USA University - This Week at the Regents: The Budget

This week's Regents meeting's Agenda is chock full of important items.  In particular, UCOP is presenting the 2016-2017 budget prop...

USA University - UCOP Begins Process to Reduce Pension Benefits for Employees (Updated with New Material)

As Dan Mitchell has been reminding us,  UCOP has appointed a Task Force to implement the Regents agreement to reduce pension benefits for f...

USA University - HIllary Clinton and Phyllis Wise: Signs of Better Things

The Democratic candidates public college plans are more interesting than most coverage has implied (brief comparisons are here ). They are a...

USA University - New Budget, Little Improvement

As you have probably seen, the Governor and the Legislative Leadership have agreed on a final budget bill .  From a funding standpoint, ther...

USA University - The LAO and Permanent University Austerity

The big story in Higher Education this year has been the threat of massive budget cuts.  From Wisconsin to Louisiana, from Kansas to Arizona...

USA University - UCOP Misses Chance to Discuss Transparency and the Future of Higher Ed Funding But Chris Doesn't

Rose Aguilar had a segment of her show "Your Call" on KALW that focused on the UC Budget and the need for transparency. UCOP appar...

USA University - The Impact of Tuition Hikes on Undergraduate Debt

The November UC Regents meeting featured a battle of the paradigms between administrative and student accounts of student finances.  UC Offi...

USA University - Wild Day at the UC Regents: The Stakes of the Tuition Wars

Finally it wasn't about the money today but about the decline in quality.  And it was the students who explained the core issue as getti...