tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post3073628681418738580..comments2024-03-26T02:17:40.309-07:00Comments on reclaim UC: Occupying Education: The Student Fight Against Austerity in CaliforniaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post-42934473539600398792011-12-17T23:36:58.998-08:002011-12-17T23:36:58.998-08:00University of California campus chancellors are no...University of California campus chancellors are not controllong the costs of delivering higher education. Paying more is not a better university. I love University of California (UC) having been a student & lecturer. Like so many I am deeply disappointed by the pervasive failures of Birgeneau from holding the line on rising costs & tuition. On an all in cost, Birgeneau has molded Cal. into the most expensive public university. Faculty wages must reflect California's ability to pay, not what others are paid.<br />UC Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau ($450,000 salary) dismissed many needed cost-cutting options. Birgeneau did not consider freezing vacant faculty positions, increasing class size, requiring faculty to teach more classes, doubling the time between sabbaticals, freezing pay & benefits, reforming pensions & health benefits.<br />Birgeneau said such faculty reforms would not be healthy for Cal. Exodus of faculty, administrators: who can afford them?<br />We agree it is far from the ideal situation. Birgeneau cannot expect to do business as usual: raising tuition; granting pay raises & huge bonuses during a weak economy that has sapped state revenues & individual income.<br />We must act. Chancellor Birgeneau’s campus police deployed violent baton jabs on students protesting increases in tuition. The sky above Cal. will not fall when Birgeneau ($450,000 salary) is ousted.<br /><br />Email opinions to the UC Board of Regents marsha.kelman@ucop.eduAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com