Approximately two dozen UC Berkeley faculty will join the “99 Mile March for Education and Social Justice” on Friday, March 2nd. The march departs Oakland on Thursday, March 1st, and will arrive in Sacramento on Monday March 5th for a rally on behalf of public education at the State Capitol Building. UC Berkeley faculty will…
A major mobilization is coming March 1 – 5, 2012, to put pressure on the Governor and legislature to renew support for public education in California and for raising taxes to restore the state funding that UC, the CSUs, the CCs, and K-12 to meet the needs of our people for high quality, affordable education….
December 27, 2011 Governor Jerry Brown c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173 Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone: (916) 445-2841 Fax: (916) 558-3160 Dear Governor Brown, I note that the one year anniversary of David Crane’s appointment to the UC Board of Regents approaches. Having failed to win confirmation of the Senate, Crane’s appointment will soon be voided,…
November 27, 2011 President Mark G. Yudof University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Fax: (510) 987-9086 Dear President Yudof, The Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) protests your decision to hire the Kroll Security Group, and its Chairman William Bratton, to conduct what you call an independent investigation…
This week, we have seen excessive force used against non-violent protesters at UC Berkeley, UCLA, CSU Long Beach, and UC Davis. Student, faculty and staff protesters have been pepper-sprayed directly in the eyes and mouth, beaten and shoved by batons, dragged by the arms while handcuffed, and submitted to other forms of excessive force. Protesters…
The following speech by Nathan Brown, Davis Faculty Association Board Member, and Assistant Professor of English at UC Davis, was delivered at the UC system-wide strike rally held at UC Davis on November 15: Hello Everyone! It’s beautiful to see so many of you here today. On four day’s notice, this is an incredible turnout….
The Council of UC Faculty Associations has endorsed the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education (CFHE). CFHE has released the following statement of support for public employees in Ohio: An injury to one is an injury to all. So, too, with a victory for one. We are ALL Ohio. The Campaign for the Future…
The social movement known as Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is growing and raising issues of direct relevance to the faculty, students and staff of the University of California, including contracting opportunities and increasing debt loads for our students created by a system of privatized education and a refusal to provide high quality affordable public higher…
This post has been superseded by updated versions: How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in 2012-13? How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in 2013-14? Raising revenue has become such a taboo subject in California politics, but restoring quality public higher education in California can be…
In November of 2009, ucfaculty.org/ posted a report by Richard Evans titled “Soon every faculty member will have a personal senior manager” which pointed out that the number of managers at UC was growing far faster than the ranks of the faculty and that, if the trend continued, it would not be long before there…
