Top Uc Myths
Sunday, April 6, 2008
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This summertime I had the chance to speak to several laissez passer on UC officials, together with hither are the primary myths I heard repeated that relate to previous entries from this blog:
1) We should fund Berkeley together with UCLA at a higher charge per unit of measurement because these star campuses convey set the other campuses on the map.
Here nosotros abide by a type of trickle-down prestige: since the star campuses convey high ratings, they aid the reputation of the arrangement equally a whole. Thus, fifty-fifty if their reputations convey been built upwards over decades of unequal founding, nosotros should all live grateful for what they convey been able to accomplish. One of the things incorrect with this notion is that it neglects the fact that the campuses with the highest reveal of unrepresented minority students have the lowest per educatee funding. Furthermore, the students who may demand the most instructional aid have the lowest support.
2) The procedure of rebenching has solved the imbalance of funding with the campuses.
As I convey shown inwards several previous posts, the novel method of redistributing state funds has occurred during a menses when campus funding has learn fifty-fifty to a greater extent than unequal due to the rising inwards the reveal of high-paying non-resident students on detail campuses.
3) The high tuition/high assistance model industrial plant because students coming from low- together with moderate-income families pay no tuition afterwards fiscal aid.
The work with this mutual sentiment is that it fails to encounter how two-thirds of the terms ofattending a UC comes from non-tuition expenses (housing, dining, parking, health, books, together with fees).
4) The bargain with the governor to freeze tuition together with increment the reveal of students from California makes sense.
When I asked people at UCOP how they planned for this increment inwards enrollments, they told me they made certain in that location were plenty beds, counselors, together with medical services: they did non squall classrooms or teachers.
5) The UC knows how much it costs to railroad train each student.
After years of trying to learn the academy to come upwards up with a to a greater extent than precise method for calculating the terms of instruction, we live received a highly flawed newmethodology. Although the novel rebenching model tried to differentiate with the terms of teaching for undergraduate, graduate, together with professional person students, it turns out that the numbers were based on a “historical approximation.” As I convey argued many times, if nosotros practise non know how much it costs to railroad train students, how tin forcefulness out nosotros enquire the state for to a greater extent than money?
6) The UC does non rely on the state anymore for funding, together with therefore the state should non say the academy what to do.
The starting fourth dimension work with this myth is that the state does back upwards most one-half of the costs for theinstructional budget, together with in that location has been a large increment inwards state financialaid. Virtually all of the coin cutting from the state budget for the UC full general fund was replaced past times an increment inwards fiscal assistance (Cal Grants together with the Middle-Class Scholarship). UC says it does non learn the assistance coin to run its operations, only the increased assistance allowed for the increment inwards tuition afterwards the Great Recession. When the UC neglects to indicate to this rootage of funding, it upsets the legislature, together with makes them non trust the UC.
7) All of the UC’s funding problems stalk from the state budget cuts.
Although it is clear that the state has non supported the UC inwards an effective manner, it is too truthful that many of the problems stalk from the agency the campuses pass funds together with the agency UCOP distributes funds with the campuses. Furthermore, UCOP yet claims that in that location is no work with excessive administration because all of the growth has happened inwards the medical centers. The reality is that administrative bloat continues on the campus marking together with at UCOP.