President Napolitano Places Chancellor Katehi on Administrative Leave (WITH AN ADDITIONAL UPDATE)

President Napolitano Places Chancellor Katehi on Administrative Leave (WITH AN ADDITIONAL UPDATE)

President Napolitano has placed UC Davis Chancellor Katehi on "investigatory administrative leave." This action follows weeks of debate about the Chancellor's...

UC Davis Letter to UC President Napolitano: Curb Gender Bias by Publishing Policies

UC Davis Letter to UC President Napolitano: Curb Gender Bias by Publishing Policies

by Linda F. Bisson, Former Chair, Davis Division of the Academic Senate, 2006-2008; 2011-2012Rachael E. Goodhue, Chair Elect, Davis Division of the...

Two Faculty Letters to UC President & Chancellors on AAA / BDS Controversy

Two Faculty Letters to UC President & Chancellors on AAA / BDS Controversy

We post two faculty responses to the letter that the University of California's president--in the company of all ten campus chancellors--sent to the...

UC's United Front for Saving the Public Univer . . . Oh

UC's United Front for Saving the Public Univer . . . Oh

I only skimmed the content of the decree because my eyes were drawn to the mighty list of signatures, at left, that took up half the page.  Had...

NTT Faculty Go on Strike at University of Illinois

NTT Faculty Go on Strike at University of Illinois

After approximately eighteenth months of unsuccessful negotiation, the Non-Tenure Faculty Association at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign...

Stop Pushing the Crisis Around: Setting Goals at UC Berkeley and UCSB

Stop Pushing the Crisis Around: Setting Goals at UC Berkeley and UCSB

Is there a post-crisis recovery for UC and its university kin?  So far, not so much.  At this blog, we've been forced to chronicle permanent...

The Management Model Driving Wisconsin's #FakeTenure Saga (Updated April 8th)

The Management Model Driving Wisconsin's #FakeTenure Saga (Updated April 8th)

Somewhere Michael Lewis tells the story about what the boss of a trading floor--perhaps John Meriwether--would do when a trader hung on too long to...