DE and Yudof to Crowd: We're Screwed
Think your education is expensive, and yet the University may be in jeopardy? DE and UC President Yudof think you're right:
Three of the state's leading higher education officials gathered Tuesday to elaborate on what they've known for months: Major financial woes face the University of California, and won't be leaving any time soon.Source here. In fact, according to the NY Times, it's a national problem.
With the university losing millions of dollars in recent months and bracing to lose millions more, Yudof told the nearly 50 scholars and officials in Pauley Ballroom, "Higher education is not treated as a public good anymore."
And while 85 percent of UC Berkeley undergraduates come from within California, administrators have said that the number of out-of-state students rose this year and will likely increase next year to reach a higher tuition target. . . . "The trade-off, frankly and harshly, is between poor in-state students and wealthy out-of-state students," [Chancellor] Birgeneau said.
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posted by Patrick Bageant at 11:59 AM
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The sad thing is that the UC almost needs to go private.
In order to do so, however, it'd take a huge up-front cash infusion by the state (if they wanted to keep the same level of poor in-state kids rather than turning into USC).
And in order for them to come up with such cash, they'd have to do it when the state budget is expanding.
But when times are good, they never think about how to prepare for when times will get bad again.
God, state politics drives me frickin nuts.
University of California President Yudof Approves $3,000,000 to Outsource UCB Chancellor’s Job
The UC President has a UCB Chancellor that should do the high paid job he is paid for instead of hiring an East Coast consulting firm to fulfill his responsibilities. ‘World class’ smart executives like Chancellor Birgeneau need to do the analysis, hard work and make the difficult decisions of their executive job!
Where do consulting firms like Bain ($3,000,000 consultants) get their recommendations?
From interviewing the senior management that hired them and will be approving their monthly consultant fees and expense reports. Remember the nationally known auditing firm who said the right things and submitted recommendations that senior management wanted to hear and fooled government oversight agencies and the public? Consultants never bite the hand that feeds them
Mr. Birgeneau's executive officer performance management responsibilities include "inspiring innovation and leading change." This involves "defining outcomes, energizing others at all levels and ensuring continuing commitment." Instead of demonstrating his capacity to fulfill his executive accountabilities, Mr. Birgeneau outsourced them. Doesn't he engage University of California and University of California Berkeley (UCB) people at all levels to help examine the budget and recommend the necessary trims? Hasn't he talked to Cornell and the University of North Carolina - which also hired Bain -- about best practices and recommendations that might apply to UCB cuts?
No wonder the faculty and staff are angry and suspicious. Three million dollars is a high price for Californians to pay when a knowledgeable ‘world-class’ Chancellor is not doing his job.
Please help save $3,000,000 for teaching our students and request that the UC President require the UCB Chancellor to fulfill his executive job accountabilities!
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