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		<title>*Essay on responsibilities of tenure-track faculty to address adjunct issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Submitted by Janet Casey on November 21, 2011 &#8211; 3:00am Virtually every professional organization committed to addressing the academy’s dependence on contingent academic labor presumes that tenure-line faculty must take an active role in this cause. As Steve Street wrote in 2008 in an essay on contingent faculty rights: &#8220;It&#8217;s you, the tenured and tenure track faculty, who can effect &#8230; change. Adjuncts need you to, just as you have needed and will continue to need us. We need not just your expressions of empathy but your help in bringing us in — your votes on budget issues that can get us equitable pay, benefits, and job security — because you &#8230; have the institutional power.&#8221; Unfortunately, most contingent faculty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from the SCFA Board to Chancellor Blumenthal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SCFA Board sent the following letter to Chancellor Blumenthal on November 20, 2011 as a reaction to the outrageous police action which has occurred on other UC campuses.  The SCFA is the Santa Cruz Chapter of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, which published (cucfa.org) the statement that we attached to our letter &#8211; and which is reproduced on this page below our letter. &#160; Dear Chancellor Blumenthal Dear Provost EVC Galloway Dear Susan Gillman The Santa Cruz Faculty Association would like to bring to your attention the fact that the Council of University of California Faculty Associations, of which we are a member, is dismayed and alarmed at the police violence that has been used at several U.C. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>* NSP: Eroding the Salary Scales, Undermining Faculty Governance</title>
		<link>http://ucscfa.org/2011/11/nsp-eroding-the-salary-scales-undermining-faculty-governance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joe Kiskis A previous post here provided a brief description of the proposed APM 668 Negotiated Salary Program (NSP) and comments from Professor Stan Glantz on the detrimental consequences of the similar Health Sciences Compensation Plan (HSCP), long used in the UC health system enterprises. In this post, I offer comments directly related to language of the proposed NSP policy for the general campuses. The merit and promotion academic personnel system at the University of California is a great asset of the institution. It is a well-documented and carefully followed system that closely associates rank, step, and salary with accomplishment in teaching, scholarship, and service as evaluated by faculty peers. For many years, UC salary scales have lagged those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>* We Can Restore California&#8217;s Higher Education&#8230;If the Leaders Lead</title>
		<link>http://ucscfa.org/2011/11/we-can-restore-californias-higher-education-if-the-leaders-lead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stanton Glantz cross-listed from KQED   Conventional wisdom says the UC and CSU funding crises are the inevitable result of recession-driven budget shortfalls, and the only solution is to soak students and their families. But it&#8217;s bunk. Shifting costs from the public to students is a deliberate act of public policy. Well before the recession, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the UC and CSU presidents signed the Higher Education Compact. UC and CSU accepted huge cuts in state support and agreed to rapid annual tuition increases in exchange for a broken promise of future financial support. And, though a Democrat, Jerry Brown is accelerating the transformation of higher education from a public good the people of California provide for the benefit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>* Debt and Taxes: Can the Financial Industry Save Public Universities? Privatization Is Now the Problem—Not the Solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article by Bob Meister, examines the limitations of tuition (higher personal debt) as a mode of funding public university systems and, also, the widespread resistance to any tax increase by citizens with falling or stagnant income and growing burdens of debt. It argues that the questions of debt servitude and tax resistance must be considered together if public universities are to regain taxpayer support and become, once again, drivers of greater economic and social equality. [read pdf]]]></description>
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		<title>*Invitation from UCSC FA to “Earned Media” workshop&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[September19, 2011 Welcome back to school! We hope that you have had a productive summer of research and that you are now ready to come back to teaching, as well.  We still are part of a great public university, but, as you know, public, accessible, quality education is under attack all over the country.   This year CUCFA and its associated FA chapters are joining the CSUs and Community Colleges of California in the “Campaign for the Future of Higher Education” [CFHE], a national campaign that includes the voices of the faculty from our universities, colleges, and community colleges, students, and our communities — not just administrators, politicians, foundations and think tanks. The aim is to ensure that curriculum, pricing, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invitation from UCSC FA to “Earned Media” workshop&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://ucscfa.org/2011/09/invitation-from-ucsc-fa-to-%e2%80%9cearned-media%e2%80%9d-workshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 19, 2011 Welcome back to school! We hope that you have had a productive summer of research and that you are now ready to come back to teaching, as well.  We still are part of a great public university, but, as you know, public, accessible, quality education is under attack all over the country.   This year CUCFA and its associated FA chapters are joining the CSUs and Community Colleges of California in the “Campaign for the Future of Higher Education” [CFHE], a national campaign that includes the voices of the faculty from our universities, colleges, and community colleges, students, and our communities — not just administrators, politicians, foundations and think tanks. The aim is to ensure that curriculum, pricing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PERB Rules in Favor of SCFA</title>
		<link>http://ucscfa.org/2011/02/perb-rules-in-favor-of-scfa/</link>
		<comments>http://ucscfa.org/2011/02/perb-rules-in-favor-of-scfa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Last fall, the Santa Cruz Faculty Association filed a charge with the Public Employee Relations Board (PERB) arguing that the UC Santa Cruz administration violated labor law by refusing to bargain with the SCFA, the legal bargaining representative of UCSC senate faculty, over the implementation of the furloughs for senate faculty. We&#8217;ve recently won a partial victory! PERB issued a complaint alleging that the UC did possibly violate the law by refusing to bargain in good faith. The process is not finished, however. The UC administration must respond to the complaint. Stay tuned for more information! You can read SCFA&#8217;s original charge by clicking on the following link: SCFA UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE CHARGE. Read PERB&#8217;s recent complaint by clicking on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Meister on Fee Increases and Student Debt</title>
		<link>http://ucscfa.org/2011/01/bob-meister-on-fee-increases-and-student-debt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Bob Meister spoke about fee hikes and student debt at the annual meeting of the California AAUP on November 6, 2010 at UC Berkeley. You can view video of his talk by clicking    [here]]]></description>
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		<title>* UC Petition against exorbitant compensation demands by UC execs</title>
		<link>http://ucscfa.org/2011/01/uc-petition-against-exorbitant-compensation-demands-by-uc-execs/</link>
		<comments>http://ucscfa.org/2011/01/uc-petition-against-exorbitant-compensation-demands-by-uc-execs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over 1200 staff and faculty at the University of California have signed a petition protesting a demand by top UC executives for higher compensation. To sign the petition, go here The petition reads: We, the undersigned faculty and staff of the University of California, urge you to resist the request by 36 top executives and deans to raise the pensions of those making over $245K. At a time when the UC pension system is endangered and the entire instructional and research enterprise of UC is imperiled we find it outrageous that these managers — whose very job it is to steward the system — would demand exorbitant pension compensation. They cannot have it both ways: private sector salary levels and [...]]]></description>
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