Sponsored by UCSB Faculty Association (February 2012) You may now download the final report of the charrette. From February 23-26, 2012 colleagues from throughout the UC system converged at UC Santa Barbara to discuss the future of the University of California.
“Like the Chrysler Corp. of the 1970s, the University of California is too big to fail. But it is certainly not too big to fall into decline. Budgetarily speaking, this is what happened to UC over the past fifteen years. It has happened through successive waves of cuts that have been followed by only partial […]
“Over the past 25 years, the UC Salary Scale has often been cited as a model of equity in the academic world. When it was first conceived, the goal was for all faculty at all ranks at all of the campuses of the University of California to be treated alike. Research and scholarly excellence were […]
“As UC employees consider the possibility of absorbing salary cuts in the form of UC Retirement Plan contributions, many are looking to the performance of the investment program and asking some tough questions.” New Efforts to Address Salary Disparities Between UC and Comparison Universities “In light of the significant disparities between UC salaries and income […]