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The UC Budget Crisis: Implications and Action Needed

Explore the financial challenges facing the University of California (UC) and its impact on access to quality education. Discover the consequences of budget cuts and fee increases, and learn how you can take action. Stay informed and make your voice heard!

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The UC Budget Crisis: Implications and Action Needed

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  1. Dating from the time of the Master Plan, UC is a one-of-a-kind offering of affordable, quality education at multiple world-ranking research campuses. The top 50 universities listed in U.S. World and News Report have an average tuition cost of $28,321 per year. Of the 13 universities in the top 50 with tuition less than $10,000 per year, 6 are University of California campuses. UCB, UCSD, and UCLA are top in Washington Monthly’s ranking, based mainly on Social Mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), and Research (cutting-edge PhDs). Students of California, many from low-income backgrounds, have been getting an amazing educational opportunity that is only available to the rich elsewhere What’s so special about UC?

  2. The Public Good … Year 2007-2007

  3. By the 2012-2013 fiscal year, $15.4 billion will be spent on incarcerating Californians, as compared with $15.3 billion spent on higher education California is shifting its priorities Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/29/EDGGTP3F291.DTL#ixzz0RsVxXqGm

  4. Historical perspective • In 1970, UC received about 7% of the state’s general fund budget. Today, it has fallen to roughly 3%. • State per-student funding for educating UC students has fallen from $14,210 in 2000-01 to $10,370 today (inflation-adjusted). • From 1984 to 2004, California's population increased 35%, while state funding for higher education decreased by 9%. Higher education is the only major part of California’s budget that grew more slowly than population. • Today, less than 20% of UC’s budget comes from the State of California. More than half of UC’s research expenditures come from federal sources, and federal funds represent nearly 20% of grant aid received by UC students. http://www.ucthewayforward.org/budgetfactsheet.pdf

  5. About the UC Budget Crisis 2009 A woman is arrested by UC police after protesting at the Mission Bay campus in San Francisco. Faculty, staff and students are urging a systemwide walkout Sept. 24, the first day of classes for the fall quarter at many UC campuses. (Paul Chinn / Associated Press / September 16)

  6. What crisis? • 2010-11 UC Budget Gap $632.6 M • Equivalent to: • Eliminating State support for 2 medium-sized Campuses • Reducing enrollment by 57,500 students • Closing UC libraries and public service programs • Terminating 8,300 employees • Eliminating all core-funded student financial aid http://www.ucop.edu/budget/pres/2010-11/F1-BudgetUpdate-sep09.pdf

  7. Consequences Mid-year fee hike

  8. Consequences Student fees will increase dramatically by 44% by 2010 (making UC have fees in rank of semi-private schools like U of M)

  9. Consequences Staff and faculty at all UC campuses given paycuts from 4 to 10% Top-flight research faculty will be poached Your opportunities to gain first-hand experience (from research to performance art) with top faculty will be greatly diminished

  10. What happens when fee’s go up? • When the University of Michigan moved to a semi-privatized model, it relaxed admissions standards to recruit more out of state student who pay much more in tuition. • >50% of Michigan’s 2003 freshman class came from families with six-figure incomes in a state where only 13% of families earn that much. • The result has been significantly diminished access for the residents of Michigan, especially the most disadvantaged, and a reduction in the quality of the University as seen in its drop in rankings by U.S. News and World Report. http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Understanding-the-Crisis.pdf

  11. Bottom line for you • UC is becoming more private and less public, which is bad for ACCESS (it will become a school for the rich and out-of-staters) • Your educational opportunities will be impoverished, and this will have an immeasurably profound impact on your future

  12. What you can do • Be informed: http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/ • Stick up for your education by spreading the word • Vote when the time comes! Lots of students don’t vote, and your vote definitely counts … • Write your legislator: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/

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