This is an informal communication for your personal use. It is not an official policy statement. The following responses were provided by a person with high-level Senate and UCOP experience who is happy to provide informal answers to questions but…
The New York Times reported on the budget problems at Arizona State where big ambitions have run into some harsh realities. The piece quotes Yudof and refers to the UC system. It raises the tough question of how many public…
The UC system stands to regain $50M in lost funding if the State Treasurer determines that California has received more than $10 billion from the Federal stimulus. A public hearing to make this determination will be held on 17th March.…
Here is a NYT article about the difficulties facing doctoral students, especially in the humanities.
SUNY is seeing increased interest from students who are looking for more affordable education. But the SUNY system faces budget cuts, like the UC system. The President of a SUNY campus says: “Eighty-four percent of our budget is people, so…
A recent case at the University of Wisconsin raises serious legal issues about our rights of free speech as faculty members and the meaning of shared governance. It is worth reading the excerpt from the Chronicle of Higher Education to…
For three days running now, the state legislature has been trying to pass the latest version of the state budget, without success. The legislature has adjourned for the night. DFA chair Ian Kennedy asked me to investigate UC’s plans to…
While things are bad in California, they are worse elsewhere. From the AAUP we hear the following news about “The Death of Public Higher Education” in Tennessee A funeral for public higher education was held Monday in Tennessee after the…
by Ian Kennedy Our current difficulties find their parallel, almost eerily so, in an earlier time: the Depression years of the 1930’s. A history of UC from 1868 to 1968 by Verne Stadtman reveals some very interesting facts that may…
California legislators continue to wrangle over the state’s budget. The Legislative Analyst’s Office continues to try to label the current per student funding, reduced as it is over previous years, as full per student funding. CUCFA’s Vice President for External…
