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...
by admin | 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...
by admin | Oct 10, 2022 | Viewpoints Page
The Berkeley Faculty Association urges all Senate faculty to join our efforts to refund the university library. The library is the beating heart of the university’s research and teaching mission. Without its collections and professional staff, Senate and...
by admin | Sep 22, 2022 | Viewpoints Page
Dear Colleagues, Given the particular importance of the traditions of free speech and academic freedom on this campus the Berkeley Faculty Association urges you to read and consider the draft report of the The Joint Senate-Administration Workgroup on the Role of the...
by admin | Feb 4, 2022 | Viewpoints Page
Dear Chancellor Christ, The University of California is a leader in academic excellence, innovative research, and advancing progressive ideals. Nonetheless, our existing health benefits for fertility treatments challenge the campus’s commitment to gender equity and...
