Comments on: UC cuts childcare services for low-income students http://www.berkeleyside.com/2010/05/14/uc-cuts-childcare-services-for-low-income-students/ News and notes on our city Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Transparency http://www.berkeleyside.com/2010/05/14/uc-cuts-childcare-services-for-low-income-students/comment-page-1/#comment-6636 Transparency Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:17:43 +0000 http://www.berkeleyside.com/?p=8260#comment-6636 The senior Management of UCB is looking outside itself for savings. UCB Chancellor Birgeneau Loss of Credibility, Trust The UCB budget gap has grown to $150 million, and still the Chancellor is spending money that isn't there on expensive outside consultants. His reasons range from the need for impartiality to requiring the "innovative thinking, expertise, and new knowledge" the consultants would bring. Does this mean that the faculty and management of a world-class research and teaching institution lack the knowledge, impartiality, innovation, and professionalism to come up with solutions? Have they been fudging their research for years? The consultants will glean their recommendations from interviewing faculty and the UCB management that hired them; yet solutions could be found internally if the Chancellor were doing the job HE was hired to do. Consultant fees would be far better spent on meeting the needs of students. There can be only one conclusion as to why creative solutions have not been forthcoming from the professionals within UCB: Chancellor Birgeneau has lost credibility and the trust of the faculty as well as of the Academic Senate leadership that represents them. Even if the faculty agrees with the consultants' recommendations - disagreeing might put their jobs in jeopardy - the underlying problem of lost credibility and trust will remain. The senior Management of UCB is looking outside itself for savings. UCB Chancellor Birgeneau Loss of Credibility, Trust
The UCB budget gap has grown to $150 million, and still the Chancellor is spending money that isn’t there on expensive outside consultants. His reasons range from the need for impartiality to requiring the “innovative thinking, expertise, and new knowledge” the consultants would bring.

Does this mean that the faculty and management of a world-class research and teaching institution lack the knowledge, impartiality, innovation, and professionalism to come up with solutions? Have they been fudging their research for years? The consultants will glean their recommendations from interviewing faculty and the UCB management that hired them; yet solutions could be found internally if the Chancellor were doing the job HE was hired to do. Consultant fees would be far better spent on meeting the needs of students.

There can be only one conclusion as to why creative solutions have not been forthcoming from the professionals within UCB: Chancellor Birgeneau has lost credibility and the trust of the faculty as well as of the Academic Senate leadership that represents them. Even if the faculty agrees with the consultants’ recommendations – disagreeing might put their jobs in jeopardy – the underlying problem of lost credibility and trust will remain.

]]> By: jjohannson http://www.berkeleyside.com/2010/05/14/uc-cuts-childcare-services-for-low-income-students/comment-page-1/#comment-5507 jjohannson Fri, 14 May 2010 17:34:32 +0000 http://www.berkeleyside.com/?p=8260#comment-5507 Repeal Prop 13. California eats its young. Repeal Prop 13. California eats its young.

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