UC Pres. Napolitano talks about tuition freeze promise

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- University of California President Janet Napolitano promised no tuition increases next year for students. But that comes with a big if. To avoid an increase, the Board of Regents says Sacramento needs to come up with more money.

She told me again, that she will cut costs at home first -- meaning the university system-- and come up with other ways to increase revenue. And she's got the background as a former governor of Arizona and as someone who attended the London School of Economics for one term.

But again, keep in mind that this is Janet Napolitano who knows who to approach in the legislature for money.

Napolitano officially took office as president of the UC system on Sept. 30. She's been on the job for only 43 days.

Already she's promised to freeze undergraduate tuition next year, but is realistic about the true costs of running the University of California. This despite money coming from Proposition 30, a series of tax increases voters approved last Nov.

"Governor Brown this morning said, 'please don't ask me for more money,'" Napolitano said. "We will fight for that tuition freeze. We're going to look for ways that we can reduce our own costs. We are going to look to where we can streamline transferring community college student into the UC system, so we have a lot on our plate."

In a way this is a test of how well Napolitano is connected and how politically savvy the former governor of Arizona can be.

She told me her goal is to make the UC system affordable while maintaining its reputation as one of the world's greatest research institutions.

"It's not a time out," she said. "It's really an opportunity for us to really explore our revenue and cost structure and see what need to be done for long term sustainability."

And then there are the student protests, which started well before she took office because of her previous job as Secretary of Homeland Security, which saw record breaking number of deportations.

"I'm not here to be the DHS Secretary," she said. "I'm here to be the President of the UC, as someone who has a long experience and very rich experience running very high level complex institutions."

A former governor once referred to Napolitano as a workaholic.

Lyanne: "What do you do for fun?"Napolitano: "Oh I read for fun, fiction, non-fiction. I go to listen to music, movies, play tennis."Lyanne: "What are you reading now? Napolitano: "Right now I am reading Donna Tartt's new book The Goldfinch."

Napolitano wouldn't say how many hours a day she puts in, but let's just say hers is not a 9 to 5 job and she lives in a condo in Oakland, not far from her office.

The tuition at the University of California is a little more than $12,000 without room and board. Half of the students who attend qualify for a waiver because their families earn less than $80,000 a year.

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Students, protesters settle into Napolitano presidency

Students, protesters settle into Napolitano presidency

As UC President Janet Napolitano settles into her new position at one of the world's most prominent institutions of public higher education, students, faculty and others who opposed her appointment are settling in for the long term as well.

While many students were disappointed by Napolitano's appointment, most appear ready to work with the president as she establishes herself in her new role. Still, many remain leery of Napolitano's background.

Her record on immigration as former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security and governor of Arizona - and her overall lack of experience working in higher education - stirred controversy as far back as July, when the UC Board of Regents confirmed her appointment.

Earlier this fall, student governments at UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UCLA and UC Irvine passed bills expressing reservations about Napolitano's presidency. The ASUC Senate's bill said the body would express "no confidence" in Napolitano if she did not meet its list of demands by the third week of October.

ASUC Senator Sean Tan, who authored the bill, requested an advisory opinion from the ASUC Judicial Council on a specific clause in the bill and is awaiting its reply before taking steps to finalize the senate's stance.

Since then, Napolitano has announced a slew of new goals and initiatives for the UC system, including freezing undergraduate tuition and allocating $5 million for financial aid, student services and advising for undocumented students.

Tan said the latter helped alleviate some of his concerns about her presidency, although he sees potential hitches in how the money will be distributed. Tan also said he was bothered by Napolitano's failure to make an official visit to UC Berkeley since she took office Sept. 30.

"She's postponed our campus visit twice already," Tan said. "It doesn't provide much faith for students who are already weary about her appointment and her position as UC president."

While Napolitano has visited the nine other UC campuses as part of a systemwide tour, she canceled an official visit to UC Berkeley in November that would have conflicted with preparations for Chancellor Nicholas Dirks' inauguration, UC spokesperson Steve Montiel said. He added that the possibility of a December visit fell through due to conflicts with Napolitano's schedule.

UCSD Associated Students' Vice President for External Affairs Vanessa Garcia, who voted in favor of her campus's no-confidence bill, said that her conversations with the UC president have been candid and that Napolitano has stated she won't respond to "rhetoric" from groups seeking her removal.

"At this point, it's unrealistic to expect anyone else in the position," Garcia said. "Whether or not she's qualified ... she is the UC president now."

The UC Student Association, a coalition of students and student governments from across the university, also debated a no-confidence bill in September, although the resolution failed in a 9-6 vote.

ASUC External Affairs Vice President Safeena Mecklai, who also chairs the UCSA board, voted against the motion and called for caution as the UCSA began its relationship with Napolitano. Mecklai called the UC president a "listener" and said she appreciated her willingness to actively engage with students.

"It is my hope that she will not let her listening sessions stay 'listened,' but that she will move them toward action," Mecklai said in an email. "It's our responsibility to ensure she knows what students feel and her responsibility to act on our priorities."

Community members with a stake in the UC system have also met with Napolitano, addressing some of the same concerns students have.

Thomas Saenz, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, met with Napolitano and leaders in the Latino community before she announced additional funding for undocumented student services. Saenz said that he had serious initial concerns about Napolitano's appointment but that the discussion in the meeting and Napolitano's subsequent announcement were encouraging.

Still, Saenz acknowledged a place for continued pressure on Napolitano in the form of protests and activism.

"It's always healthy that there is criticism, that there are vocal challenges for any high-level official," he said. "That's a key part of making sure they pursue the most positive and most progressive actions possible."

Despite signs that Napolitano is at the university to stay, the advocacy group BAMN has continued to protest Napolitano's appearances in the Bay Area, including the inauguration of Dirks and the UC Regents meeting last month.

BAMN organizer Yvette Felarca said Napolitano's record on immigration is "unacceptable" for a president of the UC system, regardless of her promised aid to undocumented students. Although some of Napolitano's actions so far may be positive, Felarca said, BAMN will continue to protest the UC president until she resigns or is removed from office.

"We plan on organizing and mobilizing for as long as it takes to remove her," Felarca said. "The policies that she's implemented so far are definitely a response to the pressure she feels from the movement. But that's not enough."

BAMN has also circulated a petition on campus and in the community calling for Napolitano's removal, although Felarca was unsure how many signatures the group had gathered so far.

In addition to BAMN, the Student of Color Solidarity Coalition also continues to oppose Napolitano and has organized demonstrations promoting awareness of her background.

Napolitano stated in a November press conference that she believes many groups are making judgments about her based on an incomplete "paper representation" of her record instead of on her actions as UC president so far.

Still, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of education W. Norton Grubb said he has never seen a new president attract so much attention since he first arrived on campus as a researcher in 1973.

Contact Connor Grubaugh at [email protected] . Correction(s):A previous version of this article should have included mention of the Student of Color Solidarity Coalition, which continues to protest against Janet Napolitano's appointment as UC president.

"It's fruitless to protest her becoming president," he said. "She's not going to leave, the regents aren't going to change their mind. The most productive thing students can do is formulate a set of policies to help immigrant (students) out."

University Of California President, Janet Napolitano, Calls For Tuition Freeze

University HeraldUniversity Of California President, Janet Napolitano, Calls For Tuition FreezeUniversity HeraldJanet Napolitano, who took over the 10-campus system six weeks ago, announced on Wednesday at her first regents meeting that undergraduate tuition will not grow next year and that the university will try to make future hikes more predictable. Like Us ...

UC President Janet Napolitano proposes tuition freeze at regents meeting

San Francisco ExaminerUC President Janet Napolitano proposes tuition freeze at regents meetingSan Francisco ExaminerAt her first University of California Board of Regents meeting as UC president, Janet Napolitano this morning proposed a tuition freeze and announced several new initiatives, including one aimed at making the 10-campus system a model of energy efficiency.

Napolitano seeks undergraduate tuition freeze for 10 campus UC system

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University of California President Janet Napolitano has lunch at the Bruin Plate with students at UCLA October 11, 2013 in Westwood, California. Napolitano was expected Wednesday to give a public statement at her second UC Regents meeting

University of California President Janet Napolitano laid out a broad policy agenda on Wednesday at the university regents meeting in San Francisco. Her proposals could have a deep impact on students and faculty alike at the 10 campus system

Napolitano proposed a tuition freeze for undergraduates for the 2014-2015 school year in her first address to the Board of Regents as head of the UC system.

As for scholarly research, Napolitano said she wants a more entrepreneurial approach to university start-ups and patents, and UC campuses, she told the policy-making Board of Regents, should lead the way in energy conservation.

"Then UC will demonstrate once again to the nation and beyond the fundamental and unique value of a world-class public research university," Napolitano said.

According to UC Irvine Professor Peter Krapp, these ideas are not new; but he cautiously supports Napolitano's plans - with reservations - until she reveals how she'll carry out her improvements.

"I'm skeptical about being able to take more students in, take more transfer students and not raise the budget accordingly. Because, if you don't grow the budget but you do grow enrollment, then you're cheapening the education," said Krapp.

Detailing her ideas, Napolitano told the board she wants the UC system to seek new ways to streamline the transfer process from community colleges; to become a zero-net energy consumer by 2025; and to improve the process so research innovations hit the market more quickly.

Napolitano said the tuition freeze would give the university system time to create a new fee policy.

"Tuition goes right to the heart of accessibility and affordability - two of the university's guiding stars. We need to figure out, in the real world in which we live, how to bring clarity to, and reduce volatility in, the tuition-setting process," she said.

Governor Jerry Brown's 2013/2014 budget already requires that the UC system keep tuition rates flat, in order to get new money from the state. The university educates nearly a quarter of a million students each year.

UCLA student body president John Joanino said current and future students shouldn't have to shoulder the weight of funding deficits and added "We need Napolitano, we need UC officials to really pressure the state for new revenue."

Napolitano, the former secretary of Homeland Security, spent the past six weeks in her new job visiting many of the system's 10 campuses. She is the first female president of the University of California.

Her attendance at a regents meeting just a day before was met with protest. As CBS5 reports, many of the protesters were high school students who said Napolitano is the wrong choice and will instill fear in immigrant students because she oversaw a large number of deportations in her previous position as the Secretary of Homeland Security.​​​

UC spokesperson Brooke Converse told The Daily Californian that the university has no plans to formally respond to the protest, which she said was roughly similar in size to that of past demonstrations but that the crowd was much younger.

When she was hired in the summer, students and professors expressed doubts, because Napolitano was an outsider to both higher education and to California. But you couldn't tell from her proposals, said UCLA doctoral student Nicole Robinson.

"Her speech demonstrated a depth of knowledge that was admirable; she's clearly doing her homework, and she's keeping up with all the assignments that get thrown at her as she visits the different campuses," Robinson said.

This story has been updated.

UC President Janet Napolitano proposes undergraduate tuition freeze

Napolitano proposes undergraduate tuition freeze for 2014-15

SAN FRANCISCO - UC President Janet Napolitano proposed that the UC freeze undergraduate tuition for 2014-15 in a public address to the UC Board of Regents on Wednesday, announcing plans to develop a more sustainable long-term tuition model for the university.

Napolitano made this pledge in her first address to the UC Regents since she took office in late September. If her plans come to fruition, this will be the third year with no tuition hike for UC undergraduates. The regents will discuss this proposed tuition freeze Thursday as part of their discussion on the preliminary 2014-15 budget. Undergraduate tuition is currently $12,192.

"This is not a mere time-out or a one-time holiday," Napolitano said. "The purpose is to allow the time needed to get it right. We need to figure out, in the real world in which we live, how to bring clarity to and reduce volatility in the tuition-setting process."

Despite pledging to explore alternative funding methods, such as philanthropy and public-private partnerships, Napolitano said the university cannot achieve this stability alone. She asked the state to increase support for the university through additional funding for enrollment growth and other ventures. The prelimiary budget the regents will discuss Thursday requests an additional $120.9 million in state support to aid the university's retirement program, increase enrollment by 1 percent and "reinvest" in academics.

Aside from tuition, Napolitano introduced plans to increase transfer rates from the state's community colleges to the UC system and enhance the system's technology transfer and support for researchers. She called on the university to reach complete energy efficiency by 2025, a goal she called a "steep mountain" that could be reached by tapping into the university's research resources.

"We have the students, fully motivated and fiercely committed to sustainability efforts, ready to go," Napolitano said. "We have the cutting-edge science and the scientists and researchers who are engaged in the science from an array of angles, every day in their labs, ready to go."

These initiatives follow Napolitano's announcement of a $15 million allocation of one-time funds to increase support for undocumented students, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students at the university. She has also ordered an efficiency review of the UC Office of the President that will assess ways in which her office can cut costs.

Libby Rainey is the lead higher education reporter. Contact her at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter @rainey_l.

She said the regents should hear updates on many of these initiatives in the spring.

Napolitano seeks 2014

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The University of California's new president Janet Napolitano is calling for a tuition freeze for the next academic school year.

Napolitano made the proposal during her first official speech to the Board of Regents at UC San Francisco Wednesday this morning.

She has spent a little over a month in her new job visiting many of the system's ten campuses.

Napolitano observed research at the Riverside campus on the olfactory receptors of mosquitoes and fruit flies that could produce a way to protect people from malaria. She also slept in a living laboratory at the Davis campus that is planned to be the largest zero-net energy community in the country.

She took over as the leader of the university system at a time when finances are improving but serious challenges remain, including rising costs for employee salaries and retirement benefits.

After several years of deep cuts, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a state budget this year that boosts funding for UC.

The former Homeland Security secretary wants the system to bring operational costs to a minimum to keep it affordable. She says education needs to be more accessible.

"It's time for this university to come up collaboratively with a better way," Napolitano said. "I want tuition to be as low as possible and I want it to be as predictable as possible."

Napolitano also says she wants community college transfers to be made more efficient, innovations from UC research to hit the market more rapidly, and the system to become a zero-net energy user by 2025.

Since her surprise appointment as the university's 20th president in July, Napolitano has moved to alleviate the concerns of campus activists who feared she would not advocate effectively for immigrants because of her background in Washington and as a former governor of Arizona.

Napolitano has devoted $5 million to provide special counseling and financial aid for students living in the U.S. illegally. Still, several activists spoke in the public comment session Wednesday, demanding she step down.

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VIDEO: Janet Napolitano says student protesters have the wrong impression

SAN FRANCISCO - University of California President Janet Napolitano only occasionally looked up to watch the students hurling insults at her - "mass deporter," "top cop," "the person responsible for tearing apart families" - or demanding her resignation Wednesday.

After all, it has been like this ever since it was announced in July that Napolitano, President Barack Obama's then-homeland security secretary, would come to California to take over UC.

The Department of Homeland Security deported a record number of undocumented immigrants during Napolitano's tenure, and protesters at a meeting of the UC's governing board Wednesday were not quieted by Napolitano's previous assurances that the UC welcomes undocumented immigrants and that she will push for a change in federal law to prevent the deportation of students brought here illegally as children.

At a news conference held during a break in the meeting Wednesday, a reporter pointed out that "the students really didn't welcome you with open arms."

"Well, some of the students, yeah," Napolitano said.

The Democrat and former Arizona governor suggested the protesters didn't know her.

"I have to say, with all respect, that I think some of the protests were based ... not on knowing me, I mean, just, you know, kind of a paper representation, as it were, that wasn't even complete," Napolitano said. "I think as I continue to work with these students and talk with them, and also with faculty and staff - everybody involved in the educational enterprise of the UC, that's how I'll be judged, not on, you know, some kind of a false impression."

Bruce Varner, the UC's governing board chairman, wasn't asked, but he was standing beside Napolitano and felt compelled to defend her.

"We really are totally confident in her ability to lead the university," he said.

PHOTO: University of California police look out at a group of protesters against new UC President Janet Napolitano outside a UC Board of Regents meeting Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, in San Francisco. Associated Press/Eric Risberg

Janet Napolitano To Address UC Regents In San Francisco For 1st Time

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) - Former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was expected to address the University of California's Board of Regents for the first time as the system's new president.

Napolitano was scheduled to give a speech during the meeting Wednesday at the University of California San Francisco.

The first female president of the University of California has said in the past that she would present at the meeting to the regents "big ideas" to ponder.

Napolitano has said the system needs to do more to raise funds.

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UC President Janet Napolitano meets with UCLA students, faculty and staff

By UC Newsroom October 11, 2013 Category: Campus News

University of California President Janet Napolitano joined UCLA first-year students in a seminar, discussed an array of issues with student leaders and met with faculty and senior administrators today during her third visit to a University of California campus since taking office less than two weeks ago.

Her meetings at UCLA began barely 12 hours after she concluded a day-and-a-half visit to UC San Diego, where she discussed student issues, scholarship and research with faculty, students, staff and university supporters.

"I'm here to listen and learn," Napolitano said after her lunch meeting at UCLA with 22 undergraduate and graduate students. "I am committed to being a strong advocate for higher education and keeping this system as the lodestar for what public education ought to be."

She made an impromptu visit to the Bruin Resource Center, which offers services supporting student veterans, undocumented students, current and former foster youth, students with dependents and transfer students.

In the morning, she was provided an overview of what Chancellor Gene Block calls the "elegant balance" - the blend of hard science, arts, athletics and public service - that has made UCLA the most-applied-to university in the nation. Immediately after that briefing, she participated with 20 students in a Fiat Lux freshman seminar with 12 students, discussing "Real Stories Behind Supreme Court Indian Law Cases."

Among the dozen students in the seminar were California resident students, international and domestic out-of-state students, including a Native American from the Pascua tribe in Arizona.

The seminar - taught by Carole Goldberg, vice chancellor for academic personnel and the Jonathan D. Varat Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law - is based on a 16-chapter book of narratives (rather than just legal doctrine.) The students study 10 chapters over 10 weeks for the one-unit course. Goldberg selected the chapter discussed today because it focused on an 1886 case that arose in California and involved the issue of federal jurisdiction over criminal cases on American Indian reservations. It also was a way to welcome Napolitano back to California, Goldberg said.

Napolitano, a former U.S. attorney and attorney general of Arizona, talked with the students about some of the challenges of establishing where a crime had been committed to establish federal jurisdiction. If it was determined that the crime did not occur on Indian land, only the state could prosecute. Napolitano gave some detail and background on why a state might not prosecute.

"This was not just her as an observer," Goldberg said. "She really contributed to the class discussion, from a very rich and valuable set of experiences."

At UC San Diego, Napolitano learned about various research initiatives, including brain mapping and the interaction between the ocean and climate. She engaged in presentations about interdisciplinary studies of art, architecture, archeology and imagination, as well as engineering and the university's health sciences and services. She was briefed by Chancellor Pradeep Khosla and others about future plans for a campus that has become an internationally celebrated research powerhouse just a few decades after its creation.

She met with leaders of the Academic Senate at both UC San Diego and UCLA.

Among other topics discussed at those campuses, Napolitano addressed her stance on immigration issues related to UC, emphasizing that her focus is on supporting the aspirations of all students, documented and undocumented.

More at UC Newsroom.

Updated at 7:15 p.m.

Janet Napolitano makes UC Merced visit

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The President of the University of California system was in the North Valley Thursday. Former Arizona Governor and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano is taking on her new role as UC President and one of her first duties was visiting UC Merced.

Janet Napolitano started her role as UC President this week and the first campus she chose to visit was UC Merced. On Thursday, she took a tour of the campus and met with several staff and faculty on what was her first official visit as UC President.

"I came here first because this campus is just really important. It's really important for the UC system as a whole but it's also important for the Valley here and for the state," said Napolitano. "We want to do everything we can to make sure that it not only succeeds but it thrives moving forward."

UC Merced is the youngest in the 10 campus UC system but it's also one of the fastest growing. Undergraduate fall enrollment reached almost 6,200 students, a 7 percent increase over the last year. "Part of what we need to do is keep building on what we have and making sure that we are providing a campus like Merced which is probably our most diverse campus of all the campuses we have with the highest percentage of first generation [college] students," said Napolitano.

And campus leaders were pleased as to what the new UC President had to say. "I'm convinced even more now that she will be a great leader for the University of California and a great supporter of this campus and region," said UC Merced Chancellor Dorothy Leland.

Napolitano promises to lead through listening and learning -- something she already put into practice as she heard directly from some students and their concerns. "Originally, UC tuition was fairly accessible to a lot of students and now it's putting a burden on many students with student loans," said Jennifer Anaya, a 3rd year student.

"She's not exactly sure which direction she's going to go into, that's why she's making an effort to meet with all of us to see what we have to say about her new position," said Aja Johnson, a 3rd year Biology student.

Napolitano says will visit the remaining 9 UC campuses to talk with more students and faculty.

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