The latest, from The Council of UC Faculty Associations (union of faculty associations from all UC campuses, across all disciplines). "... it has become abundantly clear that several of these 'data science,' and even some statistics, courses do not actually satisfy Senate

California legislators are being presented with information that makes it look like they've been generous with public higher education funding recently. They do this by discussing budget separate from enrollment, and setting their baseline at the nadir in 2012, like this.

When you track California general fund spending on public higher education in relation to FTE undergraduate enrollment, you get a chart that shows a 20+ year process of asking schools to do more with less. ($ is 2021 inflation adjusted)

Last year, the state legislature cut over a billion dollars in funding for CSUs and UCs related to campus expansion, student housing, de-carbonization, and other capital expenses. This year, even with a budget deficit, the state should hold the line against cutting the compact.

“We foresee this mandate being applied in ways that unnecessarily restrict protected speech..., resulting in both indefensible censorship and administrative discipline,” says ACLU California Action in The Intercept article about SB 1287: theintercept.com/2024/08/13/cal…

Faculty from across the UC system — long synonymous with the Free Speech Movement — have filed a ULP to fight a systematic, illegal campaign conducted by UC to repress academic freedom. cucfa.org/2024/09/facult…

Excellent statement delivered today at UCLA by @HankReichman with UC Faculty Assoc. about ULP by faculty asserting labor rights to protect free speech o campus. academeblog.org/2024/09/19/u-o…

Here is a 🧵 those interested in the gory details of the University of California Regents' vote yesterday to provide "market based adjustments" to UC executives, while refusing similar adjustments for its workers. This adds to this morning's reporting by Teresa Watanabe at Los Angeles Times.

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