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Category Archives: University Funding
Amount Spent On Students for their Degrees in CA and National Universities
The Chronicle of Higher Education also has a list of expenditures per student degrees in public and private universities. Here we quote numbers for the most expensive ones in CA and in the US. The drawback is that the reporting … Continue reading
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California and National Graduation Rates in Public and Private Universities
Here we present a few graduation rates from the comprehensive survey by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Comparing California with national graduation rates for public universities: CA graduates 35% in 4 years while the US graduates 31% in 4 years; CA … Continue reading
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Student Graduation Rates at UC Irvine
As a comment to the previous post concerning student graduation rates, I looked up those for UC Irvine. Since I couldn’t copy the whole multiyear table, I will just report on the latest in the table. For entering freshmen in … Continue reading
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Talk by Prof. Richard Matthew on Student Costs of Attending a University
Prof. Richard Matthew of the Departments of Planning, Policy, and Design, and Political Science, gave the UCI Forum talk on Wednesday, Nov. 14, on Student Loans and the costs of attending a university. I will present a summary based, I … Continue reading
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Election Savings and California Education
Yea! All the teachers that I know and the students cheering at a talk I went to applaud the state of California for passing proposition 30, which add funds and avoids cuts and tuition hikes to our schools at all … Continue reading
University Funding and California’s Economy
Proposition 30 will add much needed funding for the University of California campuses, and for the California State Universities. This will allow for more classes and more students, and for students to finish faster by getting the classes that they … Continue reading
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The California Lottery and Education
Part of the money invested in the California lottery goes to public education in California. The formula has gotten more complex than the older 34% rule, so I will just report on the results here, taken from the California lottery … Continue reading
Student Debt approaching a Trillion Dollars
Watching a speech by President Obama this morning, he pointed out that student debt was approaching a trillion dollars. It also now exceeds credit card debt. A recent review also showed that the average resources spent on a student education … Continue reading
Implicit Expense Hikes for Republicans in Refusal to Consider Tax Hikes
Because of a Republican refusal to maintain recent tax increases, or even put them on the ballot, California state funding is falling in several areas that wealthier Republicans are going to have to make up for in their families and … Continue reading
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Dean William Schonfeld (Emeritus) Forum talk “Challenges to UCI”
Dean Willy Schonfeld (Emeritus) gave the UCI Forum talk on May 11, 2011 on “Challenges to UCI”, which mainly focused on the current budget crises and the changes that might occur in the UC’s structure and future reputation. Its hard … Continue reading