tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post3650548574471387307..comments2024-03-26T02:17:40.309-07:00Comments on reclaim UC: Behind Closed Doors, UC Regents Again Vote to Raise Admin SalariesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post-54774443272855557962011-12-20T03:24:46.455-08:002011-12-20T03:24:46.455-08:00pepper spray and riot batons... seems a little ext...pepper spray and riot batons... seems a little extremeMarinahttp://www.vufold.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post-50908384667511291742011-11-29T19:41:22.679-08:002011-11-29T19:41:22.679-08:00UC Davis is gonna need that lawyer when the pepper...UC Davis is gonna need that lawyer when the pepper-spray lawsuits start rolling in...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post-89863311366396219052011-11-29T13:55:11.341-08:002011-11-29T13:55:11.341-08:00University of California Berkeley Chancellor Birge...University of California Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau hijack’s all our kids’ futures.<br />I love University of California (UC) having been a student & lecturer. Like so many I am deeply disappointed by the pervasive failures of Birgeneau from holding the line on rising costs & tuition increases. On an all in cost, Birgeneau has molded Cal. into the most expensive public university. <br />Paying more is not a better education. Instate tuition consumes 14% of Calif. median family income! Faculty wages must reflect California's ability to pay, not what others are paid. <br />Chancellor Birgeneau ($450,000 salary) dismissed many much needed cost-cutting options. He did not consider freezing vacant faculty positions, increasing class size, requiring faculty to teach more classes, doubling the time between sabbaticals, freezing pay & benefits, reforming pensions & health benefits.<br />Birgeneau said such faculty reforms “would not be healthy for Cal”. Exodus of faculty, administrators: who can afford them?<br />We agree it is far from the ideal situation. UC Berkeley cannot expect to do business as usual: raising tuition; granting pay raises & huge bonuses during a weak economy that has sapped state revenues & individual Californians’ income.<br />Birgeneau can bridge the trust gap with alumni, donors, politicians, and the public with reassurances that salaries & costs reflect California’s ability to pay.<br /><br />Chancellor Birgeneau’s campus police deployed violent baton jabs on students protesting increases in tuition. The sky above UC will not fall when Chancellor Birgeneau ($450,000 salary) is ousted.<br /><br />Opinions? Email the UC Board of Regents marsha.kelman@ucop.eduAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com