Saturday, August 28, 2010

UCR Newsroom: Goldwater Institute Ranks UCR in Top 20

UCR Newsroom: Goldwater Institute Ranks UCR in Top 20

Goldwater Institute Ranks UCR in Top 20

The watchdog organization rates UCR as one of the nation’s best at controlling administrative costs.

(August 27, 2010)

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RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The University of California, Riverside is one of the best stewards of its financial resources among the nation’s leading universities, according to a report by a conservative government watchdog organization.

UCR was one of 20 leading public and private universities, out of 198 examined by the Phoenix, Ariz.-based Goldwater Institute, where the number of administrators per 100 students declined between 1993 and 2007. Nationally, the number of administrators increased 39.3 percent in that 14-year period. At UC Riverside, the ratio of administrators to students decreased by 2.5 percent.

At the same time, the ratio of full-time employees to students declined by 27.3 percent – a period when enrollment nearly doubled – the ratio of spending to enrollment decreased by 21 percent.

That these efficiencies were occurring before the California Legislature cut the University of California budget by $813 million in 2009-10 – a 20 percent reduction in spending systemwide that resulted in layoffs and furloughs – is further testament to UCR’s