Letters to the Editor: CSU’s bleak budget outlook comes with a bloated administration

2 months ago

How Linda McMahon’s mission to dismantle the Education Department could affect California

Linda McMahon, President Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, arrives Thursday for a hearing of the Health, Education and Labor Committee on her nomination. Linda McMahon, President Trump’s nominee to …

LA Times

Education Students Congress Trump

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Govt. will enhance budgetary allocation to education sector to 15% in phases: CM

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has announced his government’s resolve to take budgetary allocation to the education sector to 15% in phases in the next few years. The CM was …

The Hindu

Education Education Sector

2 months, 2 weeks ago

CSU, reeling from budget cuts to classes and faculty, decries more proposed state reductions

Leaders of California State University voiced alarm Wednesday that proposed state funding cuts would be “catastrophic” and cripple the nation’s largest four-year public higher education system’s ability to serve as …

LA Times

Students University Budget Student

3 months ago

Lots of new faces and maybe a more conservative tilt as South Carolina Legislature starts session

COLUMBIA, S.C. — More introductions than normal were needed Tuesday as the South Carolina General Assembly started its latest two-year session. Senate starts quickly There wasn’t much time for introductions …

Associated Press

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5 months, 1 week ago

SARAH VINE: My radical plan to save universities - and make degrees great again!

On the surface of it, Labour's decision to break another promise and put up university tuition fees feels like a smack in the chops for educational aspiration: just like the …

Daily Mail

Education Students Labour British

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Cal State campuses brace for ‘severe consequences’ as budget gap looms

California State University is anticipating state spending cuts next summer of nearly $400 million and a delay in promised state support of more than $250 million. They presented figures that …

Associated Press

Students Budget Academic Faculty

7 months ago

Report says former University of Florida president Ben Sasse spent $1.3 million on social events

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Former University of Florida president Ben Sasse spent over $1.3 million on private catering for lavish dinners, football tailgates and extravagant social functions in his first year …

Associated Press

Florida University Report University Of Florida

9 months ago

Government Teachers’ Association wants salaries paid to guest lecturers

The Tamil Nadu Government College Teachers Association has demanded that the Higher Education department pay salary dues to guest lecturers immediately. The State has sanctioned 12,500 teacher posts for government …

The Hindu

Colleges Government Colleges Teacher Guest Lecturers

11 months ago

UC president recommends UCLA pay Cal Berkeley $10 million per year for 6 years

LOS ANGELES — The University of California Board of Regents is expected to accept a recommendation that UCLA pay University of California at Berkeley $10 million a year for six …

Associated Press

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1 year ago

UC Berkeley insider known for questioning the status quo is named new chancellor

Rich Lyons, a UC Berkeley leader of innovation and entrepreneurship who cultivated a culture of questioning the status quo as business school dean, has been named the new chancellor of …

LA Times

Business Students University Campus

1 year, 1 month ago

California State University student workers vote to unionize, creating largest such union in country

SAN FRANCISCO — Undergraduate student workers at California State University voted to join a union to negotiate better pay, sick time, paid parking and other benefits with the university, creating …

Associated Press

Work Pay Union California

1 year, 1 month ago

CSU faculty union approves contract with university that would raise salaries

After months of negotiations and an unprecedented systemwide strike, the Cal State faculty union overwhelmingly approved a new contract with the university that could raise salaries by 10% while providing …

LA Times

Contract University Union Agreement

1 year, 2 months ago

Letters to the Editor: The administrative bloat that forces colleges to rely on lower-paid faculty

Faculty and their supporters walk the picket line at Cal State L.A. during a strike by teachers in the Cal State system on Jan. 22. To the editor: Your otherwise …

LA Times

Cal Editor Adjuncts Faculty Administrative

1 year, 2 months ago

Editorial: U.S. colleges are overusing — and underpaying — adjunct professors

Nicolette Parra, a student, joins the first day of a strike over pay for faculty, including adjunct professors, at California State University Northridge on Jan. 22. Many CSU adjuncts have …

LA Times

Work Pay Faculty Colleges

1 year, 2 months ago

CSU and faculty reach surprise tentative agreement, ending massive strike after one day

Members of the faculty union at Cal State Los Angeles brave the rain on the picket line Monday. The union representing California State University faculty reached a tentative agreement with …

LA Times

Students University Strike Union

1 year, 2 months ago

Opinion: I’m a CSU professor, and the administration’s response to faculty needs is an insult

Faculty at four Cal State campuses went on a one-day strike in December 2023 over pay and working conditions. The faculty gets emails from at least one administration manager — …

LA Times

University Pay California Faculty

1 year, 3 months ago

Cal State faculty just got a 5% raise. Here’s why they’re upset

Faculty at Cal Poly Pomona walked off the job for a day in early December, 2023, demanding higher pay and job benefits. California State University officials are unilaterally raising faculty …

LA Times

University Strike Pay Union

1 year, 3 months ago

A PhD and full class load gets a CSU lecturer $64,860 a year. They are striking for change

Faculty members at four California State University campuses, including Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State Los Angeles, went on one-day strikes in December. I can’t plan.” More than half of …

LA Times

Students University Work State

1 year, 7 months ago

CSU trustees approve 6% annual tuition increase over fierce student protests

Students walk on the campus of Cal State Fullerton. “It has constantly built up and built up.” California Cal State faces budget gap of $1.5 billion; report recommends tuition hikes …

LA Times

Students Student Financial Aid Hike

1 year, 7 months ago

CSU stands by a 6% tuition hike plan, but backs down from a key provision ahead of vote

California State University students with Students for Quality Education, a grassroots organization that advocates for progressive policies, have attended Board of Trustees meetings to protest the proposed 6% tuition increase. …

LA Times

Students Student State Hike

1 year, 7 months ago

Repeated calls for pay restraint among university leaders ‘could be dangerous’

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The Independent

Education University Pay Leaders

1 year, 8 months ago

All State universities must follow common syllabus, says Higher Education Minister Ponmudy

Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudy on Friday said all State universities have been advised to follow the common syllabus from the current academic year. On the sidelines of the meeting …

The Hindu

Higher Education State Universities State Common

1 year, 9 months ago

Here’s how new CSU Chancellor Mildred García plans to take on a system in crisis

Mildred Garcia, who previously served as president at Cal State Dominguez Hills and Cal State Fullerton, has been named the 11th chancellor of the California State University system. I was …

LA Times

Community Students Student Work

1 year, 9 months ago

Mildred García, champion of college access, is named CSU chancellor amid system crisis

Mildred García, a longtime higher education leader who previously served as president of Cal State Dominguez Hills and Cal State Fullerton, was named chancellor of the California State University on …

LA Times

Education Higher Education Students University

1 year, 10 months ago

Cal State faces budget gap of $1.5 billion; report recommends tuition hikes

The College Park building where the office of the president is located on the campus of Cal State Fullerton. The costs of operating the CSU is much higher than the …

LA Times

Students Financial Student Costs

2 years ago

Indian-origin University of California San Diego chancellor gets $500,000 pay raise

While the private sector employees reel under the scare of layoffs in the aftermath of job cuts by tech giant Google, an Indian-American computer scientist Pradeep Kumar Khosla has a …

Hindustan Times

University California San San Diego

2 years ago

UC San Diego chancellor to make $1.14 million a year after $500,000 pay raise

UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla has been given a $500,000 pay raise by the University of California Board of Regents, which said it made the move last week to …

LA Times

Students Campus San Diego

2 years, 4 months ago

Chaos over grades, finals and ongoing classes erupts as UC strike continues

UCLA junior Sania Tuli is worried that she’s missing material she’ll need when she takes her medical college admission exam next year. UC Riverside senior Nathalie Boutros fears she is …

LA Times

Teaching Solidarity Students Student

2 years, 4 months ago

Fears rise that UC strike could have long-lasting consequences on vaunted research, teaching

As the nation’s largest ever strike of higher-education academic workers enters its third week Monday, with the crunch time of final exams just days away, fears are rising over long-lasting …

LA Times

Support Teaching Students University

2 years, 4 months ago

Op-Ed: As a UC professor, I support the strikers. Our schools shouldn’t have let it come to this

UCLA academic workers join tens of thousands of their peers across the University of California system on strike on Wednesday. The average UC system grad student worker makes $24,000 annually …

LA Times

Support Students University Student

2 years, 4 months ago

UC workers say they are struggling to survive in California, and fighting unfair system

Unionized academic workers and UCI students supporting them walk a picket line while demanding better pay and benefits at University of California Irvine. “We need help,” Wade said as she …

LA Times

University Academic Workers California

2 years, 9 months ago

Ludhiana | Guest faculty of SCD College receives 4 months’ pending salaries

In a major relief to around 60 guest faculty members of SCD Government College, who had not received their salaries for the past six months, the state treasury office has …

Hindustan Times

Ludhiana College Guest Faculty Salaries

2 years, 10 months ago

Ludhiana | SCD College’s guest faculty yet to receive six months’ salary

Around 60 guest faculty members at SCD Government College have not received their salaries for the past six months, while this has not been the case with other government colleges …

Hindustan Times

Salary Teachers Treasury College

2 years, 10 months ago

Women, Black and Latino workers underpaid by California State University, study finds

Women, Black and Latino workers are paid less than their white male counterparts at California State University, according to a union study. The report compiled by the California State University …

LA Times

Salary Women Workers Union

2 years, 11 months ago

UC, CSU and community colleges set to get big funding boost — with big expectations

California’s three systems of public higher education are set to get a big funding boost — but in exchange will need to meet comprehensive targets to improve access, affordability and …

LA Times

Education Students Funding California

3 years ago

School heads ‘disappointed’ at lack of action on teacher pay in spring statement

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The Independent

Government Education School Inflation

3 years ago

SC gov hopeful Cunningham proposes 10% teacher pay bump

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Joe Cunningham, who is running to unseat Republican Gov. “People have been gaslighting them, calling them heroes while not showing them their appreciation through the state budget …

Associated Press

Teachers State House Democrat

3 years, 1 month ago

Cal State pays millions to executives after they resign, with little oversight of what they do

Former CSU Chancellors Joseph I. Castro and Timothy P. White are two out of 11 former CSU executives who benefited from a transition program that has paid more than $4 …

LA Times

Students Executives Transition California

3 years, 1 month ago

After resigning, CSU chancellor will get $400,000 salary and housing allowance

California State University, which has been buffeted by sexual harassment and bullying allegations, will pay its former chancellor at the center of the controversy hundreds of thousands of dollars in …

LA Times

Board Settlement State Chancellor

3 years, 3 months ago

Newsom proposes big funding for UC, Cal State. But there’s a condition: Close equity gaps

Newsom’s budget proposal has a five-year, 5% budget increase for UC and CSU. The budget plan also proposes funding to increase California student enrollment this fall by 9,434 students at …

LA Times

Education Students Funding California

3 years, 4 months ago

Op-Ed: How can colleges afford to pay outlandish salaries to Lincoln Riley and other coaches?

Lincoln Riley, USC’s new football coach, left, and athletic director Mike Bohn with members of the Trojan marching band at a news conference at the Coliseum on Monday. In a …

LA Times

Health Football Athletes Players

3 years, 5 months ago

Op-Ed: UC churns through a quarter of its lecturers a year. Why I was forced to move on

While UC students binge Netflix’s “Squid Games” in their dorms, most may not realize that the lecturers teaching their classes are forced into real-life high-stakes squid games: We are fighting …

LA Times

Students Work Phd Teach

3 years, 8 months ago

Austerity measures likely to halt recruitments in departments, universities

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s directions to the heads of various departments to cut down at least 5% of avoidable expenditure in current financial year is likely to further postpone recruitment …

The Hindu

State Departments Expenditure

3 years, 9 months ago

Acclaim, fundraising spread unevenly among Black colleges

ATLANTA — Two recent high-profile faculty appointments could be a fundraising and enrollment bonanza for Howard University, one of the nation’s most prestigious Black colleges. An Associated Press analysis of …

Associated Press

Students University Student College

3 years, 11 months ago

Huge budget boost to UC, CSU and community colleges targets student housing and job training

The University of California, California State University and California Community Colleges will get a major funding boost under Gov. Newsom also is putting his mark on higher education, funding programs …

LA Times

Higher Education Students Funding California

4 years, 2 months ago

5 inventions a day. 529,000 jobs. Incomes average $151,656. UC’s brag sheet is eye-popping

Every college has its brag sheet. The data are mind-numbing: What does it really mean to say that “UC-related spending delivers substantial economic and fiscal impacts annually to the state, …

LA Times

Economic California State Billion

4 years, 4 months ago

Several UC chancellors call for tuition increase amid pandemic-fueled budget crisis

UCLA is grappling with the pandemic’s financial fallout in part by redeploying workers, such as those in food service who are now making meals for low-income families as campus demand …

LA Times

Coronavirus Students Budget California

4 years, 5 months ago

CSU graduation rates continue to climb, but stymied by stubborn equity gaps

Cal State Northridge is among the CSU campuses that made notable strides this year in improving student graduation rates and reducing gaps between historically under-represented groups and their peers. Halfway …

LA Times

Students University State Rates

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