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Published online 16 July 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.700
Updated online: 16 July 2009

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California academics face prospect of unpaid leave

University of California makes furlough plans as state budget cuts continue to bite.

Erika Check Hayden

Thousands of University of California staff could be forced to take unpaid leave under a furlough plan approved by members of its governing board yesterday.

At a 15 July meeting in San Francisco, a committee of the University of California (UC) Board of Regents granted UC president Mark Yudof the power to enact a plan to help close a US$813-million decrease in state funding this year (see 'Californian universities caught in budget hell'.

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  • http://www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu/ "The department enrolls some four thousand students each year" Ten years' output; each now successful alumnus/alumna compassionately donates $1000 to its alma mater in need. $40 million arrives to save Black Studies. The University of California overall has 1.3 million living alumni. A $1.3 billion/year windfall is there for the asking. Where is the problem? When a company manufactures little of value to the marketplace it founders (unless government subsidized) – while those riding it down to Hell get performance bonuses (both cases).

    • 16 Jul, 2009
    • Posted by: "Uncle Al" Schwartz