Monthly Archives: November 2012

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

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Sea Level Rise Risks in Newport Beach CA, New York NY, Foster City CA, Tampa FL, and Point Pleasant NJ

I came across an interesting article in the New York Times on September 10 by Mireya Navarro about area planners contemplating how to strenghten the city to the risk of sea level rise and storms.  Clearly everyone in the area … Continue reading

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Rebuilding in Shore Areas

The question of rebuilding in shore areas that are essentially sand bars or were wetlands should not be embarked on with a bravado that “We will remake it just as it was” as a political stance.  We must remember that … Continue reading

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What if One Presidential Candidate Wins the Popular Vote, and the Other the Electoral Vote?

Since the Electoral Vote is the only one that matters for getting elected, all of the political genius of the candidates advisers and the candidate’s positions, and their funds and the PACS are directed to winning the electoral vote.  The popular … Continue reading

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The Unfairness of the Electoral System

I had a previous post in my “politics” category, where I discussed the much greater number of electoral votes of the smallest states with the same total population as California.  The 21 least populated states had less population than California, but … Continue reading

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