Late on Friday, February 7th, the National Institutes of Health announced that, rather than pay the rate carefully negotiated between the NIH and each individually research institution, “for new grant awards and existing grant awards, effective as of the date of this Guidance’s issuance. Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard…
California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office released a report on December 4th, 2024, titled “Trends in Higher Education Faculty and Staff.” Here are a few of the more interesting data points: The number of faculty has gone up over all, but the number of tenured or tenure track faculty has actually gone down. And…
(A PDF of this report — prettier than this web version and suitable for printing — is available.) California’s commitment to its world-acclaimed system of public higher education has declined dramatically since 2000, at tremendous loss to California’s people, economy and future prospects. It’s not too late. There are solutions. It is commonly, but mistakenly,…
(A PDF of this report — prettier than this web version and suitable for printing — is available. A spreadsheet with all the data and charts in this report is also available.) California’s commitment to its world-acclaimed system of public higher education has declined dramatically since 2000, at tremendous loss to California’s people, economy and…
Below, please find the handout that we prepared for the September 26, 2015, Reclaim Higher Education Strategic Planning Conference. It is also attached as a PDF. Professor Stanton Glantz presented the information in the handout. His slides are available as well. Restoring the Promise of California’s Master Plan for Higher Education “The University of California…
By Stanton A. Glantz, Professor of Medicine, UCSF Once, California had abundant water and few foresaw the challenge of global warming. Governor Brown, recognizing that it is impossible to simply roll back the clock on these problems, is leading California to confront this changed reality with enormous efforts that have uncertain outcomes. But there is…
UC has dramatically increased admissions of non-resident students since 2009, from the historical 10 to 12 percent system-wide up to 30% in 2014. The University has argued that the extra $24,000 in non-resident tuition these students pay is used to pay for more seats for California resident students. UC ignores the fact that about half…
Read “Financial Options for Restoring Quality and Access to Public Higher Education in California: 2015-16” below or download a PDF of it. If you’re really a policy wonk, download the spreadsheets behind this report. WORKING PAPER FINANCIAL OPTIONS FOR RESTORING QUALITY AND ACCESS TO PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN CALIFORNIA: 2015-16 Stanton A. Glantz Professor of…
At the February 18, 2015, Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance meeting, the agenda included a short report on UC’s budget. The report is misleading for 4 reasons: • The University had already been cut by 18% between 2000-1 and 2007-8, well before most of the other agencies were cut after 2007-8, making…
Governor Jerry Brown will be releasing his state general fund budget proposal next week. He has carefully cultivated his image as a frugal fiscal disciplinarian. And he has been taking UC to task for asking for more money from the state, demanding more cuts first. At the November 19, 2014 Regents’ meeting he said he…
