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Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"39"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"10"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-9132012026213510402"},"published":{"$t":"2020-12-31T07:12:00.002-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-12-31T08:30:42.955-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Berkeley"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Regents"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Riverside"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Arc of History Bends Towards Narrative (Part 2): True Budget Stories for Governing Boards"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-m0g-hj1uuo8\/X-xZRhe8eNI\/AAAAAAAAE0c\/D_Tb6epS5S8NQixQjcZB4e20nJ2kdL22QCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1200\/Wilcox%2BKim%2BUCRiverside%2BHighlander%2B0320%2Bon%2BSAT.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-m0g-hj1uuo8\/X-xZRhe8eNI\/AAAAAAAAE0c\/D_Tb6epS5S8NQixQjcZB4e20nJ2kdL22QCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/Wilcox%2BKim%2BUCRiverside%2BHighlander%2B0320%2Bon%2BSAT.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhile UC campuses weighed current-year budget cuts in the range of 6 to 15 percent, the Board of Regents contemplated a vision of equilibrium. When the UC Office of the President's November presentation was done, a regent invited chancellors to respond. UC Riverside's Kim Wilcox (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.highlandernews.org\/37877\/chancellor-wilcox-expresses-his-belief-that-the-uc-should-not-drop-sats-from-admissions\/\"\u003Eat left\u003C\/a\u003E, perhaps showing the size of his budget gap) started a courteous series of dissents from the junior campuses, with a timely assist from Berkeley's Carol Christ. Wilcox was featured in Teresa Watanabe's\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-12-12\/uc-chancellors-tuition-increase\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;LA \u003Ci\u003ETimes\u003C\/i\u003E story\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that covered\u0026nbsp;the disconnect between celebrating UC's racial diversity (done) and actually funding it (not). The effects of cuts are swaddled in confusion, a confusion seeded by UCOP's budget narrative and planted in the fertile soil of the regents' modest knowledge of their university.\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1. UCOP\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach November, UCOP proposes a budget to the Board of Regents for the following fiscal year. In November 2020, they\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov20\/b4.pdf\"\u003Eproposed a budget for 2021-22\u003C\/a\u003E, which the regents then voted unanimously to approve. The result becomes the University's official budget request to the governor and the legislature.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHere's the summary attachment of the request. Noteworthy items include the request for a full restoration of the state legislature's cut to UC's 2020-21 budget of about $300 million, a second year of pay freezes for faculty and most unrepresented staff (merit increases are funded), and a 1.5% wage increase for a category of non unionized frontline staff.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VYHQA903yUQ\/X-xmOVq0WxI\/AAAAAAAAE0o\/MlOcNUB8FOcyc2jSVYPyk8ukuaNcxKz9ACNcBGAsYHQ\/s1718\/Budget%2BStatement%2BUCOP%2BB4attach%2Bto%2BRegents%2B1120.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1582\" data-original-width=\"1718\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VYHQA903yUQ\/X-xmOVq0WxI\/AAAAAAAAE0o\/MlOcNUB8FOcyc2jSVYPyk8ukuaNcxKz9ACNcBGAsYHQ\/w640-h590\/Budget%2BStatement%2BUCOP%2BB4attach%2Bto%2BRegents%2B1120.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe dominant narrative is . . . a balanced budget! (Same for \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com\/2020\/11\/listen-to-afternoon-meeting-of-regents.html\"\u003EFinance and Capital Strategies.\u003C\/a\u003E) Each item is an increment on an invisible base. Nearly all the items are personnel costs, in keeping with the perennial narrative element that workers are the cost albatross around the university's neck. \u0026nbsp;The failure of the state to fund capital projects is given the artificially minute price tag of $15 million (debt service). \u0026nbsp;The exception is deferred maintenance, featured as mostly an investment in cost savings, and expressed as a one-time sum, with no definition of total need (likely 100 times larger) or notice that DM is in fact the opposite of a one-time thing, by its very nature. The request for a state funding increase ($217.4 million, oddly parceled into four items) is not defined as a percentage of a general fund base or as a response to specified campus conditions. The amounts are very small, and have no obvious connection to the mass of current operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe budget \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov20\/b4.pdf\"\u003Edocument\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(B4) was presented to the regents by the two budget officials who do these honors at regular two month intervals, Nathan Brostrom and David Alcocer. They are both highly competent people who are genuinely devoted to the wellbeing of UC: my comments are not about the individuals but the narrative. \u0026nbsp;The presentation began about 2'15\" into the last session (bottom video on \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/meetings\/videos\/nov2020\/nov2020.html\"\u003Ethis page\u003C\/a\u003E; perma-archive of audio is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/2-regents-board-11-19-20\/2-Regents-Governance+Committee%2C+Special+Committee+on+Basic+Needs%2C+Board+11-19-20.mp3\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E). \u0026nbsp;UCOP framed the current year cuts with a full \"V-shaped\" recovery.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Ijf1bRYE9aE\/X-x85WQEM_I\/AAAAAAAAE00\/_U3D5Ql8otkWwrcqvWg7MIcOJPwuxowugCNcBGAsYHQ\/s2048\/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-13%2Bat%2B16.23.55.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1531\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Ijf1bRYE9aE\/X-x85WQEM_I\/AAAAAAAAE00\/_U3D5Ql8otkWwrcqvWg7MIcOJPwuxowugCNcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h299\/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-13%2Bat%2B16.23.55.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe shortfall is minimized as \"near-time,\" even though these non-core operations are, on campuses, forcing cuts to the educational core. \u0026nbsp;The term \"bridging strategies\" suggests losses have been contained, the further implication being no damage to the workforce and no need for better state funding support. As we have often noted in this space, the virtue signaling of self-reliance lets the state off the budget hook.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn presenting this slide, Brostrom noted the campuses have different shortfalls and different strategies for filling them. \u0026nbsp;This slide looks at the system aggregate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-43Kp4PBBKVc\/X-yCNqOHZxI\/AAAAAAAAE1A\/mIG7iISlRAkxvL931vgCSGo-V4SG5uH0QCNcBGAsYHQ\/s2048\/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-13%2Bat%2B16.28.43.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1531\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-43Kp4PBBKVc\/X-yCNqOHZxI\/AAAAAAAAE1A\/mIG7iISlRAkxvL931vgCSGo-V4SG5uH0QCNcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h299\/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-13%2Bat%2B16.28.43.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe main message is, again, the balanced budget. The state cut UC $300 million in the middle of a pandemic when it was losing $2.2 billion in revenue and incurring an additional $431 million in Covid-19 expenses. This reality disappears. \u0026nbsp;In the UCOP story, cuts don't really matter because the cuts were made up with a bunch of harmless-sounding stuff, like attrition and using reserves.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESame thing for next year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Ewm6e69DXO8\/X-yIQwC_HgI\/AAAAAAAAE1M\/oZpm1rvzTcQaNhnKkKM_pPQbQGMWMmQ0wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s2048\/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-13%2Bat%2B16.35.01.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1531\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Ewm6e69DXO8\/X-yIQwC_HgI\/AAAAAAAAE1M\/oZpm1rvzTcQaNhnKkKM_pPQbQGMWMmQ0wCNcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h299\/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-13%2Bat%2B16.35.01.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe state's cut to UC funding is permanent, so it shows up again. The current year's cost increases do too--so they apparently weren't actually covered as shown in the previous slide. \u0026nbsp;There are some new \"savings.\" These are really self-imposed cuts: the 10-year UCPath fiasco (a systemwide personnel transactions platform), in which IT \"efficiencies\" have really meant \"morale-crushing rigidity and huge new costs,\" should have ended UCOP's annual invocation of such savings. But the regents don't seem to know operations realities like UCPath's impacts on staff, so there they are again. \u0026nbsp;Non-resident student tuition is assigned a full bounce back, and the rest is supplied by restored state funding (though Brostrom noted verbally that this would be \"one-time\"). It all adds up to the standard budget narrative of equilibrium. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn reality, it doesn't. \u0026nbsp;It adds up to cuts on every campus, and a scramble to maximize alternative revenue streams that, in another unstated problem, move workforce effort away from the state-funded educational core. \u0026nbsp;The actuality of cuts surfaced briefly when the opening regental questioner, Michael Cohen, said about the phrase \"cost savings\" that \"I think you probably grabbed a sentence from some prior documents from the last decade or so,\" and then asked what long-term savings they mean. Brostrom noted that NRST is capped now, and new high-tuition programs are already in wide use. Translation: the budget patches of the 2010s are now used up. In fact, that leaves workforce cuts, delicately phrased as \"attrition and others.\" \u0026nbsp;(Cohen also got Brostom to move the number for reserves on the core budget from $174 million to $2 billion, although the issue died there.) In short, \"cost savings\" mainly means \"workforce cuts.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore we get to the Riverside dissent, let's tote up the core budget story elements:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Col style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBudget cuts happen, but they never cut UC's world-leading excellence.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUCOP cannot stop these budget cuts, but has already neutralized them.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAll fund sources are basically the same: private is as good as public; borrowing is as viable as state funding.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe burdensome costs are personnel (not capital projects, deferred maintenance, or internal subsidies for sponsored research).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECampus budgets have inherent differences that the campuses are handling differently.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENovember brought the latest installment of the \"wait and see\" policy advanced in every budget presentation during the 2020 Covid period. Covid will fade, and the business cycle will bring UC back to normal. In this story, no new framing, no new thinking, no new policies, no new advocacy, no new mobilization is needed.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E2. The Chancellors\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECohen's question was followed by one from Lark Park, who noted that the system budget doesn't always reflect the campuses and asked if one or two chancellors would like to speak. Enter UC Riverside's chancellor Wilcox.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EA lot of people have talked about the pandemic as a magnifier of differences. . . . Its true that we haven't raised resident tuition in many years. And we are a campus that is almost exclusively resident students. That part of our budget has been fixed for many years. . . .And of course that's in the face of the same kind of cost increases that everyone else has faced. \u0026nbsp;This has been a serious challenge for us at Riverside. To give you an idea, we have now people on campus suggesting that we eliminate the entire athletics program, shut down the study abroad program, our UCDC participation, and our UC Sacramento participation. And that's simply so we can preserve the dollars so we can maintain the core of the university. And ironically the last three . . . are because of our low participation rate, which, ironically, is because our students have fewer resources to participate. So for us, this is a dire situation. There are 6 FTE employed in the chancellor's office at UC Riverside. \u0026nbsp;I'm one of those six. We anticipate next year there will be 4. \u0026nbsp;We're cutting everything we can to manage this budget situation. While I appreciate the perspective of Nathan and David on the total being balanceable, the impact on the ground is significant. (2'44'':45 - 2'46\":30)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwo other junior campus chancellors backed Wilcox. Juan Sánchez Muñoz at Merced added that his local community depends on campus services that are being curtailed. Cynthia Larive at Santa Cruz noted the added burden of the very high cost of housing in that coastal location. Finally, Berkeley's Carol Christ chimed it to say that although Berkeley's budget is completely different from that of the younger, smaller campuses, \"this is the most severe crisis I've ever experienced in my career in higher education. It is a really challenging crisis for the campus. \u0026nbsp;. . .We have a deficit measured from March 2020 through June 2021 of 340 million dollars.\" She described a few sources and added, \"our losses in athletics are catastrophic.\" \u0026nbsp;While there are differences around the UC system, she concluded, \"it's not a question of not having budgetary duress on the campuses.\" (2'55\" - 2'56\")\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe regents' responses made it clear that they do not know what Covid costs and losses plus state cuts are doing to the the campuses. At the end, Regent George Kieffer said, \"if we maybe think about a working group, a smaller group, to understand how the process works within UCOP. . . [Formulas for campus allocations] are something I think that the regents have not understood--that I have not understood for most of my term.\" \u0026nbsp;Kieffer is the immediate past chair of the Board of Regents. \u0026nbsp;This admission suggests that the vast majority of the governing board has no real idea of how budgeting works or affects the campuses over which they have complete fiduciary responsibility and control.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA remarkable summation of the board's competence came from Park, speaking between Wilcox and the other chancellors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChancellor Wilcox I appreciate your candor on this. I know it can't be easy. I am surprised to hear this news, but I guess maybe in some ways I shouldn't be. There was a speaker in public comment this morning who alluded to the per-pupil funding disparities. [At the presidential search town hall at Riverside], we did hear an earful from faculty at the time, about how they felt undervalued in terms of per-pupil funding. \u0026nbsp;I guess I'm kind of taken aback by this. It's kind of ironic because I remember a presentation you gave, this time last year even, we heard about all that Riverside has achieved. And if we could just tell the Riverside story and the Merced story, it would be tremendous and we'd just get so much state support--in terms of the kind of students we're trying to support. I'm really worried that we are doing a real disservice here. And it worries me--I think that rather than advancing our interests on equity we're actually impeding it when we let the disparity continue to exist. I guess I should look to myself too--I've heard this and I've seen the numbers, but it just hasn't struck me as much. I do know it's tough times across the board because of Covid. But just as we know that some populations are struggling more than others in the real world here, I think that if we don't come to grips with this, we're not serving the system well. I think we need to figure out whether our formula advantages the already advantaged, which is something that goes against a lot of principles we've stated in the last year when we've done away with SAT when we endorsed Prop 209 \u0026nbsp;[sic]. I just think we need to go beyond this veneer, to get at what equity really means. . . . I appreciate your being candid with us and I appreciate the speaker who spoke in public comment. It reminded me of what we heard in Riverside. \u0026nbsp;I just would like to see this discussion continued in the very near future. I think we have to solve it. I think we have to decide that we want to do more than talk about equity, that we want to put our money where our mouth is. (2'47\" - 2'50\")\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOf course Park is right: the regents have been giving lip service to racial equity and inclusion because they have never bothered to insure that equity was budgeted. They seem not to study before the meetings, nor do they appear to read widely and think independently about systemic issues, even those overlapping with their expertise in finance, construction, and the like. The information is widely available. The Senate's UCPB produced a version of the campus funding disparities chart (via UCSD professor Andrew Dickson) around 2006. \u0026nbsp;The Santa Cruz chancellor's office injected a similar chart into budget negotiations with UCOP in 2009-10. A state audit thoroughly investigated the situation in 2011, and here at the blog we did a detailed, two-part post on the racialized funding inequities (2011-12; \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/racial-patterns-of-campus-budget.html\"\u003EPart 2\u003C\/a\u003E). \u0026nbsp;The Riverside campus hosts leading scholars of US and educational racism, structural and otherwise; one of these is Dylan Rodriguez, current president of the American Studies Association and immediate past chair of Riverside's divisional senate. The immediate past chair of Riverside's Council for Planning and Budget, physics professor Harry Tom, could produce an eloquent, comprehensive campus budget summary with an hour's notice. A former president of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, Pat Morton, teaches at Riverside. The current systemwide Senate chair, Mary Gauvin, teaches at Riverside, and was at the regents' budget presentation. And so on. \u0026nbsp;The information is out there for the regents to find: it's just not found for them by UCOP. \u0026nbsp; Unfortunately, this \"disengagement compact\" at the top of UC has hurt 21st century UC students, particularly the very high share of disadvantaged students that are relegated to the poorest campuses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChair Pérez concluded item B4 by saying, \"I did hear very clearly a desire from regents to dig down, and get a more granular view of the budget, so I will work with the president's office to figure out how we can achieve that.\" \u0026nbsp;The regents almost made it a full 50-minute hour on the UC budget proposal for 2020-21 (2'15\"-3'03\"). With some collective effort, it could be a turning point.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E3. The Story\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHere are some key elements of the better budget narrative that UC and other public universities desperately need.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EA. Big picture context: \u003C\/b\u003EIn contrast to current practice,\u0026nbsp;each budget proposal must be compared to the previous regental request (November 2020 to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov20\/b4.pdf\"\u003ENovember 2019)\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;(November 2019's B4 was a better presentation because it included metrics that nearly touched the third rail of UC politics: budget-driven quality declines.) \u0026nbsp;The year-on-year pattern should then be put in historical context. \u0026nbsp;Here's an example from our \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3d1CtZP\"\u003E\"essential charts\" post in May.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ayXGF9d2mzU\/X-y1Mb-GhvI\/AAAAAAAAE1Y\/-CXT1LUvXiUMlXeW9Q2rN_LguX0AawpBwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1386\/Chart%2BA%2BFinal%2B052320.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"830\" data-original-width=\"1386\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ayXGF9d2mzU\/X-y1Mb-GhvI\/AAAAAAAAE1Y\/-CXT1LUvXiUMlXeW9Q2rN_LguX0AawpBwCNcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h240\/Chart%2BA%2BFinal%2B052320.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe state underfunds UC (red line) compared to the state personal income benchmark (blue line), and falls dramatically short of funding that tracked both income and enrollment growth (yellow line). State government has been saving money on the UC system for 20 years, and the regents can't see sub-standard campus resources without this context. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, the inadequate net revenues from past tuition hikes and the terrible effects of new unfunded costs need to be factored in to grasp\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Enet\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;per-student funding. UCOP could produce a more authoritative version of this effort:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--FVAHU9Vqpw\/X-y22lU83lI\/AAAAAAAAE1o\/unEHqnIxyAQ-jSYq5dCH8Vsn3nVeWd7gACNcBGAsYHQ\/s1640\/Chart%2BE%2B052320%2BFormula%2BUCRP.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"842\" data-original-width=\"1640\" height=\"205\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--FVAHU9Vqpw\/X-y22lU83lI\/AAAAAAAAE1o\/unEHqnIxyAQ-jSYq5dCH8Vsn3nVeWd7gACNcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h205\/Chart%2BE%2B052320%2BFormula%2BUCRP.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIn the calculation, net educational revenues (green line) follow the clearly inadequate state funding (red line), not higher gross figures the regents see (details are at the post linked above). This is a very bad situation that is redefining the quality and nature of UC. It of course won't be fixed until it is faced.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EB. Tie budgeting directly to its effects on policy priorities. \u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;Today's board is rightly obsessed with racial equity and inclusion. It's fairly easy to show a prima facie racist correlation in state funding for UC (from our \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3l7k5mW\"\u003E\"First Black President\" post\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-FkZf1GPu9zg\/X-y5hcFAXkI\/AAAAAAAAE14\/MPnesSZMl7kGNXV0YbBb3sGP5HWe6vqXQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/White%2BShare%2BUC%2BEnroll%2Bx%2BState%2BGF%2B0620.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"916\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"229\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-FkZf1GPu9zg\/X-y5hcFAXkI\/AAAAAAAAE14\/MPnesSZMl7kGNXV0YbBb3sGP5HWe6vqXQCNcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h229\/White%2BShare%2BUC%2BEnroll%2Bx%2BState%2BGF%2B0620.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis should be used to shame the legislature out of its practice of giving half the per-student funding to today's minority-majority UC that it gave to white UC.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EC. Clearly explain funding allocations to the campuses, including \"rebenching.\"\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHere's a down payment on an explanation the regents need to have. Rebenching was UC's response to a state audit back in 2011. The audit identified funding inequities that it set forth as racialized \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/racial-patterns-of-campus-budget.html\"\u003E(\"Racial Patterns of Campus Budget Inequality\").\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; Not only had UCOP allowed campuses to keep all their non-resident student tuition, which \"advantaged the already advantaged,\" to cite Regent Park, but was giving less state general funding to the newer (and browner) campuses. \u0026nbsp;The plan was to increase the average per-student allocation to the highest level (UCLA's) with new money. \u0026nbsp;It took about six years, and here's the theory of what happened.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WSR1VYe4ra8\/X-y_bLvNvMI\/AAAAAAAAE2E\/701lfKdatZkERdxeQpYS9Gbkds7lNqvVQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1872\/Ideal%2BRebenching%2BUCOP%2B2016.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1400\" data-original-width=\"1872\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WSR1VYe4ra8\/X-y_bLvNvMI\/AAAAAAAAE2E\/701lfKdatZkERdxeQpYS9Gbkds7lNqvVQCNcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h299\/Ideal%2BRebenching%2BUCOP%2B2016.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHere UCOP has told the regents that the campuses now live in budgetary equality. So why was Riverside Chancellor Wilcox saying his campus gets the least money per student? \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause of how rebenching actually worked. \u0026nbsp;Rebenching carved out some kinds of campus specific state earmarks and gave each campus a fixed base, so not all state funding was rebenched. Secondly, students were weighted by type, with doctoral students counting 2.5. For example, UC Berkeley had 41,891 students (headcount) at a census point in 2017-18. But it has a high share of doctoral students, so its \"weighted\" enrollment was 49,894. Berkeley gets the same rate of $6000 and odd per student, but for 8,003 students more than it physically has. Riverside moves from 23,279 unweighted to 26,338 weighted, or an increase of 3059. Berkeley's increase is 19 percent relative to its unweighted base; Riverside's is 13 percent. \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;This in keeping with the other features of the formula leads to \"advantaging those already advantaged.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA final factor is that only a campuses enrollments at the start of the rebenching period were actually rebenched. (I am inferring this from the fact that was not able to reproduce the UCOP chart above, and got an approximation only by holding enrollment constant.) Sometime during this period, UCOP decided to accept a \"surge\" of resident students to compensate for the political liability that high non-resident enrollments had created. New resident undergraduates were given whatever amount was cooked up in a Brown-Napolitano deal in a given year ($5000 one year, $0 in another, etc.). Here's \u003Ci\u003Eactual\u003C\/i\u003E (weighted) enrollments look like:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VOOekeOzvqM\/X-zDMGoMvxI\/AAAAAAAAE2Q\/YqXoxZVCV64RhC2ffVf2PZM0N5KfX7PlwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s2120\/Funding%2BPer%2BWeighted%2BEnroll%2BCJN%2BStandard%2Bebenching.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"972\" data-original-width=\"2120\" height=\"184\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VOOekeOzvqM\/X-zDMGoMvxI\/AAAAAAAAE2Q\/YqXoxZVCV64RhC2ffVf2PZM0N5KfX7PlwCNcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h184\/Funding%2BPer%2BWeighted%2BEnroll%2BCJN%2BStandard%2Bebenching.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENo convergence. Flat funding. And Riverside bumping along the bottom. (I assume UCSB did better because it grew less in this period.) The surge's underfunded resident undergrads were the price UC paid for rapid non-resident tuition growth, meaning that campuses like Riverside paid for NRST revenues at campuses like Berkeley.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach campus experiences its educational quality through total available revenues. Adding tuition (including the non-resident tuition and for-profit masters programs (SSPs) at 3x resident rates to state funding looks like this:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-HY3NWjDLF7A\/X-zELhMpJYI\/AAAAAAAAE2Y\/w6is6VxfFiEwqQjxcwDPRSLzEqQ_XajZACNcBGAsYHQ\/s1842\/Funding%2Bper%2BUnweighted%2BGF%252BTuition%2BCJN.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"946\" data-original-width=\"1842\" height=\"205\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-HY3NWjDLF7A\/X-zELhMpJYI\/AAAAAAAAE2Y\/w6is6VxfFiEwqQjxcwDPRSLzEqQ_XajZACNcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h205\/Funding%2Bper%2BUnweighted%2BGF%252BTuition%2BCJN.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThis confirms Wilcox's claim that Riverside has the least revenues per student. UCOP in effect is sending poorer (and mostly URM) students to the poorest campus in defiance of UC's professed values, to say nothing of standards of educational and social effectiveness. \u0026nbsp; You can also see here the chronic problem of \"Two UC Systems,\" separate and unequal, which the enrollment surge intensified.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003ED. Tell the budget stories from the bottom up\u003C\/b\u003E. \u0026nbsp;Wilcox disrupted budget orthodoxy by talking about his campus for 105 seconds. \u0026nbsp;The other chancellors spoke for around 60 seconds each. \u0026nbsp;These vignettes changed the Board's budget perceptions, at least temporarily. They could and should be multiplied a thousand-fold and turned into coherent stories. \u0026nbsp;Faculty, staff, and students could create a different master narrative by laying out what is happening in classrooms, grad student cubicles, libraries, and laboratories. It would fundamentally change budget perceptions, and also, over time, public understanding and budget politics in a bewieldered state.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany other people need to tell their alternative budget stories. \u003Ci\u003EYou\u003C\/i\u003E other people. All kinds of campus people. Neither the regents nor UCOP can or will do this on their own. \u0026nbsp;They don't know enough, and they aren't correctly placed. \u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EYou\u003C\/i\u003E actually do know enough. \u0026nbsp;This knowledge can overcome the current stumbling blocks: top-down governance, and the absence of a UC opposition party to put forth a New Budget platform for UC. \u0026nbsp;The Senate hasn't done it. CUCFA hasn't done it. \u0026nbsp;Even AFSCME, whose Claudia Preparata has done the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Afscme3299\/videos\/1146560455717757\"\u003Ebest independent analysis of UC reserves\u003C\/a\u003E, hasn't done it. \u0026nbsp;The pieces of alternatives are a good start but aren't enough. Individual work can always be marginalized in the time-honored UC tradition of shunning the messenger and ignoring the message. \u0026nbsp;(Even tenured faculty fear shunning, since it makes them feel devalued and also blocks the possibility of an administrative appointment that, during decades of sub-par salaries, is the main way to get a significant raise.) A complete rebuilding of a broken budget model is too important to keep delaying the day regular campus folks start pooling their experiences, saying the way things ought to be, building the story line, and detailing how to fund it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWarmest congratulations for getting to the end of 2020. \u0026nbsp;Happy 2021 to one and all.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/9132012026213510402\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/the-arc-of-history-bends-towards_31.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/9132012026213510402"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/9132012026213510402"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/the-arc-of-history-bends-towards_31.html","title":"The Arc of History Bends Towards Narrative (Part 2): True Budget Stories for Governing Boards"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-m0g-hj1uuo8\/X-xZRhe8eNI\/AAAAAAAAE0c\/D_Tb6epS5S8NQixQjcZB4e20nJ2kdL22QCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/Wilcox%2BKim%2BUCRiverside%2BHighlander%2B0320%2Bon%2BSAT.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-2575385513842100798"},"published":{"$t":"2018-11-10T09:15:00.002-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-11-11T09:18:14.832-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guest post"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Berkeley"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"California Campus Republicans and Their Free Speech Masquerade"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"gmail_quote\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003E\u003Cblockquote type=\"cite\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"gmail_quote\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"gmail_quote\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"gmail_quote\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"adM\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-x1s7azpL-a4\/W-YbruY1d1I\/AAAAAAAAB9k\/ds58ALyxd64CzjywwtKXdjhTAlZ78_9gQCLcBGAs\/s1600\/190px-Pinocchio.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"262\" data-original-width=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-x1s7azpL-a4\/W-YbruY1d1I\/AAAAAAAAB9k\/ds58ALyxd64CzjywwtKXdjhTAlZ78_9gQCLcBGAs\/s1600\/190px-Pinocchio.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EBy Robert Cohen\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(New York University)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"gmail_quote\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe release of the California College Republican’s Platform has attracted\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Epress attention because of its extreme right wing positions demonizing\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ethe university as “\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Degenerate-and\/244871\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Edegenerate and murderous\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E” -- denouncing university support of transgender rights, undocumented students, Mexican and Muslim student organizations, and funding of birth control, and abortion.\u0026nbsp; But what the media coverage of the platform missed was the brazen dishonesty of these college Republicans’ discussion of free speech on campus. Indeed, the charge\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;of attempted censorship that the platform makes against\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;the UC Berkeley administration, with regard to the campus appearance of conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, is not merely misleading and false; it is by far the biggest lie I have ever encountered from student activists in the more than 30 years\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;I have spent studying, publishing books and articles, and teaching courses on American student politics. There was no attempted censorship of Shapiro at Cal, and the charge that there was represents an attempt by these right wing students to masquerade as free speech martyrs, which would be laughable were it not for the fact that such lying defames a Berkeley campus administration that has in reality ardently supported (and spent millions of dollars protecting) the free speech rights of conservative speakers at UC Berkeley.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EWhat the California College Republicans’ Platform said was that the Shapiro incident at UC Berkeley was an “example” of\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;the “attempt” by campus “administrators” to “suppress… free expression” of “conservative students…. The University of California at Berkeley attempted to prevent Berkeley College Republicans (BCR) from bringing conservative speaker Ben Shapiro by forcing BCR to pay for his $600,000 security bill necessitated by violent leftist demonstrators.” \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2018\/10\/22\/california-college-republicans-releases-2018-platform-prompting-community-pushback\/\"\u003EThis a complete fabrication. UC Berkeley never sought to force the BCR to pay an astronomical security fee. \u003C\/a\u003ENor did UC Berkeley in any way seek to prevent Shapiro’s appearance. Quite the opposite. The administration did everything in its power to make that appearance possible and to ensure its safety.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EHere are the facts. Back in July 2017 the BCR applied for a large room to accommodate the Shapiro event, which it planned to hold in mid-September.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;It turned out that none of the\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;large rooms used for student events at Cal\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;were available on the date the BCR requested. So to ensure that this conservative speaking event could occur anyway, the Berkeley administration took the extraordinary step of making available Zellerbach Hall – whose large auditorium\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;had\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;usually been a\u0026nbsp;venue for concerts and major cultural events, and in the past had rarely if ever been made available for student speaking events.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The administration even agreed that it would pay the Zellerbach venue fee, something it had never done for any student political organization. In other words, the UC Berkeley administration was leaning over backwards to accommodate Shapiro’s talk, even subsidizing it, so much so that Berkeley’s left-leaning student newspaper,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2017\/09\/22\/right-wing-student-groups-invite-bigoted-trolls-invade-campus-guise-free-speech\/\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe Daily Californian\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Ecomplained of administration favoritism towards the BCR\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EYes, security costs for the Shapiro event in September 2017, most of which were paid for by the university, were expensive. But that was not merely – as the Republicans claimed – because of concerns about “violent leftist demonstrators,” but also\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;because in the wake of the Charlottesville tragedy (where a white supremacist murdered an anti-racist protester) there were fears that violent right wing extremists might come to the Berkeley campus to assault their leftist counterparts and students of color. Indeed, there had been street battles in Berkeley during the summer of 2017 between extremists on the right and left. So the university spent for for the necessary security to prevent such violence and to ensure that there was no repetition of the riot of February 1, 2017, when a paramilitary force of some 150 masked anarchists invaded the Berkeley campus,\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;threatening public safety, doing $100,000 in property damage to the university, forcing the cancellation of a speech by the\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;bigoted, foul mouthed, far right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. Thus the administration brought in an army of police, closed five campus buildings, and had police barricades set up on Sproul Plaza to establish a security perimeter that made violence or rioting impossible, enabling the Shapiro event to occur with no disruption.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThese security measures were\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;costly not only\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;in terms of money (despite a serious budget deficit Cal spent some $800,000 on the Shapiro event) but the disruption of the academic lives of many students, who could not access the services of the offices that were closed the afternoon of the Shapiro event.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;This led to\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;complaints from students, faculty, and staff that for the sake of an unpopular speaker brought by one small student organization (the BCR), regular functions of the university had been halted. Cal’s chancellor Carol Christ, heard such complaints.\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/news.berkeley.edu\/2017\/08\/23\/chancellor-christ-free-speech-is-who-we-are\/\"\u003E But she had declared that\u0026nbsp;this, her first year in office would be “free speech year,” because at Berkeley – home of the Free Speech Movement – “free speech is who we are.”\u003C\/a\u003E And so to protect Berkeley’s vaunted free speech tradition she opened herself up to such criticism and had the university absorb the financial costs as well, all to prove that right wing speakers could come to the university to exercise their First Amendment rights.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAs to the BCR, its expenses for the Shapiro event were modest, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.campussafetymagazine.com\/university\/uc-berkeley-security-free-speech-events\/\"\u003Epaying only a\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;security fee of $9,162, which was dwarfed by the hundreds of thousands of dollars the university paid in actual security costs.\u003C\/a\u003E In fact, had the UC Berkeley administration not covered for the BCR the venue rental for Zellerbach Hall these conservative students would have had to pay another $13,274.02 to have hosted Shaprio in its\u0026nbsp;grand auditorium.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn a more rational era, campus conservatives would be grateful that Cal had subsidized their celebrity speaker and that they had a chancellor so committed to free speech that she went to such extraordinary lengths to ensure the Shapiro event’s success and\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;safety. But since this is the Trump era, where much of the American right wing\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;disregards truth whenever it finds doing so useful for its favorite sport of liberal-bashing, we end up with dishonest statements from the CCR accusing the \"liberal\" University of California administration of an imaginary free speech violation. Indeed, it was Trump himself who set the standard for such dishonesty when on February 2, 2017 his blame (and threaten) the victim tweet falsely implied that UC Berkeley had caused the anti-Yiannopoulos riot, sought to suppress conservative speech, and should therefore lose its federal funding.\u0026nbsp;Actually, UC Berkeley’s administration insisted on Yiannopoulos’ right to speak on campus\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;despite pressures to cancel the\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;speech on account of his record of using campus\u0026nbsp;podiums to mock, bully,\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;and invade the privacy of a transgender student and to foment bigotry and political violence. It was only when the riot perpetrated by an invasion of club-wielding (mostly non-student) anarchists\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;threatened the public safety that the speech was cancelled.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe riot is, of course, evidence that a militant, violent wing of the\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Bay Area Left is hostile to the free speech rights of the far right. It is also true that amidst the 2016 presidential election season made extraordinary tense because of Trump’s nativist, Islamophobic, white nationalist campaign, BCR members were sometimes treated like pariahs by leftist students, and that campus conservatives at times faced verbal and even physical intimidation from their political foes at Cal. But such problems – serious as they are – do not justify inaccurate and ideologically motivated attacks on the university\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;administration itself, which consistently opposed such intolerance.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe reality is that just in the last spring semester alone, the BCR had, with the UC administration’s support, hosted such conservative speakers as Charlie Kirk, Rick Santorum, Heather MacDonald, Candace Owens, Dave Ruben, Steve Simpson Antonia Oakfor, and Allie Stuckey. Even Yiannopoulos, who would, as with Shapiro, cost the university a fortune in security,\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;in September 2017,\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;returned to Cal for a campus appearance and gave a speech so brief and vacuous that \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/Police-barricades-block-access-to-UC-Berkeley-s-12224631.php\"\u003EUC spokesperson Dan Moguloff referred to it as “the most expensive photo-op in Cal’s history.”\u003C\/a\u003E So for even the crudest and most irresponsible of\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;right wing speakers (Yiannopoulos, who just this week expressed regret that the pipe bombs sent to critics of Trump\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;had not detonated ) free speech is alive and well at UC Berkeley. But so is the free speech masquerade in which the California \u0026nbsp;state Republican student leadership continues to pose as free speech martyrs, repressed by an administration that actually has consistently championed the free speech rights of conservatives.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2575385513842100798\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2018\/11\/california-campus-republicans-and-their.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2575385513842100798"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2575385513842100798"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2018\/11\/california-campus-republicans-and-their.html","title":"California Campus Republicans and Their Free Speech Masquerade"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-x1s7azpL-a4\/W-YbruY1d1I\/AAAAAAAAB9k\/ds58ALyxd64CzjywwtKXdjhTAlZ78_9gQCLcBGAs\/s72-c\/190px-Pinocchio.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-4066427813989723029"},"published":{"$t":"2017-10-02T08:10:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-10-02T08:10:46.359-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Berkeley"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Berkeley Disconnect"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-MadVbnN8sh8\/WdEpOBrjZwI\/AAAAAAAABL4\/_cfsUQmzuHUaWXNh7bqo0QzC2yWAUiQvACLcBGAs\/s1600\/medieval-school.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"413\" data-original-width=\"689\" height=\"191\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-MadVbnN8sh8\/WdEpOBrjZwI\/AAAAAAAABL4\/_cfsUQmzuHUaWXNh7bqo0QzC2yWAUiQvACLcBGAs\/s320\/medieval-school.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe farce that was MiloFest has now frittered away into failure.\u0026nbsp; Of course, that will not be the last time that the right-wing attempts to undermine the authority and status of higher education under the guise of standing up for free thought.\u0026nbsp; The challenge will be ongoing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt the same time, we should not allow the fireworks over free speech to divert us from other important attacks on the educational mission of universities.\u0026nbsp; These attacks are driven not by the ideologies of the alt-right but by the ideologies of austerity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne classic case of the damage brought about by privatization-driven austerity was revealed amidst the hubbub over free speech week at Berkeley.\u0026nbsp; While most attention was focused on the spectacles of Shapiro and Yiannopoulos, the \u003Ci\u003EDaily Cal\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2017\/09\/12\/uc-berkeley-mentorship-program-faces-possible-loss-funding-due-budget-crisis\/\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;reported\u003C\/a\u003E that the Christ administration is proposing to end the funding for the tremendously successful Berkeley Connect program as part of its budget cutting plans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleyconnect.berkeley.edu\/\"\u003EBerkeley Connect\u003C\/a\u003E is an\u0026nbsp; innovative program that provides academic mentoring to undergraduates and fellowship support to graduate students.\u0026nbsp; Undergraduates who join the program are linked with a graduate student adviser who helps them navigate their academic experience. \u0026nbsp;Students take part in small discussion groups and workshops, and pursue a specially designed curriculum.\u0026nbsp; Students overwhelmingly praise the program and it\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2017\/09\/12\/uc-berkeley-mentorship-program-faces-possible-loss-funding-due-budget-crisis\/\"\u003Ehas been shown to improve their academic performance\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; Over 10,000 have participated.\u0026nbsp; Even though the program had its campus support\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2017\/09\/12\/uc-berkeley-mentorship-program-faces-possible-loss-funding-due-budget-crisis\/\"\u003Ecut last year from $2M to $1M dollars it still was able to support 1200 undergraduates while providing 29 graduate fellowships\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat makes this proposed elimination so striking is that the Christ Administration appears willing to sacrifice precisely the sort of program that Berkeley claims it wants to promote because it improves the quality of undergraduate education.\u0026nbsp; Berkeley Connect began in 2010 as a result of a donation from the father of an English Department alumnus.\u0026nbsp; In 2013, recognizing its success, the campus agreed to fund its extension to additional departments.\u0026nbsp; It now serves 13 departments from Math, Computational Biology and Physics on the one hand to History, Architecture and African-American Studies on the other.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;So the Christ administration is proposing to eliminate a highly successful program, built upon a commitment of campus funds and the support of appreciative parent of an alumnus, and that has demonstrably improved both undergraduate and graduate education.\u0026nbsp; And just for the record, the amount going to Berkeley Connect this year is approximately the same as what the University has recently spent on the Shapiro and Yiannopoulos events and less than 1\/5 of the continued subvention of the chronically mismanaged Intercollegiate Athletics department.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo be sure, the particular brutalism of Berkeley's imposition of austerity is not due to the campus leadership alone.\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/news.berkeley.edu\/2017\/06\/27\/a-budget-update-from-chancellor-designate-christ\/\"\u003EUCOP is demanding the pace of deficit reduction\u003C\/a\u003E and therefore making it more difficult to balance the budget without affecting innovative educational programs.\u0026nbsp; But when the campus announces that they have \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cfo.berkeley.edu\/faq\/fy2017-18-budget-process\"\u003Edecided to exclude fellowships from the chopping block\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and then turns around and makes a decision that will cut nearly 30 graduate fellowships, one has to wonder about how believable the administration's claims really are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndeed, as Chris pointed out in his \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/09\/doghouse-pension-politics.html\"\u003Erecent budget post\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Berkeley has shown no sign of an open and deep rethinking of their budget strategies and priorities of the last 15 years.\u0026nbsp; Beginning with the Birgeneau and Breslauer administration, Berkeley has been announcing new and greater privatization schemes while allowing for a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2017\/09\/15\/uc-berkeleys-drop-ranking-tied-administrative-spending\/\"\u003Edramatic expansion in administration\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;even as funding for core educational activities has become increasingly strained.\u0026nbsp; Although it is true that in this year's budget plan, administrative cuts are \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2017\/08\/10\/campus-unveils-revenue-driven-budget-which-cuts-15m-from-academic-research-administrative-divisions\/\"\u003Eserious\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;they don't make up for the imbalance in spending over the last several administrations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the Christ Administration eliminates Berkeley Connect it will be both a terrible step and a canary in a coal mine.\u0026nbsp; The Chancellor has insisted that she is determined to protect instruction.\u0026nbsp; If she is, then she will insist that her administration find the funds to maintain Berkeley Connect.\u0026nbsp; If she does not, it will be another example of the slide of Berkeley from the days when its headlines were about educational innovation to these days, when we hear mostly about rankings declines and athletic department mismanagement. "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4066427813989723029\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/10\/berkeley-disconnect.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4066427813989723029"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4066427813989723029"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/10\/berkeley-disconnect.html","title":"Berkeley Disconnect"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-MadVbnN8sh8\/WdEpOBrjZwI\/AAAAAAAABL4\/_cfsUQmzuHUaWXNh7bqo0QzC2yWAUiQvACLcBGAs\/s72-c\/medieval-school.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-4985284812947573418"},"published":{"$t":"2017-09-26T12:53:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-09-26T12:53:41.292-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Privatization"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Protests"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Berkeley"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"BFA Editorial on Free Speech and the University"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-1TTVmw9dX6A\/WcqwAedxxvI\/AAAAAAAABKo\/E7YhRFKwelIs1--MY3Oc192omwpDvXN7gCLcBGAs\/s1600\/Barricade%2Bfor%2BShapiro.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"640\" data-original-width=\"480\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-1TTVmw9dX6A\/WcqwAedxxvI\/AAAAAAAABKo\/E7YhRFKwelIs1--MY3Oc192omwpDvXN7gCLcBGAs\/s320\/Barricade%2Bfor%2BShapiro.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIn the aftermath of the failure of Milofest, the Berkeley Faculty Association has written an op-ed that raises important questions about the relationship between free speech, academic freedom, and political attacks on the university. \u0026nbsp;As the BFA notes:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.98px;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EFreedom of speech is one foundational principle of the public university. Academic freedom is another. Since 1964, when the UC Berkeley administration was successfully challenged by the Free Speech Movement to extend First Amendment protections to campus space, the university has had to balance the obligation to allow citizens’ speech against the commitment to academic freedom. As a public entity, UC Berkeley must respect the airing of diverse viewpoints; as a higher learning institution, UC Berkeley must protect its autonomy from political interference and harassment. Increasingly, the threat to the campus’ autonomy, on which academic freedom depends, derives not from government legislators—as in the era of the FSM, when former UC President Clark Kerr and former UC Berkeley chancellor Edward Strong were faced with adjudicating competing obligations to free speech and academic freedom. Rather, the threat increasingly derives from private interests hostile to the university’s mission of research and teaching.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can read the entire statement at the \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2017\/09\/26\/campus-must-defended-hostile-private-interests\/\"\u003EDAILY CAL\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4985284812947573418\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/09\/bfa-editorial-on-free-speech-and.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4985284812947573418"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4985284812947573418"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/09\/bfa-editorial-on-free-speech-and.html","title":"BFA Editorial on Free Speech and the University"}],"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\/-1TTVmw9dX6A\/WcqwAedxxvI\/AAAAAAAABKo\/E7YhRFKwelIs1--MY3Oc192omwpDvXN7gCLcBGAs\/s72-c\/Barricade%2Bfor%2BShapiro.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-1348138561570412009"},"published":{"$t":"2017-03-15T15:36:00.005-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-05-01T07:46:54.642-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Funding Model"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Management"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Privatization"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Tuition Hikes"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Berkeley"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCLA"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Does Nonresident Tuition Show that Privatization Works?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-BqTep-U8gcA\/WMlwDGWTtJI\/AAAAAAAADRY\/EVeXIxBWpqwJPmgEhc7H8gQLCVaYimv_ACLcB\/s1600\/debt%2Bgraduates.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-BqTep-U8gcA\/WMlwDGWTtJI\/AAAAAAAADRY\/EVeXIxBWpqwJPmgEhc7H8gQLCVaYimv_ACLcB\/s320\/debt%2Bgraduates.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe most visible item on this week’s University of California Regents agenda has the Board \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/mar17\/b4.pdf\"\u003Econsidering a cap on the enrollment of non resident students\u003C\/a\u003E. It appears towards the end of the second month of a Trump administration that has not dampened enthusiasm for \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mynewsla.com\/education\/2017\/03\/13\/desperate-college-student-drowning-in-debt-state-may-rescue-you\/\"\u003Edebt-free college\u003C\/a\u003E or \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.reclaimcahighered.org\/48dollars\"\u003Efree college\u003C\/a\u003E but increased it. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats in California, New York, and elsewhere are proposing debt-free plans and are weighing tuition-free as well (\"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-pol-sac-debt-free-college-20170313-story.html\"\u003EDegrees Not Debt,\u003C\/a\u003E\" \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.reclaimcahighered.org\/48dollars\"\u003E\"The $48 Fix\")\u003C\/a\u003E. In January, the California \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lao.ca.gov\/Publications\/Report\/3540\"\u003ELegislative Analyst's Office published a report\u003C\/a\u003E calculating the costs of debt-free college degrees in the state's public systems. When I extended their arithmetic for UC, it showed that UC could be debt-free for less than 10% of its current tuition income. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat would be an amazing thing. It would change what the public thinks universities can do for them. But the UC Regents are talking about a different tuition issue this week.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn California, nonresident (NR) enrollment was a ticking political time bomb that finally went off a year ago, when the State Auditor released a report finding, to quote its title, “The University of California: Its Admissions and Financial Decisions Have Disadvantaged California Resident Students.” The \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/universityofcalifornia.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Straight-Talk-Report-3-29-16.pdf\"\u003EUCOP rebuttal\u003C\/a\u003E didn’t appease the legislature, which translated the angry denunciations of some members into a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-state-lawmakers-vote-for-10-c-1464807461-htmlstory.html\"\u003Eproposal that nonresident undergraduates be capped at 10%\u003C\/a\u003E of overall UC undergraduate enrollment. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E(1)\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUC’s response is to propose an overall UC cap at twice that level, or 20% of undergrad enrollment. The proposal grandfathers the three campuses that are now above that cap at their current levels (Berkeley at 24.4%, UCSD and UCLA nearly tied at just under 23%). It lets other campuses grow their NR student enrollment to the point that the overall university level, now 16.5%, reaches 20%. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe advantage for UC is that it can continue to grow overall nonresident supplemental tuition (NRST) revenues (which bring $26,682 in tuition on top of the $13,500 state-resident tuition and campus fees that NR students also pay). The disadvantage for UC is that this flies in the face of legislative desire, which is that NR enrollments stop growing and start getting cut back. Sometime this week, the Regents' proposal was downgraded to a discussion item, so that even this modest proposal will not be up for a vote.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI’m going to focus on aspects of one issue: does NRST actually work as public income replacement? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENRST is a prime example of privatization, since it partially replaces public funding—state general funds—with high tuition from individual students and their families. Privatization advocates have two main arguments. First, they say they didn’t “replace” public with private funding, since the public funding was already cut and they needed to fill a gap. Second, in the case of NRST, the tuition money comes with low costs, and the benefits are always far greater than these costs. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis year, both UCOP and Senate leaders are also \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-uc-limit-nonresident-students-20170306-story.html\"\u003Estressing the blessings of diversity\u003C\/a\u003E as uniquely offered by NR students. UC may have started privatizing reactively, but now seems to say that private funding is as good or better than public funding, at least in the case of NRST, which is per student $26,682 better than public funding. But is NRST in fact an example of privatization bringing both fun and profit? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E(2)\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen I first wrote about it in \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2009\/09\/can-doubling-out-of-state-students-save.html\"\u003ESeptember 2009\u003C\/a\u003E, I calculated that its financial benefits were overstated: senior officials announced gross income figures that didn’t deduct expenses or real non-monetary costs like the political goodwill required to maintain state funding. I called NRST one of the “nickel solutions” that can get to a 5% (or some other single-digit share) increase in a vulnerable revenue stream but not beyond that. I was using Robert Birgeneau’s plan to do what in fact has happened—ramp up the nonresident share of UC Berkeley’s undergraduate enrollment to about 25% of the total. Then-chancellor Birgeneau projected an increase of tuition revenues to $70 million at 25% NR enrollment. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn response, I estimated the benefit to the UC Berkeley budget had it already achieved a 25% share of NR students: 8% of full instructional expenditures as I calculated them, and 4% of overall campus expenditures. Hence the nickel. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUCSD professor of marine chemistry Andrew Dickson—and fellow UCPB vet—used a different methodology to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2009\/09\/non-resident-tuition-profit-revenues.html\"\u003Ecome up with a similar estimate\u003C\/a\u003E. Both of us emphasized hidden or indirect costs of adding NR students. These included new instructional and student support needs. They included the price of political resentment and backlash from the public and the legislature, which would appear in the concrete budget effect of either cuts or reduced public funding increases over the long term as the University proved once again that it didn’t need so much public money because it had so much private money, including tuition from that semi-infinite supply of international students who were joining a billion-strong global middle class allegedly hungering for an American BA. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis blog's NRST analyses suggested three worrisome features of UC advocacy. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUC calculates the financial benefits as a gross income, not as a net. Indirect and nonmonetary costs (like political goodwill or student work hours) aren’t analyzed publicly.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIt denies or deems temporary the anti-public aspects of the move. UC officials were then suggesting that NR enrollment would last only as long as the budget cuts and could be dialed back as soon as possible.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWhen someone does put political costs on the agenda, senior officials define them as effectively zero. The same goes for the costs to public funding. I have again recently had a face-to-face experience with a senior UC official who declared the feedback loop from private back to public to be nonexistent. In this view, UC’s continuous and successful efforts to increase private revenues never have and do not now teach politicians that they can cut state funds without hurting the University.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003EIn contrast, my research for \u003Ci\u003EThe Great Mistake\u003C\/i\u003E found statements going back to 1970 that inferred legislative obligations from tuition hikes. For me, the question is not \u003Ci\u003Ewhether\u003C\/i\u003E tuition hikes dampen state funding increases but \u003Ci\u003Ehow much\u003C\/i\u003E? How much public money do tuition hikes cost? My answer in 2009 was \u003Ci\u003Emore\u003C\/i\u003E than the 8% of your instructional budget or 4% of your campus budget reaped via expanded NRT. With only 4% annual GF increases and a tuition freeze following deep cuts, the UC system has been losing more than 8% a year compared to its structural needs (e.g., \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/sept11\/f8.pdf\"\u003EDisplays 5 and 6\u003C\/a\u003E; discussion of this \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/11\/the-new-normal-what-does-it-mean-to.html\"\u003E“New Normal”\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat’s happened since? The state cut public funding and still hasn’t built it back. The University raised tuition and then the governor forced a freeze. The University ramped up nonresident enrollment, such that UC now has about 5 times the number of NR students that it had ten years ago. As in any social system, these elements of the funding model are interconnected.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen, about ten years after the growth began, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.auditor.ca.gov\/reports\/summary\/2015-107\"\u003Ethe State Auditor issued its report\u003C\/a\u003E, and the political blowback began. UCOP responded in three ways. It posted a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/universityofcalifornia.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Straight-Talk-Report-3-29-16.pdf\"\u003Erebuttal\u003C\/a\u003E that insisted the University has continued to admit all eligible resident students, rejecting the state’s claim that NR enrollments damaged access. It emphasized the pre-existing plan \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/minutes\/2015\/fin7.pdf\"\u003E(page 8)\u003C\/a\u003E to admit an additional 10,000 resident students, in spite of below-cost per-student funding from the state. And now, the regents will have a discussion of an NR cap that allows further NR growth at the non-flagship campuses up to an overall system total of 20 percent. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E(3)\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can see the surface appeal of nonresident tuition from this UCLA \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.ucla.edu\/documents\/Budget101-Revenues.pptx\"\u003Ebudget slide\u003C\/a\u003E, referring to $1.4 billion in core campus revenues in 2015-16. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-3jHxUe4zMwk\/WMldrdgVdZI\/AAAAAAAADRI\/Rh9qq28xEcwHdY4LmUEGnwA-CeWmaax1wCLcB\/s1600\/UCLA%2BRevenues%2B2015-16%2Bon%2B1.4B%2BCore.png\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-3jHxUe4zMwk\/WMldrdgVdZI\/AAAAAAAADRI\/Rh9qq28xEcwHdY4LmUEGnwA-CeWmaax1wCLcB\/s400\/UCLA%2BRevenues%2B2015-16%2Bon%2B1.4B%2BCore.png\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENRST was 12% of the campus's core revenues, or over half the total tuition the campus gets from resident tuition. Given limits on the growth of state funding and resident tuition, NRST is no longer a temporary alternative revenue stream but a significant part of the overall budget. At least from the administrative perspective, Premise 2 above--NRST's temporary nature--is moot.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut remember that these are \u003Ci\u003Egross\u003C\/i\u003E revenues. Let's look at NRST \u003Ci\u003Enet\u003C\/i\u003E income, and switch back to Berkeley to compare the 2009 calculations to the actual situation at nearly 25% nonresident enrollment. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike all campuses, UC Berkeley grosses $40,182 per NR undergrad. We subtract gross in-state tuition of $13,500, since the campus would get this anyway with a resident student. (The University normally takes one-third of gross in-state tuition as “return to aid” to support financial aid programs, but NR students also pay this on the in-state tuition \"base.\") UC Berkeley thus receives $26,682 for replacing a resident student with a nonresident student, or for adding a nonresident student rather than adding a resident student.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENext, we subtract a round number of $10,000 for the marginal cost of instruction and related expenses for adding an additional student. These include new additional costs incurred by adding an NR rather than a residential student (a larger international office for visas and other paperwork; language support; academic tutoring; acculturation and integration programs--anyone who things social integration is cheap has never done it!) This reduces the \u003Ci\u003Enet\u003C\/i\u003E yield per nonresident student to $16,682. (In the table in regents’ item B4, page 7, the net is instead $15,862.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen, we encounter another subtraction. Undergrads who are residents of California also bring state general funding with them. This is the amount that has been cut so much over the decades--it is down from $19,100 in 1990-91 to $7,160 (in 2016-17 dollars, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/jan17\/b1.pdf\"\u003EDisplay 3).\u003C\/a\u003E But $7160 is far from zero. In the case when a nonresident student \u003Ci\u003Ereplaces\u003C\/i\u003E a resident student, we subtract $7160. The net after deducting direct costs or losses for this kind of NR student, who replaces a resident, is $9522. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHmm. If we posit that UC Berkeley decided not to add unfunded resident students \u003Ci\u003Eand\u003C\/i\u003E not to overcrowd its facilities, so that all nonresident students replaced a resident they might have taken were the state paying for them, we multiply this figure back by UC Berkeley's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/opa.berkeley.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/undergradprofile_dec2016.pdf\"\u003E7335 nonresident enrollments\u003C\/a\u003E. In that case, we get a \u003Ci\u003Enet\u003C\/i\u003E NRST for the campus of $69,844,000. This is freakishly close to Robert Birgeneau's 2009 estimate of $70,000,000. More importantly, it is under 10% of the campus's gross tuition revenues. It is just under 4% of the campus's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/controller.berkeley.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/2014-15_financial.pdf\"\u003E2015 operating revenues. \u003C\/a\u003E In short, NRST remains the nickel solution that it seemed to be in 2009.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA rebuttal to this analysis would object that its premise is wrong: UC Berkeley added resident students as well so NR students didn't simply replace them; the state wasn't paying for many of the resident students so there wasn't that $7160 difference to subtract; or it was paying $5000 instead. I agree that we would get different numbers if we changed the proportion of NR added to NR replacing residents and plugged in the state's shortchanging. There is a range of reasonable estimates of the NRST net. But they wouldn't increase the NRST totals \u003Ci\u003Eenough\u003C\/i\u003E, net of direct monetary cost, to justify making NRST a central and irreplaceable tuition strategy. That's my first conclusion. There's a \u003Ci\u003Eprice\u003C\/i\u003E to the privatization of revenue streams, and it needs to be netted out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E(4)\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirect financial costs don't exhaust this price. We still haven't touched on the \u003Ci\u003Eindirect\u003C\/i\u003E and non-monetary or intangible costs of the NRST strategy. Some of the indirect costs are monetary. There are costs of competition for nonresident students in the form of new capital projects, better overall student services, better housing, and the like. (I'd refer doubters of these indirect costs to Berkeley's former VC for Administration and Finance John Wilton's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/berkeley%20must%20%20now%20compete%20for%20its%20three%20most%20important%20revenue%20sources%20%20against%20%20the%20best%20private%20and%20public%20universities%20.\/\"\u003Eanalysis behind his comment\u003C\/a\u003E, \"Berkeley must now compete for its three most important revenue sources against the best private and public universities.\") \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOther indirect costs are costs to academic quality. This is a taboo subject in a University that is now engaged in a permanent campaign to fundraise from everybody, but the problem continues eight years after the crisis. This year, to compensate an angry legislature for NRST, UC enrolled the largest one-year number of new residential students in living memory. Campuses are handling the “surge”--on top of the continued growth of non-residents--with strategies like hiring non tenure track rather than tenure track faculty, growing course sizes, and endorsing short-cuts such as having some undergraduate work be graded by other undergrads. How do we quantify this cost of tuition-suppressed public funding--which may follow our graduates into their working lives--so that state government cares about it? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are still other costs I will merely name. One is the public cost to national higher education as states race each other to swap students so they ca triple charge them. The Department of Education should confront this absurd escalation of overall national tuition charges, which drives some share of student debt, though even under Obama it did not. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnother other is the loss of political goodwill. This is hard to put a number on, but \"The $48 Fix\" calculated that UC is at least $3 billion in general funding below where it would be had it simply grown with the state from 2000 on \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net\/reclaimcahighered\/pages\/1666\/attachments\/original\/1486491013\/48dollarfix.pdf?1486491013\"\u003E(Table 1). \u003C\/a\u003E Clearly not all of this gap can be traced to tuition hikes. But the annual state funding shortfall is 5 or 6 times larger than even the gross NRST revenue figure for the system-- to say nothing of the net.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe should do a few things going forward. Faculty should support the Senate's call that \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/minutes\/2017\/board1.pdf\"\u003EUCOP not just give the state an NRST cap (page 8),\u003C\/a\u003E but call on it to buy out the NSRT--and set a wider precedent for restored public support. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe need to recognize that the three premises I mentioned above don't hold. We must see nonresident enrollment through a calculation of its \u003Ci\u003Enet\u003C\/i\u003E revenues that includes its indirect, political, and social costs. This means we must face the fact that when we include the cost to public support of the educational core, privatization is a money loser. This leads to the only viable alternative, a public-good model for the university that supports \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lao.ca.gov\/Publications\/Report\/3540\"\u003Edebt-free college\u003C\/a\u003E,and a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.reclaimcahighered.org\/48dollars\"\u003E$48 Fix\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same goes for research as well as teaching. Research funding and graduate education have also been destabilized by the private-revenue model. I'd ask faculty skeptics who think \"multiple revenue streams\" is the only way to keep Berkeley and other UC research on top: Are you better off today than you were 8 years ago, when we started to ramp NRST up?"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1348138561570412009\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/03\/does-nonresident-tuition-show-that.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1348138561570412009"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1348138561570412009"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/03\/does-nonresident-tuition-show-that.html","title":"Does Nonresident Tuition Show that Privatization Works?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-BqTep-U8gcA\/WMlwDGWTtJI\/AAAAAAAADRY\/EVeXIxBWpqwJPmgEhc7H8gQLCVaYimv_ACLcB\/s72-c\/debt%2Bgraduates.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-1565510068326602195"},"published":{"$t":"2016-09-21T08:29:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-09-21T08:30:12.607-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Management"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Shared Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Berkeley"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A Global Crisis of Faculty Faith? Two Berkeley Examples"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-dR2cHyrhcJQ\/V-GclUjBjxI\/AAAAAAAADKU\/MlkNPTPzSGk5ZCXMRL0E8kzGL27fnlmtACLcB\/s1600\/scottkellyla.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-dR2cHyrhcJQ\/V-GclUjBjxI\/AAAAAAAADKU\/MlkNPTPzSGk5ZCXMRL0E8kzGL27fnlmtACLcB\/s320\/scottkellyla.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EI've always believed that university professors are willing and able to govern academics, but now I am not so sure. \u0026nbsp;I am worried about growing fatalism among even tenured faculty activists.\u0026nbsp; I'm concerned about the tacit belief that unstoppable historical forces have already destroyed the universities they want to keep.\u0026nbsp; From this standpoint, local resistance can work but remaking is futile, though remaking is the premise of shared governance and of academic freedom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMy summer travels took me to London, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Liverpool, Bonn, Cambridge, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Crewe, York, and Valencia, mostly for lectures and discussions with faculty members about the state of\u0026nbsp; universities in their country. \u0026nbsp; I was struck by the contrast between the great intelligence and professional commitments of the professors on the one hand, and their lack of hope for universities on the other. \u0026nbsp;Several of the visits revolved around higher education conferences, where I heard brilliant analyses of the nuts and bolts of national education initiatives that lacked a standpoint for faculty intervention.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEveryone was extremely busy teaching, running research centers, organizing outreach programs, testifying to government officials, and so on--there was never a lack of constructive activities.\u0026nbsp; But I sensed little confidence that any of the faculty activities would help improve their institutions or the policy environment. There are important exceptions to this rule, and I am always impressed by the great spirits who continue to be attracted into academia. When necessary, faculty would set up Temporary Autonomous Zones and hope that these spaces--labs, classrooms, offices--would escape outside attention long enough to succeed at getting their work done. It's not that faculty members saw managers as their enemy. They saw them instead as a fatal environment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA few examples: in Denmark I heard stories both of a comedic inability of managers to return email from faculty who had major proposals before them and of the mandatory use of automated work output management systems that scored and ranked faculty members for university managers. \u0026nbsp;In South Africa, I encountered professors who were angry at their students for demanding #FeesMustFall rather than at politicians for failing to fund the higher education mission. in Britain, I worked with faculty who were responding to the post-2011 elimination of public funding for all qualitative teaching fields by reinventing entire programs nearly every year to be more appealing to the student market. \u0026nbsp;They were all great people who had reacted to challenges by creating better local solutions, but with no expectation that it would help the university system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn most cases, output audit was replacing direct faculty-administration dialogue and the collaborative reimagining of that university's future. \u0026nbsp;The UK's Tory government has been the most explicit about its use of funding authority to replace professional judgment with market signals. In cutting central government funding for instruction to zero for most subjects, it has forced teaching to cater to student demand. \u0026nbsp;It uses impact assessments and other auditing techniques to norm STEM research to business needs. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernments are ignoring the fact that universities are supposed to be way out in front of public sensibility in both technical and sociocultural subjects.\u0026nbsp; Universities \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\/2016\/09\/20\/the-cost-of-corporate-funded-research\/the-lack-of-funding-is-a-tragedy-for-bold-scientific-breakthroughs\"\u003Ecan't be original unless they are out in front\u003C\/a\u003E. Managing by audit, in contrast, readily norms the teaching of society, culture, and science to established mainstream views, whether that be commercial television's stories of the origins of terrorism or the pharmaceutical industry's preferences on the characterization of molecules. This norming reduces the university's non-market and social value. It ironically reduces its market value by emphasizing existing rather than future skills for students and well-known rather than challenging problems for research.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was impossible for me to forget the University of California's travails no matter the distance, and I see two recent Berkeley issues through the gap I saw this summer between faculty reaction and faculty governance. \u0026nbsp;One issue is the budget: Berkeley's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2016\/09\/19\/administration-members-faculty-meet-discuss-growing-campus-budget-problems\/\"\u003Esenior managers are apparently still saying\u003C\/a\u003E that private revenue streams and more entrepreneurship will fix the budget deficit.\u0026nbsp; I interpret the evidence to show that \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/08\/what-berkeleys-problem-is-not.html\"\u003Ethe deficit came in large part from privatization\u003C\/a\u003E and cannot be fixed by more of the same. \u0026nbsp; I also think that the admin's proposed solutions of \"enrollment control, self-supporting degree programs, increased land utilization, entrepreneurship, and fundraising\" expresses the conventional budgetary wisdom of our proverbial neoliberal era of the kind that universities exist to get beyond. Either way, the issue can't be resolved by meetings that offer spotty information about which faculty ask isolated questions and express frustration. \u0026nbsp;It can only be resolved by faculty bodies--the Senate and\/or the Faculty Association and\/or other groups--doing independent analysis with comprehensive financial information and building their own sustainable budget to advocate to the administration.\u0026nbsp; Faculty members haven't shifted from budget reaction to budget governance. Until they do, nothing will change.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESame goes for the Berkeley administration's suspension in the middle of the term of a student-taught course, \"Palestine: A Colonial Settler Analysis.\" \u0026nbsp; Dean Carla Hesse suspended the course on the same day that \u0026nbsp;\"43 Jewish, civil rights, and education advocacy groups\" \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amchainitiative.org\/letter-to-uc-berkeley-chancellor-dirks\"\u003Ewrote to campus chancellor Nicholas Dirks\u003C\/a\u003E to claim that the course was political advocacy, met the \"government's criteria for anti-Semitism,\" had been approved and was being taught by anti-Zionist zealots, and was out of compliance with UC Regents policy.\u0026nbsp; And yet the course had been approved through a standard process in which faculty members have primary and ultimate authority over the curriculum--in this case the department's acting chair and the Academic Senate. \u0026nbsp;It also appears that the Berkeley administration would have taken no action without\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/education\/article\/UC-Berkeley-suspends-controversial-course-on-9220950.php\"\u003Epressure from outside interest groups\u003C\/a\u003E, and that the suspension was a response to this outside pressure. \u0026nbsp;The chancellor and\/or executive dean in this case intervened in the faculty's core domain in response to an outside grievance, and they triggered national coverage of basic questions about academic freedom. \u0026nbsp;For the blow by blow of that issue I refer you to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/academeblog.org\/2016\/09\/15\/berkeley-bans-a-palestine-class\/\"\u003EJohn K. Wilson's detailed analysis\u003C\/a\u003E, Berkeley professor \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2016\/09\/20\/decals-cancellation-transpired-unfair-shortcuts\/\"\u003ESamera Esmeir's commentary\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/academeblog.org\/2016\/09\/19\/allowed-again-but-question-remain-about-suspension-of-berkeley-class\/\"\u003EDr. Wilson's critique\u003C\/a\u003E of Dean Hesse's reinstatement letter.\u0026nbsp; My point here is that\u0026nbsp;various kinds of internal pressure were brought to bear, from \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@ethnicstudies198\/an-open-letter-to-the-uc-berkeley-administration-regarding-academic-freedom-1bf60c9a040e#.jehuacld3\"\u003Eevery student in the course\u003C\/a\u003E and also from Berkeley faculty, which resulted in the course's reinstatement, and yet this kind of strong reaction is not going to be enough.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor the dean's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/3110924-Hesse-Letter-Regarding-ES198-Fall-2016.html\"\u003Ereinstatement letter\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;claims both that deans \"review, but do not approve the academic content\" of courses in this program \u003Ci\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Ethat this review legitimately asked about course content, that is, about \"whether the stated objective for the course to 'explore the possibility of a decolonized Palestine' potentially violated Regents Policy by crossing over the line from teaching to political advocacy.\" The latter phrase does assert an administrative right to review content of these student-taught courses even when they are, as in this case, approved by the appropriate faculty.\u0026nbsp; Dean Hesse's position is thus that enforcement of University instructional policy does not lie with the faculty alone, but requires administrative supervision.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; This remains a departure from standard AAUP-based principles of faculty self-governance of instruction.\u0026nbsp; It is consistent with the trend toward shifting the supervision of instruction reflected in the MOOC wave of 2012-13, where officials signed contracts with little faculty knowledge or input, and with the trend toward removing faculty from the university's reputation management that enabled acts like the Board firing of Professor Steven Saliata from the University of Illinois and of Asst. Professor Melissa Click from the University of Missouri.\u0026nbsp; While faculty reaction helped resolve the immediate UC Berkeley issue, faculty governance will be needed to reconstruct authority over curriculum in order to prevent such intrusions in the future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Berkeley student course on Palestine raised the question of whether society will allow universities  to function as their over-the-horizon intellectual resource.\u0026nbsp; It represented academic inquiry that fulfilled the intellectual mission of being out in front of public sensibility on an important question. When a classroom, library, or laboratory houses original solutions, some factions will see them as impossible, outrageous, or offensive. \u0026nbsp;This is the routine impact of any avant-garde in art, science, and every field in between, whose members are treated as enemies before in many cases being lauded as pioneers. \u0026nbsp; All the outrage means is that the university is doing its job. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince senior managers can apparently not be expected to stand up to influential outsiders, the tenured faculty will have to do it.\u0026nbsp; It would be better to do it by re-establishing governing authority over the conditions that make originality possible, rather than putting out particular fires on a global scale. "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1565510068326602195\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/09\/a-global-crisis-of-faculty-faith-two.html#comment-form","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1565510068326602195"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1565510068326602195"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/09\/a-global-crisis-of-faculty-faith-two.html","title":"A Global Crisis of Faculty Faith? Two Berkeley Examples"}],"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\/-dR2cHyrhcJQ\/V-GclUjBjxI\/AAAAAAAADKU\/MlkNPTPzSGk5ZCXMRL0E8kzGL27fnlmtACLcB\/s72-c\/scottkellyla.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"9"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-5583989026046668608"},"published":{"$t":"2016-08-24T14:43:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-10-08T22:06:38.843-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Austerity"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Funding Model"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Privatization"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Berkeley"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"What Berkeley's Problem is Not"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-NQ5FTnJt4KY\/V73G8Xfz_TI\/AAAAAAAADJ0\/hTPJ_gJq2EA7-S65DPkAlPt_Rx_1L51CQCLcB\/s1600\/AnselAdamsUCRiverside.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-NQ5FTnJt4KY\/V73G8Xfz_TI\/AAAAAAAADJ0\/hTPJ_gJq2EA7-S65DPkAlPt_Rx_1L51CQCLcB\/s320\/AnselAdamsUCRiverside.jpg\" width=\"302\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAs the Berkeley and Davis campuses seek new chancellors, they'll be looking for people who can deal with endless public university budget problems. \u0026nbsp;In Berkeley's case, there's the $150 million structural deficit that surfaced on outgoing Chancellor Nicholas Dirks' watch. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003EWhat should the next chancellor do to fix the deficit? Chancellor Dirks raised the prospect of cuts to the academic core, but mostly stuck to the standard model of growing private revenue streams. This has meant more fundraising, more non-resident students, more high-priced \"innovative master's programs and more executive education. \u0026nbsp;It also means using [public university] assets in more commercial ways.\" It will mean figuring out how to start raising tuition again while promoting the\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/11\/the-impact-of-tuition-hikes-on.html\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;high tuition-high aid model.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; The quotations are from \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Flagships-Must-Create-New\/237055\"\u003ENicholas Dirks\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;Privatization was what he was doing, and what he did well within the rules of the game, particularly in fundraising. Leaving aside his management mistakes to focus on the budget issues, should Berkeley look for Nick Dirks 2.0, Nick Dirks on steroids, some kind of Double Dirks?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003EThe deficit predated anything chancellor Dirks did. John Wilton, the campus's lead budget officer, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/vcaf.berkeley.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Time%20is%20not%20on%20our%20side%201%2011.29.13.pdf\"\u003Ehad announced it in November 2013\u003C\/a\u003E, and traced it to old and new forms of state underfunding. \u0026nbsp;The Schwarzenegger and Brown budget cuts did enormous damage to UC finances. For a while, budget shortfalls were covered by reserves, but several years into the era of subpar funding, these were running out. Vice-chancellor Wilton had also already factored in all non-state and private revenue growth projections. The UC Berkeley deficit has come from a combination of state, university-wide, and campus budget choices. In addition, that deficit was not going to be closed by the growth in private funding. \u0026nbsp;More on that issue below.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003EWe get reports that senior UC Berkeley officials are pinning much of their deficit, up to $50 million a year, on a choice the university system imposed called \"rebenching.\" This is a program to start to reduce inequities in the UC Office of the President's allocations among the campuses. For many years, a student at UC Davis received a much higher state outlay than did the same kind of student at UC Santa Cruz; the same was true for UCLA vs. UC Irvine, and so on around the system. A \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa.ca.gov\/pdfs\/reports\/2010-105.pdf\"\u003E2011 report by the California State Auditor\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;found large cross-campus inequalities and no good reason why this was so. It also found that the campuses with a higher proportion of Black, Latino, and Native American students got less money per student. (See \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/01\/racial-patterns-of-campus-budget.html\"\u003ETable 6 and this post\u003C\/a\u003E for figures and analysis.) \u0026nbsp;The pre-rebenching allocations were clearly unethical and arguably racist, and although UCOP's response plausibly denied racist intent, it worked with the Academic Senate to rebench allocations to improve equity. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003EBut was Berkeley supposed to pay for it all? Have a look at the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/underreview\/Rebenchingreviewpacket.pdf\"\u003E2012 report of the Rebenching Budget Committee\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003EThe total allocated for the entire system’s rebenching was about $37 million per year, now stepped up to $46 million per year total for all campuses (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/universityofcalifornia.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Straight-Talk-Report-3-29-16.pdf\"\u003Epage 12\u003C\/a\u003E). \u0026nbsp;So even were the entire system being rebenched at Berkeley's sole expense, it still wouldn't come to $50 million a year. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003EIn any case, this is not how rebenching works. The equity funding comes\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003E(1) from \u003Ci\u003Enew\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;state money (it is not redistribution but finally-equitable distribution), allocated by\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003E(2) \u003Ci\u003Eweighted\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/u\u003Eenrollments (more per-student money for campuses with large doctoral programs like Berkeley) after\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003E(3) \"set-asides\" for designated programs that adjusts each campus's base budget, leading to\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003E(4) a \u003Ci\u003Eleveling up\u003C\/i\u003E of all campuses to the top campus level (Los Angeles).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003EThe effect on Berkeley can be seen in my number 1 favorite recent UC spreadsheet, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/underreview\/Rebenchingreviewpacket.pdf\"\u003EAppendix A of the rebenching report\u003C\/a\u003E. First, Berkeley's reduction under the new system was a bit over $6 million (row U), far smaller than Davis's or Los Angeles' because it wasn't as overpaid, so to speak, by the established system. \u0026nbsp;Again that's much less than $50 million.\u0026nbsp; But that wasn't to be an actual loss because, after various considerations, Berkeley was to be rebenched \u003Ci\u003Eup \u003C\/i\u003Eby about $28 million per year, or +10% on its original base budget. \u0026nbsp;The 2012 plan had rebenching giving the Berkeley campus $4,688,619 \u003Ci\u003Emore \u003C\/i\u003Eeach year for six years. \u0026nbsp;This was only half of the additional new money going to the two most underfunded campuses by equalized weighted enrollment--Irvine and Santa Barbara--but it was not a deficit maker.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003EPerhaps the actual allocations have not followed the plan. But if that is the case, officials should produce figures that show what has happened instead.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003EHere's a visual of rebenching over six years (Appendix B).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-2ANcc2kYqPI\/V72QBpq6BFI\/AAAAAAAADJQ\/BHTtediw3LUBQDGx-cDeYr8ahhpRaWi4wCLcB\/s640\/RenbenchingFigureAppendixB2012.png\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003EBerkeley was a bit over the old average, so seemed a loser in the socialist benchmarking paradise. But in reality it is below the new benchmark, and so is to benefit from rebenching like all campuses other than Los Angeles, which is to stay the same. \u0026nbsp;Note that this is only one of the campus's many revenue streams, does not include non-resident tuition which each campus keeps for itself, is based on weighted enrollment, etc. Note especially the deeper issue, which is inadequate state funding. This had been softened at the wealthier campuses but not at the poor ones.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003ERebenching is not Berkeley's problem. So if the public system isn't sinking Berkeley, what is?\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003EThat would be a combination of public cuts, already mentioned, new costs incurred by campuses, and new costs that UCOP or the state has pushed onto the campuses in recent years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EThe new costs that UC campuses haven’t incurred themselves include:\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENormal cost inflation. \u0026nbsp;VC Wilton estimated this as historically 3-4% per year, meaning the UCOP “deal” on state increases \u0026nbsp;(4% per year for a few years) is essentially a zero gain.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECapital projects. \u0026nbsp;The state has largely withdrawn from campus development. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPension contributions (up from zero to 14% of payroll since 2010).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIncreased employer health care costs, including retiree health care.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECentral administration, aka UCOP, \u0026nbsp;which is now funded via campus taxes to the tune of something close to 15% of state funding.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESubsidies for UCSF (a $130 million premium in enrollment-based allocations (Appendix A row J * row M)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003EThere are also campus-based structural costs, particularly the practice of covering a large share of research costs (19% at Berkeley) with institutional funds. (Background on this can be found \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/08\/how-can-public-research-universities.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003EHow do these costs hit Berkeley? A quick scan of the campus's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/controller.berkeley.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/2014-15_financial.pdf\"\u003EAnnual Financial Report\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for 2014-15 (pdf page 5) shows that pension contributions have grown from zero to $128.4 million per year. \u0026nbsp;“Other employee benefits,” which I assume is largely health care, is up to $274.4 million. \u0026nbsp;Interest on debt and capital leases is $90 million a year (up $10 million year on year). In the realm of capital projects, \"proceeds from debt issuance” fall short of “purchase of capital assets” by $140 million (and by $160 million in the previous year). \u0026nbsp; Grants and contracts income declined $40 million over one year (they\u0026nbsp; have since rebounded). At the same time, over two years, Berkeley's outlays of its own \"institutional funds\" to support research, mostly \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ncsesdata.nsf.gov\/herd\/2012\/html\/HERD2012_DST_04.html\"\u003Elosses on extramurally-funded projects\u003C\/a\u003E, increased $26 million (from\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ncsesdata.nsf.gov\/herd\/2012\/html\/HERD2012_DST_04.html\"\u003E $138 million\u003C\/a\u003E to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ncsesdata.nsf.gov\/herd\/2014\/html\/HERD2014_DST_24.html\"\u003E$164 million).\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;This is a partial list of the real contributors to Berkeley's $150 million annual deficit. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003EWhat drives these expenses? \u0026nbsp;State politics for one: were the state to fund UC's employer share of pension contributions, Berkeley would fix $128 million of its $150 million problem. \u0026nbsp;There are also necessary growth and upgrades: some chunk of the capital project costs are in the category of always improving teaching and research. Research policy is another: federal agencies force universities to subsidize research and foundations and corporations are even worse.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003EBut a big general driver is what I call the price of privatization. It is expensive to compete with Stanford, Cal Tech, et al for corporate partners, non-resident students, research grants, wealthy donors, senior executives, and everything else. VC Wilton said it best: \"\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EBerkeley must\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Enow compete for its three most important revenue sources [philanthropy, students, and research]\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Eagainst\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ethe best private and public universities.\" He went on to assert, \"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EBecause 8\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E7% of\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Eour revenue does not res\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Eult from\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ea legislative process\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E, the need to be market\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E-competitive is essential.\" The decline of public funding has induced a preoccupation with competing to increase mostly private revenue streams \u003Ci\u003Eand\u003C\/i\u003E with covering all the costs o\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ef\u003C\/span\u003E the market competitions on offer.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn the post-crisis scramble, where do \u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Emanagers\u003C\/span\u003E draw the line between necessary investments and privatization boondoggles?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EWhich of the projects that created that $140 million shortfall for capital debt\/assets is part of the core mission and which supports off-campus interests or a favored group? How big are the avoidable costs of competition? Which competitions should be avoided on the basis of costs? If a research and teaching mission lacks a competitive revenue market, do you tax it for the sake of someone else's market competition? When you don't really know where to draw the line, and money is cheap, do you try all of them, especially if you can launch them by executive order? \u0026nbsp;Faculty, staff, and students should be directly involved in answering these questions.\u0026nbsp; They are budgetary and also properly political.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003EPost-Dirks, Berkeley has a real choice between faster, better privatization (and its costs) or figuring out privatization's costs and cutting it down to size.\u0026nbsp; Ironically, dialing back is supported by the budget data of its advocates. VC Wilton probably was \u003Ci\u003Enot\u003C\/i\u003E telling Chancellor Dirks that privatization would work because fundraising and partnerships were magic bullets. \u0026nbsp;I think they saw it more as a muddle-through strategy designed to kludge the system for another 5 years (2013-2018) with gains from non-resident tuition, educational businesses, real estate, and endowment income, at which point UC would either start big tuition hikes again or Berkeley could gain its semi-freedom to charge its own higher tuition.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p2\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003EThe full debate between privatization and its costs never happened.\u0026nbsp; This is in large part because of the managerial decisionism I won't discuss here, and also because, as Jacques Lacan would have expected, denial was an important part of the disclosure. \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/vcaf.berkeley.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Time%20is%20not%20on%20our%20side%201%2011.29.13.pdf\"\u003EWilton Part 1\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Edisclosed budget strategy failure. \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/vcaf.berkeley.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Time%20is%20not%20on%20our%20side%202%20%2011.29.13.pdf\"\u003EWilton Part 2\u003C\/a\u003E hid it in plain sight. \u0026nbsp;While former Chancellor Robert Birgeneau was a true believer who could effortlessly suture the contradiction, Chancellor Dirks was perhaps unsettled by the double message that UC Berkeley’s administration has been broadcasting for a decade: we must privatize; we are more public than ever. Were this so, he would naturally seem indecisive, as though he \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mercurynews.com\/collegesports\/2016\/08\/18\/chancellor-nicholas-dirks-resigns-means-cal-athletics\/?doing_wp_cron=1471551475.2635729312896728515625\"\u003E“embrace[d] ambiguity.” \u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; In fact, privatization \u003Ci\u003Eis \u003C\/i\u003Eambiguous. \u0026nbsp;It wants private money, especially high net tuition, and to keep its public subsidies, and to keep its public-mission image.\u0026nbsp; Chancellor Dirks'\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EChronicle of Higher Education\u003C\/i\u003E article and his resignation memos are classic performances of the not-quite-convinced that make the model feel as unworkable as it actually is. \u0026nbsp;I assume he was following the established Berkeley administrative program. \u0026nbsp;He knew the formula. \u0026nbsp;But he hadn't swallowed the blue pill.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p2\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003EBerkeley's problem isn't rebenching. \u0026nbsp;Berkeley's problem isn't the UC system. Berkeley's problem is unrestored public funding in conjunction with privatization, which raises costs while encouraging cuts.\u0026nbsp; How much does its own program grow the funding gap between what public education needs and what privatization makes us want?\u0026nbsp; I'm sure the campus can find a chancellor who is willing to find out.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p2\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"s1\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"p1\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5583989026046668608\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/08\/what-berkeleys-problem-is-not.html#comment-form","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/5583989026046668608"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/5583989026046668608"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/08\/what-berkeleys-problem-is-not.html","title":"What Berkeley's Problem is Not"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-NQ5FTnJt4KY\/V73G8Xfz_TI\/AAAAAAAADJ0\/hTPJ_gJq2EA7-S65DPkAlPt_Rx_1L51CQCLcB\/s72-c\/AnselAdamsUCRiverside.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-1061584756780423652"},"published":{"$t":"2016-04-15T14:17:00.004-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-04-15T14:28:27.951-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Admin Responses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cal State"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Funding Model"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Janet Napolitano"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Quality"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Shared Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Berkeley"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Santa Barbara"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Stop Pushing the Crisis Around: Setting Goals at UC Berkeley and UCSB"},"content":{"type":"html","$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=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Hwpx3SR5BYg\/Vw_Vjpfno-I\/AAAAAAAADHU\/zR7O1tg9qDglV4yZpn2yk7GMIzcNxHJtQCLcB\/s1600\/CrowdedClass.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Hwpx3SR5BYg\/Vw_Vjpfno-I\/AAAAAAAADHU\/zR7O1tg9qDglV4yZpn2yk7GMIzcNxHJtQCLcB\/s320\/CrowdedClass.jpg\" width=\"213\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIs there a post-crisis recovery for UC and its university kin? \u0026nbsp;So far, not so much. \u0026nbsp;At this blog, we've been forced to chronicle \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/confronting-our-permanent-public.html\"\u003Epermanent austerity.\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026nbsp;The long-term problem was confirmed this week by a Public Policy Institute of California report that \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ppic.org\/content\/pubs\/report\/R_0416HEBKR.pdf\"\u003Ereviews the public funding cuts of the past several decades \u003C\/a\u003Eat all three segments of higher education in the state. \u0026nbsp;(If you are just tuning in, Hank Reichman has a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/academeblog.org\/2016\/04\/13\/on-the-university-of-california-i-the-funding-challenge\/\"\u003Ehelpful overview of the PPIC and State Auditor reports\u003C\/a\u003E, and of\u0026nbsp;editorials decrying the long-term state disinvestment.) \u0026nbsp;There's no news in the PPIC report for our readers, and the Senate \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/reports\/AC.Futures.Report.0107.pdf\"\u003EFutures Report\" on the UC budget\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Eidentified the same trends ten years ago. \u0026nbsp;But it's good to know the cuts word is now spread around.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo the question is, what are Sacramento or Oakland or local campus administrations going to do about it this time? \u0026nbsp; How about some focused \u003Ci\u003Egoals \u003C\/i\u003Efor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Erebuilding\u003C\/i\u003E? \u0026nbsp;Could we set some goals? \u0026nbsp;For example, could we say, \"no students sitting on the steps in any lecture hall anywhere at UC by Fall 2018?\" This is the first step towards where UC needs to go.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo end bottlenecks and then get to the real upgrades, we're going to need to end our current UC spin cycle. \u0026nbsp;The cycle is Problem--\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalaffairs.com\/publications\/detail\/kludgeocracy-in-america\"\u003EKludge\u003C\/a\u003E--\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2015\/08\/can-faculty-deal-with-policy-drift-list.html\"\u003EDrift\u003C\/a\u003E--Crisis--Pushdown. \u0026nbsp; Push the crisis down to the lower levels. \u0026nbsp;And repeat. \u0026nbsp;The cycle isn't addressed but is enabled by the marketing and public relations crusades to which UC has become so prone (e.g., \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/academeblog.org\/2016\/04\/14\/on-the-university-of-california-ii-chancellors-gone-wild\/\"\u003EProf. Reichman\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/changinguniversities.blogspot.com\/2016\/04\/the-university-of-public-relations.html\"\u003EBob Samuels \u003C\/a\u003Eon the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/education\/article71674767.html\"\u003Erecently-revealed UC Davis\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;effort to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/04\/streisand-effect-scrub-this-uc-davis\/478413\/\"\u003Escrub the pepperspray incident \u003C\/a\u003Efrom Internet search results.) \u0026nbsp; Some of our problem is money. Some of it is how we bury our problems as fast as we can.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EStep 1 \u003C\/b\u003Eis to face the fact that we can't just keep postponing the repair jobs. \u0026nbsp;Our time is up. \u0026nbsp;We have been watching the cram down of publics to a lower functional level for a couple of decades, and have long watched the cuts\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/the-new-normal-isnt-normal-it-erodes.html\"\u003Ewidening the gap between them and their private university cousins\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ppic.org\/content\/pubs\/report\/R_0416KCR.pdf\"\u003EChronic underfunding\u003C\/a\u003E has seriously damaged the public research university core, which is Instruction and Research. \u0026nbsp;As the same problems stay unsolved year after year, the public on whom we count to fund the rebuilding decreasingly believes in the quality of the former, and has been blinded to the costs of the latter. Polls show that large majorities of the public want strong public universities (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ppic.org\/content\/pubs\/survey\/S_316MBS.pdf\"\u003E80% in the March PPIC poll, page 21\u003C\/a\u003E). \u0026nbsp;But they are not convinced that public university quality has been maintained, or that research is a major cost in which state taxpayers must share. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI see declining faith in UC quality in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/wild-day-at-uc-regents-stakes-of.html\"\u003Eoccasional media reports\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and in the\u0026nbsp;comments of UC students, particularly those who have friends or family at comparable private colleges. I see it in low take rates of UC admits. \u0026nbsp;Systemwide data show that all non-flagship campuses need to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ucop.edu\/institutional-research-academic-planning\/_files\/factsheets\/2015\/frosh_trsirs_table1.1.pdf\"\u003Eadmit five students for every one that actually comes\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;We often focus on the gigantic and growing number of UC applicants or on the proportion of UC applicants who end up on \u003Ci\u003Esome\u003C\/i\u003E UC campus (43.5%). \u0026nbsp;But if we look at each campus as a distinct university, we might wonder at the low percentage who think that specific UC campus is the best educational choice for them. \u0026nbsp;The non-flagship UC may be serving as the world's biggest safety school for the top 1\/8th of high school graduates.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn addition to public skepticism, universities face \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.elearnspace.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/03\/white-house-innovation-in-higher-education\/\"\u003Epowerful commercial and political forces that want to unbundle them\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Einto training pathways that can be separately monetized. \u0026nbsp;This would mean dumping the infrastructure that integrates the curriculum--and that supports research. \u0026nbsp;This week's ritual\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EChronicle of Higher Education\u003C\/i\u003E query, \"should universities exist?\" appears as an interview with the economist Tyler Cowen, who ponders\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Tyler-Cowen-Says-Online\/236090?cid=pm\u0026amp;utm_source=pm\u0026amp;utm_medium=en\u0026amp;elqTrackId=290572c9ae744cc2939bcc8f8e988352\u0026amp;elq=3fb91eb5109b4e978dec26580384ed3d\u0026amp;elqaid=8659\u0026amp;elqat=1\u0026amp;elqCampaignId=2907\"\u003Ewhether universities are different from anything else\u003C\/a\u003E and why professors aren't more like bloggers. \u0026nbsp;In reality, the answers to such questions aren't that tough. Universities do \u003Ci\u003Eintegrative\u003C\/i\u003E instruction across disciplines and methods like nothing else. They conduct\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2014\/08\/how-can-public-research-universities.html\"\u003Eindispensable, money-losing research \u003C\/a\u003Elike no other institution is willing to do. \u0026nbsp;With teaching, public universities need to show Active Learning + Individual Feedback --\u0026gt; Cognitive Gain. \u0026nbsp;I'm being simplistic, but you get the direction. \u0026nbsp;And yet our publicity hides the problem rather than inspiring progress.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EStep 2\u003C\/b\u003E is to anchor \u003Ci\u003Eevery single institutional change\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;in a clear positive goal. \u0026nbsp;We have an unfortunate wealth of examples of not doing this. \u0026nbsp;Nearly eight years after the financial crisis hit, Berkeley's chancellor described a structural deficit that would force permanent restructuring on top of the continuous search for savings of the past decade (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/the-new-normal-isnt-normal-it-erodes.html\"\u003Esee Section 4)\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;This week, he \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/education\/article\/UC-Berkeley-to-eliminate-500-staff-jobs-7244049.php\"\u003Eannounced that 500 jobs would be eliminated\u003C\/a\u003E, totaling about 6% of the campus workforce. Faculty, who are excepted from these reductions, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2016\/04\/13\/uc-berkeley-faculty-hold-special-meeting-campus-deficit-academic-realignment\/\"\u003Eattended a forum\u003C\/a\u003E in which bad news was stirred but no gains were imagined. One gain from \"realignment\" would be to move staff from the managerial peripherals back to the educational core. But unless there's a goal to do this, kludging and drifting will mean more pushing of cuts down to students and faculty and frontline staff. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis history can be seen in \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/socrates.berkeley.edu\/~schwrtz\/Part_24.html\"\u003ECharles Schwartz's recent update\u003C\/a\u003E of UC costs, based on new detail from UC's Corporate Personnel System \u0026nbsp;He found that even after 2008, the main growth areas are \"Senior Professionals\" and \"M10-Managers,\" particularly in functions that appear to be controlled by the higher administration (\"Institutional Support\"). \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;(Individual campus charts are \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/socrates.berkeley.edu\/~schwrtz\/CampusMNGT.pdf\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Prof. Reichman\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/academeblog.org\/2016\/04\/13\/on-the-university-of-california-i-the-funding-challenge\/\"\u003Ediscusses\u003C\/a\u003E the Auditor's different claim that aggregate administrative costs were flat between 2006 and 2012.) \u0026nbsp;Drift and pushdown place the cuts in frontline Instruction and Research, and spare the upper-middle categories that have grown the most. \u0026nbsp;I'd love to be proven wrong, but so far realignment is destined to offer more of the same. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll change must include the upgrade, though this isn't easy to do. \u0026nbsp;Another example comes in the form of a UCSB memo issued by the Executive Vice Chancellor and divisional Senate chair and bearing the subject line, \"Planning for Increased Enrollment, 2016-17\" \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.ucsb.edu\/~councils.and.committees\/document_view.cfm?V=1FDD0C8EEBBDA453EB96149D7CE97DD58C0E15930BD68954\"\u003E(Attachment 1). \u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;It noted the additional resident students President Napolitano had agreed to accept (5000 systemwide next year via a 15% increase in UC-wide admissions, and a possible 5000 in the two years following). \u0026nbsp;It said that UCSB needed to find an additional 2700 seats per quarter starting this fall, and asked faculty to be more flexible than ever in accepting non-prime time assignments for their courses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo far so good. I'd already gotten a registrar notice about their failure to place 50 courses by the third draft of the fall schedule. \u0026nbsp;I'd heard about a plan to give incoming students better pass times so they wouldn't be shut out of lower-division courses by juniors and seniors. \u0026nbsp;These are examples of important operational problems that need solving. \u0026nbsp;But I was optimistic: since I've been teaching large lectures on the swing shift for years, I assumed the registrar could find the classrooms and offer enough sections--especially if the deans granted our full TA budget requests, which they had not done last year. \u0026nbsp;And it's always good for faculty to learn more about the back-office issues faced by staff.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut by the time I read the memo, I'd received a dozen irritated reactions to this memo from faculty across campus. \u0026nbsp;Most referenced this paragraph:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003EDepartments should consider such strategies as offering multiple iterations of impacted courses, deploying lecturers and graduate student instructors strategically to cover the maximum number of needed courses and sections, and experimenting with innovative formats for lectures and sections. There may be opportunities (consistent with Academic Senate policies and contractual obligations governing workload) to organize instruction in alternative formats, including the further integration of on-line components. In select cases, when appropriate and within policy, student peer review and the judicious use of some advanced undergraduate instructors might supplement instruction by faculty and graduate student instructors. It also may be possible to recall some emeriti to teach high-impact courses.\u003C\/blockquote\u003EThis was an alarming list of the \"innovations\" of the miserable year of 2009, in which most departments were forced to teach lectures without sections, to convert essays into multiple-choice exams, eliminate senior seminars from their requirements, cut smaller courses even if they were intellectually central, and so on. These were mostly abandoned as soon as we could afford to do so, since faculty felt they lowered quality and students gave them bad reviews. \u0026nbsp;As for online teaching, \u003Ci\u003Ehybrid\u003C\/i\u003E courses --mixtures of online and face-to-face--can be very good, but versions that raise quality don't \u003Ci\u003Esave\u003C\/i\u003E money at all. \u0026nbsp;(Read online pioneer \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/As-Big-Data-Companies-Come-to\/235400\"\u003ECandace Thille on the subject\u003C\/a\u003E, or my analysis of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2013\/06\/24\/essay-sees-missing-savings-georgia-techs-much-discussed-mooc-based-program\"\u003Ecosts of the Georgia Tech-Udacity online masters program\u003C\/a\u003E.) \u0026nbsp; Colleagues from all disciplines were especially annoyed at the idea of peer-grading for undergraduates. \u0026nbsp;Peer-to-peer learning is of course central to the seminar format and is quite valuable, but only in the context of faculty-structured courses that include expert review of student work. \u0026nbsp;From the student perspective, if going to UCSB grading will mean your paper is reviewed by the student sitting next to you, you might as well start UCSB Co-Op College in Isla Vista and get your student-graded higher learning for free.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy such a dismal message? \u0026nbsp;Was the enrollment \"surge\" going to wash us away? \u0026nbsp;I decided to check. UCSB has just under 11% of UC's resident undergraduate total (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/infocenter\/fall-enrollment-headcounts\"\u003Eusing pulldown menus)\u003C\/a\u003E, which puts its share of the New 5000 at about 550 new students. \u0026nbsp;UCSB's Long Range Development Plan\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facilities.ucsb.edu\/files\/docs\/lrdp\/UCSB_LRDP_021215.pdf\"\u003Ealready called for adding 5000 students\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;on a 2010 base of 20,000 over 15 years (page A-4; UCSB already had 22,218 headcount students in 2010). Adding 5000 students over 15 years means adding an average of 333 students in every year.\u0026nbsp;So the \"surge\" means the campus will bring 220\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eadditional\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Estudents beyond what its LRDP had been planning for anyway. Or maybe we were taking 675 students, based on the 2700 seats, which would be an additional 340 students beyond our LDRP.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow hard would this be? 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mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:Cambria;  mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;  mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;  mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;  mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;  mso-fareast-language:JA;} \u003C\/style\u003E\u003C![endif]--\u003E   \u003C!--StartFragment--\u003E   \u003C!--EndFragment--\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"MsoTableGrid\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-table-layout-alt: fixed; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;\"\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 49.2pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"49\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003EYear\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 37.2pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"37\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E2008\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E2009\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E2010\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E2011\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E2012\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E2013\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E2014\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E2015\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E \u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1;\"\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 49.2pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"49\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003ETotal Ugrad\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 37.2pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"37\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E18892\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E19796\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E19186\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E18620\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E18977\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E19362\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E20238\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E20607\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E \u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;\"\u003E  \u003Ctd colspan=\"2\" nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 1.2in;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"86\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003EYear On Year\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E904\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E-610\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E-566\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E357\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E385\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E876\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd nowrap=\"\" style=\"border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"41\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E369\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E \u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2009, UCSB added 900 students in one year. \u0026nbsp;In the two-year period 2009-2011, it lost nearly 1200 undergraduates, which created some infrastructure headroom. \u0026nbsp;After 2011, the campus has added at somewhere between 350 and 400 undergraduates per year, and nearly 900 in 2013-14. \u0026nbsp;This is a bit above the growth rate planned in the LRDP. The Napolitano 550 (or 675) for UCSB is 150-350 beyond recent average increases, and less than the campus handled the year before last. \u0026nbsp;It is also in the neighborhood of the 300 Nonresident International students the campus enrolled in each of the last two years. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn other words, we \u003Ci\u003Ecould\u003C\/i\u003E see the surge as getting us two years of LRDP growth in the space of one. We could focus on translating it into a quality upgrade. \u0026nbsp;The memo noted the Santa Barbara campus's popularity with applicants. \u0026nbsp;More students won't overwhelm us. They won't burden us. \u0026nbsp;All our campuses do need to fix big things: senior managers need to keep president Napolitano from making bad deals and pushing the costs down. \u0026nbsp;They need to get full costs for new students and not the current $5000. \u0026nbsp;But in the process, UC needs to keep focused among other things on how desperately it needs to be \u003Ci\u003Eraising \u003C\/i\u003Ethe\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Equality of learning. It needs to be building its popular base by giving UC students \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2014\/05\/demanding-educational-upgrade-deltopia.html\"\u003Ethe education they way they want when we actually ask them\u003C\/a\u003E--\u0026nbsp;the ability to get into the courses, and later, individualized advising, sequenced, coherent majors, coordinated distribution requirements, and exposure to research.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo the problems are obvious, but we can only fix them with the continuous creation of full-scale rebuilding goals. The subject line should be, \"Planning for Better Instruction and Research, 2016-17.\" \u0026nbsp;It should note, wow we're in such a healthy sector of endless demand: let's do some new fun things with the surge. "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1061584756780423652\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/04\/stop-pushing-crisis-around-setting.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1061584756780423652"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1061584756780423652"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/04\/stop-pushing-crisis-around-setting.html","title":"Stop Pushing the Crisis Around: Setting Goals at UC Berkeley and UCSB"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Hwpx3SR5BYg\/Vw_Vjpfno-I\/AAAAAAAADHU\/zR7O1tg9qDglV4yZpn2yk7GMIzcNxHJtQCLcB\/s72-c\/CrowdedClass.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-785598063146511321"},"published":{"$t":"2016-03-07T07:42:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-18T18:21:28.639-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Administrative Overreach"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"For-Profit"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Management"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Berkeley"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Davis"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Riverside"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Managerial Disconnect"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-yIOaTkThckM\/VtzaPIxhuAI\/AAAAAAAAA1A\/8bkQZnCLM0k\/s1600\/marlborough-house-time-of-anne-mansion-westminster-london-pall-mall-B8P4GJ.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-yIOaTkThckM\/VtzaPIxhuAI\/AAAAAAAAA1A\/8bkQZnCLM0k\/s320\/marlborough-house-time-of-anne-mansion-westminster-london-pall-mall-B8P4GJ.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-uc-davis-chancellor-20160304-story.html\"\u003Escandal engulfing\u003C\/a\u003E UC Davis Chancellor Katehi is only the latest sign of the disconnection between our managerial elite and the rest of the University. While students face increased tuition and debt, faculty and staff face a reduction in benefits, and the entire Berkeley campus faces the possibility of a reduction in academic range and quality, some managers operate in a bubble of their own, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2015\/01\/how-are-universities-adapting-to-globalization\/\"\u003Ehobnobbing in Davos\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/investigations\/the-public-eye\/article64041327.html\"\u003Ebeing paid to sit on corporate boards\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe story surrounding Chancellor Katehi is fairly simple.  It turns out that she \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/investigations\/the-public-eye\/article63917982.html\"\u003Eaccepted a position\u003C\/a\u003E on the Board of the Devry Educational Group, a for-profit college under investigation by two federal agencies. Before that she had also served on the Board of John Wiley and Sons, a publisher of textbooks and academic journals from whom she received $420,000 in stocks and cash.  Each of these positions posed potential conflicts of interest: advising companies doing business with UC, her primary employer; supporting a for-profit (and arguably sub-prime) competitor to UC; and assuming responsibility for a textbook company (and implicitly its profits) at a time when the University as a whole has been seeking to ensure lower textbook costs for students.  To make matters worse, it appears that Chancellor Katehi accepted the position at Devry without getting the required approval from UCOP.  She has now resigned from the DeVry Board. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe case of Chancellor Katehi is remarkable, of course, because her choices have raised obvious questions about conflict of interest.  It is hard to imagine that neither she nor her staff could see that joining these Boards (especially DeVry) was unacceptable.  If nothing else, one would think that they would recognize that even the appearance of these conflicts would damage the ability of UC to justify increased state funding.  It certainly does not generate confidence in her effectively navigating the challenges facing higher education in general and UC in particular.  Indeed the situation boggles the mind. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it would be a mistake to focus too much on her singular case.  She is not alone among Chancellors in serving on Boards (and receiving supplemental pay). Nor is she alone in assuming that it is\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article64148602.html\"\u003E productive for Chancellors to serve on corporate boards\u003C\/a\u003E.  It is this last assumption that lies at the heart of the problem. One aspect of so-called \"new normal\" (which is \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/the-new-normal-isnt-normal-it-erodes.html\"\u003Eneither new nor normal\u003C\/a\u003E) has been the growing separation of campus and universities managers from the vast majority of employees and the everyday life of their institutions. Determining the extent of \"administrative bloat\" is admittedly complicated (most of the additional positions are not high-level) but the growth of administrative structures have shifted funds from the core practices of the university--teaching and research. Moreover, the persistence of administrative growth speaks to the lack of transparency that campus administrations provide about the actual functions and effects of this growth.  Whatever the justification, the end result is a senior administration cut off from campus and operating in an endless round of fundraising while caught in the echo-chamber of assumptions about the need for closer ties to business and their management models, which are in turn fueled by state funding cuts that rest in part on the belief in their inevitability.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne sign of this separation is Chancellor Katehi's retriggering of the perennial question of executive comp, but it is not the only one. Chris and I have pointed repeatedly to UCOP's consistent willingness to avoid the established mechanisms of shared governance in the University. (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2015\/11\/this-week-at-regents-ii-medical-centers.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2015\/11\/this-week-at-regents-budget.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2015\/11\/the-weak-vs-wrong-and-emerging.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E for recent discussions).  The effect of withdrawing from public discussion is, paradoxically, a more deeply politicized process in which all the key decisions appear to be made by hand-picked participants in a closed system that wastes most of the collective intelligence of the institution. The campuses are not free of similar issues.  Let me mention two:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E1) The clearest example of the problem is the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/uc-berkeley-chancellor-says-new-normal.html\"\u003Eongoing crisis at UC Berkeley\u003C\/a\u003E.  In the period after Chancellor Dirks' held his meeting with faculty and staff (which provided little if any clarity by all accounts) the public discussion of change has proceeded through rumor and fear.  First were the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2016\/02\/25\/campus-considers-dissolving-college-chemistry-cut-costs\/\"\u003Erumors of the closing of the College of Chemistry\u003C\/a\u003E with \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2016\/03\/04\/students-rally-possible-dissolution-campus-college-chemistry-friday\/\"\u003Eresulting protests\u003C\/a\u003E,  Then there was the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sph.berkeley.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Undergraduate-program-update_2-29-16.pdf\"\u003Eclosing\u003C\/a\u003E and\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2016\/03\/04\/school-of-public-health-reopens\/\"\u003E reopening\u003C\/a\u003E of the major in public health, amid rumors surrounding the possibility of major cuts to the School of Public Health.  Although it may be inevitable that there will be rumor and agitation at a time of crisis, what we might call \"negotiation by anxiety and innuendo\" is a sign of the lack of open and transparent discussion.  Even the Chancellor's meeting with faculty and staff \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/the-new-normal-isnt-normal-it-erodes.html\"\u003Eseemingly offered little to assure people\u003C\/a\u003E of genuine, open, campus discussion of budget options based upon shared evidence and data made available to the campus as a whole.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E2) A similar faux discussion recently took place at UC Riverside.  There \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2016\/02\/01\/uc-riverside-faculty-survey-suggests-outrage-cluster-hiring-initiative\"\u003Ethe issue concerned the constitution and extent of a new proposal for cluster hires\u003C\/a\u003E.  There is much to be said in favor of cluster hires (although they are no panacea and in some cases can simply be a way of forcing more labor onto faculty members). But for them to work they need to be initiated from the bottom and grow out of teaching and research initiatives.  At Riverside the opposite was the case.  The proposal was initiated from the top by a new administration and, to listen to the results of a survey of faculty experience, the process was unclear, inconsistent, and in the end open to serious distortion at the top. From Inside Higher Ed:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\"The process was chaotic, disorganized and very opaque,” reads one narrative survey response, echoing dozens of others expressing similar criticisms. “Enormous amounts of the faculty’s time was wasted. … We’ve been given new instructions repeatedly, have had to redo job descriptions and must search for all the positions simultaneously, which will be very difficult. I doubt the outcome will be good.” \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe new Provost Paul D'Anieri, on the other hand, speaking in the language of ownership often typical of senior management, insisted that UC Riverside is \"\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2016\/02\/01\/uc-riverside-faculty-survey-suggests-outrage-cluster-hiring-initiative\"\u003Every excited\u003C\/a\u003E\" about the clusters.  In this context I suppose that the faculty who spoke out are not part of Riverside.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEach of these cases--Chancellor Katehi's concealed service to UC competitors, UCOP's unilateralism, Berkeley's concealed re-engineering, and Riverside's top down hiring--is a symptom of the general disconnect of senior administrators from the everyday life of the university community.  Remarkably, their faith in the wisdom of that world survives the self-inflicted wounds that recur again and again through the disconnection between central administration and faculty and staff. In this the University mimics the world at large, where technocratic elites, anxiously mixing with the masters of capital and business, ignore the needs of the population while their societies and polities spiral ever downward.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/785598063146511321\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/managerial-disconnect_7.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/785598063146511321"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/785598063146511321"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/managerial-disconnect_7.html","title":"Managerial Disconnect"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-yIOaTkThckM\/VtzaPIxhuAI\/AAAAAAAAA1A\/8bkQZnCLM0k\/s72-c\/marlborough-house-time-of-anne-mansion-westminster-london-pall-mall-B8P4GJ.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$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"}}]}});