USA University - UC Loses More Autonomy

In the latest fallout from last spring's disastrous, and disastrously handled, audit, Governor Brown has just signed a new law that tig...

USA University - How to Improve Board of Regents Selection? Use the Existing Process

On June 2, following the negative state audit of budget practices at UC's Office of the President (UCOP) and then  regental partygate , ...

USA University - The Budget Revision After the UCOP Audit

The Governor's May budget revision is the first concrete sign of UC's weakened condition following the release of the Auditor's ...

USA University - UCSB Faculty Association Statement in Opposition to New Pension Tier

The following is a letter sent to Colleagues by the UCSB Faculty Association calling for opposition to the proposed new pension tier. Dear C...

USA University - Pensions, Politics, and the Failures of Leadership

The Task Force charged with making a silk purse from the sow's war of President Napolitano's pension agreement with Governor Brown i...

USA University - Follow Austerity Road: The Governor's Higher Education Budget

Governor Brown has issued his proposed 2016-2017 budget .  Shorn of its rhetorical invocation of technocratic answers, the Governor's Hi...

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 - Don't Worry, Be Happy

By Joe Kiskis   (UC Davis) This note makes a few comments on the final UC budget for 2015-2016 and then focuses on points related to the UC ...