News & Opinion
NEWS
From the SF Chronicle:
Poll finds 68% of CA residents unwilling to raise college tuition.
CA is intentionally ignoring the Master Plan for Education.
Fee increase breaks UC’s own rules.
“Master Plan” not broken--just needs funding.
From the New York Times:
A Crown Jewel of Education Struggles With Cuts
Taking Time Off: An Option for California University Students
Fears for the Future of the University of California
Haves vs. Have-Nots at Public Universities
From the LA Times:
Poor California: No money and no leadership
Is a $26,000 UC education still a deal?
Other sources:
Coverage from NPR’s “Democracy Now!”
The Corporatization of Universities (video interview with Bob Samuels)
OP-ED PIECES
Money isn’t the only problem threatening the UC system. From the San Jose Mercury-News. RECOMMENDED.
UC on the brink: An editorial from the LA Times.
“Terminating California”: An interview with Bob Samuels (President of UC-AFT).
Rebecca Solnit: CA’s problem is not lack of resources, but distribution of those resources.
Jeff Bleich: An insider’s view of the actions of the CSU Board of Trustees.
ONLINE RESOURCES COMPILED BY John B Cannon.
UCSC (G)SOC is trying to aggregate online sources of news, opinion, and analysis relevant to the CA student movement / movement in defense of higher public education. If you know of additional sources that ought to be included in the blog bundle, the low-volume Twitter list, or the list of websites, please email them to j_b_cannon@yahoo.com
BLOGS
Google Reader bundle of blogs related to CA student movement: http://www.google.com/reader/bundle/user%2F01053489853042806194%2Fbundle%2FUC%20Student%20and%20Occupation%20Politics
TWITTER
High-volume Twitter list maintained by Angus Johnston of studentactivism.net related to CA student movement: http://twitter.com/studentactivism/uccrisis
(Note: this list includes a lot of Tweeps who tweet about the student movement when a lot is happening, but tweet about other things the rest of the time.)
Lower-volume Twitter list related to CA student movement: http://twitter.com/johnbcannon/cahighereducationmovement
(Note: this list includes Tweeps who tweet primarily or largely about the student movement)
Another Twitter list: http://twitter.com/creativecstasy/occupy-ca
Nick Lally's aggregation of UC protest news via Twitter using hashtags: http://www.nicklally.com/uc
WEBSITES
Indybay: http://www.indybay.org/education/ (independent news source)
Student Activism: http://studentactivism.net/ (blog covering student activism)
Keep California's Promise (this is a blog, a project of a project of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, but for some reason it is stuck in pre-RSS dark ages): http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/
Teach the Budget: http://teachthebudget.org (activist resource based at UCSC)
Checking Education: http://checkingeducation.com (activist resource run by UCSC Faculty Assn)
OccupyCA: http://occupyca.wordpress.com/ - the mother of all CA occupation blogs (and something of an aggregator of significant content)
Reclamations (quasi-academic movement journal based at Cal): http://www.reclamationsjournal.org/index.html
BLOGS
Remaking the University The BEST blog out there for information on budget cuts.
The GSOC Blog! From UC Santa Cruz’s Graduate Student Organizing Committee.
Changing Universities From the amazing Bob Samuels.
UC Regent Live(blog) From the UC Student Regent.
Occupy California News and theory about occupations around the state.
whose.university.OURuniversity From UC Davis.