by Michael Burawoy | Mar 1, 2021 | Commentary, Weekly
Our colleagues at the University of California Riverside are seeking our support as they face a strangulating 11% cut to their campus budget, substantially greater than other campuses. The distribution of state funding among the campuses is shaped by a number of...
by Michael Burawoy | Feb 22, 2021 | Commentary, Weekly
Yesterday there was an important event – Progressive Democrats of America and The Council of UC faculty associations (CUCFA of which the BFA is a member) hosted a public meeting to reclaim the California Master Plan for Higher Education in California. The meeting...
by Michael Burawoy | Feb 15, 2021 | Commentary, Weekly
Last Friday, the BFA Board met for its Winter Meeting. It was a full agenda, but here are some of the highlights. We began by welcoming two new board members: Cori Hayden (Anthropology), and Poulomi Saha (English). Eric Hays, the Executive Director of the Council of...
by Michael Burawoy | Feb 8, 2021 | Commentary, Weekly
We’d like to congratulate DIVCO on starting a conversation about what sort of university we want after COVID-19, about “the values we share about the importance of in-person participation in the academic life of the campus, and how those should guide our thinking...
by Michael Burawoy | Feb 1, 2021 | Commentary, Weekly
The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA), of which the BFA is a member, held a meeting on January 25 to strategize for a meeting with President Michael Drake on February 8. CUCFA came up with six proposals: The national conversation on tuition-free and debt-free...
