UCOP’s press release: The University of California Commission on the Future will meet for the first time on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay Community Center. The commission was created by Board of Regents Chairman Russell S. Gould to help ensure excellence, innovation and access to opportunity across the UC system amid…
(Download PDF for printing) Why are student fees skyrocketing at the same time courses are being cut and faculty and staff furloughed, reducing classes and services to students? Throughout his term in office, Governor Schwarzenegger has cut state support for higher education and sought to shift most of its costs to its immediate users: students and their…
The issue of executive compensation at UC and CSU is regularly in the news, with top salaries, “stipends,” and other perks for leaders increasing at the same time that student fees climb, quality erodes, and faculty and staff salaries backslide. Also the rate of growth of administrator ranks compared to the rate of growth of…
August 10, 2009 Dear UC President Yudof and President of the Board of Regents Gould, As officers of the Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) and Chairs of several campus Faculty Associations, we see great value in your plan to appoint a Commission to develop a vision for the future of the University…
George Lakoff Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, UC Berkeley A pdf version of this report is available. I have been asked by colleagues to comment on the impending privatization of the University of California. Among the suggestions are that UC campuses should take more out-of-state students in order to get their higher tuitions, or that tuition…
Stanton Glantz Professor of Medicine, UCSF Former Chair, UC Committee on Planning and Budget August 7, 2009 A PDF version of this report is available. The primary focus of budget policymaking is the Governor, not the Legislature. The University of California Office of the President’s (UCOP) strategy for setting the budget has been to cut…
Report on Regents Meeting Bob Meister President, Council of UC Faculty Associations CUCFA spoke at the July 15 Regents meeting. We called attention to our lawyer’s letter, which says that the Regents would violate their own rules by acting on today’s agenda items. More specifically, adopting J1 (amending Standing Order 104 to allow declarations of…
On July 15th, CUCFA President Robert Meister spoke to the UC Regents during the public comment period. Here is the text of that speech: You can’t declare a financial emergency today without violating your own rules. Adopting J1 [the power to declare a financial emergency] violates the 30 day notice requirement for amending By-laws (By-law…
An image of CUCFA’s legal challenge of the legality of the emergency actions the Regents may take July 15th is available [PDF]. The text below was retyped from the linked to image and may have some errors. July 14, 2009 Via United States mail and facsimile Regents of the University of California 1111 Franklin St.,…
On July 13th, CUCFA President Robert Meister sent the following letter to Regents of the University of California. A printable PDF of the letter is available. July 13, 2009 Regents of the University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th floor Oakland, CA 94607 tel (510) 987-9220 fax (510) 987-9224 The Council of University of California…
