University Week: Virgin Air, UF Online, and the Price of Privatization (Updated)

University Week: Virgin Air, UF Online, and the Price of Privatization (Updated)

It's been a big week--and month--for the afterlife of online higher ed.  After sponsoring or forcing the adoption of online programs over the...

Why Solidarity is Important, or, An Open Letter to UC Faculty

Why Solidarity is Important, or, An Open Letter to UC Faculty

By Earl Perez-Foust, Comparative Literature, UCSB Dear UC Faculty, I am a graduate student at UCSB and a rank-and-file member of the UC Student-Workers Union...

From MOOCs to FemTechNet: a Review of the 2014 Berkeley Online Summit

From MOOCs to FemTechNet: a Review of the 2014 Berkeley Online Summit

by John Scott, School of Education, UC Berkeley Located on opposite sides of the country, San Jose State and MIT are not usually linked together in...

Abortion in the Culture Wars: Some Effects of Academia's Weakness (Updated)

Abortion in the Culture Wars: Some Effects of Academia's Weakness (Updated)

The national media has spoken on a confrontation between a professor and an anti-abortion group at UCSB on March 4th.  It is not pleased with...

UC Care Stories

UC Care Stories

Now that the UC Care debacle has moved beyond the poor planning stage (leaving some campuses with significantly less access to care while paying the...

@Berkeley: #MyFirstMOOC

@Berkeley: #MyFirstMOOC

A video explanation by UC Berkeley's John Sco...

When Will UC Stop Downgrading Faculty Salaries and Benefits?

When Will UC Stop Downgrading Faculty Salaries and Benefits?

by Colleen Lye and James Vernon Co-chairs of the UC Berkeley Faculty Association Cross-posted from the Daily Cal Graphic from UC Accountability Report...

ONE DEBT AT UC DAVIS AND BEYOND

ONE DEBT AT UC DAVIS AND BEYOND

Students and faculty at UC Davis have created an interactive site (One University, One Debt) for representing and sharing information about the growing...

University Week: Are Public Universities Cool Again?

University Week: Are Public Universities Cool Again?

Business Week thinks so: its headline is "Krugman Move Boosts CUNY Effort to Escape Columbia, NYU Shadow."   In this piece, cool is a public...