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Mar 14th, 2015
As a former governor and cabinet secretary, Janet Napolitano came to the University of California with hefty political credentials many hoped she would wield in Sacramento as a...
Mar 13th, 2015
When Gov. Jerry Brown took office in 2011, one of his first acts was to make state employees give back their sweet government cellphones and state...
Mar 11th, 2015
After 11 years of continual increases in the number of applications, the University of California and the state have still not managed to figure out how to make room for everyone...
Mar 10th, 2015
Here we go again: The University of California system has added its name to the long list of state agencies that have had costly debacles when upgrading computers. And UC’s...
Mar 6th, 2015
From the announcement of capped enrollment at UC Berkeley and UCLA to the proposal for an 11th UC campus, it’s been an eventful couple of weeks for California public higher...
Mar 5th, 2015
There’s nothing subtle about the latest tactics employed by UC President Janet Napolitano to get money out of the state Legislature. It’s a take-no-prisoners...
A state legislative committee voted Wednesday to approve an audit of the University of California’s nonresident enrollment, per-student funding and executive...
California Assemblymember Roger Hernández, a Democrat representing West Covina, has introduced a bill that would put a $500,000 cap on the maximum allowable compensation paid to...
Mar 3rd, 2015
In late November 2014, Janet Napolitano, president of the University of California, announced a 27.7 percent increase in tuition over the course of five years. In conversations...