Abstract A group of preliminary recommendations of the UC Commission on the Future Working Groups, viewed in combination with Dean Edley’s current plan for a “cyber campus,” threaten the quality of UC undergraduate education, the right and ability of Senate faculty to safeguard educational standards, and the existence of a public university in which excellent…
UC Berkeley professor of political science Wendy Brown was among the more than 200 Berkeley faculty members who traveled to Sacramento on March 4. A co-chair of the Berkeley Faculty Association, she gave the following address on the capitol steps during the “Educate the State” rally. Not long ago, California public education was an international…
January 8, 2010 Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger California Legislature State Capitol Sacramento, CA 95814 To Legislators and the Governor: How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in California? Raising revenue has become such a taboo subject in California politics that nobody has gone to the trouble of actually answering that question —…
December 10, 2009 Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Fax: 916-558-3160 Re: Restart funding of UCRP Dear Governor Schwarzenegger, The Sacramento Bee on Sunday December 7th reported that your administration is considering making a contribution of $4.8 billion to the CalPERS retirement fund. There was no mention in that article of your plans for the University of California…
Re: Call to Postpone the UC Regents Vote of Fee Hikes. Dear Legislator, The UC Board of Regents are scheduled to vote on proposed fee hikes for UC graduate and undergraduate students at their meeting in Los Angeles on Nov. 19. The proposed increase of 32% for undergraduates, coming on top of previous hikes, would…
November 3, 2009 Russell Gould, Chairman UC Regents 1111 Franklin St., 12th floor Oakland, CA 94607 fax (510) 987-9224 Dear Chair Gould, At the October 28 meeting of the Regents Committee on Audit and Compliance, I requested that the committee perform an audit of the source of repayment for all projects funded by General Revenue…
They Pledged Your Tuition Index CUCFA President Robert Meister has written a series of articles about UC’s use of tuition as collateral for construction bonds. This page is an index to those articles and to related materials. They Pledged Your Tuition Part I Keep California’s Promise prepared a two-page summary of “They Pledged your tuition…
An Open Letter to UC Students From Bob Meister, President, Council of UC Faculty Associations Professor of Political and Social Thought, UC Santa Cruz (A PDF of this document is also available.) As students, you pay tuition in order to get an education at UC, and you know that the Regents plan to raise your…
August 10, 2009 Dear UC President Yudof and President of the Board of Regents Gould, As officers of the Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) and Chairs of several campus Faculty Associations, we see great value in your plan to appoint a Commission to develop a vision for the future of the University…
Report on Regents Meeting Bob Meister President, Council of UC Faculty Associations CUCFA spoke at the July 15 Regents meeting. We called attention to our lawyer’s letter, which says that the Regents would violate their own rules by acting on today’s agenda items. More specifically, adopting J1 (amending Standing Order 104 to allow declarations of…
