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.
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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
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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
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