Recommit to support education
The board of the UC Davis Foundation has unanimously adopted a resolution regarding the Nov. 18 pepper-spraying on campus, and wishes to share this resolution with the broader community.
First, the resolution condemns the excessive use of force to which the students were subjected. This conduct is absolutely contrary to the culture and values of the UC Davis community. It was wrong and should never occur again.
In the resolution, we also state our respect for the chancellor’s leadership, courage and accountability since the events of Nov. 18, and our support for her efforts to restore a sense of trust and community on our campus. We support, as well, her request for, and President Yudof’s prompt initiation of, an investigation into the events of Nov. 18. We look forward to rapid action to correct the problems identified.
Fundamentally, the board supports the rights of students and other members of the UC Davis community to peacefully exercise their rights to free speech, while respecting the rights of other members of the community to pursue their studies and work.
The full resolution, along with information about the board and its mission, is available at: http://giving.ucdavis.edu/uc_davis_foundation.html.
Along with my fellow board members, I recommit myself to work to generate increased governmental and philanthropic support for public education, and invite your readers to join us. Now more than ever, our support is essential to ensure a quality education for all our students.
Bruce Edwards
Vice chairman, UC Davis Foundation, Saratoga
Short URL: http://www.davisenterprise.com/?p=113915
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Recomit to reducing tuition in higher education at University of California. University of California Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau hijack’s all our kids’ futures.
I love University of California (UC) having been a student & lecturer. Like so many I am deeply disappointed by the pervasive failures of Birgeneau from holding the line on rising costs & tuition increases. On an all in cost, Birgeneau has molded Cal. into the most expensive public university.
Paying more is not a better education. Instate tuition consumes 14% of Calif. median family income! Faculty wages must reflect California’s ability to pay, not what others are paid.
Chancellor Birgeneau ($450,000 salary) dismissed many much needed cost-cutting options. He did not consider freezing vacant faculty positions, increasing class size, requiring faculty to teach more classes, doubling the time between sabbaticals, freezing pay & benefits, reforming pensions & health benefits.
Birgeneau said such faculty reforms “would not be healthy for Cal”. Exodus of faculty, administrators: who can afford them?
We agree it is far from the ideal situation. UC Berkeley cannot expect to do business as usual: raising tuition; granting pay raises & huge bonuses during a weak economy that has sapped state revenues & individual Californians’ income.
Birgeneau can bridge the trust gap with alumni, donors, politicians, and the public with reassurances that salaries & costs reflect California’s ability to pay.
We must act. Chancellor Birgeneau’s campus police deployed violent baton jabs on students protesting increases in tuition. The sky above UC will not fall when Chancellor Birgeneau ($450,000 salary) is ousted.
Opinions? Email the UC Board of Regents marsha.kelman@ucop.edu