On October 24th at Berkeley there will be a conference to organize a plan to save public education in California. All are welcome.
Remaking the University is a blog by Chris Newfield, a UCSB English professor, linking to coverage of the budget crisis as well as his own insights. He wrote an interesting piece in the Chronicle for Higher Education which is worth a read (you need a subscription to read the full text but students should be able to get it for free through the campus network or vpn).
And some videos:
If you want to get fired up for saving public education, watch this articulate, funny and impassioned speech by Robert Reich, Berkeley Professor and former Secretary of Labor under Clinton. Even if you don't want to get fired up, it's worth a watch because he is entertaining.
This video is part of a series of videos from Save the University's teach in the night preceding the walk out. They are all lectures by faculty and in general they are quite good and informative.
And Yudof:
Lastly I want to address the people who don't understand why the protesters are frustrated with Mark Yudof and UCOP from an ardent, Berkeley loving protester's point of view. We know that the roots of the problem are much deeper than Mark Yudof, however, we cannot understand why he won't sacrifice, won't bleed, to save the UC we know and believe in. It is a University built on inclusion, unlike its Ivy walled brethren, where any undergrad who is capable can take classes from world class faculty (and grad students ;) ). The trouble with Yudof is that he wants to retain the UC system's accolades for outstanding faculty, students and research, but to do so he is willing to sacrifice the access that has made the system truly special. He won't stand up to the legislators nor make the public case that this model system for education is worth saving. To us idealists (a large fraction of the Berkeley population) it is unacceptable.
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