Dear Chancellor Birgeneau, EVC Breslauer and Dean Poullard, The Berkeley Faculty Association joins the Northern California ACLU, the Campus Rights Project, the Berkeley Faculty Petition on the Office of Student Conduct Procedeures, and the UC Berkeley Divisional Council in expressing profound concern about the fairness of disciplinary proceedings against student protesters at this time. We note that several flaws in the current procedures cast doubt on the legitimacy of the charges and the hearings. They include: the failure to afford due process to students charged, the imposition of sanctions without adjudication, the failure to specify evidence necessary to ground the charges, the inadequate protection of the right to protest, and the failure of the Office of Student Conduct to follow [...]
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The American Association of University Professors has just released its report on the Economic Status of the Profession. According to the report, “The average salary for a full-time faculty member was only 1.2 percent higher in 2009–10 than in the previous academic year, the lowest year-to-year change recorded in the fifty years of this comprehensive annual survey.” click here to be redirected to the report at the AAUP website
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The most recently published magazine of the CSU’s California Faculty Association focuses on the Master Plan for Higher Education. Since the Master Plan was passed in California in the 1960s, state funding for public higher education has dropped precipitously. Alice Sunshine, editor of the CFA’s magazine, writes, “For every dollar students paid in fees during fiscal year 1965/1966, the state general fund provided $15. By 2009/2010 the state was down to $1.40 for every dollar students paid in fees.” Click here to download the magazine to read more about the Master Plan
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Sign the Petition to stop the de-tenuring of Professor Ricardo Dominguez at UC San Diego (see previous post for more info): Click here to sign the petition
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April 5, 2010 Dear SVCAA Drake: The UCSD Faculty Coalition has learned that one of its members, Ricardo Dominguez (Associate Professor, Visual Arts Department), is being investigated for an artistic project (“Virtual Sit-In on University of California Office of the President”) he developed on March 4, 2010 in conjunction with the recent student protests on campus. Your office has informed Professor Dominguez that you are attempting to determine the legal grounds necessary to file criminal charges against him. These charges, if successful, could lead to the revocation of his tenure at UCSD or other disciplinary procedures through the Committee on Privilege and Tenure. Two detectives from the UCSD Police Department (Officers Michael Britton and Garrett Williams) have since interviewed Professor [...]
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The news is not good, especially for younger faculty and staff. All faculty need to be aware of the crisis in funding our pensions and the state and university failures to keep up with contributions over the last 20 years. The report can be downloaded as a pdf: BFA-Pension crisis report
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