UC Extension to close Santa Cruz office and two instructional p...

It is unfortunate that thousands of visitors from around the world will no longer have the opportunity to study in Santa Cruz and add to the county's diversity and economy. ELI has hosted a variety of high profile programs that have added enormous value to UCSC, hopefully there will be something else that the campus can do to support this kind of international exchange and cooperation in the future.

No great lose here, less UCSC weirdo students.

oops, I meant loss.

VJS wrote:

oops, I meant loss.

Looks like you could have used a bit of a college education yourself. But not here. You wouldn't want to be considered a "weirdo", now would you?

this is a huge loss to many. Sad,very.
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VJS wrote:

No great lose here, less UCSC weirdo students.

That's about all I can say for sad posters like this one.

UC Extension used to offer fascinating courses on the beautiful UCSC campus; I took many of them. However, for years only "tech" courses have been offered, and those were in Cupertino. OF COURSE no one took those courses and the project lost money. Such a shame. The diverse educational opportunities originally offered by UC Extension were of great value to the greater Santa Cruz Community.

Why not also shut down the Cupertino extension? This has been a tremendous waste of resources at a time when the university can't pay its regular faculty nationally competitive wages, let alone wages that would scale to the local economy.
It is time to circle the wagons and take care of the essentials first. Fix it first.

Perhaps someone at the UC Extension should have had a business degree. Live within your means, don't spend more than you have. How basic of a principle do you need to have? The Extension programs seems to have over-extended itself. Maybe should have rented a less pricey location? Get smart and offer classes that actually filled up?

I can't believe that UC extension is $30 million in debt. That is a shiteload of money down the toilet. Taxpayer money down the toilet.

Man, this Galloway woman was a horrible manager.

An anthropology professor shouldn't be running a business, especially after many years of proven incompetency.

I wonder how many service workers who have been complaining and protesting about poverty wages will ask for this woman's head on a platter.

I doubt none of those hypocrites will. After all, UCSC professors are the intellectual vanguard of the working class and the Communist revolution.

The less UCSC the better...

The UCSC Extension program has been sucking money out of UCSC for years, in order to satisfy some (probably long-gone) administrator's dream of being UC Silicon Valley.

I'm worried, though, about the possible loss of the Science Illustration program. That has been one of UCSC visible success stories (though possibly not a financial success). I hope that it is just being taken off of Extension and being incorporated into UCSC's main offerings.

The Science Illustration program definitely needs to be reborn at the University. It was a quality program with many distinguished graduates. Why it was ever tossed off campus is a mystery. Well not really a mystery. I think the science departments wanted only "real science" supported with science money. Very shortsighted and narrow view of science. Science education and public appreciation of the wonders of nature and technology be damned.

The Way We Were wrote:

UC Extension used to offer fascinating courses on the beautiful UCSC campus; I took many of them. However, for years only "tech" courses have been offered, and those were in Cupertino. OF COURSE no one took those courses and the project lost money. Such a shame. The diverse educational opportunities originally offered by UC Extension were of great value to the greater Santa Cruz Community.

I took many of those tech courses over the hill. At first, they were well taught, but as time went on the extension courses started getting 'teachers' who worked in the tech field and were not only horrible teachers - but had horrible attitudes. As the tech boom faded, so did the students.

We live in the wealthiest country the world, and in the
last decade, we have seen American corporations make
record breaking profits, in the billions.

The University of California education system used to be
about educating californians and other US citizens who
qualified at an affordable, accessible cost.

Now, as has been the corporate driven culture that has
predominated in our country for the last two decades,
where the wealth inequity is larger than it has ever
been since the Rockerfeller days of the 1920s, we see
the usual excuse of NOT HAVING ENOUGH MONEY in order to
shut down what a preponderance of leading American scholars
and intellectuals would claim to be the most important
ingredient to building a strong culture and strong
country: accessible education.

But today, we see very clearly, that instead of a well
known University having as its central mission education,
we see it's main mission is cutting costs, and for the
last decade, raising tuition on a yearly basis. In fact,
we see the shift of costs to the middle class and poor
in order to education themselves.

Meanwhile, the richest Americans and the Exxons and Mobiles
continue to make incredible profits ... off the backs of
those of us Americans who attempt to get our 4 year
education despite being loaded with enormous debt.

And despite the self-denial and arrogance of University
leaders who seem to think they are doing Californians
and Americans a favor to continue to save money by cutting
back on accessibility and affordability to a once leading
public University (but obviously not any more).

If anything, we see that greed is king, and education plays
a distant third to American and UC Santa Cruz values.

We live in the wealthiest country the world, and in the
last decade, we have seen American corporations make
record breaking profits, in the billions.

The University of California education system used to be
about educating californians and other US citizens who
qualified at an affordable, accessible cost.

Now, as has been the corporate driven culture that has
predominated in our country for the last two decades,
where the wealth inequity is larger than it has ever
been since the Rockerfeller days of the 1920s, we see
the usual excuse of NOT HAVING ENOUGH MONEY in order to
shut down what a preponderance of leading American scholars
and intellectuals would claim to be the most important
ingredient to building a strong culture and strong
country: accessible education.

But today, we see very clearly, that instead of a well
known University having as its central mission education,
we see it's main mission is cutting costs, and for the
last decade, raising tuition on a yearly basis. In fact,
we see the shift of costs to the middle class and poor
in order to education themselves.

Meanwhile, the richest Americans and the Exxons and Mobiles
continue to make incredible profits ... off the backs of
those of us Americans who attempt to get our 4 year
education despite being loaded with enormous debt.

And despite the self-denial and arrogance of University
leaders who seem to think they are doing Californians
and Americans a favor to continue to save money by cutting
back on accessibility and affordability to a once leading
public University (but obviously not any more).

If anything, we see that greed is king, and education plays
a distant third to American and UC Santa Cruz values.

I have a relative who used to work for Extension, and I know she is laughing at the article. Favoritism and cronyism was everywhere in that office and harder to prove; gender and race discrimination of course is prohibited. She got the same pay for years without a raise, and newer folks were hired and got more $$ for the same job. She finally spoke up and complained and then got "laid off", while the newer folks remained in their jobs. I remember her telling me about a guy who got caught embezzling money and misusing the UC credit cards--this was right around the same time some other folks got busted up on the main campus for doing the same thing. They did not want another black eye on the face of UC, so they quietly fired him with out any charges or reimbursement of the funds he stole. Oh, and the fact that he was openly gay may have helped. Can't pick on a gay guy, even if he was a thief.