KeepCaliforniasPromise.org is a new website provided as a service to the UC and CSU communities to provide information and organizing tools to understand and respond to the crisis in higher education in California.   We invite you to visit the site,…

Townsend Center Newsletter Point of View by George Lakoff: “Privatization is The Issue” The California Master Plan speaks of “state-supported higher education.” There is a good reason. Government has two moral missions: protection and empowerment for all its citizens. Protection…

We support the faculty’s collective assertion of their central role in shaping the future of the University of California, and we support the calls for collective action (most recently of a walkout) by UC faculty members to publicly voice their…