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"content": "\u003cp>Instruction will likely halt for two days for thousands of undergraduates at University of California campuses beginning Wednesday as lecturers strike over allegations of unfair labor practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike planned for this week is related to, but separate from, the larger saga of contract sticking points. At issue is what the union says are \u003ca href=\"https://ucaft.org/content/uc-management%E2%80%99s-pattern-bad-faith\">seven instances of unfair labor practices by UC leadership going back 20 months.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC lecturers typically teach a third of the instruction UC undergraduates receive. About 6,500 lecturers are union members but roughly 4,500 teach at any given time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lecturers’ union, University Council-American Federation of Teachers, has been negotiating for a new contract with UC leadership since April 2019. Because the two sides have been unable to strike a deal, a state labor mediator got involved this summer, a sign of how deeply rooted the labor dispute is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials said the strike will occur regardless of what happens before Wednesday. “Our strike notification is not conditional,” said Caroline Luce, a lecturer and spokesperson for the lecturer union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tuesday morning, the union walked back the absolute certainty that a strike will happen. “It is likely, but it is not inevitable,” said Mia McIver, the lecturer union president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC negotiating team can offer two things Tuesday that may call off the strike. Both are the latest unfair labor practices the union filed against the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, McIver said the union wants all of its lecturers to be eligible for paid family leave for eight weeks at 100% of pay. She said the UC isn’t budging on its offer: paid family leave at 70% for lecturers who worked 1,250 hours in a year, which excludes most lecturers because of how many are part-time. The union also wants the UC to stop sending out summaries of the contract negotiations to its members, which the union argues are misleading.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Ryan King, a spokesperson for the UC office of the President']'The union’s unfair labor practice claims against UC are neither supported by the facts nor any finding by the California Public Employment Relations Board.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classes taught by instructors who aren’t striking or canceling classes in solidarity will continue as normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lecturer union says the \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VddkuVCxfI4hs5Go3C-L7jtwSzMglSmk/view\">UC violated labor law\u003c/a> by going outside of mediation last month and issuing a proposal to lecturers that had an expiration date of just four days, including a take-it-or-leave-it $500 bonus for every lecturer if the union agreed to the UC’s contract. The timing of that was suspicious, the union claims, because it happened just before lecturers were staging protests at campus. “This was an unlawful pressure tactic,” the union alleges in a labor court filing last Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lecturers also accuse UC President Michael Drake of misrepresenting the system’s offer \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/PMVD-Kalra-re-AFT-Negotiations-102621.pdf\">in a letter to lawmakers.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The union’s unfair labor practice claims against UC are neither supported by the facts nor any finding by the California Public Employment Relations Board,” said in an emailed statement Ryan King, a spokesperson for the UC office of the President.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>UC workforce churn: Why a quarter of lecturers don't return each year\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/uc-workforce-lecturers/\">The UC workforce has a churn problem.\u003c/a> About a quarter of the more than 6,000 lecturers at the University of California don’t return annually. Relatively low pay and little job stability are some of the reasons why, a CalMatters analysis shows. If lecturers strike, more than a third of classes will be canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While state labor court cases indicate a union cannot strike while it’s in mediation, it can strike over what it sees as unfair labor practices. The UC could seek injunctive relief from a judge to stop the strike, but so far that hasn’t happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Wednesday strike deadline “will result in the widest possible labor disruption,” wrote McIver in an email to CalMatters. The union called for a strike in advance because its legal counsel recommended giving a 72-hour notice to the UC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC system called the strike unnecessary. “The University of California is disappointed with UC-AFT’s decision to pursue a two-day strike — withholding instruction is grossly unfair to our students and a strike does not move us closer to a contract,” wrote King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming despite a flurry of activity that saw several powerful \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/uc-workforce-strike/\">state senators and assembly members pressure the UC last month to settle the labor dispute,\u003c/a> the impending strike may signal the limits of state lawmakers’ ability to pressure the university to meet the lecturers’ demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not every lecturer working at the UC can strike this week. Some lecturers in specific fields — medical centers, medical clinics, student health centers, and K-12 schools — have different guidelines for notification about a strike and aren’t part of the work stoppage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The threat of a more prolonged strike is still in play if the union doesn’t get what it wants from the UC once the state-sponsored mediation process ends.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Caroline Luce, a lecturer and spokesperson for the lecturer union']'This strike is not about that bargaining process. This strike is about a pattern of unfair labor practices and bad faith bargaining by the UC.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somewhat unusually, the UC and lecturers are negotiating behind closed doors through the state mediator and more publicly in collective bargaining. Adding to the confusion — and awkwardness — is that the union and UC management met to try to settle the new contract Monday and will meet again today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it would be a great relief to everyone if in these past two days of bargaining, a deal was reached,” said Luce. “However, this strike is not about that bargaining process. This strike is about a pattern of unfair labor practices and bad faith bargaining by the UC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC lecturer union is trying to line up state lawmakers to speak at the UC campuses during the strike. Assemblymember Ash Kalra, a Democrat from San Jose who spearheaded \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/uc-workforce-strike/\">a letter from 12 assembly members pressuring UC’s president to settle the dispute,\u003c/a> will be speaking at UC Davis at 10 a.m. Wednesday. He leads the Assembly’s committee on labor and employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalra said workers have a right to strike and to show their frustration. “I hope that this strike will be the final action necessary in order to get both sides to an agreement and to get the UC to recognize that urgency,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/uc-workforce-lecturers/\">A CalMatters investigation found that a quarter of lecturers leave the UC annually\u003c/a> even as the system hires more of them. The reasons — virtually no job security and employee reviews until at least six years of continuous employment that few lecturers achieve plus poor pay coupled with assigning lecturers to part-time work — are at the crux of the labor standoff and contract negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"78\">While there \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/uc-workforce-strike/\" data-reader-unique-id=\"79\">have been some breakthroughs\u003c/a>, the two sides are far apart:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul data-reader-unique-id=\"80\">\n\u003cli data-reader-unique-id=\"81\">The UC for the first time last month promised employee contracts ranging from one to three years and a review process after the second year. (The union wants reviews after the first year). 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"content": "\u003cp>With the threat of multiple strikes this fall that could cancel instruction for a third of undergraduate students, the University of California has inched closer to meeting some demands of its more than 6,000 lecturers. It’s a move that coincides with increased pressure from state lawmakers to resolve the labor dispute that has been going on for more than two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lecturers say the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/LS-ltr-to-IX-unit-re-AFT-proposal_101221_FINAL.pdf\">UC’s latest offer from last Monday\u003c/a> — which promises increased job security — is a step in the right direction. But they’re not pleased yet because it falls way short of the salary bumps they seek and includes other loopholes they find troubling. Chief among them? The new job stability provisions would kick in next summer, creating the possibility for mass dismissal of current lecturers, the union representing lecturers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no “ulterior motive,” said Letitia Silas, head of labor relations for the UC, the state’s third-largest employer, in an interview with CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now there may be signs of resolution for the two sides. On Friday, for the first time since June, the lecturer union and UC officials will meet, to discuss the latest contract proposal. [aside postID=\"news_11796182\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that our comprehensive package proposal is fair and competitive, including our proposal on wages,” said Silas, adding that the UC’s latest offer “does respond to the issues that the union has raised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a meeting lecturers have sought since last week and threatened to strike over if they had not gotten it. Still, another strike may occur later in the fall if the lecturer union doesn’t get the contract terms it wants. Hundreds of tenured and tenure-track professors of the UC have pledged to cancel classes in solidarity with lecturers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do believe it’s the UC administration’s fault for not coming to a resolution sooner, and for not ending this impasse,” said Assemblymember Ash Kalra, a Democrat from San José and chair of the Assembly committee on labor and employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and 11 other assemblymembers have signed a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/UC-AFT-Letter-1.pdf\">letter addressed to UC President Michael Drake\u003c/a> that went out Tuesday, urging him to “prioritize labor peace and job stability for lecturers.” Other lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Sen-Pan-Letter-to-President-Drake.pdf\">have issued their own letters\u003c/a> with the same sentiment, such as Dr. Richard Pan, a former UC faculty member who’s now a Senate Democrat representing Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there may be limits to mutual understanding. The UC denies that lecturers are being pushed out of their positions to make way for cheaper instructors, a chief union allegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether lecturers leave of their own volition, Silas, the head of UC’s labor relations, said, “Yes, some do.” Does that imply most leave for other reasons, such as being pushed out? Silas didn’t directly answer that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The term ‘pushed out’ is a mischaracterization,” Silas said. “The university has proposed to continue the dialogue with the union … if there does appear to be an issue of a trend, and to address those things with the union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-how-did-we-get-here\">How did we get here?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For more than two years UC-AFT, the union representing lecturers, has been at a standstill with the UC Office of the President over a new labor contract that provides them with greater job stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/uc-workforce-lecturers/\">A CalMatters investigation\u003c/a> showed that a quarter of lecturers — instructors typically with doctorates who provide about a third of the instruction undergraduates at the UC receive — don’t come back annually. Though the data CalMatters obtained doesn’t show why lecturers churn at rates higher than other education workers, a key grievance among them is that the UC doesn’t offer continuous work. Instead, most lecturers have to reapply for their jobs every quarter or year and rarely know whether they’ll have a job after their short contracts expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Core to the union’s demands is a promise to have lecturers evaluated so that their bosses can make informed hiring and dismissal decisions. Such a review system doesn’t exist at the UC for most lecturers, though it does at the larger California State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some students, the lack of an evaluation for lecturers is perplexing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want my teacher to be someone that knows what they’re doing,” said Sofia Stuart, a second-year biology major at UCLA who took part in a protest organized by lecturers last week. Without lecturer reviews, the UC could just hire inexperienced lecturers or renew ineffective ones, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natalie Lim, another UCLA student at the protest, held a sign calling for multiyear contracts for lecturers. “I want my institution to have morals and it doesn’t really feel like that right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter from lawmakers zeroes in on the lack of an evaluation process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By refusing to evaluate lecturers or use a merit-based retention process, the University also fails to foster a skilled teaching faculty, instead punishing experience and letting excellent faculty go arbitrarily,” the letter said. “Sadly, UC students are being cheated of educational continuity and dependable mentorship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-job-stability-and-evaluations\">Job stability and evaluations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The latest UC offer would go a long way to assuring more job stability for lecturers, but with key caveats. [aside tag=\"education\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system now proposes three types of contracts of increasing length that add up to six years: a one-year contract, then a two-year contract and finally a three-year contract. That’s more stability than the UC’s previous offer of two one-year contracts followed \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor/news/2021/bargaining-update-for-non-senate-instructional-unit.html\">by two two-year contracts\u003c/a>. None of those came with any promise of evaluations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC is also proposing a formal review before the three-year contract, the first such offer in these negotiations and a big win for lecturers. But UC is proposing just an “assessment” before the two-year contract. And the union doesn’t really know what that means. Lecturers don’t have clarity on the factors upon which a review would be based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC’s summary of its latest offer last Monday mentioned a review process after three years but not after one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silas, the UC labor relations chief, disputes that lecturers after their first year wouldn’t get an evaluation based on their teaching ability. “I’ll have to say that that’s probably an oversight on my part,” she said, in response to a question about why the summary letter omitted a reference to a first-year review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the average duration for a lecturer at the UC is two years, having job security earlier in their tenures would likely go a long way to lowering lecturer churn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The formal offer’s language on a review after the first year “doesn’t even come close to the robust evaluation after the third year,” said Mia McIver, president of the lecturer union and herself a lecturer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even the new review process after three years comes with asterisks that alarm the union. One says that a lecturer who passes their evaluation and is owed a three-year contract can still be hired for just a year if the department thinks the class the lecturer is teaching won’t be around the following year.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Natalie Lim, UCLA student\"]“I want my institution to have morals and it doesn’t really feel like that right now.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McIver said that may look fair, but what happens if the department decides to keep the class anyway? The lecturer still won’t be able to have the class back, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s less movement on matters of pay. The union wants bigger raises than what the UC is offering, which is about 4% in the first year of the five-year contract and 3% annually thereafter. Other lecturers would get additional bumps and extra merit pay. The lecturers say the UC can offer more across the board, citing the 5% increase in state support the recent state budget sent the UC’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC argues it offers some of the best pay to lecturers among top research universities. “In October 2019, UC systemwide’s average salary on an annualized basis was $71,068 for pre-six lecturers and $92,693 for continuing lecturers,” wrote Ryan King, a UC spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-the-uc-offer-on-pay\">The UC offer on pay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But that number is misleading: More than half of lecturers are part-time, according to a CalMatters review of UC data the lecturer union shared, meaning most lecturers don’t get that annualized pay. And many lecturers work one term but not the next. A CalMatters analysis of wage data shows that lecturers on average make close to $33,000, while more permanent academic faculty make three to six times as much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major issue is how much a lecturer is paid per class. Basically, lecturers get paid a percentage of an annual salary based on the “workload” of each class. The union is upset that the same classes can be counted as, for example, one-seventh of full-time work or one-ninth depending on the campus. They want consistency throughout the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/b34052e0-5e52-48fd-b580-dc706277d01d?src=embed\" title=\"UC professor pay\" width=\"800\" height=\"1051\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For lecturers, those fractions matter: For one, the higher the percentage of full-time work, the greater the pay. Also, health benefits can kick in at around 44% or 50% of full-time work, depending on how many hours a lecturer works in the year. So every extra fraction of workload goes a long way to determining whether a lecturer has health insurance through the UC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The University of California should be a responsible employer and provide accessible, affordable, quality health benefits and a living wage for all of its employees so that no UC employee must rely on public assistance,” wrote Sen. Pan. His letter noted that some UC lecturers rely on Medi-Cal because they’re ineligible for UC health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-will-lecturers-strike\">Will lecturers strike?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>McIver, the union president, doesn’t know whether lecturers will strike. She said they’d rather have a settled contract. “The things that we need to cross the finish line of this contract are not onerous for our employer,” McIver said. As far as the union is concerned, the ball is in UC’s court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s bargaining meeting with the UC “is a positive step,” McIver said. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5 p.m. Thursday, July 22:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe University of California Board of Regents voted to begin increasing tuition in 2022-23. The Board of Regents voted to largely keep the proposal as laid out below, but with some modifications, including that the hike is no longer indefinite and will be voted on again in five years, and that a greater share of revenue from the increase will go to financial aid for in-state students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nGet ready for whiplash: After receiving \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july21/p2.pdf\">$1.3 billion in new money\u003c/a> from lawmakers this year, the University of California now wants to raise tuition on each incoming undergraduate class. Every year. Indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once tuition spikes for an incoming class, it would stay flat for six years for that class — allowing students to more reliably calculate the multiyear cost of a degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Board of Regents will vote Thursday on a tuition-hike plan two years in the works that was initially derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic but has since been resuscitated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC officials project that in-state tuition and systemwide fees \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july21/b1attach4.pdf#page=7\">would grow by $534 in 2022-23\u003c/a> and increase by a slightly lower amount for each subsequent incoming class of undergraduate students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upshot is that in 2026-27, California undergraduates entering the UC would owe a projected $15,078 in annual tuition and statewide fees — about $2,500 more than what in-state undergraduates pay now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/_/Uj9MnXqdgAi2JUNhVCPX?src=embed\" title=\"Projected tuition increases at the UC\" width=\"800\" height=\"925\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal is a complicated one, stippled with tuition hike estimates pegged to inflation and studded with various exemptions meant to cap what students would ultimately owe. But what’s definite is that this marks a dramatic departure for the UC: After doubling tuition during the great recession in response to deep state cuts, the UC raised tuition just once since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do believe (the tuition increase is) likely to pass even though I would not like it to,” said Alexis Atsilvsgi Zaragoza, a UC Berkeley undergraduate and a student voting member of the Board of Regents who’ll be casting her first vote at this week’s meeting. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her dissent has powerful allies. Speaker of the Assembly Anthony Rendon, a Long Beach Democrat, and Senate President Pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins, the two leaders of the Legislature, oppose the tuition increases at this time, they told CalMatters in emails. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families have been struggling during this pandemic and this year has been difficult enough for so many Californians,” said Atkins, a San Diego Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC President Michael V. Drake declined to be interviewed for this story. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgiyF6R9NTE&t=12350s\">At the May Regents meeting\u003c/a>, Drake said the tuition plan will “help campuses preserve academic excellence and critical support services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s no secret that UC’s funding has been unstable for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office argues that the UC needs stable revenue from tuition to counter the long trend of state disinvestment. The system four decades ago got about 80% of funding to educate students from state support. Today, that share has shrunk to closer to 40%, nearly identical to how much revenue the system collects from tuition. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2021/06/california-college-budget/\">This year’s massive infusion of state cash to the UC\u003c/a> does little to reverse that trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/c4661e74-01b9-4fc0-81a2-1f3a7617df21?src=embed\" title=\"Declining state support for the UC\" width=\"800\" height=\"975\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC president’s office projects \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july21/b1attach2.pdf\">soaring costs totaling $2.1 billion by 2026-27\u003c/a> on top of current expenses, a shortfall it argues must be plugged with tuition hikes along with more money from the Legislature. The new added revenue \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july21/b1attach3.pdf\">would pay for more faculty hires\u003c/a>, salary and benefits increases, plus a slew of student support services and programs aiming to \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-s-ambitious-plan-help-more-students-earn-degree\">boost graduation rates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the UC maintains that the proposed tuition model is ultimately better for all students. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-income students who don’t pay tuition anyway because they qualify for financial aid would get even more money for books, housing and food, because about 36% of the revenues from the tuition hikes would go back to student aid. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with tuition growing only once per graduating class and tied to inflation, the cost of attendance will be predictable and stable for higher-income students who’ll pay full freight.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Specifics of the Proposed Tuition Hike\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july21/b1attach1.pdf\">proposed plan would increase tuition for each new incoming undergraduate class of students\u003c/a> starting in 2022-23. Every tuition hike would be pegged to inflation. Undergraduate students also would pay a surcharge of 2% or less, which would be phased out within a few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New and continuing students in state-funded graduate programs would \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july21/b1.pdf\">see a different kind of tuition hike\u003c/a>: theirs would be annual, rather than occurring once for every incoming class, and grow with inflation starting in 2022-23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal ties tuition growth to a three-year rolling average of inflation. Doing so keeps tuition from changing drastically if consumer prices soar. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed hike would cap tuition growth \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july21/b1.pdf\">in any year at 6%\u003c/a>. Another provision would grow tuition by a smaller amount if state lawmakers increase their share of UC’s budget \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july21/b1.pdf#page=2\">by more than 5%\u003c/a>. But that kind of increase is rare: UC’s state support has grown by less than 4.6% per year \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/rbudget/2020-21-budget-detail.pdf#page=168\">after hitting 5% in 2014-15\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"university of california,tuition\" label=\"Related Coverage.\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaragoza, the student regent, says a cap of 6% is still too high; she’ll push for a lower threshold. She wants trigger language in the regents’ proposal that would force the UC to pause tuition hikes in extreme cases like, say, a global pandemic. And she’d like the regents to be required to renew the plan regularly — at least once a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re using the messaging of a ‘forever hike,’ ” said Josh Lewis, a rising senior at Berkeley and chair of government relations for the UC Student Association. The systemwide student group opposes any tuition increase and is organizing a phalanx of students to protest the proposed hikes at this week’s Board of Regents meeting. The association is also submitting commentary pieces in all UC campus student papers and has met with regents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis said he wants the state to boost its support to the UC in lieu of tuition hikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the regents themselves aren’t unified in support. Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, who serves as a regent, tweeted her opposition while noting how the cost of tuition to UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has skyrocketed since she attended in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EleniForCA/status/1415064500479283203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1415064500479283203%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Feducation%2Fhigher-education%2F2021%2F07%2Fuc-tuition-hike%2F\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least one influential lawmaker is comfortable with the UC plan. Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Sacramento Democrat who chairs the budget subcommittee on education, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/media/assembly-budget-subcommittee-2-education-finance-20210201/video\">at a February hearing\u003c/a> that “moderate and predictable” tuition increases of the kind the regents are considering do “make sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s at least one kink in the UC’s revenue-boosting arguments. California law gives the governor’s director of finance the power to reduce the state funds headed to the UC (and California State University) if the university raises tuition. That’s because every increase to tuition means the state budget spends more on the Cal Grant, the state’s main student aid grant — something a third of UC undergraduates get, and which is automatically pegged to what the UC charges for tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Most Students Won’t Actually Pay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Currently, \u003ca href=\"https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/tuition-financial-aid/\">56% of California undergraduates at the UC\u003c/a> don’t pay any tuition due to a combination of state, federal and university aid. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not changing under the proposed UC tuition model. The UC calculates that students who aren’t in wealthier households will ultimately owe less in overall college costs under this increase than if tuition stayed flat. That paradox is due to the fact that the UC plans to spend \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july21/b1.pdf#page=5\">more than a third of the increased tuition revenue\u003c/a> on student financial aid. That money plus state and federal grants translate into \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july21/b1.pdf#page=10\">savings of nearly $2,000 a year by 2028-29\u003c/a> for students whose parents earn $120,000 or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all that financial aid, students in dire need still fall through the cracks. There are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2018/04/homeless-college-students-california/\">students living out of cars and vans\u003c/a>. A 2020 UC report found that 6% of undergraduates who get federal grant aid \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/global-food-initiative/_files/regents-special-committee-basic-needs-report.pdf#page=38\">still experience homelessness\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For families with incomes of $150,000, UC’s tuition increase plan would result in added tuition costs, growing to about $2,000 by 2028-29 for undergraduates. 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He earned his medical degree in ophthalmology at UC San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Michael is a wise and thoughtful leader, never afraid to do the right thing at the right time,” said Kim A. Wilcox, UC Riverside’s chancellor, who served with Drake on the board of the University Innovation Alliance, a group of 11 public universities working to improve college access for low-income students, first-generation students, and students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drake takes the helm as the UC system faces more than $470 million in budget cuts, and many campuses have already announced plans for mostly online instruction in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am confident that Dr. Drake is the leader we need to guide our world-class higher education system through this time of unprecedented challenge,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement also comes as the California State University system is searching for a new leader. 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If Dreamers end up losing their status, what does the UC plan to do with Dreamers within the system?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Napolitano: We will provide support to our DACA students. We have a legal services clinic for our undocumented students. Some of them may actually be able to change their immigration status if they work with a lawyer who is experienced in immigration law. But there's a big concern here, because along with deferring any deportation, if you're in DACA you get work authorization. Our DACA students primarily come from poor families and they need to work to be able to go to school. We're evaluating what our options are there. They're not terrific options, but philanthropy and private fundraising to help support these students is definitely part of the solution here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And potentially some financial help?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And potentially some financial help. We estimate that at the University of California — I think this is a conservative estimate — that we have some 1,700 DACA students. And you know what's ironic about the case in the Supreme Court? There were hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients across the country. And there was a supplemental brief filed pointing out that 29,000 of them are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823165/weight-back-on-my-shoulders-young-daca-doctor-awaits-supreme-court-ruling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">actually health care workers\u003c/a>. They're nurses, respiratory therapists, and physicians. To put them under the risk of deportation at this particular point in time just makes no sense whatsoever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If the Supreme Court ends up siding against Dreamers, is there a game plan to fill the positions that they would leave behind within the UC?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not in that way. One of our next steps would obviously be to continue to urge the Trump administration to leave the program in place. Just because the Supreme Court rules that the administration can rescind the program the way it did, doesn't mean it ought to rescind the program. And then Congress will need to get involved should the Supreme Court rule against us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When the pandemic first hit California, the UC was dealing with a strike by graduate students at UC Santa Cruz, and it looked like students at some other campuses in the system were ready to join. The union has filed charges of unfair labor practices and hearings on that start this month. I wonder if you can share your position right now on that dispute. Those students say that they're not making a living wage.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The graduate students who were on strike went on an unlawful wildcat strike. We have a union. We have a collective bargaining agreement. We simply seek to enforce the agreement that students themselves voted on and approved. They have filed some complaints against us in connection with the wildcat strike. We have filed a complaint against the union for not enforcing the no-strike provisions in their collective bargaining agreement. One of the chief values we get from a collective bargaining agreement is the assurance of labor peace and that there will not be strikes while there is a contract in place. And we think PERB [California's Public Employment Relations Board], which is the body that hears these kinds of issues, ought to enforce the contract that the union and its members agree to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I've spoken to members of the union who went on strike. One of them was making something like $20,000 a year in Santa Cruz, where the cost of living is pretty expensive. It's expensive in L.A., it's expensive in Berkeley. 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