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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":"64"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"10"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-4150466942332875977"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-03T10:11:00.004-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-03T10:11:23.114-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Grad Student Strike"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Policing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCPD"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Days of Refusal of Campus Police"},"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\/-7msmJ74BJ0o\/YI_fDIgjqWI\/AAAAAAAAE9M\/LL9xXlXiaw4qGwKK3KIEikF0kOaxuB6xwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1440\/Policing%2BUCPD%2BAtlantic092814Rise%2Bof%2BLawEnforcement%2Bon%2BCampus.webp\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"810\" data-original-width=\"1440\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-7msmJ74BJ0o\/YI_fDIgjqWI\/AAAAAAAAE9M\/LL9xXlXiaw4qGwKK3KIEikF0kOaxuB6xwCNcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h225\/Policing%2BUCPD%2BAtlantic092814Rise%2Bof%2BLawEnforcement%2Bon%2BCampus.webp\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EVarious universities have hosted a range of events leading up May 3rd's abolitionist Day of Refusal, meaning a strike day. This is meant to kick off a month of direct actions (described on\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/copsoffcampuscoalition.com\/abolition-may\/\"\u003E the Cops off Campus website\u003C\/a\u003E) to raise awareness of the necessity and the possibility of converting most or all policing functions to constructive forms of safety practices, care, and community engagement. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring the George Floyd phase of the Black Lives Matter movement last year, ideas about police replacement arrived in the mainstream media, like \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2020\/06\/12\/defund-police-violent-crime\/?arc404=true\"\u003Ethese\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;good ones from a Princeton sociologist in the Washington \u003Ci\u003EPost\u003C\/i\u003E. \u0026nbsp;If campus police departments had been formed to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2015\/09\/college-campus-policing\/407659\/\"\u003Ereduce the chances of regular cops busting student heads\u003C\/a\u003E during anti-Vietnam war protests in the 1960s and 1970s, student heads were now in greater danger from campus police during contemporary protests--or non-protests: UCPD found the limelight in 2006 when UCLA \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-2006-nov-18-me-taser18-story.html\"\u003Epolice tasered a student who was studyin\u003C\/a\u003Eg in Powell Library.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-YgWT8OldKjg\/YI_e1D1HILI\/AAAAAAAAE9I\/Ik6cI0m7J6wz41nyuyn9m4EsKr9rSb0HACNcBGAsYHQ\/s640\/Taser_rally_2.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"480\" data-original-width=\"640\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-YgWT8OldKjg\/YI_e1D1HILI\/AAAAAAAAE9I\/Ik6cI0m7J6wz41nyuyn9m4EsKr9rSb0HACNcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h300\/Taser_rally_2.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhen the UC Regents passed large tuition hikes in 2009 and 2011, students protested them. Various forms of UCPD misconduct wound up in the public eye, with \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/UC-campus-police-move-in-on-student-protesters-2323667.php\"\u003Ebeatings and arrests at UC Berkeley\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in November 2011, including of campus faculty (see \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/why-i-got-arrested-with-occupy-cal-and.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EProf. Celeste Langan's post\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;about her arrest, and Prof. \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/ddeepening-chill-in-berkeley-recap-of.html\"\u003EGreg Levine's recap of political repression against campus protest).\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;UCPD-Davis's Sgt. Pike then went on a world-famous pepper-spray rampage. This killed off any lingering sense that campus police were special--more collaborative and communicative, less anti-student, less violent towards the unresisting than off-campus forces. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-IZkntk4m5R4\/YI_xnWJCFpI\/AAAAAAAAE9Y\/S7oSX926fMQDwDHX2qTKuh60iq4r2UFnACNcBGAsYHQ\/s1926\/Policing%2BPepper%2BSpray%2BPike%2BUCDavis%2B1111.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1282\" data-original-width=\"1926\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-IZkntk4m5R4\/YI_xnWJCFpI\/AAAAAAAAE9Y\/S7oSX926fMQDwDHX2qTKuh60iq4r2UFnACNcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h266\/Policing%2BPepper%2BSpray%2BPike%2BUCDavis%2B1111.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EIn reaction, UCOP sponsored a report (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/final-uc-report-protests-and-policing-released\"\u003EEdley and Robinson, 2012\u003C\/a\u003E) on UCPD conduct, but not much happened. Police abuse also did not become a tenure-track faculty issue. For example, \u0026nbsp;Davis faculty\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/davis-agonistes.html\"\u003E senate sided with Chancellor Katehi\u003C\/a\u003E while condemning Sgt Pike's actions. The 2009-13 period offers a long, dynamic example of why policing activists are so deeply skeptical about \"police reform.\" \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EA defining campus cop incident occurred in July 2015, when \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/30\/us\/university-of-cincinnati-officer-indicted-in-shooting-death-of-motorist.html?_r=0\"\u003Ea University of Cincinnati police officer killed Samuel Dubose\u003C\/a\u003E during a routine traffic stop off campus. After this, the media paid more attention to the \u003Ca href=\"greater opacity of campus police reporting\"\u003Egreater opacity of campus police reporting\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;their lesser training compared to municipal departments in many jurisdictions, and their not-so-different bad treatment of people from marginalized groups.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe protests that really brought out the police were opposed to the effects of austerity policies that the university itself was \u0026nbsp;unable or unwilling to oppose. These were often tuition hikes that disparately punished poor students and students of color. These protests worked, with the nail in coffin being protests\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/wild-day-at-uc-regents-stakes-of.html\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;in 2014)\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;The state did not replace missing tuition hikes with meaningful state increases, as we've had occasion to note, so austerity effects continue to the present day. The grad student COLA strike at UC Santa Cruz in 2019-20 was another turn of the screw. They brought heavy police containment of strikers by various police forces, and appeared to be part of a strategy of physically intimidating the students to drop the strike. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Et_G1eS2cnw\/YI_0X9RkyVI\/AAAAAAAAE9g\/JDZm7iAlyqUL7HKegyndd8hfqLUGij_RwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1484\/Policing%2BSanta%2BCruz%2BStrike%2B0220%2B2.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"982\" data-original-width=\"1484\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Et_G1eS2cnw\/YI_0X9RkyVI\/AAAAAAAAE9g\/JDZm7iAlyqUL7HKegyndd8hfqLUGij_RwCNcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h265\/Policing%2BSanta%2BCruz%2BStrike%2B0220%2B2.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vZ7Owy7yP-8\/YI_0XzJ_2wI\/AAAAAAAAE9k\/4qvDwId7JVA7XUQg-wsh3u1FX2bymNVVwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1274\/Policing%2BSanta%2BCruz%2BStrike%2B0220.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1012\" data-original-width=\"1274\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vZ7Owy7yP-8\/YI_0XzJ_2wI\/AAAAAAAAE9k\/4qvDwId7JVA7XUQg-wsh3u1FX2bymNVVwCNcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h318\/Policing%2BSanta%2BCruz%2BStrike%2B0220.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPhoto Credit: \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2020\/02\/12\/at-least-17-arrests-as-ucsc-students-stand-off-against-police\/\"\u003EMerc News\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe later administrative suspension of the strikers who withheld grades (see Michael's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/ucsc-fate-of-graduate-education-and.html\"\u003Eoverview\u003C\/a\u003E), made policing again seem an extension of administrative refusal to take student concerns seriously, deliberate democratically, and find adequate funding for the educational core.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EIn 2020, UCLA faculty discovered that \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/ucla-lets-lapd-use-jackie-robinson.html\"\u003Ethe LAPD geeks arrested BLM protesters on a campus baseball field\u003C\/a\u003E named for the barrier-breaking Black baseball legend and UCLA alum Jackie Robinson. This suggested that the one big advantage of the UCPD--that they were not the LAPD--could be readily set aside. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EDerek Chauvin's guilty verdict--in the Minneapolis trial of George Floyd's killer--coupled with ongoing police killings in the days before and after, have increased an interest in permanent policing changes that goes all the way to the White House. It's into this context that UCOP has recently launched proposals for changes in UC police policy. They include a ludicrous plan to form a kind of UC SWAT that would be deployed around the state to tamp down alleged unrest. \u0026nbsp;Here you can find Dylan Rodriguez\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/campus-safety-task-forces-as-police.html\"\u003Ediscussing Cops Off Campus\u003C\/a\u003E in the context of policing task forces, and Michael recently \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/ucop-doubles-down-on-militarized.html\"\u003Eposting on the UC police proposals\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAnother good place for background on the no- combined issues of overall police conversion and stopping a new militarization of UCPD is this\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ucsbfa.org\/town-hall-report-may-3-day-of-refusal-and-ucop-police-reform-proposals\/\"\u003EUCSB Faculty Association post.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;It has a number of links to statements and explainers about local and national dimensions, as well as its own statement, which nicely represents TT faculty who've mostly focused on faculty welfare, academic freedom, administrative misconduct, and budgeting coming to take a meaningful stand on campus police transformation, and linking it to core faculty concerns.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOf course I can't stop without making a budget point. The political economy of universities is now pressuring units toward for-profit activities. The function of policing in this model was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reclaimuc.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/how-much-money-does-university-of.html\"\u003Enicely described in a big\u003Ci\u003E Reclaim UC\u003C\/i\u003E post last year.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; It itemizes UC police budgets and also offers an important analysis of how policing fits into a skewed administrative understanding of risk management. Here I'll close with a simpler point about quantities of expenditure. \u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EReclaim UC\u003C\/i\u003E notes that UCSB's police budget was just under $11 million in 2018-19 (the UC range of \u003Ci\u003Ebase\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;budgets\u0026nbsp;is from $5 million to $22.4 million in that year). \u0026nbsp;The 2019-20 grad COLA strike was for a pay increase that would eliminate \"rent burden\" for grad workers. My calculation at the time was that to take all rent burdened UCSB grads out of burden would cost UCSB about $5.2 million a year--or around half of the police budget. \u0026nbsp;(I'll do the math in a future post on the new rent hikes at UCSD.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI hope Abolition May moves the debate toward some deep and comprehensive police conversion.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4150466942332875977\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/days-of-refusal-of-campus-police.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4150466942332875977"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4150466942332875977"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/days-of-refusal-of-campus-police.html","title":"Days of Refusal of Campus Police"}],"author":[{"name":{"$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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-7msmJ74BJ0o\/YI_fDIgjqWI\/AAAAAAAAE9M\/LL9xXlXiaw4qGwKK3KIEikF0kOaxuB6xwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w400-h225-c\/Policing%2BUCPD%2BAtlantic092814Rise%2Bof%2BLawEnforcement%2Bon%2BCampus.webp","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-6887714887704713689"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-24T10:18:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-24T10:18:45.305-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"President Drake"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCPD"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"UCOP Doubles Down on Militarized Policing"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-uaxtSmkB86c\/YIMp5BkfrAI\/AAAAAAAADZ4\/epx_Crz3BK4GhtRk4jaPIH80twS06mvngCLcBGAsYHQ\/s272\/Gendarmes.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"185\" data-original-width=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-uaxtSmkB86c\/YIMp5BkfrAI\/AAAAAAAADZ4\/epx_Crz3BK4GhtRk4jaPIH80twS06mvngCLcBGAsYHQ\/s0\/Gendarmes.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAlthough Derek Chauvin's conviction for the murder of George Floyd offers essential accountability for one case of police violence, it is a small step towards a genuine reordering of public safety around notions of justice.\u0026nbsp; As Simon Balto has\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/apr\/22\/derek-chauvin-verdict-police-race-us\"\u003E pointed out\u003C\/a\u003E, the prosecutors made a serious and effective effort to separate Chauvin from \"good policing\" in order to treat him as a particularly violent officer.\u0026nbsp; Balto also suggests that a similar argument can be made about the Department of Justice's quick move to investigate the Minneapolis police department.\u0026nbsp; Both moves are necessary but they run the risk of providing accountability for a singular case while leaving intact the basic assumptions and structures of American policing.\u0026nbsp; Both the prosecution and the investigation are moments along a road that has been opened up by years of protest, legal action, critique, and reimagination of the possibilities for public safety.\u0026nbsp; Neither the Chauvin conviction nor the Minneapolis investigation mark a leap forward, but they do not impede the movement to transform if not abolish policing.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut you would never know about these developments if you read \u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EUCOP's\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/underreview\/gold-book-systemwide-review.pdf\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Police Policies and Administrative Procedures\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;proposals.\u0026nbsp; Altering what is commonly referred to as \"The Gold Book,\" these proposals ignore the wide-ranging debates and criticisms of UC policing over the last year--including those from the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/reports\/kkb-jn-recommendations-uc-policing.pdf\"\u003EAcademic Council\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; Instead, UCOP has pushed towards an even more militarized and coercive structure for UCPD.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;Although certain of the changes simply bring UCPD into compliance with legal requirements, as on the issue of federal law authorizing\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/sites\/all\/files\/agweb\/pdfs\/firearms\/forms\/leosasummary.pdf\"\u003Eretired police officers\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in good standing to carry concealed weapons anywhere in the United States.\u0026nbsp; But those clauses should not blind us to the extent to which UCOP is voluntarily structuring UCPD with disregard to the multiple concerns raised within the university community and in ways that increase the likelihood of violence being used by UCPD.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EI urge everyone to read the policy for themselves.\u0026nbsp; Everyone has until May 7 to send in comments on the proposed policy (you will find an address in the policy proposal).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EBut I would like to point out 3 instances within the policy that signify a complete disregard for community concerns.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E1) The first occurs in Section 1506 and allows for a wide range of exceptions to the requirement to wear and keep active body cameras:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExceptions to required activation or continuation of the BWV recording are:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(a) When, in the officer’s judgment, activation, continuing to record, or changing the BWV\nfunctions would jeopardize their safety or the safety of the public. However, the officer\nshall activate or re-activate their BWV as soon as it is safe and practicable to do so unless\nother exceptional circumstances exist;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Eb) When, in the officer’s judgment, a recording would interfere with their ability to conduct\nan investigation;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;(c) When recording could risk the safety of a confidential informant, citizen informant,\nvictim, or undercover officer;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(d) In patient care areas of a hospital, clinic, rape treatment center, or other healthcare facility\n(including mental health) unless enforcement action or evaluation by the officer under\nW\u0026amp;I §5150 et seq. is being taken in these areas. If recording is necessary, officers shall\nmake reasonable efforts to avoid recording individuals other than the subject;\nFinal 12 14 20\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;(e) Once a crime scene is secured and the officer no longer has an investigative role, and\nwhere the chance of encountering a suspect is unlikely;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(f) Prior to or while discussing a case on scene with other officers or during on-scene tactical\nplanning;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(g) When, in the officer’s judgment, privacy concerns outweigh any legitimate law\nenforcement interest in recording;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(h) When a call for service is a phone call or phone report only;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(i) When ordered to stop recording by a supervisor;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(j) When the recording of a person is in violation of the law. (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/underreview\/gold-book-systemwide-review.pdf\"\u003E6\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA few of these are reasonable.\u0026nbsp; But a), b), e), f), g), h), and i) offer a remarkably wide range for discretion that could\u0026nbsp;be used to conceal violations of law or policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E2) The policy also allows for a wide range of what it refers to as \"Pain Compliance Techniques\" (section 809) including: \"batons, conducted energy devices (CED), oleoresin capsicum (OC) spray, chemical\nagents, restraints, and kinetic energy projectiles (KE).\" (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/underreview\/gold-book-systemwide-review.pdf\"\u003E35\u003C\/a\u003E)\u0026nbsp; (The euphemisms are telling).\u0026nbsp; These can be used in a wide range of circumstances predicated on loose definitions of resistance, including, going limp,\u0026nbsp; locking of arms or even verbal actions indicating an intent not to comply. (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/underreview\/gold-book-systemwide-review.pdf\"\u003E30-31\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp; The issue is not whether these rules are legal.\u0026nbsp; Moreover, the University can and does insist that an officer's use of force be in accord with the \"reasonable officer\" doctrine asserted in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tile.loc.gov\/storage-services\/service\/ll\/usrep\/usrep490\/usrep490386\/usrep490386.pdf\"\u003EGraham v. Connor\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(1989).\u0026nbsp; The question is whether or not the University should be deploying these weapons and doctrines at a moment when policing needs to be rethought dramatically.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E3) Even these two aspects of the proposed policy pale in their failure to engage with the university as a whole compared to the proposed establishment of the Systemwide Response Team (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/underreview\/gold-book-systemwide-review.pdf\"\u003E15-23\u003C\/a\u003E). \u0026nbsp;I do not have the time to fully detail this section and I urge everyone to read it for themselves.\u0026nbsp; In essence, it aims to establish a special SWAT-like force across the entire system with its own command structure, policies, equipment and personnel drawn from local forces: each campus is expected to designate 20% of its police force members to participate in the SRT.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough protection of \"dignitaries\" is listed as one task of the SRT. it is difficult to imagine this force as designed for anything but the control of protests. \u0026nbsp;Interestingly, I have not heard any comments from UC's National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement on this issue.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn their comment on the Chauvin verdict, President Drake and Chair of the Regents Perez expressed the wish that it would help the country\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/uc-commends-chauvin-murder-trial-verdict\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\"\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.6); color: #333333;\"\u003Eto reimagine and work toward a safer and more equitable future for us all\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\" If they actually believe that they will recall this proposal and start a genuine process of rethinking policing at UC.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6887714887704713689\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/ucop-doubles-down-on-militarized.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6887714887704713689"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6887714887704713689"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/ucop-doubles-down-on-militarized.html","title":"UCOP Doubles Down on Militarized Policing"}],"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\/-uaxtSmkB86c\/YIMp5BkfrAI\/AAAAAAAADZ4\/epx_Crz3BK4GhtRk4jaPIH80twS06mvngCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/Gendarmes.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-4500161027274020685"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-17T14:38:00.004-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-17T14:44:26.064-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Covid-19"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Covid-19 Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cuts \u0026 Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Funding Model"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"FutherCuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"More Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Structural Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Regents"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Riverside"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":" Stop Redlining UCR! "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Y-YFWGOlY6w\/YC2azEc6qgI\/AAAAAAAAE60\/ZWkwtCRoa_ssC19rGRoSLJziVtuRQOkkgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1024\/ops.editorial.ucrtoday-1024x768.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"768\" data-original-width=\"1024\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Y-YFWGOlY6w\/YC2azEc6qgI\/AAAAAAAAE60\/ZWkwtCRoa_ssC19rGRoSLJziVtuRQOkkgCNcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h300\/ops.editorial.ucrtoday-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAn Open Letter to University of California President Michael V. Drake and the University of California Board of Regents\u003Cp\u003EDear President Drake and Members of the UC Board of Regents,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe write to you today with our backs against the wall. As department chairs and program directors in the most racially diverse college at one of the two most racially diverse campuses in the University of California system, we in UC Riverside’s College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS) and our staff and faculty colleagues across UCR have been struggling for years to make ends meet. Already chronically underfunded by the state, UCR was devastated by the budget decisions made by then-President Yudof and the Regents at the height of the Great Recession. We have worked in staggeringly understaffed and underfunded conditions since then. Yet on top of our chronic underfunding by the state, we now face an additional – and permanent – 11 percent budget cut. This is not just unsustainable financially, it is unsupportable on grounds of fairness, equity, and most importantly, of racial justice – pillars of the University of California’s mission.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUCR’s budget is made up almost entirely of salaries and benefits – in CHASS, the proportion is 98 percent. Thus any permanent budget cut inevitably is a cut in people. We hemorrhaged staff and faculty during the Great Recession, and although we have been able to hire additional faculty in subsequent years, our student population has grown rapidly enough to largely outpace those gains, leaving us severely overcrowded and still struggling to rebuild. Our world-class research university already operates on a shoestring; further cuts would be devastating. For many of us, this pattern of systemic neglect and chronic underfunding of a university serving a student body composed of at least 85 percent students of color is troublingly reminiscent of redlining, the practices consolidated after the Second World War that devastated thriving neighborhoods made up predominantly of people of color. We are writing to implore you to stop the redlining of UCR.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith roots stretching back to the turn of the twentieth century, UCR has a distinguished history in the UC system. A former agricultural experiment station, UCR was meant to serve as a flagship undergraduate institution in the UC system, serving the Inland region of Southern California. UCR is second only to UC Merced in the percentage of students of color, has one of the highest percentages of Pell grant recipients in the nation, and serves a student body that is well over 50 percent first-generation college students. Yet our increasingly brown and working-class campus has frequently been overlooked or sidelined within the UC system.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is not simply a symbolic move; even after a post-recession reconfiguration of the UC system’s distribution of state funds to its campuses, UCR currently receives approximately $8,500 per student, whereas UCLA receives closer to $11,500 and the Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, and San Diego campuses receive $10,000. Yet our student-to-faculty ratio is higher than the UC system average, and our student-to-staff ratio is fully 38% higher. We applaud the recent “re-benching” decision that will bring the funding of UCR and other under-funded campuses to within 95 percent of the systemwide per-student average by 2024. But as with redlined neighborhoods, the damage to UCR’s resources from decades of neglect cannot be reversed simply by bringing our support from the system up to an amount that is only slightly below average rather than grossly below average, nor will the phased-in implementation of this plan help us avoid devastation in the present moment. We were facing an 11 percent budget cut before the announcement of the re-benching; we are facing the same budget cut after its announcement, because rebenching is not enough.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt takes more funding, not less, to create an educational environment in which first-generation college students and students of color can thrive. UCR has been lauded for closing the gap in graduation rates between white students and students of color, and for the past two years \u003Ci\u003EUS News and World Report\u003C\/i\u003E has ranked us the top US university for social mobility. We have an internationally renowned faculty that includes two Nobel Laureates, close to fifty Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows, and nineteen Guggenheim Fellows. But in addition to being highly accomplished researchers, scholars, and artists, our faculty are something more: many of us came to and have remained at UCR because of our deep commitment to serving first-generation and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) students. UCR educates Californians – 96 percent of our students are California residents – and in return, because we do not expand our budget with out-of-state tuition, we suffer. Were all UC campuses facing the same dire circumstances, we would weather the storm shoulder-to-shoulder with them. Instead, we are being left out in the cold yet again: when many colleges at other UC campuses are losing only two to three percent of their budgets, we are facing the stark decisions demanded by an 11 percent permanent budget cut. This abandonment by the President’s office and the Board of Regents is a demoralizing example of structural racism.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor nearly a year, we have all witnessed the disproportionate impact of both COVID-19 and the pandemic-induced recession on BIPOC communities, some of them the same communities devastated by redlining and nearly destroyed by the Great Recession. Communities subjected to decades and, in many cases, centuries of systemic racism have few of the resources that have helped many white communities to remain safe and financially solvent during this crisis. Systematically deprived of resources through decades of neglect, our campus – with one of the brownest and poorest student bodies in the entire UC system – is facing economic devastation. How will staff who already do the work of two people take on more, if we have to cut our staffing even further? How will departments that are already stretched to breaking stretch further? Should we increase our teaching load even more, and destroy the stellar educational system we have built in favor of an impersonal factory model? Should we turn away from our research and creative production and deprive our students of the cutting-edge insights and opportunities afforded by a world-class faculty? With a globally engaged student body, should we meekly accept the elimination of UCR from the UCDC program and others like it? The UC system clearly believes that students at other UC campuses deserve these opportunities; are our students any less deserving?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe correlation is glaring between the fact that we serve one of the highest numbers of BIPOC students in the system, the historic lack of systemwide investment in our campus, and the offer of a solution that brings the UC system’s support of us to less far below average over the course of the next several years. In a time of long-overdue attention to the destruction wreaked by systemic racism in the US, it should finally be clear that UCR’s students deserve a fully equal investment from the UC system, including support to correct for years of economic marginalization. It’s time to stop redlining UCR.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERespectfully,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJuliann Emmons Allison, Director, Global Studies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESheila Bergman, Executive Director, UCR ARTS\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHeidi Brayman, Director, Liberal Studies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERogerio Budasz, Chair, Department of Music\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEdward T. Chang, Director, Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies Christopher K. Chase-Dunn, Director, Institute for Research on World-Systems Walter A. Clark, Director, Center for Iberian and Latin American Music Derick A. Fay, Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETod Goldberg, Program Director, Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing \u0026amp; Writing for the Performing Arts\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWeihsin Gui, Director, Southeast Asian Studies Program\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESherine Hafez, Chair, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESteven M. Helfand, Chair, Department of Economics\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERickerby Hinds, Chair, Department of Theater, Film, and Digital Production Tamara C. Ho, Director, California Center for Native Nations\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMatthew King, Director, Asian Studies Program\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJacques Lezra, Chair, Department of Hispanic Studies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDavid Lloyd, Chair, Department of English\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETom Lutz, Chair, Department of Creative Writing\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJohn N. Medearis, Chair, Department of Political Science\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYunhee Min, Chair, Department of Art\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJennifer R. Nájera, Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDaniel Ozer, Chair, Department of Psychology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAndrews Reath, Chair, Department of Philosophy\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEllen Reese, Co-Chair, Department of Sociology and Chair of Labor Studies Judith Rodenbeck, Chair, Department of Media and Cultural Studies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJeff Sacks, Chair, Department of Comparative Literature and Languages Michele Salzman, Chair, Department of History\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoel Mejia Smith, Chair, Department of Dance\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGlenn Stanley, Co-chair, Department of Sociology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJason Weems, Chair, Department of the History of Art\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMelissa M. Wilcox, Chair, Department of Religious Studies\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4500161027274020685\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/stop-redlining-ucr.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4500161027274020685"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4500161027274020685"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/stop-redlining-ucr.html","title":" Stop Redlining UCR! "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Y-YFWGOlY6w\/YC2azEc6qgI\/AAAAAAAAE60\/ZWkwtCRoa_ssC19rGRoSLJziVtuRQOkkgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w400-h300-c\/ops.editorial.ucrtoday-1024x768.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-9132012026213510402"},"published":{"$t":"2020-12-31T07:12:00.003-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-12-31T01:24:14.173-08:00"},"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. . . . It's 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 campus's enrollments at the start of the rebenching period were actually rebenched. (I am inferring this from the fact that I 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-4178554853527742188"},"published":{"$t":"2020-11-26T09:03:00.004-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-11-26T10:41:59.399-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"carbon offsets"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"climate crisis"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"climate policy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Carbon Neutrality at the University of California is a form of Climate Change Denial"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-4bFbk_g5EN8\/X7_f0H50RcI\/AAAAAAAAEzI\/8PUp1o67D5Eswv53F0v3YW36TTHoPXqTACNcBGAsYHQ\/s1436\/UCSD1.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1026\" data-original-width=\"1436\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-4bFbk_g5EN8\/X7_f0H50RcI\/AAAAAAAAEzI\/8PUp1o67D5Eswv53F0v3YW36TTHoPXqTACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/UCSD1.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ci\u003Eby Cathy Gere and Adam Aron,\u0026nbsp; professors at UC San Diego\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuch has been written about the problem of denial of climate change science. But the University of California exemplifies another, possibly much tougher, problem: How do you go from acceptance of the science to action?\u0026nbsp;\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe UC  is a leader in climate change research and policy. And yet, its ten campuses emit more than a million metric tons of CO2 every year from burning natural gas, a fossil fuel, to provide heating, cooling and electricity. Many in the current generation of UC students -- increasingly aware of the extent to which global heating poses an existential threat to their futures -- are asking themselves why a university that has done so much to raise the alarm about greenhouse gases has done so little to curb its own emissions. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2013, then-UC-president Janet Napolitano launched the ‘Carbon Neutrality Initiative.’ This  unfunded mandate, handed down from the Office of the President to the individual campuses, promised that the university would go ‘carbon neutral’ by 2025.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the first few years, the focus was on energy efficiency measures, such as better insulation, and lights that turned on with movement sensors. These efforts were successful in reducing emissions, but those savings have now been erased with a dramatic new building plan at the UCs. While the efficiency gains were an achievement, the low-hanging efficiency fruit are now all picked, and the emissions goals set by President Napolitano are still way out of reach. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThree quarters of the university’s energy is supplied by natural gas, a fossil fuel, obtained by highly toxic hydraulic fracturing methods that emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The UC looked into replacing fossil natural gas with biofuels, but that is, at best, a limited solution: there are serious problems with price, scale, and supply.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA group of experts concluded that the only path to genuine decarbonization lay with electrification of the campus energy systems, but that was rejected as too expensive. Meanwhile, billions of dollars were found for new buildings.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo, with minimal investment in genuinely decarbonizing the university’s energy systems, the Carbon Neutrality Initiative is planning to make up the shortfall with inexpensive \"carbon offsets.\" These are schemes to which institutions and individuals contribute, to try to \"make good\" on their own greenhouse gas emissions: for example, UC continues to burn natural gas while paying for forest preservation somewhere else. These carbon offsets have been called ‘licenses to pollute’ and likened to the ‘indulgences’ of the Catholic church (a pay-for-prayer scam). Thus, for the UC, ‘carbon neutrality’ does not mean reducing its emissions; it means paying people elsewhere (generally in low-income countries) to reduce their emissions while we go about business-as-usual.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlong with many members of the wider climate action and climate justice movement, we object to offset in principle and in practice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFirst, we object to offsets in principle. The idea that we can pay someone in a poor part of the globe to reduce their emissions so that people in the richest country in the world can continue to burn fossil fuels and emit greenhouse gases is morally bankrupt.  Even if it works exactly as promised (which we very much doubt), all that ‘carbon neutrality’ achieves is the maintenance of the status quo. The IPCC 2018, backed by the world's governments, was very clear: we need to reduce emissions by about 50% by 2030 from 2010 levels to have a chance of keeping global heating to only 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. So the UC must stop burning natural gas. It can also, at the same time, support reforestation projects. The latter is no substitute for the former.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESecond, we object to offsets in practice. To take just one example of an offset program that the University has already mooted, indigenous reforestation in Ecuador, this can hardly be computed in terms of sequestered tonnes of CO2.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor such a scheme to work, trees have to be planted across an enormous area and reach maturity. Wildcat logging, mining and agricultural encroachment have to be held at bay. Political agreements have to be honored without corruption. How likely is it that all these things will hold true at a time when the climate emergency is accelerating and countries are experiencing increased instability as a result?   \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe UC is currently soliciting feedback about the carbon offset program from members of the university community. We are urging the administration to abandon the offsets program publicly, and to redirect the resources set aside for it into planning for electrification of the campus energy systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAny path to stopping global heating must pass through genuine decarbonization of our infrastructure. Investing in a false accounting of ‘carbon neutrality’ is a form of climate denial: it denies the reality of our emissions and our responsibility to curb them. The UC prides itself on being a climate leader; we want the university to lead the world in real solutions, not in greenwashing.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4178554853527742188\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/11\/carbon-neutrality-at-university-of.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4178554853527742188"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4178554853527742188"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/11\/carbon-neutrality-at-university-of.html","title":"Carbon Neutrality at the University of California is a form of Climate Change Denial"}],"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\/-4bFbk_g5EN8\/X7_f0H50RcI\/AAAAAAAAEzI\/8PUp1o67D5Eswv53F0v3YW36TTHoPXqTACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/UCSD1.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-4948374734555641468"},"published":{"$t":"2020-07-06T16:01:00.002-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-07-08T14:47:17.843-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Admin Responses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Presidential search"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"UC's Next President: A Few Necessities  (Updated for the Appointment of former UC Irvine Chancellor Michael V. Drake)"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-LMplQ2HmOAA\/XwUKt6h0DgI\/AAAAAAAAEnU\/lEBL_802LUUYkfQ9lmwhzgyKpMyzlkC-ACNcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/michaelvdrake.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"570\" data-original-width=\"545\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-LMplQ2HmOAA\/XwUKt6h0DgI\/AAAAAAAAEnU\/lEBL_802LUUYkfQ9lmwhzgyKpMyzlkC-ACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/michaelvdrake.jpg\" width=\"305\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nCalifornia is a state with nearly 40 million people (bigger than Canada and Poland, smaller than Algeria and Spain). It had a 2019 Gross State Product of around $3.2 trillion (bigger than India, Great Britain and France, smaller than Germany and Japan).\u0026nbsp; It has ten research universities with the letters \"UC\" in front of their place names. Each of those ten universities has a president, though the ten call this president a \"chancellor.\"\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Tomorrow, July 7th, the UC Board of Regents will announce their selection for UC president, a kind of president of presidents.\u0026nbsp; What functions might this new person perform\u0026nbsp; to avoid being superfluous, or worse, a conduit of oligarchic state policy into the university?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nA few come to mind, moving from specific to general. The new president should:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E1. Get separate state and federal funding for full Covid-19 mitigation. \u003C\/i\u003EAfter \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/why-public-universities-cant-take-new.html\"\u003Etwo decades of austerity budgets,\u003C\/a\u003E March-June 2020 losses of\u0026nbsp; $1.8 billion, and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\"\u003Ea likely 7 percent cut from the state legislature for 2020-21\u003C\/a\u003E (p 43), UC doesn't have the money to open campuses safely. Continuous testing alone \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/going-online-due-to-covid-19-this-fall-could-hurt-colleges-future-138926\"\u003Ecould cost around $1 billion a year\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; The many other needed changes\u0026nbsp; would pile costs on top of that.\u0026nbsp; UC campuses may eventually decide to put fall term (almost) entirely online (they will need to comply with today's ICE rule that international students in all-online programs cannot stay in the United States).\u0026nbsp; But they shouldn't have the program decision forced by sheer lack of funds for testing, tracing, isolating, and temporary facilities.\u0026nbsp; The new president will need to seek special Covid-19 funding for at least the two-year period 2020-22.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E2. Undo top-down governance.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/i\u003EPresident Richard Atkinson (1995-2003) was not an organizational democrat, but UCOP rule-giving used to be balanced by new-program funding and distinctive UCOP expertise.\u0026nbsp; The latter was long ago duplicated on the campuses, and UCOP no longer supports growth or quality upgrades: the underdeveloped Merced campus is Exhibit A, the Riverside campus's medical facility is Exhibit B . . . UCOP never asks the state for enough \nmoney to cover the actual costs of combining full access with high \nquality. Several years of underfunded enrollment increases--the \"surge\" that President Napolitano \nnegotiated with Jerry Brown and state government--caused serious damage \nto education on the campuses, but this news, which I and others still \nregularly try to convey in meetings with UCOP officials, has yet to be received.\u0026nbsp; Although they are removed from the everyday struggles of the campuses, UCOP monopolizes the University's public image as well as its governmental and financial policy.\u0026nbsp; Campuses spend quite a bit of time conveying basic information up the chain, with apparently limited success.\u0026nbsp; The next president will need to restore campus confidence in UCOP's ability to formulate policy that reflects campus needs, rather than trim campuses to fit state policy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E3. Fix the broken funding model\u003C\/i\u003E.\u0026nbsp; In the coming years, the University of California needs to do a lot of things: increase racial diversity and equality of outcomes, expand STEM research, fully support social and cultural research, improve undergraduate learning, increase doctoral student pay to relieve rent burden, rebuild a deteriorating physical plant, reverse the adjuncting drift, and close employee pay gaps.\u0026nbsp; But UC doesn't have the money to do these things. The reason is that the half-privatized funding model doesn't work, and never did.\u0026nbsp; The only way to make up for low state funding is with massive, unacceptable tuition increases.\u0026nbsp; The only way to freeze or cut tuition is to increase public funding.\u0026nbsp; I've written volumes about this, with abundant data, but proof lies not only in the financial critique of privatization but in the policy of the privatizers themselves. The \"compact\" with UC and CSU devised by Arnold Schwarzenegger and his first finance director, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/to-reduce-political-fraud-budgeting.html\"\u003EDonna Arduin\u003C\/a\u003E, cut state funding increases to 2-3 percent per year. But even they knew that neither UC nor CSU could live on that, so the compact required tuition increases of 7-10 percent per year.\u0026nbsp; Those folks didn't care about UC greatness, but they understood that if they held state funding growth to inflation then UC would need in-state tuition of around $20,000 by this year to keep the place afloat. Today, UC gets about \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/why-public-universities-cant-take-new.html\"\u003E40 percent per student of its 2001-02 funding\u003C\/a\u003E, had that kept up with enrollment and state income growth. The next president needs to rebuild the public funding model, not do extend and pretend with the current semi-privatized hybrid. This person will also need to explain that \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/when-are-access-and-inclusion-also.html\"\u003Epoliticians who underfund\u0026nbsp; public universities are politicians who advance systemic racism\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E4. Redefine university education around nonmonetary goals.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/i\u003EA college degree should lead to employment at good wages, but this is the only thing college presidents and politicians have been selling lately. \u0026nbsp; Economists and policymakers also fixatee on college's impact on upward mobility, which is another version of wage gains.\u0026nbsp; There are two problems with this.\u0026nbsp; First, private monetary effects are only a portion of higher ed's total effects, which are mostly social or nonmonetary or both. (Nonmonetary benefits include analytical skill, research findings, and dozens of others.)\u0026nbsp; So colleges hide most of their benefits behind a rhetorical invisibility cloak, and speak only of money all the time.\u0026nbsp; Second, the money payoff has never been more uncertain in the postwar era than it is today.\u0026nbsp; Net monetary gains have become harder and riskier as the cost of a degree goes up and automation and the gig economy chew into the white-collar vocations that seemed impregnable as recently as the 1990s.\u0026nbsp; Recall Robert Reich's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Work-Nations-Preparing-21st-Century-Capitalism\/dp\/0394583523\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1594075841\u0026amp;sr=8-1\"\u003E\"symbolic-analysts\" inheriting the earth,\u003C\/a\u003E then read Scott Timberg for a good overview of the 2010s in his book subtitled \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Culture-Crash-Killing-Creative-Class\/dp\/0300216939\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1\u0026amp;keywords=culture+crash\u0026amp;qid=1593984398\u0026amp;sr=8-1\"\u003E\"the killing of the creative class.\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe current economy weakens higher ed's financial arguments, but the next president should see this as an opportunity to take the PR eggs out of a shrinking basket, and educate everyone on the non-monetary and social benefits of universities.\u0026nbsp; The latter are more exciting and gratifying than wages alone, but more to the point, they are more durable in our post-knowledge economy in which universities are building a post-middle class. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOverall, I'm perhaps most sad about how hard it has been for UC folks to feel excited about and confident in the university's future.\u0026nbsp; Recent presidents have modeled a diminished realism, which has meant accepting less and learning the austerity mindset.\u0026nbsp; This is obviously at odds with the state and country's self-image as heroic leaders of technological and social progress, but who notices the contradiction anymore?\u0026nbsp; The Regents further demoralized the UC community by kicking everyone except themselves out of the search process, and making the selection of the next president an expression of their sole ownership of the University.\u0026nbsp; Then Covid-19 came along, and the immediate reflex was to start planning for cuts. With rare exceptions, administrators did not resist, even for a few days. It's obvious to me that the university, the state, and the country can only \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/our-converging-crises-iii-we-need-to.html\"\u003Espend its way out of this crisis\u003C\/a\u003E, and that we should spend massively on the things we want, like environmental sustainability, intellectual progress, and social justice. Universities should be central articulators of the solutions.\u0026nbsp; Do we have it in us? We've spent years just trying to hang on financially while ignoring the stupid slings and arrows politically.\u0026nbsp; Can we still go really big?\u0026nbsp; UC needs a president that wants a major role for universities in maximalist social reconstruction-- and will learn from the people of the university how to enable it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EUPDATE JULY 7:\u003C\/b\u003E My first reaction to the widely-expected announcement that Michael Drake is coming back to UC as president is total relief.\u0026nbsp; He's an academic. He's an educator. He's a good administrator. He knows how UC works.\u0026nbsp; He will not require basic education--quite the opposite. He'll be the first president of color of a university whose student body is\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2BMyMtg\"\u003E 27 percent white.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; He is\u0026nbsp; certainly capable of doing the things listed above.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTwo other things.\u0026nbsp; During the financial crisis of 2007-2011, when he was serving as Irvine's chancellor, he told the regents more of the truth about quality decline on campus than did any other officials. In \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/change-culture-of-helplessness.html\"\u003EMarch 2011\u003C\/a\u003E, he told the Board that \"faculty members now spend a great deal of \ntime mitigating damage caused by cuts rather than building for the \nfuture. He described the situation of the University as one of slow \ndecay rather than growth. Most effort is focused on protecting the \neducational path for students; innovation and growth are not being \nfostered.\"\u0026nbsp; He fudged it a bit, and said UC was going from A+ to A, but his statements of struggle and slow decline was a pointed heresy in a rigid, formulaic governing system. It got the regents to pay more attention to the chancellors. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOn the other hand, Drake gave up on public funding in the 2000s. He may continue to think, as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/change-culture-of-helplessness.html\"\u003EI wrote at the time\u003C\/a\u003E, that \"the budget shortfalls can be handled with regrettable but \nnonetheless manageable layoffs that have already taken place.  The \nnon-UC reader would think, well they’re tightening their belts and \nfixing their IT problems and we’ll end up with a UC that gets an A for \nonly $2.5 billion in state funds.  There is no screaming on our end that\n says no it cannot be this way and also no it need not be this way.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMichael Drake is an historic appointment--of a continuity candidate, in a time when continuity won't work, in the minimal sense of keeping UC solvent with an intact workforce.\u0026nbsp; If he is going to rebuild UC for the future, by doing those things listed above, he will need help and also pressure from faculty, staff, and students beyond anything that has been offered up before. Lots of work to do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4948374734555641468\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/ucs-next-president-few-necessities.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4948374734555641468"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4948374734555641468"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/ucs-next-president-few-necessities.html","title":"UC's Next President: A Few Necessities  (Updated for the Appointment of former UC Irvine Chancellor Michael V. Drake)"}],"author":[{"name":{"$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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-LMplQ2HmOAA\/XwUKt6h0DgI\/AAAAAAAAEnU\/lEBL_802LUUYkfQ9lmwhzgyKpMyzlkC-ACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/michaelvdrake.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-2347553963041672678"},"published":{"$t":"2020-01-13T08:52:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-01-13T13:08:08.642-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Funding Model"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guest post"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Janet Napolitano"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Regents"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"First Look at the Governor's UC Budget Proposal"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yzvUpxk1wfc\/XhvUA4OIobI\/AAAAAAAAC6I\/3etUANCSuOk97KoXHh8yn4TJowMnh3FZACLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/04052018-happisburgh-cliffwalk%2B%25281%2529.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"528\" data-original-width=\"937\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yzvUpxk1wfc\/XhvUA4OIobI\/AAAAAAAAC6I\/3etUANCSuOk97KoXHh8yn4TJowMnh3FZACLcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/04052018-happisburgh-cliffwalk%2B%25281%2529.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EBy Eric Hays \u003C\/i\u003E(CUCFA)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EGovernor Gavin Newson presented his 2020-21 state budget proposal last\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EFriday. The full budget summary is \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/2020-21\/pdf\/BudgetSummary\/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Ethe detailed budget for higher ed can be found \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/budget\/2020-21\/#\/Department\/6440\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EUC Board of Regents Chair John Pérez and UC President Janet Napolitano\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Equickly\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/statement-uc-board-regents-chair-p-rez-and-uc-president-napolitano-gov-newsom-s-budget\"\u003E put out a statement\u003C\/a\u003E wherein they essentially thanked the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EGovernor for his generosity. The concluding sentence is “UC appreciates\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Ethe governor’s strong continued support of higher education and looks\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eforward to our ongoing partnership.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EWhile there is something to be said for the politics of maybe getting\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Emore of what you want by being polite rather than by being rude, I think\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Ethere is real harm in UC making such a public statement as it probably\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Egives the public the idea that UC is being generously funded by the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Estate while that is absolutely not true. And this proposed budget,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eshould it pass, will simply make things worse.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003ELet me start by pointing out that California public universities are p\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Erovided less funding per student than any state except Florida (see the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.co m\/pro file\/sheeo#!\/vizhome\/SHEF_FY18_Interactive_Data\/About\"\u003E\"Total Education Revenue per FTE\" data\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EGovernor Newsom can, and did, at the his budget release press conference\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Epoint to a 5.8% increase in general fund base support for UC to try to\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Emake this budget proposal look generous, but that ignores so many things.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EThe first point to make about the increase in funding to UC is that this\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eis a 5.8% increase only if you just look at the general fund base\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Ebudget. In past budget years, the state has provided UC with substantial\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eone time funds. This year there is substantially less one time funding.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003ESo, when you look at total state funding of UC, base plus one-time\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Emoneys, the overall increase to UC is actually 1.3% in 2020-21 relative\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eto 2019-20. This compares to a 3.5% increase in state revenue overall,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eand a 2.2% average increase in state spending across all departments,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eindicating that UC is not a priority in this budget.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003ETo be fair, the table on page 25 of the budget summary link above shows\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Ethat, at the macro scale of looking just at the grossest division of\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eexpenditures in the state budget, Governor Newsom is proposing cutting\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Espending to almost every program in state government except Health and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EHuman Services, which gets a 13% increase, K-12, which gets a 1.6%\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eincrease, and Higher Education, which gets a 0.1% increase.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EPublic higher education, and UC specifically, then are getting a small\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eincrease in funding, but such a small increase will likely be\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Ecompletely countered by inflation.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EMore importantly, while funding is growing modestly, enrollment is\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Egrowing quickly. University wide headcount grew from about\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu\/2019\/chapters\/chapter-1.html\"\u003E 200,000 in\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu\/2019\/chapters\/chapter-1.html\"\u003E2015 to 222,493 in 2018\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EState funding for UC would have to grow at least as fast as enrollment\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eis growing if we were just to maintain the current funding per student\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003E(and remember, California is 49th of 50 states on this metric), and this\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Elow rate of growth in funding to UC is just not going to do it.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EWhat's more, the budget numbers above don't consider big portions of\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EUC's budget that the state has basically walked away from since the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Erecession: namely paying for UC's pension and paying for facilities.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EThe state used to pay pension costs for UC's state paid employees. But,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eafter the contribution holiday (when the UC Retirement System was more\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Ethan fully funded such that neither employer nor employee had to make\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Econtributions into it for nearly 20 years) ended in 2010, the state\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Erefused to restart their employer contributions to UCRS. Note that the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Estate continues to pay its share of retirement contributions for other\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Estate employees, such as faculty at CSU. As\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EUC's\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E2019-20 budget proposal indicates,\u003C\/span\u003E the\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Estate has shorted the UC Retirement System a total of about $3\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Ebillion since contributions restarted in 2010. \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ucop.edu\/operating-budget\/_files\/rbudget\/2019-20-budget-detail.pdf\"\u003E(160\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003ENewsom's budget last year included a $3 billion supplemental pension\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Epayment to pay unfunded liabilities of the CalPERS retirement plan over\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Efiscal years 2018-19 through 2022-23 plus $2.9 billion for CalSTRS (the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EK-12 teachers’ pension) to pay unfunded liabilities over the same\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eperiod. Although at one point debated, in the end there was no similar\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Edebt relief for UCRS in last year's budget. This year's budget proposes\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eaccelerating the payout to CalPERS so that the 2020-21 through 2022-23\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Emoneys would be paid in 2019-20 -- but still no money for UCRS.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EFor facilities, the state is short $20 billion in education and general\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Efacilities capital funding for UC -- the buildings and other\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Einfrastructure that UC needs for its core mission of teaching and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eresearch \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov19\/f6.pdf\"\u003E(about 1\/4 of which is seismic repairs and upgrades, 1\/4 is\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov19\/f6.pdf\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Erepairs and replacement of aging plant, and half is needed for expansion\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eof educational programs caused by past and ongoing rapid enrollment\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov19\/f6.pdf\"\u003Egrowth\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003EThe bottom line is that California public universities have long had to\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Edo more with less, causing real long term damage, and this budget\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003Eproposal is not going to change that.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2347553963041672678\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/01\/first-look-at-governors-uc-budget.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2347553963041672678"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2347553963041672678"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/01\/first-look-at-governors-uc-budget.html","title":"First Look at the Governor's UC Budget Proposal"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Michael Meranze"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05336793340375780406"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yzvUpxk1wfc\/XhvUA4OIobI\/AAAAAAAAC6I\/3etUANCSuOk97KoXHh8yn4TJowMnh3FZACLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/04052018-happisburgh-cliffwalk%2B%25281%2529.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-6546061472085737012"},"published":{"$t":"2019-08-21T16:44:00.002-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-08-04T17:26:11.754-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Shared Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Regents"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Epistemic Problems with Executive Appointment Power"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Fj09sESQp-8\/XV1SNK41YcI\/AAAAAAAAD_Q\/ES25-6p2lLo2pVU_YJo5xS4KNXSU_lScQCLcBGAs\/s1600\/ReillyJanet-and-Clint.-Bridge.2.-Jane-Richey.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"864\" data-original-width=\"578\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Fj09sESQp-8\/XV1SNK41YcI\/AAAAAAAAD_Q\/ES25-6p2lLo2pVU_YJo5xS4KNXSU_lScQCLcBGAs\/s400\/ReillyJanet-and-Clint.-Bridge.2.-Jane-Richey.jpg\" width=\"267\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nThe weakness of US democracy has been all over the mainstream media this summer.\u0026nbsp; For just one example, there's the title of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/08\/14\/magazine\/republicans-racism-african-americans.html?action=click\u0026amp;module=Top%20Stories\u0026amp;pgtype=Homepage\"\u003EJamelle Bouie's essay\u003C\/a\u003E on 1619\/2019: \"America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others.\"\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; On our beat, we have less catastrophic but still meaningful failures of American democratic practice: the governance of public universities, which are charged with creating democratic publics and racial justice, and which are governed autocratically nonetheless.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nThe still fairly new governor, Gavin Newsom, has \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2019\/08\/09\/governor-gavin-newsom-announces-council-for-post-secondary-education-higher-education-appointments\/\"\u003Emade some summer appointments in higher education\u003C\/a\u003E. The first is new UC regent Janet Reilly (at left, with her husband, Clint Reilly), a sometime journalist and long-time participant in the San Francisco Democratic party.\u0026nbsp; She has a bachelor's degree and a masters in journalism, but no other stated contact with higher education.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nBoard appointments have usually followed a rotten process, one \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/06\/how-to-improve-board-of-regents.html\"\u003Ewe've noted before\u003C\/a\u003E could be helped a lot just by following existing law.\u0026nbsp; This one doesn't either. Here is the official description of the appointee, in its entirety:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nJanet Reilly, 55, of San Francisco, has been appointed to the University \nof California Board of Regents. Reilly has been co-founder and president\n of the Board of Directors for Clinic by the Bay since 2008. She was \nappointed by President Barack Obama to be director of The Presidio Trust\n from 2015 to 2018. Reilly was director of the Golden Gate Bridge, \nHighway and Transportation District from 2003 to 2015, where she was \npresident of the Board of Directors from 2010 to 2012. She was executive\n producer and on-air television host of The Mix with Janet Reilly for \nNBC Bay Area – KNTV from 2014 to 2015, a trustee of the Golden Gate \nTransit Amalgamated Retirement and Health and Welfare Plans from 2010 to\n 2015 and director of public relations for Mervyn’s Department Stores \nfrom 1997 to 2001. Reilly was a district representative for Los Angeles \nMayor Richard Riordan from 1993 to 1995 and an on-air television \nreporter and anchor for KGWN-TV from 1990 to 1992. She is an advisory \nboard member of the Walt Disney Family Museum and the Leo T. McCarthy \nCenter for Public Service and the Common Good at USF, and a board member\n of the Dignity Health Foundation and the local governing board of the \nSeton Medical Center. Reilly earned a Master of Science degree in \njournalism from the Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism.\n This position requires Senate confirmation and there is no \ncompensation. Reilly is a Democrat. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nThe epistemic problems with this statement start with Newsom not saying why he likes Reilly or why she's qualified.\u0026nbsp; He doesn't say why she should be of interest to the university, that is, what her educational interests are.\u0026nbsp; This would be less of a problem had she some university management or advocacy background that pops up in her career summary.\u0026nbsp; She doesn't.\u0026nbsp; Newsom doesn't present Reilly as a person of interest to an academic community, nor does he address that community, nor does he bother to try to persuade anyone in that community that this is a good appointment.\u0026nbsp; Apparently none of that matters. The choice becomes an assertion of his power of appointment. Reilly means that Newsome can appoint anyone he wants.\u0026nbsp; The methodology silently reasserts that regents don't belong to the university but preside over it.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nSo there's this first issue of executive appointments negating an epistemic system.\u0026nbsp; Regents arrive epistemically tied to the executive with no experiential \nor cognitive links to campuses, their activities, their people.\u0026nbsp; Most people bemoan \"post-truth\" America.\u0026nbsp; But post-truth is possible only in the absence of interpretative systems that have to be constituted by ongoing discussion and debate.\u0026nbsp; We don't have to get all Habermasian to make this basic point: the unilateral, unexplained, non-consultatory appointment negates the shared understandings that constitute both \"truth\" and learning--two things unversities particularly care about.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nThere's a second issue of managerial prerogative that sidelines professional knowledge--the epistemic community in the narrower sense. This decision process says that professional competence is irrelevant in the running of a university.\u0026nbsp; Right.\u0026nbsp; I love to fly in planes but that doesn't make me a pilot. My father was a doctor but you wouldn't let me operate on your hip.\u0026nbsp; I have a long-term amateur interest in quantum mechanics and some descendant theories, but no one would make me program manager at CERN.\u0026nbsp; And yet anyone with the right connections to the governor can run a university.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nThere's a third issue of political patronage.\u0026nbsp; Politicians aren't supposed to be able to hand out jobs as favors for political support--even when the pay is prestige without a salary. It looks a lot like that's what's happening. Janet Reilly is married to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/clintreilly.com\/about-clint-reilly\/\"\u003EClint Reilly,\u003C\/a\u003E a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/clintreilly.com\/\"\u003Ecommercial real estate developer \u003C\/a\u003Ein San Francisco and\n a former political consultant.\u0026nbsp; His political clients included \nNancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein (he successfully defended her against a \nrecall campaign in 1983), Barbara Boxer, Richard Riordan, Bill Honig and many more.\u0026nbsp; They are probusiness liberals of the Jerry Brown variety.\u0026nbsp; They still control the state Democratic Party, and a good chunk of the party's national leadership posts.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-elEReEPL7nQ\/XV1UPY9eiRI\/AAAAAAAAD_c\/eleiRbUCaJEah3E8MSGJ6XM3qDR-f04ZQCLcBGAs\/s1600\/Reilly%2BClint%2BHired%2BGun.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"640\" data-original-width=\"476\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-elEReEPL7nQ\/XV1UPY9eiRI\/AAAAAAAAD_c\/eleiRbUCaJEah3E8MSGJ6XM3qDR-f04ZQCLcBGAs\/s400\/Reilly%2BClint%2BHired%2BGun.jpg\" width=\"297\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nThe Reillys operate at what old timey language would call the heart of San Francisco's Democratic power elite.\u0026nbsp; Their photographic history is that of wealthy socialites with interests in liberal charities.\u0026nbsp; In short, this looks very much like a patronage appointment for that part of the party's white establishment that wants to keep running minority-majority California.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nThe fourth issue is the neutralization of checks and balances. These are supposed to help U.S. democracy split the difference between executive autocracy and direct sovereignty.\u0026nbsp; California's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CONS\u0026amp;sectionNum=SEC.%209.\u0026amp;article=IX\"\u003EConstitution Sec 9(e) \u003C\/a\u003Elets the non-ex officio regents be appointed entirely by the governor rather than be at least partially elected or appointed by a range of officials.\u0026nbsp; On the other hand, it requires that the regents reflect the diversity of the state (Sec 9(d)), and that the governor convene a meeting of \"an advisory committee\" comprised by members of the public, a student, and a faculty member. It requires that the governor consult with this committee prior to the appointments.\u0026nbsp; Once the governor formally proposes a new member of the Board of Regents, the State Senate is supposed to accept or decline the appointment via its \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/sedn.senate.ca.gov\/\"\u003EStanding Committee on Education.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nNeither the state nor the University implement this vetting process.\u0026nbsp; Thus the public lacks even this weak pro forma voice. Neither the public nor the hundreds of thousands of UC employees have any voice at all. As one group reported, \"Despite our efforts to contact the Governor's office reminding them of Article 9, Section 9e, the Governor has just named Janet Reilly to serve as a Regent, without first holding an Article 9 Section 9e meeting.\" That's how these emails always sound. I can't find any record of State Senate review.\u0026nbsp; Meanwhile, UCOP \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/about\/members-and-advisors\/bios\/janet-reilly.html\"\u003Elisted her as a regent.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nVetting matters!\u0026nbsp; Once the regent is appointed, even pro forma checks and balances are gone.\u0026nbsp; The Board of Regents has autocratic power over the University (Constitution\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CONS\u0026amp;sectionNum=SEC.%209.\u0026amp;article=IX\"\u003E Sec 9(f)\u003C\/a\u003E) and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/governance\/bylaws\/bl22.html#bl22.1\"\u003EBylaw 22\u003C\/a\u003E are two places to start your reading).\u0026nbsp; The President is their executive agent, with similarly \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/governance\/standing-orders\/so1004.html\"\u003Eunqualified command and control \u003C\/a\u003Eover university policy and personnel. (Ten years ago, the Board gave \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/jul09\/j1attach1.pdf\"\u003EPresident Yudof emergency powers\u003C\/a\u003E virtually overnight, which he used to furlough university employees and which he could have used to close programs unilaterally.)\u0026nbsp; Faculty have two representatives to the Board of Regents, but they are \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/governance\/policies\/1201.html\"\u003Enot members of the Board and do not have a vote.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; The \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/governance\/bylaws\/bl27.html\"\u003ERegents are immunized from any communication\u003C\/a\u003E they do not seek themselves: the general public cannot contact them, but must contact the Board's Secretary.\u0026nbsp; Chancellors are required to attend regents' meetings but may not speak to regents unless spoken to.\u0026nbsp; Faculty may not communicate directly with regents, but must route messages through the Office of the President.\u0026nbsp; Public comment time at the Board meetings rabbalizes students and everyone else trying to get a word in. Most regents do not try to hide an indifference bordering on contempt during these sessions.\u0026nbsp; It's all rather medieval, isn't it?\u0026nbsp; Do not address thy sovereign lord unbidden!\u0026nbsp; Whatever we call it, this system creates cognitive bubbles of highly restricted information.\u0026nbsp; A further symptom of the closed and undemocratic nature of the system is that we all take it for granted.\u0026nbsp; Only CUCFA seems even to have noticed that no vetting has taken place.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nI'm not saying Janet Reilly will be a bad regent: she has worked as a journalist and has remained a basically\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.calitics.com\/index.php\/tag\/366\/\"\u003Eprogressive\u003C\/a\u003E Democratic party activist in spite of having not been successful in running for \npublic office (in one case she was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ebar.com\/news\/\/\/237002\"\u003Eaccused of policy plagiarism\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp; She\u0026nbsp; has a lot of experience with being appointed to boards.\u0026nbsp; She's not \u003Ci\u003Eless \u003C\/i\u003Equalified than the standard collection of governor's office staffers, business consultants, small businesspeople, and Hollywood execs appointed by \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/9c88bcf83c3c4318831df479e85b5391\"\u003EJerry Brown\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; But this gets us to a fifth issue: the cynical reason that assumes there's no bad substantive fallout from insular and autocratic procedure that we should get off our asses to avoid.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nA couple of issues spring to mind.\u0026nbsp; First, university real estate.\u0026nbsp; Berkeley chancellor Carol Christ, among others, has advocated public-private partnerships in student and faculty housing.\u0026nbsp; Student housing has become a commercial property cash cow in the US and UK ever since companies figured out they could charge by the bed rather than the room (4 student room charges per two bedrooms, for example).\u0026nbsp; These ventures drive up student costs on the back end (and encourage universities to recapture by hiking board fees some of what they've lost from tuition freezes).\u0026nbsp; They are also part of the \"multiple revenue streams\" strategy that year-in year-out is the gift that keeps on giving--it gives the state an excuse not to put any more of their own money in.\u0026nbsp; With her family business, could Janet Reilly rethink the university's privatization strategy? Is it likely she'll study revenue issues independently and come up with some new ideas?\u0026nbsp; I would guess not. That's a real loss, since the university desperately needs new strategies.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nA second issue is the UCSF-Dignity controversy, in which UCSF proposed a much-expanded alliance with Catholic hospitals that proscribe gender reassignment surgery and most reproductive health services to women (our coverage is \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/press-faculty-social-movements-why_31.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E). The systemwide Senate went to war on this, and the final report of the Nondiscrimation in Healthcare Task Force \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/reports\/rm-jn-final-report-non-discrimination-healthcare-taskforce.pdf\"\u003Econcluded\u003C\/a\u003E that, \"UC should avoid an entity such as a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or joint venture, or other forms of close legal affiliation, with any external entity that exercises discriminatory policies in healthcare\" -- like Dignity.\u0026nbsp; UCSF backed out of the proposed alliance, but a new task force is likely to try to legitimize the more local relationships UC campuses can have with religious providers who discriminate in this sense.\u0026nbsp; The issue is not over.\u0026nbsp; Next thing you know, Gov. Newsom makes as his first appointment to the Board of Regents a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/reports\/rm-jn-final-report-non-discrimination-healthcare-taskforce.pdf\"\u003Emember of the Board of Directors of Dignity Health Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; We have the same problem again:, how independent will Janet Reilly be in discussions of UC's health care policy as a public entity?\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nIf you can stand one further example: Gavin Newsom's other summer creation was a new Council for Post-Secondary Education.\u0026nbsp; It is to\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nserve as an independent consultative resource to the Governor around the\n economic and social impact of higher education in the state. They will \nexamine issues relating to future capacity, enrollment planning, \ncommunity college transfers, general education and coordination at the \nstate and regional levels, and make recommendations to the Governor for \naction.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nThis charge used to be filled by an old Master Plan body called the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cpec.ca.gov\/\"\u003ECalifornia Postsecondary Commission (CPEC).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; It was a regular state agency, not a body of political appointees.\u0026nbsp; It had a permanent professional staff that collected and analyzed every kind of higher ed data for the state's three systems.\u0026nbsp; It kept statistics on boring, essential things like assignable square feet of instructional space per enrolled student and proportions of the physical plant that were behind in maintenance.\u0026nbsp; It made recommendations--in 2007, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pe.com\/2018\/03\/25\/california-politicians-are-ignoring-the-looming-higher-education-crisis\/\"\u003Eit said the state didn't need UC Irvine to build a law school\u003C\/a\u003E--well, it lost that one. In 2011, Jerry Brown killed CPEC by line-item deleting its entire budget (of under $2 million), for reasons that never made sense.\u0026nbsp; Afterwards, no one was giving Brown professional information about higher ed--and it showed.\u0026nbsp; CPEC apparently remains established in state law as an unbudgeted shell.\u0026nbsp; Newsom could have re-funded it, hired some professional staff, and gotten the data flowing again.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nInstead, he's created a Council of Appointees, consisting entirely of people \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2019\/08\/09\/governor-gavin-newsom-announces-council-for-post-secondary-education-higher-education-appointments\/\"\u003Ewho are already running California higher ed\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; There is no checking and balancing or outside points of view.\u0026nbsp; Every single member is the chief executive of a college system or state educational agency (Janet Napolitano, Timothy White, Eloy Ortiz Oakley, etc), or someone who works out of Newsom's office.\u0026nbsp; There isn't even a UC chancellor or Cal State president, much less a faculty member, an office manager, a scientist, a librarian, etc. (There are also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/californiaglobe.com\/section-2\/gov-newsom-announces-totally-partisan-council-for-post-secondary-education-higher-education-appointments\/\"\u003Eno Republicans\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u0026nbsp; It's another epistemic bubble getting filled with hot air and flown off to write another report about how to align UC Merced with the valley's jobs of the future, or touting Fresno's K-16 Pilot program.\u0026nbsp; There's no independent input and critique in the most banal sense.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EThese executive boards are antithetical to democracy and to the nature of education, which requires massively open and diverse inputs and complex mechanisms of analysis and synthesis.\u0026nbsp; Newsom acknowledges this in a backhanded way by adding that \"the Governor has convened – and will continue to engage – higher education advocates and stakeholders to advise him.\" But he doesn't put any of them on his Council. He doesn't give it the staff and the powers of data collection that would allow it to learn, reflect, have new ideas, and change its mind.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nHigher ed is hurt when it mimics a\u0026nbsp; US culture with deep traditions of board packing and executive rule. This culture is being thoughtlessly and selfishly continued by California governors and university managers.\u0026nbsp; Executive appointment power lowers both the intelligence and the credibility of universities.\u0026nbsp; It creates mental complacency and institutional mediocrity.\u0026nbsp; It could easily be replaced with actual democratic procedures.\u0026nbsp; We could have \u003Ci\u003Egood\u003C\/i\u003E\n regents--defined as ones with democratic legitimacy within the \nuniversity, rooted in their direct epistemic connections with campuses, their local \nknowledge, their reciprocating discussion, their independent judgment regarding the university they rule.\u0026nbsp; I'd like to see UCOP and the Academic Senate work on this carefully over the next couple of years.\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6546061472085737012\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/epistemic-problems-with-executive.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6546061472085737012"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6546061472085737012"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/epistemic-problems-with-executive.html","title":"Epistemic Problems with Executive Appointment Power"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Fj09sESQp-8\/XV1SNK41YcI\/AAAAAAAAD_Q\/ES25-6p2lLo2pVU_YJo5xS4KNXSU_lScQCLcBGAs\/s72-c\/ReillyJanet-and-Clint.-Bridge.2.-Jane-Richey.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-5164568313594859314"},"published":{"$t":"2017-11-27T08:49:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-11-27T08:49:20.872-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Administrative Overreach"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Janet Napolitano"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Mark Yudof"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"UC Needs New Leadership"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-_yEqbiR6rNc\/Whtiq51Z9cI\/AAAAAAAABO8\/vBTtAsk9dYE7paKPj8abhARLZo5OvMVvACLcBGAs\/s1600\/300px-Oceana_title_page.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"246\" data-original-width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-_yEqbiR6rNc\/Whtiq51Z9cI\/AAAAAAAABO8\/vBTtAsk9dYE7paKPj8abhARLZo5OvMVvACLcBGAs\/s1600\/300px-Oceana_title_page.gif\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nThe UC Regents have finally released Justice Moreno's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov17\/b2attach3.pdf\"\u003EReport\u003C\/a\u003E into the allegations that UCOP interfered with last year's audit. \u0026nbsp;As Chris and I noted last spring (see \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/what-ucop-audit-means.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/the-ucop-audit-and-university-governance.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/the-budget-revision-after-ucop-audit.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/06\/uc-budget-after-audit-edition.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E) the damage caused by UCOP's handling of the audit has been considerable. \u0026nbsp;With the release of the audit, newspapers up and down the state have \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/cloudminder.blogspot.com\/2017\/11\/chastise-admonish-apologize-resign-bid.html\"\u003Eintensified their criticisms \u003C\/a\u003Eof UCOP and President Napolitano.\u0026nbsp; Although the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov17\/b2attach1.pdf\"\u003ERegents\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com\/2017\/11\/enough-with-outrage-part-2.html\"\u003Eothers\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;are trying to minimize the implications of the audit, the damage is real because the Moreno Report is so damning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe State Auditor, Elaine Howle, had explicitly requested that the campuses send their survey responses directly to her office. \u0026nbsp;The surveys covered campus views of UCOP itself, and were thus not to be routed through UCOP. \u0026nbsp;As the report makes clear, President Napolitano approved a plan that required campuses to submit their evaluations of her office to her office before they were transmitted to the auditor. \u0026nbsp;Although there may not have been any illegality in UCOP officials asking to review the audit responses, it was a remarkable step to take: requiring that evaluations of a superior pass through that superior would obviously have a chilling effect on the responses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUCOP insists that their intention was simply to make sure that the responses were appropriate to the audit and represented the view of the campus chancellor. But this claim isn't persuasive.\u0026nbsp; Justice Moreno and his team found numerous examples of the President's Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff pressing campuses to make their evaluations more positive (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov17\/b2attach3.pdf\"\u003E9-13\u003C\/a\u003E). \u0026nbsp;The chancellor of the Santa Cruz campus reported receiving an angry phone call from President Napolitano because his campus had sent their responses in without being checked by UCOP.\u0026nbsp; After he recalled his responses and went over them in light of UCOP criticisms, UCOP again pressed him to make further changes (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov17\/b2attach3.pdf\"\u003E20\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp; President Napolitano has declared that she didn't know that her Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff were intervening on the micro level.\u0026nbsp; But she did approve a plan that, by its very nature, would stifle the free flow of knowledge and information upon which the audit (and indeed a healthy university) depends.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn order to explain its actions, UCOP claimed a \"toxic\" relationship between the University and the auditor and the sense that the audit itself was political.\u0026nbsp; And the Moreno Report does raise important questions about the behavior of the auditor's staff in intruding upon and surveilling UCOP staff members (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov17\/b2attach3.pdf\"\u003E5-6\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp; But while these facts may help explain the attitudes of UCOP, they do not justify their actions.\u0026nbsp; Most of the discussion of the relationship between the Auditor and UCOP has focused on the 2016 audit of non-resident students which \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-uc-audit-admissions-20160328-story.html\"\u003Ecaused open conflict\u003C\/a\u003E between UCOP and the auditor.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;But it is important to remember that the struggles go back at least as far as the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa.ca.gov\/pdfs\/reports\/2010-105.pdf\"\u003E2011 audit\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Ethat identified funding inequalities between campuses and pointed to a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/01\/racial-patterns-of-campus-budget.html\"\u003Ecorrelation between those inequalities and racial composition\u003C\/a\u003E: the poorer campuses had the highest proportions of Latinx, African American, and Native American students. Grasping that longer history is essential if UC is going to move forward from the present crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nViewed together, the three contentious audits reveal several ongoing problems in UC's governance and strategies.\u0026nbsp; First, each of the audits marked the increasingly damaging effects of the implicit privatization strategies that UC adopted during the Schwarzenegger administration.\u0026nbsp; The first audit, as Chris\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/annoying-results-of-state-audit-of-uc.html\"\u003E pointed out at the time\u003C\/a\u003E, hid the damage of state disinvestment by wrongly counting student fees as public funding.\u0026nbsp; Importantly, while the University challenged the audit's criticism of funding formula for campuses (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa.ca.gov\/pdfs\/reports\/2010-105.pdf\"\u003E80-81\u003C\/a\u003E), it did not address this most fundamental change in the definition of public funding.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis acquiescence had two interconnected effects.\u0026nbsp; First, it almost inevitably accelerated rises in tuition and reliance on non-resident tuition.\u0026nbsp; Second, when the rebenching process later reduced campus inequities in state funding, it shifted inequality between campuses to their ability to generate non-resident tuition--an ability itself dependent, at least in part, on historical funding inequities.\u0026nbsp; One didn't need a crystal ball to see that the handling of non-resident students would become a political flash-point, when neither UC nor the state were willing to think seriously about how to structure a university that could meet its intellectual and social obligations while maintaining traditional, lower proportions of non-resident students.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nInternally to the University, the acceptance of privatization has led UC to flail around in search of a magic bullet.\u0026nbsp; This process started during the Yudof Administration.\u0026nbsp; On the one hand, we were treated to the spectacle of the Regents' UC Commission on the Future that produced no new ideas\u0026nbsp; but exhausted people's time and energy.\u0026nbsp; On the other, we witnessed President Yudof's support of Berkeley Law Dean Chris Edley's fantasies for online education combined with his contempt for inclusive decision-making processes.\u0026nbsp; Shockingly, the eagerness to follow private sector fads (tech and managerial) didn't provide any real answers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhen President Yudof stepped down, the Regents continued their practice of following the latest managerial fetish and sought out a non-academic politician for president. In theory, President Napolitano should have been able to improve the political and fiscal standing of the university. After all, she had a successful political career and, while Governor of Arizona, had supported higher education in that state. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThat expectation has proven inaccurate.\u0026nbsp; In the aftermath of the latestaAudit, UC is in its weakest political position since the Dynes presidency in the 2000s--if not since the late 1960s in the aftermath of the firing of Clark Kerr.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut if UC is in a weak political position externally, equal damage has been done to the University internally.\u0026nbsp; The effect of the Yudof and Napolitano years has been a growing centralization of power in the hands of UCOP, a tightened control over the campuses, and a marginalization of the Academic Senate as an independent voice.\u0026nbsp; Instead of initiative from below, essential to any real university, we face an intensifying managerial structure of top-down efforts to reduce the faculty's authority over academic matters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEven President Napolitano's recent National Center for Free Speech and Expression is a symptom of this centralized thinking.\u0026nbsp; I hope to say something about its organization elsewhere, but for now I would simply point out that it was created, as far as I have been able to learn, without any Senate review.\u0026nbsp; Even a single campus research center would receive that much oversight.\u0026nbsp; Nor have more clearly administrative initiatives been thoroughly analyzed independently of optics and politics: the UCPath debacle, begun under President Yudof and continuing today, makes that clear.\u0026nbsp; We seem to have gone from Fiat Lux to simple Presidential Fiat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUC needs new leadership.\u0026nbsp; But this cannot be limited to finding a replacement for President Napolitano.\u0026nbsp; The UC Regents, after all, have made the decisions--through their choices of presidents and policies--that have brought us to this point.\u0026nbsp; The Regents and UC must give up on trying to mimic the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/11\/troubles-of-michigan-model.html\"\u003Efailed Michigan model\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in finance and the failed managerial model in administration.\u0026nbsp; The new leadership of the university must restore the primacy of academic judgment over the demands of finance, must seek new ways to transfer funds from administration to education, and must be open to ideas from below.\u0026nbsp; Meanwhile, the Senate must move beyond its currently reactivity and begin to act as a producer of vision and not just a commentator on administrative proposals.\u0026nbsp; In addition, faculty throughout the system need to take ownership of their local budgets and campus futures.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUC needs new leadership but it is crucial that that new leadership be based on more inclusive decision making and a vision that places academic judgement and the University's academic future at the heart of its planning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5164568313594859314\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/11\/uc-needs-new-leadership.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/5164568313594859314"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/5164568313594859314"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/11\/uc-needs-new-leadership.html","title":"UC Needs New Leadership"}],"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\/-_yEqbiR6rNc\/Whtiq51Z9cI\/AAAAAAAABO8\/vBTtAsk9dYE7paKPj8abhARLZo5OvMVvACLcBGAs\/s72-c\/300px-Oceana_title_page.gif","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-5956725932411650246"},"published":{"$t":"2017-10-16T09:08:00.002-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-10-16T09:08:31.795-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Senate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"democratic university"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jerry Brown"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"UC Loses More Autonomy"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-7g26iLgHNDs\/WeP7UYdYheI\/AAAAAAAABM4\/Hf8scfxf_h4MPo06eT320Vo2MaoCm0VjwCLcBGAs\/s1600\/Prisoner_in_fetters%252C_Marshalsea_prison%252C_1729.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1251\" data-original-width=\"773\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-7g26iLgHNDs\/WeP7UYdYheI\/AAAAAAAABM4\/Hf8scfxf_h4MPo06eT320Vo2MaoCm0VjwCLcBGAs\/s320\/Prisoner_in_fetters%252C_Marshalsea_prison%252C_1729.jpg\" width=\"197\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nIn the latest fallout from last spring's disastrous, and disastrously handled, audit, Governor Brown has \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/essential\/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-after-scathing-audit-uc-will-have-to-1508022218-htmlstory.html\"\u003Ejust signed\u003C\/a\u003E a new \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1655\"\u003Elaw that tightens up legislative oversight over UC Finances\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; You will probably remember that the State Auditor challenged UCOP's handling of funds and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-pol-sac-skelton-uc-audit-20170427-story.html\"\u003Eaccused UCOP of intervening in the audit process in order to gain more favorable responses from campus officials\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(although UCOP denied the allegations).\u0026nbsp; In response, the State\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/the-budget-revision-after-ucop-audit.html\"\u003Etransformed UC's budget\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; And now the state is increasing its intervention into UC budgeting.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn what can only be seen as a response UCOP's role in changing campus responses to the Auditor's inquiries, the new law forbids communication between UCOP and a campus\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ewhenever a request for information relating to the security of funds of the University of California is made by the California State Auditor’s Office pursuant to these provisions to one or more campuses of the University of California, would prohibit those campuses from coordinating their responses with, or seeking counsel, advice, or similar contact regarding their response from, the Office of the President of the University of California before submitting the requested information to the California State Auditor’s Office. The bill would require the California State Auditor’s Office, when requesting information under these provisions, to include a statement in the request that it is requesting the information pursuant to these provisions and that the request for information is not to be shared with the Office of the President of the University of California.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nIn addition, the legislature demands increased fine tuning of the University's cost of education calculation both in terms of the relative costs of undergraduate education, graduate education, and health science education and by funding source.\u0026nbsp; Given that UC has consistently insisted that this demand is unreasonable, we can expect further political tensions between Sacramento and the University.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nChris and I have long called for greater transparency about spending and funding sources.\u0026nbsp; And I can understand the State's desire to ensure that the information it receives during audits not be tampered with.\u0026nbsp; Still, this latest statute raises a series of important issues:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n1) When the accusations about tampering first broke, UC announced that it was hiring an independent investigator to examine the charges.\u0026nbsp; Has that report been concluded?\u0026nbsp; If so, when will it be released?\u0026nbsp; What did it determine?\u0026nbsp; If it hasn't been concluded then why not?\u0026nbsp; And when can we find out what actually happened?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n2) As I pointed out \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/the-ucop-audit-and-university-governance.html\"\u003Eearlier\u003C\/a\u003E, the State's response continues to be based on the notion that legislators and the Regents are the most appropriate people to co-govern the university with UCOP.\u0026nbsp; But as has been proven repeatedly, neither the Legislature, nor the Regents, nor the Governor nor UCOP, for that matter, has demonstrated much grasp of the educational and research practices of the University.\u0026nbsp; What is needed is greater internal democracy rather than simply legislative demands.\u0026nbsp; And that internal democracy should be applied to the question of how to achieve the highest academic accomplishment, not simply how to achieve the greatest savings or, as far too many local administrators seem to think, develop the latest private sector fads.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n3).\u0026nbsp; When will there be genuine accountability at UCOP and the Board of Regents?\u0026nbsp; As the audit,\u0026nbsp; this year's budget, and this legislation demonstrate, UC has become extremely vulnerable to outside pressures and the political status of the University is remarkably low.\u0026nbsp; Does anyone really believe that the people who have brought the University to this point are the ones to correct it?\u0026nbsp; And given the destructive forces emanating from Washington, does anyone expect that the budget or the political climate is going to get better?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n4) Shouldn't the Senate take a leading and public role in formulating proposals to recenter the University on its academic missions?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5956725932411650246\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/10\/uc-loses-more-autonomy.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/5956725932411650246"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/5956725932411650246"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/10\/uc-loses-more-autonomy.html","title":"UC Loses More Autonomy"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-7g26iLgHNDs\/WeP7UYdYheI\/AAAAAAAABM4\/Hf8scfxf_h4MPo06eT320Vo2MaoCm0VjwCLcBGAs\/s72-c\/Prisoner_in_fetters%252C_Marshalsea_prison%252C_1729.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}}]}});