University of California Budget News » UC budget myths & facts [Read between the lines - (1) This diagram is inflation-adjusted (2) There is no similar diagram of budget changes between 1990 & 2010] - http://budget.universityofcalifornia.edu/...
Jan 11, 2013
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Expenses are a mess due to (1) rise in university expenses due to status wars with other universities (2) drop in state funding. http://budget.universityofcalifornia.edu/... UC Budget was $20.1 billion in 2009-10. The state’s per-student funding for UC education has fallen 54 percent since 1990. In 1990, the state contributed $16,430 per student, or 78 percent of the total cost of education. By 2009-10, that figure had fallen to $7,570 per student, or 48 percent of the total cost. (Figures for both years are inflation adjusted).
- Mitchell Tsai
But only 26% of the $20.1 billion budget is tied to the university’s basic instructional program and the activities that support it. That “core funds” budget, which is currently about 26 percent of the university’s total budget, comes from three sources: state funds (50 percent), student fees (38 percent), and UC general funds (12 percent).
- Mitchell Tsai
See "Harvard And Yale Now Less Costly Than Public California Universities" [Tyler Kingkade, Huffington Post - 3/5/12] http://ff.im/1ah4zd
- Mitchell Tsai
UC 2011-2012 budget is $22.1 billion, of which students are paying $2.97 billion in tuition/fees https://wiki.ucop.edu/pages...
- Mitchell Tsai
Fun 52 page report http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate... ...blast from the past... The Master Plan noted that “expenditures for higher education have more than
tripled during the decade 1948-49 through 1957-58,” and its authors were
concerned about the public cost of a high-quality higher education system. ... Expenditures on research in California public higher education had more than
tripled between 1948-49 and 1957-58 (from about $14.2 million to $50.5 million).
- Mitchell Tsai
Stanford University’s entire research budget for 1935,
funded wholly by the President’s office, was $5,000. Research budgets multiplied
tenfold in subsequent years, and then multiplied tenfold again
- Mitchell Tsai