The New York Times University Head’s Housing Raises Ire By STEVE FAINARU Five minutes before midnight on June 30, movers hauled the last boxes from a spectacular rented home in the Oakland Hills. The tenant’s lease was about to expire, and in his haste to get out, he left behind thousands of dollars of damage [...]
California Dreamer August 3, 2010 Much of the news surrounding the University of California system has involved whether the network of universities will be able to survive its current budgetary crisis without shrinking in size or quality. In that context, it is no surprise that Christopher Edley Jr.’s plan to use online education to expand [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: March 1, 2010 PLACE: University of California, Berkeley, CA Hundreds of Berkeley Faculty and Students Will Travel to Sacramento for March 4th “Educate the State” Day On March 4, a convoy of buses packed with professors and students from UC Berkeley will be heading to the State Capitol in Sacramento for [...]
FAQs for attending the “Educate The State” rally for public education in Sacramento on March 4 What is this all about? This is a rally to get the public to support public education — ALL levels of public education, from kindergarten through the CC, CSU, and UC systems. It takes place in Sacramento because it [...]
BFA, along with other faculty associations, supports the proposition drawn up by UCB faculty member George Lakoff to restore simply majority rule to the California legislature.
It seems so. See this article from the SF Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/21/BA4V1BL1K3.DTL
