Curating the Humanities

Curating the Humanities

As Lindsay Thomas's critique of the American Academy's The Heart of the Matter makes clear, the increasingly conventional effort to justify the humanities...

National Humanities Report Reinforces Stereotypes about the Humanities

National Humanities Report Reinforces Stereotypes about the Humanities

By Lindsay Thomas (Department of English, UCSB) In June 2013, the American Academy of Arts & Science’s Commission on the Humanities and Social...

Surprising Office Politics at UCSF Mission Bay (Updated 11/25)

Surprising Office Politics at UCSF Mission Bay (Updated 11/25)

Why does it cost too much to build offices for medical faculty in Mission Hall? UCSF is one of the country’s great medical schools, and after hitting...

UCSB Health Care Update: The Rest of Tier 1 is Yet to Come

UCSB Health Care Update: The Rest of Tier 1 is Yet to Come

On Friday morning I along with the rest of UCSB's campus received an email from UCSB's Senate Divisional Chair Kum-Kum Bhavnani with the promising...

UCR Faculty Association Letter to Colleagues on UC Care and Riverside (Hint: It is a lot like Santa Barbara)

UCR Faculty Association Letter to Colleagues on UC Care and Riverside (Hint: It is a lot like Santa Barbara)

Dear Colleagues, The recent changes to the health care insurance plans available to UC faculty and staff have resulted in a radical reduction in...

UCSB FA Open Letter to President Napolitano on UCOP and the Health Care Fiasco

UCSB FA Open Letter to President Napolitano on UCOP and the Health Care Fiasco

November 14, 2013 Dear President Napolitano, Last week our campus was visited by a delegation from UCOP – including Peter Taylor, John Strobo,...

The Old State Funding Model is Dead: What Will Replace It?

The Old State Funding Model is Dead: What Will Replace It?

In her remarks at the UC Regents' meeting on Wednesday, UC President Janet Napolitano accepted Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal for a tuition freeze in 2014-15,...