Lecturers

2009-2010 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND (PDF)
FOR UC BERKELEY/UC SAN FRANCISCO LECTURERS

Applications are now being requested for the 2009-2010 round of PDF grant funding.

The Professional Development Fund Pool is open to all Unit 18 non-Senate faculty (lecturers and other instructors covered by the Unit 18 contract) with teaching appointments on the UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco campuses in summer 2009, fall 2009 and/or spring 2010. Grants of from $500 to $8000 are available for teaching, research, and scholarship.

Please note the following dates in your calendar:

Thursday, February 11, 2010, 5:30-7:30 pm. You are invited to attend a reception for the 2008-2009 PDF grant winners in the Ethnic Studies Library in Stephens Hall at UC Berkeley. We encourage new applicants to come and talk to committee members and former grant winners about the program.

In Bertolt Brecht’s play Galileo, the scientist is asking a very young
student to explain some complex scientific point. The boy is
incorrect and Galileo shouts, “Wrong! Stupid!”

Except for the one faculty member (probably at an east coast school)
who revels in tripping up students, most of us wish we had really good
ways for responding when students provide incorrect or off-the-wall
answers in class. Developing an ease, a facility, with correcting
wrong answers, something we call the Berkeley Correctional Facility,
is not easy, but makes for a better classroom experience overall.

Since there’s not a magic bullet, we’ve compiled good ideas from a
number of university teaching centers. You will see that some might

In an ongoing effort to study undergraduate student writing, the College Writing Programs is undertaking a research project to collect written assignments from faculty teaching undergraduate courses throughout the campus. The purposes of this research are to gain an accurate sense of the range and types of writing demands that students face in their undergraduate careers at Berkeley and to develop a collection of assignments that can be used to guide faculty in their work with students.

Please click on the following link (or paste the URL into your browser) to find a list of equivalencies negotiated by the lecturers' bargaining team with the UC Office of the President.

Lecturers' workload equivalencies list

To find out what your raises will be in the next 3 years, lecturers should look up your annual FTE (full-time equivalent) salary, and count the number of semesters you have been teaching on campus. Then click on the link to the "2007 Lecturers' Contract Improvements" at the left under "Know Your Contract." (Links to the full texts of the new articles are at the bottom of the summary page). Then click on the link immediately below that to the New Lecturers' Salary Chart.

By Kevin Roddy, UC Davis Lecturer and UC-AFT Vice-President for Legislation

The UC-AFT continued to work on a number of fronts in order to improve working conditions for all employees at the University of California; such efforts included contacts with legislators, drafting specific bills, and joining forces with other unions in promoting common interests. In this we have been helped by the California Federation of Teachers lobbying staff in Sacramento: Judy Michaels, Mike Weimer, and Dolores Sanchez. We have also received counsel and aid from CFT Political Director Kenneth Burt.

Click here for cover sheet and checklist.

By Michelle Squitieri, Field Representative, UC-AFT Local 1474

This article attempts to clarify the complexities of the Lecturers' Professional Development Funding program, is a collaborative effort between the University administration (which funds and oversees the program), UC-AFT (which bargained for it, ensures compliance with the MOU, and helps publicize it), and the Professional Development Funding Committee (which establishes and revises procedures and allocates the funds, subject to approval by University administrators).