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Join the Higher Ed Votes zoom rally this coming Monday to discuss how we can fight together for higher education’s future: fully funded, free to students, democratically governed, where all workers are respected and paid a living wage.

Register: https://tinyurl.com/HigherEdVotes

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Join the Higher Ed Votes zoom rally this coming Monday to discuss how we can fight together for higher education’s future: fully funded, free to students, democratically governed, where all workers are respected and paid a living wage.

Register: https://tinyurl.com/HigherEdVotes

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The event has a stellar lineup to get folks fired up for November 5th and ready to take action. Featured speakers include Pramila Jayapal, Kirsten Engel, Claude Cummings, Margaret Cook, Shawn Fain, and Randi Weingarten.

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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.

https://cucfa.org/2024/09/faculty-file-academic-freedom-ulp-against-uc/

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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.

https://cucfa.org/2024/09/faculty-file-academic-freedom-ulp-against-uc/

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An article in @theintercept about SB 1287 quotes ACLU California Action: “We foresee this mandate being applied in ways that unnecessarily restrict protected speech..., resulting in both indefensible censorship and administrative discipline.” The Intercept article also quotes CUCFA President Constance Penley giving context to SB 1287 in relation to several other related bills in California and around the country.

https://theintercept.com/2024/08/13/ca lifornia-campus-protests-israel-palestine-free-speech/

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An article in @theintercept about SB 1287 quotes ACLU California Action: “We foresee this mandate being applied in ways that unnecessarily restrict protected speech..., resulting in both indefensible censorship and administrative discipline.” The Intercept article also quotes CUCFA President Constance Penley giving context to SB 1287 in relation to several other related bills in California and around the country.

https://theintercept.com/2024/08/13/ca lifornia-campus-protests-israel-palestine-free-speech/

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The AAUP has released a statement reversing its prior categorical opposition to academic boycotts. This historically momentous shift will shape the response to the many efforts, internal and external, to UC's efforts to regulate speech and academic freedom around Israel/Palestine.

https://www. aaup.org/news/new-aaup-stateme nt-academic-boycotts

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The AAUP has released a statement reversing its prior categorical opposition to academic boycotts. This historically momentous shift will shape the response to the many efforts, internal and external, to UC's efforts to regulate speech and academic freedom around Israel/Palestine.

https://www. aaup.org/news/new-aaup-stateme nt-academic-boycotts

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According to the SHEF report, 2-year colleges in CA are funded at $10,752 per student, while nationally they are funded at $13,081. 4-year colleges in CA are funded at $16,444 per student, while nationally they are funded at $20,507.

https://shef.sheeo.org/state-profile/c alifornia/?state_adjustment=EMICOLI#how-do-total-revenues-differ-by-sector

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According to the SHEF report, 2-year colleges in CA are funded at $10,752 per student, while nationally they are funded at $13,081. 4-year colleges in CA are funded at $16,444 per student, while nationally they are funded at $20,507.

https://shef.sheeo.org/state-profile/c alifornia/?state_adjustment=EMICOLI#how-do-total-revenues-differ-by-sector

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Coincidentally, the latest national data on higher education funding came out yesterday, showing, once again, that California public higher education is drastically underfunded. In 47th place for Total Education Revenue (read funding) per FTE.

https://shef.sheeo.org/report-2/?repor t_page=net-tuition-and-total-education-revenue#total-education-revenue

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Coincidentally, the latest national data on higher education funding came out yesterday, showing, once again, that California public higher education is drastically underfunded. In 47th place for Total Education Revenue (read funding) per FTE.

https://shef.sheeo.org/report-2/?repor t_page=net-tuition-and-total-education-revenue#total-education-revenue

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Starting on pg 14 the LAO report does start using per FTE student data. You can see state funds topped out for UC at $40k per student (inflation adjusted) in 2000-01 (for the range shown) and is literally half that now.

They note on pg 17 that UC is hiring non-academic positions faster than academic positions. There's stuff about the pension fund having been stabilized, credit scores, the impressive amount of research funding UC lands, etc.

The full report is online at:
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4900

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Starting on pg 14 the LAO report does start using per FTE student data. You can see state funds topped out for UC at $40k per student (inflation adjusted) in 2000-01 (for the range shown) and is literally half that now.

They note on pg 17 that UC is hiring non-academic positions faster than academic positions. There's stuff about the pension fund having been stabilized, credit scores, the impressive amount of research funding UC lands, etc.

The full report is online at:
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4900

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The LAO released a new report on higher education funding in California. I'm afraid people will misread the data in the first several pages since it is not adjusted for workload.

E.g. 1st graph "Total University Funding Has Outpaced Inflation Over the Past 30 Years" shows UC had $10 B in funds in 1991-92 and $50 billion in 2023-24, more than the $10 B inflation adjusted. Not mentioned, enrollment doubled during that time.

The full report is online at:

https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4900

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The LAO released a new report on higher education funding in California. I'm afraid people will misread the data in the first several pages since it is not adjusted for workload.

E.g. 1st graph "Total University Funding Has Outpaced Inflation Over the Past 30 Years" shows UC had $10 B in funds in 1991-92 and $50 billion in 2023-24, more than the $10 B inflation adjusted. Not mentioned, enrollment doubled during that time.

The full report is online at:

https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4900

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Many of us have watched in horror as colleagues and students at pro-Palestinian encampments have been arrested and subjected to violent treatment by vigilantes and the police over the past few days. On April 30, students sitting in at UCLA were subjected to intense vigilante violence just hours after UC President Drake declared the encampment “unlawful” and UCLA Chancellor Gene Block called it “unauthorized.”

Full statement at:
https://cucfa.org/2024/05/cucfa-statem ent-on-campus-protests/

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Many of us have watched in horror as colleagues and students at pro-Palestinian encampments have been arrested and subjected to violent treatment by vigilantes and the police over the past few days. On April 30, students sitting in at UCLA were subjected to intense vigilante violence just hours after UC President Drake declared the encampment “unlawful” and UCLA Chancellor Gene Block called it “unauthorized.”

Full statement at:
https://cucfa.org/2024/05/cucfa-statem ent-on-campus-protests/

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Amid faculty objections, UC considers limiting what faculty can say on university websites. Article in today's EdSource: http://edsource.org/?page_id=707623

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Amid faculty objections, UC considers limiting what faculty can say on university websites. Article in today's EdSource: http://edsource.org/?page_id=707623

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Our letter objecting to the UC Regents' proposed new website policy:

https://cucfa.org/2024/02/objection-to-proposed-new-website-policy/

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Our letter objecting to the UC Regents' proposed new website policy:

https://cucfa.org/2024/02/objection-to-proposed-new-website-policy/

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Our letter asking the UC Regents and UC's President to drop the charges against the folks who were arrested while protesting at the January Regents' meeting:

https://cucfa.org/2024/02/drop-the-cha rges-against-january-regents-meeting-protestors/

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Our letter asking the UC Regents and UC's President to drop the charges against the folks who were arrested while protesting at the January Regents' meeting:

https://cucfa.org/2024/02/drop-the-cha rges-against-january-regents-meeting-protestors/

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At UC Berkeley, there are backlogs to merits and promotions dating to at least as long as 18 months ago at the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. We have no confidence the existing backlog of merit and promotion cases will be cleared in a timely way. Nor do we have confidence the same thing will not be repeated in the current cycle. Indeed, Department Chairs have already been told informally to expect similar backlogs next year. Our letter to UCB Chancellor Christ: https://ucbfa.org/2023/12/letter-on-de layed-merits-and-promotions/

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At UC Berkeley, there are backlogs to merits and promotions dating to at least as long as 18 months ago at the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. We have no confidence the existing backlog of merit and promotion cases will be cleared in a timely way. Nor do we have confidence the same thing will not be repeated in the current cycle. Indeed, Department Chairs have already been told informally to expect similar backlogs next year. Our letter to UCB Chancellor Christ: https://ucbfa.org/2023/12/letter-on-de layed-merits-and-promotions/

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Our letter to UCSC Chancellor Larive and VC Kletzer about their response to the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism’s (ICSZ) conference on the movement to oppose the IHRA definition of antisemitism. An excerpt:

"Issuing a statement of “non-endorsement” has a chilling effect on the critical study of Zionism at UCSC and on the examination of any subject that administrators deem undesirable. This is a slippery slope."

Full letter: https://cucfa.org/2023/09/response-to-ucsc-admin-on-icsz-conference/

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Our letter to UCSC Chancellor Larive and VC Kletzer about their response to the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism’s (ICSZ) conference on the movement to oppose the IHRA definition of antisemitism. An excerpt:

"Issuing a statement of “non-endorsement” has a chilling effect on the critical study of Zionism at UCSC and on the examination of any subject that administrators deem undesirable. This is a slippery slope."

Full letter: https://cucfa.org/2023/09/response-to-ucsc-admin-on-icsz-conference/

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"California’s leading state labor agency has found merit to reports of retaliation in the form of arrests and student misconduct charges at the University of California, San Diego."

https://www. sacbee.com/news/politics-gover nment/the-state-worker/article278319203.html

This is about the graduate students at UCSD who were charged with student misconduct for rallying at an alumni event last spring and also the three folks arrested for chalking on concrete who had their homes searched and their electronics seized.

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"California’s leading state labor agency has found merit to reports of retaliation in the form of arrests and student misconduct charges at the University of California, San Diego."

https://www. sacbee.com/news/politics-gover nment/the-state-worker/article278319203.html

This is about the graduate students at UCSD who were charged with student misconduct for rallying at an alumni event last spring and also the three folks arrested for chalking on concrete who had their homes searched and their electronics seized.

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The new State Higher Education Finance report came out. Once again CA is underfunded relative to other states: total revenue (that is funding from all sources, the state, tuition, etc.) at 2-year institutions in CA was $11,156 per FTE (88% of the US avg.) while 4-year was $15,646 per FTE (80% of the US avg.)

https://shef.sheeo.org/state-profile/c alifornia/?state_adjustment=EMICOLI

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The new State Higher Education Finance report came out. Once again CA is underfunded relative to other states: total revenue (that is funding from all sources, the state, tuition, etc.) at 2-year institutions in CA was $11,156 per FTE (88% of the US avg.) while 4-year was $15,646 per FTE (80% of the US avg.)

https://shef.sheeo.org/state-profile/c alifornia/?state_adjustment=EMICOLI

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According to data from the most recent State Higher Education Executive Officers Association State Higher Education Finance report, California higher ed is currently 47th in funding per student. Only NC, FL and NV fund worse. https://shef.sheeo.org/data-downloads/

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According to data from the most recent State Higher Education Executive Officers Association State Higher Education Finance report, California higher ed is currently 47th in funding per student. Only NC, FL and NV fund worse. https://shef.sheeo.org/data-downloads/