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From Privatization to Segregation: The University of California in Crisis

I compiled these articles as a contribution to the Occupy UCLA movement. The complex structure and governance of our university, combined with the short periods students spend in attendance, makes it difficult to clearly understand the ways in which the university is being corrupted and distorted. I hope this contribution helps. - RK

Part 1: Orientation - The Privatization of the University

  1. UCLA’s Neoliberal Path (Changing Universities) 
  2. Understanding the History and Structure of the UC Budget (Changing Universities) 
  3. The Budget Cuts and the Privatization of the University of California (Reclaim UC) 
  4. Disorientation Guide (UCSC) 
  5. Devolving Public Universities (Christopher Newfield)  
  6. Privatization is the Issue (George Lakoff) 
  7. Privatization - A Very Short Introduction (UAW Local 2865)
  8. Middle Class Feels Tuition Squeeze at UC, CSU (Sac Bee)

Part 2: Students in Debt
  1. Public Higher Education Students Graduating With More Debt than Stanford (Keep CA’s Promise)
  2. Generation of Debt - The University in Default and the Undoing of Campus Life (Reclamations Journal)

Part 3: Auditing the UC - Executive Compensation and  Administrative Growth
  1. New UC Salary Data: 2010 Was a Good Year for Higher Earners (Changing Universities)
  2. UC Administrative Growth Report (UCLA Faculty Association Newsletter)
  3. More on Executive Growth (Changing Universities)
  4. Soon Every Faculty Member Will Have a Personal Senior Manager: Is This a Good Way to Spend Money? (Keep California’s Promise)
  5. UC’s Administrators Crossed the Line (Keep California’s Promise)
  6. Regents Approve Raises for UC Medical Executives (The Daily Californian)
  7. Accountability and Executive Compensation (Keep California’s Promise)
  8. New Data on Management Growth at UC (Charles Schwartz) (Part 2)
  9. How Administrators Took Over the University of California (Changing Universities)

Part 4: Where is Our Money Going?
  1. Where Does UC Tuition Go? (Bob Meister)
  2. They Pledged Your Tuition - An Open Letter to UC Students (Bob Meister)
  3. Proof That We Do Not Have to Raise Fees or Cut Programs (Changing Universities)
  4. State Releases Audit of UC System (Changing Universities)
  5. UC Budget Lacks Transparency, State Audit Says (SF Gate)

Part 5: Who are the Regents?
  1. Why You Should Care About the UC Regents (Changing Universities)
  2. Who Rules the University? To What Ends Do They Rule? (Reclamations Journal)
  3. Meet Sherry Lansing, the New Chair of the UC Regents (Reclaim UC)
  4. Know Your Regents, Part 2 - The Case of Richard Blum (Changing Universities)
  5. Billion Dollar Baby: The University of California Invests $53 Million in Two Diploma Mills Owned By a Regent (Peter Bryne)
  6. UC Regents and For Profit Education (Reclaim UC)

Part 6: Financial Alternatives
  1. Financial Options for Restoring Quality and Access to Public Higher Education in California 2011-2012 (Stanton A. Glantz and Eric Hays)
  2. Alternatives in the Present Budget Crisis (Charles Schwartz)

Part 7: Race and the University of California
  1. “Merit Matters: Race, Myth, & UCLA Admissions (Bunche Research Report)
  2. Separate But Certainly Not Equal (Bunche Research Report)
  3. Admissions and Omissions: How “The Numbers” Are Used to Exclude Deserving Students (Bunche Research Report)
  4. Gaming the System: Inflation, Privilege, & the Under-Representation of African American Students at the University of California (Bunche Research Report)
  5. Amici Curiae Brief in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants (California Social Science Researchers and Admissions Experts, in support of Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action)

Part 8: Graduate Students
  1. On the Myth of Professionalization Among Grad Students (AWDU blog)

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