| Mike Miller speaks on "The Crisis At Cal, Its Origins, and What Can Turn It Around." |
| Written by Communications Coordinator | ||
| Tuesday, 12 January 2010 00:00 | ||
SUNDAY MARCH 21 2-4 P.M.UC Berkeley Alumni HouseTo attend this event, please RSVP to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 510 549-5959The Berkeley Student Cooperative invites you to an afternoon of great interest, relevance, and lively discussion. Join Mike Miller, Cloyne Court '56, veteran community organizer, and author of People and Power in San Francisco: A Community Organizer's Tale as he discusses: "The Crisis At Cal, Its Origins, and What Can Turn It Around." The state budget crisis is hurting millions of Californians, and is taking a particular toll on the public university system. Students at the UCs have been hit with a 32% rate increase, bringing University tuition fees to over $10,000. Furthermore, class reductions, staff and faculty furloughs, and other cuts are compromising the quality of undergraduate education. Students are responding with demonstrations, but are these demonstrations having an effect?
Mike Miller places the specific origins of the crisis in the 1977 passage of Proposition 13. He also theorizes that strategic and tactical mistakes were made by the social movements of the mid-to-late 1960s in the face of a relentless campaign by the right to discredit government. What happened? Can it be reversed? Mike Miller has been involved in community organizing for over fifty years directing various projects in both Kansas City and San Francisco. He did his graduate work at UC Berkeley and Columbia, and has taught urban studies and political science at UC Berkeley, Stanford, and elsewhere. He has gone on to found and direct the Organize! Training Center,which has provided consulting, workshop, training, and assistance to community, religious, and labor organizations for 37 years. For more information on Organize!, click here. To learn more about Mike Miller's latest book, click here. For information regarding directions and parking visit the UCB Alumni House website here. For Daily Californian articles on the recent student protests, see below: Fee Increase Spurs Protests Across Many UC Campuses - 11/23/2009 Protests Against Cuts, Fee Hikes Expected to Continue - 1/19/2010
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