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 [...]
Excellent analysis of how far things have fallen across the country. It’s not just California — though we are leading the way down. Henwood on debt & education
Samuels-How Universities Became Hedge Funds Bob Samuels of the AFT has written a provocative analysis of how universities, including UC, joined the game of finance in the go-go years of rising markets and deepening debt — in place of secure funding. And have increased the risk of losses and lessened public control of state institutions.
Minutes of BFA Board meeting, January 22, 2010. BFA Board minutes 1-22-2010
Excellent opinion piece by two UCD Med School profs, published in the San Jose Mercury. Jue&Thesis-Money Not the Only Threat
Excellent statement on the crisis of the university by Peter Glazer and Greg Levine of SAVE — from the Townsend Center newsletter. Glazer_Levine_article
Dick Walker & Gray Brechin have written a provocative op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle on the need for the Obama Administration to launch another New Deal, well beyond what has yet been done. Food for thought. Walker&Brechin-New DealCA-OpEd
The Master Plan at 50: Assessing California’s Vision for Higher Education We’ve added a link to a new report from the state’s Legislative Analyst Office on the state’s master plan for higher education. It provides a brief but succinct overview of the plan, talks about how out of alignment the system now is relative to [...]
Where Does UC Tuition Go? by Bob Meister, President, Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) Professor of Political and Social Thought, UC Santa Cruz 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 debt service.[1] [...]
From CUCFA President Bob Meister: SUPPORT ACCESSIBLE HIGH QUALITY PUBLIC EDUCATION IN CALIFORNIA 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 [...]
