Higher Education News From Around The Web
Here are the latest posts from the Berkeley Faculty Association:
- by Michael BurawoyOn May 14, John A. Pérez, Chair of the Board of Regents, and Michael V. Drake, UC President, made a joint statement, congratulating Governor Newsom for “proposing the largest state investment in UC’s history.” The statement waxed enthusiastic about the transformative impact of the revised budget. Reading between the lines and examining the often–elusive details, […]
- by Michael BurawoyShared governance, the concept of administration and faculty making policy and decisions together, has a long history at Berkeley. Our campus’s Academic Senate has more power than most such bodies across the country: the Budget Committee plays a central role in determining FTE, granting tenure and promotion, and other Senate committees control curriculum and set […]
- by Michael BurawoyJust in time for Mother’s Day, parents with children in campus childcare faced plans for increased tuition, shorter hours, and reduced staff next fall. Meanwhile, UCOP is putting the final touches on an improved paid family leave program that is still worse than that of comparable employers throughout the state. Why is the University of […]
- by Michael BurawoyIn early April, the UC unveiled their “Proposed Revisions for UCPD” plans. One proposal is the creation of “Systemwide Response Teams”—in effect, a UC paramilitary force that can be mobilized in response to protest actions, and to provide crowd management and “riot control.” These teams would be armed with body armor, chemical agents, and explosive […]
- by Michael BurawoyThe lecturers’ union (UC-AFT) and UCOP have been bargaining over a new contract for more than two years, with little to show for it. Despite the legal obligation to bargain in good faith, the UCOP negotiators have refused to bargain on basic issues, while regularly demonstrating their disrespect for their UC-AFT interlocutors. Senate faculty who have […]
Dan Mithcell’s UCLA Faculty Association Blog:
- by UnknownFrom an email received around 10 am:BruinALERT: A demonstration with encampments formed early this morning (Thursday, April 25) in Royce Quad.We’re actively monitoring this situation to support a safe and peaceful campus environment that respects our community’s right to free expression while minimizing disruption to our teaching and learning mission.At this time, the typical campus […]
- by UnknownWe have previously blogged about a legislative attempt to have UC do what the Regents ultimately voted against doing: opening jobs to undocumented students. LAist carries a detailed account of what led UC and the Regents to drop the effort to change its internal rules to accommodate such job openings….UC President Michael Drake "basically put […]
- by UnknownOn Monday, we noted an interfaith get together, part of an effort at UCLA to avoid the kind of turmoil now roiling Columbia and some other universities.*While such efforts at UCLA are Good Things to be applauded, there are still issues on campus, apparently centered in the Med School, according to some faculty there who […]
- by UnknownUC is planning to embark on a "total remuneration" study of faculty pay, i.e., a study that compares the total value of salary and benefits with those of other universities. While salary comparisons are relatively easy, valuing the various benefits that are offered is more complicated. The Academic Senate is insisting that the survey be […]
- by UnknownThe Regents are now scheduled for a closed-door meeting about you-know-what.Source: https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/meetings/agendas/april262024.html.
Chris Newfield & Michael Meranze’s Remaking the University
- by Michael MeranzeThe Strike continues with no end in sight. Although there have been tentative agreements concerning Post-Docs and Academic Researchers, in the Academic Student Employee and Student Researcher units, the parties appear to remain well apart on the fundamental economic issues. This distance is most easily seen in the ASE category: although the UAW made significant […]
- by Chris NewfieldI've fixed the mistake in the Los Angeles Times headline on Gov. Gavin Newsom's higher ed budget proposal for 2022-23. In fact, if you add one-time money from the current and coming years, Newsom is proposing overall cuts to UC and CSU.The base general fund increase is five percent next year (see summary slide above), with five […]
- by Chris NewfieldDate: November 23, 2021 To: Susannah Scott, Academic Senate Chair, UCSB Henry Yang, Chancellor, UCSB Cc: Michael V. Drake, UC President Cecilia Estolano, Chair, UC Board of Regents Robert Horwitz, Chair, UC Academic Senate From: Concerned UCSB Senate Faculty Re: The planning of Munger Hall at UCSB The UCSB Academic Senate Town Hall Meeting, “Faculty Questions on […]
- by Chris NewfieldBy Richard WittmanAssociate Professor,Department of the History of Art and Architecture, UCSBfor today's Academic Senate Town Hall meeting, in collaboration with the UCSB Architectural Historians GroupThank you very much for the invitation to speak here today. Time is short, so I will dive right in.Munger Hall is a highly experimental design based on completely untested theories. […]
- by Chris NewfieldAs the pandemic is brought under control, will conditions on UC campuses get better, get worse, or stay the same for the indefinite future? The evidence for "better" boils down to two things. First is the official UCOP interpretation of this year's legislative budget as one of the best increases ever, and thus a sign of […]
Cloudminder:
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National higher education blogs of interest, starting with AAUP’s Academe Blog:
- by Jennifer RuthPOSTED BY JENNIFER RUTH On April 23, 2024, the AAUP-Penn Executive Committee issued the following statement. We condemn in the strongest terms the wave of recent repression of students and faculty engaged in peaceful and principled protest by university administrations across the country. These include the draconian treatment of students by the administrations of Barnard…
- by rachel ida buffBY RACHEL IDA BUFF On April 7, Marquette University Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), with full knowledge and consent by the university administration, planted 41,000 flags to symbolize the death toll from the ongoing genocide in Gaza. That night, three Zionist educators not affiliated with the university desecrated the memorial. One of them carried…
- by Jennifer RuthPOSTED BY JENNIFER RUTH AAUP President Irene Mulvey and the AAUP chapters of Barnard and Columbia released statements regarding Minouche Shafik’s testimony before the House Education and Workforce Committee. Below is Mulvey’s statement, followed by the chapters’ statement. Wednesday, before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, President Shafik threw academic freedom and Columbia…
- by Hank ReichmanBY HANK REICHMAN As a Columbia alum (College ’69), participant in that university’s 1968 student rebellion, advocate for academic freedom and free expression rights, and as a Jew, I have followed developments at Columbia over the past few days with great interest. On Wednesday came the appearance by the co-chairs of the university’s Board of…
- by John K. WilsonBY JOHN K. WILSON Former AAUP President Cary Nelson’s latest book is Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles (Academic Studies Press, 2024). John K. Wilson interviewed him by email about the book in Part I of this discussion. Here in Part II, Nelson examines issues raised since the manuscript was completed last…
Here are the latest posts from Inside Higher Ed:
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Here are the latest posts from the The Chronicle of Higher Education blog:
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