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	<title>U.C. Santa Cruz Faculty Association</title>
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		<title>* What Governor Brown’s May Budget Proposal Means for UC</title>
		<link>http://ucscfa.org/2012/05/what-governor-browns-may-budget-proposal-means-for-uc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UC President Mark Yudof and Governor Jerry Brown are working out a deal behind closed doors that will loosen the most important ties between the university and the state. Although they will both praise the deal by saying that it “stabilizes” funding while granting greater “flexibility,” its essence is that each will let the other off the hook: UC will mute complaints that it does not get enough money from the state and the state will stop holding UC accountable for the money it still gets. The likely result is that UC will dump a larger number of eligible Californians onto the CSU and Community Colleges, which will in turn pass on their overflow to for-profit schools, where students take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>* Irvine Faculty Association Statement in Support of BFA petition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In support of the Berkeley Faculty Association, the Irvine Faculty Association calls upon UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau to request specifically that the Alameda County District Attorney&#8217;s office drop charges it has filed against at least 8 people (students, faculty, and a coordinator for BAMN) involved in a campus protest last November 9. As is well known, UCPD beat nonviolent protesters at that gathering. Chancellor Birgeneau&#8217;s recent statement (http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/03/14/campus-administration-sends-message-to-da-about-november-protest-charges/) forwards the BFA&#8217;s petition in support of protesters and reminds the District Attorney, vaguely, to be mindful of the campus context, instead of stating his own view. It calls for consideration of the petition, rather than endorsing the petition. UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi took a stronger stand following the pepper-spraying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>* Petitions to Stop the Alameda DA Indictments of Nov 9 Protestors</title>
		<link>http://ucscfa.org/2012/03/petitions-to-stop-the-alameda-da-indictments-of-nov-9-protestors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 1, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy E. O&#8217;Malley sent criminal complaint and summons to eight (update: nine) participants in the protests on UC Berkeley&#8217;s campus on November 9th. For at least one of the eight, English Professor Celeste Langan, the charges were filed under California Penal Code Sections 148, covering Resisting, Delaying, or Obstructing a Police Officer. Another of the indicted, Zachary Habash, is also accused of battery of a police officer. Reclaim UC has more information. Those who have read a lot of LA noir, have read Langan&#8217;s account, and have seen video of the incident, including this clip of a police attack on the line of demonstrators, will appreciate the irony of the DA indicting Langan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>* Faculty Letter in Support of March 1 and 5, 2012 Protests</title>
		<link>http://ucscfa.org/2012/02/faculty-letter-in-support-of-march-1-and-5-2012-protests/</link>
		<comments>http://ucscfa.org/2012/02/faculty-letter-in-support-of-march-1-and-5-2012-protests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past six months have brought increased awareness about growing inequalities and the capture of public resources by a small minority of private individuals and interests. Protests on our own campuses at the University of California have joined the global and national movements against these inequalities. We call for the UC to re-affirm its commitment to serve the public good, to reset its priorities to put students first, to reverse the growth in administration and foster instruction and research, and, by taking all of these actions, to restore its role as the university of the people of California. We call on the State of California to fully fund the California Master Plan. We are in solidarity with the non-violent protest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>* LETTER FROM THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO THE CAMPUS COMMUNITY</title>
		<link>http://ucscfa.org/2012/02/letter-from-the-general-assembly-to-the-campus-community/</link>
		<comments>http://ucscfa.org/2012/02/letter-from-the-general-assembly-to-the-campus-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A democratic assembly of UC Santa Cruz students, workers and community members has decided on a strike to shut down the campus on Thursday, March 1. Save for emergency vehicles, residents of campus, and other necessary exceptions, we will block all traffic from entrance onto campus. We act because the UC Regents who control our university system are continuing to push drastic increases to the cost of higher education and decreases in the number of California students with access to the UC. On that same day, we will put forward a Tent University, an alternative vision of education to counter that advanced by the UC Regents and similar elites. The Tent University will be an open setting at the base [...]]]></description>
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		<title>* UC Faculty Join “99 Mile March” to Sacramento*</title>
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		<comments>http://ucscfa.org/2012/02/uc-faculty-join-99-mile-march-to-sacramento/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Approximately two dozen UC Berkeley faculty will join the “99 Mile March for Education and Social Justice” on Friday, March 2nd.   The march departs Oakland on Thursday, March 1st, and will arrive inSacramento on Monday March 5th for a rally on behalf of public education at theStateCapitolBuilding. UC Berkeley faculty will join the march on Friday afternoon to walk the stretch from Richmond to Vallejo.   “We are marching to draw attention to the plight of public education inCaliforniaand to implore Californians to re-invest in it,” said Berkeley Faculty Association Co-Chair and Professor of Political Science Wendy Brown.  “For all its resources, innovation and wealth,Californiahas sunk to nearly the bottom of the nation in per student spending, and our public higher education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>*  Creative responses to the crisis &#8211; SCFA Small Grant Program</title>
		<link>http://ucscfa.org/2011/12/creative-responses-to-the-crisis-scfa-small-grant-program/</link>
		<comments>http://ucscfa.org/2011/12/creative-responses-to-the-crisis-scfa-small-grant-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drosenberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creative responses to the crisis:    Ways Ahead for the University, A small grant program for UCSC The Santa Cruz Faculty Association announces a program of small grants for projects – two at up to $2,500 and five at up to $1000 – for faculty, staff, graduate, and undergraduate students. We encourage you to join the SCFA if you are an Academic Senate faculty member, but it is not a requirement. A university is an institution focused on learning and innovation. We want to direct some of that creativity toward rethinking university practice and publicizing issues related to such matters as the decline of state funding in the US and/or UC in particular; student debt; civil rights of students, faculty; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>* SCFA Board letter to Chancellor Blumenthal, November 20, 2011</title>
		<link>http://ucscfa.org/2011/12/scfa-board-letter-to-chancellor-blumenthal-november-20-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://ucscfa.org/2011/12/scfa-board-letter-to-chancellor-blumenthal-november-20-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:23:15 +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 – 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>* UC Faculty Letter to President Yudof opposing decision to hire Bratton</title>
		<link>http://ucscfa.org/2011/11/uc-faculty-letter-to-president-yudof-opposing-decision-to-hire-bratton/</link>
		<comments>http://ucscfa.org/2011/11/uc-faculty-letter-to-president-yudof-opposing-decision-to-hire-bratton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) sent the following letter to President Yudof in response to his decision to hire the Kroll Security Group, and its Chairman William Bratton, to conduct an investigation of police violence at UC Davis. November 27, 2011 President Mark G. Yudof University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Fax: (510) 987-9086 Dear President Yudof, The Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) protests your decision to hire the Kroll Security Group, and its Chairman William Bratton, to conduct what you call an independent investigation of police violence at UC Davis. We take no position here on Mr. Bratton’s personal qualifications; our objection is to the conflicts of interest of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>* UC faculty group decries Bill Bratton leading pepper spray probe</title>
		<link>http://ucscfa.org/2011/11/uc-faculty-group-decries-bill-bratton-leading-pepper-spray-probe-2/</link>
		<comments>http://ucscfa.org/2011/11/uc-faculty-group-decries-bill-bratton-leading-pepper-spray-probe-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Carla Rivera, Los Angeles TimesNovember 24, 2011   Members of a University of California faculty group on Wednesday voiced opposition to the hiring of former Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton to lead an investigation into the pepper spraying of student protesters at UC Davis, arguing that his background made him an inappropriate choice.The professors also complained that faculty and students were not consulted, and asserted that UC President Mark G. Yudof&#8217;s involvement in selecting Bratton posed a conflict. &#8220;The office of the president should not be investigating itself in this matter, when one thing that needs to be investigated is what role the office had,&#8221; said UC Santa Cruz professor Robert Meister, president of the Council of [...]]]></description>
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