The working conditions of lecturers are learning conditions of students
Karissa Ho/Staff
It is time we all support the lecturers who play an essential role in teaching our classes, yet are continuously unsupported.
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The one size fits all campus reopening plan is dangerous
Whether we like it or not, students, instructors and their households are all about to take part in a giant public health experiment.
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University of California must allow faculty to boycott Israel in academia
On Dec. 13, the 10 UC chancellors took the unusual step of signing a collective statement that opposed the “academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions and/or individual scholars” as being a “direct and serious” threat to academic freedom. When some faculty members expressed concerns that such a high-level collective statement
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Robert Reich would be superb leader for this campus
The tide is turning: There is growing consensus across political lines about the imperative of reinvesting in public infrastructure and public education. In no other way is it possible to improve the quality of our public education system and recover its promise of equal opportunity for students and research in
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UC falsely describes tuition plan as ‘Robin Hood’ scheme
In the past decade, as tuition at the University of California has nearly doubled, it has become commonplace to hear that tuition hikes do not adversely affect low-income students. UC Berkeley’s leaders have spearheaded this argument. Former Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and former vice provost George Breslauer assert that higher tuition
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Paying more yet getting even less
UC faculty need to wake up to the systematic degradation of their pay and benefits. In 2009, when the salary furlough temporarily cut faculty salaries between 4 and 10 percent, faculty were outraged. Yet since then, our compensation has been hit by a more serious and seemingly permanent double blow.
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Fixing the UC retirement system time bomb
UC students appreciate that faculty achievements have made their university among the very best in the world. Many also know that UC faculty members have long been underpaid compared to faculty members at our peer universities. Historically, however, lower salaries were balanced by a superb retirement system. In return for
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