PRESS RELEASE, January 4, 2011 SAVE the University and the Berkeley Faculty Association UC FACULTY OUTRAGED BY “THE GILDED 36″, WORRIED ABOUT REPERCUSSIONS FOR UC Nearly 1000 UC faculty and staff have signed a petition to UC President Mark Yudof condemning the demands of the 36 UC executives threatening to sue UC over the pension cap on salaries above $245K. The number of signatories is remarkable given that the petition has been circulating for less than two days and campuses are only slowly reopening after winter break. Approximately 80% of the signatories are faculty. The petition, http://www.gopetition.com/petition/41718.html, reads in part: “At a time when the UC pension system is endangered and the entire instructional and research enterprise of UC is [...]
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Expert Analysis of and Commentary on New Post Employment Benefits Options: URGENT UC employees’ Retirement Benefits will change significantly when the Regents decide among new retirement benefits options developed by the UC Post Employment Benefits Task Force. Each of these options significantly changes the system we currently have. The Regents will decide very soon; the time frame for employee comment is extremely short. This presentation, by UCSC Committee on Faculty Welfare chair Professor Suresh Lodha, is a quick-moving analysis of the options, beginning with big picture questions and moving into details before closing with the key question: will these changes solve the problem? See the videos in order, or
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UC panel’s plan to raise money comes under fire Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, December 7, 2010 The University of California should admit more out-of-state students and offer online classes and three-year degrees as a way to raise money, a UC commission said Monday. A report from the UC Commission on the Future said that if the university doesn’t take such measures, it could be faced with a $3 billion budget shortfall over the next decade. That in turn could force the university to continue raising tuition, cut enrollment, reduce financial aid and lay off staff, the panel said. The commission’s recommendations will go before the UC Board of Regents at its meeting next week in San Francisco, but [...]
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The Council of UC Faculty Associations endorses this call for an investigation. This incident took place on Wednesday, November 17th during the protest at the UC Regents’ Meeting at UCSF-Mission Bay. Students were protesting an additional 8% tuition hike. Dear Mr. King: You are cited by the NPR station KALW as stating that UC campus police officer Kemper, who drew a gun today (Wednesday, November 17, 2010) and pointed it at students, “was beaten with his own baton and drew his weapon in self-defense”(click here for more info.). KALW points out that KTVU video (click here for KTVU video) conflicts with this statement: “in the video, Kemper seems to lose his baton while trying to push through a crowd of [...]
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Open Letter from CUCFA President Meister to UC President Yudof on This Year’s Tuition Increase TO: UC President Mark Yudof FROM: Bob Meister, President of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, and Professor of Political and Social Thought, UC Santa Cruz SUBJECT: Your Open Letter to Californians of November 8, 2010 DATE: 11/15/2010 CC: Governor-Elect Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Lieutenant Governor-Elect Gavin Newsom, and all UC students So, you’re raising tuition again—reluctantly, and because you feel you have no choice, but, still, you’re doing it. You raised it last year by an amount that would largely offset what the state had cut from UC’s appropriation during the financial crisis. And this year you are raising it despite the fact that [...]
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