UC Berkeley Students In Defense of Public Education

Corporations are killing public education right before your eyes. The Regents of the University of California are not elected, but appointed. Most are heads of major corporations and represent the interests of those corporations, not of the students or of the state of California. While claiming that the university has no money, Regents waste untold millions on pet construction projects that only line the pockets of their corporate cronies. On [...]

 

 
 
 

#OccupyUCLA and #OccupySF vs UC Regents

On 29 March 2012, the University of California Board of Regents met to discuss the future of education in the U.C. system. Although theoretically representing the needs of students, the regents are all actually corporate executives and preside over the destruction of the higher educational system. Seeking to avoid students as much as possible, they scheduled their meeting during Spring Break and chose a location that was out of the [...]