California
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill that would have required
foundations and other auxiliary groups linked to major universities of
California, the California State University and University of California, to
open its list of donors for the public Inside Higher Education reported on 1
October.
Schwarzenegger said the bill does not "provide sufficient protection for many who rightfully deserve a level of privacy as part of their donations." The University of California and California State University said that the bill would have a "chilling effect" on private donations.
The bill was proposed by Senator Leland Yee, a frequent critic of university governance practices and spending amid a dispute concerning the refusal of a foundation linked to the University of the State of California to disclose amount was spent to bring Sarah Plain to speak at school.
Schwarzenegger said the bill does not "provide sufficient protection for many who rightfully deserve a level of privacy as part of their donations." The University of California and California State University said that the bill would have a "chilling effect" on private donations.
The bill was proposed by Senator Leland Yee, a frequent critic of university governance practices and spending amid a dispute concerning the refusal of a foundation linked to the University of the State of California to disclose amount was spent to bring Sarah Plain to speak at school.
The bill would have subsidiary organizations of institutions subject to public supervision by the California Public Records Act. Yee says that these subsidiaries allow state universities to hide billions of dollars.
He said that "a governor who wanted to blow up boxes full of rhetoric and platitudes of open government is a disgrace and completely hypocritical then veto legislation to bring real transparency and accountability in our public universities" .
South Africa: University academic threatening to break relations with Israel
The Senate of the University of Johannesburg has threatened to end his collaboration with Ben-Gurion University of Israel "unless certain conditions are met," Al-Jazeera reported on 30 September.
In a statement issued on 29 September, the highest academic body of the university said that Ben Groin University should work with Palestinian universities and stop its support to employment.
The conditions stated that "the memorandum of understanding governing the relationship between the two institutions modified to include Palestinian universities chosen with the direct participation of the University of Johannesburg."
In addition, the university has declared that refuse to participate in any activities with Ben-Gurion who have "direct or indirect military implications." He said the MOU would automatically expire on 1 April 2011 if conditions were not met within six months.
Johannesburg current partnership with Ben-Gurion began in 2009 and was criticized by the university community, which responded with a petition which gathered intellectuals and activists from throughout South Africa.
In an essay written by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who appeared in a newspaper in South Africa on September 26, supported a boycott of Israeli universities, saying that "Israeli universities are an intimate part of the Israeli regime to active choice ... Israeli universities produce the research, technology, arguments and leaders for maintaining the occupation. "
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