by admin | Apr 1, 2024 | Academic Freedom, Compensation, Financing Public Higher Ed, The Future of the University, UC Administration, Viewpoints Page
Congratulations on your appointment as Chancellor. You have been selected by a process that affords little role to faculty, or any other group of employees on campus. The people hiring you have little experience of the campus you will lead. Here is what you need to...
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...