UCOP Ordered Spyware Installed on UC Data Networks (Updated 31 Jan; Updated 3 Feb)

UCOP Ordered Spyware Installed on UC Data Networks (Updated 31 Jan; Updated 3 Feb)

The San Francisco Chronicle has coverage of an issue that has been circulating on faculty email networks at UC Berkeley for a few days.  The piece,...

UC Faculty Associations Oppose Proposed Changes to UC Pension Plan

UC Faculty Associations Oppose Proposed Changes to UC Pension Plan

This is the statement released today by the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA). A link to their petition can be found below. The University...

Pensions, Politics, and the Failures of Leadership

Pensions, Politics, and the Failures of Leadership

The Task Force charged with making a silk purse from the sow's war of President Napolitano's pension agreement with Governor Brown issued its report on...

Top Trends for 2016 Higher Ed: Earth-Two Edition

Top Trends for 2016 Higher Ed: Earth-Two Edition

Since Flash Comics writers discovered the existence of Earth-Two in 1961, readers have been tracking unexpected divergences between the paired...

Follow Austerity Road: The Governor's Higher Education Budget

Follow Austerity Road: The Governor's Higher Education Budget

Governor Brown has issued his proposed 2016-2017 budget.  Shorn of its rhetorical invocation of technocratic answers, the Governor's Higher Education...