Loading ...There’s plenty to be seen and heard in terms of walkout coverage on the ground …
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… but what about the rest of the world watching via the Internet? Here are some highlights:
Wednesday, Nov. 18
6:51 p.m.
“As hundreds of students rushed the building today where UC Regents were meeting – throwing wet red bandannas meant to look like blood – the regents’ finance committee voted to recommend a 32 percent student fee increase, setting off read more »
Mark Yudof released a little love letter to the UC system this week. After reviewing his proposal to enlarge the role of the federal government in public education several times, we give you our reader’s digest version of his strategy:
1. Reward bleeding hearts. Gives Pell Grants to schools that “enroll the neediest students.” Payola: about $2.5 billion for university core operations.
2. Give more money to read more »
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While Mark Yudof’s little cemetery comment to the New York Times has already tinged countless student groups with a cadaverous pallor, this graveyard romp is far from over.
In case your Halloween plans got in the way of read more »
Oh, Mark Yudof. You are not having a good year. First all the problems with the UC system, and now this. A cemetery in your own backyard.
Yes, you read that correctly. After the long conference about the California public education crisis, a crowd of protesters were so riled up that they journeyed all the way to Yudof’s Oakland Hills home and built a “mock cemetery” on the hillside. read more »
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If you didn’t know who Mark Yudof was a couple months ago, odds are you know who he is now. And if you didn’t know he was an avid and accomplished Tweetist (Tweeter?), boy have you been missing out.
But if you do know what’s up and are of the he-should-be-spending-all-his-time-focusing-on-UC philosophy, then this might not be your cup of tea.
The man’s latest excursion into the Twittersphere: (Warning: May cause mild anxiety for the aforementioned philosophers) read more »
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Oh Mark Yudof. We know the last few months haven’t been the easiest for you. And it can’t be fun to have so many people blaming you for all the university’s problems.
While he may not have made all the best calls, we’re willing to believe that the current budget disaster runs a tad deeper than some misguided executive pay raises and management decisions.
Which is why we cringed a little bit when we read this interview with him in the New York Times.
UPDATE: Now with three YouTubes! See below the jump.
The UC Board of Regents are meeting today, and as part of a time-honored tradition†, Mark Yudof gives us live updates of all the exciting regentmental action going down at the UCSF campus.
Some highlights straight from his Twitter page:
*Reed: I’ve been in government for 40 years; never seen a budget cut like this. “It’s the mother of all reductions.” CA shouldn’t be #1 here.
*getting ready for public comment at the Board of Regents meeting @ UCSF. Huge crowd. No one’s happy about fee increases; that includes me. read more »
… but now there are numbers to back that claim up!
In our previous episodes, we left off eagerly awaiting the results of a union-sponsored, multiple-day-long, unofficial “vote of no confidence” in UC head honcho Mark Yudof. How could the vote possibly turn out?
Can union members turn around and surprise everyone with a big cheer for the greatest (or worst, if you’re of the glass-is-a-quarter-empty school of thought) UC President since Robert Dynes?
Will a resounding 110 percent of ballots be against the man? Or maybe it was Yudof’s plan all along, a la an M. Night Shyamalan twist! Poll results after the jump. read more »
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Professor Catherine Cole, who teaches in the theater, dance and performance studies department here at Berkeley, has authored an open letter to students that’s been circulating on the interwebs.
In it, she argues that in the turmoil of the budget cuts, Yudof & Co. (more on that later) have been making efforts to fundamentally alter the mission of the university. She brings up the possibility of staff walkouts this month if such efforts continue. This could get serious.
Here are the bullet points of her argument:
Seen those polling stations around campus? If it isn’t blindingly obvious by the signs, they’re set up by some dissatisfied unions who apparently don’t have a whole lot of confidence in UC prez Mark Yudof—or at least want to know how many voters … well, ballot droppers? … will write it down on a slip of paper.
Of course, the physical voting at these stations isn’t as limited by time as, say, other events that call for voting. That way they’re sure to get all those papers in and not at all multiple votes from the same person coming in with a fake glasses/nose/moustache getup.
Naturally, we were curious as to what Yudof Tweeted—if anything—about this whole confidence dealie. His latest five Tweets as of this posting: read more »
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