003E comments called it unrealistic, pretentious, impossible, overblown, or anti-excellence, so maybe I can drum up some of that kind of criticism a little closer to home . . .\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EFaculty Talking in Public: the case of Sara Goldrick-Rab\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EI know that direct public engagement won't always be easy or pleasant for faculty--but not for the reasons we may think. \u0026nbsp;Wisconsin provided another example this month with the backlash against the higher education sociologist Sara Goldrick-Rab's effort to contact incoming undergrads with information about the legislature's changes to the Madison campus where they were arriving. \u0026nbsp;In May, she saw some high school grads tweet pictures of themselves as happy #FutureBadgers, then contacted them with links to articles about budget cuts and the striking of tenure protections and shared governance from state law. \"I hate to bring bad news but\" began the first of these, with a link to a \u003Ci\u003EWall Street Journal\u003C\/i\u003E piece. As Angus Johnston's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/studentactivism.net\/2015\/07\/18\/the-unworthy-attack-on-sara-goldrick-rab\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eexcellent overview at Student Activism\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;explained,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003ESome of the students responded to her tweet, she responded to some of  their responses — tweeting that she thought they should know about the  recent events at UW because she assumed they would want “a degree of  value” and\u0026nbsp;she didn’t\u0026nbsp;“want students 2 waste their $.”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003EAnd that was it. The whole thing\u0026nbsp;amounted to about a dozen tweets  over the course of a little over an hour late one Sunday night, with  pretty much nobody watching.\u003C\/blockquote\u003EBut one of the students contacted a member of the Madison campus College Republicans with the claim that Prof. Goldrick-Rab had harassed them, someone reviewed her abundant twitter feed and found a tweet comparing conservative Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to Hitler, which broke unwritten rule number 1 of the twitterverse (\"never compare anyone to Hitler--not even Hitler\"), and before you knew it there was a tell-all exposé in the \u003Ci\u003ECollege Fix\u003C\/i\u003E that began like this:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003EShocking new allegations emerged Wednesday against the University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/post\/23329\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Etweeted\u003C\/a\u003E that Scott Walker and Adolf Hitler share “terrifying” similarities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003EThe University of Wisconsin Madison College Republicans put out a press release \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GOPBadgers\/photos\/a.448045461699.244721.121674441699\/10152993199656700\/?type=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ealleging\u003C\/a\u003E that sociology Professor Sara Goldrick-Rab also tweeted at incoming  freshmen who support Scott Walker,\u0026nbsp;antagonizing them about the  Republican governor’s budget cuts to the University of Wisconsin system.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E“The College Republicans of UW-Madison call on the University of  Wisconsin-Madison to address the harassment of these future Badgers on  Twitter who were doing nothing but showing their excitement for  attending this university,” the group’s chairman, Anthony Birch,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GOPBadgers\/photos\/a.448045461699.244721.121674441699\/10152993199656700\/?type=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Estated\u003C\/a\u003E on its Facebook page. “Professor Sara Goldrick-Rab: We find the way you  have approached the dialogue around the intersection of politics and  our university’s future disgusting and repulsive.”\u003C\/blockquote\u003ENothing surprising here: everyone is reading their assigned lines, the appointed roles are being played, and a good time is being had by all--except for Prof. Goldrick-Rab, who picked up some nasty tweets calling for her to be fired. \u0026nbsp; This is of course the kind of thing that prompts everyone to wield academic freedom like a police shield against the crowd calling for the democratic removal of an annoying professor. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo naturally the professor could count on her university to stick up for her right to send higher ed public policy information to the public, which includes incoming students, whom she'd found via public tweets. \u0026nbsp;Not. \u0026nbsp;After their meeting on July 20th, the Faculty Senate's executive body, the University Committee, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/news\/local\/education\/university\/uw-faculty-group-deeply-dismayed-by-professor-s-twitter-behavior\/article_8f4b3b2f-327b-5461-b19b-4d75589c71ec.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ereleased a statement\u003C\/a\u003E (now removed from the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.secfac.wisc.edu\/university-committee.htm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eagenda page\u003C\/a\u003E) stating \u003Cstrike\u003Ethat Prof. Goldrick-Rab was a courageous defender of the shared governance that the Committee was charged to uphold and that had been so seriously weakened by recent legislation\u003C\/strike\u003E:\u0026nbsp;“While claiming to stand for academic freedom, . . .[she] has in fact damaged  that principle and our institution with inaccurate statements and  misrepresentations.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe committee members gave no examples and offered no evidence, but must have been censuring her claims that quality was damaged by budget cuts. \u0026nbsp; For they wrote, \"we are deeply dismayed with the actions Professor Sara Goldrick-Rab has  taken toward students and faculty on Twitter in recent weeks to  discourage them from coming here.\" \u0026nbsp;The Committee, apparently\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.secfac.wisc.edu\/university-committee.htm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Elacking a member with expertise\u003C\/a\u003E in academic freedom or higher education policy, seemed to assume that academic freedom should be limited by the needs of brand loyalty. \u0026nbsp;You can be a nationally-renowned expert on higher ed policy, as Prof. Goldrick-Rab is, but may not claim that the state's attacks on budgetary stability, tenure, and shared governance are hurting the quality of UW-Madison. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou might think I overstate, but when is the last time the UW-Madison University Committee issued a public admonishment of an individual faculty member? \u0026nbsp;Badger brand was clearly also on the students mind: \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2015\/07\/17\/debate-escalates-over-twitter-remarks-sara-goldrick-rab-professor-wisconsin-madison\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\"It's not a waste [of $] if you're going to Madison,\"\u003C\/a\u003E a student replied to Prof. Goldrick-Rab. \u0026nbsp;(She answered back plaintively: \"University is changing as we speak. Maybe  look at info?\")\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe University Committee felt no apparent concern about Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank's claim \u0026nbsp;(as\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2015\/07\/17\/debate-escalates-over-twitter-remarks-sara-goldrick-rab-professor-wisconsin-madison\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ereported by Scott Jaschik)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that the University had not been changed at all:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003EI feel compelled to respond to those who may question whether the  University of Wisconsin-Madison is still a great place to learn and to  teach. The answer is a resounding yes -- and I know that because I hear  it daily from students, faculty members and staff as well as alumni,  donors and friends. Any institution has its critics, and especially in  social media, it’s important to remember that the loudest voice usually  isn’t the most accurate. The Badger community is strong and continues to  stand for excellence in education, in research and in community  outreach.\u003C\/blockquote\u003EAs Joan Rivers would have said, \"Can we talk?\" Yes it's true--everybody's great. \u0026nbsp;The faculty are great, the staff are great, the students are great, the alumni are great--all just as great after the state budget was passed as they were before. \u0026nbsp;That's not the point. \u0026nbsp;The point is that the institutional infrastructure is less great, and the governance relations are less great, the job protections are less great, the resources that protect class size, professor interaction, individual feedback, and student learning are less great, and the institutional funding to support extramural grants are less great. \u0026nbsp; The point is that Wisconsin politicians made the UW System less great while denying their actions were doing that--and the Madison chancellor agrees that after budget cuts and tenure termination nothing is less great! \u0026nbsp;So does Ray Cross, UW System president, who in the aftermath actually\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/news\/archive\/statement-of-uw-system-president-cross-following-signing-of-the-2015-17-biennial-budget\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E \u003Ci\u003Ethanked \"\u003C\/i\u003Elegislators \u003C\/a\u003Efor their collaborative spirit and willingness to continue an important dialogue.\" \u0026nbsp;No harm done by cuts or deleted tenure! Ray heart WI leg! \u0026nbsp;There was no \"dialogue\" at all--or was there? And in the midst of this, the University Committee targets one of the small number of faculty voices that is independent of the legislative-administrative consensus that UW is as-great-with-less, and goes after \u003Ci\u003Eher\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EUC Faculty and the UC Budget\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe practical consequence of this management by marketing is that it aborts public awareness of the need for public funding, tenure, and shared governance before it can be born. \u0026nbsp;This blog has often commented on the California version of the capitulation that undermines the university's public claim while demobilizing supporters (Mark Yudof was our great\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2009\/02\/uc-and-csu-cut-again.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Emaster\u003C\/a\u003E). \u0026nbsp; It works in the fog of public relations that has replaced honest and open discussion within universities of real problems and of how to fix them. \u0026nbsp;Senior management's publicity culture forces candid assessments into a position of oppositionality (what Chancellor Blank calls \"the loudest voice [that] usually isn't the most accurate\"). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFailed strategies persist through an imbalance of power that is partly organizational (administrators have decision rights and access to information that faculty, staff, and students do not). \u0026nbsp;Failed strategies also persist through a lack of accountability for disastrous results at the executive levels of academia, business, and government alike. \u0026nbsp;The consensus dogma that \"the era of public funding is over\" has guided university leadership for the better part of a generation, and it has conspired to suppress public funding. We have seen this for years in California, and it is happening now in Wisconsin. Same playbook. Same failure. \u0026nbsp;Same chin up carrying on irrespectively.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe UC Regents meeting last week offered another case in point. This spring and summer this blog offered a series of posts on what the state budget actually does to UC finances this coming year (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/05\/the-may-budget-revision-uc-budget-goes.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EChris\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/06\/council-of-uc-faculty-associations.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJoe\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/06\/new-budget-little-improvement.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMichael\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/06\/dont-worry-be-happy.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJoe\u003C\/a\u003E). \u0026nbsp;Were you to compare these analyses to the July Regents' Committee on Finance 2015-2016 \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/july15\/f3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ebudget document\u003C\/a\u003E, you would find that this document paints an incomplete picture. \u0026nbsp;It omits the past history of Board of Regents budget requests, admits no downside, declares victory, and concludes as follows:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EBy adopting the provisions of the funding framework agreed to by the Governor and the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EUni\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Eversity, the budget approved by the Legislature puts UC in a strong financial position that\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Eprovides the University with predictable and stable support for the next four years and offers\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Estudents and their families the certainty to confidently budget for t\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ehe costs of a UC education.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThis outcome resulted from the spirited debate over appropriate funding levels for higher\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Eeducation in California sparked in large part by the plan ado\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Epted by the Board in November. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EUniversity has come a long way since the\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003En, a result that should be welcome by all University\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Estakeholders. (6)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003ECue romantic music, like at the end of \u003Ci\u003EThe Player\u003C\/i\u003E. \u0026nbsp;The University has no funding problems, the funding gaps don't exist, the Committee of Two (President Napolitano and Governor Brown) was in fact a state-wide spirited debate, and everyone is in love and having babies who can all afford UC. \u0026nbsp;This is the official story presented to the Board that has formal fiduciary responsibility for the long-term health of the University.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome of the missing pieces of the picture appeared in a\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/cucfa.org\/2015\/07\/statement-to-uc-regents-about-new-ucrs-tier\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E statement from the co-chair of the Berkeley Faculty Association\u003C\/a\u003E, English Professor Celeste Langan. \u0026nbsp;Among other things, she noted that the above document\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003Emisleadingly claims  that the final budget “incorporates the funding framework developed by  UC and the Governor.” If you’ll recall, the “framework” of the May  Revise proposed that the state make a contribution of $436 million  toward the unfunded liability of the UC Retirement Plan.\u0026nbsp; The final  budget, however, promises only \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dof.ca.gov\/documents\/FullBudgetSummary-2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ea “one-time payment” of $96 million\u003C\/a\u003E; there is nothing in the budget that commits the state to two additional payments of $170 million.\u003C\/blockquote\u003EProf. Langan also noted that the legislature did \u003Ci\u003Enot\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;require the addition of a defined-\u003Ci\u003Econtribution\u003C\/i\u003E pension tier but that UCOP is advancing that idea anyway, for unknown reasons of its own. \u0026nbsp;She added a critique of strategy: \u0026nbsp;\"The Council of UC Faculty Associations is opposed to the University  making permanent changes in the structure of its retirement plan in  exchange for a very modest one-time contribution from the State.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis presentation brought faculty \"stakeholders\" to the table and offered information that was missing or even misstated in the official documents. \u0026nbsp;And yet it was jammed into a 2-minute slot during the public comment period hours before the Committee on Finance meeting, and was cut off halfway through. \u0026nbsp;In this context, the faculty speaker who takes shared governance seriously, carefully analyzed the documents, and represents a faculty organization is rabble-ized by the governance format, the content is made oppositional, the consensus sails on without a scratch, and failures persist without being processed or having their tactics corrected.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Function of Very Serious People\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EFor years I've been noting the frustration and disappointment that many faculty and staff feel with the low standard of argument and debate in university affairs--with the secrecy, the withheld information, the exclusion of working faculty and professional staff, the closed circles of discussion, and the strategies that don't work but that are used again and again. It has reminded me of the impatience, disbelief, and occasional anger I started to see in Paul Krugman's columns around the time of the Iraq invasion in 2003, and that resurfaced with a renewed intensity in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis, where he watched already-refuted dogmas prevail regardless of their results. \u0026nbsp;Prof. Krugman started to refer to the people who could impose failed strategies again and again as Very Serious People whose status and influence made them immune from criticism, even when it came from the lofty pay grade of a Nobel prize winner like him. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EProf. Krugman is disturbed all over again by the application of failed austerity dogma to Greece, and recently linked to a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2015\/07\/22\/a-brief-theory-of-very-serious-people\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EHenry Farrell post\u003C\/a\u003E at Crooked Timber that defines the VSP.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003EPeople whose beliefs are reinforced and widely circulated so that they  are socially and politically influential, even when they are manifestly  wrong, are Very Serious People. The system provides them with no  incentives to admit error or perhaps to understand that they have erred,  even when their mistakes have devastating consequences.\u003C\/blockquote\u003EProf. Farrell adds, \"the problem with VSPs is not that they are biased (we all are) – it’s  that the systems around them magnify that bias, reinforce it, and  reflect it, creating the risk of vicious feedback loops of  self-satisfied yet consequential ignorance (as in the Iraq war).\" \u0026nbsp;He contrasts VSP syndrome with democracy, which has an epistemological advantage:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003Eit harnesses mulishness and rancorous dispute, to reveal the information  that is latent in the disagreements between our various perspectives on  the world (which are inextricably intertwined with our value  judgments). However, when certain people’s perspectives are privileged,  the value of democracy is weakened. Their perspectives will continue to  prevail, even when they are wrong. Weak arguments that they make will be  treated as strong ones, while strong arguments made by their opponents  will be treated as weak ones.\u003C\/blockquote\u003EThere's further interesting material there, but you see the connection. \u0026nbsp;Public universities also have a serious VSP problem. It \u0026nbsp;fuels our intellectual crisis of purpose and blocks good communication with the public. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe faculty have saved ourselves enormous time and effort by letting our own VSPs run the operation inside and out. But we can't afford this anymore. \u0026nbsp;We're going to have to practice open public argumentation instead, as I was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2015\/07\/20\/essay-calls-new-strategy-protect-faculty-rights\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Etrying to say \u003C\/a\u003Ein \u003Ci\u003EIHE\u003C\/i\u003E. \u0026nbsp;What I mean is that we can't have academic freedom without organizational democracy. \u0026nbsp;Academic freedom's current decline is good proof of that."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/352559368085672504\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/academic-freedom-among-very-serious.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/352559368085672504"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/352559368085672504"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/academic-freedom-among-very-serious.html","title":"Academic Freedom Among the Very Serious People"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-PW5DtFdfyMY\/VbeN_ByR-HI\/AAAAAAAAC84\/KTaAS1J12mY\/s72-c\/Empty-boardroom-001.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-3769068562111275291"},"published":{"$t":"2015-06-03T15:31:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-18T18:17:02.334-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Senate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Affordability"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Austerity"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Faculty"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Funding Model"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guest post"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Income"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Janet Napolitano"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jerry Brown"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Strategies \u0026 Goals"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The May Revise"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-68zQ7NIV-10\/VW9_8fMYuWI\/AAAAAAAAAqM\/ocIsK610kvU\/s1600\/Brown%2Band%2BNapolitano.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"195\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-68zQ7NIV-10\/VW9_8fMYuWI\/AAAAAAAAAqM\/ocIsK610kvU\/s320\/Brown%2Band%2BNapolitano.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003Eby Joe Kiskis\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECOUNCIL OF UC FACULTY ASSOCIATIONS' STATEMENT ON UC BUDGET DEAL\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003EAs the Legislature and Governor enter the end game for the 2015-2016 budget, here is a review of provisions related to UC in the Governor’s latest budget proposal—the May revise, which is now being considered by the Legislature.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003EIt appears likely that the final UC budget will have provisions that address access and affordability. What is missing are resources to ensure that the university can maintain quality. It is the hardest to quantify, the weakest politically, and is now the most seriously threatened.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThis budget is another demonstration of the truism that the only way to restore access, affordability, and quality is through adequate State investment in public higher education. In spite of strong revenues to the State, the Governor’s budget falls well short of what is needed to reverse the negative trends in recent years. As it happens, it is well within the means of the citizens of the State to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/keepcaliforniaspromise.org\/473424\/reset-2015-16\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Erestore all of California public higher education\u003C\/a\u003E to the levels of access, affordability, and quality enjoyed in 2000-2001.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThe May \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/2015-16\/pdf\/Revised\/BudgetSummary\/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Erevise budget summary\u003C\/a\u003E starts the UC overview on page 28.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003EMany aspects of the May revise as they relate to UC are contained in the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/budget.universityofcalifornia.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eagreement of the “Committee of Two”\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003Enow \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/may15\/j2.pdf.\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eendorsed by the Regents\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E1) Systemwide tuition and fees for California resident students are to remain constant for two more years. Following that, modest increases comparable to the rate of inflation are allowed. On the other hand for non-resident students, tuition will increase by 8% in each of the next two years.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E2) Increases in the UC base budget are to be the same as the Governor originally proposed, i.e. 4% per year ($119.5M for 2015-16) but are now continued through 2018-2019. This is much less than what the State should contribute to replace cuts since 2007 and is also \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov14\/f1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Esubstantially less than the needs identified in the UC proposed budget\u003C\/a\u003E for 2015-2016. (Further detail is \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov14\/f1attach1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EThe May revise also proposes one time funds of $25M for deferred maintenance and $25M for energy efficiency projects.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E3) The May revise contains a tepid and ambiguous recognition of a State obligation to UC pensions. One-time funds of $436M spread over three years (with $96M for 2015-16) are proposed. However, this is Proposition 2 money, which can be used only to reduce the UCRP unfunded liability (about $7.6B in the last annual report). The one-time payment is only modestly significant in the long run and has negligible impact on the University’s operating budget in the near term. This is because the University has not planned to increase the UCRP contribution rate above 8% for most employees and 14% for the employer. Contributions at this rate cover only the current year additional liability and some of the interest on the unfunded liability. i.e. at this point, the regular employer and employee payments are making no contribution to retiring the unfunded liability. Thus in near term years, the Proposition 2 money does not reduce the large negative impact on the UC operating budget from regular UCRP contributions. The Proposition 2 money could be framed as a replacement for or enhancement to UC’s own occasional ad hoc payments to reduce the unfunded liability, but these have been very controversial, and UC has not revealed any plans to make another such payment.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003EUnfortunately this modest one time contribution comes with permanent strings. In return UC is required to introduce yet another tier to UCRP that would apply to new employees. The new tier will mirror state law for other state employees. In this tier, UCRP eligible salaries are to be capped at the inflation indexed PEPRA\/Social Security limit ($117k for the current year) rather than with the IRS limit of $265k currently used by UC. Employees in the new tier will have the option of either a defined benefit plan with the new cap and an add-on defined contribution plan to supplement the defined benefits or a fully defined contribution plan. It is this second option that is particularly troubling.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThe relative merits of defined contribution and defined benefit plans were thoroughly evaluated and debated during the extended review that led to the 2010 reforms of the UCRP. The conclusion was that a defined benefit plan is the more advantageous option for both the University as an employer and for its employees.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThe main concern is not so much that UC has cut a deal on this issue but rather that it has made such a poor deal. For very modest one-time money, it has agreed to make permanent changes to UCRP including offering a completely defined contribution option that will put at risk the whole of the defined benefit plan. (Chris Newfield has previously made \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/05\/the-may-budget-revision-uc-budget-goes.html\"\u003Esimilar comments\u003C\/a\u003E.) In addition the closed process by which this agreement between the Governor and the President was reached has undermined shared governance and collective bargaining.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E4) UCOP has stated that the Governor has agreed not to veto additional appropriations for UC that come out of the legislative process. The University is asking legislators for additional funds to increase California resident enrollment.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E5) There are several areas in which the President has committed UC to the implementation of additional efficiencies. These include transfers, time-to-degree, advising, and use of technology. Some of these Presidential promises relate to topics that are squarely within the authority of the Academic Senate, and all of them would normally be addressed through shared governance.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Ci\u003EYou can find more information on CUCFA's activities \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/cucfa.org\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3769068562111275291\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/council-of-uc-faculty-associations.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3769068562111275291"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3769068562111275291"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/council-of-uc-faculty-associations.html","title":"The May Revise"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-68zQ7NIV-10\/VW9_8fMYuWI\/AAAAAAAAAqM\/ocIsK610kvU\/s72-c\/Brown%2Band%2BNapolitano.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-7222487355571167129"},"published":{"$t":"2015-01-12T10:25:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-04-07T12:51:09.408-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Austerity"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public vs. Private"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Research"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Strategies \u0026 Goals"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Universities without Austerity"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Rfg87LgmutM\/VLQFe3yGqAI\/AAAAAAAACz8\/OXb_wMCEaRc\/s1600\/Vancouver%2Benglish-bay.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Rfg87LgmutM\/VLQFe3yGqAI\/AAAAAAAACz8\/OXb_wMCEaRc\/s1600\/Vancouver%2Benglish-bay.jpg\" height=\"214\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EHere's a quick update on my way back from Vancouver, where I attended the Modern Language Association meeting. \u0026nbsp;Jeff Williams and I had a panel featuring some of the issues in our Johns Hopkins University Press book series on Critical University Studies: Scott Jaschik at Inside Higher Ed\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2015\/01\/09\/mla-scholars-talk-about-how-their-teaching-focuses-tough-issues-higher-ed\"\u003E covered it here\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;Send us a book proposal! \u0026nbsp;Universities aren't going to recover or have the intellectual functions the world needs unless faculty get actively involved in their redesign. We're equally interested in historical work.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EI also have a piece today at \u003Ci\u003EInside Higher Ed\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;on the weakening of the austerity logic that has been ruling public universities. Entitled, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2015\/01\/12\/essay-sees-possible-collapse-austerity-politics-around-higher-education\"\u003E\"The Higher Ed Austerity Deal is Falling Apart\u003C\/a\u003E,\" it argues that three major (albeit unwilling) political partners are getting tired of accepting the \"new normal\" of never-enough-revenues at too-high tuition rates. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EI start by pointing out that 2015 promises more of the same, and then analyze the fractures that became visible at the November regents' meeting. \u0026nbsp;My premise is that austerity isn't a natural effect of the economy but the effect of a tacit political alliance among the major players that includes senior university managers, faculty, and students. The UC story will be familiar to blog readers; \u0026nbsp;the second half of the piece, less so.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EAt one point, I write,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;\"\u003EAlthough austerity theory still rules public colleges, three of its major players no longer project future benefit from following their scripted roles: cutting and squeezing (administration), political compliance (governing boards), and tolerance for higher tuition and debt (students). It has become clear to them that these austerity policies will never make things better.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EWhen I re-read the piece this morning on line, I stumbled at that second sentence. Do these folks \u003Ci\u003Ereally\u003C\/i\u003E know that only one engine is getting fuel and that therefore the plane is losing altitude? On reflection I think yet again that the answer is yes. \u0026nbsp;UC admin has been talking about the structural deficit to the regents for several years, and the students who spoke out last fall now think the Democrats are using the tuition freeze to let themselves off the funding hook. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EThe question is more what to \u003Ci\u003Edo\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;with this knowledge.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EThe immediate answer is to spell out the research and the teaching that get disappeared by funding shortfalls. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EAt the MLA, there was an obvious conflict between the brilliance of the work, which has intellectual scope and depth that are better than ever, and the resources to finish and disseminate the research, which are nearly nonexistent. Our panel respondent, for example, was a grad student who couldn't afford to travel to Vancouver and thus went missing. \u0026nbsp;Sponsors of extramurally-funded research often require conference travel and fund their requirement. \u0026nbsp;On this point the humanities are underwater, with predictable delays. \u0026nbsp;Younger MLA scholars have never in my view been doing richer, more ambitious work with more important public implications--and yet never have more incomplete support to get it finished.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003ESecond, there's teaching. \u0026nbsp;I'm on the MLA's Delegate Assembly, and on Saturday, at the end of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2015\/01\/12\/mla-members-debate-when-and-how-take-stand-issues-such-israel-boycott\"\u003Ea six hour meeting\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;with a sustained focus on academic freedom,\u0026nbsp;the Association's officers asked for input from the floor about how to respond to Arizona State University's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2014\/12\/16\/arizona-state-tells-non-tenure-track-writing-instructors-teach-extra-course-each\"\u003Erecent raising of teaching loads\u003C\/a\u003E for its non-tenure track (NTT) writing instructors by 25 percent (to 5-5), with no increase in pay. \u0026nbsp;An ASU dean was in the audience to explain the administration's rationale, which was that all university faculty have a notional five-course load per term, and the tenure track faculty who teach two courses per term are getting three courses of credit for research and service. \u0026nbsp; All the admin was doing, he said, was regularizing a lot of NTT instructors while rationalizing their workloads.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EThe assembly took a dim view of this and of the other pieces of the dean's explanation. Many people objected to the exploitation of faculty who are now expected to offer meaningful feedback to 125 writing students a term. \u0026nbsp;Others pointed out the unilateral nature of the decision, in which admin tells faculty what to do with no regard for faculty expertise. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EMy concern is also with the administrative framing. This assumes that college writing instruction is a commodity, both in terms of the instructor who delivers it, who need not be paid even the median US wage for 125 students, and of the student who is trying to master a skill by responding to individual feedback on their work. \u0026nbsp;ASU has a sophisticated idea of public education that is active and process oriented (see the linked article above), and yet asks instructors to deliver it under high school working conditions. \u0026nbsp;Why does anyone think you can create skills at a college level with a high school teaching load and for less than a high-school teaching wage? Because it's convenient to think that, because it allows cross-subsidies to think that, but also because administrators--\u003Ci\u003Eand faculty-\u003C\/i\u003E-haven't spelled out in educational detail why we can't.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EFaculty need not simply to reject the framework but to explain why it's wrong: why we don't and can't have five courses as a teaching baseline for college instruction, for starters. We need to explain what students are supposed to learn in a writing class, show the level and type of feedback that requires, and then explain the working conditions that make that possible, including the maximum number of students that one can have to grade a certain number of pages per term with the cognitively required feedback.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EYes I know: who thought we were going to have to do this kind of explaining just so we could do our jobs? But this is how it is, and has been since the 1980s. The good news is that it marks the way colleges and universities are a decisive social power, which is why they are being fought over so relentlessly.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EI thought about this when I happened on an article yesterday about tactics. \u0026nbsp;\"The immediate response is bound to be a defensive one: fight the cuts.\" Yes, I thought, admin is finally doing this, as some faculty have done for years, but the power of the austerity framework, as the author writes, \"has exposed the limited character of a struggle which remains a defensive one.\"\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EThe author continues to say that the defensive struggle \"will get us nowhere if it is posed simply as a return to a state of things before the deluge\"--very true! And it \"cannot succeed unless it contains an active and positive content--of a new kind.\" \u0026nbsp;This new content, he concludes, needs to be embedded not in temporary and opportunistic political associations, but in \"real and durable historical alliances\" that lead to a \"genuinely popular democratic social force.\" \u0026nbsp;This will involve, however, the transformation of \"all the forces which are to be pulled together in this way.\" \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EAs some of you have guessed, the author was Stuart Hall, the year was 1980, and the subject was \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amielandmelburn.org.uk\/collections\/mt\/pdf\/80_02_26.pdf\"\u003E\"Thatcherism--a new stage?\u003C\/a\u003E\" \u0026nbsp;University austerity \u003Ci\u003Eis\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;Thatcherism, historically and conceptually, but as I argue in the IHE piece it is now applied by Democrats and Labour as well as a by Republicans and Conservatives. \u0026nbsp;Opposition has not succeeded for Hall's reasons, which are insufficiencies of imagination \u003Ci\u003Eand\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;organization. In other words, we anti-austerians are not beating our heads against an inevitable historical trend or economic destiny, but have some new work to do.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003ESo send us a book proposal!\u003C\/span\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7222487355571167129\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/universities-without-austerity.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/7222487355571167129"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/7222487355571167129"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/universities-without-austerity.html","title":"Universities without Austerity"}],"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":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Rfg87LgmutM\/VLQFe3yGqAI\/AAAAAAAACz8\/OXb_wMCEaRc\/s72-c\/Vancouver%2Benglish-bay.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-3400783729958792193"},"published":{"$t":"2015-01-05T14:54:00.001-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-08-22T08:48:29.576-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Labor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cal State"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Contingent Faculty"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Development"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jerry Brown"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Quality"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Strategies \u0026 Goals"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Governor's Inaugural Address: More Higher Ed Clichés"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Us7xQzgAw1o\/VKr0nkcrzEI\/AAAAAAAAAks\/tWYJs0t9X6A\/s1600\/20150105__0106brown2~1_300.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Us7xQzgAw1o\/VKr0nkcrzEI\/AAAAAAAAAks\/tWYJs0t9X6A\/s1600\/20150105__0106brown2~1_300.JPG\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EGovernor Brown gave his \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/political\/la-me-pc-brown-speech-text-20150105-story.html#page=1\"\u003E4th and final inaugural address today\u003C\/a\u003E and said very little about higher education. \u0026nbsp;Instead, he focused attention on other issues: K-12 education, criminal justice, the environment, and his favorite issue of all--controlling spending. \u0026nbsp;It is certainly possible to see his lack of focus as a positive thing for the state's public colleges and universities. \u0026nbsp;His recent ideas have \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/wild-day-at-uc-regents-stakes-of.html\"\u003Enot been great\u003C\/a\u003E, and relative neglect might lower the temperature to allow serious thinking on how to raise educational quality in the state's higher education institutions.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EUnfortunately, what little he did say is not encouraging. \u0026nbsp;Here are his comments on higher education:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EWith respect to education beyond high school, California is blessed with a rich and diverse system. Its many elements serve a vast diversity of talents and interests. While excellence is their business, affordability and timely completion is their imperative. As I’ve said before, I will not make the students of California the default financiers of our colleges and universities. To meet our goals, everyone has to do their part: the state, the students and the professors. Each separate institution cannot be all things to all people, but the system in its breadth and diversity, through real cooperation among its segments, can well provide what Californians need and desire.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003ESeveral points stand out here: the displacement of \"excellence\" (admittedly a vacuous term) by \"timely completion\"; the implicit opposition to further tuition hikes coupled with a lack of real commitment to address the problem of tuition through state funding; and a belief in the inadequacy of the campus's efforts. \u0026nbsp;\"To meet our goals, he said, \"everyone has to do their part: the state, the students, and the professors.\" Since Gov. Brown has already indicated that he believes the state is doing enough and that students should not be asked to do more, \u0026nbsp;then what is left? The professors, who must be blocking timely completion and affordability by not teaching enough students and not going online enough.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EHere then is the problem with Brown's approach to higher education: in his mind the problem is not that students do not get enough time to work with faculty; it is that they get too much time. Instead of figuring out a way to fund an educational experience that enables deeper learning and higher skills he wants to speed up the process and make it more Amazon-like than it already is. As many have pointed out, higher education has been using adjuncting and massification to create teaching \"efficiencies\" for thirty years. \u0026nbsp;They have reduced degree productivity and quality, and cannot now suddenly increase them.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EDealing with a 1970s-model of educational efficiency will be one challenge for 2015.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3400783729958792193\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/the-governors-inaugural-address-more.html#comment-form","title":"14 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3400783729958792193"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3400783729958792193"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/the-governors-inaugural-address-more.html","title":"The Governor's Inaugural Address: More Higher Ed Clichés"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Us7xQzgAw1o\/VKr0nkcrzEI\/AAAAAAAAAks\/tWYJs0t9X6A\/s72-c\/20150105__0106brown2~1_300.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"14"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-8464149620046668435"},"published":{"$t":"2014-11-02T12:45:00.002-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-08-22T08:48:29.707-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Labor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Senate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Administrative Overreach"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Contingent Faculty"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Funding Model"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jerry Brown"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Shared Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Strategies \u0026 Goals"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Transparency"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The New Normal: What Does it Mean to Work at UC Today?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-uglhYcAqQw8\/VFaMWYNYVHI\/AAAAAAAACq8\/LvNSpVcjNaA\/s1600\/Slide01.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-uglhYcAqQw8\/VFaMWYNYVHI\/AAAAAAAACq8\/LvNSpVcjNaA\/s1600\/Slide01.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EChris here. As part of the Free Speech Movement anniversary events at UC Berkeley last month, Michael and I had a two-hour discussion with Berkeley faculty and staff at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ucbfa.org\/2014\/09\/the-new-normal\/\"\u003Ean event sponsored by the Berkeley Faculty Association\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;We are posting our slides here and we will provide a bit of commentary along the way.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EWe pointed out at the start of the talk that we don't think that the policies that respond to the \"new normal\" are very new. The situation itself isn't new either. \u0026nbsp;The combination of inadequate public funding and expanding dependence on private support has framed the entirety of both of our careers.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003ESo we divided up our presentation. \u0026nbsp;We have a final slide, Option 3, that was meant to prompt discussion about how UC faculty in particular should respond.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-56NKnb4UN5A\/VDC9bp6xasI\/AAAAAAAACkc\/0nHh8xDxTH0\/s1600\/Slide02.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-56NKnb4UN5A\/VDC9bp6xasI\/AAAAAAAACkc\/0nHh8xDxTH0\/s1600\/Slide02.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPart I.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EOur core concern here was with Impacts on faculty work life—and hence on the university’s academic productivity. \u0026nbsp;How are we all feeling?  How is morale, job satisfaction, pleasure in the job, the “faculty experience”?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThere are some specific components that always get attention: (1) Salaries. \u0026nbsp;(2) Benefits. We are also preoccupied with (3) working conditions: hours per week, staff support, quality of time for research thinking, and particularly time for the unfocused reflection that finds and fixes problems in deadline work, and is the main source original thinking.  Do we have the conditions for “depth” – for slow work, slow method?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EIn addition, there's (4) Professional Autonomy.   Is the university gradually making its faculty post professional? Or does the university still reflect the faculty's various educational and research visions?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThese questions are best answered with qualitative data. Here we invoke a few crude metrics just to illustrate the problem. One is compensation. \u0026nbsp;UC has a well-known salary lag. \u0026nbsp;I recently read a report in which the UC president claimed that \"faculty salaries at the University of California already lagged behind our peer institutions around the nation by about 8 to 9 percent and are projected to lag about 16.5 percent come July.'’ \u0026nbsp;The president was David Saxon, speaking to the Los Angeles \u003Ci\u003ETimes\u003C\/i\u003E in December 1982.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C!--EndFragment--\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor decades, UC officials have also pointed out that generous retirement and health benefits made up for lower salaries: while salaries lagged, \"total compensation\" was well above average. \u0026nbsp; Unfortunately, this last round of cuts has eliminated the advantage in total compensation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-AOdg3Px7xDA\/VDC_Ah9VG1I\/AAAAAAAACko\/QHoRG5xCkLo\/s1600\/Slide03.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-AOdg3Px7xDA\/VDC_Ah9VG1I\/AAAAAAAACko\/QHoRG5xCkLo\/s1600\/Slide03.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThe slide below was recently confirmed by a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/compensation.universityofcalifornia.edu\/total-remuneration-ladder-rank-faculty-2014.pdf\"\u003EMercer compensation study\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that shows that UC faculty total compensation joins cash salary at subpar, both are in the negative 10-12 percent range. This means that the value of UC benefits has declined substantially in recent years. \u0026nbsp; And of course salary \"scales\" no longer function normally: departments we've spoken to now routinely add \"above scale\" salary to routine merit requests and more frequently request advances of more than one step. \u0026nbsp;Salary inequity and the \"loyalty penalty\" are both growing problems that salary scales, when properly funded, had at least partially solved.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EAnother major UC faculty issue is the state of graduate programs and funding, since they are the hallmark of UC as a research university.  The next slide shows a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov13\/f6attach.pdf\"\u003Edecades-long decline\u003C\/a\u003E in the system's share of grad students.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-o24TjVeAxos\/VDDAYaciRxI\/AAAAAAAACkw\/0NqFLL0MkJE\/s1600\/Slide04.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-o24TjVeAxos\/VDDAYaciRxI\/AAAAAAAACkw\/0NqFLL0MkJE\/s1600\/Slide04.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EWe didn't assert that UC grad students should be at a particular level--say, 20 percent of total student enrollments-- or quality is at risk.  Our point was that UC has had a goal of bring all the campuses to the research intensity of the flagships, and that this is one of many core educational projects that have never been achieved because of insufficient funding. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThen there's faculty-staff relationships.  Faculty need staff more than ever to do more complicated kinds of research and instruction. Both core activities are getting more collaborative, and require a wider mixture of skills. As just one example, use of instructional technology would increase more quickly if faculty could work with course designers to help make large lectures more effective. Instead, this has been the moment in history that universities like UC Berkeley used programs like Operation Excellence to split staff from faculty into \"shared services\" pools.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-mPQ5BXeh0IA\/VDDCzSpCDvI\/AAAAAAAACk8\/C1fWzvRUcUc\/s1600\/Slide05.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-mPQ5BXeh0IA\/VDDCzSpCDvI\/AAAAAAAACk8\/C1fWzvRUcUc\/s1600\/Slide05.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThere's a potential staff partner now--trapped behind a pane of glass.  Off-campus staff pooling could seem like a good operational idea only to business consultants who have no idea how faculty or educational staff actually work. We understand that the Berkeley campus senate is now finally looking into problems with OE. \u0026nbsp;But unravelling the worst parts of the program will cost money we don't now have. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EHere's a summary slide for trends that limit traditional faculty autonomy without improving effectiveness.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-yMwOKyD8bbE\/VDDDrpwhGkI\/AAAAAAAAClM\/BUUNNLoXJps\/s1600\/Slide06.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-yMwOKyD8bbE\/VDDDrpwhGkI\/AAAAAAAAClM\/BUUNNLoXJps\/s1600\/Slide06.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EWe didn't go into depth on any of these trends, but each reflects the growing tendency for the ground rules of the core area of faculty sovereignty, instruction, to be set by non-teaching managers with little faculty input. \u0026nbsp;I'm particularly interested in the last two. \u0026nbsp; It's obvious to me that the 21st century world requires more complex intellectual capabilities than ever, and that these depend on integrating diverse forms of knowledge both within and between courses. \u0026nbsp;And yet this is the moment in which many think college should be more like a single-subject training module, or that more difficult or boring parts of courses can be thrown out in favor of a greatest hits approach. \u0026nbsp;We saw xMOOCs crash and burn because their marketing got so far ahead of their educational performance. We're getting set up for repeat performances in more obscure parts of the university.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003ENonetheless, the default political model for a university degree is increasingly community college job training--among Democrats as much or more than among Republicans.  The current pathway is that many educational activities even at major flagships like UC Berkeley will be diluted and standardized, while most sponsored research projects will be protected.  UC Berkeley is cutting against this with programs like Berkeley Connect, but the trend is towards concentration of resources rather than toward general quality through wide distribution.  This is a normal effect of replacing public money--for general quality--with private funds, which are self-interested and targeted.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPart II.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EWe're suggesting through this sampling of trends that UC isn't on the mend, and won't heal by itself. \u0026nbsp;What are more positive options?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-cT7i8b25mgs\/VDDDpL79qdI\/AAAAAAAAClE\/dIeAq268xWo\/s1600\/Slide07.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-cT7i8b25mgs\/VDDDpL79qdI\/AAAAAAAAClE\/dIeAq268xWo\/s1600\/Slide07.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThe California governor was giving his Inaugural Address, and alleged as follows:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003Efalse prophets have risen to advocate more and more government spending as the cure – more bureaucratic programs and higher staffing ratios of professional experts. They have told us that billion dollar government increases are really deep cuts from the yet higher levels of spending they demand and that attempts to limit the inflationary growth of government derive not from wisdom but from selfishness. That disciplining government reflects not a care for the future but rather self-absorption. These false prophets, I tell you, can no longer distinguish the white horse of victory from the pale horse of death.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThis was not Ronald Reagan but Jerry Brown. \u0026nbsp;It was not the latter-day but the original Jerry Brown, in his \u003Cu\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/governors.library.ca.gov\/addresses\/34-Jbrown02.html\"\u003E2\u003Cspan style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003End\u003C\/span\u003E inaugural address\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E in January 1979.  \"Jerry Brown's mad as hell,\" all right, and still mad thirty years later. \u0026nbsp;He's mad at people who want public funding.  This means YOU--the University of California.  Whether it's the 1980s or the 2010s, Jerry Brown is the original Austerity Democrat. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-KDP2ydaDG2U\/VDDGs036h9I\/AAAAAAAAClY\/zFlhGOwlEcw\/s1600\/Slide08.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-KDP2ydaDG2U\/VDDGs036h9I\/AAAAAAAAClY\/zFlhGOwlEcw\/s1600\/Slide08.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EHe's not going to restore anything. Not next year after his re-election. Not ever. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EGov. Brown isn't alone.  Here's a Legislative Analyst Office slide that breaks down growth by category in state funding over the decade leading up to the financial crisis.  The starting points are of very different sizes so the percentages are somewhat deceptive. But it tells an important story:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-LDtIM2IcVh8\/VDDH9RBHJMI\/AAAAAAAAClg\/2VeZ63UluPQ\/s1600\/Slide09.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-LDtIM2IcVh8\/VDDH9RBHJMI\/AAAAAAAAClg\/2VeZ63UluPQ\/s1600\/Slide09.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThe two biggest losers at the state level are higher education and job training.  California says it has a world-leading human capital economy. But it minimizes public investments in \u0026nbsp;human capital. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EOf course California surfed a national wave of replacing state funding with tuition:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-I9Ho0jW24M0\/VDDIcC92U7I\/AAAAAAAAClo\/cNpHn0n26kg\/s1600\/Slide10.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-I9Ho0jW24M0\/VDDIcC92U7I\/AAAAAAAAClo\/cNpHn0n26kg\/s1600\/Slide10.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThe whole country has been on a privatization binge. \u0026nbsp;Overall spending kept rising, but \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2013\/09\/messing-with-wonkblog-college-story.html\"\u003Enot for instruction or academic salaries\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;Most of the increased spending in this slide comes from facilities competition, marketing, and related administrative functions demanded by privatization itself. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EHere's a slide I've often updated for various posts on the UC budget.  The story is always the same.  The blue line tracks the growth in state personal income. Were UC's state funding to have grown merely at the same rate as actual state income, it would have matched the blue line.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-iR-Gmi5bFew\/VDDKLPFdmWI\/AAAAAAAACl0\/qNu-nwT-hWE\/s1600\/Slide11.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" hheight=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-iR-Gmi5bFew\/VDDKLPFdmWI\/AAAAAAAACl0\/qNu-nwT-hWE\/s1600\/Slide11.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EInstead, UC has fallen $2 billion behind.  (The general fund total is about $3 billion in 2014-15, but we now have to subtract the interest on construction bonds that the state used to pay and that is now, per UCOP's request, on UC's budget. So this chart is still current.) \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EIn recent years, UCOP has started to quantify, in simple terms, the kind of rebuilt revenues that would get the system back to solvency.  This one started to appear three years ago \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/sept11\/f8.pdf\"\u003E(Display 6)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-x1LYUhu2YJU\/VDDMTIsMPKI\/AAAAAAAACmA\/OMhQGFZcTVo\/s1600\/Slide12.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-x1LYUhu2YJU\/VDDMTIsMPKI\/AAAAAAAACmA\/OMhQGFZcTVo\/s1600\/Slide12.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThe University needs about 16 percent increases per year, UCOP has been saying, to make up for past cuts and ongoing mandatory cost increases. (This is on top of cost reductions and other savings that haven't fully materialized, so this slide understates the problem.) \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EScenario 1 is a split, which means 8 percent + 8 percent each year from students and from the state.  Scenario 2 is close to the Compact ratios that UCOP struck with Arnold Schwarzenegger--tuition increases of two or three times the state's increase.  Scenario 3 is all tuition. There's a missing Scenario 4 that appeared in an early slide -- 16 + 0, where the state stops asking students to pay more and fills in the difference. UC is getting none of these. \u0026nbsp;It's getting 4 + 0, for the foreseeable future.  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThe result of revenue increases of ¼ of need appears in another UCOP figure:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-scsqsUYHjrk\/VDDON4cNL5I\/AAAAAAAACmM\/7Wyi3YaS8qA\/s1600\/Slide13.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-scsqsUYHjrk\/VDDON4cNL5I\/AAAAAAAACmM\/7Wyi3YaS8qA\/s1600\/Slide13.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThis projects a $3 billion deficit only two academic years from now. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EOne of the best translations of this figure came from President Mark Yudof, when he addressed a Regents retreat in September 2012 \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/progress-at-uc-regents-retreat.html\"\u003E(my transcription):\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThere were no board votes approving faculty salaries that are not competitive with peer institutions, . . .yet we are 10-20% behind in faculty compensation. There were no board votes approving a freeze on faculty hiring, but effectively that is what we’ve had over the last few years. There were no board votes approving a steady rise in our student-faculty ratio over the last decade, but in fact our numbers show a decline over the decade of 50% -- that is, we have 50% more students per faculty member than we did in previous decades. And in the past six years we have 30,000 more students without adding any new faculty at all, other than replacing existing faculty. You didn’t vote on any of that, but that is the consequence of the situation in which we find ourselves.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EUC is still on that path today.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EAre the campuses tied closely to the fate of the system? We couldn't address this question in a short talk, and took a quick look at Berkeley. The flagships have better resources than the younger campuses, but even Berkeley has been struggling. It fell into deficit in FY 2013.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-zLsROubxrWI\/VDDPZnvq0yI\/AAAAAAAACmU\/LcElXCFYe6Y\/s1600\/Slide14.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-zLsROubxrWI\/VDDPZnvq0yI\/AAAAAAAACmU\/LcElXCFYe6Y\/s1600\/Slide14.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EI think the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/cfo.berkeley.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/BerkeleyBudgetPlan2012-13.pdf\"\u003Eappearance of an operating deficit in FY2013\u003C\/a\u003E resulted from running out of reserves that covered holes in previous budgets.  But I am guessing. I also don't have more current numbers. The point here is that even the historic wealth of UC's oldest, most accomplished, and most established campus doesn't protect it from the effects of a broken business model, in which private funds are supposed to make up for public cuts, but don't. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EWe noted that the administrative responses are credible but inadequate. We can't blame people for trying to do something, and using the tools that are actually and hand. \u0026nbsp; Still, we would prefer that folks admit this stuff won't work, since that's the first step towards trying something else that might. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\"Nickel\" solutions is my shorthand for widely-advertized solutions that in reality generate about 5 percent in additional revenues on a current base, or close about 5 percent of a funding gap. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-XVf_x1DJwR8\/VDDQ8SHEaiI\/AAAAAAAACmg\/Z7zw-3SvCAM\/s1600\/Slide15.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-XVf_x1DJwR8\/VDDQ8SHEaiI\/AAAAAAAACmg\/Z7zw-3SvCAM\/s1600\/Slide15.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThis slide has no math.  Leave a comment if you want me to produce some.  I noted that I think OE's savings will be negative as it is patched and partially reversed to fix the inefficiencies (not to mention the reduced job satisfaction) it has produced.  There's a lot to say about NRT, which lets the state off the hook, is now producing an organized parental backlash, and externalizes costs onto other campuses who take the less profitable but qualified state residents that Berkeley rejects.  And that's for starters. This is not a sustainable fiscal strategy, but I didn't belabor it so I'll control myself here. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThe silver bullet is supposed to be non-resident tuition (NRT). \u0026nbsp;NRT is often described as essentially free money in the amount of $23,000 in fees that out-of-state and international students pay above the $12,000 or so base paid by residents. UCOP always says that NRT students don't crowd out residents, but instead subsidize resident education in a period when their state government no longer wants to. \u0026nbsp;The visual version of this claim looks like this slide from a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.ucla.edu\/documents\/SenateBudgetPresentation11-5-2013.pdf\"\u003EUCLA's Senate deck i\u003C\/a\u003En fall 2013.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-_vFLOIedoOM\/VFZ-u-06JLI\/AAAAAAAACqs\/g5ERON5Rq1I\/s1600\/NRT%2BUCLA%2BSenate%2B2013.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-_vFLOIedoOM\/VFZ-u-06JLI\/AAAAAAAACqs\/g5ERON5Rq1I\/s1600\/NRT%2BUCLA%2BSenate%2B2013.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003ENo wonder people get excited if NRT allows 50 percent more mileage from resident tuition. But it doesn't. \u0026nbsp;Net resident tuition is being compared to gross NRT, while my calculation on the slide used UCSD's estimate of $10,000 net per NRT student. \u0026nbsp;Gross NRT was 8.5 percent of core funds at UCLA \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.ucla.edu\/documents\/SenateBudgetPresentation11-5-2013.pdf\"\u003E(slide 4\u003C\/a\u003E), which put net NRT back in the nickel range (and about 2 percent of overall campus revenues). \u0026nbsp;(The use of NRT increases inequities within the UC system, but we didn't go into this with our Berkeley audience.)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EAnother way of thinking about NRT is as compensation for state funding cuts. \u0026nbsp; At UCLA, gross NRT made up for about 1\/3 of the state funding reduction in 2007-08 to 2012-13 (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.ucla.edu\/documents\/SenateBudgetPresentation11-5-2013.pdf\"\u003Eslide 5)\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;This money is a lot better than nothing--if it's free politically as well as fiscally. But it never has been, as we've argued here going \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.ucla.edu\/documents\/SenateBudgetPresentation11-5-2013.pdf\"\u003Eback to 2009.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; This fall, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/touch.latimes.com\/#section\/-1\/article\/p2p-81741680\/\"\u003EUC officials are finally admitting this\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in public. This particular nickle solution may have peaked.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EMy summary of this section was that the New Normal is the Old Normal.  In other words, the Old Normal is what \u003Ci\u003Ecurrent\u003C\/i\u003E budget politics will keep delivering. Unfortunately, the Old Normal is broken, in the sense that it can't support the working conditions that made UC so good in the first place.  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThis unhappy thought brought us to Option 2, where Michael took over.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPart III.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EMichael here. \u0026nbsp;One possible response to this pattern of state cutbacks and nickel solutions would be for faculty to look inward to their department-based projects and let existing shared governance take care of the \"big picture.\" \u0026nbsp;That would be mistake. \u0026nbsp;Shared governance has declined, and as it is presently practiced can't redirect the institution towards educational improvement or professional development. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EI found two organizational charts that illustrate the problem.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-_buyNgPju1o\/VDDS-Fkz3NI\/AAAAAAAACms\/kIVd4ZgtNNQ\/s1600\/Slide16.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-_buyNgPju1o\/VDDS-Fkz3NI\/AAAAAAAACms\/kIVd4ZgtNNQ\/s1600\/Slide16.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThis first is from a 1998 \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cshe.berkeley.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/shared\/publications\/docs\/PP.JD.SharedGov.1.98.pdf\"\u003Eessay\u003C\/a\u003E by John Aubrey Douglass, arguably the leading historian of UC, about shared governance. \u0026nbsp;Although simplified, it shows the central place of the Academic Senate (on a level with Chancellors), with its leadership at the top of the pyramid \u0026nbsp;(level with the Council of Chancellors).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003ENow compare that with a current organizational chart provided by\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ucop.edu\/business-operations\/_files\/uc-chart.pdf\"\u003E UCOP\u003C\/a\u003E online:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-T79dvBhzEIA\/VDDTFdaay9I\/AAAAAAAACm0\/baaTXkQKfns\/s1600\/Slide17.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-T79dvBhzEIA\/VDDTFdaay9I\/AAAAAAAACm0\/baaTXkQKfns\/s1600\/Slide17.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EIf you pull out your magnifying glass you will find the Academic Senate in the purple box off to the left. \u0026nbsp;The Senate is directly connected only to the President and has been crowded out by the multiplication of administrative authorities over the past 15 years. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThe theory of the Senate's role has stayed the same.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-vEVdGEdNNt0\/VDDTQDCDnaI\/AAAAAAAACm8\/7Iag-tCAcZ4\/s1600\/Slide18.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-vEVdGEdNNt0\/VDDTQDCDnaI\/AAAAAAAACm8\/7Iag-tCAcZ4\/s1600\/Slide18.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EShared governance was built on the professional status and educational authority of the Faculty. \u0026nbsp;This status enabled the faculty to delegate authority to the Senate and then go about its everyday business in classrooms, labs, libraries, and departmental meetings. \u0026nbsp;During the decades-long period of expanding resources, both state and federal, fiscal crises were the exception. \u0026nbsp;Departments could assume that if staffing needs weren't met this year they would be met next year or the year after. This eliminated the need for faculty to survey and manage the consumption of resources in other people's units, since there was little zero-sum competition over the medium or longer term. Administrators were able to handle routine management and planning within a relatively clear-cut political and economic ecology.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnfortunately, that situation no longer exists. \u0026nbsp;Austerity has become the rule rather than the exception, and its consequences include the following.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-hd3Qp4NvJk0\/VDDTnIDqEHI\/AAAAAAAACnE\/_S6yxF7ojCo\/s1600\/Slide19.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-hd3Qp4NvJk0\/VDDTnIDqEHI\/AAAAAAAACnE\/_S6yxF7ojCo\/s1600\/Slide19.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EWe now live in a situation where instability is normalized. \u0026nbsp;While in the late 20c, \u003Ci\u003Eadministrators \u003C\/i\u003Ehad to deal with the state, some donors, and a diffuse but not particularly interventionist public opinion (except for specific moments of crisis)\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Emanagers\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;now negotiate with a range of funding masters, most of which they have sought out, including an expanded universe of donors venture capitalists, bond raters, and out of state parents as well as an openly skeptical Governor and Legislature. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EFor the past two decades, UC managers have responded to pressure by shifting burdens onto those without the clout to reject them. \u0026nbsp;Students get increasing tuition, faculty get more work in the form of new tasks like fundraising and old ones on a larger scale (e.g. increased class sizes). \u0026nbsp;Staff members are being called upon to perform more work with fewer numbers.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EI summarized the effect of the new financially-driven style of management with this slide:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-PS0IkP61tYA\/VDDT10ttXyI\/AAAAAAAACnM\/QKO2wIjLEO4\/s1600\/Slide20.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-PS0IkP61tYA\/VDDT10ttXyI\/AAAAAAAACnM\/QKO2wIjLEO4\/s1600\/Slide20.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EI don't need to go into the detail of all of these--I'm sure you know them all well enough. \u0026nbsp;The point was that over the course of the last decade, the Senate, especially at the system-wide level, has been marginalized in the process of policy formation. \u0026nbsp;The structurally-produced reactive role makes it easier to cast the faculty as the opponents of progress, even as the central administration at UCOP has acted to impose its positions on the system as a whole. \u0026nbsp;In some cases (online education and the Supplemental Salary Program) there has been the appearance of shared governance. \u0026nbsp;In others, most recently the invention of UC Ventures, UCOP has simply cut the Senate out and chosen to work through task forces or through conversations with individuals.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EI concluded that in its current weakened condition, the Academic Senate is no longer in a position to formulate, much less implement, a strong academic vision of UC's future.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPart IV.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EChris again. Our premise is clear from the title of this slide. \u0026nbsp;We have concluded that UC can be fixed only through an unlikely but essential change--the broad mobilization of its faculty to define and then continuously shape the University's development over the next ten years. We mentioned theater professor Catherine Cole's initiative two years ago, which brought faculty, staff, and administrators together for several days. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EWe noted some of our premises: the idea that there's no money is ridiculous. Austerity is slowly strangling us (e.g. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/02\/jerry-brown-lao-and-logic-of-austerity.html\"\u003EMichael\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/01\/addressing-austerity-lock-in-at-public.html\"\u003EChris\u003C\/a\u003E). \u0026nbsp;Lowered expectations are damaging our imaginations. \u0026nbsp;We need to fight for genuine workplace needs.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThis slide described five general areas of activity.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-KC8S5YCtfNI\/VDDT9QakHdI\/AAAAAAAACnU\/5KuyInlNo4k\/s1600\/Slide21.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-KC8S5YCtfNI\/VDDT9QakHdI\/AAAAAAAACnU\/5KuyInlNo4k\/s1600\/Slide21.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThe slide fulfilled its purpose as a conversation starter--the discussion went on for 30-40 minutes. \u0026nbsp;I'll emphasize a few major themes. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EOne was the need to deal with faculty privilege--both the perception of it invalidating our critique and the reliance on it to remain passive. My own sense is that this can be neutralized when faculty visibly stand up for other people, which we didn't do, for example, when frontline staff were being carted off to shared services because of Operation Excellence. That precedent can be changed. \u0026nbsp;Another example was the panic about resources and completion in graduate programs. \u0026nbsp;Faculty should work more systematically on the protection and support of our masters and doctoral students.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EA second was doubt about the \"efficacy of stories.\" What can tales of the struggles of faculty or staff or students actually do, institutionally? \u0026nbsp;Some of the stories were in fact about faculty defeat--and of course our story is about the rise of managerialism to control (rather than rebuild) declining resources. Stories need to lead to mobilization and organization: how do these do that? They certainly don't do that by themselves.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThis led to a third major topic. \u0026nbsp;The New Yorker in the room said, \"you guys need a union.\" So did someone from Cal State. A UC librarian noted how their union produce some wins for libraries: librarians have much less power than faculty, she said, and yet look what our organization did. A Berkeley faculty member defined the needed project as \u003Ci\u003Eco-governance\u003C\/i\u003E, \u0026nbsp;with structure of implementation TBD. \u0026nbsp;There was another call to join the Berkeley Faculty Association! \u0026nbsp; And so now what? Where things go from here depends entirely on us.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8464149620046668435\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/the-new-normal-what-does-it-mean-to.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/8464149620046668435"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/8464149620046668435"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/the-new-normal-what-does-it-mean-to.html","title":"The New Normal: What Does it Mean to Work at UC Today?"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-uglhYcAqQw8\/VFaMWYNYVHI\/AAAAAAAACq8\/LvNSpVcjNaA\/s72-c\/Slide01.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-673553964588193243"},"published":{"$t":"2014-10-12T11:54:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-04-07T12:51:09.402-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Costs"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public vs. Private"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Strategies \u0026 Goals"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Students"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Berkeley"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Free Speech and Free UC "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-AfAMQeeHNFk\/VDrOLc9178I\/AAAAAAAACpU\/RNwcRwnuDLA\/s1600\/studentmoneywhere%2Bourminds%2Bare.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-AfAMQeeHNFk\/VDrOLc9178I\/AAAAAAAACpU\/RNwcRwnuDLA\/s1600\/studentmoneywhere%2Bourminds%2Bare.jpg\" height=\"162\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003Eby Chris Newfield, UC Santa Barbara\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E4th\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003Eof 5 talks from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ucbfa.org\/2014\/09\/the-operation-of-the-machine\/\"\u003EThe Operation of the Machine panel\u003C\/a\u003E, UC Berkeley October 1,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/the-operation-of-machine-uc-then-and-now.html\"\u003Eintroduced\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;by Prof. Colleen Lye\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EMembers of the FSM had to fight for free speech on campus, as we still must. But they did not have to fight for a free university. \u0026nbsp;They already had one. They succeeded at winning specific free speech protections. \u0026nbsp;The free university, they took for granted.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EFor UC students in 2009 and 2011, Free UC was a nostalgic memory, like 78-RPM records and episodes of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EMarcus Welby, MD\u003C\/i\u003E. They had to fight to block massive tuition hikes. \u0026nbsp;They succeeded too—not in blocking those hikes, but in raising the political cost of hikes so high that UC \u0026amp; CSU tuition has been frozen for the past several years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EThe University isn’t really that happy about this. \u0026nbsp;They’ve used tuition hikes to top up revenues for decades now. \u0026nbsp;Faculty aren’t really that happy about it either. \u0026nbsp;Some of us oppose high tuition on the grounds that it damages access and the public functions of the university. But most faculty have given up on their senior managers’ ability to get correct public funding from the state. \u0026nbsp; Most see high tuition, coupled with what’s called high financial aid, as inevitable, fated, predestined, and necessary to restoring UC quality.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EIn this context, when you oppose continued tuition increases, you are told that you are being selfish and shortsighted, and that maybe you don’t understand the generosity of UC financial aid. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EYou are told that low tuition is a subsidy to the rich. You don’t want to subsidize wealthy students, do you?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EYou are told that low tuition hurts the poor, because they have to subsidize students with their taxes. \u0026nbsp;You don’t want to hurt the poor, do you?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EYou are told that low tuition is a political “non-starter.” \u0026nbsp;You don't want to waste your time on lost causes, or tilt at windmills like Don Quixote, do you?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EYou are told that low tuition would undermine the high financial aid levels that have protected poor students from unaffordable fees, and that are now expanding to the middle class. \u0026nbsp;You don’t want to hurt aid for low-income students, I’m sure.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EYou are told that low tuition would undercut improvements in teaching and learning—that educational quality depends on high tuition, and on more non-resident students paying even higher tuition than residents. \u0026nbsp;You don’t want to lock in “limited learning” at Berkeley or anywhere else, I know.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003ESo it looks like current tuition levels are a bare minimum, and that \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2014\/10\/01\/napolitano-meeting-student-press-looks-tuition-maintaining-uc-quality\/\"\u003Epretty soon they’re going to have to go even higher\u003C\/a\u003E—we’re realists, and we agree that college graduates get the benefits of their degree so should pay most or all the cost. \u0026nbsp;Don’t we?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EBut in reality, all five of these statements are wrong. \u0026nbsp;The right answers point not simply to freezing tuition, which is one cause UC free speech was used for, but to rolling tuition back. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EWe can dispense quickly with first two statements—that Free UC subsidizes the rich by charging them far less than they could afford, and is a burden to the poor, by forcing them to subsidize students at Berkeley where they can’t go. \u0026nbsp;The way to deal with these is through progressive taxation at the state level. \u0026nbsp;For a family making between $300,000 and $400,000 a year, there could be a higher ed surcharge of $1700.18. \u0026nbsp;Someone making $17,000 a year would pay an additional $5.13—or nothing, if there were a threshold. I’ll explain those strange numbers in a minute. \u0026nbsp;For now, the main point is that the tax system can equalize burdens for all public institutions according to ability to pay. \u0026nbsp;That’s the basic idea of progressive taxation.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EThe third truthy statement is that low or no tuition is a political non-starter. \u0026nbsp;The truthiness part is that it is non-starter only for a portion of the political and business class, who have no interest in paying more taxes themselves to lower college costs for the masses of California students. \u0026nbsp;Regent Blum thinks low-tuition is a non-starter. \u0026nbsp;Regent Gould thinks low tuition is a non-starter. Columnist Dan Walters thinks low-tuition is a non-starter. Former President Yudof thought low tuition was a non-starter. Former Chancellor Birgeneau thought low tuition was a non-starter. On the other hand, in polls Californians think low tuition is a great idea. They think the tuition is too damn high--they’ve been saying this since the early 1990s. They think somebody should pay more taxes, and recently 40% said they should pay more taxes themselves. \u0026nbsp;The need for high tuition is a social construction, a fabrication, an artifact of a passing era, a conventional belief. \u0026nbsp;It can be changed. Changing beliefs is a purpose of free speech, of thought itself, of movements of the kind that have brought us together today.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EBut, they say, Free UC is a nice idea but we just don’t have the money. \u0026nbsp;Actually, we do! The Council of UC Faculty Associations did the math, and showed to get tuition back down to 2000-01 levels $5300 in today’s dollars), and state funding back up to spend 20001 amounts per student, would \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/keepcaliforniaspromise.org\/3553\/restore-2013-14\"\u003Ecost to the median individual California taxpayer , each year, a total of $50\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;Restoring full quality and affordability for the state’s 1.6 million public college and university students would cost the state median taxpayer about the same as a holiday bottle of single malt scotch. \u0026nbsp;That would get us halfway back to a Free UC\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003ESo Free UC wouldn’t help the rich, and wouldn’t hurt the poor, and wouldn’t cost too much. We’re on the fourth defense of high tuition. \u0026nbsp;What about all that high financial aid—the Blue and Gold Plan, the Middle Class Scholarships, Cal Grants plus Pell Grants, Berkeley’s own programs--that have inoculated low-income students from high tuition? Well actually, they haven’t.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EAs you know all too well, students must cover not only tuition but also the full “cost of attendance,” which includes rent, food, clothes, books, and similar everyday expenses. \u0026nbsp;On-Campus cost of attendance is over $33,000. \u0026nbsp; High overall costs make a huge difference in who gets to complete. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EHigh tuition means that degree completion depends on ability to pay, which depends on family income--and debt capacity.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-KR2OxkpO8n0\/VDq6AouS_KI\/AAAAAAAACoo\/symHHaHZK4Q\/s1600\/AttainmentbyQuartileMortenson2012.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-KR2OxkpO8n0\/VDq6AouS_KI\/AAAAAAAACoo\/symHHaHZK4Q\/s1600\/AttainmentbyQuartileMortenson2012.png\" height=\"613\" width=\"577\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003ESource: Tom Mortenson, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.postsecondary.org\/last12\/221_1110pg1_16.pdf\"\u003EPostSecondonary Education Opportunity 2010.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003ENationally, 71% of the top quartile completes their degree. 10% of the bottom quartile completes their degree. \u0026nbsp;Note too that as you move from the top to the next income quartile (which \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2012\/01\/15\/business\/one-percent-map.html?_r=0\"\u003Estarts at around $90,000\u003C\/a\u003E for a family and ends at somewhat above $50,000), attainment falls by half. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EWhat does the High tuition \/high aid model do to fix this? \u0026nbsp;Does it give grants to low-income students so they don’t have to borrow? No. It gives them grants to cover a portion of their total costs of attendance. And then they have to borrow to cover the rest of their costs. Here's what that looks like broken down by income.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EAverage Cumulative Debt by Parent Income Band: 2011-12 UCB Graduating Cohort\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rGBXICW7CQI\/VDq8lWVSWdI\/AAAAAAAACo0\/NJh51t8gZPU\/s1600\/StudentDebtByIncomeUCBerkeley2012.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rGBXICW7CQI\/VDq8lWVSWdI\/AAAAAAAACo0\/NJh51t8gZPU\/s1600\/StudentDebtByIncomeUCBerkeley2012.png\" height=\"368\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EPoor students borrow about as much as rich ones. \u0026nbsp;Even more dramatically, they borrow a much higher share of their family income –over 60% in the lower brackets. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E(The situation is worse than it appears: \u0026nbsp;this chart folds non-borrowers into the averages, and it excludes parental borrowing\u0026nbsp;through the PLUS and similar programs e.g.\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ucop.edu\/student-affairs\/_files\/regents_1213.pdf%20--\"\u003E Figure 1-7\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EUC Berkeley expends significant money and effort to mitigate the damage to affordability of the high tuition model, and yet after all that work it keeps borrowing to pretty close to the national average.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EMedian Debt Levels of 2007-08\u0026nbsp;Bachelor's Degree Recipients by Income Level\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-cGWgzWOYJ2Y\/VDq-iBuRDSI\/AAAAAAAACpA\/STdPPpE7pKs\/s1600\/StudentDebtMedianLevelsbyIncome%2BCollegeBoard2010.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-cGWgzWOYJ2Y\/VDq-iBuRDSI\/AAAAAAAACpA\/STdPPpE7pKs\/s1600\/StudentDebtMedianLevelsbyIncome%2BCollegeBoard2010.png\" height=\"320\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003ESource: College Board, \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/trends.collegeboard.org\/student-aid\/figures-tables\/median-debt-levels-2007-08-bachelors-degree-recipients-income-level\"\u003ETrends in College Pricing\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EHigh tuition does not \u003Ci\u003Efight\u003C\/i\u003E inequality—it \u003Ci\u003Efeeds\u003C\/i\u003E inequality. High\u0026nbsp;tuition\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;does this by \u003Ci\u003Ekeeping college proportionately more expensive for low-income students\u003C\/i\u003E—who are disproportionately students of color. \u0026nbsp;Since college is relatively more expensive for them, they are less likely to finish college. \u0026nbsp;High tuition is \u003Ci\u003Enot\u003C\/i\u003E worth keeping for its high financial aid. \u0026nbsp;The \u003Ci\u003Eaid\u003C\/i\u003E system is a \u003Ci\u003Edebt\u003C\/i\u003E system. It makes inequality worse.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EFinally, wouldn’t low tuition undercut improvements in teaching and learning? \u0026nbsp;No again. The university’s limited spending on learning is what limits learning—we spend less than half of “core funds” on instruction \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov12\/f1attach3.pdf\"\u003E(Display II-3\u003C\/a\u003E). \u0026nbsp; Instruction is the one thing that public officials clearly understand the value of paying for. As tuition takes over paying for instruction, politicians have ever less incentive to rebuild public funding, or help UC keep enough places for California students. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EOther private sources expect their funds to stay with targeted projects. \u0026nbsp; This is true of philanthropy, where up to 99% of funds raised are restricted to special activities. \u0026nbsp;It is true of research funding, which must be spent on particular research—and which overall loses money for the university, requiring \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/08\/how-can-public-research-universities.html\"\u003Eadditional subsidies from internal university sources\u003C\/a\u003E. It is true of instruction, where the state is now subtracting from the General Fund the costs of the Middle Class Scholarship program. University costs go up as the university tries to replace lost public funding, and little of that helps instruction.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EIn the fifty years since Berkeley students fought for free speech, all students have been steadily losing “free university.” \u0026nbsp;Every financial aid fix has been tried, every bank has devised a student loan program, every scam and for-profit rip-off has been deployed. \u0026nbsp;One result is the world’s highest cost of higher education. \u0026nbsp;Another result is the destructive explosion of student debt. \u0026nbsp;A third is decades of stagnating degree attainment. \u0026nbsp;We have in fact spent most of the last five decades privatizing public universities. \u0026nbsp;The results of the experiment are in. \u0026nbsp;Privatization has \u003Ci\u003Efailed\u003C\/i\u003E to deliver low costs, or low fees, or low debt, or more degrees for low-income students, or high quality. \u0026nbsp;Privatization in the form of high tuition has undermined the public purposes of public universities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003ENow we have reached a turning point. UC student protests froze tuition, and Gov Brown, the original austerity Democrat, is now enforcing this. Tuition freezes without funding increases aren’t sustainable. \u0026nbsp;The next step is to rebuild public funding. \u0026nbsp;It won’t work to say the university needs more money in the abstract, that we’ve been trying to save and have done our best. \u0026nbsp;What will work is laying out the \u003Ci\u003Estudent\u003C\/i\u003E outcomes of recovered public funding. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EThis is what the current no-tuition movement is about. It’s about inclusive, general, taxpayer based, whole-society-contributing public funding of the overall enterprise, and accountable to the overall public. \u0026nbsp; Public universities uncover and develop the individual brilliance of regular smart people, those millions whose large but previously underdeveloped talents transformed the economy and the society in the past, and whose talents, on a mass scale, are needed to transform it again.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003ENow is not the time to scale back mass \u003Ci\u003EBildung\u003C\/i\u003E and return it to the ivory towers of our elite private universities that do excellent work in miniature. \u0026nbsp; We need the thousand-foot mural art of public universities. \u0026nbsp;This is going to require getting people to pay taxes for higher education again—an extra 50 bucks! \u0026nbsp;The real goal should be free public university—\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Public-Higher-Education-Should-Free-ebook\/dp\/B00EDY1VCA\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1413139179\u0026amp;sr=8-1\u0026amp;keywords=university+should+be+free\"\u003EFree UC\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;We need to use our free speech to call for that.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/673553964588193243\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/free-speech-and-free-uc.html#comment-form","title":"13 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/673553964588193243"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/673553964588193243"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/free-speech-and-free-uc.html","title":"Free Speech and Free UC "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-AfAMQeeHNFk\/VDrOLc9178I\/AAAAAAAACpU\/RNwcRwnuDLA\/s72-c\/studentmoneywhere%2Bourminds%2Bare.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"13"}}]}});