The following speech by Nathan Brown, Davis Faculty Association Board Member, and Assistant Professor of English at UC Davis, was delivered at the UC system-wide strike rally held at UC Davis on November 15: Hello Everyone! It’s beautiful to see so many of you here today. On four day’s notice, this is an incredible turnout….
This post has been superseded by updated versions: How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in 2012-13? How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in 2013-14? Raising revenue has become such a taboo subject in California politics, but restoring quality public higher education in California can be…
In November of 2009, cucfa.org/ posted a report by Richard Evans titled “Soon every faculty member will have a personal senior manager” which pointed out that the number of managers at UC was growing far faster than the ranks of the faculty and that, if the trend continued, it would not be long before there…
In 2008, before the 2009 massive tuition increases at UC and CSU, students graduating from 11 public four year colleges in California graduated with more debt than students graduating from Stanford: College College Administered Debt Estimated Total Debt CSU Northridge $21,943 $44,000 CSU San Bernadino $17,872 $36,000 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo $17,848 $36,000 UC…
This post has been superseded by updated versions: How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in 2011-12? How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in 2012-13? How much will it cost us to restore public higher education in 2013-14? Raising revenue has become such…
by Bob Meister, President, Council of UC Faculty Associations Professor of Political and Social Thought, UC Santa Cruz (A PDF version of this article is available.) UC feels free to use Educational Fees however it pleases without accountability. That’s why it can pledge “ed fees” as collateral for construction bonds and use them to pay…
by Richard Evans (A PDF version of this article is available.) In a letter to the UC Davis community, Chancellor Katehi and Provost Lavernia declared that we should work collectively “to address today’s major budget cuts, which come as a consequence of the state’s decade-long disinvestment in higher education.” I think there is a more…
California’s public higher education is at a turning point due to the state’s systematic defunding of the Community College, Cal State, and University of California systems. Most immediately, the University of California Regents will vote at their November 17-19 meeting on a proposal to increase student fees by 32% over the next year. This fee increase would…
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 the phone). All of the other places at the table were taken by UCOP people,…
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 Lenz respond to my Open Letter to Students: “They Pledged Your Tuition.” The UC press…