Comments on: Budget Lies (A Letter to the President of UC)

By: Carolan Buckmaster

Carolan Buckmaster — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:00:30 +0000

20 years as a Cancer Research at UCSD. Stewards like myself in the workplace call management on their BS; but you have the intelligence to call UCOP on their BS – we bow to you and THANK YOU!

By: UCB Professor Blasts UCOP « the New UC

UCB Professor Blasts UCOP « the New UC — Sun, 03 May 2009 22:23:31 +0000

[...] and inaccurate. Physics Professor Emeritus of UC Berkeley, Charles Schwartz, recently produced this response to the UCOP’s propaganda. What you call the “funding for per-student education at UC” is [...]

By: Sherrill Futrell

Sherrill Futrell — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:28:58 +0000

Dear Prof. Schwartz,

I would love to have your permission to reprint this superb letter in the Davis Enterprise, Davis, CA. Students as well as staff and faculty need to know its contents!

Many thanks,

Sherrill Futrell
History Dept.
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… My Response:
Yes, of course you may reprint this letter.

By: Henry Tsai

Henry Tsai — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:36:05 +0000

As a new employee only a little over a year old, I have heard consistently that this campus was top heavy. Seeing as to how we are getting vice chancellors and associate vice chancellors (to me, that equals vice vice chancellors, ridiculous…) all the time, I truly appreciate the detail and research that this letter goes into. This definitely clears up a lot of hearsay and rumors. I hope UCOP has a good response to this. Or, we can always change our university name to UC AIG.

By: Dan Lewis

Dan Lewis — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:42:05 +0000

As a 38 year staffer at UC Davis, and an alumnus (BS Zoo/Genetics 1974), It is most welcome to see a reasoned and critically thought out approach to the financial woes of what was once the country’s finest institute of higher education. It seems to have begun in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, when management thought they ought to be running UC as if it were a business instead of an educational institution. It has lately seemed to be even more emulative of some of the nations largest businesses, by which I mean they are driving the whole thing into the ground while holding it down and pillaging it for the profit of the upper management. Unfortunately, again like the larger businesses, they have forgotten the pirates’ credo: “First you pillage, then you burn!” One can only hope to see their feathers get singed in the process.

Dan Lewis

By: Charlie Schwartz

Charlie Schwartz — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:52:01 +0000

William R. Frazer, Professor Emeritus of Physics and formerly Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of California, sent me this comment and agreed that it could be posted here.
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Charlie,

You and i have often disagreed; e.g., on UC management of Los Alamos and Livermore (I’m still deeply involved in the LLC’s). But I read your critical response on the UC budget with interest and admiration. You are raising points I never thought of, such as that tuition should never exceed the actual cost per student of undergraduate education. And the point about taking one percent of the pay of those over 100K. Thanks for provoking some thought!

Bill

By: Philip Johnston

Philip Johnston — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:32:11 +0000

Thank you for your dedication to truth and fairness. Your work is of incalculable value to all UC employees in our fight against UC disinformation campaigns.

By: Carl Friehe

Carl Friehe — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:50:42 +0000

Prof Schwartz, Thanks for your continued analysis and attempts at communicating with UCOP. Carl F.

By: Scott Gabara

Scott Gabara — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:55:50 +0000

Thank you for spending your time to try to get things right and honest.

By: Karl Hufbauer

Karl Hufbauer — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:04:54 +0000

Dear Charlie S,
In the above, you are–as almost always–right on the mark. Thanks for your extraordinary work.
Best wishes, Karl H