An Independent Senate Faculty Union
An Independent Senate Faculty Union
* “Funding Higher Education: The Search for Possibilities” February 2013
The national Campaign for the Future of Higher Education is about to release their series of papers titled “Funding Higher Education: The Search for Possibilities.” The Council of UC Faculty Associations contributed one of the papers in the series. CUCFA…
* University of California must disclose more information about its investment
* SCFA Small Grants Program Fall 2013 Award Recipients
Creative Responses to Crisis in Education: An SCFA Small Grants Program This fall the Santa Cruz Faculty Association chose recipients from among a strong pool of applications for its second annual program of small grants—ranging from $1500 to $10,000—for projects…
* UC Management Bloat – updated (January 2013), by Charles Schwartz
* How much will it cost to restore public higher education in 2012-13 (updated with January 2013 state budget data)
Raising revenue has become such a taboo subject in California politics, but restoring quality public higher education in California can be done. For the median California tax return (individual or joint), restoring the entire system while rolling back student fees…
* Professors, not UC, own their lectures (2000 legislation co-sponsored by CUCFA/CFA)
In 2000 CUCFA and the CFA (the labor union representing the CSU faculty) successfully co-sponsored legislation that specifies that individual professors, not UC, own their lectures, which is very important now as UC tries to move lectures to the web. (CHAPTER 6.5. UNAUTHORIZED RECORDING,…
* Online Education in the Media – January 2013
* Concerns re: open access to publications policy
Chris M. Kelty Chair, University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communications January 10, 2013 Dear Professor Kelty, We write to you on behalf of the Berkeley Faculty Association to express our concern that the proposed policy to expand open access…