November 3, 2009 Russell Gould, Chairman UC Regents 1111 Franklin St., 12th floor Oakland, CA 94607 fax (510) 987-9224 Dear Chair Gould, At the October 28 meeting of the Regents Committee on Audit and Compliance, I requested that the committee Read More …
They Pledged Your Tuition Index CUCFA President Robert Meister has written a series of articles about UC’s use of tuition as collateral for construction bonds. This page is an index to those articles and to related materials. They Pledged Your Read More …
by Bob Meister, President, Council of UC Faculty Associations I said this to the Regents Committee on Audit and Compliance. It was a “Regents” meeting in name only. Only two Regents were physically present (at least one more was on Read More …
by Bob Meister, President, Council of UC Faculty Associations Professor of Political and Social Thought, UC Santa Cruz (A pdf version of this document is available.) On October 20, UC issued a press release[1] (10/20/09) in which VP’s Taylor and Read More …
by Bob Meister, President, Council of UC Faculty Associations Professor of Political and Social Thought, UC Santa Cruz (A PDF version of this document is available.) Faculty colleagues have many questions about my open letter to students, “They Pledged Your Read More …
An Open Letter to UC Students From Bob Meister, President, Council of UC Faculty Associations Professor of Political and Social Thought, UC Santa Cruz (A PDF of this document is also available.) As students, you pay tuition in order to Read More …
August 10, 2009 Dear UC President Yudof and President of the Board of Regents Gould, As officers of the Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) and Chairs of several campus Faculty Associations, we see great value in your Read More …
Report on Regents Meeting Bob Meister President, Council of UC Faculty Associations CUCFA spoke at the July 15 Regents meeting. We called attention to our lawyer’s letter, which says that the Regents would violate their own rules by acting on Read More …
On July 15th, CUCFA President Robert Meister spoke to the UC Regents during the public comment period. Here is the text of that speech: You can’t declare a financial emergency today without violating your own rules. Adopting J1 [the power Read More …
An image of CUCFA’s legal challenge of the legality of the emergency actions the Regents may take July 15th is available [PDF]. The text below was retyped from the linked to image and may have some errors. July 14, 2009 Read More …