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    UC is facing budget cuts that are reducing course offerings while subsidies for intercollegiate athletics programs continue to grow. Contrary to perceptions, athletics programs do not generate revenue for UC and instead require millions in subsidies annually from UC Berkeley and UCLA. This diversion of funds away from academic programs and into athletics violates state budget policies requiring athletics to be self-supporting. As UC faces fiscal challenges, it cannot sustain diverting scarce resources to athletics without consequences for its educational missions.

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    UC is facing budget cuts that are reducing course offerings while subsidies for intercollegiate athletics programs continue to grow. Contrary to perceptions, athletics programs do not generate revenue for UC and instead require millions in subsidies annually from UC Berkeley and UCLA. This diversion of funds away from academic programs and into athletics violates state budget policies requiring athletics to be self-supporting. As UC faces fiscal challenges, it cannot sustain diverting scarce resources to athletics without consequences for its educational missions.

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    ht chooices May 2011 –– Updaate #1
     
    in aa budgget criisis? www.UCW Watch.org 
    twitter.com
    m/UCWatch
     

    UC’ss classroom
    ms are bein
    ng suffocated by statte revenuee shortfallss and severre budget ccutbacks.  
    At the same tiime, UC is relaxing fin
    nancial con
    ntrols on itts Intercolllegiate Ath
    hletics proggrams.  
    Whyy? 

    Conntrary to co
    ommon belief, UC do oes not manage its po opular Inteercollegiatee Athleticss programss 
    in a way that ggenerates income for the Univeersity.  UC Berkeley ssubsidizes athletics tto the tunee 
    $11 million
    of $ n annually.  UCLA hass given ath h infusions of up to $3 million aannually.1
    hletics cash

      UC use
    es money that could be used for acaademic proggrams in ord
    der to cover deficit 
    spennding for Inttercollegiate
    e Athletics.  TThis practicee is prohibiteed by curren
    nt state budgget languagee that 
    2
    dictaates Intercollegiate Athle
    etics programs are to bee self‐supporting.  

      UC stakeholders ra
    aised athletics subsidiess as a signifiicant area off concern in front of thee 
    Califfornia State Auditor in e
    early 2010.  Instead of fixing the pro
    oblem, UC haas modified internal pollicy in a wayy 
    that may allow ccontinued de eficit spending on Interccollegiate Athletics.3 

      In the ccontext of the current ffiscal crisis, U
    UC cannot ccontinue to d
    divert mone
    ey away 
    m its core teaaching, research, and paatient care m
    from missions witthout consequences.  Prroposed statte budget 
    language for FY 2012 would allow continued diversiion of scarcee funds into UC Intercolllegiate Athleetics.4 

    A
    Alterna
    atives exist—
    —UC cannot afford b
    businesss as usual. 
    UC’’s resource
    es must be
    e managed
    d responsib
    bly, with the interessts of all stakeholderrs in mind. 
     
     
     
     
    NEXTT UPDAATE: …
    … How w mucch hass management 
    bloat co
     
     
    ost UC ually in efficciencyy and resou
    C annu urces?
     
    Footnootes: 1 – Report off the Academic Senate Task Force on Intercollegiate A Athletics. (Aug‐201
    10). www.dailycal..org/data/files/Facculty‐Task‐Force‐FFinal‐Report.pdf 
    2 – Govvernor’s Proposedd Budget Detail 20010‐11. (Jan‐2010). 2010‐11.archivess.ebudget.ca.gov//StateAgencyBudgets/6013/6440/prrogram_descriptio on_50.html 
    3 – Bussiness and Financee Bulletin BUS‐72 EEstablishment of A
    Auxiliary Enterprisses. (Dec‐2010). ww
    ww.ucop.edu/uco ophome/policies/b bfb/bus72.pdf 
    4 – Govvernor’s Proposedd Budget Detail 20011‐12. (Jan‐2011). www.ebudget.caa.gov/StateAgencyyBudgets/6013/64 440/program_desccription_50.html

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