A Missive Of The Alphabet To The Regents
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
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Here is a missive of the alphabet that I conception to post to the members of the UC Board of Regents:
While I am happy that I choose been appointed to the Investment Advisory Group, I am concerned that the Regents are making of import budgetary decisions based on inaccurate information. After coming together alongside Governor Brown as well as the Department of Finance inwards an endeavor to increment the state's back upwards for the University of California, it became clear that 1 of the biggest areas of misunderstanding concerns pose down back upwards for the UC system. The Office of the President continues to enjoin the Regents that since 1990, pose down back upwards has been reduced past times over 50%, as well as the pose down solely gives $7,230 per student. These numbers are highly misleading: for the 2011-12 year, the UC is budgeted to have $2.5 billion from the state, as well as at that spot are currently nether 200,000 resident undergraduate as well as graduate students (UC straight off has over 23,00 nonresident as well as international students). In other words, the UC is receiving $13,000 from the pose down for each resident student, but UCOP applies an inflation adjustment to decrease the existent sum past times 40%; moreover, the UC does non apply the same inflation adjustment to educatee fees or full general funds. The halt final result of this misinformation is that it looks similar nosotros tin only halt relying on pose down funding. It besides should last pointed out that the pose down supports UC alongside over $500 1000000 inwards Cal Grants.
Another related number is the marginal terms of didactics for each additional student. While the pose down has lately stopped using this calculation, salary as well as course of study size information shows that the straight instructional terms for each educatee is nether $8,000 (this calculation includes the salaries as well as benefits for all employees currently teaching undergraduate students as well as the parts of professor’s salaries supporting departmental research). Since currently, UC receives around $23,000 from tuition as well as pose down funds per educatee (after subtracting fiscal aid), undergraduates convey inwards a huge surplus ($15,000 per student) that is used to pay for administration, research, as well as other related as well as unrelated academy activities. One of the results of this budgetary reality is that it makes no feel to catch reducing undergraduate enrollments; moreover, the solely existent fiscal solution is for the campuses to increment undergraduate admissions.
It is besides of import to stress that the “core budget” solely concerns almost 29% of the full UC budget, but kernel funds are asked to back upwards all aspects of the university. For instance, faculty as well as staff supported past times kernel funds perform the vast bulk of the enquiry supported past times external grants. Moreover, many of the employees inwards the medical centers are at to the lowest degree inwards purpose state-funded, as well as pose down funds choose financed the buildings for auxiliaries as well as services, as well as these “self-sustaining” units rely on the system’s bond ratings, key administration, shared benefits, as well as debt capacity. In other words, at that spot is no such matter every bit a self-sustaining unit, as well as these profit-making sectors should last asked to portion their revenue alongside the “state-funded” units.
The bottom business is that the UC’s full revenue continues to increase, as well as what is needed is a to a greater extent than effective organization for sharing funds. While it is oftentimes said that a grant for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation enquiry cannot fund the salary of an English linguistic communication professor, it turns out that cheap English linguistic communication classes practice assist to fund expensive scientific research. Moreover, state-funded professors regularly utilisation external grants to purchase themselves out of their teaching duties, as well as and thence at that spot is no fixed edge betwixt the state-funded instructional budget as well as the grant-funded enquiry budget. Furthermore, the UC is straight off investing its enquiry money, operating cash, as well as full general funds through STIP as well as TRIP, which agency that at that spot is a whole pot of coin existence generated out of the co-mingling of funds.
If the Regents are relying on faulty as well as inaccurate information, at that spot is no trend yous tin brand effective decisions. To amend this situation, the Regents should struggle for to a greater extent than pose down back upwards as well as inquire UCOP to study on actual enrollment numbers for resident students, the straight terms of undergraduate instruction, as well as the actual pose down back upwards per undergraduate resident student. Please permit me know if yous would similar to hash out this information inwards to a greater extent than detail. Sincerely, Bob Samuels, President, UC-AFT
While I am happy that I choose been appointed to the Investment Advisory Group, I am concerned that the Regents are making of import budgetary decisions based on inaccurate information. After coming together alongside Governor Brown as well as the Department of Finance inwards an endeavor to increment the state's back upwards for the University of California, it became clear that 1 of the biggest areas of misunderstanding concerns pose down back upwards for the UC system. The Office of the President continues to enjoin the Regents that since 1990, pose down back upwards has been reduced past times over 50%, as well as the pose down solely gives $7,230 per student. These numbers are highly misleading: for the 2011-12 year, the UC is budgeted to have $2.5 billion from the state, as well as at that spot are currently nether 200,000 resident undergraduate as well as graduate students (UC straight off has over 23,00 nonresident as well as international students). In other words, the UC is receiving $13,000 from the pose down for each resident student, but UCOP applies an inflation adjustment to decrease the existent sum past times 40%; moreover, the UC does non apply the same inflation adjustment to educatee fees or full general funds. The halt final result of this misinformation is that it looks similar nosotros tin only halt relying on pose down funding. It besides should last pointed out that the pose down supports UC alongside over $500 1000000 inwards Cal Grants.
Another related number is the marginal terms of didactics for each additional student. While the pose down has lately stopped using this calculation, salary as well as course of study size information shows that the straight instructional terms for each educatee is nether $8,000 (this calculation includes the salaries as well as benefits for all employees currently teaching undergraduate students as well as the parts of professor’s salaries supporting departmental research). Since currently, UC receives around $23,000 from tuition as well as pose down funds per educatee (after subtracting fiscal aid), undergraduates convey inwards a huge surplus ($15,000 per student) that is used to pay for administration, research, as well as other related as well as unrelated academy activities. One of the results of this budgetary reality is that it makes no feel to catch reducing undergraduate enrollments; moreover, the solely existent fiscal solution is for the campuses to increment undergraduate admissions.
It is besides of import to stress that the “core budget” solely concerns almost 29% of the full UC budget, but kernel funds are asked to back upwards all aspects of the university. For instance, faculty as well as staff supported past times kernel funds perform the vast bulk of the enquiry supported past times external grants. Moreover, many of the employees inwards the medical centers are at to the lowest degree inwards purpose state-funded, as well as pose down funds choose financed the buildings for auxiliaries as well as services, as well as these “self-sustaining” units rely on the system’s bond ratings, key administration, shared benefits, as well as debt capacity. In other words, at that spot is no such matter every bit a self-sustaining unit, as well as these profit-making sectors should last asked to portion their revenue alongside the “state-funded” units.
The bottom business is that the UC’s full revenue continues to increase, as well as what is needed is a to a greater extent than effective organization for sharing funds. While it is oftentimes said that a grant for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation enquiry cannot fund the salary of an English linguistic communication professor, it turns out that cheap English linguistic communication classes practice assist to fund expensive scientific research. Moreover, state-funded professors regularly utilisation external grants to purchase themselves out of their teaching duties, as well as and thence at that spot is no fixed edge betwixt the state-funded instructional budget as well as the grant-funded enquiry budget. Furthermore, the UC is straight off investing its enquiry money, operating cash, as well as full general funds through STIP as well as TRIP, which agency that at that spot is a whole pot of coin existence generated out of the co-mingling of funds.
If the Regents are relying on faulty as well as inaccurate information, at that spot is no trend yous tin brand effective decisions. To amend this situation, the Regents should struggle for to a greater extent than pose down back upwards as well as inquire UCOP to study on actual enrollment numbers for resident students, the straight terms of undergraduate instruction, as well as the actual pose down back upwards per undergraduate resident student. Please permit me know if yous would similar to hash out this information inwards to a greater extent than detail. Sincerely, Bob Samuels, President, UC-AFT