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2009-11-22 Home Front: Politix

Third day of fee protests at California universities

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Posted by gorb 2009-11-22 15:31|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Guess in a way I can't blame them. Would you want to pay that kind of money for 4 years just so you can be semi-qualified to ask, "Do you want fries with that?"?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-11-22 16:47|| 2009-11-22 16:47|| Front Page Top

#2 UC Santa Cruz - Uber Liberal Arts

Home of the "Banana Slugs"

Posted by Mullah Richard 2009-11-22 17:08|| 2009-11-22 17:08|| Front Page Top

#3 My sister just got her PhD from UC-Santa Cruz in August (computer science, so she is both employable and employed) commented this afternoon that this announcement is connected to a broad retrenchment effort across the UC system. Professors are getting pay cuts, adjucts and graduate teaching assistants are being cut, fewer student jobs are available, including subject tutoring...and seminars are being dropped in favour of 200-student lectures as a result. I imagine the English Lit. graduate programs are going to be reverse decimated: nine in ten gone, not remaining.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-11-22 18:15|| 2009-11-22 18:15|| Front Page Top

#4 It would not be all bad if the lit faculties were (inverse) decimated-- provided that the STEM (science-tech-engineering-math) departments are maintained at close to current strength.

I know that scenario requires a bit of wishful thinking, but we shouldn't let a crisis, uh, go to waste. Our universities are far too heavy with nincompoop lit-crit-genderbender etc BS professors. What makes us competitive is basic research in the hard sciences. So long as U-Cal keeps funding those, we'll be OK.

Posted by lex 2009-11-22 19:33|| 2009-11-22 19:33|| Front Page Top

#5 The question is whether the UC system will also drop a layer of management as well, or at least some of the perks that they get.

Posted by Pappy 2009-11-22 20:16|| 2009-11-22 20:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Every asset of Caliphornia has been ravaged to support the unproductive greed of the teachers' union and the prison guards. UC is simply next. Why should Berkeley be privileged above Cal State Hayward?

I can't wait to see how they try to wrest Yosemite away from the Feds so they can destroy it.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-11-22 20:53|| 2009-11-22 20:53|| Front Page Top

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