President Yudof tells everyone their ideas are great. Then you never hear another word about it. If the students want this alternative they will have to really fight for it. If they don't stop fighting for it, in my experience he will say he's creating a committee to study the issue and to come up with plans and that the committee is to meet with him in a year to come up with their findings. When the year is up the committee will indeed come up with decent research and even decent ways to address the problem, but... But we don't have the money to implement the solutions will be the answer. The entire matter will then be forgotten instantly.
UC has done this for decades.
Right now they're in the throes of cutting every single department's funding and will start laying off people as they decide to centralize their workforce yet again in it's history. They do this shit until they realize it simply doesn't work and they have to start rehiring people again. It has never worked before, but actually cutting jobs and freezing salaries is always their solution.
UC has and will continue to prefer foreign students who pay through the nose in spite of it's historic mandate to enroll students from California first because those students don't have to pay insane tuitions. UC is no longer a university for the state and it's youth. It's become a corporate money making machine. They've been actively cutting jobs in administration for a few years now. I went through being laid off when they decided to consolidate all their research departments under one department. I was lucky to get rehired with a handful of staff to do the job of 65 units instead of one.
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