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		<title>AAUP Endorses October 7</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 7, 2010, has been designated a national day of action to defend public education and to protest its privatization. The AAUP supports these efforts. Privatization in higher education in recent decades has brought disproportionate increases in: * non-educational, administrative expenditures; * tuition/fees, with related proportional declines in state support; * contingent faculty who are hired and fired at whim, with limited if any protections for being academically demanding (a few unhappy student “customers” can equal complaints and non-renewal), or for addressing controversial topics in their teaching and research (often on key public policy issues) in the full range of fields in academe, including science and engineering; &#038; * many costly ventures that too often fail for they are undertaken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call to Action October 7</title>
		<link>http://ucscfa.org/2010/08/call-to-action-october-7-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 7th Day of Action and October 30-31st Mobilizing Conference In Defense of Public Education and Public Services The historic actions, protests and strikes of last Fall and Spring showed our state and the nation that students, teachers, staff, and our communities are determined to fight against the cuts, layoffs, fee hikes, and the shrinking access to public education and services. However, our fight is far from over. On October 7th, supporters of public education plan to unite and demand accessible, affordable and quality education for all. Public higher-education is an engine of economic growth that benefits all communities at large, but students of color across the nation are being tracked into non-academic programs while ethnic and multi-cultural classes are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYT: Yudof&#8217;s Housing Raises Ire</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times University Head’s Housing Raises Ire By STEVE FAINARU Five minutes before midnight on June 30, movers hauled the last boxes from a spectacular rented home in the Oakland Hills. The tenant’s lease was about to expire, and in his haste to get out, he left behind thousands of dollars of damage to the hardwood floors and Venetian plastered walls. The tenant was Mark G. Yudof, president of the University of California. His midnight move was the latest chapter in a two-year housing drama that has cost the university more than $600,000 and has drawn senior U.C. officials into an increasingly time-consuming and acrimonious ordeal over the president’s private residence. The effort to resolve Mr. Yudof’s housing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UC Grad Student Pay Lags Behind Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article was published in The Daily Cal, UC Berkeley&#8217;s student newspaper. By Alisha Azevedo Contributing Writer Monday, July 26, 2010 Category: News > University > Academics and Administration As the University of California tries to absorb massive cuts in state funding, a recent UC report shows that without addressing the many financial challenges graduate students face, the academic quality of the entire UC system could slowly erode. The report, as well as a recent survey of UC Berkeley graduate students, found many concerns about graduate students&#8217; level of compensation, working conditions, child services and affordable housing. These concerns and possible solutions will be addressed when Steven Beckwith, UC vice president for research and graduate studies, presents the Biennial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samuels on Online Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Two Big University Lies: Why the University of California Wants to Promote Virtual Slums by Bob Samuels, UC-AFT President Published on Huffington Post, July 20, 2010 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-samuels/the-two-big-university-li_b_652789.html) In discussing the fiscal problems of the University of California with the Chronicle of Higher Education, President Mark Yudof argued that driving the budgetary problems for the university is the high cost of instructional salaries. According to this common argument, many costs of universities can be reduced, but the high salaries of tenured faculty cannot be lowered, and so the only solution is to find a less expensive way of delivering courses. In the case of the UC system, the proposed solution is to turn to distance education. Unfortunately, the entire UC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call to Action October 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following call to action was recently issued by the California organizing committee formed at the Second Conference Against Privatization in Los Angeles last April. October 7th Day of Action and October 23-24th Mobilizing Conference In Defense of Public Education and Public Services The historic actions, protests and strikes of last Fall and Spring showed our state and the nation that students, teachers, staff, and our communities are determined to fight against the cuts, layoffs, fee hikes, and the shrinking access to public education and services. However, our fight is far from over. On October 7th, supporters of public education plan to unite and demand accessible, affordable and quality education for all. Public higher-education is an engine of economic growth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SF Chron Op-Ed: UC must put emphasis on education, not brand</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UC must put emphasis on education, not brand Timothy Hampton,Garrison Sposito Tuesday, July 13, 2010 The UC Board of Regents will discuss this week a proposal by the University of California president&#8217;s office for an ambitious plan to market UC online. The proposal entertains the vision of an eventual online bachelor&#8217;s degree that could tap new students throughout the world, from &#8220;Sheboygan to Shanghai.&#8221; In fact, the track record for online higher education is very uneven. It requires enormous up-front investments and continual investments for upgrades. Given these high stakes and the financial pressures on UC in the current economic climate, it is crucial for California&#8217;s public university to move prudently. As educators and scholars, we are, like our students, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SF Chron: UC online degree rattles Academics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Nanette Asimov, July 12, 2010 Taking online college courses is, to many, like eating at McDonald&#8217;s: convenient, fast and filling. You may not get filet mignon, but afterward you&#8217;re just as full. Now the University of California wants to jump into online education for undergraduates, hoping to become the nation&#8217;s first top-tier research institution to offer a bachelor&#8217;s degree over the Internet comparable in quality to its prestigious campus program. &#8220;We want to do a highly selective, fully online, credit-bearing program on a large scale &#8211; and that has not been done,&#8221; said UC Berkeley law school Dean Christopher Edley, who is leading the effort. But a number of skeptical faculty members and graduate student instructors fear that a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Online UC Degree: Panacea or Mirage?</title>
		<link>http://ucscfa.org/2010/06/190/</link>
		<comments>http://ucscfa.org/2010/06/190/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kristie Boering, Wendy Brown, Kevis Goodman, Steven Goldsmith and Timothy Hampton And Garisson Sposito Daily Cal, June 28, 2010 On Jun. 14, the UC Commission on the Future met to discuss a proposal circulated by the UC President’s Office for an ambitious plan to market the University of California online. The proposal entertains the vision of an eventual online bachelor’s degree, by tapping new students all over the world from “Sheboygan and Shanghai.” In fact, the track record for online higher education is very uneven. It requires massive upfront investments and continual investments for upgrades. Given these high stakes and the financial pressures on the university in the current political climate, it is crucial for it to move prudently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AAUP Summer Institute!</title>
		<link>http://ucscfa.org/2010/06/aaup-summer-institute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The AAUP&#8217;s Summer Institute at San Diego State is July 29 through August 1st. For more info and a complete schedule you can go here: http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/about/events/SI/default.htm. The Summer Institute consists of a number of workshops on various topics, such as &#8220;50 Years of the Master Plan for California Public Higher Education: Are We Keeping the Promise?&#8221;; &#8220;Organizing 101: Building a Strong Chapter&#8221;; &#8220;Professing Solidarity: Is There a Role for Faculty and the Graduate-Student Labor Movement?&#8221;; &#8220;African American Faculty and Academic Freedom in Higher Education&#8221;; &#8220;Crash Course in Analyzing your Institution&#8217;s Financial Health&#8221;; &#8220;Media Outreach: How to Get Noticed and What to do Once You Are,&#8221; and &#8220;Public Medical Schools, Corporate Model: How Can Faculty Fix What Ails Their Core Mission,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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