Links for May 29, 2012

Links for May 29, 2012

Student Protests in Quebec continue.  Talks have begun.. In response to protests, Quebec government tries to strike down freedom of assembly.  Protesters respond with new forms of dissernt. Solidarity for Quebec students spreads to the US.   For information on Berkeley actions see Reclaim UC.  Teachers and Students strike in Spain to protest austerity...

UCOP's Latest Threat to Faculty Freedom

UCOP's Latest Threat to Faculty Freedom

By Rei Terada (UCI) and Robert Meister (UCSC) UCOP has proposed changes to the Academic Personnel Manual concerning faculty rights and discipline...

Ending the Master Plan Won't Even Help the Budget

Ending the Master Plan Won't Even Help the Budget

Photo at left was taken in the UC Regents meeting May 16, 2012. On the audio linked below, you can hear them singing "working on a chain gang." The...

When High Tuition Drives Resident Students Away

When High Tuition Drives Resident Students Away

Plan A for saving the quality of public universities has always been restored public funding.  That plan took another beating yesterday with California...

Jerry May Revise California Out of Existence

Jerry May Revise California Out of Existence

As you all have probably heard, Governor Brown released his May Budget Revision with bad news all around.  Faced with lower than expected revenues and higher than predicted costs, Jerry is proposing significant mid year cuts to a series of important health and human services, support structures for the poor, financial assistance to students.  He temporarily shields K-12...

Reframing the Doomday Budget Discussion

Reframing the Doomday Budget Discussion

The agenda for the one-day Regents' meeting May is posted along with most of the agenda materials.  The budget report to the Committee on Finance...

Faculty Assume some Positions

Faculty Assume some Positions

The Cal State faculty have voted to authorize a two-day strike on all 23 campuses if contract talks fail.  The CSU system has been decimated by the same scale of cuts that have hit UC, and has proposed an unprecedented enrollment freeze on some campuses in the spring of 2013.  Faculty have proposed a 1% raise, which the CSU administration has rejected, and some regulations...