UCLA graduate student Jodi Lynette Anderson has been nominated to be the 2004-05 student member for the University of California Board of Regents. Approval of the nomination will take place at the board’s Sept. 17 and Sept. 18 meetings. Pending the approval, Anderson will be the 30th student member who will be participating in board discussions. She will also have the ability to vote on Board of Regents decisions throughout her one-year term starting July 2004.
Studying for her doctorate in education at UCLA, Anderson has worked as a teaching assistant in the education department and is a student researcher at the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute. Anderson has also received a master’s degree in administration and social policy at the University of Nottingham, England and a master’s degree in education at UCLA.
Anderson has also worked as assistant director of orientation programs, special programs coordinator, admissions counselor and office manager for the campus activities center at UC Santa Barbara as an undergraduate. She has also received the UCLA Women for Change Award and the UCSB Chancellor’s University Service Award.
Former Sixth College Chair Chris Sweeten was among the three finalists selected to move on to interviews.
Current Student Regent and UC Berkeley student Dexter Ligot-Gordon will be succeeded by UC Berkeley student Matthew J. Murray beginning July 2003.
Survey: Americans worried over school budget cuts
A survey conducted by independent researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University show that a majority of Americans now prefer a smaller federal tax cut blended with education aid for the states, due to worries over school budget cuts.
While polling in early May revealed a public divided between President George W. Bush’s hopes to further cutting taxes and reducing the federal deficit, the Policy Analysis of California Education survey is the first to focus on how Americans are weighing the president’s proposal against worries related to shrinking education budgets.
According to the P.A.C.E. survey, a representative sample of Americans said that “”providing aid to state governments to help them avoid cutting services or raising taxes”” should be a higher government priority than “”passing a large tax cut”” by a margin exceeding 2-to-1.
Sixty-seven percent said they preferred “”a smaller tax cut and increased federal aid to states to help maintain funding for public schools.”” Twenty-five percent said they desired “”the full $550 billion tax cut proposed by President Bush.””
The survey also found that 64 percent of citizens polled support federal aid to states “”to help reduce the need to raise college tuitions.””
Support for university aid is strongest in the Northeast and weakest in the East, according to the P.A.C.E. survey.
The University of California will absorb $300 million in base budget cuts as outlined in Gov. Gray Davis’ budget to help offset the state’s deficit, with possibilities of further cuts into its budget by the state legislature and increases in student fees by the university. Fees have been raised $795 annually for UC undergraduates beginning spring quarter 2003.
Renowned genetic researcher joins UCSD
Ming T. Tsuang, an internationally renowned researcher in human genetics, behavior and neuropsychiatric diseases, will join the staff of the UCSD School of Medicine for the 2003 summer as a “”University Professor,”” one of the highest accolades bestowed on faculty by the UC Board of Regents.
Tsuang, an expert in family-genetics of psychiatric disorders, will direct the new UCSD Institute of Behavioral Genomics in the Department of Psychiatry.
Tsuang comes to UCSD from Harvard University, where he is director of the Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics and has served as superintendent of the Harvard Department of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Institute.
Early in his career, Tsuang participated in a World Health Organization-sponsored cross-cultural epidemiological study of schizophrenia that led him to speculate about the underlying cause of the disorder. His subsequent work on the disorder led him to the theory of multiple-gene causality of schizophrenia widely accepted today.
UCSD student to appear on “”Price is Right”” May 23
Thurgood Marshall College sophomore Zac Handler will appear on “”The Price is Right”” airing at 10 a.m. on CBS May 23. Handler attended the show with other students from Marshall Lowers B building.
