Category Archives: opinion of faculty members

Post-”Compton Cookout” UCSD: Jorge Mariscal reflects on what has (not) changed

Posted on February 28, 2012 by ucsdfac

The following is reproduced from the UCSD Guardian: Two Years Later, UCSD Still Has Much to Learn from Student Struggles By Jorge Mariscal Department of Literature “No great victories are won in a war for transformation…without total participation. Less than … Continue reading →

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UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, corporate privatizer and union buster, wants UCSF out of the UC system

Posted on January 24, 2012 by ucsdfac

On January 19th, UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann floated a plan to the UC Regents to identify new funding sources for her campus.  From the announcement: “UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, proposed to the University of California Regents on Jan. 19 that a small … Continue reading →

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Results from the 2011 SDFA Faculty Survey

Posted on November 22, 2011 by ucsdfac

In September 2011, the SDFA conducted an attitudinal survey of its membership over several issues relevant to the UCSD faculty. The survey was emailed to 108 members and 55 replied, yielding a response rate of 51%.  To protect the anonymity … Continue reading →

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Response to Police Agression at UC Davis Shows the Power of Non-violent, Collective Action

Posted on November 20, 2011 by ucsdfac

By now, many of you have seen the shocking videos taken on November 18th, as UC Davis police officers pepper-sprayed students at an Occupy protest. The most widely viewed video (linked below) shows officers spraying about 20 students directly in … Continue reading →

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$49 Can Save the UC

Posted on November 2, 2011 by ucsdfac

Stanton Glantz, CUCFA member and Professor of Medicine at UCSF has written the following perspective on how just how little it would cost to roll back fees and maintain excellence at the University of California. $49 can save the UC … Continue reading →

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Einstein (brings in grant money!) vs Aristotle (what, no grant money?): which one would you hire (or fire)?

Posted on October 25, 2011 by ucsdfac

 by Ivan Evans, President, UCSD Faculty Association  Faculty at UC have long been painfully aware that their salaries lag behind pay scales at “comparable universities” across the country. And so UCOP came up with a remedy: the off-scale salary, which … Continue reading →

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