UC President Mark Yudof and Governor Jerry Brown are working out a deal behind closed doors that will loosen the most important ties between the university and the state. Although they will both praise the deal by saying that it “stabilizes” funding while granting greater “flexibility,” its essence is that each will let the other…
Refund Students, Not Wall Street Years into a crisis caused by Wall Street, the One-Percent owes a tremendous debt to students. California has an opportunity in this year’s state budget to pay back this debt to the next generation of students. The corporate elite have more than made back their money, largely by winning tax breaks…
Approximately two dozen UC Berkeley faculty will join the “99 Mile March for Education and Social Justice” on Friday, March 2nd. The march departs Oakland on Thursday, March 1st, and will arrive in Sacramento on Monday March 5th for a rally on behalf of public education at the State Capitol Building. UC Berkeley faculty will…
December 27, 2011 Governor Jerry Brown c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173 Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone: (916) 445-2841 Fax: (916) 558-3160 Dear Governor Brown, I note that the one year anniversary of David Crane’s appointment to the UC Board of Regents approaches. Having failed to win confirmation of the Senate, Crane’s appointment will soon be voided,…
November 27, 2011 President Mark G. Yudof University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Fax: (510) 987-9086 Dear President Yudof, The Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) protests your decision to hire the Kroll Security Group, and its Chairman William Bratton, to conduct what you call an independent investigation…
This week, we have seen excessive force used against non-violent protesters at UC Berkeley, UCLA, CSU Long Beach, and UC Davis. Student, faculty and staff protesters have been pepper-sprayed directly in the eyes and mouth, beaten and shoved by batons, dragged by the arms while handcuffed, and submitted to other forms of excessive force. Protesters…
The Council of UC Faculty Associations has endorsed the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education (CFHE). CFHE has released the following statement of support for public employees in Ohio: An injury to one is an injury to all. So, too, with a victory for one. We are ALL Ohio. The Campaign for the Future…
The social movement known as Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is growing and raising issues of direct relevance to the faculty, students and staff of the University of California, including contracting opportunities and increasing debt loads for our students created by a system of privatized education and a refusal to provide high quality affordable public higher…
May 12, 2011 Governor Jerry Brown c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173 Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone: (916) 445-2841 Fax: (916) 558-3160 Dear Governor Brown, The Council of UC Faculty Associations wrote to you on March 11th about our opposition to former Governor Schwarzenegger’s nomination of David Crane as UC Regent. Crane has shown disdain for a…
Christine Rosen, the Co-Chair of the Berkeley Faculty Association, wrote the following letter in response to an article in the Berkeley student paper about David Crane’s candidacy as UC Regent. This letter can also be read at the Daily Californian website, as can the original article that the letter was responding to. The flattering article…