In his 2018 Opinion essay for the UCSD Guardian about UC Librarian’s Contract campaign, Christopher Robertson wrote, “Few will leave UC San Diego without taking advantage of its library resources at some point in their studies here, be it for a student’s report or a professor’s research. Geisel Library’s 7 million texts and innumerable digitized […]
Coverage of the National Adjunct Walkout Day in 2015 included an action at UCSC, where UC-AFT members marched across campus with a large puppet called “Saint Precariat” to call for better job security for teaching faculty. Read more about the day of action at Inside Higher Ed […]
Describing what was at stake in UC-AFT’s librarians contract negotations in 2011, Pres. Mike Rotkin said, “We have estimated that 40 percent of the librarians hired over the past 10 years have now left UC for positions elsewhere. That is a huge turnover rate and it leaves the remaining UC librarians with workload problems since […]
Read More… from “Final agreement reached between librarians’ union and UC,” Daily Aggie (2011)
A week before the UC Regents voted to increase fees by 32.5 percent, the Nov. 23, 2009 issue of Time Magazine named UC President Mark Yudof as one of the 10 best college presidents in the United States. Yudof was acknowledged for repairing the nearly bankrupt UC system and was chosen because he “tools around […]
