September 30, 2009
“The promise of education which brought so many here, and kept so many here, this bedrock of California’s success, has been abandoned. Our K-12 system has fallen from first in the nation to the bottom five. And higher education is now taking on water and going down too,” Jeffrey Bleich, a UC Berkeley grad, said in his opening remarks at the CSU September board meeting.
September 16, 2009
UC President Mark Yudof says students have a right to be angry over the possibility of fee increases. “I’m angry too,” he said at the UC Regents meeting. “The closer (education) is to being free, the happier I was. But that’s not the world I live in.” But the worst of the budget crisis is not over, he said, and fee increases are needed to prevent the university from sliding into mediocrity.
Watch videos of Yudof’s remarks to the UC Regents:
Part 1: “Students have right to be angry.”
Part 2: “We need to continue slashing costs.”
September 16, 2009
More difficult sacrifices, including possible fee increases, may be needed to fight the university’s budget crisis, UC Regents were told Wednesday in a briefing from the university’s finance team.
UC faces a $535 million state funding shortfall in 2009-10, and that could grow to more than $600 million in 2010-11 without new revenue, said Patrick Lenz, UC vice president for budget. As part of the strategy to offset the severe cuts the university is facing, UC administration asked the Regents to consider both a mid-year and 2010-11 student fee increases.
“The state has stopped building freeways to higher education,” UC President Mark Yudof said. “They are now building toll roads.” Read more…
September 16, 2009
There’s a persistent misconception that the university has a multibillion-dollar treasure chest that could be tapped to offset budget cuts. UC’s Chief Financial Officer, Peter Taylor, explains how the campuses use those funds. Unrestricted does not mean uncommitted, he says.
September 2, 2009
Peter Schrag writes in the California Progress Report that UC is in serious trouble, a victim of what comes close to criminal neglect. Have the governor and legislators forgotten the value of the university, Schrag asks, or do they just not care?
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