Where Does UC Tuition Go? by Bob Meister, President, Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) Professor of Political and Social Thought, UC Santa Cruz UC feels free to use Educational Fees however it pleases without accountability. That’s why it can pledge “ed fees” as collateral for construction bonds and use them to pay debt service.[1] In the past week, I have discovered another, equally disturbing, consequence of UC’s refusal to be accountable for its use of “ed fees:” It has allowed (or perhaps more accurately used) the rapid growth in “ed fees” to dramatically increase the disparities in the per student funds it provides to each campus. As tuition rises, students are not getting what they think they are paying [...]
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From CUCFA President Bob Meister: SUPPORT ACCESSIBLE HIGH QUALITY PUBLIC EDUCATION IN CALIFORNIA California’s public higher education is at a turning point due to the state’s systematic defunding of the Community College, Cal State, and University of California systems. Most immediately, the University of California Regents will vote at their November 17-19 meeting on a proposal to increase student fees by 32% over the next year. This fee increase would be in addition to the 9.3% increase that took effect at the beginning of the 2009/2010 academic year. UC student fees have more than doubled in the last decade, and with the proposed increase the cost to attend the UC will have tripled since 2000/2001. Meanwhile, in all three systems, [...]
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SAVE created a petition to the Regents, who are meeting Nov. 18-20, to delay the fee hikes to consider all possible alternatives. http://www.saveuc.org/petition_fees.php
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The BFA held a bi-annual election for board members and officers in October 2009. Congratulations to the new team: Co-chair: Wendy Brown, Political Science Co-chair: Christine Rosen, Business Vice chair: Dick Walker, Geography Secretary: Chris Rosen, Business Treasurer: Dick Norgaard, Energy & Resources Board members: Judith Butler, Rhetoric & Comp. Lit. Waldo Martin, History Margaret Conkey, Anthropology Kathryn Abrams, Law Louise Fortmann, ESPM Timothy Hampton, French & Italian Kristin Hanson, English
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