Conservative Activist Remixes Classroom Discussions to Attack Public Education

Conservative Activist Remixes Classroom Discussions to Attack Public Education

By Toby Higbie How many times have you asked provocative and probing questions in the classroom, allowed students to air half-baked ideas, or read aloud quotations that you disagree with? Now through the miracle of selective video editing, you may soon see a carnival-mirror version of your classroom in which you and your students advocate violence, revolution, or worse. That...

Why is UC Borrowing 7 Million to Fund the On-Line Education Pilot Project?

Why is UC Borrowing 7 Million to Fund the On-Line Education Pilot Project?

By Wendy Brown Heller Professor of Political Science and Co-Chair, Berkeley Faculty Association Cross-Posted From UCBFA Website Last year, UC Berkeley Law School Dean Chris Edley provided numerous assurances that the project to explore the feasibility of an on-line undergraduate curriculum would be funded wholly from extramural sources. He was as confident that he could raise...

Protests at CSU and Across the Country

Protests at CSU and Across the Country

Updated Below: On Wednesday, thousands of people protested across the CSU system in opposition to the cuts that have been imposed, and the cuts that are threatened, to California higher education.  Students occupied administration buildings at nearly half of the CSU campuses and organizers report that nearly 12,000 students, faculty, staff, and supporters took part in a...

On-Line and In Debt

On-Line and In Debt

Despite assurances last fall that UCOP's proposed online program would only be funded through donations, the University has now announced that it will borrow several million dollars to support the first steps towards the Edley-versity  Although the official UC News buried mention of this decision in the middle of an article touting a Grant from the Gates Foundation, the fact...