UC Merced |

UC Merced forges partnership with Kathmandu University

Memorandum of understanding signed in Nepal lays groundwork for faculty and student exchanges, research collaborations and other academic activities.
Huffington Post |

Higher education for the future: Plan B - Where art thou?

Commentary: Gov. Brown's proposed funding for UC is $120 million short of the Board of Regents' budget request. That difference is a mere 0.1 percent of the total state budget. One wonders: Asking for more money is certainly understandable, but what is Plan B?
Sacramento Bee |

Field Poll: California voters want more money sent to schools, colleges

A majority of voters said lawmakers and Gov. Jerry Brown should spend unexpected increases in state revenue on K-12 education; about a third picked higher education for more money.
Daily Bruin |

State oversight too extreme as solution to holding UC accountable

Opinion: If the state legislature's goal is to reign in UC’s spending practices, then zero-based budgeting represents a middle ground between eliminating autonomy and allowing the UC to operate as it has in the past. In a world with zero-based budgeting, SCA 1 represents vast government overreach.
New America Media |

What is the priority for public higher education in California?

Q&A with UC President Napolitano addresses 'what it takes to run the kind of public university system that California has historically had and what it will take in the future.'
UC Riverside |

White House ratings to change conversation about higher education

Chancellor Wilcox: Excellence, access and diversity can be delivered at one time.
Sen. Barbara Boxer |

Senator urges universities to follow UC's lead in creating victims' advocates

Barbara Boxer to California's institutions of higher education: Institute advocates for victims of sexual assault on every campus.
KQED |

How money factors into the college rankings battle

In discussion with UC President Napolitano, issues of state funding, family income and alumni support emerge. (With audio.)
Sacramento Bee |

The four-year degree myth

UC Riverside Chancellor Wilcox: Public universities educate and serve a far larger and more diverse population of students than do private universities, which changes the four-year-degree dynamic.
UC Newsroom |

The sun rises as one of UC's top energy choices

Largest solar power purchase by a university moves UC closer to its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2025.
UC Newsroom |

Napolitano: As public research universities go, so goes the nation

UC president gave keynote address at conference centered on issues in higher education.
Sacramento Bee |

Viewpoints: ‘Dreamers,’ those brought illegally to U.S., deserve same loans as other students

UC President Napolitano writes in support of Senate Bill 1210 — the California Dream Loan Program — which would help these students finance their education.