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Budget archive
UC-wide staff salary hikes ruled out for 2012-13
February 21, 2013: In a letter to the university community, UC President Mark Yudof says he remains “committed to implementing a systemwide salary program for staff as soon as the UC budget can support one.”
Campus unveils revised stadium financing plan
February 19, 2013: Working to keep a promise to pay for the Simpson Center for Student-Athlete High Performance and the renovation of California Memorial Stadium without using campus funds, UC Berkeley officials have refined the original financial model to incorporate new sources of revenue.
UC to get modest boost from state budget
January 10, 2013: California Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed a state spending plan for the coming fiscal year that would provide a modest boost to the University of California’s operating budget for 2013-14.
Exocomets may be as common as exoplanets
January 7, 2013: Astronomers have found thousands of potential exoplanets and many stars with massive disks of gas and dust that suggest planets are forming, but not much of the stuff intermediate between dust and planets, such as asteroids, planetesimals and comets. UC Berkeley astronomer Barry Welsh has looked closely at a number of stars with dust disks and found evidence that they also have comets.
The path to financial sustainability? There’s a link for that
October 24, 2012: Administration and Finance’s redesigned website doesn’t just talk about putting the campus on a financially sustainable path. As the leading edge of the Open Berkeley project, it’s an active part of the solution.
Chancellor’s final back-to-school briefing has the ring of success
August 23, 2012: Flanked by a half-dozen other campus leaders, Birgeneau made the case Thursday that despite massive cuts in state funding, the twin pillars of his eight-year tenure as chancellor — access and excellence — are thriving.
Regents endorse state budget, Prop. 30
July 19, 2012: In a single vote, the board endorsed the state’s 2012-12 UC appropriation, supported Gov. Brown’s revenue measure and agreed to freeze mandatory systemwide student charges at 2011-12 levels, contingent on passage of the initiative.
Regents, meeting in Sacramento, call on Legislature to reinvest
May 15, 2012: With state budget negotiations in full swing, members of the UC Board of Regents joined students in Sacramento Tuesday and called on lawmakers to reinvest in public higher education. Regents remained in the capital on Wednesday, holding their first board meeting there since 1993.
Berkeley researchers find big benefits for students, taxpayers and state from funding of higher education
April 24, 2012: The State of California needs to consider the whopping return on investments for higher education as it tries to balance its budget, UC Berkeley researchers say in new study, “California’s Economic Payoff: Investing in College Access and Completion.”
Students step up to budget challenge
March 21, 2012: Clickers in hand, a civic-minded student audience weighs some tough choices on cuts and spending.
Yudof answers top 10 questions about UC
March 9, 2012: As a follow up to last week’s web chat with Mark Yudof, the UC president’s answers to 10 of the top questions on subjects of particular interest to faculty and staff have been posted online.
New budget videos posted: You asked, and Sproul Plaza has the answers 
March 8, 2012: Vice Chancellor John Wilton responds to questions about campus finances that were posed as part of a campus conversation about UC Berkeley’s budget, now playing on the new Sproul Plaza app on Berkeley’s Facebook page. Watch all five videos.
Students rally in Sacramento against public-education cuts
March 6, 2012: Berkeley students, faculty and staff joined thousands of protesters from across California in Sacramento Monday for a mass demonstration against the defunding of public education.
Berkeley 2011 — the year in pictures 
December 22, 2011: Beyond the protests, the story — as always — is one of engagement, passion and perseverance in the face of challenges, whether institutional or personal.
New UC Berkeley financial-aid plan targets squeeze on middle-class students
December 14, 2011: Thousands of UC Berkeley undergraduates from middle-income families will get a helping hand from a new, far-reaching financial-aid plan hailed by Chancellor Robert Birgeneau as “the first program of this sort at any public university in the United States.”
Lawmaker talks budget with students, meets with chancellor
November 30, 2011: State Sen. Kevin De León made a public appearance on Sproul Plaza Monday, followed by a private meeting with Birgeneau in California Hall.
In Sacramento, students take a stand for the future of UC
November 16, 2011: A busload of UC Berkeley students joined a UC rally in Sacramento on Wednesday, Nov. 16. Their message to legislators: “no” to continued funding cuts to public education, “yes” to structural changes needed to increase available state funds.
Rally remarks: ‘Don’t let public higher ed in California be destroyed,’ Breslauer urges
What’s the future of public universities? Forum seeks way forward
October 27, 2011: The role of public higher education in fostering social opportunity and social mobility was the focus of an Oct. 25 campus forum on the future of public universities. It was the first of four public conversations organized by campus deans, at what they called “a definitional moment” for the institution.
Our University: UC’s economic impact, long-term funding strategies and more
September 21, 2011: The monthly newsletter for the UC community also explores the cost of health care, and a grant program that helps move critical research out of the lab and into the market.
Comments sought on proposed voluntary phased retirement program for staff
September 2, 2011: The University of California is proposing a Phased Retirement Program that would help career employees 55 or older transition into retirement by reducing work hours (and pay) for up to three years before retiring, in exchange for a lump-sum payment at retirement.
Birgeneau’s bottom line: ‘Public education matters’
August 25, 2011: In his annual back-to-school media briefing, the chancellor was cautiously upbeat, insisting that despite Berkeley’s budget woes, the campus has managed to maintain its standing among the nation’s great universities.
UC’s Sautter Awards pay credit to streamlining of operations
August 24, 2011:
A mobile web framework that powers the UCLA and UC Berkeley mobile websites, and Berkeley’s Visiting Scholar and Postdoc Affairs Project, which saves the campus more than half a million dollars annually, shared the top Golden Awards in this year’s UC-wide Larry L. Sautter Award competition.
From cracks in the campus budget, a new research community blooms
August 22, 2011: Born of financial crisis, Berkeley’s Institute for the Study of Societal Issues has cultivated a more collaborative, community-based approach to social-science research. In the process, a rickety old campus building has been transformed into a place where scholars can do more with less.
Merit raises planned for faculty and staff
August 17, 2011: Acting on a November vote by the Board of Regents, UC President Mark Yudof outlined a new plan to set up a pool for systemwide merit raises as part of the 2011-2012 budget.
State budget shortfall forces second fee increase for fall 2011
July 14, 2011: The UC Board of Regents Thursday approved a plan to close a $1 billion budget shortfall through a combination of higher student tuition, cost-cutting measures and operational efficiencies. Regents, on a 14-4 vote, reluctantly approved a 9.6 percent tuition increase, effective this fall for all UC students. Also: Retirement plan updates from regents, UCOP
Proposed tuition hike would offset 25% of budget shortfall
July 13, 2011: With cost-cutting and revenue-generating measures in place to fill the bulk of a $1 billion budget gap, the University of California Board of Regents will vote July 14 on a budget and proposal to increase tuition by $1,068 per student for this academic year.
Tuition, fee increases eyed for UC budget shortfall
July 5, 2011: With cost-cutting and revenue-generating measures in place to fill the bulk of a billion-dollar budget gap resulting from steep cuts in state funding, the University of California staff is preparing to recommend to the Board of Regents that roughly one-quarter of the shortfall be offset with tuition and fee increases.
UCOP expresses disappointment with state budget
June 28, 2011: In a brief statement issued Tuesday morning, the University of California Office of the President calls the latest state budget plan “deeply disappointing,” and says UC leaders “continue to oppose further cuts, and support any efforts that will restore long-term stability to state funding of higher education.”
Voluntary reduction-in-time program launched for staff
June 28, 2011: The university has implemented the Employee-Initiated Reduction in Time Program to enable eligible career staff (except Senior Management Group members) to voluntarily reduce their working time and corresponding pay.
