Over 1200 staff and faculty at the University of California have signed a petition protesting a demand by top UC executives for higher compensation. To sign the petition, go here The petition reads: We, the undersigned faculty and staff of the University of California, urge you to resist the request by 36 top executives and deans to raise the pensions of those making over $245K. At a time when the UC pension system is endangered and the entire instructional and research enterprise of UC is imperiled we find it outrageous that these managers — whose very job it is to steward the system — would demand exorbitant pension compensation. They cannot have it both ways: private sector salary levels and [...]
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Viewpoints: UC execs’ pension plea is demoralizing Special to The Bee Published Thursday, Jan. 06, 2011 Recently the San Francisco Chronicle reported that “three dozen of the University of California’s highest paid executives are threatening to sue unless UC agrees to spend tens of millions of dollars to dramatically increase retirement benefits for employees earning more than $245,000.” Some of these “Gilded 36″ receive salaries in excess of $500,000. All will receive sizable pensions, even without this increase, while their salaries, bonuses, and perks allow opportunities for additional retirement saving and investment. These are opportunities most UC employees and Californians can only dream of. In their letter to UC President Mark Yudof, these executives and deans stated that failure to [...]
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PRESS RELEASE, January 4, 2011 SAVE the University and the Berkeley Faculty Association UC FACULTY OUTRAGED BY “THE GILDED 36″, WORRIED ABOUT REPERCUSSIONS FOR UC Nearly 1000 UC faculty and staff have signed a petition to UC President Mark Yudof condemning the demands of the 36 UC executives threatening to sue UC over the pension cap on salaries above $245K. The number of signatories is remarkable given that the petition has been circulating for less than two days and campuses are only slowly reopening after winter break. Approximately 80% of the signatories are faculty. The petition, http://www.gopetition.com/petition/41718.html, reads in part: “At a time when the UC pension system is endangered and the entire instructional and research enterprise of UC is [...]
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SAVE the University has circulated the following statement to the UCB administration. It concerns the manifest failings of the new AP Bears on-line system for documenting faculty activity for promotion — replacing the old annual bio-bibliography. Unfortunately, AP Bears is cumbersome and time-consuming, wasting valuable faculty and staff time & energy. SAVE appeal on APBears
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Speech to the Regents on the UC “Commission on the Future” Report December 13, 2010 Wendy Brown Emanuel Heller Professor of Political Science Co-Chair, Berkeley Faculty Association, UC Berkeley wlbrown@berkeley.edu Historically, UC has offered the unparalleled combination of premier faculty, path-breaking research, top-ranked graduate programs, and sterling undergraduate education available to the top 8th of California high school students. All of these are now seriously threatened by the state fiscal crisis and the Commission on the Future is to be commended for thinking hard about how to secure faculty, research and graduate programs amidst these threats. What it proposes to throw under the bus, however, is undergraduate education–both its access by California students and its quality. This is particularly evident [...]
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The Daily Californian Online UC Commission on the Future Releases Final Report By Jordan Bach-Lombardo Contributing Writer Monday, December 6, 2010 Category: News > University > Higher Education With the University of California facing an increasingly precarious financial situation, the university’s Commission on the Future unveiled its final recommendations for maintaining the UC’s fiscal viability on Monday. The recommendations focus on various methods to generate revenue for the university in a time of drastically reduced state funding for the system’s 10 campuses, including increasing the number of out-of-state students, negotiating better cost recovery rates to reduce research overhead costs, increasing the amount of money yielded through private fundraising and increasing the revenue generated by the UC’s self-supporting programs. “UC is [...]
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