Friday, 11 December 2015

USA: California university transparency bill veto



California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger a bill that would require foundations and other aid groups tied to California's largest university, California State University and the University of California, to their list of donors to the public voiced open veto, Inside Higher Education reported on 1 October.

Schwarzenegger said the bill would not "sufficient protection for many who rightfully deserve a level of privacy as part of their giving." The University of California and California State University claimed that the bill a "chilling effect" would have on private donations.

The bill by Senator Leland See, a proposal for a regular critic of the university management and spending practices, amid a controversy regarding the refusal of a foundation linked to the California State University the amount spent it to Sarah Plain speaks to bring to the campus public.

The bill would institutions subsidiary organizations subject to public supervision by the California Public Records Act made. See claimed that these subsidiaries allows state universities to hide billions of dollars.

He said that "for a governor who wanted to blow up the boxes and whose rhetoric is filled with platitudes of open government, it is a disgrace and completely hypocritical than legislative veto real transparency and accountability to our public universities spend".


South Africa: University threatening to break academic ties with Israel

The senate of the University of Johannesburg threatened to cooperate with Israel's Ben Groin University "unless certain conditions are met" ends, Al-Jazeera reported on 30 September.

In a statement on 29 September, the university's highest academic body suggested that Ben Groin University would have to work with Palestinian universities and stop its support for the occupation.

The conditions state that "the memorandum of understanding to change the relationship between the two institutions to selected Palestinian universities with the direct involvement of the University of Johannesburg includes".

In addition, the university said it would refuse to engage in any activities with Ben Groin that "direct or indirect military implications". It said the memorandum of understanding would automatically expire on 1 April 2011 if the conditions have not been met within six months

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