Alternative Commission Survey Comments Q. 5

Question 5: In your own words please tell us what you think of your

experiences at the University of California and how well do you think

it is managed. How well do you think administration (UC Regents as

whole and administration at your campus in particular) are addressing

needs of students and faculty? What, if anything, do you think should

be changed or improved and how?

 

1.    As I wrote before, I DON'T have a good felling with this UC Regents

administrators at all. The very first priority for all the schools is

get the student graduated with real life solutions. I just interviewed

two UCLA MIMG graduates, 1 GPA 2.9 can't figure out how to calculate

buffer concentration, One GPA 3.4 can't answer the customer phone call

and have no idea what the public health is about.

And most of them can't even fill in the 1040 tax return. What kind out

of life general study UC offered to these TOP students? What you can

expect these students became the next generation leaders? No wonder

the bail out of Wall Street. It is the failure of the US higher

education system, but UC has no way to be a leader to change all

these.

 

All the members of UC regent should resign immediately. And go through

a public hearing process to determine if he or she qualify the

position.

 

For example, new UCLA hospitl, how much over head and mis management?

Why I could find any one got fired because their mistakes? Why I did

not hear any administrators left because these mistakes?

 

I can trust anyone who can not take the responsibility but give all

the excuses.    Sat, Jun 12, 2010 6:34 PM    Find...

2.    I have worked at UCLA for 10 years. This last year has been the

most dis-organized, stressful and mismanaged academic year I have ever

seen. There has been a lot of confusion, and a breakdown of

communication, as everyone has been overworked and unable to keep up

with their daily duties.    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 10:41 PM    Find...

3.    The first thing, I believe, is to have a deciding body that

represents the constituency, something which is currently not at all

the case. Decision makers (president, regents) don't seem to have an

understanding of higher education or scholarship; they tend to have

little knowledge of and less respect for the institution they are

supposed to govern. Until that changes I see a bleak future for a

university run by people who see it as just another business.    Fri, Jun

11, 2010 10:20 PM    Find...

4.    Educators should be part of the Regent governance as a serious

part.    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 6:34 PM    Find...

5.    I especially did not like their decision about pay cut and tuition

hike. Administration did not have enough discussion with student and

staff so many people are feeling to be treated UNFAIR.

Even though University does not work without students faculties, and

teaching/research staffs, I feel that those people's value is not so

respected compared to high rank administrator.    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 4:02

PM    Find...

6.    I amnot qualified to answer this question.    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 2:37 PM    Find...

7.    the campuses and the systemwide provost are infatuated with

medicine and life sciences. in short, with the people who get the

highest salaries, spend the most on research, and teach the least (if

at all).

 

at the same time, the core disciplines are being ignored. they are

still the fields that are ranked MUCH more highly than any business or

engineering program in the UC, but for how long?    Fri, Jun 11, 2010

9:47 AM    Find...

8.    One of the biggest problems is the amount of teaching faculty are

allowed to get out of based on obtaining research funding. I am aware

of a lack of will amongst administrators to require faculty to teach

as much as they reasonably should, even if with their research

responsibilites. This needs to be corrected.    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 8:22

AM    Find...

9.    Very few of the regents are educators, and most are

businessmen/women. UC is being run like a large business, with top

management getting very high salaries and perks, whether they do a

good job or not.    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 7:52 AM    Find...

10.    The salaries of the administrators and regents are way too high

and the university could save money by decreasing their salaries

and/or bonuses. UCLA isn't honest with it's students or staff    Fri, Jun

11, 2010 7:48 AM    Find...

11.    Unable to answer these questions. As a UCLA Med Center employee,

am not really involved with any of the campus issues.    Fri, Jun 11,

2010 3:42 AM    Find...

12.    It is difficult to know for certain, how well the university is

managed, due to a lack of transparency of UC management and the

Regents.    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 12:36 AM    Find...

13.    UC Davis students have declared no-confidence on UC President and

the UC Regents. I fully support them. I wish the UC AFT, in

conjunction with state legislature, can take an active part with

altering the current structure; that means having full-time people who

have full access to the budget to do alternative accounting and

finance reports. This would be a beginning to discuss seriously how to

implement change in the UC.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 9:49 PM    Find...

14.    Very poorly managed. Turning into a corporation. People at the top

make all the money. Faculty, staff and students get the crumbs from

the table. The University is no longer about the students. It is about

the adminstrators.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 9:05 PM    Find...

15.    I believe that the administration is a bit bloated. I appreciate

needing administrators, but 1 per less than 10 students seems like too

many.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 5:42 PM    Find...

16.    It's nonsense that UC Presidents, Deans, and Chancellors must be

paid these outrageous salaries because otherwise the best

administrators can't be recruited. That's a line of nonesense and a

self-fulfilling prophecy. We need administrators like the ones who

made the UC great in the past, those who want to work at UC because of

their personal dedication to this type of work and all it means. There

are plenty of qualified top administrators who don't need an

outrageous salary to satisfy their egos or their political

ambitions.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 4:51 PM    Find...

17.    I have been employed at UC for 28 yearsand have seen the

university be mismanaged for decades. Students, faculty and

non-administrative staff are not treated with any respect and their

needs are not a priority. The entire structure needs to be changed,

but I doubt that this will ever happen.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 4:29

PM    Find...

18.    This used to be a world-class educational institution; those days

are long gone. Knowledge and learning are no longer respected, so no

longer provided, yet fees skyrocket. People who don't even know

Problem-Solving have to bring in consultants to make decisions - and

THEY sign faculty paychecks! Faced with a Sacramento short-fall, the

only option Yudof would consider was trashing the most vulnerable

populations - students and staff. Dept. Chairs provided lots of

options that were ignored. He should step down; having NO UC president

could not be worse.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 4:11 PM    Find...

19.    The Administration is always isolated and uninvolved.    Thu, Jun 10,

2010 4:05 PM    Find...

20.    I feel very uninformed about what decisions are being made/how

they are being made/who is making the decisions. And I do not feel

like this is my own fault; it is not available. There is a huge need

for dialogue and for someone to inform the public of what is going on,

or at least where we can find that information.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 4:01

PM    Find...

21.    Some years ago, I testified before a California Senate higher

education committee that the UC, under then-President Dynes, was

secretive and dishonest in its financial accounts. President Dynes

jumped up and contradicted me (this is all on archived recorded tape),

though in the next year he admitted that there had been

irregularities. The UC system, when I began my career in the 60's, was

not this duplicitous.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 3:02 PM    Find...

22.    I think UC should be more committed to the academic core, and take

faculty input more seriously.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 1:30 PM    Find...

23.    The administration is very good at consenting to changes and then

offering changes. However, there have not been any changes.    Thu, Jun

10, 2010 12:17 PM    Find...

24.    My 25+ years of experience on the faculty and in administration at

UC Davis tells me that EVERY campus decision is made based on The

Budget (note capitalization of the almighty budget!). Decisions are

rarely made with student interests considered first and when they are,

it is usually only because the best interests of students and those of

The Budget happen to coincide.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 11:07 AM    Find...

25.    This place is nuts! The left hand doesn't know what the right hand

is planning and we keep arguing ourselves in circles--but not even

very fast. This institution is having a midlife crisis and doesn't

know what it wants to be--but providing education to undergraduates

seems really low on the list. Everyone's underpaid--and on furlough to

boot, now--and generally pissed off. Overall, things are being done

piecemeal and with no overall plan or vision for what the university

should look like in the future.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 10:41 AM    Find...

26.    I think the administration and regents have almost no real

knowledge of what the average student's education is like. Too many

students are pushed through large classes where no one knows their

names and where no one really knows (or sometimes cares) whether

they've done anything more than memorize material During my years at

the University (more than 30 counting grad school at Berkeley), I've

seen a gradual decline in instructors' willingness to push students to

do their best and in students' willingness to do their best. In part

that's because we've become a consumerist institution, valuing student

"happiness" over their education. In part it's because too many

students are forced to work long hours (often full time) and want to

talk too many units to do a good job on their educations. (I regularly

talk to students who are taking 20-30 units each quarter; they're

surprised that I think that's too many and that I really do ask them

to spend the time demanded of a 4-unit class defined in terms of

Carnegie units.) The students, their advisors, and the University seem

to pride themselves in this multitasking and supposed hard work.

Rather than ask students to graduate in 3 years, I'd rather we tell

them they shoujd plan on 4 years with ONE major and ONE minor--and

that they should think of school as a full-time job. But to do that we

need to change the culture of "more is better," and students need to

be able to afford to work fewer hours.

 

Senate faculty on too many campuses have simply rolled over and let

administrations and regents do what they want. If the University took

service and teaching obligations more seriously--and if it looked at

quality rather than quantity of research--the system could regain some

of its former glory.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 10:35 AM    Find...

27.    I don't see why you think students should be involved in

administrative decisions--they are the youngest, least experienced,

and least educated people on campus. They are here to get an education

so that they can become decision-makers in the future--after further

education and much more experience. Let's not be politically-correct.

I also do not agree with the implication that the budget is somehow

not transparent--it is all a matter of public record, and UC AFT has

made baseless allegations about the budget that seem to be based on a

lack of knowledge about how it works. The problem is not the budget,

the problem is the sense of priorities of UC, and their unwillingness

to totally overhaul those priorities (see above) rather than just

trimming costs.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 10:24 AM    Find...

28.    The U.C. has too many administrators.Chop from the top.    Thu, Jun

10, 2010 10:00 AM    Find...

29.    The administration makes many decisions in back rooms without

participation of key stakeholders. I suggest that a commission of

faculty, students and administrators take on the task of restructuring

the entire administrative hierarchy and looking for cost savings. The

profits that come from UC med centers, parking, etc. should be on the

table.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 9:59 AM    Find...

30.    UC is certainly NOT TRANSPARENT. RELEASE THE 2009 PP-CS CLIMATE

SURVEY, MR. BIRGENEAU. WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO FEAR? UC Administration is

fueled by fear. HR/Labor Relations & EH&S are shams to protect the

ongoing corruption that is UC. It is run by criminals, just like

BP.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 8:05 AM    Find...

31.    It stinks. Management has nothing but condescension and arrogance

towards everyone else. Eliminating the majority of these positions

would be a nice start.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 7:42 AM    Find...

32.    They need to listen to the people who are supposed to be their

first priority - the students.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 7:40 AM    Find...

33.    There are many things that UCLA students don't know about- for

example the administration's decision to start a construction project

during the fiscal crisis- and the same time raising tuition. This is

an example of the admins non transparent actions... they attempted to

keep this decision quiet. At the same time, the admin is telling the

students that we are in this together and everyone is being impacted.

I can ensure you that faculty and staff are impacted- with furloughs

and over 5% salary cuts- but students are disproportionately impacted-

tuition increase of over 34% for all students.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 6:07

AM    Find...

34.    I think the faculty and the good administrators are fairly

powerless against the political ambitions of the governor, governor's

cronies and anti worker administrators. I am just a staff person, but

the spin of the administration against the people who do the work of

UC is sickening. It never changes, and seems to be even more

entrenched these recent days. The anti-worker, anti-union sentiment is

very much alive and present in the lives of many UC workers. Makes you

wonder what the administrators are thinking. The arrogance of not

having to answer, or being above the law is leading us all to some

fairly dark and slimy places and practices. I have had a few

encounters with some higher level campus administrators, and some of

their arguments are fairly thin and without much substance. What to

change? Teach and require real management skills to all managers, set

a higher standard of leadership and ethics at all levels including the

regents, fire most of the university lawyers, encourage and lead a

giant public discourse/discussion on education and who needs it and

how much is needed today,

cut administration levels back to 1970 levels --seems like with all

the electronic technology today we could do with a lot fewer upper

level managers--efficiency doesn't only effect the lower level

workers. Make all university budgets using public funds transparent

and easier to understand.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 1:06 AM    Find...

35.    Class sizes are increasing exponentially. Classes are being

cancelled. Benefits are going down. Salaries have been flatlined for

ages, and with the imposition of furloughs, people are working at an

even more reduced wage. We have many lecturers in our department with

over 20 years of service, highly skilled and valued professionals, but

their jobs are under siege. They are being threatened with losing them

constantly. TA support is being cut, which means less personalized

attention for students, and less support for graduate students.

Longstanding, high quality EAP programs are being dismantled

completely. UC cannot continue on this downward spiral and expect to

call itself a respectable institution of higher learning for very

long.

 

We need faculty, student, and administrative input, as well as input

from the community to clearly define our overall UC mission and the

local mission of each individual UC. Then we can creatively and

realistically work to realize that mission.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 11:58

PM    Find...

36.    UCOP has preempted any faculty opinion in the academic senates and

general assembly from being heard or considered. Everyone is up in

arms about virtually every one of the commission's recommendations, as

well as the poor regents's decisions and lack of transparency, but

there are no outlets to be heard    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 11:14 PM    Find...

37.    A minority of highly incompetent people make the most important

decissions    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 10:32 PM    Find...

38.    Having worked in a department at my UC I know there are a lot of

financial decisions made that do not take students into account.

Cutting staff who help students is not beneficial!

 

Also, increasing class sizes in order to cut costs is also not

beneficial. Students should be able to take courses at the junior and

senior level that have less than 50 students, for a more intense

understanding of the subject material in their major.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010

10:08 PM    Find...

39.    I think the administration is horrendous with blow out salaries

and budgets. "Competitivenss" is a lame excuse to pay these people

what they get payed. It's insane.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 9:55 PM    Find...

40.    It has been difficult to impossible to introduce innovate new

classes and programs for the past five years.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 9:03

PM    Find...

41.    Same comment. The situation is complicated. The entire flow of

society is running strong against public education. A number of ucsd

admins are busting their butts to do a good job but are hobbled from

top down admin.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 8:46 PM    Find...

42.    Administrators should consider student needs first. Not their own

survival. Not publicity. Adequately fund classroom teaching.

Period.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 8:00 PM    Find...

43.    Really -- I shouldn't have to tell the Regents that promising to

raise all students' fees in order to get a locker/ training room

facility built for a handful of elite athletes is shameful. I wasn't

too concerned about the tree-sitters who blocked construction for so

long, but I'm thinking that I missed the boat & should have supported

them. At least their priorities were clear & in keeping with the rest

of the campus' interests. If they'd prevailed, we wouldn't be looking

at this travesty emerging in our midst. We should be letting the

building boom on campus come to a halt when we can't even afford

decent janitorial service in the buildings we already have.    Wed, Jun

9, 2010 7:52 PM    Find...

44.    It's getting worse every year.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 7:00 PM    Find...

45.    I've read and viewed some of the information from both sides, and

I have to admit to being confused and not confident with grading many

of these topics, even though I know they are highly disputed. What I

DO know is that things are already very bad across the system, and

frankly much, much worse in terms of what we offer students compared

to when I started working for UC ten years ago. And we're being told

to brace ourselves for another cut in the neighborhood of 15% for this

coming year. We're already down to the bone, so where will that come

from??    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 6:29 PM    Find...

46.    Ridiculously dismissive or disinterested in opinion of those who

actually teach or study at UC    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 6:25 PM    Find...

47.    There are far fewer class and the classes are so big that people

are forced to sit on the floor.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 6:15 PM    Find...

48.    I believe that when times were flush the University allowed too

many Centers to be formed creating redundancies and confusion. Also,

too much is de-centrallized, left up to the department level instead

of being centralized at the college or school level, creating

inequities and requiring departments to 'reinvent the wheel'.    Wed, Jun

9, 2010 5:18 PM    Find...

49.    Financial transparency and commitment to making teaching the top

priority.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 4:46 PM    Find...

50.    Current administration is top-down, undemocratic, and opaque.    Wed,

Jun 9, 2010 4:19 PM    Find...

51.    I regret how UC has changed in the last 15 years. How it has

become a corporation in which only a few make profit while the big

loser is instruction. It is very sad to see how non-senate faculty are

treated, how student voices are ignored, and how senate faculty are

also left out of the big decisions. The university has become a very

successful business, and yet it keeps cutting its academic resources,

be it majors/departments, teaching staff, student services, while at

the same time, increasing fees to the students. Students find it very

difficult to graduate in 4 years because many times they cannot enroll

in the classes they need for lack of space. Faculty are migrating,

supporting staff are being laid off, libraries are closed several

hours due to furlough, etc., etc. It's just a shame to see that

happening in an institution that has so much revenue from scientific

research, medical services, professional schools, real state

investment, and many more. Managers are the ones who not only should

be cut, but be punished for having allowed this to happen to one of

the most prestigious universities in the US.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 3:43

PM    Find...

52.    The administration pretends it cares about the educational mission

of the university; it may even believe that it cares about education.

But too often its decisions show that it hasn't a clue about what good

education requires and is not interested in finding out. They care

about money, especially about spending it on construction and research

that enriches their buddies in the private sector. They like glamor

too, and perhaps some of the professional schools that bring in big

bucks. When University Writing Program lecturers at UC Riverside, most

with at least ten years of teaching experience and some with as much

as 25-30 years, expressed their opinions about proposals concerning

the curriculum, they were brushed off by administrators who literally

do not know the first thing about the teaching of writing or perhaps

even the role of writing in the education of undergraduates. If the

administration cared about education, they would ask the educators for

their input.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 3:37 PM    Find...

53.    we understand there is a financial crisis. Upper adminstrators

should be cut as much as faculty and staff have been.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010

3:08 PM    Find...

54.    top-down, never-apologize, contemptuous of intellectual life,

study, and    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 2:53 PM    Find...

55.    Managed like a large corporation from the top down with lip

service to shared governance and tone deafness re:

student fees and the value of student input. Stop running UC like a

corporation and review the salaries and need for all upper-level

management.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 2:49 PM    Find...

56.    I feel that the needs of students, staff, and faculty are being

ignored. I feel like the University is running in a direction that we

could never have imagined; contra to most things a public university

should bd about.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 2:38 PM    Find...

57.    UC Regents and Administration seem to be very out of touch with

the needs, interests, and circumstances of both faculty and students,

and out of touch with the purpose of a university system and the UC

system as a whole. Most upper-level administrators, starting with the

UC President, seem to have very little interest in education itself.

The UC Regents should be composed of faculty and educators, not

corporate CEOs with financial interests in companies that do business

with the UC, with interests in subprime lending and student loans,

etc. Right now, most administrators, even on the campus level (and

even some lower-level administrators) appear to think and behave as

though they are working for a corporation, having the attitude that

faculty and students are just inconveniences to the daily operation of

their "business". Students and faculty are the sole reasons why the

university exists, and right now they have no input on "the

Future."    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 1:07 PM    Find...

58.    the discrepancies of salaries of admin to lecturer is absurd. the

size of the classes increases to the point that quality education is

suffering. the dropping of counselors for students when administrators

make so much is outrageous. (check out the recent suicide at Yale.)

saying you have to pay them such high fees because you will lose

them--when the president of the US does not make so much money makes

it all farcical. and painful for what values the university honors.

 

and as to transparency--there is none.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 1:03 PM    Find...

59.    I don't know much about the administration at the University of

California. I only know that the accessiblity and transparency of

decision-making information is limited.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 12:30

PM    Find...

60.    compared to the privates it's doing a pretty good job

administratively    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 12:04 PM    Find...

61.    UC is completely unresponsive to staff, students, and faculty. The

Regents of UC are running an "Old Boys CLub" and giving their

administrative cronies huge bonuses while the rest of the UC community

is left in their dust.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 10:14 AM    Find...

62.    The only time I've ever felt significant in a class was during the

attached discussions and labs to my classes. Some of my professors

have been great with teaching a lecture to 500+ students, but it is

largely impersonal, and discouraging. Additionally, I know that some

of them will not be returning next year due to 'budget cuts' on

campus. Admin are not addressing our needs - they are eliminating what

we need most - a quality education.

 

Obviously regents and admin need to LISTEN to the students, the

protests, the voices, instead of sending the POLICE out to silence

them and continue on with their hidden agendas.    Tue, Jun 8, 2010 10:04

PM    Find...

63.    I think that they need to be more open with how and what money is

being spent on. They also should make a greater effort to incorporate

student needs into their decision making. For example, not choosing to

have a mid-year fee increase or cutting funding to the the Student

Academic Success Center which only strives to help students reach

their full potential through small group tutoring or even individual

tutoring from both peers and trained professionals.    Tue, Jun 8, 2010

9:58 PM    Find...

64.    Yudof says that everything is public, but it's not.    Tue, Jun 8,

2010 9:20 PM    Find...

65.    Since the budget crisis started I have been hearing a lot of

rumors and not many of the issues raised have been cleared up by UCOP.

UCOP responds vaguely and sometime flippantly to inquiries. One of the

first things UCOP did to cut costs was to eliminate a senior

administrator, which sounds like a good decision except that it was

the Vice Provost in charge of teaching! What kind of a message does

that send? Recently a decision to close the UC printing service was

announced with very little time to work something else out before

finals week. This places undue stress and burden on those just trying

to get the bare minimum of the job done.    Tue, Jun 8, 2010 11:59

AM    Find...

66.    Oh, gosh. Do the Regents do ANYTHING, beyond raise fees and

approve already well-planned building projects---the notion of them

addressing needs??? Is that a joke?

So, the Regents are hapless political appointees. No surprise there.

UCOP is out of touch with the campuses. No surprise there. And the

rest of the UC administration resides in the bunkers of their

administration buildings, venturing out for photo-ops and meetings

with donors. Not much of a surprise there either, sadly.    Sun, Jun 6,

2010 8:31 PM    Find...

67.    The administration has been so secretive regarding it's Commission

on the Future committees, both UC-wide and locally, that it is

difficult for staff to know what is really happening or provide real

input. It sounds like they're going to make and enforce decisions from

the top.    Sun, Jun 6, 2010 4:17 PM    Find...

68.    The budget needs to become more transparent; the Medical Center

needs to be made semi-independent and have a separate accounting

system.    Sat, Jun 5, 2010 3:28 PM    Find...

69.    That the UC system has imitated the corporate culture and

structure instituted under Reagan has led to the sad state we now find

ourselves in. Privatizing our university through its association with

industry has financially benefited some research areas but at the cost

of diminishing the value of others.    Fri, Jun 4, 2010 7:04 PM    Find...

70.    I speak from the perspective of a lecturer on campus. The

administration and the UC Regents have never cared about their

lecturers though we teach nearly 50% of the classes at the UC. I

attended a faculty meeting last summer about the budget crisis and was

told to sit in the back of the room in a section marked "public

seating" because I wasn't a senate faculty member. This kind of Jim

Crow segregation of the work force on campus is infuriating,

particularly since lecturers teach some core classes on campus,

including reading & composition and language classes. Lecturers are

not involved in administrative or UC Regent decisions because the

administration and Regents don't even see us as faculty! We are

continually marginalized, disenfranchized, and silenced in our

departments, on our campuses, and within the UC system as a whole

though many of us have devoted our entire careers towards teaching at

the UC and comprise some of the most dedicated, qualified, and

innovative teachers at the university.

 

I have chosen not to score the first two questions (quality of

education) because there are too many factors that go into the quality

of education to merit a simple response. We can talk about the quality

of education in the classroom, in office hours, across different

departments and disciplines, in residential life, in the academic

tutoring and support programs, in the summer programs for incoming

freshmen, in the research scholars programs, in advising services, in

the multicultural development centers and support services, in

financial aid programs, in DSP resources, in support services for

specific student populations (i.e. student athletes, student parents,

student athletes, first-generation students, transfer students, etc.),

in the campus environment and climate, in the general course

offerings/majors/departments, etc. This question also depends on the

degree to which students/faculty/staff are aware of the institutional

history of these different programs. I have been at the university for

nearly 10 years and while I would say that the changes the UCB English

department has made to their major (i.e. shifting from requiring

students to take a junior seminar and a senior seminar to taking 1

general seminar) have been bad and might merit a "C," I recently

learned that English majors were required to take 7 seminars long

before I came to the university -- information that would drastically

change how I perceive the quality of education that I had when I first

came to the university.

 

As far as class size, it is worth mentioning that when considering the

size of the class, we should not just take into consideration the

ratio of students to faculty but also the ratio of students to readers

or graduate students/discussion leaders, which averages 75:1 for

classes with readers (in the humanities and social sciences!) and up

to 35:1 for classes with GSIs. One also needs to account for the fact

that there are some very large classes (i.e. 600 students) that have

discussion sections which makes the student-to-instructor/GSI seem

better than relatively smaller classes (i.e. 40 students) where there

is no discussion leader at all. All of these factors change the way

that students experience the "size" of their classes. To be fair,

however, there are some classes that have a very small capped

enrollment in order to account for the heavy workload and the fact

that the learning needs of the student and the course content

necessitate small classes (i.e. reading & composition classes and some

language classes), and in this sense, the university has shown its

rare ability to recognize that smaller classes are conducive to better

learning environments. However, these are the very same classes that

the Regents and the UC administration seem to think will be perfect as

online classes where instructors can teach thousands of students

through distance learning.

 

Also, since there is no comment section for question #6 (what do you

believe UC top priorities should be), I'll take this space to say that

it is unfair for this survey to pit these different projects

(athletics, capital projects, instruction, medical center, community

services, research) against each other. Instruction is inseparable for

many instructors and departments from faculty research, just as having

a medical center that both serves the community and does the kind of

research and surgeries that save lives cannot be separated from

community service, nor can it be separated from the need for

appropriate building facilities or from the kind of instruction that

our research medical schools offer their students. These programs and

projects must be contextualized. In a time of budgetary crisis,

capital projects should probably be temporarily suspended, but it is

also unfair to blindly say that all construction projects should be

suspended if, for example, some are absolutely necessary for

instructional purposes. These decisions should, however, be discussed

and decided democratically with the input and feedback of faculty,

staff, students, and community members.    Fri, Jun 4, 2010 1:55

PM    Find...

71.    lower level staff know exactly who's wasting money and how to

correct - we don't need a million-dollar commission to talk about

state funding, we need to fire the corrupt people here at UCB who are

pouring student fees down drains    Fri, Jun 4, 2010 11:14 AM    Find...

72.    The administrative staff in our college work extremely hard to get

things done, and its been a terrible year for them. We feel the

lay-offs every day as staff with knowledge about how to get things

done are missing. Everything takes longer.    Fri, Jun 4, 2010 10:05

AM    Find...

73.    Management seems to be drawn from the ranks of corporate CEO's and

to have its own preservation and remuneration prioritized over the

public service objectives of a great university.    Fri, Jun 4, 2010 7:48

AM    Find...

74.    I'm appalled that the Regents, who are supposed to be fiscally

responsible for UC, seem to show no vision or draw upon their business

expertise to benefit the university. As an example, the pension fund

is now woefully underfunded, despite the fact that the Academic Senate

has been warning the Regents for years that we would get to this

disastrous place without action. UC is only now beginning to think

about lowering administrative costs with centralization of some

systems and joint development of systems.    Thu, Jun 3, 2010 2:09

PM    Find...

75.    I'm upset that for #6 question below you do not have a comment box

- there should be another priority listed - that of educational

support resources, such as the library materials and information

commons support.    Thu, Jun 3, 2010 9:34 AM    Find...

76.    I left out "Size of Administration" because most "administrators"

are low-paid overworked staff. I also do NOT think we have too many

administrators at UCSB. I DO think it's likely we have too many

high-paid administrators at UCOP, though the workings there are so

opaque I can't be sure.    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 7:27 PM    Find...

77.    We have had numerous communications with the ECVP specifically on

the 50% reduction in the budget that covers faculty salaries. There

appears to be no comprehension of the value of what we provide to our

students in terms of health, fitness, mental stability, stress

management, and positive lifestyle behaviors....we were still cut.

What we cultivate and encourage in our classes are behaviors that help

reduce or prevent the number of panic/anxiety attacks, suicide,

alcohol and drugs, and other self-medicating behaviors by

students----that which the Tang Center cannot accommodate.    Wed, Jun 2,

2010 4:10 PM    Find...

78.    It would take me far longer than the few minutes required for this

service to detail my disappointent with the administrative management

of the University. A couple of rhetorical questions will have to

suffice: who made the decision to close the libraries over spring

break (and on weekends during the fall semester)? who made the

decision to pay out bonuses to top executives in the medical schools

and elsewhere while keeping these libraries closed?    Wed, Jun 2, 2010

3:26 PM    Find...

79.    I've watched the Regents of the UC over the past 20 years. And

they are now more corrupt than they've ever been. By the way, here's

another problem the Commission conveniently overlooked--the transfer

of UC retirement funds from a centrally managed UC system to a hodge

podge of investment firms with ties to the Regents. What was that

about?    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 1:36 PM    Find...

80.    The Regents and UCSB Admin only pay lip service to student,

faculty and staff (and Legislative) concerns and then go off and do

what they have already decided.    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 12:58 PM    Find...

81.    UC Libraries suffer from management problems. UCLA is top-heavy

with incompetent and/or inattentive admin. Resources are mismanaged.

Egos are out-of-control    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 11:30 AM    Find...

82.    The rapid shift towards privatization of the UC will ultimately

lead to its demise rather than the opposite. UC schools are world

reknowned and attract stellar faculty and students because they are

public, and not because they are private ivory towers. Sure,

privatization is a necessary evil but it must be integrated cautiously

and the UC must never lose sight on its founding mission. In 30+ years

of becoming more privatized (as a result of decreased state funding),

the UC has at the same time attracted administrators who are not

educators or academics at all. Something has really gone wrong with

higher education in the U.S. and the UC one such manifestation of that

trend. Perhaps we can turn it around by reducing the number of

administrators (especially their salary ranges) and increasing the

number of full-time educators (lecturers and faculty alike),

researchers, librarians, curators, and other academic personnel who

are the heart and soul of this institution? Does Oxford, Kyoto

University, the University of Toronto, or the Ecole Normale Superieure

in Paris have one administrator for every faculty position? Do they

have one administrator for every 7 or 8 students. I think not.    Wed,

Jun 2, 2010 10:53 AM    Find...

83.    As far as management on campus I think that decisions were poorly

executed. People making the decisions need to stop being selfish and

think of the students when making these decisions. We know more than

they do. So I believe that student's voices need to be heard and taken

seriously.    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 9:26 AM    Find...

84.    UC Regents are not addressing our needs as students. How can they

expect families like mine (who don't qualify for financial aid, yet

still have a hard time paying for tuition) to send their children to

college?!    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 12:03 AM    Find...

85.    Local management at Berkeley is not bad for a big bureaucracy and

quite "transparent" compared to other public and private universities.

Systemwide centralizes many things that should be localized and vice

versa.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 6:07 PM    Find...

86.    The bloated administration is another reflection of the loss of

genuine educational priorities and the corporatization of what was

once a great public institution    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 4:56 PM    Find...

87.    UCOP - bloated and out of touch with campus realities. Prone to

treating education as a corporate business. Our campus administration:

generally well-meaning and moderately responsive, however, seems to

have recently been bullied and railroaded by UCOP into short-sighted

decisions and plans. Such as hiring consultants, signing on to drastic

changes without full community discussion, and supporting

corporate-style management plans that went out of date in the

corporate world 20 years ago.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 4:40 PM    Find...

88.    In a campus-specific way, I am stunned to learn over the years how

little autonomy the law school faculty has to conduct its affairs; how

dependent we are on "human relations" directives from UCOP.

 

University-wide, the 19th century regental model has broken down. Far

from insulated from politics, the Regents have become all too

political and prosaic as Governors of both parties appoint not those

of broad thinking and distinction, but pedestrian political

contributors. Following the example of the Eastern colleges and

universities, the Regents should be elected by UC alumni in good

standing. That reform might produce both responsiveness and

accountability to the University community.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 4:33

PM    Find...

89.    Classes are big, but eliminating teachers and classes will only

exacerbate this problem.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 3:32 PM    Find...

90.    I have worked in an academic position for 30 years. During this

time I have observed that the burden of balancing UC budget "deficits"

is always placed on students through fee increases, increased class

sizes, reduced numbers of classes, etc. and staff through furloughs,

voluntary time and pay reductions, etc. Staff who provide essential

infrastructure support for the daily functioning of our campuses

support are always the first to be layed off. New building

construction has increased while older buildings are neglected and

unhealthy with leaky roofs and moldy ceilings. Broken equipment can't

be repaired or replaced during lean times. At several campuses I have

noticed that trash isn't picked up and the grounds look unkempt.    Tue,

Jun 1, 2010 3:13 PM    Find...

91.    Participation in decision making is uneven in part because of

uneven distribution of certain kinds of workload. Faculty in the

divisions with the heaviest teaching loads should be given course

relief to hold academic senate and other service positions that

involve 8-5 service (meetings, etc.). Otherwise it's more likely that

these positions will continue to be held by faculty who have fewer

classroom-hour obligations.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 3:00 PM    Find...

92.    I think that, as a whole, administrators are not a bad idea.

However, the extreme number of high level administrators, who make

decisions about budget but who don't have to talk to or think about

students, is deeply problematic. It is absolutely necessary to have

people who can facilitate decisions - having over 3,000 people making

more than $250,000 to make those decisions is unconsciousable.    Tue,

Jun 1, 2010 3:00 PM    Find...

93.    There is a huge gulf between the administration and everyone else.

The administration is a disaster.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 2:57 PM    Find...

94.    Students, many staff and most faculty talk a lot, but don't put in

the time and hard work to find real solutions. Come on, people, step

up and do more than spouting off!    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 2:49 PM    Find...

95.    Cut top administration in half. Stop aping the "business model"

that led to our current recession.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 12:20 PM    Find...

96.    The faculty is generally excellent, but will be lost to other

institutions if the current leadership continues to offer stupid

solutions to problems that can be resolved over time. The current

administration does not seem to understand the budget or the

complexity of the organization and is proposing "reorganization

solutions" that are for the most part inappropriate to the long term

needs of the institution and the sources of funds.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010

12:05 PM    Find...

97.    Classes have been cut--or sometimes cut and then reinstated,

resulting in massive wastes of time and enery and lots of stress--but

the administration is never cut, right? The size of the administration

is one administrator per every 7 or 8 students. IS THAT REALLY TRUE?

DO PEOPLE KNOW THIS? WHAT IF THAT WAS ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE LOS

ANGELES TIMES--WHAT WOULD THE REACTION BE? Of course, there isn't one

faculty member for every seven or eight students, and the

administration would never approve that, right? What's more important

here, administration or the educational mission of the university? I

think we can all see what the answer is.

 

Excuse me if I balk at the word "transparency" but my doctorate is in

applied linguistics. I'm not accustomed to hearing that word used by

anyone but government officials, usually when they are talking about

things like international policy, national security and other very

fuzzy concepts. In other words, the purpose of the use of the word

"transparency" is NEVER promote clarity, but quite the opposite.

 

I see the administration as promoting its own interests, which it

appears to believe are opposed to those of the faculty and students.

In the ten years that I've been at UCLA, first as a graduate student

and then as a lecturer, I have continually seen money taken away from

programs, I have seen graduate support cut, and, at the same time, I

have seen buildings continually being built and rebuilt, and now I

hear that the purpose of this is so that we can switch over to online

classes. I have no idea what the Regents are doing about

this--nothing, apparently. Are the administration and Regents

responsive to students and faculty? What was the old saying? Is a bear

Catholic? Does the Pope sleep in the woods?    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 11:59

AM    Find...

98.    The Regents are corrupt. Rather than punishing students, the

administration needs to do more to educate students and to channel

their anger in productive ways. The administration's responses to the

student protests show poor judgement on the whole as well as the way

the regents have stop investing in public education.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010

11:38 AM    Find...

99.    There is a widely held perception that the university leadership

(system-wide) does not take the faculty or the students at all

seriously. Yudof behaves like an autocrat who thinks he knows best and

will do with his subjects as he pleases. He has almost single-handedly

turned the public against the UC system with his continued disregard

for concerns over executive compensation. The "restructuring" efforts

(i.e. mass lay-offs of lower level admin staff) have done nothing to

improve the public's perception of UC, and have left staff morale

(among those who are left, that is) at an all time low.    Tue, Jun 1,

2010 11:34 AM    Find...

100.    The current administration is exercising disdain for education

and for all educational resources. It is heartbreaking.    Tue, Jun 1,

2010 11:19 AM    Find...

101.    I think the structures of response to the current budget crisis

have been poor, at best. There has been nowhere near enough cutting of

the Admin ranks, athletics funding remains steady, while course

offerings have been slashed. Where are our priorities?    Tue, Jun 1,

2010 11:17 AM    Find...

102.    The administration at Berkeley is rudderless and has no idea what

the mission is or how to preserve it. The Regents have been a powerful

destructive force, as illustrated by the hand-picking of the president

of UC. Administration should not be expanded; it should take back work

devolved on departments; pay scales for administration should be

steeply reduced, and those of staff (and Chairs, who I think are not

privileged like the administrators) scaled up.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 11:01

AM    Find...

103.    It's hard to tell what administrators do, other than draw large

salaries.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 10:48 AM    Find...

104.    As goes the nation, so goes the UC: socialization of expense,

privatization of privilege, with the privileged making the decisions

for all, increasingly unconcerned with the needs of the little guy,

and with all the laws and power structure favoring this situation and

the trend for it to become more and more pronounced. The Regents are

unelected and get to their posts by being well connected, and their

decisions reflect this. The administration has a stranglehold on

money, using it to pay themselves and certain faculty handsomely while

using technicalities not to use the money for undergraduate education

and related expenses. The best example of this would be capital

improvement projects: these days, all kinds of fancy financial

footwork seems to be happening, but heaven forbid using some

construction money to fund teaching; that simply can't be done because

the money was budgeted for something else.

 

What should be changed? Regents should be elected, not simply

appointed. This is a public university, so salaries should stay within

the salary scale; no private negotiating of salaries.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010

10:28 AM    Find...

105.    As stated above, we need to have the administration become far

more proactive on behalf of all of education in the state, united we

stand, divided we are being cut a thousand ways.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010

10:24 AM    Find...

106.    If I could do it again I would go to private school. My education

is suffering, yet redundant administrators keep high salaries and

teaching suffers.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 10:05 AM    Find...

107.    Welcome to the U.C. Titanic - where the administration is so busy

rearranging the deck chairs and giving themselves outrageous raises,

they are neglecting the quality and safety of the ship.    Tue, Jun 1,

2010 9:48 AM    Find...

108.    As a graduate of UC (Davis, 1996) I have been continually

disappointed by the reduced quality of a UC education since returning

to the system as an employee (starting in 2003). The basic services

that I took for granted as an undergraduate are being decimated,

smaller departments are struggling for funding and fees (which were

out of my reach without the assistance of my family during my tenure

as a student) continue to rise.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 9:14 AM    Find...

109.    We are heavy on administration and bureaucracy rather than on

teaching and research. We spend more time trying to figure out how to

follow all the rules than we do being creative about how to deliver

what we are here to deliver.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 9:03 AM    Find...

110.    There are certainly cost-cutting opportunities available (e.g.,

having to order chairs at $550 each through the university approved

channels versus $120 each directly; or having no volume purchase of

electronics at lowered prices).    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 8:59 AM    Find...

111.    I think the administration at Berkeley is very aware of students'

needs and concerns and does their best to address it. The UC system is

a huge and sprawling organization with a lot of self-interested

fiefdoms. It would be a challenge for anyone to manage, and I think

the current regents and President Yudof do as good a job as anyone

could.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 8:28 AM    Find...

112.    The administration addresses very few of the needs of students

and faculty. UC hires a disproportionate number of administrators and

seems more concerned with protecting the privileges of that part of

our community than with meeting the needs of students and faculty. I

think that it stems in large part from the fact that the board of

Regents is appointed from the outside instead of being elected by

faculty and students.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 7:43 AM    Find...

113.    Like all other universities, we find too much bureaucracy.

Indeed, the administrator's primary job entails justifying his or her

own job, rather than making wise decisions.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 7:41

AM    Find...

114.    I listed myself as a alumnus above, which I am (Ph.D. '71), but I

was also a lecturer in the technical communication program in the

College of Engineering, recently eliminated because of the financial

crisis. The needs of students, never mind faculty, were ignored here.

An associate dean in the COE tells students that alumni tell her when

she visits companies that the technical communication course is THE

most important course they took at UC for their careers. So much for

students. Will alumni want to contribute when they understand they

didn't get all they could have at UC?    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 7:03 AM    Find...

115.    The university administration needs to recognize the purpose of

education--if for them, the purpose of education is to manufacture

bodies/robots that can be plugged into the capitalistic system, then a

3-year degree through cyber-space makes sense--however, if the purpose

of the education is to cultivate creative and independent thinking for

a better future, we may have to think about developing an environment

in which students are provided such opportunities.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010

12:06 AM    Find...

116.    The UC system must be more transparent and include more avenues

for student decision-making.    Mon, May 31, 2010 10:26 PM    Find...

117.    ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING?????? ONE ADMINISTRATOR FOR EVERY SEVEN

STUDENTS???? WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!

 

IMMEDIATE 50% CUT OF ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS!!!    Mon, May 31, 2010

9:52 AM    Find...

118.    Administrators do not care what students or faculty think unless

said students or faculty happen to command large grants or contracts.

There need to be formal channels (and by this I mean legally

enforceble) by which students can take part in administrative

decision-making.

 

Of course, as The Alternative Commission knows, this requires student

and worker solidarity, which is easier to imagine than achieve on most

campuses

 

I think complaining about the size and duties of administration is a

waste of time. These changes to the university started in the middle

of the last century and at this point are ingrained to the point of

appearing natural. What we need to do is find ways to either insert

sympathetic people into administration or find fruitful ways to work

with or against administration, because in the bureaucratic

university, there will only be more and more administrators in the

future.    Mon, May 31, 2010 9:42 AM    Find...

119.    See above.    Mon, May 31, 2010 7:02 AM    Find...

120.    From the the time first enrolled to the time I graduated from

UCLA, annual fees for in-state students increased from approx. $1k per

year to $3K per year. The following year fees doubled. Despite the

steady increase in fees over the last 20 years, the only thing that

has steadily increased @ UCLA has been the number of administrators -

not the number of faculty, not the # of holdings at the libraries, not

the number of enrolled and matriculating students, but administrators.

CUT FROM THE TOP!    Mon, May 31, 2010 1:38 AM    Find...

121.    it's not managed well    Sun, May 30, 2010 9:24 PM    Find...

122.    I don't think any of our needs are addressed by administrators.

Administrative spending and positions have balooned in recent years at

the UC--but have more needs been fulfilled? No. There appears to be no

correlation between administrators and the needs of the students,

professors, and workers, and thus it would be preposterous to argue

that there was a causative connection between more administrators and

more needs being fulfilled. Quite to the contrary, one can easily see

that the amount spend on outrageous and completely unnecessary

administrative salaries, perquisites, and bonuses could be directed to

fill needs, but by being directed to administrators this will not be

accomplished.    Sun, May 30, 2010 7:35 PM    Find...

123.    I think that as a transfer student my needs in such a big school

are not always met, or help is not always received from administration

when it comes to administrative questions/issues.    Sun, May 30, 2010

2:41 PM    Find...

124.    Faculty is fantastic - can't speak for regents because I've never

met them, they're not really part of the education process, although

they certainly affect it. UCLA seems too invested in sports and looks

at quality education as a drain on resources when that's not really

accurate.    Sun, May 30, 2010 2:31 PM    Find...

125.    I am both an alum (BA, MA and PhD) and a parent of a graduating

senior at UC Santa Cruz. I am also a faculty member at CSU Long Beach.

Santa Cruz, having fewer graduate programs, offers a better undergrad

education than most UCs. I am in close contact with my former programs

at UCLA and Berkeley. There is little transparency in budgetary

matters at the UC. Dept Chairs don't even know the budget of their

College. How can a Chair plan or know what he or she is dealing with

when there is so little information made available. It seems to

operate on some sort of old fashioned gentlemen's agreement and not on

fiscal transparancy.    Sun, May 30, 2010 12:37 PM    Find...

126.    Treating education as a business will destroy the system as we

know it, and will do irreversible harm to disciplines whose product is

not always quantifiable.    Sun, May 30, 2010 10:15 AM    Find...

127.    UC is not well managed. Communication between management and

students needs to be dramatically improved along with communication

between management and faculty. A top-down management style has proven

to fail for public academic institutions with a history of faculty

governance.    Sun, May 30, 2010 10:01 AM    Find...

128.    My experience at the UC: it seems to me that the faculty and

students do not have enough power over decision making on a larger

scale. And this is particularly the case in budget matters. Also, I

think administrators should have their paychecks significantly reduced

as the first step towards balancing the budget.    Sun, May 30, 2010 1:07

AM    Find...

129.    Chop from the top!    Sat, May 29, 2010 10:48 PM    Find...

130.    The UC has been a part of life for the past 15 yrs, as an

undergraduate, an employee and now as a graduate student. Given that

since my undergrad education, there has been no relief in terms of fee

increases, and as an employee was laid off twice from different

departments, I KNOW that the problems at the UC that I experienced at

a local (departmental and/or campus) level can all be traced to the

callous and unproductive ideology in "Management" that comes from the

top and tries to squeeze those below it while ripping the fruits of

power and oppression. It doesn't make sense and it is unethical that

this administration tries to run the UC campuses as corporate

businesses, when these are PUBLIC institutions, that shouldn't be

worked for profit.    Sat, May 29, 2010 10:47 PM    Find...

131.    The administration using these emergency funds for construction

projects which are unnecessary. The university seems more concerned

with aesthetics than with student success. Classrooms with 400

students and crammed offices for teachers do not work. We need more

spaces as students on our campuses. The university is here for the

students first and foremost. We make the university look damn

good!    Sat, May 29, 2010 10:23 PM    Find...

132.    I think that the UC is good at addressing the needs of a very few

majors and students at the expense of others. As someone who is an art

major, education minor and was trying to do a community studies major

I have seen class sizes grow, classes no longer be available and the

elimination of one of my majors. I have also seen new buildings being

built despite the protests of students, faculty, community members and

environmentalists. I have seen programs designed to help students of

color get cut. If you are a science major the UC is a great place to

be, if however, you are trying to study liberal arts at a so-called

liberal arts school you will be sorely disappointed. I am lucky enough

that my family can afford the tuition and fees, but I have seen many

of my friends go into massive amounts of debt to pay for an

unsatisfactory education, debt they will not be able to pay off after

leaving school. I think the priorities of the university must be

changed from making money to providing a well-rounded education to its

students.    Sat, May 29, 2010 6:50 PM    Find...

133.    More involvement by Senate faculty in FTE allocations is sorely

needed.    Sat, May 29, 2010 6:19 PM    Find...

134.    The University of California needs to stop acting like a

corporation- stop cutting cost at the expense of the working class.

The UC's are farther than they realize down the road to unofficial

privatization. Low income students cannot afford the UC costs, which

have been increasing far more rapidly than inflation since the 70's.

Take the cuts from the people who can spare it, not the students.    Sat,

May 29, 2010 5:59 PM    Find...

135.    I find myself saying multiple times a week "man, this university

is going to shit." I feel like everything is really going downhill.

From computers and other equipment in computer labs being consistently

out of order, to fee increases that amount to robbery, the difficultly

getting into classes even as an upperclassman with really good

academic standing, the university is being managed poorly in both

macro and micro, and the quality of education and integrity of the

university system is being severely affected.    Sat, May 29, 2010 4:27

PM    Find...

136.    Simple question: Why are the Regents appointed to the board by

the governor as recompense for their campaign contributions? This is

the definition of cronyism. The large majority of UC Regents have NO

background in higher education; they are instead business executives

who see their appointment in purely political terms. Only one of the

Regents even went to a UC--and it was the Haas School of business. Why

must we continually think that the only worthy knowledge for running

academic institutions comes from having an MBA?    Sat, May 29, 2010 1:01

PM    Find...

137.    The education system has significantly decreased since I began in

the UC system in 2000 as an undergrad. Classes were smaller, and the

requirements for my majors were intensive. As a graduate student

teaching at UCLA for the past few years, I am overwhelmed at the size

of my discussions and saddened at the quality of education these

students receive. It is impossible to provide the same intimate

environment that I experienced because I have twice as many students.

This means fewer assignments and less guidance for undergraduates. Now

that they do not even have strict GE writing requirements the quality

of work has been much poorer. This cannot be a reflection of the

student body, but rather of the education system. We are failing to

provide for our students.    Sat, May 29, 2010 12:55 PM    Find...

138.    The management of the UC is a joke, appointment of the regents is

treated as a spoils game for whoever is governor. The governing body

of regents are given 12 year terms, but almost all to none have a

background in higher education. They are paid huge salaries for jobs

that they are not qualified for (for example running Paramount

Pictures does not mean that you know how to anything about managing

the largest university system of higher education in the country), and

the result has been the degradation of affordability, accessibility

and the overall quality of education.

 

As for administrator on my home campus, they are just as equally

disappointing. On March 4th of this year, our campus erupted in

protest, with different student groups staging walk out and strikes

all over school. Even tough our campus was in chaos, Chancellor Block

had absolutely nothing to say. To me that is a complete embarrassment.

Why is he here, he make over half a million dollars a year, not to

lead our campus. He didn't even have a stance, or statement issued on

March 4th. He is a waste of money and air on the UCLA campus.    Sat, May

29, 2010 12:47 PM    Find...

139.    On the most basic level, I would like to be able to photocopy

handouts for my students without paying out of pocket. I don't think

this is an extraneous request and I don't think this money would be

better spent in an administrative office sending memos between the

assistant to the assistant to the assistant and so forth.    Sat, May 29,

2010 11:00 AM    Find...

140.    The UC system is in decline and has been so for a number of

years, in spite of the fact that the quality of the student body is

climbing. Faculty teach more students in more classes; time and

funding for research has diminished, and recruitment has not kept up

with attrition. The word is out, and I am hearing from colleagues

across the country and across the disciplines that the UC is not what

it once was. It makes me sick at heart. The system-wide leadership

during the current crisis has been embarrassingly bumbling. The UC

President's interview in the New York Times was a new low in our

relationship with the public. Campus leadership has been all but mute.

We need aggressive, coordinated, visionary leadership making the case

for the university to the public as well as the politicians. We should

have people on the radio and television as well as in print

publicizing our cause. We need, in other words, something a full bore

political campaign on behalf of public higher education in this state.

And we need to focus relentlessly on increasing revenues instead of

managing decline.    Sat, May 29, 2010 12:45 AM    Find...

141.    There is a patina of transparency and consultation but when push

comes to shove, the administration goes and does what it wants. I do

appreciate the attempts by our local administration to protect our

campus from being downgraded.    Fri, May 28, 2010 11:11 PM    Find...

142.    If the University is no longer a public university, it shouldn't

get taxpayer money. At the moment, state funds make up less than a

third of UC's budget. This isn't privatization--it's subsidizing

corporate and governmental research with taxpayer money. The main

thing that needs to happen is to throw the rascals out. Yudof? AFTER

he left Texas decided to start re-funding its university system so it

can pick up the knowledge economy California is about to let slip

through its fingers. Meanwhile, the incompetence and murkiness of UC

management is mind-boggling. We need an independent audit and a

complete rehaul of the ways funds are distributed. At the moment, fund

distribution appears to be about as clear as the Papal selection

process.    Fri, May 28, 2010 10:23 PM    Find...

143.    I did not even know the administration, how the budget was

handled or how any of the financial decisions were made.    Fri, May 28,

2010 7:30 PM    Find...

144.    So, Nathan Brostrom is okay, but all of the rest of them *really*

need to rethink the way that we talk about public education. Honestly,

the financial decisions of UCOP were simply reckless. Priorities are

completely crazy - can we please stop letting Birgeneau spend an

entire day groveling at the feet of BP executives while oil spills

into the Gulf of Mexico and more and more students are finding their

dreams to become educated completely impossible?

 

Can we listen to Charlie Schwartz for two seconds and start spending

undergraduate fees on undergraduate education?    Fri, May 28, 2010 2:13

PM    Find...

145.    I have no idea who decides how much money gets spent on

what.    Fri, May 28, 2010 1:53 PM    Find...

146.    Higher level administration is quite willing to sacrifice lower

level and mid level staff by claiming we are not efficient.    Fri, May

28, 2010 1:28 PM    Find...

147.    The administration has locked us out of their office buildings,

and posted police around the doors. This pretty much sums up the

current model for how decisions are made at the UCs.    Fri, May 28, 2010

12:36 PM    Find...

148.    Administration apparently continues to grow whatever may be

happening to Instruction and Research. There are whole levels of

administration that would likely not be missed if they were cut or

eliminated.    Fri, May 28, 2010 11:23 AM    Find...

149.    They should actually TALK TO US! I went on hunger strike with

twenty other people for ten days before we were even allowed to meet

with the chancellor. Not only do they need to talk to us, they need to

LISTEN. The admin at UCB and UC more broadly act like a bunch of

authoritarians, ignoring our demands and calling the riot cops when we

protest peacefully. Yudof is on record saying he opposes democratizing

the regents, so I guess we'll have to force him.    Fri, May 28, 2010

10:46 AM    Find...

150.    there is no respect for shared governance    Fri, May 28, 2010 10:24

AM    Find...

151.    Each campus should get a fixed amount per student from the state,

not the current subsidy of UCB and UCLA by the smaller campuses.    Fri,

May 28, 2010 10:18 AM    Find...

152.    I think their are several critical problems with senior level

administrators. 1) they should come from inside the university, and

not be headhunted from out side. Birgeneau and Yudoff are fine

examples of people who may mean well, but have no clue about the

universities they administer--where the waste is to be cut, what the

culture is. And because of this, we are paying 3 million dollars for

an efficiency study that if they had just promoted faculty from the

UCs they wouldn't have had to, because they would have worked their

way up and had a systemic understanding of things by having been

chairs and deans here first. Chancellor Tien was a classic example of

the great things that can happen when you have someone internal. 2)

The 20% pay hikes every time we replace an upper level administrator,

even when the job was only occupied for 5 years and even in times of

budget cuts has got to stop. Sure, we won't get someone who comes from

Texas or Canada, but we will get dedicated faculty from our home

campuses who want to make Berkeley great--so long as we let them go

back to teaching again at the end of their 5 year stint, and it will

again return to being what it is supposed to be, *Academic Service,*

instead of being a way to get a great retirement package.    Fri, May 28,

2010 9:48 AM    Find...

153.    A lot of students came out to protest and yet the Regents voted

on a fee increase that is affecting students possibilities to attend

school. I think that Regents need to be more humble and not run the UC

system as a corporation.    Fri, May 28, 2010 9:31 AM    Find...

154.    I think faculty governance works but is being degraded by a

calcified upper administration and lack of insightful leadership from

the regents.    Thu, May 27, 2010 11:11 PM    Find...

155.    The administration pays lip service to staff. The unnecessary

furloughs, unwillingness to bargain, hiring freeze, threats to the

retirement system. All this while the bloated administration collects

such perks as $62,000 relocation bonuses. Employees are not

represented on retirement decision making panels as they are at CSU

etc. Birgeneau has proven to have a total inability to communicate

effectively with students and staff. He is an absentee chancellor who

is fond of hiring expensive consulting firms to do his job.    Thu, May

27, 2010 5:58 PM    Find...

156.    This is my first year at UCLA and I believe that the education I

have received so far is very good and challenging; however, selecting

courses was very difficult because almost every interesting course was

cancelled or filled up. As a foster youth who does not have parents to

provide economic support, I have found great help through the Bruin

Guardian Scholars Program, but the program too is constrained by

limited funding. The Bruin Guardian Scholars Program is of great

emotional support as well as sometimes I have difficulty communicating

with administrators such as in financial or housing services who do

not seem to have a heart for student's interests but more towards

business and the capitalist endeavors of the university.    Thu, May 27,

2010 5:28 PM    Find...

157.    The Regents and university adminstrators seemed to be determined

to follow the University of Michigan model and run the university as

if it was a private institution. But it is meant to serve the people

of the state and decisions must be made with that foremost in

mind.    Thu, May 27, 2010 5:01 PM    Find...

158.    I work at the new UCI Law School Library and the instruction the

students rec'd (for FREE) was incredible! The rest of the campus has

high volume of students in classes and many are taught by TAs instead

of faculty and I hear the students comlplaining abiout it all the

time. Such high tuition and little instruction time or crowded

instruction time with faculty.    Thu, May 27, 2010 4:33 PM    Find...

159.    The UC has many meetings to solicit input. But the input seems to

stop there. Actions often are opposite of the calls for change.    Thu,

May 27, 2010 2:37 PM    Find...

160.    I think that the U.C. San Diego chancellor is a disaster. She

should give us all a break and leave.

Based on 35 years experience here I would fire everybody in the

personnel office.

In these lean times the multi-college, multi-college administrative

system is just plain stupid.

Although both my sons would have easily been accepted at UCSD I did

not ever consider sending them to UCSD. The climate for students is

just awful.    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:27 PM    Find...

161.    I was involved with several active student groups. They started

out very motivated and engaged and wanted to become part of the

process of working with the university on the issues that the

university said were top priorities and which their organizations'

charter was for. After repeated bad interactions with administrators

in which they were told this sort of thing "you are only a student.

you should not be offering suggestions or making proposals" they not

only lost their motivation but became extremely wary of administrators

in general and their ability to accomplish their stated goals. They

found the administration hypocritical. This problem came up repeatedly

over several years with many students and many administrators. I felt

unable to comment, because although I was well aware of and had

experienced the same sort of exclusionary elitism in my role, and it

was not subtle, I was caught in the middle professionally. At least at

UCSD there is a serious problem with hierarchy and elitist attitudes

that directly impacts the ability to accomplish the mission of the

institution as a public university.    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:15 PM    Find...

162.    I think, first get rid of all the administrators. The Regents

should be abolished. the very notion of a Board of Regents smacks of

feudalism and its attendant notions of power.    Thu, May 27, 2010 1:29

PM    Find...

163.    The way peer review is conducted in my unit is deplorable and I

have worked on two other UC campuses in the past. Although I

experienced something that could have been a grievance, supervisors

and the review initiator refused to be fair; I was able to provide

additional input but a normal merit was denied. I have been angry

about the way I was treated for the past two years, but there is no

redress in our system.

I have no impression about the needs of students, so cannot comment on

that aspect.    Thu, May 27, 2010 1:10 PM    Find...

164.    Why so many administrators? Cut these positions, and use the

bloated salaries that come with them to fund real education, and let

the students and staff take over the decision-making work done by

management.    Thu, May 27, 2010 12:23 PM    Find...

165.    OUr opinions are requested and ignored.    Thu, May 27, 2010 11:35 AM    Find...

166.    The University's efforts to provide transparency for the budget

and financial decisions is still not acceptable. There needs to be

100% transparency where the law provides and not after months or years

of asking the Regents, UCOP and campus administrations for facts and

figures the claim to be to difficult to compily or gather. If it's to

"difficult" for departments/units/individuals to do their jobs then

they need to be replace with competent employees who can.    Thu, May 27,

2010 9:57 AM    Find...

167.    My experience as a student in the 1980's was fine. Today, I am

perplexed at how a young person affords an education and why the state

is not encouraging and incentivizing more young people to go to

college. The Regents and UCOP are on a drive, thus far successful, to

privatize UC. This is destroying our great university. The Regents

need to be made accountable to the State legislators, UCOP and the

Regents need to be more far more transparent, and administration

salaries need to be brought back to earth. There is a double standard

going on at UC in terms of compensation. Staff are public-service

minded and agree to below market salaries in exchange for generous

benefits and security. The administration is money-motivated and feel

they should be compensated as if they are working in the private

sector. The two need to brought into line. Both segments have their

deadwood, but it seems the administration is drinking particularly

deeply from the public trough as there is no oversight or

accountability.    Wed, May 26, 2010 8:38 PM    Find...

168.    Not good at all 312 0/0 management grow vs 22 0/0 of work

force.    Wed, May 26, 2010 6:25 PM    Find...

169.    When I came her we were first rate. Now we're worse off than a

JC.    Wed, May 26, 2010 5:33 PM    Find...

170.    My education has been a decent one. However, I am sick and tired

of the Regents' fee increases as well as the failure of my school's

governing bodies (chancellor's office, USAC, etc,) to be fiscally

responsible.    Wed, May 26, 2010 4:48 PM    Find...

171.    Mandate that the Regents withdraw from the Calif Chamber of

Commerce; it is a conflict of interest.    Wed, May 26, 2010 2:07

PM    Find...

172.    Most of the time, if you do the opposite, you will get a better

outcome.    Wed, May 26, 2010 1:43 PM    Find...

173.    Again, there are way too many administrators and many of them do

not know what they are doing (they made several obvious errors when

putting together our budget). It's absurd to have one for every seven

students when my classes (where I meet with each student three times a

quarter) was just increased to 25.    Wed, May 26, 2010 11:51 AM    Find...

174.    regents should break the debilitating and unspoken decorum rules

that dictate their constant assent to whatever the office of the

president dictates. if you disagree, disagree strongly.    Wed, May 26,

2010 9:50 AM    Find...

175.    New chancellor showed some promise, but quickly is showing less

transparency and seems just as arbitrary as most chancellors.    Wed, May

26, 2010 9:35 AM    Find...

176.    Administrators try hard, I think; some work effectively with

faculty and pay attention to student needs. But many don't. The

Regents? They don't seem to deign to think about students, faculty,

staff.    Wed, May 26, 2010 9:34 AM    Find...

177.    The UC's are managed terribly. They are currently being run by a

business, not an education system. The fact that not 100% of my fees

paid to attend my campus come back to my campus is wrong. My major is

being cut and not all of my fees even make it back to my campus to

support my major. Chancellors and other administrators do not listen

to students or the Academic Senate on my campus on where the cuts

should be going. They do not take students' needs into account when

they cut library hours, campus buses, dining hall hours, custodial

hours (who clean almost everywhere that students go on campus),

TA-ships, lecturers, classes, or majors.    Sun, May 23, 2010 7:22

PM    Find...

178.    less administrators. more student faculty counsels with

administrative facilitation. students and faculty know what they need

most on this campus.    Sun, May 23, 2010 6:07 PM    Find...

179.    I think we need a revision to the Article IX, Section 9 of the

California constitution. If the Board of Regents is going to continue

to be in charge of the the security of the funds of UC, they need to

be democratically elected by (i.e. ACCOUNTABLE TO) the students and

faculty who are impacted by their decisions. 16 out of 26 APPOINTED to

12 YEAR terms is inexcusable.    Sun, May 23, 2010 11:23 AM    Find...

180.    Having stone-walled reasonable suggestions from faculty,

consultants, and students, and capitulated to Schwartnegger's demands

for privatization (without ever trying to make the case to taxpayers

about the importance of a public University), the administration now

faces massive social unrest and a major audit from the state. The

Regents, as a decision making body, must either be democratized (and

made transparent) or will go down with the ship. The course they are

leading the UC on will bankrupt the schools and bankrupt

California.    Sun, May 23, 2010 10:43 AM    Find...

181.    less administrators! more student, faculty, and worker input

about cuts, decisions, everything!    Sat, May 22, 2010 3:17 PM    Find...

182.    At my campus (Santa Cruz), over 100 faculty signed a letter to

Chancellor Blumenthal expressing concern about the student judicial

affairs process. When asked about his reaction to the letter in an

Academic Senate meeting later that week, Blumenthal responded, "I

don't know which letter you're talking about. I get a lot of letters."

He later stated that there would be a committee headed by the EVC to

look at the process, that police would continue to photograph students

at activist events, and that the individuals who had already been

unfairly prosecuted would not have a chance for their cases to be

reexamined. EVC Kliger runs the budget; comparing the cuts he has made

to the recommendations of the Academic Senate reflect that he

consistently cuts more to academic support and services and less to

institutional (mostly admin) services. The Chancellor and EVC should

not be able to get away with completely ignoring faculty concerns.

This is obviously true on the Regents/UCOP level as well because

that's where the chancellors' orders originate.    Sat, May 22, 2010 2:10

PM    Find...

183.    I think the University used to be run much better. The proper

model is for it to be run by professional PUBLIC administrators and

academics, not by people with a corporate background (by that I mean

the professional staff, not the Regents). The University is not

supposed to be run on a profit model (except the enterprise units like

the Medical Centers).    Sat, May 22, 2010 1:18 PM    Find...

184.    I think you should also ask about the treatment of workers.

 

Anyway, I think the UC is run like a corporation, fees are too high,

workers are exploited, the administration is disrespectful and

unresponsive toward student concerns and protests, class sizes seem to

be getting bigger, etc. Students are treated less as individuals and

more like a mass of students to ram through college -- stamp them with

a grade, shove a degree at them, and wish 'em good luck.    Sat, May 22,

2010 9:49 AM    Find...

185.    The formal involvement of students in budget decisions is

deficient. At Berkeley, the Committee of Student Fees is accountable

to no one (self-appointed).    Fri, May 21, 2010 10:16 PM    Find...

186.    Democratizing the Regents should also make the selection of

campus chancellors more democratic. Beyond that, eliminating high-paid

middle managers should also be a priority.    Fri, May 21, 2010 12:53

AM    Find...

187.    I've never attended UC, so I can't truthfully answer your

questions above as they've been framed. Clearly, though, the quality

of education at UC has gone down over the past several years. Your

survey software forced me to answer, so I just gave everything an F

 

7. Do you think the governing structure of the university adequately

addresses needs of the UC system? If you answered no, please feel free

to elaborate how the system can be changed or improved.

 

1.    300 + students for one class is outrage. When UC figure out how to

match the class size with Cal State system, then UC Regents

administrators can regain the rights to get their pay.    Sat, Jun 12,

2010 6:34 PM    Find...

2.    Ensure dialogue and free circulation of information. Trust and

confidence in the governing structure has been very badly damaged, but

perhaps, with a new set of top administrators who genuinely listen and

care to repair what used to be the greatest public university in the

world, we can still bounce back.    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 10:20 PM    Find...

3.    More contribution by educators and not financial and developer

types. If you are a hammer, most things tend to look like a

nail!!!    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 6:34 PM    Find...

4.    The Working Smarter Plan for administrative, purchasing and energy

savings is a step in the right direction.    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 2:37

PM    Find...

5.    I have observed research staff members taking actions to be as cost

efficient as possible: from sharing space and equipment with other

labs, to limiting electrical energy waste and increasing workloads.

The research staff have tolerated and worked around campus closures

and layoffs. The professors we work with have made extraordinary

efforts to find research funding and met with record-breaking success.

What I have not observed is equal efforts from the higher levels of

the UC hierarchy. Reality or not it has cause a bitter division

between the level where I work and where major decisions about UCLA

and the UC system are made.    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 10:37 AM    Find...

6.    the senate and staff assembly need to be strengthened, and the

office of the president needs to listen not to professional school

people and self-dealing, but to the core campus disciplines    Fri, Jun

11, 2010 9:47 AM    Find...

7.    I don't think the Governor should be appointing the Regents--too

political, too much room for conflicts of interest. Maybe each campus

should elect 1 or 2 of the Regents, with all campus populations

eligible to vote (students, faculty, staff).    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 8:22

AM    Find...

8.    staff as an asset not a liability and to much pay for regents and

top mngmnt    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 8:20 AM    Find...

9.    Reorder the priorities as in #6 above.    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 7:52 AM    Find...

10.    Unable to answer    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 3:42 AM    Find...

11.    About half of the UC Regents should be comprised of UC faculty and

students on 2-year terms. The term of appointment for the rest of the

Regents should be much shorter (perhaps 4 years), and there ought to

be ways for them to be removed during their appointment.    Thu, Jun 10,

2010 9:49 PM    Find...

12.    It's hard for any ruling body to be completely invested in places

as disparate as the CU system    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 9:09 PM    Find...

13.    I don't know enough about the UC campus or system to answer

this.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 5:01 PM    Find...

14.    The Regents must be representative of, and accountable to, the

people of the state of California, and protect academic autonomy,

worker's rights, and freedom of speech for all.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 4:51

PM    Find...

15.    The system is top-heavy for no better reason than that it has

always been that way. Invert the pyramid. Give greater authority to

the "boots-on-the-ground" people, less to the ones who breathe thinner

air.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 4:11 PM    Find...

16.    I'M OVER 5 MINUTES    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 4:06 PM    Find...

17.    How is it there always seems to be funds for higher management

positions ($120K) but nothing, not even a cost of living increase, for

those poorly paid lower level staff members who do the work and

contribute so much to the University? Those on the lower end of the

pay scale also need to feed their family, pay rent or mortgage,

ultilities and taxes. I feel that I've slid from middle class to poor

working class in less than a decade.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 3:56 PM    Find...

18.    Appointment process for Regents is too politicized. Wealthy

Regents may lack empathy for concerns of students from less well-to-do

families.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 3:12 PM    Find...

19.    The Medical Centers and Research projects are making money for the

University, as President Yudolf has admitted; it is only right that

these profits be spent on those academic efforts that cannot charge,

and cannot possibly support themselves.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 3:02

PM    Find...

20.    One very simple change would be to address the cost of living

differences between the various campuses and adjust salaries,

accordingly.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 1:54 PM    Find...

21.    Regents are too ideological and out-of-touch with the mission of

the UC system: to provide an excellent mechanism for IN-STATE students

to pursue the finest of educations.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 12:48 PM    Find...

22.    The governance is increasingly detached from the reality of the

changing demographics of California.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 12:17

PM    Find...

23.    The UC system has deteriorated badly in the last quarter century

by growing too fast and misplacing ite priorities along the way. The

University has been transformed from an institution of higher

education into a quasi-business/research enterprise that places far

too low a priority on a significant segment of its clientele,

undergraduate students    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 11:07 AM    Find...

24.    One president for 10 highly acclaimed higher education

institutions that don't play nice with each other?    Thu, Jun 10, 2010

10:41 AM    Find...

25.    The Regents and campus administrations are too out of touch with

the system. Most don't come from the system; many have never been

students or faculty at a public institution, and many are so much more

wealthy than the students, most faculty, and the average Californian

that they simply cannot understand the needs and priorities. They

believe in a corporate structure; I believe in a University structure.

The two are NOT the same, and--as recent events have shown--the

corporate is often a selfish model that is seriously flawed.    Thu, Jun

10, 2010 10:35 AM    Find...

26.    I don't know what you mean by "governing structure." I do not

think more democratic = better. On the contrary, more "democracy" is a

recipe for paralysis. Look at what the referendum system has done to

California's legal system (e.g., Proposition 13 and many others)--it

is largely responsible for our financial mess. The Founders called

this "mobocracy."    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 10:24 AM    Find...

27.    More democratic process for deciding the future that would involve

faculty and students at every level.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 9:59 AM    Find...

28.    Isn't it obvious. They have purposely strayed from the Calif.

Master Plan in order to line their own pockets on the backs of

students. Honor the Master Plan -Tuition-Free UC Now! How else will we

invest in our children and the future? UC doesn't give a damm.    Thu,

Jun 10, 2010 8:05 AM    Find...

29.    UC has abused its autonomy and should be under the direct control

of the California Legislature.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 7:48 AM    Find...

30.    They refuse to allow input from students, staff and faculty in any

substantial manner.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 7:42 AM    Find...

31.    see above comments    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 6:07 AM    Find...

32.    There needs to be representation on all the major decision making

boards for all the stakeholders impacted: regents, retirement system,

academic senate, should have input and voting from staff (not only

management level staff,but also lower and mid-level staff--some job

titles never rise to higher management, but include some very

experienced employees), students, parents. faculty, alumni, community

leaders.

I find the general awareness and creativity of the administration

fairly lacking--their view is fairly narrow and not visionary, often

defensive. In order for the university to thrive in the future, we

need to get away from the narrowness of having only business and

political loyals of the governor serving as regents. There is a

serious lack of diversity, in the broadest sense. Systems don't

survive, rather they collapse, when the diversity is selected

against--this is a kind of social suicide or inbreeding--diversity

brings new ideas, energy, solutions, experience, creativity, cross

pollinations of all sorts. It has become that the university more

blatantly serves for business--and I think has lost its moral compass

in the process, and not to say its grounding in the generations of

Californians who built our great schools with their dreams and dollars

for a better future. Will it all be for naught? A grand experiment

that fails?

 

Thanks for hearing me out!!    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 1:06 AM    Find...

33.    Faculty need to have much more power. Lecturers need to have a

voice. Students need to be empowered to make their needs known by

means other than protest against administration. There needs to be

true collaboration within the system.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 11:58

PM    Find...

34.    Democracy at all levels, elect the regents, deans, chancellors and

vicechancellors, they should present a program and a rationale for

their policies; they shouldn't be elected though this corporate

firms.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 10:32 PM    Find...

35.    The governing structure doesn't seem to care about students at

all, but making money. Students are why the university is in

place.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 10:08 PM    Find...

36.    A governing board sould be truly independent and able to control

the administration itself. It should also have a stronger voice in the

State Legislature and there should be real diversity in the board-not

just ethnic/racial. There are too many similaritis among current board

members. To me, they all look like tagens of each other.    Wed, Jun 9,

2010 9:55 PM    Find...

37.    reduce the number of deans, assistant deans, associate deans, etc.

do we really need a "dean track"? get rid of the financial incentive

to becoming a dean at the end of one's faculty career.    Wed, Jun 9,

2010 9:48 PM    Find...

38.    Need broad representation of the state's population on the board

of regents.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 8:46 PM    Find...

39.    Things now are way too tilted toward buildings, naming buildings,

& accumulating gifts that glorify donors instead of going to basic &

needed instructional & scholarship support.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 7:52

PM    Find...

40.    Not enough attention and funds are directed toward instruction.

Too many construction projects, while excellent instructors are being

fired and class sizes are growing to 400 and beyond. Top

administrators are paid huge salaries, while instructors are fired or

have to take an equivalent of 9% pay cut due to the furloughs. It

seems that the mission of the UC as a provider of excellent and

affordable education is forgotten.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 7:42 PM    Find...

41.    I'd rather be able to answer this with an "Overall, I don't think

so" than a solid "no" because I don't think everyone in the governing

structure is evil and out to ruin the university. An "us" vs. "them"

stance will get us nowhere. The financial situation for UC is simply

horrible-- that's a fact-- and tough choices need to be made. Given

that, I'd like to see more of an ear given to the folks in the

trenches who are living these cuts. Not just faculty and students, but

the staff as well-- they have really taken the brunt of this mess. The

voices of the "little people" need to count as much, or perhaps more

(a lot more?) than those of any regents. Have out-of-the-box ideas

truly been entertained??    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 6:29 PM    Find...

42.    Regents are living in a world that does not value knowledge unless

it means $$$    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 6:25 PM    Find...

43.    The University should have a democratic structure of governance.

Why should bank directors and other members of the regents shape the

future this vital public institution? Universities it's professors and

students are asked to produce ideas, technologies, and a visions for

other countries and yet they are barred from self determinging their

own mental, intellectual, and work spaces.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 6:15

PM    Find...

44.    Too many layers of administrators (e.g. each college at UCSD has

an independent administrative and management structure. One could

still preserve the flexibility/advantages of separate colleges with

much less overhead    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 5:56 PM    Find...

45.    Not sure    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 5:18 PM    Find...

46.    I don't believe the experiences and perspectives of the Regents

and other top officials adequately qualifies those individual to

control UC's future.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 2:55 PM    Find...

47.    The UC Regents are mostly political appointments, mostly rich,

mostly Republican. They rubbers tamp pretty much everything they get

from the administration. They don't reperesent faculty or students

well.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 2:49 PM    Find...

48.    Please see comments above re: the composition of the Regents. They

are not educators and do not believe that instruction and research are

the primary goals of the university. They have also cast aside and

disregarded the principle of shared governance. Right now, the UC

faculty have no say about what goes on at the UC. And whatever token

faculty members may appear on committees such as the Commission on the

Future are either from the sciences (government/military

contracts/corporate funding) or professional schools - there is little

to NO input from faculty in the humanities or social sciences, who

have no money to make from these changes and who value instruction and

research above all.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 1:07 PM    Find...

49.    Faculty and administrative assistance could resolve most problems

just fine. The Administration and regents should be dissolved.    Wed,

Jun 9, 2010 1:07 PM    Find...

50.    Regents should be elected democratically. I believe students and

faculty should have a say in who runs their university.    Wed, Jun 9,

2010 12:45 PM    Find...

51.    I don't know enough to answer adequately    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 12:30 PM    Find...

52.    No, there are huge problems with budget proposals which it seems

students had very little to say about.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 12:04

PM    Find...

53.    Focus on what's important, not what makes us 'look good' or 'more

profitable'. An education system is supposed to do what it says -

educate us, not to purchase things we do not need.    Tue, Jun 8, 2010

10:04 PM    Find...

54.    I think that the school system is more concerned with making money

right now than offering its students all of the resources and classes

that they need to get their degrees and succeed.    Tue, Jun 8, 2010 9:58

PM    Find...

55.    Students and workers need to have a real voice and real

decision-making powers in the UC.    Tue, Jun 8, 2010 9:20 PM    Find...

56.    The UC should NOT be run like a corporation. The composition of

the UC Regents should include more members of key stakeholder groups:

students, faculty, and staff.    Mon, Jun 7, 2010 12:57 PM    Find...

57.    Do we really need an Office of the President with hundreds to

thousands of employees? That's one HECKUVA office staff...    Sun, Jun 6,

2010 8:31 PM    Find...

58.    Students and non-senate faculty need to be given voices.    Sat, Jun

5, 2010 6:57 PM    Find...

59.    The regents should be people with some experience of education,

and not be political appointees    Sat, Jun 5, 2010 3:28 PM    Find...

60.    Open the books, trim management, and stop emulating Wall Street

firms.    Fri, Jun 4, 2010 7:04 PM    Find...

61.    This system should be governed by direct democracy. Student,

faculty and worker control should be our model. We do not need

administrators, they just fuck everything up.    Fri, Jun 4, 2010 3:56

PM    Find...

62.    governance is absurdly hierarchical and disarticulated. The

Regents and UCOP's relation to the campuses is weak to nonexistent.

Administration is secretive and allows limited input. Regental bylaws

forbidding direct contact with them need to be changed. At this point,

it may be better to end UC as a system to give campuses the kind of

autonomy that would allow wider participcation in self-govenance.    Fri,

Jun 4, 2010 3:36 PM    Find...

63.    Radically reduce size of administration and let faculty make major

administrative decisions    Fri, Jun 4, 2010 7:48 AM    Find...

64.    I believe that Regents should be expected to show vision and

leadership, not to rubber-stamp various matters. They should also

serve for shorter terms, so that there is more refreshing of talent

and perspective, and so that the commitment is less daunting for the

type of talented individual that the university needs in this

role.    Thu, Jun 3, 2010 2:09 PM    Find...

65.    It's too top-heavy in administration. There isn't enough emphasis

given to information resources for support of education and research

(libraries, academic computing)    Thu, Jun 3, 2010 9:34 AM    Find...

66.    They need to prioritise education, this is a school. Not a

business. Its simple.    Thu, Jun 3, 2010 8:20 AM    Find...

67.    The governing structure is too slow and too unimaginative --

unfortunately the faculty governance is part of the problem.    Thu, Jun

3, 2010 7:45 AM    Find...

68.    The Regents have been pretty bad the last 10-20 years. They don't

seem to advocate for UC but rather to meddle and micromanage in

pursuit of ideology or amusement or even personal financial interest.

Appointment seems often due to political contributions. Appointment to

top UCOP positions (other than President) also seems opaque and

non-competitive. Many decisions seem to get lengthy review at both

UCOP and campus levels. My guess is that we need much more

decentralization (the opposite of what some Commissions are urging),

and less of campuses sending money (e.g., fees) to UCOP which then

sends it back to campuses.    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 7:27 PM    Find...

69.    Too much power in UCOP.    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 4:30 PM    Find...

70.    Restructuring of the CA public college tiered system may be

necessary, and this may only require minor adjustments. Small changes

may result in significant efficiencies with Statewide coordination of

the various technical, city, Cal State and UC colleges &

universities.    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 4:21 PM    Find...

71.    The "needs" of the system are (1) to continue to provide

world-class affordable education. (2) world-class faculty, (3)

structurally safe and appropriate classroom environment. How?

(1) Chop from the top.

(2) Do not reduce faculty nor faculty salaries. Chopping from the top

will subsidize any and all cuts from the state, especially with the

raises that upper management recently received.

(3) Put a freeze on hiring including staff----conduct employee

performance reviews and

extricate those with a history of non-productivity.    Wed, Jun 2, 2010

4:10 PM    Find...

72.    The Regents are corrupt. The Senate doesn't actually represent

many of the faculty, and very few of those who have the most contact

with undergraduate students. It's a hierarchy, and it's a very

inefficient one, at that.    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 1:36 PM    Find...

73.    Both the Regents and UC admin pay only lip service to hearing

concerns then do what they have already decided. The Regents are not

at all representational of who they are created to serve. They are

mostly rich, mostly white, and many have little or no experience in

education or public service. The Regents have proven time and again

that they consider themselves to be accountable to no one and in many

instances are serving their own best interests.    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 12:58

PM    Find...

74.    University = teaching. Greater emphasis on boots-on-the-ground

faculty and librarians.

There are too many "administrators" and not enough competent ones at that.

It's time to reassess the mission of UC and a serious consideration of

balancing the "money-making" (private labs, et al) with the

"money-losing" (e.g. education)    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 11:30 AM    Find...

75.    The all-powerful role of the UC Regents in campus-wider governance

continues to puzzle me. The interests of the Regents seem to be in

direct conflict with those of the university it governs. Faculty,

staff, students, and citizens of California need to have a greater

role in the future of the UC.    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 10:53 AM    Find...

76.    I am concerned based on recent meetings with some of the Regents

that some of them seem to have little knowledge of what we do everyday

and how we do it. I am concerned that this will make it too easy for

them to make bad decisions for the university based on short-sighted

responses to the financial crisis that will ultimately destroy the

quality of the University of California. UCOP is similarly problematic

and out of touch with the campuses.    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 10:34 AM    Find...

77.    The proposals do not adequately represent the student body and the

UC system whatsoever.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 11:11 PM    Find...

78.    "democracy" is an inane buzz-word wiht reference to the university

which is, of necessity, a large bureaucracy in which professionals are

needed to make day to day administrative decisions. See above for bad

allocations of decision-making nodes.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 6:07 PM    Find...

79.    Athletics, other than athletic training for undergraduate or grad

students, should not be a priority at all.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 4:56

PM    Find...

80.    Obviously it doesn't!    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 4:41 PM    Find...

81.    UCOP seems ruled by former corporate fatcats. What are their

educational credentials? Or even their budgetary credentials?    Tue, Jun

1, 2010 4:40 PM    Find...

82.    See my comment above.

 

My low mark for athletics in question 6 does not mean I think

athletics an unimportant part of undergraduate or graduate education.

Athletics for all should be enhanced. But UC Berkeley's attempt to

emulate the Big Ten has lead to unwise and irresponsible land use and

financial decisions. Our alumni will support UC whether or not we are

in the Rose Bowl; we have done pretty well in the 50 years since our

last appearance there.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 4:33 PM    Find...

83.    I don't have recommendations for change, based on what I know of

other state schools' governing models, and of course what we have is

*infinitely* better than being thrown to the CA Legislature!    Tue, Jun

1, 2010 3:00 PM    Find...

84.    I think that decisions should be made by a consortium of students,

faculty, and staff - those who will be affected by these decisions. I

think that the Regent system, along with President and

chancellor/vice-chancellor positions have proven themselves to be

destructive not only to education, but also to town/gown relations and

the overall trust that Californians have in education as an idea. This

attitude is completely understandable given the way the University is

currently run.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 3:00 PM    Find...

85.    I think Yudof should be fired and replaced with someone who

understands and cares about great public universities and who has a

commitment to resisting privatization.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 2:57

PM    Find...

86.    UCOP has bypassed system of shared governance and/or simply made a

show of consulting faculty.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 2:12 PM    Find...

87.    The regents of UC should be elected by members of the UC

community, not appointed by governors who can't even win legitimate

elections.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 1:34 PM    Find...

88.    This is the worst UC administration ever. The President and the

Berkeley Chancellor should be fired and replaced by educational

leaders that actually support UC and understand its budgets. Budget

cuts in 19900 funded units may be necessary but the implementation of

cuts should be delegated to the individual campuses. Cutting of

non-19900 units should be dictated only by the viability of the fund

source. UC can survive the current budget crisis if it has appropriate

leadership -- just look at UCLA if you want to know how to do it.    Tue,

Jun 1, 2010 12:05 PM    Find...

89.    What structure?    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 11:59 AM    Find...

90.    We need far more decentralized governance. The central

administration should be downsized significantly.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010

11:19 AM    Find...

91.    The structure seems unwieldy and unresponsive. But this may be a

reflection more of what's being implemented by it than the structure

itself.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 11:19 AM    Find...

92.    Remove the Regents structure, replace with faculty from each

campus.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 11:15 AM    Find...

93.    see above answers.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 10:28 AM    Find...

94.    Despite reasonably serious efforts on my part to educate myself

about the governing structure, I still feel I do not have a clear

picture of it, and that is a problem in and of itself.

Having visited UCOP from time to time, I think it is a shame that OP

offices are not situated in proximity to UC's students, faculty and

staff.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 10:03 AM    Find...

95.    The entire system ran w/ 1/10th the management in 1970. At this

point it is so negatively impacted by its priorities and mistreatment

of the students as cash cows - faculty are beginning to flee the

system and hires are turning down offers.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 9:48

AM    Find...

96.    Give the state more oversight into the affairs of the

university.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 9:36 AM    Find...

97.    The budget ax falls to randomly and causes great emotional

suffering and pain for all. Useful and productive services are cut in

seemingly arbitrary ways, and carry a long term opportunity cost.

Example: the elimination of the agriculture division at UCOP has

resulted in a serious threat to the future of a unique archive, the

Water Resources Center Archive. Why would UC put its unique resources

at risk so casually?    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 9:21 AM    Find...

98.    don't know enough    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 8:59 AM    Find...

99.    We need a complete reordering of priorities.

Students and faculty need to have a meaningful role in the decision

making process and the first step in that direction would be an

elected board accountable to its constituents.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 7:43

AM    Find...

100.    Current response to the fiscal crisis has bypassed faculty

governance.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 1:16 AM    Find...

101.    However, not always    Mon, May 31, 2010 11:57 PM    Find...

102.    The UC Regents should not all be appointed by the Governor. They

should also be appointed by the state legislature, up to a certain

number. Also their terms are too long without much oversight on their

impact on the UC system.    Mon, May 31, 2010 10:26 PM    Find...

103.    The president of the University needs to have spent time as

instructional faculty, preferably within the UC system. The regents

should be representative of the constituent body of the UC campus with

members elected by ladder faculty, adjunct faculty, staff, and

students, with a minority of members appointed by the state.    Mon, May

31, 2010 6:40 PM    Find...

104.    Of course, we need accountability for the regents in many ways,

but especially in their appointment process and checks on their

"governance." We need a robust recommitment to shared governance b/wn

faculty senates and UCOP.    Mon, May 31, 2010 7:02 AM    Find...

105.    The people who preside over the university are interested in

their own business careers and not in the diversity and quality of UC

education.    Mon, May 31, 2010 4:39 AM    Find...

106.    Faculty governance should not only be reinstated, but made the

primary goal at the UCs - the lip service given to "shared governance"

is only underlined by the proposals made by the UC "Commission of the

Future" - all proposed cuts and goals are aimed at increasing revenue

and reducing emphasis on teaching (and limiting research) - but none

at the expense of the administration (which will probably attempt to

justify their further increase by the need to "administer" and

"oversee" these new proposed future changes).    Mon, May 31, 2010 1:38

AM    Find...

107.    need more funding, stop raising tution    Sun, May 30, 2010 9:24 PM    Find...

108.    False rhetoric of crisis has damaged the capacity of faculty to

participate properly in shared governance.    Sun, May 30, 2010 8:02

PM    Find...

109.    There is no incentive for most faculty to become involved at the

campus level, and what faculty involvement there is does not represent

the views of faculty in general, but merely serves as an additional

voicepiece for administration.    Sun, May 30, 2010 4:12 PM    Find...

110.    The university governing board should actually take a look at the

kind of students that attend the UC system and they would find out

that not everyone has the same experience to getting where they are

now.    Sun, May 30, 2010 2:41 PM    Find...

111.    Involve students and faculty more in the decision-making

process.    Sun, May 30, 2010 2:31 PM    Find...

112.    I have seen decisions made at the departmental level that would

benefit students by increasing their exposure to exciting research and

teaching be overridden at the Dean's Office. These decisions do not

have the impact intended by the Dean, i am sure, but because the

Dean's Office does not trust the local departmental decisions, these

decisions wind up hurt everyone.    Sun, May 30, 2010 1:35 PM    Find...

113.    The governing structure is too top down. Shared governance is not

a priority. The faculty and students have very little say in the way

the institution is governed    Sun, May 30, 2010 12:37 PM    Find...

114.    The UC system, much like the CSU system where I teach, is top

administration-heavy. Any budget should include a decrease in higher

administration positions and an increase in instructional faculty

which should also reflect diversity.    Sun, May 30, 2010 11:51

AM    Find...

115.    see previous recommendations    Sun, May 30, 2010 10:15 AM    Find...

116.    Greater transparency in decision making; inclusion of both

faculty and students in those decisions.    Sun, May 30, 2010 10:01

AM    Find...

117.    The regents should be elected from within the faculty.    Sun, May

30, 2010 1:07 AM    Find...

118.    Abolish the Regents, UCOP, and reduced administration. Shift

goverance to each campus, school, and departments    Sat, May 29, 2010

10:47 PM    Find...

119.    The administration should openly support the students and efforts

of the students!    Sat, May 29, 2010 10:23 PM    Find...

120.    Regents need to get their hands dirty, learn how things actually

work. Less self-indulgent sessions at their meetings on labs, Blum

center, and campus climates, more time spent saving the

University.    Sat, May 29, 2010 6:19 PM    Find...

121.    lower salaries for administrators, hire less administrators-

don't rebuild Pauley Pavilion using student fees.    Sat, May 29, 2010

5:59 PM    Find...

122.    Four-step solution: (1) Have an independent AUDITOR determine a

financially prudent amount of money (if any) that needs to be cut from

the budget for each year of the following 15 years. Senator Yee is

basically doing this already. (2) Accept 15-year budget PROPOSALS that

adequately account for the auditor's findings. All administrative

units, students groups, and departments at all campuses would be

eligible to submit proposals. Each proposal would require 1,000

signatures to be considered valid, and the Regents would then

combine/eliminate redundant proposals. (3) Hold a system-wide VOTE

(all students, staff, faculty, and admins eligible) on a set of 5-10

vetted proposals. (4) That vote would be non-binding, but the top 3

proposals would serve as the primary foundation for APPROVAL

DELIBERATIONS by an ad-hoc committee made up of the 18 Regents, 6

faculty members (2 science, 2 humanities, 2 professional), 6 staff

members, and 6 students (3 grad, 3 undergrad). Their final decision,

if using or combining measures from the top 3 proposals, would take

effect immediately. If their final decision went beyond measures

proposed by the top 3 vote-getting proposals, another vote would

ensue. Goal: new budget takes effect for school year 2011-2012.

 

AUDIT. PROPOSE. VOTE. APPROVE.    Sat, May 29, 2010 3:53 PM    Find...

123.    It should be a governing structure in which we have

representatives in every campus in which the decision made would have

the input of the community in every campus. The decision made should

also help the state of California.    Sat, May 29, 2010 1:56 PM    Find...

124.    Again, why are the Regents unaccountable? Instead of running the

UCs as an oligarchy there should be more opportunities for students

and faculty to voice their opinions and have them actually HEARD. Real

opportunities with real political significance instead of positions

like the Student Regent who actually have NO political sway in the

decision making process. Enough lip service to notions like democracy

while cronyism is a systematic UC problem. Referendums on tuition

hikes. A reevaluation of the importance of NON-academic activities

like Athletics. Stop extremely prioritizing only research that turns a

tangible profit. This is a University, not a technical college. Money

is an issue, but why are the students always the ones that must

shoulder the burden of balancing the budget? It comes down to the fact

that the people in charge of making the cuts are OBVIOUSLY not going

to cut anything that effects themselves. By disassociating themselves

with the actual faces of the institution--the students

themselves--they can go about their days and not feel bad about

themselves. It's a simple problem of the lack of transparency.    Sat,

May 29, 2010 1:01 PM    Find...

125.    The faculty and students-the heart of the UC system-need to

heard. Full stop.    Sat, May 29, 2010 12:55 PM    Find...

126.    I think that first and foremost, regents should not have 12 year

terms, and should be required to have some kind of background in

education. We should all have access to a transparent budget, and an

audit of all UC investments over the past 10 years needs to occur.

Also only one student regent is not fair representation for the

student voice.    Sat, May 29, 2010 12:47 PM    Find...

127.    I believe that faculty, students, and staff could easily run each

campus with minor help from administrators. Financial decisions are

best made in this way, with administration and legal advice to insure

compliance with law. Once state and federal limitations on spending of

moneys is determined, there's no reason to leave these decisions in

the hands of those so far removed from the actual operation of the

campus.    Sat, May 29, 2010 12:41 PM    Find...

128.    The governing structure has shifted over to a business model,

which could be efficient for production-line products but makes very

little sense for an academic institution.    Sat, May 29, 2010 11:00

AM    Find...

129.    We need more experienced faculty from the arts and sciences

faculty directly involved in university policy at every level.    Sat,

May 29, 2010 12:45 AM    Find...

130.    The UCOP has too much power and distributes student fees and

other monies unfairly between campuses and between units.    Fri, May 28,

2010 11:11 PM    Find...

131.    Distributing funding more equitably among the campuses and

providing extra assistance for newer campuses in fund-raising efforts.

Devolving authority from UCOP to the campuses and from campus higher

administration to rank-and-file faculty. A Senate with teeth; we may

need quotas (by divisions/schools) so that the professional schools

can't dominate systemwide. Reform of Senate's purchase on

administration activities; consulting is no longer enough. Faculty

need more executive authority. Independent study of how to cut

bureaucracy, and implementation thereof. Does anybody know why we need

Grad Div? Cal's football coach? Sub-deans? I doubt it. Athletic

programs, like extramural grants, cost more to run than they bring in.

If, in effect, the entire UC system is subsidizing the athletic

programs at Cal and UCLA, that budgeting needs to be handled quite

differently.    Fri, May 28, 2010 10:23 PM    Find...

132.    How was the decision made to increase tuition? Most of the

students I know are struggling to pay for college to begin with; so,

it seems that the governing structure is disconnected from the needs

of students    Fri, May 28, 2010 7:30 PM    Find...

133.    They don't seem to be intouch with the real purpose of university

which is to teach.    Fri, May 28, 2010 3:20 PM    Find...

134.    Wow, tell me about too much overhead.    Fri, May 28, 2010 2:13 PM    Find...

135.    The Regents should not be appointed by the governor. There are,

what, 2 educators on the board? The rest are venture capitalists,

attorneys, and real estate managers.    Fri, May 28, 2010 1:53 PM    Find...

136.    the regents are unaccountable governor's appointees, need to

practice legislative oversight    Fri, May 28, 2010 12:08 PM    Find...

137.    Democratic control by students & workers    Fri, May 28, 2010 11:25 AM    Find...

138.    The regents are completely unaccountable and incompetent. They

get appointed as a kickback for campaign donations, and almost none of

them have any experience with education. When they are willing to let

me run their investment banks, I'll let them run my university.

Obviously power needs to be vested in the hands of people who have

experience with education and who are committed to the idea that

public education should be for everyone. So let's democratize.    Fri,

May 28, 2010 10:46 AM    Find...

139.    there is a cumbersome and expensive proliferation of

administrators    Fri, May 28, 2010 10:24 AM    Find...

140.    Administrators are often more concerned about perpetuating their

own perks than in making education and research work.    Fri, May 28,

2010 10:18 AM    Find...

141.    I think the legislature and Regents have not done well in

maintaining quality and morale in UC in the last few years. However

the faculty governance model does provide strong local and

departmental leadership.    Thu, May 27, 2010 11:11 PM    Find...

142.    The list of UC top priorities above has really made me realize

that UC top priorities are not always going to be the same as my

priorities. For example, in the Daily Bruin today there was talk about

a huge construction project of a medical eye center that will cost

$115.6 million and I remember there being a huge deal with Adidas over

a contract renewal.    Thu, May 27, 2010 5:28 PM    Find...

143.    Decisions are currently made by Regents who represent the

interests of the wealthy in the state. But major decisions affecting

the faculty and students should address their needs. Faculty and

students should have greater input in decisions affecting their lives

and work.    Thu, May 27, 2010 5:01 PM    Find...

144.    would not let me fill in the above    Thu, May 27, 2010 4:27 PM    Find...

145.    I think it is too big and costly.    Thu, May 27, 2010 4:07 PM    Find...

146.    I think there is very little student involvement in

decision-making. As a lecturer, I feel I have no voice except as part

of union (which I have chosen not to join).    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:30

PM    Find...

147.    All UC's problems began when the Board of Regents appointments

were politicized.    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:27 PM    Find...

148.    Unless you are a tenure track research faculty you are not valued

and that is made very clear every day from large to small items. The

attitude is that unless you belong to this group you should just shut

up and not complain and do what you are told even if it is

condescending and irrational.    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:15 PM    Find...

149.    UC Regents are political appointments now. Nothing will change

until Regents are selected for their expertise and experience, not for

who they know or whose campaigns they support.    Thu, May 27, 2010 1:26

PM    Find...

150.    The voice of the faculty and of the taxpayers is not heard.    Thu,

May 27, 2010 11:35 AM    Find...

151.    I support reform of the current governing structure of the

University.    Thu, May 27, 2010 9:57 AM    Find...

152.    larger role of faculty committted to public rather than private

education, restructuring of California state government and relation

to UC and CSUN systems    Thu, May 27, 2010 8:26 AM    Find...

153.    Regents should have a UC or CSU education...that way they know

how the system works....Democratizing the Regents is the stupidest

idea I ever heard because it will then be taken over by special

interest and people with their own political agendas    Thu, May 27, 2010

3:10 AM    Find...

154.    There is little transparency or accountability with the Regents

and UCOP. Like Congressman Miller, I am outraged at how the University

is being managed.    Wed, May 26, 2010 8:38 PM    Find...

155.    Uc regents need to be elected by the people of california.    Wed,

May 26, 2010 6:25 PM    Find...

156.    The Regents approach the university as a business. The President

sees it as a cemetery.

No, seriously; neither the Regents nor the president of UC have been

advocates for and affordable, accessible, socially responsbible higher

education system that creates new knowledge, promotes equality, and

supports the state's economy and job creation. Instead, they have

"sold out" to conservative politicians who want to privatize the

universities and close off access to lower income families. That's

immoral and imprudent.    Wed, May 26, 2010 6:06 PM    Find...

157.    UC Administration is top heavy and unresponsive to faculty.

Instruction should be paramount, and students are being short

changed.    Wed, May 26, 2010 5:47 PM    Find...

158.    The UCs should be a collective, not a neoliberal hierarchy.    Wed,

May 26, 2010 5:33 PM    Find...

159.    Fire the regents!    Wed, May 26, 2010 4:55 PM    Find...

160.    Cut the number of positions.    Wed, May 26, 2010 4:48 PM    Find...

161.    reduce the cost of management. limit the perks and salary to 4x

the highest paid non-management employee.    Wed, May 26, 2010 2:07

PM    Find...

162.    more students faculty and staff as regents    Wed, May 26, 2010 1:43

PM    Find...

163.    We should have collectives of people, like Russian soviets,

governing the UC at the micro level. Fire the Regents &

administrators.    Wed, May 26, 2010 12:22 PM    Find...

164.    See my comments above. I believe we spend way too much money on

administration and not enough on instruction.    Wed, May 26, 2010 11:51

AM    Find...

165.    regents meetings are not supposed to be self-congratulation

parties, but that's what by all merits they have turned into. an

administrative body as powerful as the regents of UC needs to get more

serious about interrogating the decisions of the people they've hired

to take UC AND it's original mission into the 21st century    Wed, May

26, 2010 9:50 AM    Find...

166.    Too top-heavy: an ethos of "dogs and students, and lecturers,

keep off the grass"    Wed, May 26, 2010 9:34 AM    Find...

167.    faculty, staff and students know what is best for uc. we need to

get rid of the regents.    Wed, May 26, 2010 9:25 AM    Find...

168.    Regents are not democratically elected, students have little to

no say in who is chosen for any position (besides student

representatives, whose positions have been drastically cut back),

Academic Senates are rarely listened to, the people who are most

affected by the big decisions are the people with almost no voice in

the decision making process.    Sun, May 23, 2010 7:22 PM    Find...

169.    more democratic decision making. holding administrators

accountable for decisions they make. a better check and balance when

the budget is written for the academic senate. less

administrators.    Sun, May 23, 2010 6:07 PM    Find...

170.    Again, "I think we need a revision to the Article IX, Section 9

of the California constitution. If the Board of Regents is going to

continue to be in charge of the the security of the funds of UC, they

need to be democratically elected by (i.e. ACCOUNTABLE TO) the

students and faculty who are impacted by their decisions. 16 out of 26

APPOINTED to 12 YEAR terms is inexcusable." I recommend that each

campus nominate 1 Regent through campus elections, and that only 6 be

appointed by the governor. And term limits should be reduced to 6

years, tops.    Sun, May 23, 2010 11:23 AM    Find...

171.    The Regents and the campus administration should be accountable

to their constituents. In particular, the systems of sweet-heart deals

for massive building projects and other contracts is ample evidence of

where the money is really going.    Sun, May 23, 2010 10:43 AM    Find...

172.    the regents are not voted on. this is not democracy. this is not

representation.    Sat, May 22, 2010 3:17 PM    Find...

173.    Regents should be democratically elected, but better would be for

these decisions to be made by a body that is representative of the

university community.    Sat, May 22, 2010 2:10 PM    Find...

174.    The Board of Regents needs to be a better mix of people-- it's

obviously become a crony system for people with business ties to the

huge contracts the University has to hand out. Why so many people from

the financial markets? Personally, I see a big drop-off in fund

management since the Regents gave fat contracts to private investment

groups and got rid of its internal investment staff. The private fund

managers have made themselves fat while managing our funds poorly.

There needs to be some BALANCE-- I'm not saying "no Wall Street

types," just a few instead of the obvious skewing we have now.    Sat,

May 22, 2010 1:18 PM    Find...

175.    Well, most of the regents are appointed by the governor. They

are, moreover, mostly completely unrepresentative of the population in

California. They're too white and too wealthy and therefore divorced

from realities of most people. Decision-making is way too centralized

within the UC system. Students, workers, and Faculty should be running

the university, not a bunch of overly paid technocrats.    Sat, May 22,

2010 9:49 AM    Find...

176.    ucdemocracy.org

Let's organize statewide to democratize the regents.    Fri, May 21, 2010

12:53 AM    Find...

177.    Regents need to be accountable to the public. They should be

elected, and they should represent a range of economic and community

interests, not just corporate interests.    Thu, May 20, 2010 12:43

PM    Find...

178.    Democratize.    Thu, May 20, 2010 11:33 AM    Find...

179.    There is absolutely no accountability for administrators or the

Regents. Moreover, the selection and vetting process for the Regents

is completely undemocratic which is absurd for one of the state's

largest public institutions.

 

9. If increase in student fees has affected you personally, please

tell us more about it

 

1.    Where I can get the money from? To sell the medical pots, the only

booming business at California right now.    Sat, Jun 12, 2010 6:34

PM    Find...

2.    The money set aside over a period of 20 years to pay for 4 years at

UCLA, will not now cover the expense.    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 12:36

AM    Find...

3.    My childrens' student fees and professional school fees just keep

gong up yet my salary and therefore my ability to help them keeps

going down. Despite having first gone to community college, they are

graduating from undergrad with tens of thousands of dollars in debt

and from grad school well into the six figures.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 4:51

PM    Find...

4.    I was lucky to graduate before the significant fee increases of the

last couple of years, and was able to pay back my student loans over

an eleven (11) year period.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 1:54 PM    Find...

5.    Graduated from UCD in 1981. I took 6 years as I generally attended

2 quarters and PELPed 1 quarter of each academic year in order to put

myself through.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 12:48 PM    Find...

6.    My daughter is a student at a UC; my son will be enrolling in a UC

in spring. The cost is prohibitive, and all three of us will accrue

debt as a result of these increases.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 12:17

PM    Find...

7.    I have to work more and teach more as a grad student... which has

an impact on my overall morale and my progress as a doctoral student

(reducing the amount of time I can spend on my dissertation and

delaying my graduation)    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 6:07 AM    Find...

8.    From the time I started at UCSC to when I graduated the tuition had

increased 300%, how is that affordable education?    Wed, Jun 9, 2010

10:08 PM    Find...

9.    I was very lucky and got my degree back when it was affordable. But

my students will be paying off loans for the rest of their working

lives, I think...    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 6:29 PM    Find...

10.    I am a parent of a recent UC graduate as well as a faculty member.

You really should have a question here about years of work at UC, not

assuming that most respondents are students. But thanks for your work

on this project.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 3:37 PM    Find...

11.    50% working several part time jobs, 15% university and private

scholarships, 15% loans, 10% graduate teaching or RA ships. The

increase in student fees affected me this year because I had to work

three part-time jobs just to make ends meet (at the same time) this

year. There was nothing else I could do... I needed to keep my

mortgage paid and to pay for student needs, so... I'm ABD, but having

to work delayed my graduation by 1 and a half to 2 years.    Wed, Jun 9,

2010 12:30 PM    Find...

12.    I am afraid that if I cannot find the financial aid via

scholarships, working, etc. I will only leave the UC with debt, and an

incomplete degree. All of this money spent, hours spent studying, and

worrying will have been for nothing once I can no longer afford

tuition.    Tue, Jun 8, 2010 10:04 PM    Find...

13.    I was fortunate to graduate in the 90s, when it cost less to go to

school at the UC. Even so, it was still more money than I had. I had

to join the military and go to war in order to make it to the UC. No

one should have to go to war in order to go to school.    Tue, Jun 8,

2010 9:20 PM    Find...

14.    When I attended, it was affordable!    Sat, Jun 5, 2010 6:57 PM    Find...

15.    I am an international graduate student and, despite my

department's best efforts, was forced along with a few others in my

position to take qualifying exams early to avoid non-resident tuition

fees. My department is also responding to fee hikes by not admitting

international students, because they can not afford it. It is sad

because the quality of everyone's education and research suffers.    Fri,

Jun 4, 2010 10:05 AM    Find...

16.    I did not come from a good financial backgroud. College was made

possible for me because the fees were not as high and most of my

financial aid was able to cover the tution. Since it is increasing by

a vast amount, my grants will not cover and will have to take out more

loans that I already have been. When I graduate and for most kids as

well, the job market is still very bad and a lot of us will be

unemployed for sometime. While waiting to get a job, our grace period

is still ticking away and will need to pay back. But how do we have

back without a job and the interest will only accrue more with the

more loans we take out.    Thu, Jun 3, 2010 6:44 PM    Find...

17.    As a parent: we covered most undergrad costs, with some loans. Law

school costs were mainly loans (big). These went up a great deal, but

the direct effect on us was small - the effect is on my son who,

because of paying back loans, can't afford a house even though he and

his wife have both been successful lawyers for 4 years.    Wed, Jun 2,

2010 7:27 PM    Find...

18.    Because of the hike in student fees, my parents work more hours to

help pay for it so we don't have to take out any more loans. Taking

out so many loans now will screw me over in the future.    Wed, Jun 2,

2010 1:37 PM    Find...

19.    I have to work more which takes away time from my studying and

getting involved on campus activities.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 11:11

PM    Find...

20.    Annual student fees and livings expenses for my two daughters (one

graduated from CSU and one graduated from UC) totalled 65% of my

annual gross salary while they were in school 2003-2009. They both

worked several part-time jobs while they were undergraduates but still

managed to graduate in four years with academic honors. Both have

lived at home for over a year and have cobbled together six part-time

jobs between the two of them to save money for graduate school.

Neither daughter would consider entering the CSU or UC systems if they

were incoming freshman this fall. Both are seriously considering

private schools for their graduate degrees because they will need to

pay for graduate school themselves and feel that they will get a

better education outside the UC system since they will need student

loans anyway.

 

It is unacceptable that the UC system does not offer student fee

waivers to the offspring of UC staff. My salary has not kept pace with

the cost of living in the Bay Area nor with educating my daughters at

the University that I have faithfully and competently served for 30

years.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 3:13 PM    Find...

21.    I am a university employee with 2 children at UC and a furlough.

What do you think?    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 12:20 PM    Find...

22.    I am going to be 80,000 in debt with few job prospects. I have a

3.97 undergrad and 3.97 grad GPA- yet no scholarship or grants for me.

I am barely hanging on.    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 10:05 AM    Find...

23.    Low TA salaries are not enough for grad student parents. I worked

an extra 50 hours per week in outside (off-campus) jobs in addition to

TAing and taking loans totaling $150,000 throughout the seven years of

my Ph.D. (departmental average is 8 years). Fewer graduate students

admitted with higher TA salaries seems logical, especially give the

job market for academics. Thanks for listening to our voices--we love

UC and appreciate all you do to help it thrive!    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 12:53

AM    Find...

24.    Yes, I have had to juggle between 1-3 jobs and take public

transportation 60 minutes each way to afford the fee increases.    Mon,

May 31, 2010 10:26 PM    Find...

25.    Parents are feeding out of their personal savings accounts and

have less than $700 left in their social security account, because the

government doesn't deem us necessary for "financial aid".    Mon, May 31,

2010 3:31 PM    Find...

26.    i don't know if i will be able to finish my edudcation    Sun, May

30, 2010 9:24 PM    Find...

27.    I chose to work 2 jobs in order to not take out a loan this past

year, it was been a hard experience and do not feel that I am

receiving that "college experience" that other students receive since

they have a higher income.    Sun, May 30, 2010 2:41 PM    Find...

28.    Varies from child to child, depending upon their campus    Sun, May

30, 2010 1:42 PM    Find...

29.    This was in the 1970s when federal grants and UC fellowships for

graduate students were still available    Sun, May 30, 2010 10:01

AM    Find...

30.    One major change, that grad students can no longer take leaves of

absence, but must instead continue paying 15% of fees, has limited my

ability to study at at libraries elsewhere and with other

mentors.    Sun, May 30, 2010 1:07 AM    Find...

31.    In the past, I mostly have loans.    Sat, May 29, 2010 10:47 PM    Find...

32.    My parents re-financed their house and now we can just barely

afford my UC education. Any more increases would cost us to go into

debt.    Sat, May 29, 2010 5:59 PM    Find...

33.    The fee increases have affected everyone on campus. Essentially, I

am paying more money for a lower quality education.    Sat, May 29, 2010

12:47 PM    Find...

34.    Fee increases make me wonder whether I'm wasting my time here. I

am interested in public service through teaching, and though I'm not

in this for the money, I'm not sure I can survive over a hundred

thousand dollars in debt. At the end of my first year I will be over

30k in debt. At this rate I will be 150 to 180k in debt by the time I

finish.    Sat, May 29, 2010 12:41 PM    Find...

35.    Though I answered this as a professor, I am a parent of a student

in a professional school and am paying his living expenses and may be

paying his fees next year if he doesn't get a research position. So I

feel the burden of fee hikes along with furloughs. My son had problems

getting a seat in a required class in the fall and had to sit on the

floor (and this class was foundational to his program, biostats, and

would not be able to take other classes with it!)    Fri, May 28, 2010

11:11 PM    Find...

36.    Fee increases did affect me in that although my financial aid

covered for the fees, my cost of living was greater than the budget

set up by the administration.    Thu, May 27, 2010 5:28 PM    Find...

37.    My parents did not pay for my schooling because they felt that I

should be able to pay for my own education if I wanted it. As a result

I had to work almost full time while going to school. Based on their

income I did not qualify for aid. I would not have been able to go to

school if I were attending this year. I would have dropped out. That

would have been a huge shame.    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:37 PM    Find...

38.    It's very difficult now to get the classes I need when I need

them. Getting into a desired time for a language class was already

difficult enough and now it's nearly impossible. Although I don't

really want to I am trying to graduate as fast as possible. I have

plans to take quite a few more 19 unit quarters while I am here and it

is not an easy task.    Wed, May 26, 2010 7:11 PM    Find...

39.    I have had to take out more debt in order to pay for student

fees.    Wed, May 26, 2010 4:55 PM    Find...

40.    I just don't like seeing my parents pay these fees and seeing my

job money go to these fees while financial aid is being poorly

distributed (too many kids brag about how they manipulated the system

and thus get to use financial aid money as spending money for personal

enjoyment). Illegal immigrants, especially, should not be getting a

free ride. The system's just not right.    Wed, May 26, 2010 4:48

PM    Find...

41.    i will have to keep taking out more loans.

i do not have the time or ability to work and adequately adress my

education at the same time.

if fees continue to increase i will be forced to leave school or

default on my loans    Sun, May 23, 2010 6:07 PM    Find...

42.    One of my best friends started selling her body so that she could

keep paying for school. THIS SHOULD NOT FUCKING HAPPEN. There is money

in UC, but because the Regents are NOT accountable to students and

faculty, money not allocated as it should be.    Sun, May 23, 2010 11:23

AM    Find...

43.    My fees are covered when I TA, but that decreases the funding that

my department has, and thus the number of available TAships as well

the number of students for whom TAs are responsible.    Sat, May 22, 2010

2:10 PM    Find...

44.    I was out of pocket for the whole thing. It took me many years and

much effort to graduate. I STRONGLY OPPOSE THE AB 540/DREAM ACT

GIVEAWAY OF PUBLIC FUNDS!!! IF I CAN WORK MY WAY THROUGH COLLEGE THEY

CAN TOO! (And yes, I cleaned toilets, washed dishes, was a parking lot

attendant-- all those cruddy jobs--). How on earth does it help the

financial position of the University if UC is gives money to illegal

immigrants and/or their kids? How can these illegal immigrants be

viewed as "equals" later if they pre-stigmatize themselves as people

who need "special" help?    Sat, May 22, 2010 1:18 PM    Find...

45.    "Graduate Assistantship" is unclear. Are you referring to Teaching

Assistantships? Graduate Student Researcher? It's also a little odd

that this one is grouped under "university scholarships." It's very

much work. We're severely overworked in fact. Student fees, luckily,

haven't affected me as much as other grad students I know. With a

reduction of TAships and the increase in student fees, I know many

grad students who have had to go on leave of absence or simply drop

out because they could no longer afford school. And this is after

years of working really hard for the university. Grad students are

extremely undervalued -- we're treated more like cheap academic labor

(Teaching Assistants, etc), than as graduate students on a track to

becoming faculty.

 

Note: comments field for this question was added later, when we were

at around 370 responses.

----

6. What do you believe UC top priorities should be (rate from 1 to 6,

1 being the highest priority)

Feel free to comment here about these or any other priorities the

university should have

 

1. Get all the students graduate in time. School is a process of life,

Don't use the teaching money to subsidize the research. Research

people should get their money some place else, not from my tax

money.    Sat, Jun 12, 2010 6:34 PM    Find...

2.    Research is the only possible priority in a serious university.

Everything holds together. If it is not a top priority in the UC

system, the best faculty will inevitably run away to better places if

they can, while the ones who can't escape will be demoralized. This

will not improve the quality of UG education, probably eliminate

Graduate programs, and bring the demise of a formerly great university

system.    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 10:20 PM    Find...

3.    why is there nobody from the STEM fields and from the arts-social

sciences-humanities in the office of the president? he surrounds

himself with professional school people, none of whom have ever been

in charge of an undergraduate classroom    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 9:47

AM    Find...

4.    Teaching and Research should be equally important. Service comes

right after. Other ones are complementary.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 9:49

PM    Find...

5.    It is hard to separate the medical center from research since both

are heavily intertwined. I don't think you can prioritize research

without emphasizing the medical center, and vice versa.    Thu, Jun 10,

2010 5:01 PM    Find...

6.    UC should be dedicated to the people of California.    Thu, Jun 10,

2010 4:51 PM    Find...

7.    Independent auditors go over top Admin.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 4:11 PM    Find...

8.    The University is first and foremost about teaching; and, given the

current economic and social morass that currently characterizes the

state of California, Community Service to me takes a higher priority

than research, as important as this function is.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010

3:02 PM    Find...

9.    Writing. All UC campuses should have fully staffed writing labs for

all students.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 1:30 PM    Find...

10.    I tried to rate both Athletics and Capital projects as "3s" but

survey would not let me.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 12:48 PM    Find...

11.    I believe that instruction, community services, and the medical

center should be seen on a continuum of a single university mission.

Research supports those services; particularly if one includes the

research of teaching.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 12:17 PM    Find...

12.    UC is an international driver of research and innovation in all

arenas and this should not change. Instrudtion at the moment is far

down the list and is managed more as a matter of public relations than

as a serious mission of the university.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 11:07

AM    Find...

13.    I'd argue that the medical center should be seen as a community

service and that research often ties in. But we are a public

institution here to serve the state of California.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010

10:41 AM    Find...

14.    The university should spend a lot less money on PR and cosmetics,

brand consultants, etc. That would help with the budget problems.

Certainly intercollegiate athletics is a useless distraction and a

financial drain. Students are here to learn, not to become overworked

entertainers and pseudo-students.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 10:24 AM    Find...

15.    When the highest paid individual at U.C. is Berkeleys football

coach it shows a very misplaced priority.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 10:00

AM    Find...

16.    Present day research should not include military related research

(invisible cloak-ooooh), nanotechnology (which currently, is not

safe). Priority should be given to advance peaceful, beneficial,

healthy research that targets cures, not simply advances in

pharmaceuticals that unethically prolong illnesses-for-profit. Is that

the best UC can do? Pander to their corporate friends in BIg Pharma,

BP, Dow Chem, etc? Athletics are passe and will soon be obsolete like

the regents and UC executives.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 8:05 AM    Find...

17.    We are a RESEARCH and TEACHING university. These should be our

main priorities.    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 6:07 AM    Find...

18.    The university should stay a public ACADEMIC institution, focused

on great education and research, to serve the citizens of CA. Not to

serve the administrations or the regents political or personal goals

of transferring public wealth (taxpayers hard-earned dollars) to

privatized entiities, or using the name/brand of the Univ of CA to

garner themselves business opportunities, such as what Blum seems to

do. The organizational structure of the university needs a major

overhaul, refocusing forward on educating the brightest of CA's

diverse youth, with dedicated faculty calling the shots, and some

administrative support

One of my colleagues, a UCLA alumna, said she was no longer proud of

UCLA. Another said she has no hope that UC will be able to save itself

with all the truly poor management, administrators, political

infighting, and power struggles. As it stands, after almost 4 decades

of employment at UC, I am no longer proud of UC. What a crying shame.

I lay this crisis at the feet of our state and university

leaders--they have failed!!    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 1:06 AM    Find...

19.    Education should come first from the university system.    Wed, Jun

9, 2010 10:08 PM    Find...

20.    The priority of the university should be to make sure students

have access to higher education.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 9:55 PM    Find...

21.    A total reorganization of the relationship of the university to

the community is desperately needed and could provide a way forward.

For this reason, I rate med centers important. Ditto research. But you

have made strict prioritizing unavoidable. That kind of coercive

forcing of decisions is counterproductive.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 8:46

PM    Find...

22.    I'm only rating the top two, because the others seem to all tie

for third place in my mind. Let's face it-- athletics, medical

centers, etc. provide income and that can't be ignored. But regardless

of which university you're talking about, it seems like a no-brainer

that instruction is THE most important part of the mission. Research

seems quite important as well, for many reasons, but I think it comes

behind instruction.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 6:29 PM    Find...

23.    The University should a place open and free to the community to

come and exchange information, to grow as a society and to development

citizens of a democracy not subjects of a state. It should be a place

helps to bring about equity in society.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 6:15

PM    Find...

24.    Current priorites appear to value instruction least.    Wed, Jun 9,

2010 4:19 PM    Find...

25.    research, instruction, and the medical centers *are community

services.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 2:59 PM    Find...

26.    encouraging study, critical thinking and research, not

bottom-line, goal-oriented, instrumental learning "outcomes."    Wed, Jun

9, 2010 2:53 PM    Find...

27.    Why are we spending millions of dollars to renovate Pauley

Pavillion (a renovation that dose not seem to do that much)? Even if

all the money came from donations, why isn't the university working as

hard to secure donations to help offset the rising cost of reg

fees?    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 1:07 PM    Find...

28.    the priority should be teaching!    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 1:03 PM    Find...

29.    How can they eliminate teaching positions, cut classes, etc. while

funding uneccessary things like a multimillion dollar project to

improve the Football Athletics department, like at UCB? Where is this

money coming from if we supposedly do not have any?    Tue, Jun 8, 2010

10:04 PM    Find...

30.    stop lining rich people's pockets with UCB contracts! keep ucb

employees for all work so that costs are kept down (contractors have

no idea what's going on here - too complex environment for them)

 

Text boxes for these questions were added later when we were at around

370 responses.These are mostly information-purpose only comments about

multiple affiliations since so many were asking about it (no wonder

based on how many answered it - almost 1/3). I'm actually quite happy

that multiple choices for school/affiliations were not allowed and

only these comments because choosing more then one would screw up

statistical significance of the data (since it gives equal weight to

each and we can't give factional weight when people choose multiple

answers, and besides what we really care about is current affiliation

which is most important).

 

Below are also results from departments and majors for those who

provided this information in question 8. For that question we got 120

names and 93 emails. We'll need to compile the list and when ready

email when report and slides with graphs/analysis of the data are

complete. We can possibly get some people to come and support us at UC

regents meeting too and/or give us additional time during public

comments section.

 

1. What is your affiliation with the University of California?

If you fit into more than one category (i.e. alumna and instructor)

choose one and list both below.

 

1.    Former UC employee since 1986; retired since 2008    Fri, Jun 11, 2010

5:59 PM    Find...

2.    former undergraduate student 2005-2007    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 10:37 AM    Find...

3.    Alumnus, Faculty member    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 9:47 AM    Find...

4.    Alumna    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 8:21 AM    Find...

5.    also the parent of a UCSB graduate.    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 7:52 AM    Find...

6.    alumna    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 7:48 AM    Find...

7.    Alumnus, Parent of a student    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 12:36 AM    Find...

8.    Former Undergraduate (UCSD), Master's Student (UCLA), and Graduate

Student (UCSD)    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 9:49 PM    Find...

9.    alumnus, retired staff    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 9:05 PM    Find...

10.    Staff and Alumna    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 4:11 PM    Find...

11.    Alumna and non-teaching staff member    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 3:56 PM    Find...

12.    alumnus, parent, instructor    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 3:02 PM    Find...

13.    Alumnus and Staff (non-teaching).    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 1:54 PM    Find...

14.    Lecturer/Coach    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 12:48 PM    Find...

15.    I'm a librarian. Not sure i that means I'm non-teaching or an

instructor, but I'm an academic appointee (but not faculty)    Thu, Jun

10, 2010 10:41 AM    Find...

16.    Alumnus    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 10:25 AM    Find...

17.    Lecturer (UC Merced), Research Associate (UC Davis) and Alumnus

(UC Davis, MA 1999, PhD 2008)    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 10:24 AM    Find...

18.    alumnus    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 9:59 AM    Find...

19.    alumnus--non teaching staff 50%    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 9:57 AM    Find...

20.    employee    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 8:05 AM    Find...

21.    Librarian    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 7:48 AM    Find...

22.    employee and former student    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 7:40 AM    Find...

23.    Alumna and instructor    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 6:00 AM    Find...

24.    alumnus    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 9:48 PM    Find...

25.    alumna    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 7:52 PM    Find...

26.    alumna and lecturer    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 6:29 PM    Find...

27.    Alumna    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 5:18 PM    Find...

28.    Lecturer, researcher, and alumnus.    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 4:46 PM    Find...

29.    also alumna--PhD UCLA    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 4:19 PM    Find...

30.    Professor and alumna    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 2:59 PM    Find...

31.    actually, i am a former employee/instructor    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 2:21 PM    Find...

32.    Librarian, Alum    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 1:11 PM    Find...

33.    Lecturer at UC Santa Cruz, PhD Alumna of UC Santa Cruz,

undergraduate Alumna of UC San Diego    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 1:07 PM    Find...

34.    Grad student and Alumnus    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 1:07 PM    Find...

35.    Alumnus, Instructor, Staff    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 1:05 PM    Find...

36.    AND ALUMNA    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 10:14 AM    Find...

37.    alumnus (grad school) and lecturer    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 9:19 AM    Find...

38.    Professor and Alumna    Tue, Jun 8, 2010 9:20 PM    Find...

39.    Non-Teaching Staff, Alumnus, parent of a student    Mon, Jun 7, 2010

12:57 PM    Find...

40.    Librarian and instructor    Fri, Jun 4, 2010 3:51 PM    Find...

41.    Alumna and Non-Teaching Staff or other UC Employee    Fri, Jun 4,

2010 9:21 AM    Find.

 

2. What University of California Campus are you affiliated with?

If you have affiliation with more than one campus choose one and

explain details below

 

1.    studied at UCSB    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 10:37 AM    Find...

2.    UCSB alum    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 9:47 AM    Find...

3.    I work at UCLA, and our daughter graduated from UCSB.    Fri, Jun 11,

2010 7:52 AM    Find...

4.    also alum of UC Santa Barbara, former employee of UCLA    Thu, Jun 10,

2010 2:13 PM    Find...

5.    Lecturer, UC Merced; Research Associate, UC Davis    Thu, Jun 10, 2010

10:24 AM    Find...

6.    alumnus, UC Berkeley, MA/PhD/ Instructor, UC Davis    Thu, Jun 10,

2010 9:59 AM    Find...

7.    davis    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 8:05 AM    Find...

8.    also UCLA alumna    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 11:58 PM    Find...

9.    UC Berkeley Alumna; UCLA employee    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 5:18 PM    Find...

10.    Undergraduate work was at UC San Diego    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 1:07 PM    Find...

11.    UCLA staff and alumnus, UCI parent of student    Mon, Jun 7, 2010 12:57 PM

 

8. Optionally please tell more about who you are. Your Major or

Department/Position:

1.    Music    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 10:41 PM    Find...

2.    Coordinator, UCLA Extension    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 5:59 PM    Find...

3.    Lecturer    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 4:29 PM    Find...

4.    MCD Biology, SRAIII    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 4:02 PM    Find...

5.    Extension, Program Rep II    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 3:12 PM    Find...

6.    Politics    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 11:51 AM    Find...

7.    English Department undergraduate counselor    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 8:22 AM    Find...

8.    Psychology    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 7:52 AM    Find...

9.    Staff Pharmacist    Fri, Jun 11, 2010 12:36 AM    Find...

10.    Lecturer of Sociology (discontinuing)    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 9:49 PM    Find...

11.    Film/TV Chief Projectionist    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 9:05 PM    Find...

12.    Neurology/Staff Research Associate II    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 5:01 PM    Find...

13.    Office Manager    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 4:51 PM    Find...

14.    UWP/EAC    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 4:06 PM    Find...

15.    Community Studies    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 4:01 PM    Find...

16.    Medieval Studies Lecturer    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 3:02 PM    Find...

17.    Philosophy/Lead Groundskeeper    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 1:54 PM    Find...

18.    Lecturer in Classics Progam    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 12:51 PM    Find...

19.    ICA    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 12:48 PM    Find...

20.    Molecular and Cellular Biology    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 11:07 AM    Find...

21.    Library    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 10:41 AM    Find...

22.    Univ. Writing Program/Continuing Lecturer    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 10:35 AM    Find...

23.    School of Education/ Lecturer    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 9:59 AM    Find...

24.    Librarian    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 7:48 AM    Find...

25.    School of Public Health    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 7:42 AM    Find...

26.    staff research associate    Thu, Jun 10, 2010 1:06 AM    Find...

27.    lecturer    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 11:58 PM    Find...

28.    Literature    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 11:14 PM    Find...

29.    Assistant Professor    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 10:32 PM    Find...

30.    Anthropoloyg    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 10:08 PM    Find...

31.    Language Studies    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 9:55 PM    Find...

32.    Physics    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 9:48 PM    Find...

33.    lecturer    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 7:06 PM    Find...

34.    Sociology    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 6:40 PM    Find...

35.    Lit prof    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 6:25 PM    Find...

36.    sociology    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 6:10 PM    Find...

37.    Physical Plant - Electrician    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 5:16 PM    Find...

38.    Lecturer, University Writing Program    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 3:37 PM    Find...

39.    lecturer in languages    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 3:08 PM    Find...

40.    Student Housing Services    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 2:38 PM    Find...

41.    Social Welfare    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 2:20 PM    Find...

42.    Lecturer, Literature and Cowell College    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 1:07 PM    Find...

43.    Social Welfare    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 1:07 PM    Find...

44.    PhD Student History of Consciousness    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 1:07 PM    Find...

45.    Instructor    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 12:55 PM    Find...

46.    Film    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 12:45 PM    Find...

47.    Social Welfare PhD    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 12:30 PM    Find...

48.    Police Dept    Wed, Jun 9, 2010 10:14 AM    Find...

49.    Biological Sciences    Tue, Jun 8, 2010 10:04 PM    Find...

50.    Biochemistry and Molecular Biology    Tue, Jun 8, 2010 9:58 PM    Find...

51.    Librarian    Mon, Jun 7, 2010 12:57 PM    Find...

52.    Humanities Core Course    Fri, Jun 4, 2010 7:04 PM    Find...

53.    librarian    Fri, Jun 4, 2010 9:21 AM    Find...

54.    Cataloging Supervisor (Librarian, academic status), UCLA Film &

Television Archive    Fri, Jun 4, 2010 7:48 AM    Find...

55.    Continuing Lecturer    Thu, Jun 3, 2010 8:11 PM    Find...

56.    Sociology    Thu, Jun 3, 2010 6:44 PM    Find...

57.    Sociology    Thu, Jun 3, 2010 12:48 PM    Find...

58.    Community Studies    Thu, Jun 3, 2010 8:20 AM    Find...

59.    Lecturer    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 8:52 PM    Find...

60.    Prof, EEMB. Assoc Dean, U/G Studies    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 7:27 PM    Find...

61.    Assoc. Prof.    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 4:30 PM    Find...

62.    Parent of Student    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 4:21 PM    Find...

63.    Comparative Literature and English    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 3:26 PM    Find...

64.    ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES MAJOR    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 1:37 PM    Find...

65.    UCLA Writing Programs    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 1:36 PM    Find...

66.    College of Engineering: retired    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 12:58 PM    Find...

67.    Librarian    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 10:53 AM    Find...

68.    Sociology    Wed, Jun 2, 2010 9:26 AM    Find...

69.    Sociology    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 11:11 PM    Find...

70.    Rhetoric/Celtic Studies    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 6:07 PM    Find...

71.    Law    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 4:33 PM    Find...

72.    History of Consciousness    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 3:00 PM    Find...

73.    Professor of Linguiostics    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 2:57 PM    Find...

74.    Professor/ESPM    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 1:48 PM    Find...

75.    Economics (+ staff at UCLA)    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 12:05 PM    Find...

76.    Lecturer, Communication Studies    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 11:59 AM    Find...

77.    History/IAS Lecturer    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 11:59 AM    Find...

78.    Professor, English    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 11:19 AM    Find...

79.    Librarian    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 11:15 AM    Find...

80.    Writing Programs    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 10:28 AM    Find...

81.    Institute of the Environment    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 10:24 AM    Find...

82.    Anthropology    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 10:11 AM    Find...

83.    Lecturer/Sociology    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 10:10 AM    Find...

84.    University Library    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 10:03 AM    Find...

85.    Librarian    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 10:01 AM    Find...

86.    Academic Staff    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 9:48 AM    Find...

87.    Archivist    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 9:14 AM    Find...

88.    Sociology    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 8:59 AM    Find...

89.    Lecturer    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 8:02 AM    Find...

90.    Law    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 2:08 AM    Find...

91.    Lecturer in Undergraduate Education Initiatives/Comparative

Literature/Asian Languages and Cultures    Tue, Jun 1, 2010 12:53

AM    Find...

92.    Political Science    Mon, May 31, 2010 11:57 PM    Find...

93.    Public Policy    Mon, May 31, 2010 10:26 PM    Find...

94.    communication    Mon, May 31, 2010 3:49 PM    Find...

95.    Environmental Science, Undergrad    Mon, May 31, 2010 3:31 PM    Find...

96.    Linguistics    Mon, May 31, 2010 3:07 PM    Find...

97.    Social Welfare    Mon, May 31, 2010 10:49 AM    Find...

98.    American Studies    Mon, May 31, 2010 4:39 AM    Find...

99.    English    Mon, May 31, 2010 1:38 AM    Find...

100.    Political Science    Sun, May 30, 2010 9:24 PM    Find...

101.    History / sociology double major    Sun, May 30, 2010 7:35 PM    Find...

102.    Assistant Professor    Sun, May 30, 2010 4:12 PM    Find...

103.    English Graduate Student    Sun, May 30, 2010 3:51 PM    Find...

104.    Anthropology    Sun, May 30, 2010 2:41 PM    Find...

105.    Biology, Art, and English    Sun, May 30, 2010 1:42 PM    Find...

106.    Educatioin    Sun, May 30, 2010 1:35 PM    Find...

107.    Ph.D. History/Alumna (1997)    Sun, May 30, 2010 11:51 AM    Find...

108.    Interdisciplinary Studies    Sun, May 30, 2010 11:47 AM    Find...

109.    comparative Literature & classics    Sun, May 30, 2010 11:10 AM    Find...

110.    MA candidate UCLA Urban Planning    Sat, May 29, 2010 10:48 PM    Find...

111.    Grad Spanish and Portuguese    Sat, May 29, 2010 10:47 PM    Find...

112.    International Agricultural Development    Sat, May 29, 2010 10:23 PM    Find...

113.    Art, Education    Sat, May 29, 2010 6:50 PM    Find...

114.    Anthropology/Library Assistant    Sat, May 29, 2010 6:21 PM    Find...

115.    Ethnomusicology    Sat, May 29, 2010 5:59 PM    Find...

116.    comparative literature/undergrad    Sat, May 29, 2010 4:54 PM    Find...

117.    Psychology    Sat, May 29, 2010 4:31 PM    Find...

118.    Law    Sat, May 29, 2010 4:31 PM    Find...

119.    Community Studies    Sat, May 29, 2010 4:27 PM    Find...

120.    English/Teaching Associate    Sat, May 29, 2010 3:53 PM    Find...

121.    Social Welfare    Sat, May 29, 2010 3:43 PM    Find...

122.    Chinese    Sat, May 29, 2010 3:28 PM    Find...

123.    History    Sat, May 29, 2010 1:56 PM    Find...

124.    History/Graduate Student    Sat, May 29, 2010 12:55 PM    Find...

125.    World Arts and Cultures, Cultural Concentration    Sat, May 29, 2010

12:47 PM    Find...

126.    Political Science, PhD Student    Sat, May 29, 2010 12:41 PM    Find...

127.    Psychology    Sat, May 29, 2010 6:37 AM    Find...

128.    English    Sat, May 29, 2010 12:45 AM    Find...

129.    Music- PT Lecturer    Fri, May 28, 2010 3:20 PM    Find...

130.    Chemistry, GSI/GSR    Fri, May 28, 2010 2:13 PM    Find...

131.    Staff    Fri, May 28, 2010 1:28 PM    Find...

132.    Rhetoric    Fri, May 28, 2010 12:36 PM    Find...

133.    History, Assoc. Prof.    Fri, May 28, 2010 12:08 PM    Find...

134.    History Grad Student    Fri, May 28, 2010 11:25 AM    Find...

135.    Sociology    Fri, May 28, 2010 10:46 AM    Find...

136.    Music / CalIT2 Director and Researcher    Thu, May 27, 2010 11:11 PM    Find...

137.    Physiology    Thu, May 27, 2010 7:42 PM    Find...

138.    Linguistics & Psychology    Thu, May 27, 2010 5:28 PM    Find...

139.    Literature / Lecturer    Thu, May 27, 2010 4:19 PM    Find...

140.    sociology/asst prof    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:46 PM    Find...

141.    communication    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:37 PM    Find...

142.    Literature    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:23 PM    Find...

143.    Staff with teaching responsibility    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:15 PM    Find...

144.    Lecturer, UWP    Thu, May 27, 2010 1:29 PM    Find...

145.    Library    Thu, May 27, 2010 12:06 PM    Find...

146.    Adjunct Professor of Social Welfare    Thu, May 27, 2010 11:35 AM    Find...

147.    Librarian    Thu, May 27, 2010 9:57 AM    Find...

148.    Biochemistry    Wed, May 26, 2010 11:31 PM    Find...

149.    Biology    Wed, May 26, 2010 9:00 PM    Find...

150.    PsychoBio    Wed, May 26, 2010 8:43 PM    Find...

151.    Linguistics    Wed, May 26, 2010 7:11 PM    Find...

152.    Psychology / Public Policy    Wed, May 26, 2010 6:53 PM    Find...

153.    FM (landscape tech)    Wed, May 26, 2010 6:25 PM    Find...

154.    Lecturer    Wed, May 26, 2010 5:47 PM    Find...

155.    Pre-Business Economics/Undergraduate    Wed, May 26, 2010 5:11 PM    Find...

156.    History    Wed, May 26, 2010 4:55 PM    Find...

157.    Bioengineering    Wed, May 26, 2010 4:48 PM    Find...

158.    University Writing Program    Wed, May 26, 2010 4:31 PM    Find...

159.    Chief Steward UPTE-CWA    Wed, May 26, 2010 2:07 PM    Find...

160.    Writing Programs    Wed, May 26, 2010 11:51 AM    Find...

161.    UCLA Writing Programs (EngComp)    Wed, May 26, 2010 9:34 AM    Find...

162.    Community Studies    Sun, May 23, 2010 7:22 PM    Find...

163.    Sociology / Politics    Sun, May 23, 2010 6:07 PM    Find...

164.    Undeclared    Sun, May 23, 2010 11:23 AM    Find...

165.    DANM/ Art/ World Lit    Sun, May 23, 2010 10:43 AM    Find...

166.    Psychology    Sat, May 22, 2010 3:17 PM    Find...

167.    Ocean Sciences    Sat, May 22, 2010 2:10 PM    Find...

168.    Philosophy    Sat, May 22, 2010 1:18 PM    Find...

169.    History    Sat, May 22, 2010 9:49 AM    Find...

170.    ESPM    Fri, May 21, 2010 10:16 PM    Find...

171.    Music    Thu, May 20, 2010 11:33 AM    Find...

172.    Journalism    Thu, May 20, 2010 11:26 AM    Find...

173.    Performance Studies    Thu, May 20, 2010 9:30 AM    Find...

174.    Computer Science and Anthropology    Thu, May 20,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.    My parents did not pay for my schooling because they felt that I should be able to pay for my own education if I wanted it. As a result

I had to work almost full time while going to school. Based on their income I did not qualify for aid. I would not have been able to go to

school if I were attending this year. I would have dropped out. That would have been a huge shame.    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:37 PM    Find...

2.    It's very difficult now to get the classes I need when I need them. Getting into a desired time for a language class was already difficult

enough and now it's nearly impossible. Although I don't really want to, I am trying to graduate as fast as possible. I have plans to take quite a few more 19 unit quarters while I am here and it is not an easy task.    Wed, May 26, 2010 7:11 PM    Find...

3.    I have had to take out more debt in order to pay for student fees.    Wed, May 26, 2010 4:55 PM    Find...

4.    I just don't like seeing my parents pay these fees and seeing my job money go to these fees while financial aid is being poorly

distributed (too many kids brag about how they manipulated the system and thus get to use financial aid money as spending money for personal

enjoyment). Illegal immigrants, especially, should not be getting a

free ride. The system's just not right.    Wed, May 26, 2010 4:48

PM    Find...

5.    i will have to keep taking out more loans.

i do not have the time or ability to work and adequately adress my

education at the same time.

if fees continue to increase i will be forced to leave school or default on my loans    Sun, May 23, 2010 6:07 PM    Find...

6.    One of my best friends started selling her body so that she could

keep paying for school. THIS SHOULD NOT FUCKING HAPPEN. There is money

in UC, but because the Regents are NOT accountable to students and

faculty, money not allocated as it should be.    Sun, May 23, 2010 11:23

AM    Find...

7.    My fees are covered when I TA, but that decreases the funding that my department has, and thus the number of available TAships as well

the number of students for whom TAs are responsible.    Sat, May 22, 2010

2:10 PM    Find...

8.    I was out of pocket for the whole thing. It took me many years and

much effort to graduate. I STRONGLY OPPOSE THE AB 540/DREAM ACT

GIVEAWAY OF PUBLIC FUNDS!!! IF I CAN WORK MY WAY THROUGH COLLEGE THEY

CAN TOO! (And yes, I cleaned toilets, washed dishes, was a parking lot

attendant-- all those cruddy jobs--). How on earth does it help the

financial position of the University if UC is gives money to illegal

immigrants and/or their kids? How can these illegal immigrants be

viewed as "equals" later if they pre-stigmatize themselves as people

who need "special" help?    Sat, May 22, 2010 1:18 PM    Find...

9.    "Graduate Assistantship" is unclear. Are you referring to Teaching

Assistantships? Graduate Student Researcher? It's also a little odd

that this one is grouped under "university scholarships." It's very

much work. We're severely overworked in fact.

 

Student fees, luckily, haven't affected me as much as other grad

students I know. With a reduction of TAships and the increase in

student fees, I know many grad students who have had to go on leave of

absence or simply drop out because they could no longer afford school.

And this is after years of working really hard for the university.

Grad students are extremely undervalued -- we're treated more like

cheap academic labor (Teaching Assistants, etc), than as graduate

students on a track to becoming faculty.    Sat, May 22,

 

 

In your own words please tell us know what you think of your

experiences at the University of California and how well do you think

it is managed. How well do you think administration (UC Regents as

whole and administration at your campus in particular) are addressing

needs of students and faculty? What, if anything, do you think should

be changed or improved and how?

 

 

1.    The Regents and university adminstrators seemed to be determined to

follow the University of Michigan model and run the university as if

it was a private institution. But it is meant to serve the people of

the state and decisions must be made with that foremost in mind.    Thu,

May 27, 2010 5:01 PM    Find...

2.    I work at the new UCI Law School Library and the instruction the

students rec'd (for FREE) was incredible! The rest of the campus has

high volume of students in classes and many are taught by TAs instead

of faculty and I hear the students comlplaining abiout it all the

time. Such high tuition and little instruction time or crowded

instruction time with faculty.    Thu, May 27, 2010 4:33 PM    Find...

3.    The UC has many meetings to solicit input. But the input seems to

stop there. Actions often are opposite of the calls for change.    Thu,

May 27, 2010 2:37 PM    Find...

4.    I think that the U.C. San Diego chancellor is a disaster. She

should give us all a break and leave.

Based on 35 years experience here I would fire everybody in the

personnel office.

In these lean times the multi-college, multi-college administrative

system is just plain stupid.

Although both my sons would have easily been accepted at UCSD I did

not ever consider sending them to UCSD. The climate for students is

just awful.    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:27 PM    Find...

5.    I was involved with several active student groups. They started out

very motivated and engaged and wanted to become part of the process of

working with the university on the issues that the university said

were top priorities and which their organizations' charter was for.

After repeated bad interactions with administrators in which they were

told this sort of thing "you are only a student. you should not be

offering suggestions or making proposals" they not only lost their

motivation but became extremely wary of administrators in general and

their ability to accomplish their stated goals. They found the

administration hypocritical. This problem came up repeatedly over

several years with many students and many administrators. I felt

unable to comment, because although I was well aware of and had

experienced the same sort of exclusionary elitism in my role, and it

was not subtle, I was caught in the middle professionally. At least at

UCSD there is a serious problem with hierarchy and elitist attitudes

that directly impacts the ability to accomplish the mission of the

institution as a public university.    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:15 PM    Find...

6.    I think, first get rid of all the administrators. The Regents

should be abolished. the very notion of a Board of Regents smacks of

feudalism and its attendant notions of power.    Thu, May 27, 2010 1:29

PM    Find...

7.    The way peer review is conducted in my unit is deplorable and I

have worked on two other UC campuses in the past. Although I

experienced something that could have been a grievance, supervisors

and the review initiator refused to be fair; I was able to provide

additional input but a normal merit was denied. I have been angry

about the way I was treated for the past two years, but there is no

redress in our system.

I have no impression about the needs of students, so cannot comment on

that aspect.    Thu, May 27, 2010 1:10 PM    Find...

8.    Why so many administrators? Cut these positions, and use the

bloated salaries that come with them to fund real education, and let

the students and staff take over the decision-making work done by

management.    Thu, May 27, 2010 12:23 PM    Find...

9.    OUr opinions are requested and ignored.    Thu, May 27, 2010 11:35 AM    Find...

10.    The University's efforts to provide transparency for the budget

and financial decisions is still not acceptable. There needs to be

100% transparency where the law provides and not after months or years

of asking the Regents, UCOP and campus administrations for facts and

figures the claim to be to difficult to compily or gather. If it's to

"difficult" for departments/units/individuals to do their jobs then

they need to be replace with competent employees who can.    Thu, May 27,

2010 9:57 AM    Find...

11.    My experience as a student in the 1980's was fine. Today, I am

perplexed at how a young person affords an education and why the state

is not encouraging and incentivizing more young people to go to

college. The Regents and UCOP are on a drive, thus far successful, to

privatize UC. This is destroying our great university. The Regents

need to be made accountable to the State legislators, UCOP and the

Regents need to be more far more transparent, and administration

salaries need to be brought back to earth. There is a double standard

going on at UC in terms of compensation. Staff are public-service

minded and agree to below market salaries in exchange for generous

benefits and security. The administration is money-motivated and feel

they should be compensated as if they are working in the private

sector. The two need to brought into line. Both segments have their

deadwood, but it seems the administration is drinking particularly

deeply from the public trough as there is no oversight or

accountability.    Wed, May 26, 2010 8:38 PM    Find...

12.    Not good at all 312 0/0 management grow vs 22 0/0 of work

force.    Wed, May 26, 2010 6:25 PM    Find...

13.    When I came her we were first rate. Now we're worse off than a

JC.    Wed, May 26, 2010 5:33 PM    Find...

14.    My education has been a decent one. However, I am sick and tired

of the Regents' fee increases as well as the failure of my school's

governing bodies (chancellor's office, USAC, etc,) to be fiscally

responsible.    Wed, May 26, 2010 4:48 PM    Find...

15.    Mandate that the Regents withdraw from the Calif Chamber of

Commerce; it is a conflict of interest.    Wed, May 26, 2010 2:07

PM    Find...

16.    Most of the time, if you do the opposite, you will get a better

outcome.    Wed, May 26, 2010 1:43 PM    Find...

17.    Again, there are way too many administrators and many of them do

not know what they are doing (they made several obvious errors when

putting together our budget). It's absurd to have one for every seven

students when my classes (where I meet with each student three times a

quarter) was just increased to 25.    Wed, May 26, 2010 11:51 AM    Find...

18.    regents should break the debilitating and unspoken decorum rules

that dictate their constant assent to whatever the office of the

president dictates. if you disagree, disagree strongly.    Wed, May 26,

2010 9:50 AM    Find...

19.    New chancellor showed some promise, but quickly is showing less

transparency and seems just as arbitrary as most chancellors.    Wed, May

26, 2010 9:35 AM    Find...

20.    Administrators try hard, I think; some work effectively with

faculty and pay attention to student needs. But many don't. The

Regents? They don't seem to deign to think about students, faculty,

staff.    Wed, May 26, 2010 9:34 AM    Find...

21.    The UC's are managed terribly. They are currently being run by a

business, not an education system. The fact that not 100% of my fees

paid to attend my campus come back to my campus is wrong. My major is

being cut and not all of my fees even make it back to my campus to

support my major. Chancellors and other administrators do not listen

to students or the Academic Senate on my campus on where the cuts

should be going. They do not take students' needs into account when

they cut library hours, campus buses, dining hall hours, custodial

hours (who clean almost everywhere that students go on campus),

TA-ships, lecturers, classes, or majors.    Sun, May 23, 2010 7:22

PM    Find...

22.    less administrators. more student faculty counsels with

administrative facilitation. students and faculty know what they need

most on this campus.    Sun, May 23, 2010 6:07 PM    Find...

23.    I think we need a revision to the Article IX, Section 9 of the

California constitution. If the Board of Regents is going to continue

to be in charge of the the security of the funds of UC, they need to

be democratically elected by (i.e. ACCOUNTABLE TO) the students and

faculty who are impacted by their decisions. 16 out of 26 APPOINTED to

12 YEAR terms is inexcusable.    Sun, May 23, 2010 11:23 AM    Find...

24.    Having stone-walled reasonable suggestions from faculty,

consultants, and students, and capitulated to Schwartnegger's demands

for privatization (without ever trying to make the case to taxpayers

about the importance of a public University), the administration now

faces massive social unrest and a major audit from the state. The

Regents, as a decision making body, must either be democratized (and

made transparent) or will go down with the ship. The course they are

leading the UC on will bankrupt the schools and bankrupt

California.    Sun, May 23, 2010 10:43 AM    Find...

25.    less administrators! more student, faculty, and worker input about

cuts, decisions, everything!    Sat, May 22, 2010 3:17 PM    Find...

26.    At my campus (Santa Cruz), over 100 faculty signed a letter to

Chancellor Blumenthal expressing concern about the student judicial

affairs process. When asked about his reaction to the letter in an

Academic Senate meeting later that week, Blumenthal responded, "I

don't know which letter you're talking about. I get a lot of letters."

He later stated that there would be a committee headed by the EVC to

look at the process, that police would continue to photograph students

at activist events, and that the individuals who had already been

unfairly prosecuted would not have a chance for their cases to be

reexamined. EVC Kliger runs the budget; comparing the cuts he has made

to the recommendations of the Academic Senate reflect that he

consistently cuts more to academic support and services and less to

institutional (mostly admin) services. The Chancellor and EVC should

not be able to get away with completely ignoring faculty concerns.

This is obviously true on the Regents/UCOP level as well because

that's where the chancellors' orders originate.    Sat, May 22, 2010 2:10

PM    Find...

27.    I think the University used to be run much better. The proper

model is for it to be run by professional PUBLIC administrators and

academics, not by people with a corporate background (by that I mean

the professional staff, not the Regents). The University is not

supposed to be run on a profit model (except the enterprise units like

the Medical Centers).    Sat, May 22, 2010 1:18 PM    Find...

28.    I think you should also ask about the treatment of workers.

Anyway, I think the UC is run like a corporation, fees are too high,

workers are exploited, the administration is disrespectful and

unresponsive toward student concerns and protests, class sizes seem to

be getting bigger, etc. Students are treated less as individuals and

more like a mass of students to ram through college -- stamp them with

a grade, shove a degree at them, and wish 'em good luck.    Sat, May 22,

2010 9:49 AM    Find...

29.    The formal involvement of students in budget decisions is

deficient. At Berkeley, the Committee of Student Fees is accountable

to no one (self-appointed).    Fri, May 21, 2010 10:16 PM    Find...

30.    Democratizing the Regents should also make the selection of campus

chancellors more democratic. Beyond that, eliminating high-paid middle

managers should also be a priority.    Fri, May 21, 2010 12:53 AM    Find...

31.    I've never attended UC, so I can't truthfully answer your

questions above as they've been framed. Clearly, though, the quality

of education at UC has gone down over the past several years. Your

survey software forced me to answer, so I just gave everything an F

 

Question 4:

In your own words please tell your opinion about the above proposals

and what they will do for the future of the University of California

if implemented. What proposals do you think are missing that could

address financial issues faced by the university

 

1.    I would hope that the commission investigated ways on making staff

reductions, particularly in administrative areas. The university is

top-heavy in high paid adminsitrators and their staffs.    Thu, May 27,

2010 5:01 PM    Find...

2.    I work in the Library so it would impact us if they did online

courses, less students!I am not suer of the impact whether it would be

good or bad. If enrollment increases, we will need more funding for

moer services to serve more students.    Thu, May 27, 2010 4:33

PM    Find...

3.    Really looking at the tenured faculty and their REAL ability to

teach.    Thu, May 27, 2010 4:27 PM    Find...

4.    All of the proposals are harmful to the UC system and its logic of

avaulable public education.    Thu, May 27, 2010 4:07 PM    Find...

5.    Out-of-State enrollments might be also able to increase diversity

on campuses.

I think the idea of increased fees - and increased number! - of

professional programs.    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:56 PM    Find...

6.    Reduce the salaries of highly paid administrators, reduce layers of

administration, pursue efficiencies that save money and are also more

environmentally sustainable, solicit recommendations from students,

overturn the 2/3 rule to pass CA state budgets, better utilize the

campuses in the summer.    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:46 PM    Find...

7.    These proposals seem to imply that a UC would cost more for far

less quality instruction, devotion to students and learning. It sounds

like the UC will become a university of phoenix where people buy their

degrees. It cheapens my education as a UC graduate. I will not support

the UC if they decide to implement these changes. I believe that many

people will come to see the truth behind these changes and the UC will

lose it's standing as a world class institution of education and

research.    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:37 PM    Find...

8.    California students should benefit from UC schools and have

priority over out-of-state students. The cost of a public university

should be AFFORDABLE. My suggestion is to lobby state officials and

lobby the public to get them behind the idea of supporting affordable

public education for the students of California.    Thu, May 27, 2010

2:30 PM    Find...

9.    I do not find these proposals particularly creative.

I would suggest that students be charged a reasonable per credit fee

for all instruction up to a ceiling that is equal to the number of

credits required to graduate with a BA. All courses taken above that

ceiling would be very expensive. This would eliminate all the "course

shopping" that now goes on. Unfortunately it would also force students

to be proactive in their decision making about courses and majors,

which seems to be difficult for some students.    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:27

PM    Find...

10.    Missing are proposals to trim administrative budgets; to increase

faculty-student interaction and advising (with compensation);    Thu, May

27, 2010 2:23 PM    Find...

11.    'education' by the not-fully-educated (= graduate students)

represents a watering-down of what a university has to offer;

it's a stopgap, short-term money-saver, tantamount to the financial

instruments that took some years to blow up in people's faces -- some

years down the road the unpredictable consequences of failing to

educate fully (w/ fully learned instructors) our young will show up

and there'll be a run to correct the system they're hoping to

implement now    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:20 PM    Find...

12.    All of these proposals hurt the UC. The one with the least

potential for harm, if done well, is the use of online classes. Other

quality schools already use online classes and are none the worse for

it. The important point would be to put into steps ways to teach

people how to teach online, and then support them in doing so. This

includes not just pedagogical support but providing flexible and

sufficient computing support so that it does not become a burden for

all involved.    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:15 PM    Find...

13.    All of these proposals are designed to save money; they have

nothing to do with the quality of education or with implementing the

master plan: to educate all of the children of California who are

eligible for enrollment in one of the UC's. Where does the commission

think that the future of the state lies - in its corporations? Haven't

we seen enough of what the business model has done to this country,

and isn't it time to reject the old, stale thinking of corporate

capitalism, and to embark on a genuinely enlighted future educational

project for the good of all?    Thu, May 27, 2010 1:29 PM    Find...

14.    Adopting these proposals will not improve the quality of education

and life at the UC campus, but it will signal an end to the Master

Plan that provided the best learning and research opportunities for

the State of California's best and brightest high school students.If

pressed to find additional funding, the Regents and the UC

administrators on each campus should work together to change

legislation, secure long-term state funding commitments, and raise new

money for unsupported, but culturally important, research. What is

most threatened by the proposals is the culture of California.    Thu,

May 27, 2010 1:26 PM    Find...

15.    UC should reduce the number of administrators/middle managers. The

bureaucracy on this campus (UCR) is medieval!    Thu, May 27, 2010 1:10

PM    Find...

16.    Education should be free, or at least affordable. UC education is neither.

Why aren't UC execs and admins aligning themselves with the students,

staff, and faculty and fighting the state to get funding back? They're

being frustratingly passive and resigned on this huge point.

Each UC should be an organic place where young people who live in

nearby communities can easily afford classes and pursue whichever

disciplines spark their interests. Getting to "shop around"

academically, spending 4-5 years for my undergrad degree, and having

face-to-face contact with my fellow students and teachers was what

shaped my intellect in college. For most people, college is the last

time they get to be exposed to so much information in such a

concentrated, interconnected way. The proposals above strike me as a

conveyer-belt style of education, and it seems dismissive of the

intellectual and social growth spurts that happen during a young

person's college years.    Thu, May 27, 2010 12:23 PM    Find...

17.    They will destroy the depth, breadth and uniqueness of a UC

education. Any difference between CSU level education and UC education

will have been erased.    Thu, May 27, 2010 12:06 PM    Find...

18.    These proposals will all diminish the quality of education in

California. Unfortunately the Regents seem to see education as a

commodity to be sold and traded like oil futures. THey seem to have no

interest in the impact of their decisions on the University of the

State. For them and it seems for the administration, it's just a

business.    Thu, May 27, 2010 11:35 AM    Find...

19.    All of the above proposals directly hurt the students. A few of

the proposals will devalue the worth of an quality undergraduate

education for many of the students at the non-flagship campuses like

Cal and UCLA. How ridiculous to think that future UCLA/UCB students

would be willing to pay more for online classes; less time to discover

themselves with fewer majors/programs/departments to choose from being

taught by mostly graduate students. Same goes for all the rest of the

future and current students at all of the other campuses. At least one

could make a reasonable arguement that increases in Student Fees will

allow the University to maintain and even enhance what it is offering

right now. But to expect students to pay MORE for LESS is smiply

ridiculous.    Thu, May 27, 2010 9:57 AM    Find...

20.    The proposals do not take an "encompassing" approach to the

situation and fail to consider the state's commitment to the Master

Plan. These "solutions" do not consider how, in the long run, it is

more expensive not to invest in educating Californians. Last but not

least, why are we using a "corporate" ecnomic model that has very very

clearly failed since we are in the mess we are in because of that way

of conducting business?    Thu, May 27, 2010 9:38 AM    Find...

21.    These proposals basically harm the educational mission of the UC.

 

Streamline administration. Ladder faculty teach more.    Thu, May 27,

2010 7:37 AM    Find...

22.    3 year degree program would reduce the prestige of a diploma from

the respective school. Online classes is a good idea, especially in

the summer.    Wed, May 26, 2010 8:43 PM    Find...

23.    The University suffers because of mismanagement and conflicts of

interest between the UC administration (including Regents) and

University business. None of these proposal address this fundamental

problems.    Wed, May 26, 2010 8:38 PM    Find...

24.    They will systematically destroy the UC reputation. Less people

from a low socioeconomic background, who want to go to college, will

be able to due to fee increases. The middle class will become the new

'poor' on campus, and pretty soon fee increases will force that

demographic out as well. As far as professional school increases, why

waste money on a graduate program if you won't be able to ever pay off

any accrued debts in a lifetime. Regarding three year degree programs

and online classes... Well, you're going to devalue education. I know,

I've taken such online college courses and they're a waste of time and

energy. They go back to the high school format of memorization and

regurgitation as opposed to helping teach students to think, to not

accept everything they read. Doubling out-of-state enrollment is the

only logical thing to do as it will help increase diversity.

Unfortunately that is not why the regents care to do it. It's all

about the money and it's going to kill the UC system.    Wed, May 26,

2010 7:11 PM    Find...

25.    Real Community imput!    Wed, May 26, 2010 6:25 PM    Find...

26.    It is incredible that these proposals are all so bad.    Wed, May 26,

2010 6:13 PM    Find...

27.    Every one of these proposals is a way of cheapening the cost and

lowering the quality of higher education. They are also cynical, as

they are proposed as necessary in light of decreased funding, when the

right response is to reject the premise that reduced funding is either

necessary or in the interest of the people of California. UC should

begin full disclosure of all aspects of its funding, including

accounting for the use of every single dollar of student tuition. The

should particularly disclose cross transfers of funds between

department, colleges, and professional schools.    Wed, May 26, 2010 6:06

PM    Find...

28.    Why not just sell off the assets - or better, let Goldmans Sachs

do it and keep all the profits?    Wed, May 26, 2010 5:33 PM    Find...

29.    The University should concentrate on administrative bloat and

curbing runaway admin salaries to tackle its own financial

crisis.    Wed, May 26, 2010 4:55 PM    Find...

30.    Essentially, these proposals are either fee increases or staff

turnaround. I don't like them. We need to cut costs: professor salary,

campus housing, athletics budget, office budgets, club funding,

financial aid, etc. By simply saying, "Let's just increase fees,"

you're condoning the current wasteful spending right now. If people

leave, so what? At the end of the day, we're still UC schools,

there'll be demand to go here, and there will be no dropoff in quality

students and faculty.    Wed, May 26, 2010 4:48 PM    Find...

31.    What's missing: (1) recouping the true costs of overhead from

research funding to cover the costs of undergraduate instruction. If

the grantor wants the work done at a university, the grantor needs to

pay its fair share of what makes a university a university:

undergraduate instruction. (2) stop raiding the rainmakers on student

fees:the lower division and the humanities. Funds generated by

enrollment in lower division and undergraduate humanities courses

should fund those courses, not other, more expensive courses.    Wed, May

26, 2010 4:31 PM    Find...

32.    With these proposal, the University of California has no

future.    Wed, May 26, 2010 4:10 PM    Find...

33.    Tax the oil companies in CA.

The right to an education for all who are competent to attend is an

American right.    Wed, May 26, 2010 2:07 PM    Find...

34.    Shrink UCOP by 75%    Wed, May 26, 2010 1:43 PM    Find...

35.    Possibly the University needs to decide that certain depts. at

certain campuses are not going to get the most presitigious and

expensive faculty around. Many professors are not teaching enough

students; these professors should to teach more students, either in

larger "non-boutique" classes or by teaching more classes total. Good

administration is important, but the administrator-to-student ratio

should not be as high as the faculty-to-student ratio. Graduate

students should not be teaching their own classes; they should be

teaching assistants.    Wed, May 26, 2010 1:43 PM    Find...

36.    While it may be necessary to raise fees for undergraduates, it is

ridiculous to expect them to pay more and get less by having qualified

instructors replaced with TAs and courses moved to on-line, ala

University of Phoenix. You should add "cut administration costs to the

above list"; I would give that an A++    Wed, May 26, 2010 11:51

AM    Find...

37.    why not save money by actually implementing the promises made 10+

years ago of improving systems and managerial efficiency, which are

being re-proposed now?    Wed, May 26, 2010 9:50 AM    Find...

38.    They are profit oriented rather than educational. Seems like the

result of a lot of business people who took U of Phoenix as their

model.    Wed, May 26, 2010 9:35 AM    Find...

39.    Nobody needs to be told, but: Taken together, the proposals

discriminate against students from less affluent families, move to

restrict capable young Californians from California's public

university, de-value the undergraduate experience by reducing ranks of

and students' face-time with professional teachers, keep curious

students from selecting electives, and on and on. I think that

creative minds can come up with more creative and just solutions in

these tough times.    Wed, May 26, 2010 9:34 AM    Find...

40.    will lower quality of education    Wed, May 26, 2010 9:25 AM    Find...

41.    The university should stop short-term solutions to save mnney, and

look at the long term solutions of reducing the number of highly paid

people and increasing the number of faculty and new students. We don't

need online education or summer education, we need to make

undergraduate education a priority.    Wed, May 26, 2010 9:00 AM    Find...

42.    All of these proposals go against what the UC was founded for-

quality public education for California students. While I am not

opposed to out-of-state students at UC campuses, doubling their

numbers without increasing overall enrollment is directly hurting

California students and should not be the solution to this so-call

budget crisis. None of these proposals will better my educational

experience. None of these will improve the quality of any of the UC's,

they are all harmful. If I could have given them less than an F I

would.

Proposals that are missing include salary caps for administrators and

chancellors, elimination of some administrative positions, halt to new

construction projects.    Sun, May 23, 2010 7:22 PM    Find...

43.    this is effectively destroying the status and competitive ability

UC has with the private schools they are unreasonably trying to

compete with.

to eliminiate education from and educational institute is idiotic at

best    Sun, May 23, 2010 6:07 PM    Find...

44.    Well for one thing, we could STOP CONSTRUCTING BUILDINGS THAT WE

CAN'T AFFORD TO HOLD CLASSES IN. Really? $99 million dollars on

McHenry when the libraries are only open 12 hours a day? Budget crisis

my ***. This is a crisis of priorities.    Sun, May 23, 2010 11:23

AM    Find...

45.    It is not so much a question of what such proposals would do to

the UC system (it is clear that this would butcher everything that the

UC has stood for) so much as what this would mean for California. In

the global imaginary, California represents the dream of a better

life; UC has been the route to that better life. In the absence of an

independent and open public University, California will join the rust

belt in an endless period of decline and despair.    Sun, May 23, 2010

10:43 AM    Find...

46.    these proposals will turn an already failing university system

into one that falls apart entirely. these things all go against the

vision of the UC and the master plan.    Sat, May 22, 2010 3:17

PM    Find...

47.    These proposals will gut the university as a teaching institution;

most of the recommendations are truly appalling. If the Regents were

real stakeholders in the university or were accountable in any way to

students, faculty, and workers, this would never fly. I think they

should reduce the admin:faculty ratio and stop issuing construction

bonds. I have read some of the bond rating recommendations by Moody's

and the direction they insist we go in order to keep a high bond

rating is very scary. As long as UCOP and the Regents hold this rating

above all, the university will continue to decline regardless of state

funding. We basically need a restructuring of the university that will

reduce admin gluttony and empower to students, faculty, and workers to

run the university.    Sat, May 22, 2010 2:10 PM    Find...

48.    Your instrument is flawed (in my opinion) because it does not

consider people who are both an alumnus and a staff or faculty member.

That being said, as both an alumnus and employee, I understand that

given current economic realities, University salaries need to be held

stable (and top executives should have to trim theirs-- if they leave,

who gives a damn, someone else will take that job). The unions need to

temper their demands. As the economy recovers, so too, can salaries.

The Commission seems to neglect any concept of marketing the

importance of the University to the public in order to create pressure

on Sacramento politicians to fund education.    Sat, May 22, 2010 1:18

PM    Find...

49.    we need to 1) move away from the market based "star" system of

compensating faculty and staff back toward the merit system and 2)

make a much stronger more effective effort to communicate the value of

UC and high quality, affordable public higher ed to the public to help

people understand the value of the tax dollars they spend on

this.    Sat, May 22, 2010 12:01 PM    Find...

50.    All of the proposals listed above are atrocious, and would result

in a degraded quality of education for both undergrads and grad

students, higher exploitation of grad student instructors and

lecturers, and a much less accessible UC. They're ridiculous.    Sat, May

22, 2010 9:49 AM    Find...

51.    I think these proposals move the UCs away from some of its core

missions including quality teaching and accessibilty. For me my best

educational experience at Cal has been interacting--in person--with

other students and my professors and GSIs. If you had taken this away

4 years ago my education, and I myself, would have been totally

different.    Fri, May 21, 2010 7:46 PM    Find...

52.    These proposals are pathetic.    Fri, May 21, 2010 8:44 AM    Find...

53.    We need to do the following:

(1) Democratize the Regents

(2) Pass the California Democracy Act (Eliminate the 2/3rds rule)

(3) Modify Proposition 13 so that property taxes are increased (but

not overwhelmingly)

(4) Elect a progressive governor in 2010 who will prioritize funding

for public higher ed (not at the expense of other public programs)

(5) Do studies on the negative effects of academic capitalism at

American universities, and use them to educate policymakers and

administrators    Fri, May 21, 2010 12:53 AM    Find...

54.    Return to the Master Plan for Education that was adopted in the

early 1960s.    Thu, May 20, 2010 12:43 PM    Find...

55.    There once was a time where the word future carried exciting

promises of opportunity. But today the future of the UC system looks

bleaker than 1984, at least the way this commission sees things. Even

the least offensive proposals will devalue and undermine the UC

system.

 

7. Do you think the governing structure of the university adequately

addresses needs of the UC system?

    If you answered no, please feel free to elaborate how the system

can be changed or improved

 

1.    Decisions are currently made by Regents who represent the interests

of the wealthy in the state. But major decisions affecting the faculty

and students should address their needs. Faculty and students should

have greater input in decisions affecting their lives and work.    Thu,

May 27, 2010 5:01 PM    Find...

2.    would not let me fill in the above    Thu, May 27, 2010 4:27 PM    Find...

3.    I think it is too big and costly.    Thu, May 27, 2010 4:07 PM    Find...

4.    I think there is very little student involvement in

decision-making. As a lecturer, I feel I have no voice except as part

of union (which I have chosen not to join).    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:30

PM    Find...

5.    All UC's problems began when the Board of Regents appointments were

politicized.    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:27 PM    Find...

6.    Unless you are a tenure track research faculty you are not valued

and that is made very clear every day from large to small items. The

attitude is that unless you belong to this group you should just shut

up and not complain and do what you are told even if it is

condescending and irrational.    Thu, May 27, 2010 2:15 PM    Find...

7.    UC Regents are political appointments now. Nothing will change

until Regents are selected for their expertise and experience, not for

who they know or whose campaigns they support.    Thu, May 27, 2010 1:26

PM    Find...

8.    The voice of the faculty and of the taxpayers is not heard.    Thu,

May 27, 2010 11:35 AM    Find...

9.    I support reform of the current governing structure of the

University.    Thu, May 27, 2010 9:57 AM    Find...

10.    larger role of faculty committted to public rather than private

education, restructuring of California state government and relation

to UC and CSUN systems    Thu, May 27, 2010 8:26 AM    Find...

11.    Regents should have a UC or CSU education...that way they know how

the system works....Democratizing the Regents is the stupidest idea I

ever heard because it will then be taken over by special interest and

people with their own political agendas    Thu, May 27, 2010 3:10

AM    Find...

12.    There is little transparency or accountability with the Regents

and UCOP. Like Congressman Miller, I am outraged at how the University

is being managed.    Wed, May 26, 2010 8:38 PM    Find...

13.    Uc regents need to be elected by the people of california.    Wed,

May 26, 2010 6:25 PM    Find...

14.    The Regents approach the university as a business. The President

sees it as a cemetery.

No, seriously; neither the Regents nor the president of UC have been

advocates for and affordable, accessible, socially responsbible higher

education system that creates new knowledge, promotes equality, and

supports the state's economy and job creation. Instead, they have

"sold out" to conservative politicians who want to privatize the

universities and close off access to lower income families. That's

immoral and imprudent.    Wed, May 26, 2010 6:06 PM    Find...

15.    UC Administration is top heavy and unresponsive to faculty.

Instruction should be paramount, and students are being short

changed.    Wed, May 26, 2010 5:47 PM    Find...

16.    The UCs should be a collective, not a neoliberal hierarchy.    Wed,

May 26, 2010 5:33 PM    Find...

17.    Fire the regents!    Wed, May 26, 2010 4:55 PM    Find...

18.    Cut the number of positions.    Wed, May 26, 2010 4:48 PM    Find...

19.    reduce the cost of management. limit the perks and salary to 4x

the highest paid non-management employee.    Wed, May 26, 2010 2:07

PM    Find...

20.    more students faculty and staff as regents    Wed, May 26, 2010 1:43 PM    Find...

21.    We should have collectives of people, like Russian soviets,

governing the UC at the micro level. Fire the Regents &

administrators.    Wed, May 26, 2010 12:22 PM    Find...

22.    See my comments above. I believe we spend way too much money on

administration and not enough on instruction.    Wed, May 26, 2010 11:51

AM    Find...

23.    regents meetings are not supposed to be self-congratulation

parties, but that's what by all merits they have turned into. an

administrative body as powerful as the regents of UC needs to get more

serious about interrogating the decisions of the people they've hired

to take UC AND it's original mission into the 21st century    Wed, May

26, 2010 9:50 AM    Find...

24.    Too top-heavy: an ethos of "dogs and students, and lecturers, keep

off the grass"    Wed, May 26, 2010 9:34 AM    Find...

25.    faculty, staff and students know what is best for uc. we need to

get rid of the regents.    Wed, May 26, 2010 9:25 AM    Find...

26.    Regents are not democratically elected, students have little to no

say in who is chosen for any position (besides student

representatives, whose positions have been drastically cut back),

Academic Senates are rarely listened to, the people who are most

affected by the big decisions are the people with almost no voice in

the decision making process.    Sun, May 23, 2010 7:22 PM    Find...

27.    more democratic decision making. holding administrators

accountable for decisions they make. a better check and balance when

the budget is written for the academic senate. less

administrators.    Sun, May 23, 2010 6:07 PM    Find...

28.    Again, "I think we need a revision to the Article IX, Section 9 of the California constitution. If the Board of Regents is going to continue to be in charge of the the security of the funds of UC, they need to be democratically elected by (i.e. ACCOUNTABLE TO) the students and faculty who are impacted by their decisions. 16 out of 26 APPOINTED to 12 YEAR terms is inexcusable." I recommend that each campus nominate 1 Regent through campus elections, and that only 6 be appointed by the governor. And term limits should be reduced to 6 years, tops.    Sun, May 23, 2010 11:23 AM    Find...

29.    The Regents and the campus administration should be accountable to their constituents. In particular, the systems of sweet-heart deals for massive building projects and other contracts is ample evidence of where the money is really going.    Sun, May 23, 2010 10:43 AM    Find...

30.    the regents are not voted on. this is not democracy. this is not representation.    Sat, May 22, 2010 3:17 PM    Find...

31.    Regents should be democratically elected, but better would be for these decisions to be made by a body that is representative of the university community.    Sat, May 22, 2010 2:10 PM    Find...

32.    The Board of Regents needs to be a better mix of people-- it's obviously become a crony system for people with business ties to the huge contracts the University has to hand out. Why so many people from the financial markets? Personally, I see a big drop-off in fund management since the Regents gave fat contracts to private investment groups and got rid of its internal investment staff. The private fund managers have made themselves fat while managing our funds poorly. There needs to be some BALANCE-- I'm not saying "no Wall Street types," just a few instead of the obvious skewing we have now.    Sat,

May 22, 2010 1:18 PM    Find...

33.    Well, most of the regents are appointed by the governor. They are, moreover, mostly completely unrepresentative of the population in California. They're too white and too wealthy and therefore divorced from realities of most people. Decision-making is way too centralized within the UC system. Students, workers, and Faculty should be running the university, not a bunch of overly paid technocrats.    Sat, May 22,

2010 9:49 AM    Find...

34.    ucdemocracy.org

Let's organize statewide to democratize the regents.    Fri, May 21, 2010

12:53 AM    Find...

35.    Regents need to be accountable to the public. They should be elected, and they should represent a range of economic and community interests, not just corporate interests.    Thu, May 20, 2010 12:43

PM    Find...

36.    Democratize.    Thu, May 20, 2010 11:33 AM    Find...

37.    There is absolutely no accountability for administrators or the Regents. Moreover, the selection and vetting process for the Regents is completely undemocratic which is absurd for one of the state's largest public institutions.    Thu, May 20, 2010 9:30 AM    Find