On March 20th, supporters of the proposed Millionaires Tax Plan gathered in Downtown Oakland to show support for the plan. Watch a video of the protest. Lead Protest Producer Jeff Capps filmed and Multimedia Editor Cecilia Wong edited this video.
Sacramento is finally starting to seriously reverse its divestment from higher education. With the state beginning to emerge from a deep slump of deficits and spending cuts, Gov. Jerry Brown earlier this month announced a budget plan for the next fiscal year that proposes sorely needed increased funding to the Read More…
Online education is an attractive venue for universities to explore, and for good reason. It offers many advantages to higher education institutions, from the prospect of saving costs to expediting students’ time in the classroom and expanding a university’s reach. But if UC officials are going to invest heavily in Read More…
Dear Nicholas Dirks, Congratulations on your selection as UC Berkeley’s next chancellor. Your reputation will rise or fall depending on your ability to navigate an unpredictable and sometimes explosive political environment, win the trust of students who are notoriously wary of authority and guide the world’s leading public university through Read More…
As California attempts to weather its current fiscal crisis, sacrifices will have to be made. The budget will need to be cut, and taxes may need to be raised. But we must carefully consider whom we will ask to sacrifice. We should be able to ask our state universities — Read More…
The Legislative Analyst’s Office criticized major portions of Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed budget for higher education in a report published Tuesday. Read More…
What do Chrysler, General Motors, International Paper, Kimberly-Clark and Procter & Gamble all have in common? Besides being major, out-of-state corporations, they have banded together to create a deceptive campaign against California’s middle class families by attempting to stop the passage of Assembly Bill 1500. The bill, which is a component Read More…
In a letter addressed to student leaders on Tuesday, state Senate Republican leader Bob Huff and Assembly Republican leader Connie Conway announced their plan to fund education through $4.4 billion dollars in budget solutions. The plan, called the “Roadmap to Protect Classrooms and Taxpayers,” would serve as an alternative to Read More…
The California Controller’s Office revealed this week that the state is now over $700 million behind its revenue projections for this year. This report not only strengthens our certainty that the potential $2.5 billion midyear trigger cuts will go through, but it also enhances our doubts about state legislators’ budget-making Read More…
The outcry against tuition increases throughout the years has been scrawled across this paper’s opinion page and shouted from the steps of Sproul Hall time and time again. We, California students, have called upon Sacramento to take action. We’ve made compelling arguments and exhaustive pleas. But it seems our cries, Read More…
