by admin | Oct 30, 2023 | Faculty Welfare and Rights, UC Administration, Viewpoints Page
Below is a letter the Council of UC Faculty Associations sent to UC President Michael Drake and the UC Regents objecting to healthcare benefit costs to employees increasing by 15% to 193%, depending on plan and coverage. After the original letter was sent, CUCFA...
by James Vernon | Apr 23, 2023 | California in Crisis, Faculty Welfare and Rights, Financing Public Higher Ed, Students and Costs, The Future of the University, Viewpoints Page
It’s Spring Break, finally. And I am sick. Again. Being sick over Spring Break has become a regular feature of my working life at UC Berkeley over the past decade. It may be just that I am getting old and my body can no longer sustain the intensity of work it...
by admin | Dec 14, 2022 | Faculty Welfare and Rights, Viewpoints Page
As we enter the examination period in the fifth week of the multi-unit UAW strike, uneven flows of information, with competing understandings of the law, have left many faculty unsure about their rights to withhold grades and the potential impact of doing so on...
