An Active Year for the Berkeley Faculty Association Prompted by the furloughs announced in summer 2009, a small group of faculty met to reactivate the BFA to protect faculty interests, broadly construed, amidst the current crisis. An October 2009 election brought in a new BFA Board of Directors and officers, after which the BFA swung [...]
Recently, the Berkeley Faculty Association sent a letter to UC Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau opposing cuts to campus child care for the infants and toddlers of low-income students. You can download the letter by clicking here: BFA Opposes Cuts to Early Childhood Education The letter reads, in part: “The Berkeley Faculty Association strongly opposes the elimination [...]
BFA has prepared a brief report on the picture of UC’s future that we believe emerges from a combination of the initial recommendations forwarded by the Working Groups of the UC Commission on the Future (UCOF, aka “the Gould Commission”) and the proposal for a Cyber Campus recently described by Law School Dean Edley. As [...]
Berkeley Faculty Association members: A vote is now proceeding on a resolution introduced by Prof. Schwartz to the Berkeley Academic Senate for an inquiry into UC administration. The voting period is May 7 – May 21, 2010 To vote, go to: http://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/vote/resolution.html Use your CalNet ID and passphrase. The BFA board urges members to vote [...]
