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Feb 17th, 2016
The University of California has received the go-ahead from the Brown administration for a billion dollar expansion of its Merced campus. The Department of Finance approved the...
Feb 16th, 2016
The Friedrichs vs. CTA Supreme Court case, a nakedly partisan assassination attempt on the labor movement, has died with Justice Antonin Scalia. What cannot die with it is the...
Over his 30 years on the Court, Antonin Scalia’s name became synonymous with conservative jurisprudence, and especially with the school of thought that calls upon judges to seek...
Feb 15th, 2016
The University of California Assembly of the Academic Senate unanimously passed a resolution during Wednesday’s meeting condemning a proposal that would reduce retirement...
Feb 14th, 2016
The tuition freeze at California’s public universities is set this fall to stretch into its fifth year. But nothing lasts...
Feb 12th, 2016
What’s all the fuss over pensions about? Why should you bother reading about retirement benefits, especially when the proposed changes don’t affect current faculty and staff,...
Hours after the administration’s announcement of comprehensive cost-cutting measures due to a growing budget deficit, more than 1,000 members of the campus community saw...
Feb 10th, 2016
The University of California Office of the President appeared to have a busy summer installing surveillance software on all the university’s computers. According to the SF...
Granted, they’ve got a Clifford-sized dog in the hunt, but a new study explains why public employees prefer defined benefit plans over defined contribution...
