In a speech given at the Auraria Campus in Denver, Colo., Wednesday, President Barack Obama announced a plan that would cap federal student loan payments starting in 2012 — two years earlier than initially expected. The plan would cap student loan payments at 10 percent of a borrower’s discretionary income Read More…
Amy Jarich, the former senior associate dean at the University of Virginia, was selected as the new campus’ assistant vice chancellor and director of undergraduate admissions after a year long search. Read More…
A union representing over 3,000 lecturers almost unanimously ratified a labor agreement with the University of California in an online vote last week, according to a Monday press release from the UC Office of the President. The newly ratified contract includes a 3 percent merit raise for the 2011-12 academic Read More…
The UC-American Federation of Teachers, which represents the university’s more than 3,000 lecturers, has ratified a three-year agreement with the University of California on salaries, health benefits and other workplace issues, according to a press release from the UC Office of the President. In the newly ratified deal, eligible lecturers Read More…
The University of California and a union representing more than 20,000 employees at the university have agreed on a new contract that will increase pay, the UC Office of the President announced Monday. The recently ratified contract — which was a reopener on a 2008 contract between American Federation of Read More…
The American Federation of Teachers union ratified an agreement that provides merit increases for the university’s over 350 librarians, the UC Office of the President announced Monday. The agreement allows librarians to participate in a one-time merit-based salary increase program starting Oct. 1. The ratified agreement also allows librarians to be Read More…
The UC Office of the President released the University of California’s annual payroll report for 2010 Wednesday, revealing a recent trend of declining state funding for employee compensation. The report, which outlines both the sources funding payroll and the groups receiving compensation, pinpoints the two major sources for funding of Read More…
University faculty and nonrepresented staff earning less than $200,000 annually will be eligible for merit raises under a plan announced this past week by the UC Office of the President. The pool of funds — included in the budget passed last fall by the UC Board of Regents — was Read More…
Though a group of student leaders from throughout the UC is calling for the implementation of several recommendations made by a recently released state audit, university officials maintain that such transformations were in the works prior to the audit and are already being implemented. The audit of the university, which Read More…
