Numbers

The UC prez and Regents chair have issued a thank-you statement to the governor for his May Revise.* Thank-you new releases are always issued, even in Hard Times. Of course, the times have changed since last year. Various numbers are cited, although it's hard to find them in the budget. Yesterday, we posted an initial analysis of the May Revise proposal together with some information from the budget document related to UC.**

In return for the budget allocation, UC is not supposed to raise tuition in the coming year (there is no plan to do so) and is supposed to "better align student learning objectives with workforce needs." (p. 65) Apart from the direct allocation to the university, there are to be grants from the California School Finance Authority to UC (and the other segments of higher ed) for student housing over the next two fiscal years. (How much UC might get is unclear.) [p. 62] There is to be funding from the Student Aid Commission to UC (and the other two segments of higher ed) for assistance to individual students who were displaced from their jobs by the coronavirus crisis. (p. 63) 

The governor wants to work with UC to create a "multi-year framework" for priorities. (p. 64) [Note that budgets are in effect for only 12 months and "compacts" with previous administrations have not been durable.] Various allocations are mentioned for deferred maintenance, some kind of animal shelter program at UC-Davis, renovation money for UCLA's downtown Labor Center building, dyslexia research at UC-San Francisco (the governor is dyslexic), research on prevention of hate crimes against Asian Americans at UCLA, and development of alternative meat at UC-Berkeley. (pp. 66-67).

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*"The University of California is deeply grateful to Gov. Newsom for proposing the largest state investment in UC’s history: more than $807 million, which includes more than $506 million in ongoing funding for core campus operations, student needs and medical training. The budget, with the support of legislative leadership, reflects an earlier agreement to fully restore more than $300 million in budget reductions that were enacted in the 2020 state budget..." Full news release at:

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-statement-governor-newsom-s-2021-22-revised-budget

**http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2021/05/initial-analysis-of-governors-may.html. The May Revise is available at http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/.