by admin (Eric old login) | 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 (Eric old login) | Nov 25, 2022 | Financing Public Higher Ed, Higher Education Protests, Student Protests, Students and Costs, UC Administration, Uncategorized, Viewpoints Page
For a week now 48,000 graduate students, postdocs, and student researchers across the University of California have been on the largest strike in the history of US higher education. It is part of a wave of protests that has swept through college campuses around the...
