Federal funding for UC?

As state funds erode and student fees escalate, UC President Mark Yudof is calling for more federal support for public universities like the UC system.

In a proposal released last week, Yudof elaborated on his ideas for an “integrated national strategy” that would hike federal funding for public universities across the nation, suggesting a $2.5 billion federal investment in universities’ operations and an additional $3 billion for graduate programs.

“We can either regain the prominence and leadership role we once held and invest in our citizens and our future, or we can become accustomed to mediocrity,” he wrote.

To read Yudof’s proposal, visit www.universityofcalifornia.edu/president; click on “President’s white paper: a new federal role?”

Web system wins award

The UC Treasury Workstation, an automated, Web-based cash management system, has been awarded a Bronze Alexander Hamilton Award by the national publication Treasury & Risk magazine for excellence in finance and treasury management.

The UC Office of the President’s Banking Services Group developed the intellectual property for the system, which allows all UC locations to share a single, unified system for tracking UC’s cash holdings, making electronic payments and transferring funds.

UC to hold conflict of interest hearings

The UC Board of Regents will hold a public hearing on the adoption of amendments to its Conflict of Interest Code. The hearing is set to begin at noon Dec. 16 in Conference Room #8332 at 1111 Franklin St., Eighth Floor, Oakland.

The proposed amendments to the UC’s current conflict of interest code are available at www.ucop.edu/ogc/coi/coi_chgcode2007_10.html.

Post-doc program aims to spur UC diversity

The UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program encourages doctorate recipients whose teaching, research and service contribute to diversity to pursue academic careers. UC’s annual report on diversity cited the program as one of the ways campuses can develop a more diverse faculty. The UC regents made achieving diversity a policy goal in 2007.

Read the entire story on post-doc diversity at www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/22223

— Dateline staff