Several UC Faculty Associations sent the following letter to UC Regent’s Chair Russell Gould. ———————— Dec. 1, 2009 Russell Gould, Chair UC Regents Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff 1111 Franklin Street, 12th floor Oakland, CA 94607 Dear…
Joe Kiskis attended the UCRP Advisory Board meeting (or, as Joe would call it, the “Advisory” Board) in Oakland last Friday on behalf of all of us and sends us this report: ———— Highlights from the UCRS “Advisory” Board meeting…
The proposed Regents’ budget for 2010-2011 is now online. Long version: Really long version: “Key elements” include: maintaining only a 4% employer contributions and 2% employee contributions to the UC Retirement Plan for the duration of 2010-11; preserving…
An article in the California Aggie about proposed legislation to begin taxing oil extraction to create funds for public higher education quotes DFA member Joe Kiskis. The full article is at and here is an excerpt: AB 656 proposes…
About a hundred people showed up for the teach-in Monday night. Speakers included: Nathan Brown (faculty member), Tarone Bittner (of AFSME), Kaitlin Walker (graduate student), Catherine Fung (graduate student), Ian Kennedy (faculty member), Joshua Clover (faculty member), Jeffrey Bergamini (of…
Your students may have a lot of questions about the impending fee increases, and about the funding situation of UC in general. Faculty and students at UC Davis are sponsoring a teach-in from 7 to 9 pm on Monday in…
The Legislative Analyst’s Office has just issued the following report: The Master Plan at 50: Assessing California’s Vision for Higher Education Almost 50 years ago, the state of California adopted a visionary plan for higher education that sought to forge…
There is a new article on the KeepCaliforniasPromise.org website about the disproportionate growth of administrators at UC and how much it is costing us (four times the savings of the furloughs). The full article is at and an excerpt…
Legal Threats to Academic Freedom and Shared Governance in Higher Education; a presentation by Rachel Levinson, Senior Counsel at the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). November 13, Friday, at 12 noon, in the new Abbaszadeh Lecture Hall, Gallaher Hall…
Some UC faculty members, staff, and students are calling for a strike to protest the proposed 32% student fee increase. The strike is to roughly coincide with the upcoming UC Regents meeting: November 18, 19, and 20. The DFA has…
