Continued state revenue shortfalls and divestment from higher education are injuring Californians in unprecedented ways. From massive cuts in services, to the potential of another 40% tuition hike—UC’s stakeholders are daunted by what may lie on the horizon for 2012.
In fact, UC has consistently leaned on constituents—raising costs and slashing services—to achieve budget flexibility. UC’s workers have identified a number of alternative budget measures that will help protect students and patients. Those alternatives are brought to light here because UC cannot afford to continue with the same dead‐end choices:
1. Awarding executives Wall-Street-style perks and bonuses;
2. Preserving UC’s detrimentally bureaucratic, top-heavy structure;
3. Reducing thousands of low-wage workers who deliver services to students and patients;
4. Assuming billions of dollars in debt for capital expansion, including nearly a billion dollars in debt service for a new football stadium and athletics complex.
UC can soften the blow to its core teaching, research, and patient care missions by focusing on and prioritizing those missions. Check back here weekly for updates on how UC can realize much-needed savings by setting the right priorities.
Click here to download Budget Update #1.
Click here to download Budget Update #2.
Click here to download Budget Update #3.
