UCSF2025 Challenges Community to Map the University's Future
UCSF is not ordinarily a place for fun and games, but that’s exactly what campus leaders are hoping will happen for 36 hours on Wednesday and Thursday.
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New Surplus Share System Allows Departments to Trade Resources
UCSF has launched Surplus Share, a new and exclusive online trading system that connects UC departments with each other to trade, sell or give away equipment, furniture and other supplies.
University Takes Bold Step into the Future with UCSF2025
For 36 hours on September 11 and 12, members of the UCSF community will have an opportunity to share their bold ideas to map the future of the University by participating in a novel online game.
UC Regents Approve Increase in Pension Plan Contributions for 2014
The UC Board of Regents on Wednesday approved an increase in contributions to the UC Retirement Plan from both the university and employees, effective July 2014.
UCSF Faculty, Non-Represented Staff to Receive Salary Hikes
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann today announced that effective July 1, 2013, the University of California will implement systemwide salary increases for the 2013-2014 fiscal year.
UCSF CEO Urges Academic Medical Centers to Embrace Profound Changes
Mark Laret, chief executive officer of UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, says academic medical centers “must embrace profound, meaningful changes to time-honored, treasured and now increasingly ineffective and unaffordable ways of carrying out our missions.”
Awards Aim to Reduce Health Care Costs, Improve Quality at UCSF Medical Center
As part of efforts to reduce the cost of health care while also improving quality, the UCSF Center for Healthcare Value has announced winners of its "Caring Wisely" initiative.
Chancellor Forms National Leadership Council to Help Steer Future of UCSF
<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, has formed a distinguished advisory group of renowned leaders from health care, biomedical sciences and technology to partner with her and her leadership team to guide the future of UCSF.</p>
AAMC Board Chair Mark Laret Calls On Academic Medical Centers to 'Think Differently'
<p>Mark Laret, chief executive officer of UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, says academic medical centers must reconsider their traditions, practices and culture to thrive amidst significant funding cuts.</p>
Passage of Proposition 30 Puts Education on Path to Fiscal Stability
<p>The University of California will avoid $250 million in spending cuts this year, after voters Tuesday approved Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown's signature tax measure.</p>
President Yudof to Hold Live Web Chat for UC Faculty and Staff on November 2
<p>Faculty and staff should mark their calendars for a Friday, Nov. 2 web chat with UC President Mark Yudof and Staff Advisors to the Regents Kevin Smith and Kathy Barton.</p>
Amid Challenges, Chancellor Optimistic About UCSF Leadership as Health Sciences Innovator
<p>State budget cuts have strained UCSF’s resources over the past year, but the University is adapting to the challenges and continues to lead the way in health sciences research, education and patient care, the chancellor said Tuesday.</p>
UC Annual Accountability Report Shows Strengths, Challenges
<p>UC continues to do a tremendous job at ensuring affordability and access, especially for financially disadvantaged students, but a new accountability report finds that state budget cuts are starting to affect quality across the 10-campus University system.</p>
Graduate Medical Education to Undergo Review by IOM Committee
<p><span>Kathy Dracup, dean emeritus of the UCSF School of Nursing, has been named to an Institute of Medicine (IOM) ad hoc committee to conduct an independent review of the graduate medical education system and make recommendations on how to better produce a medical workforce for the 21<sup>st</sup> century.</span></p>
