Higher Education News From Around The Web

Here are the latest posts from the Berkeley Faculty Association:

  • by Michael Burawoy
    On 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 Burawoy
    Shared 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 Burawoy
    Just 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 Burawoy
    In 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 Burawoy
    The 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 Unknown
    From UrbanizeLA: Nine months acquiring the historic Trust Building in Downtown Los Angeles to use as a satellite campus, UCLA is shedding light on what's coming to 433 S. Spring Street.The 11-story building, which was the recently the subject of a head-to-toe restoration by Rising Realty Partners., was completed in 1928 as corporate offices, and […]
  • by Unknown
    The session opened with the full board hearing public comments. Topics covered were antisemitism, opposition to the Hawaiian telescope (TMT), decarbonization (anti-fossil fuels), staffing problems, staff pay, item J1 (departmental political statements – deferred to May meetings), substance abuse services, sexual abuse services, undocumented students, climate change, and FAFSA deadlines. A talk by an undergraduate […]
  • by Unknown
    From the Chronicle of Higher Education: A technical problem with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, has resulted in inaccurate estimates of some applicants’ aid eligibility, the U.S. Department of Education announced on Friday. The latest snag in a series of complications with the new form will require the department to reprocess […]
  • by Unknown
    The afternoon meeting of the Regents on March 20th partly picked up material delayed from the morning due to a disturbance at the morning meeting. Regent chair Leib took note of antisemitic incidents as did President Drake in remarks. Faculty rep Steintrager expressed concerns about the issues of the chancellor selection process and debate about […]
  • by Unknown
    From the LA Times: …Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic leaders of the state Senate and Assembly announced an agreement on Wednesday to take action in April to begin to dramatically reduce California’s historic shortfall.The problem: Democrats at the state Capitol couldn’t actually agree on an amount — offering only a range of $12 billion to […]

Chris Newfield & Michael Meranze’s Remaking the University

  • by Michael Meranze
    The 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 Newfield
    I'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 Newfield
    Date: 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 Newfield
    By 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 Newfield
    As 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 coloradocaprice
    BY CAPRICE LAWLESS Most community college faculty are paid poverty-level wages and so can’t afford the laptops they need to teach, especially when they teach remotely. Even so, neither state lawmakers nor college administrators budget for them. Perhaps, I thought, a national initiative might provide them the technology they need to serve the nation’s most…
  • by Guest Blogger
    BY LAUREN GUTTERMAN AND LISA L. MOORE On February 22nd, 2024, Dr. Paige Schilt, a social worker, author, and former lecturer and staff member at the University of Texas at Austin, was scheduled to give a talk entitled “A Queer Path to Leadership: Finding a Mentor to Help You Succeed in Higher Education.” It was…
  • by Guest Blogger
    We are posting this March 21 letter from the executive committee of the University of Virginia AAUP chapter with the chapter’s permission. James Ryan, UVa President Ian Baucom, UVa Provost Deans, UVa Schools Michael Kennedy, Chair Faculty Senate Amanda Flora, Chair General Faculty Council Dear Colleagues, The University of Virginia (UVa) Chapter of the American…
  • by Mark James
    BY MARK S. JAMES Last August, my colleague wrote about how our university’s leadership has embraced a top-down corporate model as the way of running the university, and he proceeded to describe various instances when they have ignored shared governance and threatened academic freedom. This trend has continued unabated. The most recent example of this…
  • by Matthew Boedy
    BY MATTHEW BOEDY This week I am heading to Baton Rouge to speak to our AAUP colleagues in the Pelican State. My message to be developed in my keynote for the state conference meeting will be: no one is coming to save us and so we have to do much more to save ourselves. I…

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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