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 to the hardwood floors and Venetian plastered walls. The tenant was Mark G. Yudof, president of the University of California. His midnight move was the latest chapter in a two-year housing drama that has cost the university more than $600,000 and has drawn senior U.C. officials into an increasingly time-consuming and acrimonious ordeal over the president’s private residence. The effort to resolve Mr. Yudof’s housing [...]
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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 the university’s footprint “from Kentucky to Kuala Lumpur” has turned some heads — and churned some stomachs. Edley, dean of the law school at the University of California at Berkeley, has been using his position as co-chair of the education and curriculum working group for the UC Commission on the Future to advocate for an ambitious expansion of the system’s online arm that could eventually [...]
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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 of this program. Responsibility for children can be a huge barrier to UC access. Indeed, it can be as much an obstacle to low income parenting students, especially female students, as low income itself. We therefore urge the administration to restore to the budget of the campus childcare programs the subsidy for the infants and toddlers of low-income students. With tuition skyrocketing and the state [...]
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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 annual survey.” click here to be redirected to the report at the AAUP website
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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 an “Educate the State” rally, part of a statewide day of action in support of public education. 750 people have already signed up. More faculty and students will join them by car, train and bus from the Bay Area and Santa Cruz. For the first time in California history, all sectors of the state’s education system —K-12, community colleges, CSUs, and UCs — will band [...]
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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 is meant to target legislators by bringing the voice of the public to the state capital. Why should I go? If you are a UC faculty member, a student, a parent, a community member, or anyone who benefits from an educated populace, it is in your interest to try to marshal more support for public education, and to stop the erosion of this support, which [...]
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