May 10, 2013
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This has been a busy year for the Berkeley Faculty Association. Although Proposition 30 passed in the Fall it effectively amounted to a stay of execution: cancelling cuts planned for this year but doing nothing to ameliorate the impact of … Continue reading
March 28, 2013
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BFA responds to Vice Provost Broughton letter of March 18 about the concerns raised in our letter (15 October) to the Academic Senate’s Faculty Welfare Committee concerning the delay in processing merit and promotion cases.
March 17, 2013
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The UC Systemwide Committee on Faculty Welfare (UCFW) carefully studied the recent report on faculty salaries, recruitment, and retention released by the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO).
January 10, 2013
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BFA letter to the Chair, University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communications to express our concern that the proposed policy to expand open access to research publications fails to address many of the issues faced by faculty whose articles, books, and other publications include embedded copyrighted material. Continue reading
December 18, 2012
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This recent New York Times article points out that the disparity between salaries are growing both between institutions and between faculty and administrators. Here’s an excerpt: In 2010, the 10 top-earning presidents made, on average, 4.4 times what a typical … Continue reading
November 22, 2012
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This is the message from the administration announcing that the university will not turn over campus childcare centers (the Early Childhood Education Program) to Bright Horizons. BFA was part of the coalition of campus groups and activist faculty, student, and staff parents who voiced multiple concerns that helped lead to this change of position.
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