Category Archives: A Closer Look

It was about 20 minutes past midnight. The last three employees finally left Trader Joe’s, and their cars cleared the parking lot.

More than a decade ago, UCLA began receiving sizable record requests related to her research. The requests asked for descriptions of research grants. Then medical records.

Although scarcely publicized, the University of California has made a slew of changes to its budget process – which attempt to increase the transparency of how the university system is funded – over the last two years. Prior to the budget reform, the UC budget process was convoluted and had little oversight from officials outside […]

The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. Up until two years ago, part of a UCLA student’s tuition could be used to fund any number of unrelated costs – such as the salary of a UC Riverside professor or the […]

For the first time in five years, the University of California will decide how many more students – and how many of what kind of students – it will enroll for the remainder of the decade. These enrollment goals are necessary for implementing the new UC budget model known as rebenching, which allocates state funds […]

The University of California will double the amount of state money used for a UC budget reform that attempts to equalize how state funds are distributed among campuses. The new funds will be distributed next year to the four campuses that currently receive the least amount of state funds. This progression in the implementation of […]

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