The Tribune News: Chancellor says CSU community will have to share the budget burden
Those employed and studying at Cal Poly and the California State University system’s 22 other campuses will have to share the pain of budget shortfalls, chancellor Charles Reed said Thursday.
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Los Angeles Times: UC panel approves 11 to 26 furlough days for employees
The furloughs would affect as many as 140,000 faculty and staff at the 10 university campuses, with higher-paid employees taking larger pay cuts. Unions would have to approve the plan, officials say.
Reporting from San Francisco — A University of California Regents panel approved an emergency plan Wednesday for most faculty and staff to take 11 to 26 unpaid furlough days next school year to offset deep cuts in state funding.
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San Francisco Chronicle: UC chief lays out ‘draconian’ budget cut plan
Facing a loss of $813 million from the state, University of California President Mark Yudof is proposing widespread cuts for UC, including imposing unpaid days off on employees, eliminating jobs and killing out courses.
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Mercury News: Unionized workers rally outside UC president’s Oakland home to protest proposed cuts
OAKLAND — Unionized employees of the University of California rallied outside the North Oakland home of UC President Mark Yudof on Sunday morning to deliver what they called a “wake-up call” about his proposed cuts to the university system’s budget.
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Inside Higher Ed: Tarnished Jewel
There’s blood in the water, and Vicki Ruiz knows everyone can smell it.
“The privates have come calling,” says Ruiz, dean of the University of California at Irvine’s School of Humanities. “I’ve lost very valued faculty members to Yale, to Northwestern, to Penn, to Pomona, to Scripps, as well as to even.… ”
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Labor Notes: LA Teacher Cuts Prompt Walkouts, Arrests, Hunger Strike
Each year around budget time, Californians hear a familiar story from Sacramento: There’s another stalemate, because state law caps property tax rates and requires two-thirds of legislators to approve tax hikes.
The state’s inability to make budgets continues to mean less money for California public schools, which are funded at well below the national average, 46th in the nation in per-pupil spending. This time, Governor Schwarzenegger wants $10 billion in cuts from the state’s $45 billion yearly education fund.
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The Flint Journal: Economic conditions affect jobs of teachers across county
GENESEE COUNTY, Michigan — Local districts are clinging to their teachers and trying to avoid layoffs as enrollment numbers and funding lag.
While the Flint School District is taking a big hit, laying off 257 teachers in April, most local school systems are trying to avoid cutting instructors.
In Flint, the layoffs were intended to help avoid a $20-million budget deficit. On June 17, the Flint Board of education called back 73 teachers.
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Calif. budget crisis forces schools to slash programs, fire teachers, expand class sizes
Budget crisis forces deep cuts at Calif. schools
RICHMOND, Calif. — California’s historic budget crisis threatens to devastate a public education system that was once considered a national model but now ranks near the bottom in school funding and academic achievement.
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AP: Budget crisis forces deep cuts at Calif. schools
RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — California’s historic budget crisis threatens to devastate a public education system that was once considered a national model but now ranks near the bottom in school funding and academic achievement.
Deep budget cuts are forcing California school districts to lay off thousands of teachers, expand class sizes, close schools, eliminate bus service, cancel summer school programs, and possibly shorten the academic year.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Antioch Alumni Strike Deal to Take Control of Closed College
An Antioch College alumni group has hammered out a deal to take control of the shuttered college, which is now owned by Antioch University. After years of decline, Antioch College declared financial exigency and suspended operations in 2007.
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The Chronicle: Sharing the Pain: Cutting Faculty Salaries Across the Board
Broad Pay Cuts Make Deep Dents in Morale
Greensboro College has many of the intimate hallmarks of a small, private, liberal-arts college.
Professors give their cellphone numbers to students and routinely provide extra help to those who need it. Classes at the North Carolina institution average 14 people. And one of the students featured on the college Web site is a biology major who plays on the tennis and volleyball teams and says she is grateful that professors are willing to work around her hectic schedule. The college motto is “You belong here!”
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The Chronicle: In Hard Times, Colleges Search for Ways to Trim the Faculty
Why Certain Departments Fall Under the Budget Ax
The Jones Theatre at Washington State University is getting a $500,000 face-lift this summer. A construction crew has already ripped out its 500 orange and blue seats and is replacing them with new ones covered in a wine-colored fabric. The theater’s walls are being painted a light beige, and a new set of black velour curtains will grace the stage.
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San Francisco Chronicle: UC faculty attacks regents in scathing letter
In a rare move, faculty representatives from the University of California openly criticized UC regents in a scathing letter Wednesday accusing the governing board of inaction during the worst budget crisis ever faced by the 10-campus system.
The UC Faculty Association all but declared the 26-member board AWOL, noting a two-month gap between meetings as the university faces cuts of more than $800 million this year and next as part of the state’s effort to close a $24.3 billion budget gap.
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Inside Higher Ed: U. of California Weighs Options for Pay Cuts and Furloughs
Faculty and staff at the University of California could face a salary cut of 8 percent, 21 days of unpaid furloughs, or a combination of pay cuts and furloughs in 2010, under a proposal made by the president of the university system Wednesday. In a letter and memorandum sent to all employees of the 10-campus system and obtained by Inside Higher Ed, President Mark G. Yudof said that the “unprecedented challenges” facing the university — a deficit of nearly $800 million in the current and next fiscal years — would require $195 million in pay reductions, on top of $211 million generated through tuition increases and about $400 million that would fall to individual campuses to save through program and other reductions. The systemwide cut would be accomplished, Yudof wrote, either through an 8 percent salary decrease from August 2009 through July 2010 (4 percent for those earning under $46,000), 21 days of unpaid holidays and scheduled furloughs (slightly fewer for those who work only during the academic year and for those earning under $46,000), or 12 unpaid days and a 3.4 percent salary decrease. Yudof said university leaders would decide on one option to present to UC’s Board of Regents in July.
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The Chronicle News Blog: U. of Tennessee System Announces Layoffs for the Future
Unlike many states, Tennessee is reserving more than $300-million of its education stimulus money from the federal government to fill gaps in the 2011 budget year when its economy may still be flagging.
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The Chronicle: California’s ‘Gold Standard’ for Higher Education Falls Upon Hard Times
Few documents in higher education have enjoyed the influence or longevity of the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the 1960 law that transformed the state’s public colleges and served as a blueprint for public systems across the country.
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The Daily News: Academic association to probe UTMB layoffs
GALVESTON — A committee appointed by the American Association of University Professors will travel to Galveston and Austin this summer to investigate whether the University of Texas Medical Branch used Hurricane Ike as a handy excuse to thin out tenured faculty.
“We don’t launch an investigation lightly,” said Eric Combest, associate secretary in the Department of Academic Freedom and Tenure of the 94-year-old organization based in Washington, D.C.
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Business Day: Cap all higher education pay, say unions
CAPPING the pay of top managers at public higher education institutions was a step in the right direction, but all salaries at these institutions should be subject to government guidelines, two higher education staff unions said yesterday.
The government has proposed that the total cost of all senior university and university of technology management salaries be capped at 6% of each institution’s total staff cost.
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EurasiaNet: KAZAKHSTAN: ECONOMIC CRISIS CRIMPS ASTANA’S GRAND PLANS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
Kazakhstan’s higher education system is taking a battering from the global financial crisis, jeopardizing Astana’s ambitious plans to turn the country into an Asian tiger economy. Thousands of young people face expulsion from universities as they find themselves unable to pay tuition and fees. The government has moved to quell public outcry by fast-tracking measures to assist financially-strapped students.
There are wider implications: problems in higher education could jeopardize President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s key priorities of transforming Kazakhstan into a knowledge economy, turning the country trilingual and making it one of the world’s 50 most competitive countries (Kazakhstan ranks 66th in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2008-2009).
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The Chronicle News Blog: Survey Identifies Trends at U.S. Colleges That Appear to Undermine Productivity of Scholars
The research output of faculty members at American colleges appears to be suffering at least in part as a result of declining financial support and scholars’ unwillingness to engage in collaborations with their peers abroad, according to a new analysis of international survey data.
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