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Students protest higher fees at UC sites
Strike Planned to Protest Potential Fee Hike
Higher education master plan getting ignored
UC plans to raise fees breaks its own rules
UC Students, Faculty Talk Strike Tactics
By Raymond Barglow, Special to the Planet
Thursday November 12, 2009
On Tuesday evening about 80 UC Berkeley students and faculty packed the Sociology Department lounge in Barrows Hall to ponder strategy and tactics for a strike that will take place Wednesday through Friday next week, Nov. 18–20.
The strike is scheduled to overlap with the next UC Regent’s meeting, Nov. 17–19, and organizers hope that it will halt “business as usual” at all UC campuses.
UC Berkeley to Admit Additional Non-Residents
Plan to Enroll up to 600 More Out-Of-State Students Could Generate $29.5 Million by the Fourth Year
By Mihir Zaveri
In another development in the campus's ongoing budget crisis, UC Berkeley may admit up to 600 additional out-of-state students to help raise more revenue.
In fall 2008, UC Berkeley had 2,725 non-resident students out of a total of 25,151 undergraduates, including 2,500 undergraduate spots that are not funded by the state, said campus spokesperson Janet Gilmore.
Student Walkout at Cal State Fresno
Students protest at Fresno State
By Thaddeus Miller | October 23, 2009 (13 hours ago)
An estimated 400 students attended and participated Wednesday in a teachout and walkout on California State University, Fresno’s campus that ended with a sit-in on the fourth floor of the Henry Madden Library.
The teachout began in the university’s Peace Garden just after 10 a.m. and the crowd slowly grew over the next two hours. Several of the students played drums, shook rattles and sounded conches to draw the attention of passers-by.
Fresno State Students walkout, take over 4th floor of library
This Wednesday October 21st, Fresno State saw one of it's largest mobilizations since the 60s. The Student Walkout was in protest to the most recent fee increase of 32% (fees go up almost every year by around 10% usually), class furloughs (pay more get less!), over-crowded classrooms, faculty lay-offs, staff layoffs, corrupt administration, corrupt ASI who refuses to represent the students, really to challenge the entire CSU system. The CSU master plan from the 1960s promised free education to all, now the university is a for-profit corporation.
Students, Faculty Participate in Library Teach-In
Nearly 60 UC Berkeley students and faculty attended a teach-in at the Education Psychology Library in Tolman Hall last Friday in protest of what they view as the growing privatization of the university.
Attendees gathered before the library closed and held their teach-in past the library's 5 p.m. closing time, as UCPD officers stood outside. The teach-in ended around 5:40 p.m., at which point some attendees left to join Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory bus drivers in a protest on Gayley Road and Hearst Avenue.
Beyond UC vs. Sacramento: It’s Relationships That Matter
By Hillary Violet Lehr
Thursday October 15, 2009
While UC administrators blame the state government in Sacramento for recent cuts in funding, the top echelons of UC are part of the same web of political nepotism and short-sighted anti-tax idolatry damaging the State’s public services and infrastructure.
UC Berkeley students stage library sit-in
Erin Allday, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, October 11, 2009
(10-10) 17:25 PDT Berkeley -- Several hundred UC Berkeley students took over the anthropology library for 24 hours this weekend to protest UC-wide budget cuts, in particular Saturday closures of small campus libraries that students use for studying and research.
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