Monday, March 31, 2014

Why we are striking -- an Open Letter to UC Grad Students

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Reposted from some strikers :  AN OPEN LETTER TO UC GRAD STUDENTS— This coming week, our union—United Auto Workers Local 2865—has calle...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

The Blum Center Takeover Manifesto

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The Blum Center Take-over group calls for: 1) UC Berkeley Chancellor Dirks to publicly renounce Janet Napolitano. 2) For all those in s...
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Saturday, November 30, 2013

Zombie MOOCs: UC Online's "Pilot Project Cross-Campus Courses"

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If you've been paying attention to the MOOC debate over the last year or so, you may have seen that for all intents and purposes the d...
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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Frederick Wiseman’s “At Berkeley,” or, Seeing Like an Administration

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Frederick Wiseman’s films often document the insipid, noxious operations of bureaucracies . This is certainly the case with High School...
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Problems Always Come From Outside, or, UC Administrators Defend Their Little Fiefdom from the Barbarian Hordes

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  Generator explosion on campus , September 2013: [UC spokesperson Dan] Mogulof said the cause of the explosion, which followed a widesp...
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Friday, August 2, 2013

Call for Submissions: Pamphlet on Securitization and the University

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Reposted from Reclamations Journal : On July 18, 2013, the UC Regents appointed Janet Napolitano, former head of the US Department...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Qualified Criticism: What Is A "Good" Administrator For?

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What does it mean to say that Janet Napolitano is “unqualified” to be president of the University of California system? It suggests, in th...
Saturday, July 13, 2013

UC President Napolitano and the "Securitized" University

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Since the UC regents’ pick for Mark Yudof’s replacement was announced yesterday—and after getting over the shock—folks have raised a numb...