Everyone should be able to retire with dignity with a pension after a lifetime of work. Productivity has increased dramatically over the last 30 years, but most of this increased income has gone to the top 1 percent of earners. At the same time, these earners in the top 1 Read More…
The UC Regents unanimously approved changes to its Faculty Code of Conduct Thursday, including new provisions protecting faculty’s freedom to express opinions regarding institutional matters. Read More…
UC President Mark Yudof spoke at an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, answering questions about his tenure as president and the complicated problems that public higher education has faced in recent years. Yudof, who is set to step down in August after almost five years in office, leaves behind a mixed Read More…
Pursuant to a UC-wide ban on tobacco products, UC Berkeley has established a committee to oversee the move towards becoming tobacco free by 2014. Read More…
Around 15 protesters dressed in black and holding flower-adorned coffins held a “Funeral for Workers’ Rights” on Sproul Plaza Thursday morning in protest of proposed cuts to UC workers’ benefits. Read more here.
About 15 protesters dressed in black and holding flower-adorned coffins held a “Funeral for Worker’s Rights” on Sproul Plaza Thursday morning in protest of proposed cuts to UC workers’ benefits.
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The last two presidential searches – Yudof’s in 2007-08 and his predecessor Robert Dynes’ in 2002-03 – had about 11 months to complete and designated a successor 3 months before the outgoing president officially stepped down. Read More…
On Wednesday, the second of this week’s UC Board of Regents meeting at the UCSF Mission Bay campus focused on the system-wide expansion of online education and its implications for the UC. Read More…
A branch of UC Irvine’s student government has passed a resolution urging the UCI administration divest from companies supporting Israel’s anti-Palestinian policies it alleges violate human rights. Read More…
Despite protesters briefly halting the third and last day of the UC Board of Regents meeting Thursday, members of the board focused most of their discussion on strategies to maximize revenue for the UC system using the relationship between the university and private enterprises. Read More…
