https://www.wacd.ucla.edu/statement-of-the-ucla-department-of-world-arts-and-cultures-dance-in-response-to-may-2-s-violent-removal-of-the-student-encampme
How Would Trump's Plans for Mass Deportations Affect UCLA?
https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2024/07/how-would-mass-deportations-affect-us.html
Low pay (and wage theft) in higher education means that research suffers (Nature)
This is big when it comes out in Nature. "Part of the pay discrepancy is that graduate students are classified as part-time workers who, on paper, do only 20 hours of work per week, with the rest of the time devoted to their studies. But for many... — read more
Serious business
Strikers march down Wilshire and Westwood... https://twitter.com/rafaeldjaime/status/1593746129975328769?s=20&t=KNYQH5DfpIFL91zyO2FI5Q
Cheeky Scientist
For those who are considering a transition to the private sector. This is not an endorsement. https://cheekyscientist.com
UC System Strike Authorization?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Thousands-vote-to-strike-across-UC-system-The-17554377.php https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-11-09/la-ed-potential-strike-by-academic-workers-tarnishes-prestigious-university-system
Students Are Living In Hotels & Cars Due To Lack Of Campus Housing In California
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/students-are-living-in-hotels-cars-due-to-lack-of-campus-housing-in-california/ar-AAQE5oK?ocid=msedgntp
Strike looming for struggling part-timers
"After more than two years of stalled negotiations, 6,000 University of California lecturers are preparing to strike. The lecturers do one-third of all teaching but earn just a fraction of what their tenure-track counterparts do, with little in the... — read more
UCLA promises no COVID-19-related layoffs through June 2021
Despite pandemic-related budget challenges, UCLA's prudent financial management over the last several decades as well as recent institution-wide efforts... — read more
Engineering firings
Engineering is cutting people in development and staff, as well as non-tenured profs. Ouch
Coronavirus and the College Meltdown
https://collegemeltdown.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-and-college-meltdown.html
UCLA Extension
UCLA rarely has layoffs, even contractors are relatively safe at the school - I do not think layoffs are the issue here. However, things at UCLA Extension are little bit different - and people get laid off there. If you are interested more you can... — read more
TCF Analysis of 70+ University-OPM Contracts Reveals Increasing Risks to Students, Public Education
"Under the contract between UCLA and Trilogy to run a coding bootcamp through the university’s extension school, UCLA is required to set the tuition price as high as the market will bear, and Trilogy has the right to veto the price set by UCLA."... — read more
Unions Matter
"A postdoctoral researcher who says she was retaliated against for complaining about pregnancy discrimination still has a job, her union announced Monday."... — read more