More Links

http://toodumbtolivearchive.blogspot.com/2009/08/bob-samuels-yudof-and-divided.html
(Analysis by UC-AFT Pres. Bob Samuels),

http://berkeleycuts.org/?p=21 (Letter to Students from TDPS Prof.
Catherine Cole)

News and views aggregators on the UC budget crisis:
http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/, http://berkeleycuts.org/
http://toodumbtolivearchive.blogspot.com/
http://www.k-grayengineeringeducation.com/budget/?page_id=51
http://sites.google.com/site/ucbudgetcrisis

An economic analysis of the UC buget by Physics Professor Emeritus
Charlie Schwartz, aka "The Man Who Devoted His Retirement To Parsing
What Little Of The UC Budget The Regents Made Public"
http://universityprobe.org/
Also see his series, "Financing The University" at
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~schwrtz/

Marc Bousquet's blog about the casualization of higher ed.
http://howtheuniversityworks.com/wordpress/, (Faculty on food stamps!
Grad students turn to sex work to pay the bills! Freeway flyers! Ph.D.
Casino! The collpasing tenure system!)

Also two must-reads from Bousquet:, The Waste Product of Graduate
Education: Toward a Dictatorship of the Flexible
(http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/social_text/v020/20.1bousquet.html
)
The Rhetoric of "Job Market" and the Reality of the Academic Labor
System
(http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/social_text/v020/20.1bousquet.html)

George Lakoff on Privatization and the UC Budget Crisis:
http://www.keepcaliforniaspromise.org/?p=77

SAVE (Save The University)--Faculty Group:
http://best.berkeley.edu/~aagogino/Budget_Crises/MissionStatement_SAVE.pdf

UC Faculty Walkout 9/24/2009

UC faculty have announced plans for a system-wide walkout on September 24, 2009 to protest President Yudoff's assumption of "emergency powers" and the deceptive implementation of furloughs on "non-instructional" days. For more information see the following link:

http://ucfacultywalkout.wordpress.com/

Welcome Back - Fall Meetings

APIEL NOW! will have weekly meetings every Friday at 4pm in 591 Barrows Hall. Our next meeting is September 4, 2009. If you're concerned about API language education at UC Berkeley, then come and bring your friends and classmates. See you there!

More Links about the Budget Crisis

*UCLA Faculty page about the UC Budget Crisis
http://www.uclafaculty.org/FASite/UC_Budget_Crisis.html

*UC Berkeley English Department Blog w/ Responses to the Budget Crisis
http://ucberkeleyenglish.blogspot.com/2009/07/budget-crisis-and-future-of-california.html

- UC Berkeley Budget Crisis
http://www.k-grayengineeringeducation.com/budget/?page_id=51

- Charlie Schwartz's blog:
http://universityprobe.org/

- Charlie Schwartz's series, "Financing the University"
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~schwrtz/

- Chris Newfield's blog (probably the most comprehensive updates about the crisis system-wide):
http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/

Links to Information on the UC Budget Crisis

- John Vasconcellos's take on the CA budget crisis:
http://www.politicsoftrust.net/founders_view.php

- Helpful interview with AFT President Bob Samuels on Dan Tsang's radio show (KUCI) about UC budget cuts
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/600/Sv090622.mp3

- Professor Charles Schwartz's website, which contains a very comprehensive numerical analysis of the budget, among other critiques of the university administration's lack of transparency:
http://universityprobe.org/
http://universityprobe.org/2009/06/salary-cuts-at-uc/#more-389

- Excellent but upsetting article (2007) about the death of the UC Pension Plan, which is very relevant right now since faculty and staff will be required to contribute to the pension plan starting next year for the first time in many years.
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/news/parsky_s_party/Content?oid=426427

- UCSB Professor Chris Newfield's blog ("Remaking the University"), which has a comprehensive compilation of helpful links, op-eds, petitions, etc.:
http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/

Korean language and Korean studies fundraiser coverage

Here are two articles that came out in the Korean language media recently, after the April fundraising event.

• Korea Daily, April 12 2009, "Koreans calling for help for "Korean Studies at Berkeley"
• Korea Times, April 13 2009, "Save Korean Studies Classes of long history"

Please forward any more articles you find on this or other relevant stories to apielnow AT gmail DOT com so we can get the word out. Thanks!

The Grades Are In -- 2008: Is California Measuring Up?

Link below to the February 2009 report "The Grades Are In -- 2008: Is California Measuring Up?" (Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Policy and CSU Sacramento). Thanks to Katherine for the link.

http://www.csus.edu/ihe/PDFs/R_Grades_Are_In_08_web.pdf

More media coverage

Media coverage of the Language Matters event, the ongoing struggle of API languages at Berkeley, and APIEL Now! activity...these links, and links to other articles, will be added to the "Media coverage" list on the right side of the page. Please email "apielnow AT gmail.com" if you know of more. Thanks!

• World Journal, "Ling-Chi Wang Urges Against Cutting Asian Studies Courses", accessed March 2, 2009
• World Journal, Fiona Ma,Ling-Chi Wang Urge Preservation of Asian Language Courses at UC Berkeley, accessed March 2, 2009
• news.sina.com, Open Community Forum Puts Pressure on UC Berkeley - Three Demands for an Emphasis on Asian Language Curriculum, accessed March 2, 2009
• news.sina.com, (UC Berkeley Holds Open Discussion on the Importance of API Language Curriculum, accessed March 2, 2009
• Joongang Ilbo (Korean Daily), "United to Empower Multi-ethnic Language Education"
• Hankuk Ilbo (Korea Times), "Asian Pacific Islander Language Empowerment Symposium: Learning foreign language opens new opportunities"

Hardboiled article

If you haven't seen it already, be sure to check out Eunice Kwon's recent article where she talks about the threat to Asian languages at Berkeley and the work of APIEL Now!

Language Matters video online

Hello all, please check out the Language Matters forum video here!

Facebook pages up - Tell a friend!

Hey everyone, please spread the word on Facebook

• Language Matters! event invitation
• Facebook group for APIEL NOW!

Suggestions for other ways to get the word out? Post a comment here or send mail to apielnow AT gmail.com. Thanks!

LANGUAGE MATTERS Event February 19

API Education and Languages NOW! PRESENTS

LANGUAGE MATTERS: STRENGTHENING ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER LANGUAGE EDUCATION AT BERKELEY

An open forum to promote dialogue among UC Berkeley students, API community organizations, and UC Berkeley faculty and administration invested in building a robust API language curriculum at Berkeley.

KEYNOTE Talk on API Linguistic Diversity
By Scholar-Activist LING-CHI WANG, Professor Emeritus of Asian American Studies (UC Berkeley)

"As long as Asian languages are not taken seriously as living languages used by billions at home and abroad and treated as languages with long and rich literary traditions, which are linked and integral to majors and graduate curricula, then Asian language education will remain second-class and perennially vulnerable to budgetary volatility and cuts." -- Ling-Chi Wang

Also featuring presentations by:
FIONA MA, California Assemblywoman
GIBOR BASRI, Vice Chancellor of Equity and Inclusion (UC Berkeley)
ELAINE KIM, Professor of Asian American Studies (UC Berkeley)
and others....

Feb 19, 2009, 4:00-7:00 PM
Heller Lounge, MLK Jr. Student Union
Free and Open to the Public
Light Refreshments

For more information, please contact apielnow AT gmail.com

Co-sponsored by the Vice Chancellor's Office of Equity and Inclusion, Asian American Studies Program, Center for Race and Gender, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Center for South Asia Studies, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Asian Pacific American Student Development Office, Asian Pacific American Coalition, Townsend Center Working Group on Asian Cultural Studies, Filipinos for Affirmative Action, Korean Community Center of the East Bay, Chinese for Affirmative Action

Welcome to our new blog

This is the blog of the new ASUC-sponsored student group, API Education and Languages NOW! This group includes many members of the 2008 ad-hoc coalition to Save East Asian Languages and Korean Studies at Berkeley; it aims to further the cause of Asian and Pacific Islander Education and Languages in the face of ongoing budget cuts and institutional restructuring that place API languages, especially those historically underrepresented, at risk. Please check back frequently.

Posts from the Save East Asian Languages and Korean Studies at Berkeley blog have been imported below; the old blog will continue to exist at its current URL.

Please direct any inquiries to "apielnow AT blogspot.com". A big thank-you to all supporters, new and old!

Update: Save Korean Studies at UCLA

Hello everyone! As many people from Berkeley are in Southern California on vacation and UCLA students are up north, it's a good time to share information about what's happening elsewhere. The Save Korean Studies at UCLA group has been active for the last few months are is in the middle of an email campaign to save faculty positions and fight cuts to the language program. We're forwarding their intro message to the Facebook group below--please join and pass the word along to friends and family.

Dear Students and Korean Studies Community:

The Korean studies program at UCLA in particular and Asian Studies in the UC in general are under great threat from recent state budget cuts (http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/budget/). It is urgent that students come together to act upon this situation!

The language programs, including Chinese, Korean, and Japanese (not to mention the others), have been suffering from "downsizing" for years, and more cuts have recently been announced. Each year, more and more students are turned away from courses because of such cuts. The administration has also decided to close the one and only faculty position in Korean literature this year. Programs like Korean studies become easy targets during such times of crisis because of its marginal position from the administration's perspective. What is happening is affecting the quality of the entire department of Asian Languages and Cultures.
It is now time for the students to get involved and register their discontent with the administration at the UC and to state officials for the sake of the future of the program! You can make a difference by registering your discontent and signing and circulating the online petition http://www.petitiononline.com/uclakor/petition.html and by raising awareness in various ways! I believe that the students have the most powerful voice and case to bring to the administration's attention at this time. Please contact me if you would like to take an active role in this movement. Thank you for your support!

Signed, Amy Lee and the Student Coalition to Save Asian Studies @ UCLA

YOU CAN HELP BY SIGNING THE PETITION ONLINE!
http://www.petitiononline.com/uclakor/petition.html

OB Chicken Town Fundraiser A Success!

On June 23, 2008, the CSEALKS organized a very successful fundraiser at OB Chicken Town, raising close to $20,000. Kwang Jin Kang of OB Chicken Town and Sarah Kim-Lee, fundraising extraordinaire, hosted the event. Not only did Mr. Kang volunteer his restaurant and staff, he also generously donated all proceeds from food and drink sales that evening.

The program was filled with inspirational and supportive speeches from the community. Jun Hyung Kim was a fabulous emcee. Ben Lickly impressed the crowd by giving his testimonial in Korean. Alan Tansman expressed his commitment to develop Korean Studies at Berkeley in his capacity as chair of the East Asian Languages & Cultures department.

The following represents a partial list of businesses and organizations that have made donations:

CA Kwang Bok Association
CHO ENT. INC
Global Children’s Foundation SF
Koreana Plaza
Law Offices of Esra Jung
N.CA Drycleaners’ Association
OB Chicken Town
Sahn Maru
Silicon Valley Korean School
Todd and Eleanor Yun Fund

These donations are in addition to gifts we have already received from the following groups:

Contra Costa Korean Presbyterian Church
Edge Hair Salon
Korean American East Bay Chamber of Commerce
Korean Buddhist Temple Sambosa
Koryo Zazang
Ohgane Restaurant
Woosung America

If you happen to patronize these businesses or visit these organizations, please let them know how much we appreciated their support. For news coverage (in Korean) on the fundraiser, please visit our media links.

Fundraising Dinner

On Monday, June 23 (tomorrow) at OB Chicken Town in Oakland Koreatown, we will be having a fundraiser for the Korean language classes with members of the local Korean-American community.


The event is invitation-only, but members of the media are encouraged to contact Jun Hyung Kim (510-292-5356) or Christine Hong (510-658-3310).