BY MARTHA LINCOLN AND MARTHA KENNEY Earlier this spring, we published an essay in Academe about the California State University’s secretive and costly initiative to provide ChatGPT Edu, a general-purpose AI chatbot, to all CSU faculty, students, and staff. With many colleagues at Cal State, we have spent the past year organizing against the “AI-Empowered…
BY HANK REICHMAN A little more than a year ago the Chancellor of the California State University system (CSU) issued two executive orders governing general education and remediation. The directives, prepared and released without appropriate faculty input, were immediately controversial. In October 2017, the California Faculty Association (CFA), an AAUP-affiliate representing over 27,000 CSU faculty…
BY HANK REICHMAN The California State University (CSU) system has hired new managers at more than double the rate of other employees over the past decade at salaries growing twice as fast as those of faculty members and support staff. The administration of the University of California (UC) system pays salaries and benefits to top managers…
Two AAUP/AAUP-CBC affiliates — the California Faculty Association (CFA), which represents over 23,000 faculty members in the 23-campus California State University (CSU), and the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), which represents more than 25,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the CUNY Research Foundation — are engaged in protracted contract…