UCD Budget

Page dedicated to compiling information regarding how budget cuts on campus are directly affecting graduate students. Please feel free to add information about your departments. If you are interested in learning more about the general UC System budget issues please see UC Budget.

August 17, 2009 Chancellor Katehi RE DC Trip.pdf summary of her trip to DC for UC Advocacy and higher education funding.

November 17, 2009 letter from the chancellor UC Advocacy- All Together Now.pdf

Chancellor Linda Katehi gives an official address about the budet crisis and students' responses to the Regent vote to increase fees, here YouTube Chancellor Address. Here is the PowerPoint from the last Dialog with the Chancellor, focusing on the budget, 11-30-09 Fall Dialog with the Chancellor.pdf.

Adminstrative changes annoucement issued by Chancellor Katehi 12-8-09.pdf.

Chancellor Katehi gives a series of 7 videos titled "On the University." The University Community is a knowledge community brought together by innovative face-to-face conference interactions and the affordances of the new digital media. This community of academics, university leaders and administrators, public administrators and research students comes together around a common concern for the role and future of the university in a changing world here.

Your GSA EC works a great deal on the overall campus budget and to help ensure transparency in the budget across the campus. Below, we've listed each officer and the work they do related to the campus budget. Please see their pages for more information or contact them directly via email.

• GSA Chair Malaika Singleton sits on the UC Davis Budget Advisory Committee Subcommittee: Student Services. She also works a lot with the other campus centers such as the WWRC, CCC, SRRC and LBGTRC to understand where budget cuts affect services to graduate students in order to generate new programming through the GSA, support exisist programming or advocate for programs which may be up for cuts. Additionaly, she recently created this page UC Commission on the Future a system-wide group invesigating the future of our university system.
  

• GSA Treasurer Erica McKenzie is an Ex officio member of the Student Services and Fees Administrative Advisory Committee (SSFAAC), she has served several years in this position. She also sits on the Health Fee Oversight Commitee which is one of several committees dedicated to making policy around campus-based fees, such as the health fee. She has also served on the ad hoc committee to Student Affairs regarding their budget, as the representative for the GSA. In her work, she drafted the following letter GSA Letter on Student Affairs Budget Cuts.pdf based on a survey she ran last year to determine the overall areas graduate students wished to protect on campus. She also created this page to get more information from students on Student Affairs spending. Our GSA Treasurer is also the one that oversees the GSA budget and reports to the General Assembly.
  

• GSA Vice-Chair Karinna Hurley is now a member of the Chancellor's Graduate-Professional Student Advisory Board. Therefore, she is a great contact to get out concerns regarding the needs o graduate and professional students on campus, including budget issues.
  

• GSA External Chair Marrah Lachowicz-Scroggins also sits on the Health Fee Oversight Commitee and the ad hoc committee to Student Affairs regarding their budget, as the representative for this committee. She also works with UAW, UCDOC, UCSA, LobbyCorps and (ASUCD) when necessary to get information out to graduate students about their advocacy and moblization efforts. She also works to advocate for higher education funding through letter writing, phone campaigns and lobby visits at both the state and national levels.
  

• Campus Organizing Director Adam Costanzo has served on a few IET committees, working on issues such as Smartsite cost-savings, wireless availablity and printing services—all of which cost money! He has also worked with TAPS on occasion on cost-saving partnerships and education programs.
  

• GSA Public Relations Officer Stacey Ellis has sat in for Erica on (SSFAAC) a few times. Additionally, she has attended conferences on Planning Green Events and ensures every dollar of our GSA social funding counts, penny for penny!

October 21, 2009 School of Veterinary Medicine The UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine will face a $2.6 million loss for the 2009-2010 school year. This funding gap, both a product of the state budget and a weakened veterinary services market, has left the school's Academic Council little choice but to cancel programs, eliminate positions and forestall expansion - cuts that have the potential to significantly shake the foundation of the school.

October 20, 2009 School of Education The School of Education received a 3.9% cut for the 2009-2010 year, compared to the previous year.

October 19, 2009 Graduate School of Management must shave an additional $560,000 off of their 2009-2010 budget. Newly appointed Dean Currall said that the GSM has already reduced programs, including two marketing campaigns for MBA students as well as the Dean's Distinguished Speaker Series. Dean Currall expressed some optimism saying that he's worried about how the cuts will affect the programs but that they seem "modest" and that it is too early to clearly define their effects.

Information about how the budget cuts at student affairs are affecting campus services.

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