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Financing the University — Part 19

UC President Yudof’s Nonsensical Plan for Salary Cuts

by Charles Schwartz, UC Berkeley

A dramatic proposal from UCOP (University of California Office of the President) designed to deal with the University’s Financial Emergency doesn’t make sense when you look into the numbers. Happily, we are able to show how one can achieve the same goal while saving all employees a lot of money.
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Saving CEB

How a Group of UC Employees, More Than a Decade Ago, Saved Their Department from Privatization and Kept Their Jobs

by Mariam Grodzins

On November 7, 1997, the University of California Office of the President (UCOP) announced that a review committee had recommended that the University sell Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB). I had been working at CEB for almost 19 years, and I knew (along with anyone else who had been around for a while) that at the University “committee recommendation” was code for “we’ve already made up our minds.” November 7 quickly became known to CEB employees as “Black Friday.”

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State Legislature Poised to Neuter the
Regents of the University of California

Will it lead to greater public accountability for UC
or will it lead to chaos and disaster for UC?

by Charles Schwartz, UC Berkeley

Here are two dueling press releases, one proposed Constitutional amendment, and some preliminary discussion of the issues.

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