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Ahead of the Curve

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The curved neuroscience building

Inside Higher Ed takes note of the recent UCLA policy on requests to faculty for public documents such as emails.  Blog readers will recall a recent posting on that new policy.

…Carole Goldberg, a professor of law and vice chancellor of academic personnel at UCLA, is co-chair of the joint Academic Senate-Administration Task Force on Academic Freedom, which drafted the statement. She said that no particular incident at UCLA had inspired the statement, but that faculty and administrators wanted to “get ahead of the curve” on academic freedom and scholarly communications, in light of several high-profile incidents in at other public institutions in recent years…

As noted in our prior post, we still suggest awareness (caution) that your emails and other documentation could be made public since privacy guidelines are inevitably open to subjective decisions.  In addition, emails you send to another person at some other public university – perhaps not in California – might be obtained under different rules there.

Our prior post is at http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2014/01/someone-may-want-to-see-what-you-are.html

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Dig a Deeper Hole?

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The plaintiffs in the case against the UCLA Grand Hotel have filed an amended brief.  You can read it at the link below.  There are actually two cases, one involving environmental and other matters and another regarding the tax issue.  The environmental case will be heard in September.  And there is legal skirmishing around the tax case. The tax issue is basically that if the hotel is a commercial operation, it has to pay taxes just as would any other hotel.  There is also an issue of whether the Regents can run a commercial enterprise and, if that’s what they…