September 19, 2009 at 3:02 pm
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Persistent Dishonesty from the UC Office of the President
by Charles Schwartz, UC Berkeley
In this time of financial difficulties for the University of California, one would like to believe that the top officials of UC, whose job is specifically to know about budget details and budget choices and to make recommendations to the governing body – The Regents – are trustworthy. This particular account points to the opposite opinion.
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September 10, 2009 at 7:21 am
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Financing the University – Part 20
by Charles Schwartz, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley
FOLLOW THE STUDENT FEE MONEY
Here is the latest official tabulation of the various kinds of Student Fee revenues for the University of California. This comes from the “2009-10 Budget for Current Operations, Budget Detail” (henceforward, the “Budget”), published November 2008 and available at http://budget.ucop.edu/pubs.html. The table on page 174, titled “Income and Funds Available,” gives this data as Proposed for 2009-10.
Table 1. UC Student Fee Revenues for 2009-10
| Type of Student Fee Revenue |
$ Millions |
| General Fund/Possible Student Fee Increase |
110 |
| Nonresident Tuition |
256 |
| Application and Other Fees |
28 |
| Educational Fee |
1,428 |
| Registration Fee |
193 |
| Special Fee for Law and Medicine |
2 |
| Professional School Fees |
156 |
| University Extension Fees |
208 |
| Summer Session Fees |
11 |
| Other Fees [ Campus-based Fees] |
318 |
| TOTAL of all Student Fees |
2,719 |
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