University of California faculty need a stable cost environment to perform research. Unexpected increases in the costs of labor, benefits, facilities, and services and sudden adjustments to indirect cost reimbursements create strains on research budgets. Recent landmark collective bargaining agreements rightfully adjusted compensation for Graduate Student Researchers (GSRs) and Academic Postdoctoral Scholars. But the University…
Over the past two years, UC faculty have faced an unprecedented attack on our ability to do our research. Now more than ever it is necessary for UCOP to defend the university’s academic mission by using itsresources to stabilize the sponsored research environment. Long term, we urge UCOP to ensure thatfaculty have the resources necessary…
In 2005, when the student-faculty ratio was 25.5 to 1, UC promised that they would not let that number deteriorate further. Twenty years later, it is now 29.6 to 1 – meanwhile, senior administrators have more than doubled. Over the last two decades, the University of California has been steadily displacing tenure-track facultyfrom our central…
