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A letter from President Yudof to the UC community about Proposition 30 and the upcoming election
President Yudof has asked us to share his following message with you.
Dear Colleague:
With the November election looming, I am writing to encourage all members of the University of California community – students, faculty, staff and alumni – to exercise your right to vote. The decisions made on Tuesday, November 6, will be of great importance for all America, with the presidency and control of Congress on the line. But here in California, the election also could prove pivotal to the University of California and its immediate future.
I refer to Proposition 30, one of 11 statewide initiatives on the California ballot. This initiative, advanced by Governor Brown, would increase income and sales taxes on a temporary basis and thus avoid an assortment of prospective “trigger cuts” that were written into the current State budget, pending the election outcome.
As you probably recall, The Regents last summer took the extraordinary step of endorsing Proposition 30, noting that should it fail our budget will be reduced by $250 million. In addition, $125 million currently in the budget to ensure no increases in tuition through fiscal year 2012-13 will be forfeited.
Sadly, it’s not news that public higher education in California has been battered by declining State support. With an additional blow of this magnitude, The Regents’ resolution stated, “the ability of the University of California to ensure the high-quality education that Californians have come to expect will be jeopardized….”
Let me be clear that it is neither my official place, nor my personal predilection, to suggest how others should vote. You need to look at the facts and make your own informed decisions. In that vein, please allow me to point you to a good starting place: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/28244.
The above link will take you to a variety of Proposition 30 informational and campaign materials from sources on all sides of the ballot issue. This includes material from those who oppose the measure, arguing that it will increase taxes unnecessarily and burden small businesses.
I also want to take this opportunity to invite all UC faculty and staff to a “web-chat” on Friday, November 2, from noon to 1 p.m. During that hour, I’ll be happy to take any questions on matters that concern the University, including those that relate to the coming election. The following link provides details about how to join in: http://link.ucop.edu/2012/10/23/dont-miss-live-web-chat-with-president-yudof-nov-2.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
With best wishes, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Mark G. Yudof
President
University of California
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UCLA's Aimée Dorr to serve as provost for UC system
On behalf of Vice President Barbara Allen-Diaz, we are passing along to you the announcement today by the Regents naming Aimee Dorr as the next University of California provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs.
June 19, 2012
Aimée Dorr, veteran dean of UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, today (June 19) was named the next University of California provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs.
As UC provost, she will serve as the system’s chief academic officer and lead efforts to ensure the academic excellence of UC’s 10 campuses during a time of unprecedented fiscal challenges.
She was selected by UC President Mark G. Yudof after an exhaustive national search that included consultation with a 15-member advisory committee of faculty, students, staff and senior academic leaders representing all 10 UC campuses. Her appointment was ratified by the Board of Regents at a special meeting today. She will assume her new responsibilities on July 2, replacing Lawrence Pitts, who previously announced his retirement.
Dorr, a professor of education at UCLA since 1981, became dean of the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS) in 1999. Among the leadership positions she has held within the UC system are chair and vice chair of the UC Academic Senate and faculty representative to the UC Board of Regents.
“Aimée Dorr is an accomplished leader with superb management skills, strategic vision and a longstanding commitment to expanding educational opportunities for all segments of society,” Yudof said. “Her inclusive management style and understanding of the University of California at all levels will serve the entire system and each of our 10 campuses very well during these challenging times.”
Before joining the faculty at UCLA, Dorr was a faculty member at Stanford University, Harvard University and the University of Southern California, where she served as associate dean of the Annenberg School of Communications. At Stanford, she also served one year as special advisor to the President for childcare policy. At the same time that she became GSE&IS dean, she became co-chair of UCLA’s Academic Preparation and Educational Partnership Programs, formerly known as Outreach Programs.
“I look forward to joining with those who have been striving to sustain and grow the academic excellence of the University of California during these particularly difficult times,” said Dorr. “Building on the accomplishments and talents of the academic affairs team led so ably by Provost Pitts, I am confident we can overcome the obstacles that, without our combined efforts, would undermine the quality and access that have made this great university a model for the world and a treasure for the people of California.”
Dorr will receive an annual salary of $350,000, the same as Pitts, who had received no increase in compensation since assuming the position in February 2009. The previous provost, Rory Hume, was paid $425,000 annually. Dorr’s appointment salary lags the market median of $439,000 by more than 20 percent. She will receive a standard benefits package, as well as reimbursement of moving expenses and as many as two house hunting trips.
Dorr is a fellow of the American Educational Research Association, the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. Her research has focused on electronic media and the processes by which young people make sense of, utilize and are affected by electronic media. Her expertise also includes policy analysis and the role of research in policy decision making. She has advised on national policy for children’s television for the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission and on food marketing to children and youth for the Institute of Medicine.
Her tenure at UCLA contributed significantly to the GSE&IS’s research preeminence in equity, access and multiculturalism in K-12 and higher education, and in library, archival and information services. Under her leadership, the school significantly broadened the diversity of its faculty, students and staff, increased graduate enrollment in state-supported programs by one-third and tenure track faculty by approximately 20 percent.
Her development expertise is evident in the increased financial support she obtained for students in doctoral and professional programs and her success in securing the largest gift to the school from a living donor. Under her direction, GSE&IS has taken the lead in creating and supporting the UCLA Community School, a Los Angeles Unified School District K-12 pilot school that serves a primarily low-income, immigrant community in the Pico-Union/Koreatown area and simultaneously addresses UC’s commitments to teaching, research and service. It is a sister school to UCLA’s preK-6 demonstration school, which reports to her. She was co-founder of the Los Angeles Basin Education Deans group and a member of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s Education Advisory Group.
Dorr, who is 69, received her B.S. in mathematics from Stanford University, where she also earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology.
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UC marks 150th anniversary of the Morrill Act
Los Angeles Times reporter Patt Morrison moderated a panel discussion at the event, and wrote a post about the Morrill Act sesquicentennial on the newspaper's Opinion L.A. blog today.
Morrison asked Abraham Lincoln, portrayed at the event by lanky Sonoma County teacher Roger Vincent, "President Lincoln - the opportunity for every American to go to college? Really?" He nodded.
"'What a snob,' I remarked," Morrison wrote in her post, a reference, she said, to former senator and former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum gibing at President Obama’s goal of making a college education available to all Americans.
When Lincoln was president, 50 percent of Americans were involved in producing food. A steady movement away from the occupation has created significant challenges and opportunities for the agriculture industry.
"Americans may be even more aware of what they eat, the panelists noted, with the growth of popularity of organic foods and health-conscious diets like First Lady Michelle Obama’s, but even less aware of where food comes from and how it gets from field to plate," Morrison wrote.
Yudof and UC Cooperative Extension advisor Rose Hayden-Smith, a historian and leader of ANR's Sustainable Farming Systems Strategic Initiative, made speeches. The texts of their presentations are linked below.
Yudof dispels UC 'myths' in Chico
UC President Mark Yudof said UC benefits all Californians, not only the students who attend the universities or the communities where campuses are located, writer Larry Mitchell reported in the Chico Enterprise-Record.
"The UC trains doctors at its medical schools, and it provides programs like UC Cooperative Extension, which helps farmers," the story paraphrased Yudof, who was in Chico Tuesday to speak to meetings of the Chico Chamber of Commerce and the Chico Rotary Club.
Yudof has been traveling around the state to dispel "myths" about the University of California. Included among the myths is the notion that the cost of a UC degree is out of reach for most people. Yudof said half the students pay no tuition.
The University of California is "the greatest public institution (of higher learning) in the world. We cannot let it deteriorate," Yudof said.
Yudof called Chico a community that cares deeply about higher education, the newspaper reported.
Yudof responds to May Revise
Yudof responds to May Revise
Governor Jerry Brown released his revised state budget proposal yesterday, May 16. The governor’s revised budget holds UC cuts to $500 million, but also described reductions that would be proposed should the state adopt an “all-cuts” budget in lieu of extending certain temporary taxes.
“The governor in his budget document asserted that, in an all-cuts budget, reductions in state funding for the University of California would be doubled, to $1 billion in cuts,” President Yudof said in a statement released in response to the proposal.
“Doubling the cut would reduce the state’s contribution to the university’s core funds – monies that pay professors and staff members, light the libraries, maintain the campuses, and all the rest – to roughly $2 billion. State funding of UC at this diminished level has not been seen since the early 1990s, a time when the university enrolled 80,000 fewer students.”
Yudof’s full response can be read at http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/25564.
On Wednesday, UC Regents will discuss the budget. They will establish budget reduction targets for the fiscal year in light of significant reductions in state funding. Their agenda is posted at http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/mar11.html.
ANR’s budget reduction target will be announced in the next ANR Update.
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