California cut state funding for the University of California system by more than $1 billion in the past five years. To shore up the UC’s budget, the University has proposed various alternative revenue-generating strategies to be enacted as soon as the upcoming fiscal year. Read more...
Opinion Columns
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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March 7, 12:00 am
Alexandra Tashman: Proposed tobacco tax won’t solve higher education’s funding crisis
If Californians want to reinvest in public higher education, they’re going to need to look further than the bottom of a cigarette carton for a solution. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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March 6, 1:36 am
Ryan Nelson: Split roll would give universities, municipalities more funds
Last year, Governor Jerry Brown, in the face of fiscal austerity, tied education spending to his proposed tax hike, Proposition 30. Now, with the passage of the sequester putting research and education-related jobs on the chopping block, lawmakers once again have the ability to stimulate conversation about education funding through tax reform. Read more...
Community, Opinion, Opinion Columns
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March 6, 1:05 am
Megan Beck: Overnight lighting drains UCLA’s sustainable reputation
The UCLA campus may be adhering to the University of California system’s motto, “Fiat Lux,” or “Let there be light,” a little too literally. If you stroll across campus past midnight, you’ll find that many of the buildings still have their lights on. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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March 5, 12:03 am
Kim Grano: UCLA needs to take more steps to fix gender imbalance in faculty, grad programs
Since the 1980s, undergraduate female students have outnumbered their male counterparts on college campuses, a fact education officials have touted as an indicator that America’s higher education system is moving toward an environment in which men and women have equal opportunities to succeed. Read more...
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March 1, 12:00 am
Ben Powell: UC should disclose investment information
Earlier this month, the Alameda County Superior Court decided that the University of California must make the performance of its venture capital investments a matter of public record – a more than reasonable request for a public institution like the UC. Read more...
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February 28, 12:12 am
Eitan Arom: UC should make research open to public access
The University of California produces a prodigious amount of scholarly research, so much that the UC Office of the President estimated in 2010 that the University generates more than $3 million annually in revenues for the journal Nature. Read more...