The Berkeley Faculty Association has developed a petition that will be delivered to Peter Chester, Director, UCOP Labor Relations and Janet Napolitano, President, University of California. The petition states “Faculty support UAW contract negotiations with the University of California for … Continue reading
UC Faculty in Support of Graduate Students
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Ruin In Progress: How its Buildings Reflect the University’s Changing Mission
A talk by Gray Brechin, Project Scientist, Department of Geography (Berkeley) Round-Table with Margaretta Lovell, Professor in the History of Art Department (Berkeley), and Roberta Park, Professor Emerita, Department of Integrative Biology (Berkeley) Friday, March 7, 5 pm, 315 Wheeler. … Continue reading
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CUCFA Concerns re: Rescission of 1989 Guidelines on University-Industry Relations
On July 6, CUCFA sent the following letter to UC President Janet Napolitano in response to the June 26, 2014 announcement that she has rescinded a policy that barred the university from investing directly in companies that commercialize technology that … Continue reading
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Press Release – Berkeley Faculty Association Supports Call for UC Divestment
The Berkeley Faculty Association urges the Regents of the University of California to divest from fossil fuels at its meeting on 17 September 2014. As a public university the University of California has a special duty to help lead the … Continue reading
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The New Normal: What does it mean to work at UC today – a BFA sponsored event 9/30/14
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The Operation of the Machine: UC Then and Now, A BFA Sponsored Event 10/1/14
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The Operation of the Machine: UC Then and Now
This is the first of several papers that Remaking the University blog, by Michael Meranze and Chris Newfield, is publishing on the implications of the Free Speech Movement. Colleen Lye kicks off the week with these questions. More are explored by Leigh Raiford, … Continue reading
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Video of “The Operation of the Machine”
Streaming video of the Berkeley Faculty Association Presentation: “The Operation of the Machine: U.C. Then and Now” A Teach-in on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Free Speech Movement” (UC Berkeley, October 1, 2014) is now available: Prof. … Continue reading
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Free Speech and Free UC, a paper presented by Chris Newfield
Members of the FSM had to fight for free speech on campus, as we still must. But they did not have to fight for a free university. They already had one. They succeeded at winning specific free speech protections. The free university, they took for granted. Continue reading
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After the Freeze: UC Privatization Since 2012
At one of the first walkout planning meetings I attended that fall, people were talking about something called the “Meister report,” which I later learned was named after its author, UC Santa Cruz Professor Bob Meister. The Report talked about how UC administrators were able to take out low-interest construction bonds because they essentially pledged to Moody’s and other rating agencies that they would raise student tuition if necessary to pay back the bonds. Continue reading
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Council of UC Faculty Association statement on UC’s planned tuition increases
Below please find a letter that The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA), the systemwide organization of which the Berkeley Faculty Association is a member, sent today to President Napolitano and the UC Regents regarding their recent proposal to raise tuition … Continue reading
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Who will pay for the University of California?
If the UC is to continue to provide Californians access to a world-class education and bring prosperity to the state by helping make it a center of global innovation, we have to reinvest in it. Does Brown want to be … Continue reading
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California public higher education union coalition letter to Gov. Brown
Pasted below is the text of a union coalition letter that was sent today, December 15, 2014, to Governor Brown and other state leaders, as well as the leaders of the three higher ed systems. Dear Governor Brown: The escalating crisis in … Continue reading
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On-line petition to President Napolitano regarding health insurance- January 2015
There have been many recent changes to UC Health Care, including the removal of UC retirees from UC health plans if they move out of California, reduction of UC contributions to retiree health care from 100% to 70%, and the … Continue reading
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The New Normal: What does it mean to work at UC today – a BFA sponsored event 9/30/14
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UC falsely describes tuition plan as ‘Robin Hood’ scheme
In the past decade, as tuition at the University of California has nearly doubled, it has become commonplace to hear that tuition hikes do not adversely affect low-income students. UC Berkeley’s leaders have spearheaded this argument. Former Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and former vice provost George Breslauer assert that higher tuition has actually increased access to UC Berkeley. They argue that in the old days of low tuition, white, middle-class students were subsidized by the state, whereas now the campus acts like Robin Hood and redistributes wealth, charging rich students high tuition and returning much of it in aid to the poor. Continue reading
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BFA 4/30/15 Letter to VC Koshland re: Status of Online Education working group
Dear Vice Chancellor Koshland, We are writing to inquire on the progress of the working group you convened last summer around the issues of copyright and intellectual property raised by online education initiatives across campus. As you are no doubt … Continue reading
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Update from VC Koshland’s re: Copyright Online Education working group
Vice Chancellor Koshland responded to our letter of April 30, 2015 in which we requested an update on the Copyright Online Education working group. His response is pasted below. *********************************** May 6, 2015 Dear Professor Lye and Professor Vernon, Thank … Continue reading
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Faculty Association Analysis of the UC Budget
The Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) has released the following statement to help inform faculty about the terms and consequences of the revised budget. The May Revise As the Legislature and Governor enter the end game for … Continue reading
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BFA statement on student dependent healthcare
Dear Dean Fiona Doyle, The Berkeley Faculty Association wishes to express its grave concerns about the restructuring of healthcare for the dependents of graduate students.
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