An Open Letter to UCR Chancellor Tim White: Why Were UCR Students and Faculty Criminalized and then Assaulted?

An Open Letter to UCR Chancellor Tim White: Why Were UCR Students and Faculty Criminalized and then Assaulted?

UPDATES: Open letter from Occupy UCR, including statements of the humanistic social purposes of the university Open letter to the UC Riverside chancellor from Prof. Jennifer Doyle from The Nation blog. According to a faculty observer, on January 19 while the Regents met on the UC Riverside campus, hundreds of UC students and faculty gathered outside to protest further cuts to...

Links for January 26, 2012

Links for January 26, 2012

A letter from Justice Cruz Reynoso indicates that the UC Davis Police Force is not cooperating with his investigation as they promised. David Wittman has a recent post on how he got involved in Davis protests.  It is part of a new blog on how Faculty can support Students.  Check it out. Victory at Kroeber Library. CSU Trustees agree to limit pay increases for CSU...

Mis-State of the Union and the Educational Future

Mis-State of the Union and the Educational Future

By Michael Meranze As expected, President Obama previewed his election year populist pivot in last night's State of the Union address.  Between...

Links for January 23, 2012

Links for January 23, 2012

Students at Riverside Protests offered the Regents a civics lesson on the right of assembly.Of course that didn't stop police from arresting two and...

Today's Links, Riverside Edition

Today's Links, Riverside Edition

Our start on eventual proper coverageUCR Riverside protesters are attacked by police. Bob Samuels has a helpful overview of the Regents issues along...

Links for January 18, 2012

Links for January 18, 2012

For the Latest in UCOP's position on the budget you can listen to Patrick Lenz' spiel on January 11th.  And here is the budget update for tomorrow's Regent's meeting.The Regents are moving their May Meeting to Sacramento.  Promise to Protest Cuts to Higher Ed. Brown delivers his State of the State.  He is continuing to push for austerity.Think Long has pulled its...

Racial Patterns of Campus Budget Inequality: the State Audit Part II

Racial Patterns of Campus Budget Inequality: the State Audit Part II

You'll recall that the California State Auditor released its audit of the University of California last July. In Part I of my analysis, I discussed the...

Links--Martin Luther King's Birthday Special Edition

Links--Martin Luther King's Birthday Special Edition

Senator Lieu proposes capping CSU Presidents' salaries.  Senator Yee proposes extending administrative salary cap to UC.Brown proposes limiting...

Davis, November 18

Davis, November 18

By Kelley ReesWhen I returned to campus after the holidays the calls for resignation and protest seemed largely quieted by the month-long respite. I...

Links for January 11, 2012

Links for January 11, 2012

California Community College Board endorses huge changes to their organization and mission.  The changes may reduce access. Assemblyman proposes state tax break to help middle-class families pay for increasing tuition. Surprise!  The number of Californians with more than a million dollar incomes shot upwards last year.  So did their share of the income stream....

Links for January 9, 2012

Links for January 9, 2012

As you are all aware, the Governor released his proposed budget last week.  Analyses are starting to come in.  The picture they paint is not pretty.  Here is the California Budget Project's "First Impressions"  as well as a more thorough if still preliminary account that they are providing. The California Faculty Association did what UCOP wouldn't: Respond...

How Subsidized Capitalism Hurts Innovation

How Subsidized Capitalism Hurts Innovation

I have a post on my other blog that continues last week's piece about the damage done by our version of publicly-subsidized capitalism. This one is about the high-tech industry that is supposed to save the California and American economies, and less about the universit...

What the Governor's proposed budget means for UC

What the Governor's proposed budget means for UC

by Eric Hays, Executive Director, Council of UC Faculty Associations The budget forecasts a hole of about $9.2 billion that will need to be addressed with cuts or tax increases. Brown is proposing to split the difference, with about half of the hole filled by cuts (mostly to social service programs) and half by his proposed tax increase (a temporary increase of the income tax...

Gov Gives UC Just About Nothing, Continuing the Gradual Termination of UC (Updated 1/7, with revised chart)

Gov Gives UC Just About Nothing, Continuing the Gradual Termination of UC (Updated 1/7, with revised chart)

I have redone our traditional chart of UC's share of state general funds to reflect Gov Jerry Brown's proposal. The UC Regents agreed to request a $411...

Links for January 6, 2012--Special Catching Up From Break Edition

Links for January 6, 2012--Special Catching Up From Break Edition

As Chris noted yesterday, Jerry Brown has released his 2012-13 budget proposal.   It is heavy on cuts to welfare and social services and filled with threats to cut education in a devastating manner if he doesn't get his proposed tax increases. The Higher Ed section of Brown's proposals can be found here.  While the Governor makes a lot of noise about increased...

Higher Ed to be Cut Again Unless Ballot Measures Pass

Higher Ed to be Cut Again Unless Ballot Measures Pass

Same goes for welfare, child care aid, and K-12, as announced by Gov. Jerry Brown at his press conference on his 2012-13 budge...

Tenure for Teachers

Tenure for Teachers

By Bob Samuels As the UC system increases its reliance on funding coming from undergraduate students, it must dedicate itself to paying more attention to undergraduate instruction. At UCLA, for example, a large increase in freshmen enrollments (1,200 additional students) has not been matched with a similar increase in faculty positions. As a result, classes and sections...

Higher Ed in 2012: Background Thoughts on the Public Sector Under Subsidized Capitalism

Higher Ed in 2012: Background Thoughts on the Public Sector Under Subsidized Capitalism

Assuming that hope springs eternal in education like everywhere else, what can public university faculty and staff hope for in 2012? This is a long...