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Letter to EVCAA Subramani on Faculty Pay Raises: Strings Attached

In an email circulated on September 16, 2011, the Office of Academic Personnel notified the University that “non-exclusively represented, eligible academic employees” would be receiving a 3% across-the-board increase in their salaries, effective November 1.  While many of us welcome the relief from the frozen salary scale that has left faculty compensation well below our […]

* Why is UC Borrowing $7 Million to Fund the On-Line Education Pilot?

UC’s Office of the President is so eager to jump into on-line education that when a hoped for grant from the Gates Foundation did not materialize UC lent itself $7 million for the pilot project. The Berkeley Faculty Association’s Wendy Brown writes about why this is shameful, especially in a time of budget cuts (the […]

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