推 DKz33VQ35:[大哭]這下獎學金更難拿了 UC系列可以直接刪除了 10/11 22:52
→ DKz33VQ35:我不是4.0 UC掰掰*大哭* 10/11 22:53
→ striking:應該不是說不能申請 只是可能funding機會減少 10/12 13:49
推 GoldLight:州政府資助有13%真高，敝校來自州政府的資助不到5% 10/13 00:38
不好意思沿用標題...
以下是一篇UCSD政治系學生寫的文章，
我徵得他同意轉載於此處。
對於有興趣了解UC財政和學費問題的人，不妨參考一下。
（沒有興趣的人，也可按左鍵離開）
需要圖文檔的請站內信給我。
另，知道文章很長，大家很忙，可先看我上色部分。
The UC Regents are stealing your money.
myth: Student fees are going up because the state has cut education funding.
truth: State contributions are only 13% of the 2011 budget. 48% of the UC
budget can legally be used to pay for education expenses.1 Legally restricted
funds are usually in the form of grants or donations that are given to the
university for an expressed purpose, like athletics or to promote a
particular type of research. But, the Regents have decreed some funds as
restricted and unavailable for covering budget shortfalls. That means that in
a time of budget crisis, the UC administration could allocate funds from
other sources like the profits from medical centers or from merchandise
sales. Unfortunately, the Regents are under no legal obligation to spend any
of your tuition on education.2
However, the state has cut some education funding. State contributions for
educating UC students has fallen from approximately $16,000 in 1990 to less
than $8000 in 2010.3
But in 2010, Schwarzenegger gave back $370 million to the UC,4 but the
Regents still raised your fees and furloughed workers.
myth: The UC still continues construction because certain parts of the budget
are already dedicated towards those projects; so the UC can’t use that money
for things we really need (like education or financial aid).
truth: The UC regents use your tuition to back building loans (bonds).5 In
every bond application, the UC Regents list an unlimited supply of tuition
money as security (i.e. they can keep raising them to pay back the loans as a
last resort). The more money they promise to use to back the loans, the
cheaper the loans are, which means our tuitions will continue going up to
keep the price of the loans down. The Regents can then use these bonds to
build new buildings, but also use them as a revenue source that is not
accountable to the state, the students, employees, or anyone.
The UC recently sold more than $1.6B in highly rated bonds one month after
declaring an “extreme financial emergency.”6 Your tuition is UC’s #1
source of revenue to pay back bonds, ahead of new earnings from bond-funded
projects7
UC President Yudof is taking his marching orders from the bond raters and is
doing everything in his expanded powers to feed money into the privatized
profitable sectors, while starving the non-revenue generating public areas,
like instruction.8
myth: UC employees are feeling the impacts of the budget cuts equally.
truth: In 2009, the UC administration started forcing staff and faculty to
take 11 to 26 days of unpaid vacation (furlough)- this is equivalent to a
4-6% cut in salary.9 As more and more service workers get laid off, the
remaining service workers are forced to compensate for the staff cuts by
doing the same amount of work with fewer people. Support staff at counseling
and medical facilities for students have been drastically cut as well, once
again placing a greater amount of work on a smaller staff. These cuts
ultimately affect students’ quality of life on campus, as demonstrated by
unhygienic campus conditions and long waits for counseling, medical, and
academic services. Because these cuts affect students and workers alike, it
is imperative that students and workers unite in their struggle for a just
campus.
There is also a huge, and still growing group of mid-level managers. These
are not the highly paid senior staff like chancellors, or vice chancellors.
In fact, the number of administrators in the UC system has doubled, while the
number of faculty has increased only 25%.10
A report by the UCLA Faculty Association estimates that UC would have $800
million each year if management had grown at the same rate as the rest of the
university since 1997. $800 million would cover the fees for 100,000 resident
undergraduates.11
Image found at http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~schwrtz/FinU16.html
myth: The UC Regents and the senior administration are dedicated to
representing students like you; they do this work out of the goodness of
their hearts.
truth: The UC Board of Regents consists of 18 members appointed by the
governor for 12-year terms, one student regent appointed by the Board of
Regents, and 7 non-voting (ex officio) members. Because of this structure,
the Regents have no real accountability to students, faculty, or staff. And
very few of the Regents even have a background in education.12
For example, Chairman Russell Gould is a former executive of Wachovia Bank, a
corporation that directly profits from decreased funding of public education
since it profits from an increase in student loans. 13
The UC President’s salary is over $800,000 a year, twice the salary of the
President of the United States. When asked to justify this inflated salary,
UC President Yudof said he would be willing to take a 50% pay cut if he was
able to use the White House and Air Force One.14 Yudof is currently allowed
use of the UC President’s house in Kensington, CA but declines to live there
in favor of a different rental house costing tens of thousands a year, which
the UC also pays for.15
Furthermore, a recent investigation shows that the UC placed $2 billion into
a series of private deals and publicly held enterprises with significant ties
to the business activities of four regents: Wachter, Blum, Sherry Lansing,
and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.16
In December 2010, 36 of the top administrators sent a letter to UC President
Mark Yudof demanding an increase in their retirement pensions. All of them
already make more than $245,000 a year. They demanded that the cap on their
pensions be lifted from $187,000 each year after retirement to over $300,000
each year. They also demand that these increases be made retroactive to 2007.
If they get their way, this will cost the UCs over $5.5 million a year.17
myth: Financial aid (like the Blue and Gold program) will compensate for the
impacts of the fee hikes.
truth: Students of all incomes experience the same fee increases, but the
median-earning family now spends 17% of their income on higher education.18
The lowest-earning families are mostly covered by financial aid yet middle
class students receive almost no benefit. The average middle-income
first-year undergrad only receives enough money to fund approximately one
quarter of an academic year.19
Before the 2009 extension of the program, families making under $60,000 per
year were able to have their fees waived. However this extension to $80,000
only covers an additional 800 students in a UC system, which has a total of
230,000 students. Overall, only 20 percent of students in the UC system are
covered by the Blue and Gold program.20
There is also an adjustment in the way financial need is calculated. The
amount that students are expected to provide through work or loans is now
subtracted from the total financial need before the financial aid package is
calculated.21
So, yes, the “full financial need” of students will be funded, but the
definition of “full financial need” will be changed so that all students
currently eligible for financial aid, including those from very poor
families, will be expected to pay more.22
myth: The University of California is a public university.
truth: In 1965, the state paid 94.4% of a UC student’s education; in 2008,
in paid 58.5%. The percentage continues to decline. From 1984 to 2004,
California’s population increased 35%, while state funding for higher
education decreased by 9%. Higher education is the only major part of
California’s budget that grew more slowly than the population.23
Undergraduate fees have increased over 117% since 2002. In 1988, fees for one
undergraduate student represented 5% of the median family income for a
California household. By 2008, fees represented 17% of the median family
income.24
In 2007, the cost of undergraduate education to the UC was between $7,114 and
$7,75025. The yearly fees for in-state students were $7,446. Even then,
undergraduate students were charged 96% to 105% of the actual cost of their
education.26 Now that fees are on average $12,150,27 how much more are we
paying than what undergraduate education actually costs?
One sobering statistic shows the true priority of the Regents: research
universities, like UCLA, now spend less than 5% of their total budget on
undergraduate instruction.28
For the current budget, total Student Fee Revenues are $2.57 billion. The
total contribution from the state is $2.91 billion.29 With the latest cuts of
$500 million from the state contribution announced in January 201130, the UCs
are pushed further towards becoming a private university, though for
undergraduates, it already is.
If the Governor and Legislature were to decide to push the “reset” button,
reinstating quality and accessibility by returning state support and student
fees to 2000-01 levels, adjusted for inflation, what would it cost the
typical California taxpayer? It would cost the median California taxpayer
less than $3231
Revenue Sources for UC 2010-2011 Budget
From
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/factsheets/2010_11_uc_budget_charts.pdf
The Regents are not acting on your behalf. They are stealing from you and
lying to you the whole time. We need democratically elected Regents who are
accountable to the people of the University of California.
Come join us at our events:
-event 1
-event 2
-event 3
Find more information on the Internet at:
- http://changinguniversities.blogspot.com/
- http://universityprobe.org/
- http://www.cucfa.org/news/tuition_bonds.php
- http://ucregentlive.wordpress.com/
- http://reclaimuc.blogspot.com/
Acknowledgements
This pamphlet would not be possible with the invaluable work of Professors
Charles Schwartz of UCB, Robert Meister of UCSC, and Bob Samuels of UCLA. We
thank them for their persistence, analysis, and willingness to ask tough
questions.
Thank you to all of the professors of UCSD willing to stand up for the
students and for higher education.
Thank you to the student protest movements on all of the UC campuses, and
across the world. Your dedication to stand up for what is right continues to
inspire.
1 http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~schwrtz/Transparency101.pdf
2 http://www.cucfa.org/news/2009_oct11.php
3
http://www.scribd.com/doc/26594273/UC-Crisis-2010-Dr-Jorge-Mariscal-Presentation
4
http://www.dailycal.org/article/107825/governor_s_budget_proposal_includes_restoration_of
5
http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/404/they-pledged-your-tuition-to-wall-street-summary
6 http://www.cucfa.org/news/2009_oct11.php
7 Ibid.
8
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-samuels/how-americas-universities_b_440954.html
9 http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/21511
10
http://changinguniversities.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-administrators-took-over-university.html
11
http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/469/soon-every-faculty-member-will-have-a-personal-senior-manager
12
http://ucregentlive.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/talking-points-on-the-uc-budget-crisis-and-public-education/
13 Ibid.
14 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/magazine/27fob-q4-t.html
15
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/14/MNGDFFO0JJ1.DTL&ao=all
16
http://spot.us/stories/544-the-investors-club-how-the-university-of-california-regents-spin-public-money-into-private-profit
17 http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_17027333?nclick_check=1
18 http://www.cucfa.org/news/2010_nov15.php
19
http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2009/12/03/middle-income-students-bear-the-brunt-in-fee-increases/
20
http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2009/12/03/middle-income-students-bear-the-brunt-in-fee-increases/
21 http://www.cucfa.org/news/2010_nov15.php
22 Ibid.
23
http://www.scribd.com/doc/26594273/UC-Crisis-2010-Dr-Jorge-Mariscal-Presentation
24
http://ouruniversity.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/fees-to-income-ratio-unaffordable-higher-education/
25 http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~schwrtz/recost.html
26 Ibid.
27 http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/budget/?page_id=62#fees
28
http://spot.us/stories/544-the-investors-club-how-the-university-of-california-regents-spin-public-money-into-private-profit
29
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/factsheets/thefacts_budget_11_17_10.pdf
30 http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/24764
31 http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/553/working-paper
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