President Yudof on the revised state budget.

UC President Mark G. Yudof gives an update on the state budget process and UC's advocacy efforts in Sacramento. To help advocate for UC, go to UCforCalifornia.org

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Education

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• yudof
• University of California
• state budget
• May Revise
• advocacy

[kindredg]

Come on, Yudof, you owe your biggest "Thank you" for the sit-ins! It was only the student Sit-Ins that made national news and finally got Schwartzenegger to promise the money. Every penny should go to bringing student tuition back down as a concrete "thank you".

[moravecglobal]

President Mark Yudof approved Cal Chancellor Birgenea spending $3,000,000 on consultants to do the work of the Cal Chancellor and his senior staff of vice chancellors. Stop spending $ on consultants and use the $3 million on Faculty, Staff and Students. The diagnosis and recommendations to save $350,000,000 can be accomplished with the integrity of the world class faculty.

[greenanarchyify]

@ThePinkCustard $2500(12mo) - 0.1(2500[12]) = $27,000/yr = More Than Enough!

My mother supported herself and two children, alone, on less than $20,000/yr. We all came out fine. My mom's alive, and my sister and I each attended the UC (granted, on full "need based" public aid scholarships). I was always pretty shocked to hear professors and staff complain about their salaries while simultaneously claiming that those above them earned too much. Talk about a lack of reflexiveness.

[dickiesgirl72]

I'm surprised comments are allowed. It's not clear to me what will happen after this furlough period ends. More furloughs? Full pay restored? Staff cuts? I realize we have to wait for the state budget, but it's been very annoying. Also annoying? Seeing people around me either reclassed into higher wages or new employees earning significantly more than their predecessors. Their should be caps on this.

[moravecglobal]

@Shaunnalee see moravecglobal on where money is going. Money is going to hire outside consultats so UCB Chancellor Birgeneau and his Vice-Chancellors do not have to do the WORK of their jobs. Did you know that the self-serving Cal senior management is spending $3 million on consultants to do the work of their jobs! Contact you representatives in Sacramento!

[esfanneon]

As a student, what I saw is the endless increasing of our tuition, which almost reached the level of some private university. We have to work several jobs and take endless loans just to keep ourselves in the school. I really do suspect where the money actually went and I doubt if the management of UC system is still wasting those resource that can keep students alive into some useless projects. I hope the management of UC system can make it clear and show where the money went.

[afsanehpetrofsky]

i'm proud to be part of the UC system. our biggest problems are ; 1) wasting , 2) spending - we waste supplies, energy and manpower. i cringe when i think about what we do to our land mines. we spend money on water falls and decorations. have you seen the land scaping in front of our new pavillion? what a waste of land, water. it has no function- ever served in a 3rd world country? clinicians there don't care about landscaping and water falls and they can't afford to waste.

[skymy4720]

what the UC system is doing to the professors is more heart breaking to me than what they are doing to the students. How can the Regents stomach not paying the countries brightest enough to make a decent living. I mean sure my tuition is going up and I hate that, but to think that the reasons why I decided to stay @ UCSD, the teachers, are not being properly appreciated by the public education system sickens me.

[yikiad]

@wscttwolfe greedy? #1, the Unions only represent a small fraction of employees. And they have virtually no power in the UC system. We get paid significantly less here than in the outside world. I could easily find a job (in a good economy) making 25% more. Get your facts straight before your ignorant rants, please.

[UCstaff]

Coming from the private sector, I took a huge paycut to join the UC, ~30% less salary. I did this for quality of life benefits, the community, job security, and eventually a pension. There hasn't been job security here since I came onboard; we are paying into the pension fund; and it's more political and stressful at the UC than in the private sector. Given that things are picking up in the private sector and recruiters are beginning to call me again, I'm just about to pack it in.

[browlands]

The question arises: Why is UC allowing talkback-to-the-prez this time around? Surely it's not for lack of vigilance by the little Strategic Communications people. (I'm sorry; I didn't mean to call you Shirley.) I'm afraid it's not a good sign. If Dick Blum and the Moneymen have started to run the big roughshod over the university, staff/student/faculty/public opinion won't matter to them. Maybe they've even laid off some of their little spokespeople.  Dan Mogulof, are you still there?