UC Faculty Join “99 Mile March” to Sacramento

UC Faculty Join “99 Mile March” to Sacramento

This is a Berkeley Faculty Association PRESS RELEASE.  UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau has also endorsed the March 5th rally in Sacramento...

Links for February 29th

Links for February 29th

More on the March Days of Action.   Also check out Refund California. Community Colleges may get unexpected funding cut of nearly $150 million....

Links for February 28th

Links for February 28th

Reclaim UC has a post on why to march and protest. Even Birgenau realizes he should support it and endorses the March 5 scheduled rally.  We are not so sure about Edley. UC continues to try to sell inequality as its product; average compensation for grads from various UC campuses differ. Operational Excellence team lays out its vision for why they should destroy working...

Education Trouble and the Leadership Crisis

Education Trouble and the Leadership Crisis

I spoke at a half-dozen public university events over the past 10 days, in California (Irvine), Maine (Orono), New Jersey (New Brunswick), winding up...

Police Violence and the First Amendment

Police Violence and the First Amendment

Although the administrations (and some of the faculty) at UC Berkeley and UC Davis would clearly like for last fall's police violence to fade into...

Shared Services Part II

Shared Services Part II

By AnonStaff My understanding is that Shared Services will be based on the Research Enterprise Services model.  Many of the time-consuming...

Shared Services Part I

Shared Services Part I

By AnonStaff Over the past three years the Bain report and the creation of Operational Excellence on the Berkeley campus has been responsible for...

Davis Agonistes

Davis Agonistes

The Davis Senate concluded its vote Friday on the motion to declare non-confidence in Chancellor Katehi.  The motion failed 697-312.  A second...

Tasers

Tasers

According to Amnesty International around 500 people have died in the last decade after being shocked by Tasers.  Although A.I. is not claiming...

UC Davis Faculty to Vote On Motion of Non-Confidence in Chancellor Katehi

UC Davis Faculty to Vote On Motion of Non-Confidence in Chancellor Katehi

It is now 3 months since the cases of police violence at Berkeley and Davis.  Although UC's senior managers expressed profound concern and promised...

Private University Wealth Doesn't Help Attainment

Private University Wealth Doesn't Help Attainment

Stanford University has announced that its recently concluded fundraising campaign brought in $6.2 billion in gifts.  The new money added about $900,000 per enrolled undergraduate ($400,000 per enrolled student) on top of the world's already fifth biggest university endowment ($16.5 billion in 2010-11).  At the 5% payout the federal government wants to see as a floor...

Have We Protected Poor Students from Debt?

Have We Protected Poor Students from Debt?

Administrative hand-wringing over access has been focused on the giant hole in the income donut where dwell "middle class" students with family incomes...

Links for February 8, 2012

Links for February 8, 2012

CSUN Associated Students oppose Brown's budget.   Here is more on the threats to CSU (h/t Cloudminder for these 2) The LAO also opposes the...

Links for February 7, 2012

Links for February 7, 2012

Charlie Schwartz has a new piece on how to read university budgets. Reclaim UC has a new flyer on privatization and race, and class inequalities. Mark...

Links for February 1, 2012

Links for February 1, 2012

Bob Samuels reflects on Mark Yudof's response to President Obama's education initiative.  Yudof seems to be making the rounds as he talks here as well. Students at Berkeley Challenge Edley and Robinson:  Why Have an Armed Police Force on Campus? The California Budget Project has a new study of the deep effects that the recession and budget cuts in California have...