administration

Amid a global pandemic, Joe Biden was elected last year as the United States’s 46th president. Biden, accompanied by his Vice President Kamala Harris, made climate change one of his top priorities.

Amid all the chaos we collectively faced, we were still blessed in having the guiding and reinforcing presence of the administrative team here at UC Berkeley to help us navigate these trying times.

One thing they don’t tell you about community college — and they don’t tell you much about community college — is that it’s lonely in a very specific way.

“You two would have been so perfect together — if only you had the chance to meet,” said lead administrator Donna Michelson. “But you both ended up walking right on by.”

While this increase does not directly affect other employees on campus, however, the comparison is not favorable. As GSIs fight for the right to unionize, administrative pay increases. Lecturers and adjuncts struggle without health care coverage or adequate pay in a battle that should be the shame of academia, but administrative pay increases. Facilities age and construction drags on, but administrative pay increases. Tuition soars and will likely increase to the rate of whatever the market will bear, but administrative pay increases.

The legacy of the Reagan administration is tainted by the Iran-Contra affair and even the controversy of Reaganomics, but I invite students here at Berkeley to look at Reagan beyond the things we already know. This was not an evil man hell-bent on destroying the Soviet Union or disregarding human rights. Reagan took great thoughtfulness in his actions as president — as both an ideological man and a man of practical compromise.