CSU Long Beach Professor of Asian Studies Teri Shaffer Yamada has set up a useful forum on the restructuring of public higher education in the face of drastic state and federal budget cuts and a move toward privatization. Comments and guest blog entries are encouraged.
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* Faculty Pay Raises: EVCAA Subramani Responds
Last week, SDFA President Ivan Evans and Vice President Luis Martin-Cabrera sent a letter to EVCAA Suresh Subramani asking for clarification on the recently announced pay raises for eligible faculty. We’re happy to report that Prof. Subramani has promptly responded:
* SDFA Relaunch Party!
On October 1st, your Acting Board will finally take office as the Executive Board of the SDFA, marking the beginning of a new chapter in the history of the SDFA. With your support, the Board hopes to make the SDFA a significant presence on campus, giving the faculty an additional forum to influence the many […]
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 […]