Post-Employment Benefits Task Force Forum - Morning Session
The Post-Employment Benefits Task Force visited UC Berkeley to talk about its work and the range of options it is considering for pension and retiree health benefits. The Task Force also shared the results of the recent employee preference survey. Two sessions were offered: A morning session for staff and staff retirees, and an afternoon session for faculty and professors emeriti.
The April meeting follows-up on meetings held last fall at which time task force members laid out the issues confronting UC in sustaining the current pension and retiree health benefits. UC President Mark Yudof appointed the Task Force in March 2009, and charged it with reviewing current retirement benefits and developing options for balancing the long-term costs of pension and retiree health benefits with the need to provide sustainable post-employment benefits to faculty and staff. The Task Force has been studying the issues and weighing input from the UC community. It will make recommendations to President Yudof later this summer on ways to change the funding and policies for post-employment benefits.
American politics have witnessed intense ideological differences in the past, but something has changed in recent decades that is jeopardizing the ability of the two parties to negotiate and govern. Join Dean Henry E. Brady for a critical discussion on how American politics became so polarized, how the division affects governance and decision-making, and what might be done to break the gridlock in Washington and Sacramento. Sponsored by the Center on Civility & Democratic Engagement at the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley.
The University of California is unique among American multicampus systems in that it is organized around a principle known as the one-university idea. Its premise is simple: that a large and decentralized system of ten campuses, differing in size, resources, aspiration, and stage of development, can nevertheless be governed as a single university. The one-university idea has long been regarded as a major force behind UC's rise to pre-eminence among American research universities. But does it have a future in the age of public disinvestment in higher education?
CSHE Senior Research Associate Patricia A. Pelfrey discusses the one-university principle in the context of UC's history, its contemporary relevance to the governance of the UC system, and the drive for institutional redesign in American universities.