Daily Californian: Crowds Flood UC Berkeley in Protest
Amid shouts of “Whose university? Our university!” and “Lay off Yudof!” thousands of protesters demonstrated on the UC Berkeley campus yesterday against the university administration’s handling of the budget crisis.
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Inside Higher Ed: Walkouts Across U. of California
A broad coalition at the University of California formed a united front Thursday, joining in a protest that participants say will be the first of many opposing budget cuts across the 10-campus system. Students, faculty, staff and unionized labor workers on a one-day strike participated in organized class walkouts, picketing and teach-ins. Jorge Serrato, a senior at the Riverside campus, had declared the Riverside campus’s walkout a success by mid-afternoon. “The whole [protest] spot was completely flooded by students,” said Serrato, raising his voice over bongo drums and bullhorns in the background. Participants in the Riverside protest estimated that as many as 500 to 1,000 protesters attended rallies at peak times. Davis campus officials used a Web site to communicate the impact of the walkout, indicating that some professors had canceled classes and e-mailed students syllabuses and assignments. Officials at the University of California president’s office said the protests had caused “minimal” disruptions to classes. The demonstrations came in response to the university regents’ approach to filling an $813 million budget gap, which they have addressed with a combination of furloughs and tuition hikes. If regents approve another tuition increase in November, tuition could go up by as much as 45 percent in a two-year period.
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Daily Californian: Live-Blog: UPTE Union Strike and Faculty Walkout
This is a live-blog outlining the reporter’s observations of today’s events.
At least two teach-ins took place in front of the Valley Life Science Building this morning on the UC Berkeley campus.
French Professor Ann Smock was one of several speakers who spoke about the budget crisis with about 20 students for an hour on the front steps leading up to the entrance of the building. The teach-in concluded at about 10:40 a.m.
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Inside Higher Ed: ’60s Tactics, New Cause
Few think the clock will be turned back to the Berkeley of the 1960s, but the protests planned across the University of California today mark a return to the tactics of another era. This time, however, the cause isn’t free speech or an end to war, but instead a response to the university administration’s budget-cutting proposals.
Today will be the first day of classes for 8 of the 10 campuses in the California system, and protest organizers plan to send an early message that the budget cuts besetting the university have been inappropriately addressed by system leaders. The centerpiece of the planned action is a walkout, which has been supported by systemwide student and technical employee organizations…
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AP: Protest brews over Cheney center at Univ. of Wyo.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A decision by the University of Wyoming to name a new center for international students for former Vice President Dick Cheney is drawing criticism from people who say Cheney’s support for the Iraq war and harsh interrogation techniques should disqualify him from the distinction.
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Student advocacy director Corey Briscoe, in white T-shirt, addresses some of the 350 protesters. (By Gerald Martineau — The Washington Post)
Washington Post: Howard U. Students and Union Workers Protest Over Aid Delays, Labor Practices
About 350 students and union workers crowded the plaza outside Howard University’s administration building Friday morning, protesting a long list of grievances — including problems with on-campus housing, delays in financial aid payments and labor practices — and at one point threatening a sit-in before they were turned away from the building’s doors.
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AP: Protests in Mexico after Oaxaca teacher killed
(AP) – Aug 28, 2009
OAXACA, Mexico — Protest barricades returned to the streets of this southern Mexico city Friday after a teacher was killed and two other people were wounded during an apparent clash between rival unions in another part of the state.
Oaxaca city, capital of the state of the same name, was brought to a standstill for months in 2006 by protests sparked by a teachers strike, until federal security forces finally moved in and cleared out demonstrators.
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Report from Korean University Irregular Professors Union, Chairman Kim Youngkon:
Korea University laid off 88 irregular professors in July. Professors who have doctorate are except from the law that protects regular professors’ employment rights. Irregular professors lecture 4.2 hours a week average in Korea.
Korean irregular professors have no status in Korean Higher Education Law. Korean irregular professors want the Higher Education Law to be revised.
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Inside Higher Ed: ‘Harlem vs. Columbia University’
In 1968 and 1969, students at Columbia University protested against a number of the university’s policies and plans, accusing the institution of racism and imperialism — the latter for the military ties that connected the university to the Vietnam War. Most notably, they opposed Columbia’s intended construction of a gymnasium in nearby Morningside Park, a small green space utilized by the area’s largely black and Puerto Rican residents.
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Oregon Daily Emerald: Staff rally against pay freezes, furloughs
Members and supporters of the union that represents classified employees at the University held an on-campus rally Thursday outside of Knight Library, protesting the contract proposed by the Oregon University System for the coming year.
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The Chronicle: France’s Professors Vow to Continue Fight Against Reform Efforts
Spray-painted banners fluttering in the windows of a central Paris building proclaim that “universities are not an enterprise” and “knowledge is not merchandise.”
A shadowy figure on a Metro platform darts forward to affix rainbow-tinted stickers to a departing train, protesting against government higher-education reforms and warning that they will cost institutions their independence.
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Daily 49er: Students unite against fee hikes, layoffs
CSU faculty and students formed a rally Tuesday to give ‘shame’ to the CSU board of trustees
Protesters shouted “Shame on you!” and other slogans at trustees as they entered the chancellor’s office in Long Beach on Tuesday.
Ainsley Sanchez wiped the sweat off her forehead and punched her fists in the air as she marched and chanted alongside students, faculty members and parents who showed up Tuesday to protest outside California State University Chancellor Charles Reed’s office.
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Avalanche-Journal: Texas Tech professors object to Gonzales hiring
More than 40 Texas Tech professors have objected in a petition to Chancellor Kent Hance’s decision to hire former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, according to the petition’s creator.
Petition creator Walter Schaller, a Tech philosophy professor since 1986, said Friday he decided to take action because “with the emphasis on ethics the university has adopted, a guy that misled Congress is not the kind of person we want to represent Texas Tech.”
The Chronicle News Blog: Protests Flare Outside Iran’s U. of Tehran After Friday Sermon
Police officers clashed with protesters in the streets outside the University of Tehran today after the weekly prayer sermon was delivered there by the former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Mercury News: Unionized workers rally outside UC president’s Oakland home to protest proposed cuts
OAKLAND — Unionized employees of the University of California rallied outside the North Oakland home of UC President Mark Yudof on Sunday morning to deliver what they called a “wake-up call” about his proposed cuts to the university system’s budget.
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The Narcosphere: The Teachers Union Won’t Return to Classes Until Zelaya is Back in Office; Street Protests Continue
With the death of 19-year-old Obed Murillo allegedly at the hands of Honduran security forces at Tegucigalpa airport yesterday while President Manuel Zelaya was attempting to land there, the coup government demonstrated its willingness to resort to lethal force to maintain its power.
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Inside Higher Ed: 2 Scholarly Groups Issue Statements on Iranian Crackdown
Two scholarly associations last week issued statements about the Iranian government’s crackdown on students and professors at the nation’s universities. The Middle East Studies Association sent a letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei expressing “serious concern over the murders, mass arrests, brutal beatings, and widespread harassment of Iranian university students.” A statement from the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association said: “Recognizing with alarm the implications for freedom of thought and expression and in the light of its particular responsibility for the humanities in higher education, the Modern Language Association deplores the attacks on Iranian universities, which endanger students, faculty members, and staff members. We express our hope that the government of Iran will refrain from using violence or other repressive measures in these revered centers of learning and teaching.”
Labor Notes: LA Teacher Cuts Prompt Walkouts, Arrests, Hunger Strike
Each year around budget time, Californians hear a familiar story from Sacramento: There’s another stalemate, because state law caps property tax rates and requires two-thirds of legislators to approve tax hikes.
The state’s inability to make budgets continues to mean less money for California public schools, which are funded at well below the national average, 46th in the nation in per-pupil spending. This time, Governor Schwarzenegger wants $10 billion in cuts from the state’s $45 billion yearly education fund.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer: Teachers union targets Moore
A staff march on the art college was joined by conventioneers in Phila. for an AFT convention.
Waving signs and chanting, more than 100 members of the American Federation of Teachers Pennsylvania marched up the Benjamin Franklin Parkway yesterday to protest what they called unfair labor conditions at Moore College of Art and Design.
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The Economist: Germany’s mediocre universities, On shaky foundations
The effort to improve German universities still has a long way to go
THE IG FARBEN building in Frankfurt has a history. This is where Zyklon B gas, used at Auschwitz, was invented and Dwight Eisenhower later worked. Now it is part of an €1.8 billion ($2.5 billion) building project at Frankfurt’s Goethe University. Not for Goethe’s 35,000 students the grotty campuses of others: the “House of Finance” has a marble floor inspired by Raphael’s fresco “The School of Athens.”
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