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(Paxson, Tooze, Ganz, Campos, Khalidi)"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: left;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhr6iZhiKFU-HAMZgnCozcWP6AVX06MvjjE-3MYKqjiBjrYQLbd48CdtpULfjCKFaetYjv7_FM9HDf483ElZEhWqhZ1DR5wc2uzBcStHdgyrFLba2-MTa0XacmhpQ3-qhraP02iDMplCqSDkBl-pS3_urHmk5RQ0t4aIHSTwi0xBsEqvBPJi9q9ONKiEpY\/s4032\/Victoria%20Line,%20London%20August%203,%202025.HEIC\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"4032\" data-original-width=\"3024\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhr6iZhiKFU-HAMZgnCozcWP6AVX06MvjjE-3MYKqjiBjrYQLbd48CdtpULfjCKFaetYjv7_FM9HDf483ElZEhWqhZ1DR5wc2uzBcStHdgyrFLba2-MTa0XacmhpQ3-qhraP02iDMplCqSDkBl-pS3_urHmk5RQ0t4aIHSTwi0xBsEqvBPJi9q9ONKiEpY\/w300-h400\/Victoria%20Line,%20London%20August%203,%202025.HEIC\" width=\"300\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ENo Regrets Sunday Morning, Victoria Line \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003EI’ve often broached this topic, most recently in relation to the new UC Irvine plan for hyper-austerity (\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/07\/liner-note-32-academic-class-crisis-of.html\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003ELiner Note 3\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003E2; budget analysis in\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/07\/liner-note-31-universitys-false-economy.html\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003E31\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003Eand\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/07\/liner-note-33-trouble-at-irvine-core-uc.html\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003E33\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003E).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003EThis question of professionals’ managerial authority is raised again by some faculty responses to the Columbia and\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/government\/politics-elections\/2025\/07\/30\/brown-strikes-deal-trump-administration\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003EBrown University deals\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003Ewith the Trump Administration, and to the new Trump attack on UCLA.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EOne professor has aptly summarized the current situation as “a strange moment between critique and advocacy [in which] the two are inseparable.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Faculty are still critiquing the responses of senior managers as lacking cooperation across the sector—Harvard is off by itself in the Ivy League in suing rather than signing with the Trump Administration. Some, like the members of the UCLA Faculty Association, continue to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/ucstandup\/\"\u003Eexpose the futility of anticipatory obedience\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EAt the same time, I read moving faculty calls for mutual understanding across disciplines and collaborative development of definitions of universities that the wider society can get behind. The question is by what process?\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EAs someone who has sought mutual understanding across disciplines on topics such as humanities research starvation and the actual (negative) revenue results of indirect cost recovery since around 2002, I’m pretty sure the current consensus won’t work. The only way forward is through candid encounters with reality, and these will involve passages through conflict and negative feelings on all sides.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ESo I look for a certain tone that risks conflict as it deliberately strips away the euphemisms and doctored data that underwrite what we might call the discursive hegemony of academic management.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EObviously attack isn’t the only desirable tone. But faculty solidarity will be much stronger if it can honestly work through the issues that divide it by disciplinary interests among other things.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThere’s also a question of whether most tenure-track faculty\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Ewant\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;managerial power for the sake of co-governed control over their working conditions.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EReal co-governance means time, study, effort, argument—and also, to be frank, an initial campaign to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eseize\u003C\/i\u003Ethis power.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;This is pretty clear from the general exclusion of faculty from strategizing about fighting Trump. The worst higher ed crisis since the 1930s has not obviously increased faculty-admin collaboration for the sake of a united front, which suggests yet again that admin will not share power voluntarily.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;And yet my default hypothesis is that faced with this situation, most TT faculty, perhaps 80-90%, would rather hunker down and accept some decent approximation of what they had in 2024 (say 2\/3rds to 3\/4\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;of their grants, ½ to 3\/4ths of their academic freedom-based candor in classrooms or campus policy debates) than fight a two-front war with Trump and their own provost and president.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;That’s a big likely constituency for hunkering down out of sight of the Trump Administration’s Operation University Shakedown, and waiting for the storms to pass.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EI think hunkering down is a very bad strategy: the storms are intensifying and each accommodation causes lasting damage to the public reputations of universities that don’t fight for their core values.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ESo first I’ll justify this claim (about the need to fight) in relation to the Brown University Agreement,\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;and then I’ll move on to the faculty responses.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; text-align: center;\"\u003E**\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe first problem with Brown’s agreement is that it is more genteel than Columbia’s and thus more likely to encourage Signing-Not-Suing by the other targeted Ivies and their ilk (Cornell and Princeton, also the big holdout, Harvard, plus Northwestern, UCLA, et al).\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThis is the template problem, in which McMahon and the Trump Administration use each settlement as a precedent for others ones to come.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThat week this happened to UCLA, which on July 29th\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/university-california-announces-settlement-litigation-related-antisemitism-campus-makes\"\u003Econfessed to antisemitism\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and flagellated itself with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-07\/frankel-settlement-agreement-fully-executed-w-ex-a.pdf\"\u003Epayments totaling $8.8 million\u003C\/a\u003E, mostly to individual plaintiffs and their attorneys. Meanwhile, on the very same day, the Department of Justice generated\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ia600402.us.archive.org\/9\/items\/2-final-hjaa-report.-the-soil-beneath-the-encampments\/UCLA%20DOJ%20Letter%20to%20UCLA%20on%20Notice%20of%20Findings%207-29-2025.pdf\"\u003Efindings\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of antisemitism that Attorney General Pam Bondi termed\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-07-29\/ucla-settles-lawsuit-jewish-students\"\u003Ea “disgusting breach of civil rights against students”\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;requiring DOJ to “force UCLA to pay a heavy price.” Two days later, on July 31\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E, that price was announced as\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-07-31\/trump-freezes-nih-nsf-funding-ucla\"\u003E$300 million in research funding\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;withheld from multiple federal agencies.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EIn\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/ucstandup\/\"\u003Etheir impressive letter\u003C\/a\u003E, the UCLA Faculty Association noted, “UCLA’s\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.aaup.org\/reports-publications\/aaup-policies-reports\/policy-statements\/against-anticipatory-obedience\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;anticipatory obedience\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;has put itself in a place of weakness and we must instead choose to stand up.”\u0026nbsp; I hope UCLA does sue rather than sign, but the administrative precedents point the other way.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.brown.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/brown-and-united-states-resolution-agreement_July-30-2025.pdf\"\u003EBrown’s Agreement\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was announced on July 30\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E. It gained stature from its president, Christina Paxson, who is widely respected, even admired by her faculty, and who has\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/21\/opinion\/free-speech-campus-states-not-students.html\"\u003Etaken public stands\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;on behalf of academic freedom and related values.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;She has even\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/node\/114392\/print\"\u003Edefended the humanities\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EHer\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.brown.edu\/news\/2025-07-30\/brown-united-states-resolution-agreement\"\u003Eletter of explanation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;goes much easier on getting the federal money back than did\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Columbia’s Acting President Claire Shipman. It goes much harder on preserving “the integrity of Brown's academic foundation.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;It’s also obviously better to pay $50 million rather than $500 million as Columbia did, and pay it to (Trump-approved) workforce programs in Rhode Island rather than to some part of the federal government.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EAnd yet this esteemed senior manager has approved some familiar elements:\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"margin-left: 38.6pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003ECategorical rejection of transgender athletes, plus a ban on gender reassignment surgery and “puberty blockers or hormones to any minor child for the purpose of aligning the child’s appearance with an identity that differs from his or her sex”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.brown.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/brown-and-united-states-resolution-agreement_July-30-2025.pdf\"\u003E(§12\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"margin-left: 38.6pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EEstablishment of Jewish students as a uniquely victimized group entitled to special programs and protection (§13a-f).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"margin-left: 38.6pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EMandatory campus climate surveys, conducted by a third party and reported to offices at the Department of Education (DEd) and at Health and Human Services, focused on antisemitism (§13c i-ii), coupled with mandatory reporting to DEd of complaints (§13d i-iv).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"margin-left: 38.6pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EMonitoring of racial and related characteristics of admissions for any trace of DEI (§17).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"margin-left: 38.6pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EResearch grant funding restored, but only to HHS\/NIH recipients (§8a-c).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\" style=\"font-size: medium; margin-left: 38.6pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EIn addition, Brown agreed to\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003Ethe monitoring of student course evaluations “to identify any reports of antisemitism” (§13f).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;It’s not clear whether this is done by the government or the campus Office of Equity Compliance and Reporting (OECR), operating on their own.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThere are massive big picture problems here.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EBrown agreed to the external monitoring of admissions, climate surveys, and student evaluations of courses. As with Columbia, one student complaint can trigger an investigation of any instructor (Scott Lemieux calls this this\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com\/2025\/07\/browns-total-surrender\"\u003E“Brown’s Total Surrender”\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoHyperlink\"\u003E).\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The survey is required to be a fishing expedition for antisemitism, violating basic survey research protocol.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EAs with Columbia, the Agreement restores only “\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.brown.edu\/news\/2025-07-30\/brown-united-states-resolution-agreement\"\u003EBrown's medical and health sciences research funding”\u003C\/a\u003E: most STEM research, and research in the social sciences, arts, and humanities, stay out in the cold. My favorite people, “future historians,” may indeed ask whether the elite universities of the United States led the sector into a new age of political control of research, teaching, and admissions to restore the short-term cash flow of its medical centers.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EMost fundamentally, Brown joins Penn and Columbia in condoning authoritarian illegality in the federal government’s relation to higher education.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;I noted with Columbia that\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/07\/liner-note-34-derailing-columbia.html\"\u003Epublic respect depends on the perception that you are fighting for principle\u003C\/a\u003E. Brown now joins the others in not doing this. It accepts extortionary bargaining without evidence, argument, institutional reply, attempted resolution prior to punishment, or\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/balkin.blogspot.com\/2025\/03\/a-title-vi-demand-letter-that-itself.html\"\u003Eany other feature of the Congressionally-mandated Title VI process\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EBrown, Columbia, and Penn have all failed to challenge the authoritarian practice of punishment-by-decree that undermines core academic freedoms. Even non-MAGA onlookers with think, well, looks like Trump had a point about universities—they really are the ones most guilty of discrimination in America.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; text-align: center;\"\u003E**\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EHere’s where we get to the faculty responses.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EOne I\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/07\/liner-note-34-derailing-columbia.html\"\u003Ebriefly mentioned\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;regarding Columbia. It is by law professor David Pozen,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/balkin.blogspot.com\/2025\/07\/regulation-by-deal-comes-to-higher-ed.html\"\u003E“Regulation by Deal Comes to Higher Ed.”\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Pozen defines regulation by deal as a shift\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003Eaway from guidance documents addressed to the entire sector, and toward bespoke deals foisted upon individual schools after summarily terminating or threatening their federal funds. It is important to emphasize that this shift does not reflect an increased interest in enforcement, leading to an increased number of consent decrees or out-of-court settlements. These deals will not be the product of thorough investigations or judicial findings of misconduct by the schools in question. No established legal process was followed for the Columbia agreement; no genuine legal dispute was resolved. The dealmaking\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eis\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Ethe main regulatory event from start to finish.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ENoting the deal’s coercive and authoritarian features, its sidestepping of due process, he concludes, “Deals like Columbia’s enhance the power of presidents and their allies within targeted universities; sideline Congress, the courts, and most faculty; and sow fear and uncertainty throughout civil society. They are fundamentally inconsistent with the logic of academic freedom.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EI completely agree. Pozen in effect answers my\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/07\/liner-note-32-academic-class-crisis-of.html\"\u003Eperennial question\u003C\/a\u003E, how will the PMC (professional-managerial class) enter history as an independent agent (and not as capital’s servant), by defining a form of administrative tyranny to which professionals, by virtue of their practice, must object.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe next response is by Adam Tooze, Columbia professor,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/podcasts\/ones-and-tooze\/\"\u003Epodcaster\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/adamtooze.substack.com\/\"\u003ESubstack legend\u003C\/a\u003E, , and global eminence on political economy.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;In\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/adamtooze.substack.com\/p\/chartbook-399-columbia-university\"\u003E“Iterations of the ‘Unstate,”\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;discussing the Columbia settlement, he cites Pozen in full, and then redirects him.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003Emodern power - both the capitalist and other kinds - have never had a straight-forward relationship with the rule of law. . . . The exception, the emergency, the crisis, the ad hoc are not bugs they are features of our reality. They are both systemically produced. And at least since the early 20th century it is clear that one mode of capitalist governance that may emerge is precisely the kind of ad hoc intervention seen in 2008. The most spectacular form of this kind of governance is what Franz Neumann in his masterwork on the Nazi regime called the “un-state” or Behemoth.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EBut Tooze is not endorsing Pozen’s quiet call to arms against the tyranny of the deal.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;To the contrary, his point is that administration is always a bit fascist.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003EI am NOT suggesting that what we are witnessing in the US today is fascism. But rather the opposite.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003EYou are far more tempted to make the absurd Trump=fascism equation, if you start from a silly and simplistic account of “liberal reality”. If instead, we start from the position that modern power - both the capitalist and other kinds - have never had a straight-forward relationship with the rule of law, that idealized models of “regulation” are just that, idealized, that the line between regulation, government and goverance [sic] is always blurred, which is why the terms are blurry, then at any given moment the real question is how this awkwardness is being managed. What are the tools? What are the “discourses” and justifications? What passes for a deal and what does not?\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ECalling the Trump administration’s “governance by bullying” a “departure in style, tone, and ferocity,” he concludes that Trump’s treatment of Columbia is grounded in preexisting “routine of civil lawfare” that typifies U.S. corporate and political behavior.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;“This mess is what produces and reproduces American power as we know it.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ETooze never does say what he or other Columbia faculty should do now. He treats Columbia as a teachable moment about capitalist democracy, where the Deal is more or less par for the course.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EI of course take Tooze’s conceptual point that administration, democracy’s monstrous double, is rests on and operates with fascist \/ authoritarian features.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;This is particularly true of academic management, which disavows its status as management while exerting the top-down command and information control it invariably involves.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;(This blog is a 17-year record of wrestling with those features.)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EBut so what, exactly? Tooze gave me flashbacks to the 1980s American Foucault of my grad school years. Once we accept that power is a matter of governmentality rather than sovereignty, aren’t we under\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Emore\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Eobligation to engage the givens of our institutional conditions as\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Enot\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Eunchangeably imposed? The 1980s answer in literary theory was generally no!-- often given with a dose of disdain for the naïveté of the question. (Foucault’s own answer was yes, engage.)\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe naïf role versus Tooze is\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.unpopularfront.news\/p\/behemoth-or-leviathan\"\u003Etaken up by historian John Ganz\u003C\/a\u003E, naming himself “as a proponent of the ‘absurd Trump=fascism’ thesis.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003EI also have a bit of trouble understanding the logic here. Surely, if Nazism is at the extreme end of the breakdown of the state, with its regular notions of law and right, into factional and clique-based power politics, and we are entering a more fierce and disturbing era of unstatehood, then one must at least say, we are heading in a fascist direction? And I don’t think the fascism thesis relies upon a naive separation of the idealized liberal rule of law and the present disorder and reign of terror. Quite the opposite. I think rather it can show how fascism is implicit in liberal democratic institutions and develops out of their internal contradictions and failures. As Mick Jagger sings, “It's just a shot away.” This was the position of the Frankfurt School, of which [Franz] Neumann [cited by Tooze on the Nazi “unstate”] was a member.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EGanz’s conclusion is that liberal society, though fundamentally compromised, has elements retaining a “commitment to right,” while the state retains some “integrative function.” These are presumably worth fighting for as means to some other ends.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EYet what that fight look like is beyond his scope—including the fight in universities whose current form depends on the (partially autocratized) due process of the liberal state.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; text-align: center;\"\u003E**\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe faculty mode we need now, as a necessary interruption, is that of prolific\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ELawyers Guns and Money\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Eblogger Paul Campos, talking not about Columbia or Brown but about his own law school at Boulder, Colorado.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Campos has been on this beat for a while, from the inside.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;I draw five lessons from his work.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ECampos had previously filed a discrimination complaint against this dean, Lolita Buckner Inniss,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/quick-takes\/2024\/02\/16\/u-colorado-boulder-settles-professors-retaliation-suit\"\u003Ewhich he won\u003C\/a\u003E—and also discussed (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com\/2024\/02\/how-i-won-my-lawsuit-against-the-university-of-colorado\"\u003EPart 1\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com\/2024\/02\/how-i-won-my-lawsuit-against-the-university-of-colorado-part-ii\"\u003EPart 2\u003C\/a\u003E). Lesson 1: He doesn’t let personal involvement silence him.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;To the contrary, he makes his interests explicit and carries on putting his insider knowledge to use.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ELesson 2 is open confrontation with senior managers. This is hard and against the lifetime practice of elite and near-elite academics. Yet in a set of recent posts, on the dean’s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/62094E76-7E01-41AC-B19D-2F744AAAA0E8\/Campos%20denounces%20his%20administration%E2%80%99s%20reappointment%20of%20Inniss%20over%20and%20against%20very%20negative%20reviews%20from%20faculty%20and%20students\"\u003Ereappointment\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com\/2025\/07\/a-note-on-the-economic-sociology-of-faculties\"\u003E“A Note on the Economic Sociology of Law Faculties,”\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com\/2025\/07\/a-world-of-lies\"\u003E“A World of Lies,”\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Campos names everyone and keeps all the political affects in play. He cites administrative content at length and the subjects it to critique.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThis is the third lesson – use of one’s academic expertise and skills against the standard PR, information withholding, and gaslighting that regularity emerges from academic managers engaged in opinion control, paired with being explicit about the campus battle between analysis and bullshit.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EFor example, Campos cites two paragraphs of the administration’s explanation of why they reappointed Inniss in spite of majority opposition. \"The university’s response to this disgraceful situation is to just keep lying about it,” he writes, “while hoping that no one will have the temerity to point out that the lies are just that.\"\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ECampos takes this job upon himself.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Citing a university explanation for the reappointment, he offers 6 points of rebuttal. The explanation “is all fabricated,\" he says, while showing the reality behind it.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ELesson Four is naming the managerial \/ professorial divide, thus making it a thing to discuss and fix.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003EAs to why [Dean Inniss] was reappointed, Campos said, “My personal opinion is the provost did it because, even though he hates Lolita, he hates the faculty more.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003E“It’s just the whole notion of faculty governance is utterly inimical to the way these central administrators think,” Campos said. “It’s like, they’re the C-suite bosses and you’re the employees— it’s their job to decide everything important and it’s your job to shut up and follow orders.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003E“That’s the attitude in higher ed right now, and this is just an extreme example of it,” he added.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EFaculty won’t increase their influence over policy without starting from this subordination.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe fifth lesson is to not let the professoriat off the hook. Campos’ “economic sociology of law faculties” boils down to faculty turning a blind eye to opaque and unreal budgeting when it is packaged as salary increases for them plus more hiring.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003E(The law school faculty is 53% larger now than it was in the late 1990s, while the student body is around 10% larger).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003EThis missive [about a slate of new hires] triggered the realization that, in my 35 years on the faculty, we have never to the best of my recollection ever had a discussion about how large the law faculty should be. . . .\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003EThe reason for that seems obvious: The law faculty’s answer to the question of how large the faculty should be is, absent external controls or pressures of some sort, the same as its answer to the question of how large our salaries should be, which is to say “as large as possible.” Indeed these two questions are to a significant extent the same question, since a larger faculty is a kind of indirect form of remuneration, since it means smaller classes and teaching loads, more freedom in regard to which classes a particular faculty member can choose to teach, more research leaves, etc.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EAwkward! But basically true in my experience.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;To repeat, your typical professoriat\/ PMC thought collective has no chance of finding its own path against managerial alignment with Trumpism if it can’t name and then work though its\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eown\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;complicities.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EPlan A is a democratized university whose autonomy and academic freedoms rest on full collective deliberation. This won’t be built in a day, and much of the current university would rather die. So Plan B, and a final faculty voice.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EA recently retired Columbia professor of modern Middle East history, the renowned Rashid Khalidi, wrote an op-ed about cancelling his planned visiting lecture course in the wake of Columbia’s surrender to the Trump Administration.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Describing Columbia as now an anti-university helping the Trump Administration cover up complicity with the genocide in Gaza, he adds that he is taking his course off campus for the wider public:\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003EI am planning to offer a public lecture series in New York focused on parts of this course that will be streamed and available for later viewing. Proceeds, if any, will go to Gaza’s universities, every one of which has been destroyed by Israel with US munitions, a war crime about which neither Columbia nor any other US university has seen fit to say a single word.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ETrue again.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;And why not a university outside the university, a university of the commons, an underuniversity?\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EI’ve long been interested in bootleg universities, governed and operated directly by faculty and students with minimal administrative support. These\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Ewould\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;be financially sustainable with decent salaries—i.e., better than what the army of adjuncts mainly earn now--and with low student fees.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;They would work, in the arts, humanities, and social sciences freed from STEM infrastructure and its costs.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EPersonally I quite like STEM research, and I’d rather keep university subjects together and hang on to the enormous infrastructure, resources, and research that universities currently wield.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;But if the real democratization of universities is impossible, if co-governance among faculty, staff, students, and administrators can’t happen in an American unstate, then let’s try multiplying a Khalidi course into a curriculum and a network of academics. 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(Paxson, Tooze, Ganz, Campos, Khalidi)"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhr6iZhiKFU-HAMZgnCozcWP6AVX06MvjjE-3MYKqjiBjrYQLbd48CdtpULfjCKFaetYjv7_FM9HDf483ElZEhWqhZ1DR5wc2uzBcStHdgyrFLba2-MTa0XacmhpQ3-qhraP02iDMplCqSDkBl-pS3_urHmk5RQ0t4aIHSTwi0xBsEqvBPJi9q9ONKiEpY\/s72-w300-h400-c\/Victoria%20Line,%20London%20August%203,%202025.HEIC","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-3717359332266610932"},"published":{"$t":"2025-07-27T01:46:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-07-27T01:46:22.792-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Admin Responses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Columbia University"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Liner Note"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Management"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"public support"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Trumpism"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Liner Note 34: Derailing the Columbia Precedent"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: left;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiZZt_lnhBG_hYEjub_30WLjpVH7BOa-48jJG9sdlOvPv4V6BSgpgv4Kf-jMbwjteaPu02IqgANkUZWQV0opP21a2kVQTVCL44yEfkFPTG7mv9AnqHSOVAVShQqYsNfQertQPZYNGjI0vn7nWt252DXCQkHLfc6vWCoADZB3-g61WVYEWGWiwNfRUbPNyM\/s4032\/Milos%20Greece%20on%20July%2019,%202025.HEIC\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"3024\" data-original-width=\"4032\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiZZt_lnhBG_hYEjub_30WLjpVH7BOa-48jJG9sdlOvPv4V6BSgpgv4Kf-jMbwjteaPu02IqgANkUZWQV0opP21a2kVQTVCL44yEfkFPTG7mv9AnqHSOVAVShQqYsNfQertQPZYNGjI0vn7nWt252DXCQkHLfc6vWCoADZB3-g61WVYEWGWiwNfRUbPNyM\/w400-h300\/Milos%20Greece%20on%20July%2019,%202025.HEIC\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EMilos, Greece, on July 19, 2025 \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003EThere’s a drift towards seeing the Penn and Columbia University deals with the Trump Administration\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/24\/us\/trump-university-deal-penn-columbia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share\u0026amp;referringSource=articleShare\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003Eas templates for settlements across higher ed\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Secretary of Education Linda McMahon calls the Columbia Agreement a “road map for elite universities,” likely meaning Brown, Cornell, Northwestern, Princeton and even Harvard, which have all be subjected to the Administration’s unlawful funding freezes.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThis would be a great way to further degrade the entire sector, and must be blocked.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EA bit of background: When you are the weaker party as a long-term cultural cold war becomes a hot institutional war, you must create a public understanding of who you really are. It should include something like the following elements:\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E1.\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EYour opponent is very unfair, has become a tormenter and a bully, and is doing serious damage to you that you don’t deserve.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E2.\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EWhen it comes to what you believe in, you stand and fight. You\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Enever give up.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;This is because you are weak but right.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E3.\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EYou and you alone define your values and practices. You say what they are, constantly, concretely, and inclusively.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E4.\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EYour institutional community supports you. Persecution makes you collectively stronger.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E5.\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EWhen you do win, the majority of everyday people win too. You are working with them on this mutual benefit.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EUniversities need to get through this whole list, including the last item. Trumpism casts all knowledge institutions as the enemies of the people, especially news media and universities. Universities already needed to be redesigned to serve non-college people more obviously and directly, which will include massive reductions in student costs and student debt.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ETrumpism has made this medium-term project more urgent. In the short run, the first three elements can get an immediate response from everyday people: you are a fighter, you fight for your values, and you are fighting unjust attacks.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EEven more importantly, your own people, academics, can see you, university presidents, board chairs, provosts, deans, everyone with access to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eofficial\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;channels, working towards a transformed public framework that show public value\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eespecially\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Eunder persecution.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EIndividual academics are very good at this (e.g. law professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3d.laboratorium.net\/2025-07-25-columbias-capitulation\"\u003EJames Grimmelman’s impromptu response\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to Columbia, h\/t Meranze;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2025\/07\/penn-faculty-react-title-ix-resolution\"\u003Esome Penn faculty\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;responding to the Penn deal). But public impact depends on official discourse from the institutions themselves.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EHow did Columbia’s administration do in this context?\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ETrump of course declared an epic victory over the forces of university darkness. Acting University President Claire Shipman claimed,\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003EThis agreement marks an important step forward after a period of sustained federal scrutiny and institutional uncertainty. The settlement was carefully crafted to protect the values that define us and allow our essential research partnership with the federal government to get back on track. Importantly, it safeguards our independence, a critical condition for academic excellence and scholarly exploration, work that is vital to the public interest.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Today’s agreement . . . affirms Columbia’s unyielding commitment to academic freedom, freedom of expression, and open inquiry.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe language reminded me too much of Penn president’s statement about that settlement, which masked a disaster (see\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/07\/liner-note-30-upenns-trans-athlete-sell.html\"\u003ELiner Note 30\u003C\/a\u003E). So I read the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/president.columbia.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/content\/July%202025%20Announcement\/Columbia%20University%20Resolution%20Agreement.pdf\"\u003Eactual Agreement.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;It is something else entirely.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EColumbia gets exactly one thing, restored federal grant funding flows.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;There are several pieces of this. One is restoration of federal grant money withheld by “HHS or NIH” (§7), which includes “drawdown of overdue payments on Non-Terminated Grants” and a promise not to yank the same grants again for the same reason (§8a).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe government also promises not to display “disfavored treatment” towards future Columbia applications for federal money (§8b). Access to future federal research funding was\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/24\/politics\/video\/columbia-university-settlement-trump-claire-shipman-digvid\"\u003Eclearly Columbia admin’s overriding concern\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EAnd yet, “The Terminated Grants by Ed. and any other terminated contracts are excluded from this provision” (§7).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Columbia biomedical researchers will get their money back, but it seems that nothing will be returned to other disciplines.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EEverything else in the Agreement is about Columbia’s guilt. This starts with the unbelievable payment of $200 million dollars, with the first installment of $21 million to “be made within five (5) business days of the Effective date” (§10).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Even Paramount coughed up only $16 million as an extorted fee for the government’s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/07\/24\/nx-s1-5477530\/paramount-cbs-skydance-sale-fcc-approves\"\u003Eapproval of its sale to Skydance.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Columbia formally admits no wrongdoing.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;And yet their $200 million payment screams guilty.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe Agreement requires special supervision of all academic regional studies units, including the review of hiring at least non-tenure track and perhaps other faculty, of “all aspects of leadership and curriculum,” and of program creation (§12).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;These provisions are obvious violations of academic freedom.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EColumbia loses the right to provide programs, “benefits or advantages” on the basis of “protected characteristics” (§15), except for Jewish students, whose wellbeing is to be rather patronizingly overseen by a “Student Liaison” for their exclusive use (§14).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EColumbia loses the right to pursue any kind of diversity, equity, or inclusion goals.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;This is also a violation of academic freedom, where terms of educational engagement are, in contrast, supposed to be set by faculty via co-governed internal procedures.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EColumbia admissions process must also be cleansed of any considerations of “race, color, or national origin.” This goes well beyond policing “preferences” to banning “personal statements, diversity narratives, or any applicant reference to racial identity as a means to introduce or justify discrimination” (§§15-16). In practice, this means\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eany\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;applicant reference to racialized identity, while identities like whiteness, Christianity, and Jewishness are not banned. In addition to being textbook racism, this demand exceeds the requirements of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/racial-equality-after-affirmative-action-towards-a-new-structure-of-feeling\"\u003Ethe Supreme Court’s Harvard and North Carolina affirmative action decisions\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and is in my view unlawful.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;But Columbia has agreed to it.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThere are “when did you stop beating your wife” digs here and there. “Columbia will, as needed, engage with experts on laws and regulations regarding sanctions enforcement, anti-money laundering, and prevention of terrorist financing” (§25).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The storyline here is that Columbia harbors diffuse criminal tendencies that only the Trump Administration brutal intervention has been able to stop.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ELike so many felons, Columbia must be put on probation.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Columbia’s lasts for three years.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The government maintains the right to reopen complaints on all aspects of university activity (e.g. §17), with the sole exception, as far as I can see, of the previously-terminated NIH grants.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ESection VI is called “Monitoring.” It names a Resolution Monitor, who is to “monitor Columbia’s compliance with this Agreement” in all particulars. There are 13 paragraphs on these, including the Resolution Monitor’s “timely access to interview all Agreement-related individuals, and visit Agreement-related facilities, trainings, transcripts of Agreement-related meetings and disciplinary hearings, and reviews, and the scene of any occurrence” deemed relevant to the Agreement (§49). The government “and its consultants and agents” will have access to all personnel, etc. related to the Agreement (§51).\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EBecause the Monitor and government will keep materials confidential from the wider Columbia community and public, they imply that their regime will not breach existing privacy laws that protect students and others.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;But I really don’t see any precise limits on the Monitor-government surveillance of all academic and related administrative activity.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EAny firm protections of faculty, staff, or students will need to be worked out in practice by a university under tremendous stress and that has already made clear it will compromise for funding.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Given the government’s reach-in powers in every aspect of this Agreement, I don’t expect the University to regularize protections.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EColumbia students are cast as incipient criminals, especially the foreigners. The Agreement requires Columbia to report “all disciplinary actions involving student visa-holders resulting in expulsions or suspensions”-- l\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/government\/politics-elections\/2025\/07\/22\/columbia-expels-suspends-student-protesters\"\u003Eike the 70-80 expulsions or suspensions of July 22\u003Csup\u003End\u003C\/sup\u003E,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;announced the day before this Agreement (§23). Columbia loses control of its policing and disciplinary systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe Agreement also sets up an informant system. The University is to organize a complaint process\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;such that “Any member of the Columbia community can report allegations of noncompliance with the reforms detailed in this Agreement” (§33). Literally one person can for any reason trigger a federal-Monitor investigation.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EIn short, Columbia has not preserved its academic freedom in this Agreement.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;As McMahon\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/about\/news\/press-release\/secretary-mcmahon-statement-columbia-university-deal\"\u003Estated\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;\"\u003EColumbia University has agreed to pay $200 million, discipline student offenders for severe disruptions of campus operations, make structural changes to their Faculty Senate, bring viewpoint diversity to their Middle Eastern studies programs, eliminate race preferences from their hiring and admissions practices, and end DEI programs that distribute benefits and advantages based on race.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThat’s the national narrative this agreement allows the Trump Administration to circulate far and wide. It’s flexibly twistable enough to get slapped onto any and all universities.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe university system needs a counternarrative in the worst possible way. It would start by flipping reality right-side up again: the funding freeze was wrong, the smearing of student protesters was wrong, the attacks on the University were wrong, this is why we are fighting them, here’s who we are and what we stand for.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EBut Columbia seems unable even to discuss in public the illegality of the freezing of funds that set up this terrible deal.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe Trump Administration got here with coercive bargaining—we took your money, now do what we say if you want any of it back. I’m not a lawyer, but I assume this sort of tactic would invalidate a commercial contract and would be (and in fact is) illegal in administrative law.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EAnd yet\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/24\/politics\/video\/columbia-university-settlement-trump-claire-shipman-digvid\"\u003Ein her appearance on CNN,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Shipman said Columbia didn’t replicate Harvard’s strategy in suing the Administration because they were so worried about losing their financial relationship with the federal government (@(5’40”).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;She doesn’t mention that Harvard has exactly the same worry, or the illegality of the freezing of funds that is precisely what Harvard is suing about.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Shipman’s pleading tone belongs to someone pleased that they’ve managed to bargain their felony down to a misdemeanor.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EDavid Pozen, who\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eis\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;a lawyer,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/balkin.blogspot.com\/2025\/07\/regulation-by-deal-comes-to-higher-ed.html\"\u003Ehas argued\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that Columbia’s consent to Trump’s coercive dealmaking helps to undermine the system of public administration.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Trump is also doing this with tariffs in the global economy, with deportation policy-- coercion is really the foundation of everything he does. The weaker party can never win by accepting this game, as\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/23\/opinion\/trump-columbia-deal-professor.html\"\u003ESuresh Naidu explains\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Harvard has partially refused it and Columbia and Penn have accepted it.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe university system has many weapons of the weak, starting with proclaiming their teaching, relations of care, original research, and self-development for everyone who wants it. They are places of unique challenge, novelty, and happiness, of intellectual revolutions and personal transformations. I can barely imagine what continuous federal and “monitor” surveillance will do to the atmosphere of classrooms, labs, departmental policy debates, dormitory arguments—to everything about unfettered exchange and their everyday revelations.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EMany people have been fighting Trumpian oppression.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Students have been doing this, both in their long months of protests of Israel’s war of extermination in Gaza—at escalating personal risk of expulsion, degree rescinding, incarceration and deportation—and in defenses of academic freedom (see\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2025\/07\/penn-faculty-react-title-ix-resolution\"\u003E“Penn Descends Into Fascism”).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EIt would really help if Columbia faculty bodies lay out how the Agreement violates the core practices of higher education—starting with the curtailing of the autonomy of the Senate.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;But if the institutions don’t fight\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eofficially\u003C\/i\u003E, they are finished.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 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The University’s False Economy: UC Irvine, Part 1"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: left;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg-lc9l147aBv368-CQZ5qE_zLVixtcKQKJSuxOXW7CkpEPplsafKAuopjU8wqbUozSA0JOfMGykXeQE6kx0n36D17NDyYSJewKffuH0xAtdl-yiQYUhmGDK0ny9pP1DA7kJldqS5_eUhWpDSNCGBHWTvtrrtycxXvbL7Ok_vqN-Zqz1EisSFBtAx_w1rA\/s3264\/UCI%20May%208,%202018.jpeg\" style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2448\" data-original-width=\"3264\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg-lc9l147aBv368-CQZ5qE_zLVixtcKQKJSuxOXW7CkpEPplsafKAuopjU8wqbUozSA0JOfMGykXeQE6kx0n36D17NDyYSJewKffuH0xAtdl-yiQYUhmGDK0ny9pP1DA7kJldqS5_eUhWpDSNCGBHWTvtrrtycxXvbL7Ok_vqN-Zqz1EisSFBtAx_w1rA\/w400-h300\/UCI%20May%208,%202018.jpeg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EUC Irvine on May 8, 2018 \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\"\u003EAs Trump’s blunderbuss shoots the bottom out of the research boat, how will UC Irvine, the\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/06\/liner-note-29-scotus-chaos-for.html\" style=\"color: #954f72; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003Esystem’s middle case\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\"\u003E, stay afloat?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThis is actually a national question. Trump has done a classic “heighten the contradictions” of the political economy of the US research university.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThis political economy has always been unstable, and three decades of reductions in per-student state funding have kept the boat rocking back and forth. Now the Trump Administration has\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/05\/liner-note-25-next-100-days-dont-make.html\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Eblown holes\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in most sources of federal research funding. Meanwhile, state funding is mainly flat or down, and will be under renewed pressure as the provisions of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ff773093-a747-4e94-98e6-09e941ab2134\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003ETrump’s tax cut bill\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;come into effect.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EColleges are taking on water, and this is to say nothing of the deeper crisis of social mission and public support, embodied in editorials like\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/002a0943-f977-44bd-bc78-957c877dfed1\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003E“It’s a Bad Time to Be a Graduate.”\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThe US university sector now has a choice: it can face its structural crisis, in particular the crisis of its research funding system, or force campuses to dig even deeper to subsidize it.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EIn a recent post, I discussed the evidence that the senior management of the University of Minnesota\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/06\/liner-note-28-hyponormalization-of.html\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Eis choosing the second path\u003C\/a\u003E. I presume that this is the default choice across the country. That’s not good, because this path means, at best, austerity and, more likely, major cuts to instruction and to non-sponsored research, which is most research in law, arts, humanities, and the qualitative social sciences.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003ECouple this with what Peter Byrne calls\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.projectcensored.org\/silicon-valley-military-ai-weapons\/\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003E“AI hypnosis,”\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;which can be used as an excuse for further instructional cuts, and the cognitive gains of completing college face gradual evaporation. Or so goes one default path.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003ELike the University of Minnesota, UC Irvine offers an important case study. Its administration\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;has been proactive. The Division of Finance wrote an informative\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/budgetoffice.uci.edu\/budgeting\/financial-stability-plan\/_pdf\/uc-irvine-budget-and-financial-overview-fy25.pdf\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003E“Budget and Financial Overview: Fiscal Year 2024-25 (FY25).”\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The Budget Office has a new\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/budgetoffice.uci.edu\/budgeting\/budget-model\/\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003E“Budget Model and All Funds Multi-Year Planning”\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;mechanism.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;This is coupled with a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/budgetoffice.uci.edu\/budgeting\/financial-stability-plan\/index.php\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003E“Financial Stability Plan”\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that is responding to a campus structural deficit that they have presented publicly. So far, so good.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EI’m going to tell the\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0563c1;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003Estory of the UCI Budget Overview. I’ll then have to dispute its overall portrait of the campus economy—of who loses money and who doesn’t.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;\"\u003E**\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EUC Irvine is a $6.7 billion university operation. (It was 56\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;in the US in R\u0026amp;D expenditures in 2022-23, so is more typical of the body of research universities than giants like UCSD or UCLA.) Half of that income comes from UCI Health, the medical center which has recently acquired four more hospitals and does a massive revenue business—nearly $3.5 billion in 2024-25 (FY 25).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EIn the Overview, medical business is booming, and the Overview claims that “funds flow from the health enterprise to the campus, contributing significantly to academic and support functions across the main campus, including the UCI School of Medicine” (p 7).\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Enon\u003C\/i\u003E-medical operation is split 3:2 between “non-core” and “core” operations.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/budgetoffice.uci.edu\/budgeting\/financial-stability-plan\/index.php\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003ENon-core funds include\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;auxiliary units (like housing and parking) as well as research contract and grant expenditures (C\u0026amp;G).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Research is of course fully academic and core to the educational mission in spite of being put in non-core.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Research funds depend on academic faculty submitting successful research proposals to funding agencies with the full involvement of staff, postdocs, graduate students, and lecturers who also cover the teaching that grant-writers aren’t doing.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Faculty apply to federal agencies like NSF, and also get lesser funding from state, corporate, and foundation sources.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EFigure 1\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhw482_8JiueP61v7-XWsVeJ-DLx47Jvea4_0AkrUq5WiM61dvafL013FRO-IBkWxY79By5nQjwkWZYBXCldDGW4AjPxM84_IF4luavTinaKEhzyD0TS7gcGPc9pM7yfNVsrokz7wuAEvFkIQ6tgVseMhcs4lVCCiCyvussyvickd0azG03H0s1ngntn0I\/s1644\/UCI%20All%20Funds%20Operating%20Budget.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"832\" data-original-width=\"1644\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhw482_8JiueP61v7-XWsVeJ-DLx47Jvea4_0AkrUq5WiM61dvafL013FRO-IBkWxY79By5nQjwkWZYBXCldDGW4AjPxM84_IF4luavTinaKEhzyD0TS7gcGPc9pM7yfNVsrokz7wuAEvFkIQ6tgVseMhcs4lVCCiCyvussyvickd0azG03H0s1ngntn0I\/w400-h203\/UCI%20All%20Funds%20Operating%20Budget.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThe UCI Overview presents this 4\/5\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;of UC Irvine as robust and profitable. It presents the “core” as not so much.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003ENote that in Figure 1, all the entities, even the medical center, are trying to help the core’s Schools by sending money, apparently with nothing being generated by the Schools.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The Schools are charted like a sinkhole—Schools aren’t givers but takers\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThe core is inseparable from the campus and teaching students. Although the “core missions” are “teaching, research, and public service,” nearly all of UCI core revenues are tied to instruction.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;This means both state funding and the many kinds of student tuition that UC campuses now charge. Some grant-based indirect cost recovery (ICR) is here as well, some investment earnings, etc.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;But the core’s salaries for tenure-track faculty, lecturers, Graduate Student Employees (GSEs), and staff are tied to revenues from instruction.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EUCI defines the problem of the core in simple terms.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Core\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Erevenues\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;go up 1-4% a year (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/budgetoffice.uci.edu\/budgeting\/financial-stability-plan\/_pdf\/uc-irvine-budget-and-financial-overview-fy25.pdf\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003EChart 3.2\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Core\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eexpenses\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;go up 5-8% a year (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/budgetoffice.uci.edu\/budgeting\/financial-stability-plan\/_pdf\/uc-irvine-budget-and-financial-overview-fy25.pdf\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003EChart 3.3\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Costs rising at twice the rate of income has led to a projected $70 million deficit in 2026-27, or 5% of the core budget.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThe only good revenue news for the core is ICR, which gets special praise.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;More on this in a bit.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003ESo, UCI defines its budget problem as the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Ecore’s\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;expenses, and the Financial Stability Plan as the solution. It’s a model, but at heart is a plan for cuts, of familiar kinds. The UCI core will proceed by “not filling vacant faculty and staff positions, increasing revenue where possible, reducing programs and services where possible, leveraging existing non-core resources, and reducing other operating costs.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The idea is to reduce instructional staff and services—that is to reduce instruction itself. (The only hint of growth again comes from “non-core resources.”)\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EIn the UCI Overview story, all losses are occurring in the academic core, founded on instruction.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;It assigns no losses to the non-core or to UCI Health. Therefore, all the cuts might logically come from the core as well.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;\"\u003E**\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThe UCI core does lose money, particularly on teaching California resident students, because the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/05\/liner-note-26-university-of-californias.html\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Estate has long underfunded the University very badly\u003C\/a\u003E, refusing to compensate for quasi-frozen residential tuition, among other things.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EBut, contrary to the Overview story, the rest of the university loses money as well.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Even massive clinical revenues and other auxiliary activities barely cover costs in specific units. (And UCI seems to have negative “uncommitted reserves” (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/lao.ca.gov\/reports\/2025\/4998\/University-of-California-022725.pdf\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003EFigure 4\u003C\/a\u003E)).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EFirst, there’s UCI’s Medical Center, subject to audited systemwide\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ucop.edu\/uc-controller\/financial-reports\/medical-center-financial-reports.html\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003EFinancial Reports\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;In the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ucop.edu\/uc-controller\/financial-reports\/systemwide-reports\/medical-center-reports\/23-24\/medical-center-report-2024.pdf\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Emost recent Report, for 2023-24\u003C\/a\u003E, UCI Health’s Income from Operations was negative $28.6 million\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;(p. 60). Its Change in Net Position is negative $230.8 million (p. 60). Its Transfers to University is negative $91.9 million, meaning the campus sent it about $92 million that year (p 62).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003ECaveats: these numbers fluctuate from year to year, there are others one could report, they require interpretation (cash flows from Med Center to UC campus are likely repayments \/ recharges for activities not specified in financial reports), med center accounting is very complicated, and I am not an expert in it.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThat said, the Budget Overview is not justified in presenting UCI Health as a general financial donor to the core and its Schools.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The arrows in Figure 1 are at best misleading when they show the Schools getting surplus funds from UCI Health, while generating none of their own.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThis is an especially dangerous claim at this point in time, as the 1\/3\u003Csup\u003Erd\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;of UCI Health that comes from Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement will be subject to further reductions when Trump’s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/03\/trump-tax-cut-bill-changes-for-health-care-medicaid-cuts-aca-obamacare-hsa-rural-health-hospitals\/\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Ehealth care cuts\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;become fully effective after the 2026 midterm elections.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003ENext, there’s the “non core,” with its very large research expenditures. The Overview story is that non-core runs in the black and that ICR is a special boon.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;\"\u003EOf the core fund sources outlined here, one source that has kept pace or exceeded inflation has been indirect cost recovery (ICR) from grants and contracts, which grew 15% each year for the past two years. This accomplishment reflects years of intentional investments in faculty, infrastructure, pre- and post-award administration, and incentive programs that have resulted in clear progress toward the strategic goal of increasing the impact of UCI research. The resulting growth in indirect cost recovery resources helps to cover existing costs for administration, maintenance, utilities, and other research-related costs that cannot be charged directly to grants. Continued growth at a steady pace is essential to achieving a sustainable financial model for the campus.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThis is mostly crazy talk.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;It’s obviously right about the rate of ICR increase, but the ICR growth rate is a function of UCI faculty’s increased grant acceptance rate, not an independent revenue stream. And those grants have costs that ICR is supposed to cover--rather than supply free cash flow to the campus.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EWhich gets us to the next point. ICR is also\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Enot\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Ea\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Epositive\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;revenue stream on top of the allegedly positive net revenue of Contracts and Grants.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;I’ll focus on this in a bit, but note in passing a third problem. That is the Overview’s suggestion that ICR comes from the administration’s capital investments rather than from the labor of the faculty, staff and students who write the grants (5-10 proposals for every success) and who then do the research. They are not mentioned here.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;This is not petty carping about wording: academic accounting misrepresents academic reality in large part because of its abstraction from universities’ core academic work.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;“Continued growth” in research activity is labor first, with secondary capital support that in fact, at all UC campuses, Irvine included, struggles to be adequate.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;\"\u003E**\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EBack to ICR.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The idea that ICR is a positive revenue stream is one of the most destructive myths in university political economy.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EICR is the supplement to direct research costs that are covered more in less in full by an extramural grant. However, in the U.S. and the U.K., ICR does not cover the full indirect costs associated with running a research grant at a university. Not ever.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EMany or most of these indirect costs fit under “Facilities and Administration” that many grants need and share.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;(The American Association of Universities has\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.aau.edu\/key-issues\/frequently-asked-questions-about-facilities-and-administrative-costs\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Ea short primer\u003C\/a\u003E). The Trump cuts to ICR\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/bap.ucsb.edu\/budget\/indirect-cost-recovery\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Efrom 56.5% at UCI’s campus\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;down to 15% are still tied up in court, but will be devastating if they go through. The reason is not only because they cover real expenses, as has been stressed in this crisis period, but\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/opinion\/views\/2025\/02\/13\/why-nih-cuts-are-so-wrong-opinion\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Ebecause they aren’t enough\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;even at 60% or 75% to cover a university’s costs in laboratory research.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EHere are two ways of depicting the universal ICR shortfall at universities.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The first comes from the UK’s Office of Students’\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.officeforstudents.org.uk\/data-and-analysis\/trac-data\/\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003ETransparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) database.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003ETRAC tries to account for the “full economic cost” of all university activities. Here’s the picture from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.officeforstudents.org.uk\/media\/zntnyj2n\/annual-trac-2023-24.pdf\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003E2023-24 TRAC Report.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EFigure 2\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhBeq3Y2WvIcHh3X-9179Ulb9YE2ccpmW-vzBUBOJ5-zIXGSJEhI9hx0OWQ-olv17xoU5zZ_L3zQJIFqfTbKkc_B6aWVPrpVlgSTxKKOdm6qQIhhIU3WcQAhoMYyIxlMmSSaTvUaqIpDuSWBc0YHzBZUl1w5pyIBIWirJumBc2NlSiPjbxGZwg1KRcCPwU\/s1832\/R\u0026amp;D%20Funding%20Surplus-Deficit%20TRAC%20UK%202023-24.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1832\" data-original-width=\"1764\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhBeq3Y2WvIcHh3X-9179Ulb9YE2ccpmW-vzBUBOJ5-zIXGSJEhI9hx0OWQ-olv17xoU5zZ_L3zQJIFqfTbKkc_B6aWVPrpVlgSTxKKOdm6qQIhhIU3WcQAhoMYyIxlMmSSaTvUaqIpDuSWBc0YHzBZUl1w5pyIBIWirJumBc2NlSiPjbxGZwg1KRcCPwU\/w385-h400\/R\u0026amp;D%20Funding%20Surplus-Deficit%20TRAC%20UK%202023-24.png\" width=\"385\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EUK universities lose money on teaching home students (dark blue bar) whose fees are quasi-capped (much like California resident student tuition).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;They lose even more money conducting research (mint green).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Each year, the gap between full recovery and actual recovery of real research costs gets bigger, as do their losses.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThe TRAC report spells out the problem:\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;\"\u003EThe full economic cost recovery rate showed a deterioration to 66.0 per cent compared with 68.5 per cent of full economic costs for 2022-23, and notably lower than in 2010-11 when the recovery rate for research peaked at 77.8 per cent. The median rate for full economic cost recovery was 58.1 per cent for the UK sector.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThe typical UK university loses nearly £400,000 for every £1 million of research it conducts. This is double what it lost a dozen years earlier. If sponsors paid the full cost of UK university research, the fiscal crisis of the UK university would go away.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThe second ICR figure comes from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.aau.edu\/key-issues\/frequently-asked-questions-about-facilities-and-administrative-fa-costs-federally\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003EAAU primer\u003C\/a\u003E, and brings us back to the U.S.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EFigure 3\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi6OPtvFzRnK29fF_25gQ5An0NYrfwL2tOILhDJvC9OYo4bvh1s0LcyPIZY4D17MWHNtbdly6ZGBd0262e5TpOIJMfrh3JIwVQ4IUu5WSvgLxk_JL_SyjTY_nh1SkvS7Yt-POfODk80NAB3-g-gNQv8CMAoQbB0m2iVGyCZCygJhyphenhyphenXCr3rh9FkHKywwwLA\/s1794\/R\u0026amp;D%20Funding%20Sources%20R\u0026amp;D%20AAU%200225.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1030\" data-original-width=\"1794\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi6OPtvFzRnK29fF_25gQ5An0NYrfwL2tOILhDJvC9OYo4bvh1s0LcyPIZY4D17MWHNtbdly6ZGBd0262e5TpOIJMfrh3JIwVQ4IUu5WSvgLxk_JL_SyjTY_nh1SkvS7Yt-POfODk80NAB3-g-gNQv8CMAoQbB0m2iVGyCZCygJhyphenhyphenXCr3rh9FkHKywwwLA\/w400-h230\/R\u0026amp;D%20Funding%20Sources%20R\u0026amp;D%20AAU%200225.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThis figure expresses an\u0026nbsp;implied\u0026nbsp;loss on sponsored research: it is expressed by the share of research expenditures that come out of the university’s own pocket. In the AAU’s prose,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;\"\u003EFederal data show that colleges and universities pay for 25 percent of total academic R\u0026amp;D expenditures from their own funds. This university contribution amounted to $27.7 billion in FY23, including $6.8 billion in unreimbursed F\u0026amp;A costs.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EThese institutional commitments to academic R\u0026amp;D significantly exceed the combined total of all other non-federal sources of support for academic R\u0026amp;D:\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;state and local government (5 percent), industry [businesses] (6 percent), and foundation [other non-profit organizations] (6 percent) support in FY23. (emphasis added)\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EAAU objects to the myth of research funding as a net positive revenue stream and stresses how much universities are out of pocket. What does that mean for UCI’s “non-core’s” Contracts \u0026amp; Grants allegedly running in the black, even making money on ICR?\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EIt means this happens only because UCI spent $132,261,000 of its own money on research (FY23\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ncses.nsf.gov\/surveys\/higher-education-research-development\/2023#data\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003ETable 22\u003C\/a\u003E, Rank 56, the most recent federal data).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;In other words, 21.7% of its overall R\u0026amp;D expenditures that year ($609.6 million) came from its institutional funds.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003ECaveat: a small percentage of these institutional funds went non-STEM fields (an NSF accounting category) perhaps as direct internal research funding.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EFigure 4\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi-zOV4iDhDbAi1TskVoLTOPG32hjPZqMr09F9-EsvwWE2kp7AIC_1Y5CADf7WP-HsajsApkSfUkNb6kxLIIIegspN_gb2lm6AJeMx8m9YluHG9ayA33BhSO6Eod57ta5znyS1jTKJRvZ1psJ7teNObPPVLDBY37LOTRRv1CUEff1blSaW27HYH6DOAevQ\/s1368\/Institutional%20Expend%20STEM%20v%20non%20STEM%20UC%20smalls.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1225\" data-original-width=\"1368\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi-zOV4iDhDbAi1TskVoLTOPG32hjPZqMr09F9-EsvwWE2kp7AIC_1Y5CADf7WP-HsajsApkSfUkNb6kxLIIIegspN_gb2lm6AJeMx8m9YluHG9ayA33BhSO6Eod57ta5znyS1jTKJRvZ1psJ7teNObPPVLDBY37LOTRRv1CUEff1blSaW27HYH6DOAevQ\/w400-h359\/Institutional%20Expend%20STEM%20v%20non%20STEM%20UC%20smalls.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EBut it’s a very modest non-STEM number ($8.2 million for the humanities, for example, and $36.8 million for all non-STEM fields (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ncses.nsf.gov\/surveys\/higher-education-research-development\/2023#data\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003ETable 58\u003C\/a\u003E, rank 60); some share of it goes to subsidize (much smaller) losses on non-STEM research. (More analysis on these issues can be found at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/01\/liner-note-13-humanities-with-means-to.html\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003ELiner Note 13\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/public-humanities\/article\/humanities-decline-in-darkness-how-humanities-research-funding-works\/54F12CB0DB7D07F93C2B28CDBDB70453\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003E“Humanities Decline in Darkness”\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;or, for detail, Stage 2 of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.press.jhu.edu\/books\/title\/11659\/great-mistake\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003EThe Great Mistake\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003E)\u003C\/span\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003ESo about one-fifth of UCI C\u0026amp;G funds take the form of internal subventions of extramurally sponsored research.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;\"\u003E**\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EFor the record, I am zealously pro-research and think there should be much more of it, not less. But the sector has long needed to stop bullshitting itself and pay for it fully and honestly, now more than ever--without pushing costs on universities who then have to sacrifice instruction or research in politically weaker disciplines like history and feminist studies.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E(This is not a new issue with Trump: for ye historians, here’s a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/is-equity-fair-soft-money-salary.html\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Ecall for full research costing\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;on this blog—in July 2009, or Gerald Barnett and I\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/fixing-research-funding-structure.html\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Ekicking off the 2010s\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;with a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EChronicle\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Epiece on the same subject, or me trying to use UCSD losing three core members of its Center for Theoretical Biological Physics to Rice University as\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/ucsd-and-crisis-in-public-university.html\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Ea teachable moment in 2011\u003C\/a\u003E, or trying to use\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/ucla-loses-loni-why-budget-silence-is.html\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003EUCLA losing a neuroimaging lab to USC\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;as\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/ucsd-and-crisis-in-public-university.html\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Ea teachable moment in 2013\u003C\/a\u003E, etc..)\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThe reason it’s even more urgent now is that the Trumpian war on the knowledge system is slated to cause universities to lose much more money on research than ever before. Their administrations will be looking to free up resources everywhere, very much including the large payrolls tied to the instructional core.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EGiven the damage this will cause, they are likely to set it up as UC Irvine has done: say research is profitable for the university while instruction runs at a loss that must now, in trying times, be staunched.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;UCI finance, having obscured the $100+ million it spends to subsidize research (leaving aside UCI Health), plans to cut its Schools of Humanities and of Arts and then keep the reductions to about 4% next year with subventions in the $2.8-$2.9 million range.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EI’ll discuss this issue in Part 2 of this piece.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;But we should go into it with the understanding that “subventions” are the lifeblood of higher education. They can be made very large when education needs or wants them large, as with basic research in the STEM disciplines.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThe political economy of universities rests on the socialization of costs. It’s just a matter of whose costs and whether we admit them or cover them up.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/9000945606444486323\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/07\/liner-note-31-universitys-false-economy.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/9000945606444486323"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/9000945606444486323"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/07\/liner-note-31-universitys-false-economy.html","title":"Liner Note 31. The University’s False Economy: UC Irvine, Part 1"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg-lc9l147aBv368-CQZ5qE_zLVixtcKQKJSuxOXW7CkpEPplsafKAuopjU8wqbUozSA0JOfMGykXeQE6kx0n36D17NDyYSJewKffuH0xAtdl-yiQYUhmGDK0ny9pP1DA7kJldqS5_eUhWpDSNCGBHWTvtrrtycxXvbL7Ok_vqN-Zqz1EisSFBtAx_w1rA\/s72-w400-h300-c\/UCI%20May%208,%202018.jpeg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-1508347636204446712"},"published":{"$t":"2025-06-17T15:46:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-07-08T01:44:33.944-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Admin Responses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Liner Note"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Research costs"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Research cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Trumpism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"University of Minnesota"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Liner Note 28. Hyponormalization of University Budgets: The University of Minnesota's False Economies"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: left;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgOKE_nLZ0xBYNaPlSjxcDVo4Yd87mK5rDJpsmd_9_bGDhkaFlgWvOf4Sa8IQn2xMRvL4twcrelGOTThoj294ECatUzF3AXuv5QYe4hVh_tvnEwUskg5M8vL8AmscqYZV0CfEpq-P46kMmM01AEVLIzUSpfi442L1MSyHjfEbTPulbpLHGeZJgTt8HZitg\/s4032\/Dublin%20Harbor%20on%20June%2017,%202025.HEIC\" style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"3024\" data-original-width=\"4032\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgOKE_nLZ0xBYNaPlSjxcDVo4Yd87mK5rDJpsmd_9_bGDhkaFlgWvOf4Sa8IQn2xMRvL4twcrelGOTThoj294ECatUzF3AXuv5QYe4hVh_tvnEwUskg5M8vL8AmscqYZV0CfEpq-P46kMmM01AEVLIzUSpfi442L1MSyHjfEbTPulbpLHGeZJgTt8HZitg\/w400-h300\/Dublin%20Harbor%20on%20June%2017,%202025.HEIC\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EDublin Bay on June 17, 2025 \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\"\u003EUniversities can’t fight an impeding fiscal disaster if they can’t face its size and destructive power.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\"\u003EAre they facing it?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\"\u003EWould they fight it?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003EIt's sometimes yes on the first question, but the public versions so far suggest not fight but capitulation.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003EToday’s example is Minnesota--with condolences and heartfelt solidarity to everyone affected by the recent political assassinations in the Twin Cities.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003EThe AAUP chapter at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities put together a presentation for faculty about their administration's budget announcement. They cite their administration saying, “a financial model that relies on maintaining academic programs and activities at current levels is not sustainable, nor is attempting to be great at everything.” This suggests both downsizing scale and diluting quality.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003EThe administration’s plan is a 6.5-7.5% tuition hike coupled with 7% cuts to academic units.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;While academic units are cut $89 million, non-academic units lose $2.7 million, which aggravates \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2014\/05\/19\/university-of-minnesota-administration-spending\"\u003Eexisting administrative bloat\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;The result would be our old friend “pay more to get less,\" and our newer friend “enshittification” of the academic core.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgQ1ri44HTq2uQxn4it01mzcFPQF5Ze7fC5O58J55M8ihpyqw3Z33tjqjq1dV4finOV21FSMaWH8r9g8683PTiGLL7dX5bgWAixn9xhl2ImAEdvbP54lNbznEgDegHzSvTLrMZ_bTphcJByvt9sncoaWvVVn5Vc82p8GfY4Z6aWDCfJgFzdF-KP9IlZADA\/s2164\/Minna%20Budget%20Slide%203%200625.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1176\" data-original-width=\"2164\" height=\"217\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgQ1ri44HTq2uQxn4it01mzcFPQF5Ze7fC5O58J55M8ihpyqw3Z33tjqjq1dV4finOV21FSMaWH8r9g8683PTiGLL7dX5bgWAixn9xhl2ImAEdvbP54lNbznEgDegHzSvTLrMZ_bTphcJByvt9sncoaWvVVn5Vc82p8GfY4Z6aWDCfJgFzdF-KP9IlZADA\/w400-h217\/Minna%20Budget%20Slide%203%200625.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003EThese cuts to the core come at the end of a decade of cuts.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Cuts on cuts, for some reason a tacit reset to the benchmark each year as though there’s no real cumulative damage, which of course there is.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjZiNjYKJRM2oLBdu72dZfLWRGvPUAM1kbVYTaMorZ5ED3xT4DIJP1NgQxGTEjb7wlpeAgsVKADnDNI-3uHwJRnCingLJ9M16umdr0WHvw936RU_kSUnCOA2biPrnwsvEIZv2erTRZ66ji0Kgx2nCJD4Oo7gQWYLIoO0CrP7U9wkKUxbFpCSqeIxxJ0UlM\/s2180\/Minna%20Budget%20Slide%205%202016-26%200625.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1218\" data-original-width=\"2180\" height=\"224\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjZiNjYKJRM2oLBdu72dZfLWRGvPUAM1kbVYTaMorZ5ED3xT4DIJP1NgQxGTEjb7wlpeAgsVKADnDNI-3uHwJRnCingLJ9M16umdr0WHvw936RU_kSUnCOA2biPrnwsvEIZv2erTRZ66ji0Kgx2nCJD4Oo7gQWYLIoO0CrP7U9wkKUxbFpCSqeIxxJ0UlM\/w400-h224\/Minna%20Budget%20Slide%205%202016-26%200625.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EWhile they are cutting academic units by $89 million, Minnesota’s administration describes a decline in direct and indirect research income of $85 million, perhaps a bit more than 10% of their total research revenues.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003ETwo things jump out here. One is the likelihood that they are robbing teacher Peter to pay researcher Paul.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The numbers are oddly similar.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;President Cunningham's administration might say this is a misleading oversimplification, but if so, they should detail why.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgYaF8ZHeWcsgqwxC-8DfCb0EY2dGcf380uwZGGQ2w9reuq9qKJgUPHeRH22IyQ8nx_uz_K1yHzjFxIDscYm0jghyphenhyphenXeD2T2mzaoL1_FmbAW4HqX4WzTupS_oAnQUI49PflKtZ9JxjFKHe1pyE-Zj2OIA-OKVqQou3W2SItsIEP9MtClsiNmfbmKmRrmnHk\/s2180\/Minna%20Budget%20Slide%20sponsored%20grants%200625.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1202\" data-original-width=\"2180\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgYaF8ZHeWcsgqwxC-8DfCb0EY2dGcf380uwZGGQ2w9reuq9qKJgUPHeRH22IyQ8nx_uz_K1yHzjFxIDscYm0jghyphenhyphenXeD2T2mzaoL1_FmbAW4HqX4WzTupS_oAnQUI49PflKtZ9JxjFKHe1pyE-Zj2OIA-OKVqQou3W2SItsIEP9MtClsiNmfbmKmRrmnHk\/w400-h220\/Minna%20Budget%20Slide%20sponsored%20grants%200625.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003EThe administration can conceivably force instruction to fill in for research cuts only if those cuts are smallish, like 10%. But what if the research cuts are actually much bigger?\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Then the instructional cuts are pointless, and also allow admin to avoid the real fix to the Trump cuts—a big, coordinated political fight with large state bridge funding,\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003EIf Trump’s cuts go through, they will be catastrophic. To reduce my previous\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/05\/liner-note-25-next-100-days-dont-make.html\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003Elist of ten\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;sources of cuts to a big three, they are happening to state funding, student tuition (international and residential), and federal research funding.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003EOn international student revenues, Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio has suspended interviews for student visas worldwide, so new international student numbers could go to zero in the fall. That will mean a loss of about one quarter of international student fees off the top—plus other losses due to departure, non-matriculation, deportation, and the like.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003EThere are also\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;three kinds of cuts to federal research funding.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;First is the cut of all indirect cost recovery rates paid by NIH and other major agencies to 15%. I\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/02\/liner-note-15-real-crisis-in-research.html\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Eestimated the effects in February\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(see lower estimates via\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/keepcaliforniaspromise.org\/5666650\/nih-funding-what-does-uc-have-to-lose\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003EEric Hays’s calculations\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for the University of California).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;ICR policy is\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/06\/16\/nih-research-cuts-ruled-illegal-by-federal-judge-william-young\/?utm_campaign=stat_plus_today\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;_hsmi=367025951\u0026amp;utm_content=367025951\u0026amp;utm_source=hs_email\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Etied up in the courts\u003C\/a\u003E, but the agencies may implement it anyway, and seem already to be. Universities could lose half to two-thirds of their ICR. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EIn Minnesota, \"If the 15% cap is extended to all federal agencies, [the University of Minnesota Office of Cost Analysis] \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/research.umn.edu\/units\/spa\/news\/memo-nih-15-indirect-cost-rate-cap-pamela-webb-and-david-hagen\"\u003Ehas projected\u003C\/a\u003E that cuts to the University would increase to a range between $155M to $188M per year over the next five years\"--on a base declining to $750 million.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThe second kind of cut is current-year cancellation of grants coupled with non-payment on grants that haven’t been officially canceled. The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EFinancial Times\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/63c12080-d7f3-4ffb-afbc-ff0a90a0131d\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Ereports\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETreasury department data shows cash disbursed from the National Institutes of Health dropped to $2.8bn in May, down 28 per cent from April and the lowest absolute-dollar outlay since September 2014, according to Jefferies, an investment bank.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThere’s also the spectacular blanket withholding from universities like Harvard, Penn, Cornell, Columbia, and Northwestern on top of the large numbers of individual grant cancellations. Grants Watch recently\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/grant-watch.us\/posts\/updated-nih-award-estimates\/\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Eraised its estimates\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of non-disbursements and cancellations. The total is now about 20% of NIH’s current-year budget for research. I don’t know why the University of Minnesota thinks its losses are half that.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/63c12080-d7f3-4ffb-afbc-ff0a90a0131d\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EFT\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Eagain\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe frozen NIH funds have blown a hole in university budgets across the country. For example, Northwestern University has been spending about $40mn a month to cover the missing NIH funds, according to Carole LaBonne, a professor at the Chicago-area school.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;\"\u003E“Research labs are looking at really stark choices about laying off personnel and not being able to take graduate students,” she said.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;\"\u003ENorthwestern had not been paid since late March but had received no official notification from the government about a funding freeze, a university spokesman said. He confirmed the university was spending tens of millions of dollars a month to continue research.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003ENorthwestern is a bad case, but there’s a lot of other\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/grant-watch.us\/posts\/tracking-overdue-funding\/\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Eoverdue funding\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Ethat may never come in.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Similarly, current-year NSF cuts were\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/grant-watch.us\/nsf-summary-2025-05-07.html\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Eover a billion a month ago\u003C\/a\u003E, on about $9 billion (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov\/files\/00-NSF-FY26-CJ-Entire-Rollup.pdf?VersionId=O06XnbgojADDf9uCPe_MIkjRPBScU1Lt\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003ETable 4)\u003C\/a\u003E. This 11% cut may now be higher.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThe third type of research cuts is the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-025-01749-x\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Eset of massive reductions\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;slated for next year. \u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;\"\u003ETrump has requested cuts to science funding across the board — the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) would lose roughly 40% of its budget compared with 2024 levels, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-025-01737-1\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003ENASA would be pruned by about one-quarter\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;— but the NSF would lose a whopping 57%, taking its roughly US$9-billion budget down to $3.9 billion. These top-line numbers aren’t new:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-025-01397-1\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Ethe administration released a ‘skinny’ budget with similar figures in early May\u003C\/a\u003E. But the detailed budget released last week gives a fuller look at the historic cuts intended for the NSF — including the elimination of 99% of funding for clean-energy research and the surprise shuttering of a gravitational-wave observatory.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003ELet’s imagine that after some bargaining in Congress the two lead agencies, NSF and NIH, only get cut by 1\/3rd. \u0026nbsp;For NIH that’s 33% on top of a 20% cut on the current year. \u0026nbsp;So Minnesota and everyone else should put their default guesstimate on 2024-26 cuts to direct research funding at 50%.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThis is in fact such an assault on the public science \/ federal funding model that university managers are dreaming of private equity.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;You may be soon be reading more paragraphs like this one in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/06\/16\/harvard-lab-to-be-financed-by-39-million-from-private-equity-firm-from-turkey\/\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003ESTAT about Harvard.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;\"\u003EUnder the deal announced Monday, İş Private Equity, a Turkish firm, has committed $39 million to a laboratory run by Gökhan Hotamışlıgil, a professor of genetics and metabolism at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The firm, which is a branch of Turkey’s İşbank Group, also plans to invest an undisclosed amount of money in any drug candidates that come out of Hotamışlıgil’s laboratory and are moved into a new biotech called Enlila.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThis model is a disaster for basic research and public missions without big return on investment, which is all of them.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;But it might explain the University of Minnesota president’s use of $74 milion in reserves—perhaps to prime the private investment pump by giving sciene and tech investors some funding up front.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;I’m speculating, but that’s the logic.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThe default admin plan seems to be (1) backfill reseach losses with teaching and department funds; (2) hope the cuts are a fraction of the stated Trump plan; (3) use admin reserves to seed private partnerships for research; (4) project no need for serious new state support; (5) keep\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003Ethe faculty demobilized with minimal and lowballed information.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003EPaul Campos has a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com\/2025\/06\/to-a-friend-whose-work-has-come-to-nothing\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Etruly exasperated post\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;about the structural deficit at the University of Colorado-Boulder School of Law that was deliberated created and then absurdly plastered over, so “that the law school is effectively broke, and we’re going to have to start laying off people in the next year or two, including some of the faculty who have been paying no attention to any of this because it’s so boring.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003ECampos is right that budgeting fairytale storytime is a standard management strategy, generally leading its docile auditors to accept Matt Seybold’s\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/theamericanvandal.substack.com\/p\/geegordonponzi\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003EPonzi Austerity\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;It’s a go-to resource because it’s the Great Demobilizer, and also mad suppressor of noncapitalist realism and structural change. However, the Trumpian Massacre raises the question yet again of how much longer budget surreality can carry on.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003EOr hyporeality.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;And hyponormalism.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;If society has moved into the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/isrf.org\/blog\/isrf-in-the-polycrisis\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003Ehypernormal\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003E, university management is still enforcing the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Ehyponormal\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;in relation to its expanding fiscal crisis.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003EIn both cases, people carry on as though the system wasn’t actually broken. In hypernormality, borrowing Alexei Yurchak’s term, the system’s dysfunction is widely noted. In hyponormality, information is withheld and discussion is blocked so that dysfunction can be denied.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;In both cases, administrative authority is maintained as program damage propagates through the system.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003EIf the Trump Administration follows through, it means public universities need an entirely new state funding system.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;If it follows through, states will need to figure out how to send fewer taxes to the feds in exchange for picking up more federal programs, academic research included.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;But Minnesota’s hypo-planning will keep that discussion from happening.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-IE\"\u003ELike everywhere, that campus needs a much deeper and more open set of arguments about what to do.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1508347636204446712\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/06\/liner-note-28-hyponormalization-of.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1508347636204446712"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1508347636204446712"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/06\/liner-note-28-hyponormalization-of.html","title":"Liner Note 28. Hyponormalization of University Budgets: The University of Minnesota's False Economies"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgOKE_nLZ0xBYNaPlSjxcDVo4Yd87mK5rDJpsmd_9_bGDhkaFlgWvOf4Sa8IQn2xMRvL4twcrelGOTThoj294ECatUzF3AXuv5QYe4hVh_tvnEwUskg5M8vL8AmscqYZV0CfEpq-P46kMmM01AEVLIzUSpfi442L1MSyHjfEbTPulbpLHGeZJgTt8HZitg\/s72-w400-h300-c\/Dublin%20Harbor%20on%20June%2017,%202025.HEIC","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-8249727349213219874"},"published":{"$t":"2025-03-31T09:32:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-03-31T10:20:40.847-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Boycotts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Admin Responses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Gaza"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guest post"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Management"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Palestine"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Trumpism"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Where There are No Universities (Guest Post)"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: left;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj81gibynNgG8ilnRckHB29WsDT1U2snp1KrZnKd0LR0a69ZkQzIllJ3ELGrh3zv6TWfRz0kEhh8gqCZ9yO6yhLoWGbTNHphlfsb48fIqKIlRrNBtZF7w0vF5rEKEYV8W1ly4fOvRW71U336E8rKsJ0QP97KRqMuqbTuLrfua7yFDajzLA8FJiBCWBb_5I\/s3072\/Sacramento%20on%20April%207,%202008.jpeg\" style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"3072\" data-original-width=\"2304\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj81gibynNgG8ilnRckHB29WsDT1U2snp1KrZnKd0LR0a69ZkQzIllJ3ELGrh3zv6TWfRz0kEhh8gqCZ9yO6yhLoWGbTNHphlfsb48fIqKIlRrNBtZF7w0vF5rEKEYV8W1ly4fOvRW71U336E8rKsJ0QP97KRqMuqbTuLrfua7yFDajzLA8FJiBCWBb_5I\/w300-h400\/Sacramento%20on%20April%207,%202008.jpeg\" width=\"300\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ESacramento Faculty Lobbying on April 11, 2008\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cb\u003Eby David Lloyd\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003EDuring the encampments established and maintained by courageous students and faculty, whose ethical integrity in naming and resisting Israel’s recently resumed genocide in Gaza disgraced the complicity and collaboration of their administrations, activists held firm to the simple exhortation, “All eyes on Gaza.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Though they aimed to disrupt business as usual at institutions that are deeply invested in Israel’s war machine, embroiled in research partnerships with the Israeli universities that design the weaponry, train the personnel, and program the genocide, and ideologically in step with the settler colonial ideology of Zionism, the students were concerned that media focus solely on their protests would distract from the atrocity unfolding with ever increasing violence across the killing fields of Gaza’s concentration camp. Even as their institutions, violating their duty to protect and foster all their students, called in heavily armed phalanxes of police at the behest of Zionist lobby groups and Republican and Democratic politicians alike, or tolerated the vicious assaults of right-wing vigilantes who recognized a natural affinity with their Zionist allies, the students continued to remind us that they were there, on their own campuses, because Israel had systematically destroyed every university and every school in Gaza in its ongoing campaign of cultural genocide that has now extended to the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003EWithin the first months of their relentless assault on Gaza, Israel had demolished every institution of higher education in Gaza, sometimes with calculated mining of buildings, sometimes with targeted shelling and airstrikes. They murdered with deliberate intent administrators, professors, and students, even as they continue even now to destroy hospitals and target medical personnel. Their invasion aimed at the complete destruction of the capacity of Palestinians to reproduce either their biological or cultural life. Now, as Gazans have availed of the short-lived ceasefire that Israel was bound to violate sooner or later to return to the ruins of their homes, among the first things they have done is to reestablish schools and try to recreate a system of education. Education and the freedom to learn has always been a deep commitment of Palestinian society long before the land’s occupation by Zionist forces and Israel’s systematic attacks on Palestinian learning, from the theft of whole libraries and archives in the Nakba and beyond to its isolation and siege of universities on the West Bank. But here, as in so many other areas of civil society, Palestinians persist and professors in exile continue to offer classes to students in Gaza over the fragile internet connections that are intermittently available.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ECapitulation\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003EMeanwhile, in the United States, the question is whether there are any universities left, not in Gaza, but here. The hapless, often willing\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink0\" style=\"color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/03\/08\/columbia-trump-funding-gaza-israel\/?utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_source=The%2520Intercept%2520Newsletter\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003Ecapitulation\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;of university leaderships, even at the most richly endowed institutions in the world, to the inroads of the Trump administration’s “\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink0\" style=\"color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/03\/liner-note-19-all-out-war-on-knowledge.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003Eall out war\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E” on higher education has already, within weeks of Trump’s unconstitutional executive orders, been a spectacular betrayal of their duty to protect the educational and social missions of their universities. Despite Palestinian student and protest leader Mahmoud Khalil’s appeals to Columbia’s administration for protections against doxxing and harassment, and his self-evidently well-grounded warnings that threats by Columbia faculty members against him would lead to his detention, no help was extended and the university effectively left the door open to ICE to disappear him and, subsequently, to conduct further warrantless raids on other students’ rooms—thus allowing access to law enforcement agencies that had been denied by previous administrations at the very moment when those agencies, unleashed by Trump’s fascistic sidekicks, have gone more rogue than ever before. As Khalil states in his\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink0\" style=\"color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/18\/mahmoud-khalil-statement-columbia\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003Eletter from detention\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;in Louisiana, Columbia\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"color: #121212; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px;\"\u003E“laid the groundwork for the US government to target me by arbitrarily disciplining pro-Palestinian students and allowing viral doxing campaigns – based on racism and disinformation – to go unchecked.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003EChilling as Khalil’s case is, and much as it stands as a harbinger of the repression of dissent that is manifestly to come, he is right to maintain that what appears as an instance of brutal overreach by Trump’s authoritarian regime has to be seen in a longer trajectory of university capitulation to Zionist pressure and collaboration with US state interests. It is no less the case that above and beyond the intense and even eager repression of student dissent on the part of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\"Link\" style=\"color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/society\/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-trump-universities\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003Euniversity administrations\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;nationally since October 7, 2023, and regardless of the Trump administration’s recent amping up of the pressure on them, American universities have been engaged in a long campaign of self-destruction fueled by a malevolent combination of forces and organizations dedicated to the capture and containment of higher education at least since the late 1960s.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003EIn the first place, the ongoing capitulation of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\"Link\" style=\"color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/society\/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-trump-universities\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003EColumbia\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;and other institutions to Trump’s spurious investigations, which are turning the Department of Education under Linda McMahon into a ludicrous if hyperaggressive smack-down arena, have a longer and equally shameful history. To go back no further than the administration of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink0\" style=\"color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/dawnmena.org\/international-criminal-court-investigate-biden-blinken-and-austin-for-aiding-and-abetting-israeli-crimes-in-gaza\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003Eaccused accessory to war crimes\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, Joe Biden, his attacks on the encampments and baseless insinuation of the violent conduct and “disorder” of these orderly, disciplined and pluralistic protests scarcely differ from the rhetoric of Republican politicians and Zionist operatives.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink0\" style=\"color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-silence-college-protests-police-gaza-israel-d5f3092671951c3bc2968b8751c93ba6\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003EBiden\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Link\" style=\"color: #0563c1;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003E’\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003Es statement\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;in May 2024 that\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E“People have the right to get an education, the right to get a degree, the right to walk across campus safely without fear of being attacked” established the same premise as informs the Trump\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink1\" style=\"background: repeat white; color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/top-stories\/latest\/columbia-university-letter-trump-administration-rcna196498\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003EDoE\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Link\" style=\"color: #0563c1;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003E’\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003Es letter\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;to Columbia that claims that the university had permitted “\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white; color: #2a2a2a;\"\u003Ean unsafe or hostile work or study environment.” With regard to support for Zionism and defamation of students who oppose its genocidal program, hardly a hair separates the rhetoric of Biden from that of the Trump regime.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white; color: #2a2a2a;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white; color: #2a2a2a;\"\u003EExecutive Director of Columbia’s own Knight First Amendment Institute,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink1\" style=\"background: repeat white; color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/top-stories\/latest\/columbia-university-letter-trump-administration-rcna196498\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003EJameel Jaffer\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white; color: #2a2a2a;\"\u003E, forthrightly condemned the DoE’s letter as part of an effort to \"subjugate universities to official power”. But it was the embarrassing performance of disgraced former Columbia President Minouche Shafik at Congressional hearings last April that threw the door open wide to such politically motivated inroads on the relative autonomy of higher education. Not only did she eagerly collude in Republican congressional repesentatives’ vilification of members of her faculty on the basis of statements cherry-picked without context, threatening to terminate the employment of one of them, she also permitted to pass without dissent the ignorant claim that “\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink1\" style=\"background: repeat white; color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2023\/11\/on-the-history-meaning-and-power-of-from-the-river-to-the-sea\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003Efrom the river to the sea\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white; color: #2a2a2a;\"\u003E” or “long live the intifada” are genocidal chants when a few minutes study, not to mention knowledge of her own first language, would have easily allowed her to refute such calculating stupidity.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white; color: #2a2a2a;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white; color: #2a2a2a;\"\u003ENot that Shafik’s performance in this was any worse than her peers, the Presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT, in December 2023. None seemed willing to contest the premises of the egregious opportunist Congresswoman\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink1\" style=\"background: repeat white; color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/harvard-penn-mit-president-congress-intifada-193a1c81e9ebcc15c5dd68b71b4c6b71\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003EElise Stefanik\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white; color: #2a2a2a;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;when she absurdly “\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003Eequated calls for an intifada as a call for a global Jewish genocide.” Like Shafik, UPenn’s Liz Magill’s and Harvard’s Claudine Gay’s heads soon rolled, but not for the reasons they should have. It was not any robust defense of academic freedom and first amendment rights, knowledge and research, context and nuance, but their failure to bend even further over backwards to the ignorant rantings of the congressional kangaroo court and their foot-shuffling inability to push back that left them and their comfortable, overpaid jobs vulnerable to further pressure from concerted Zionist activists, pro-Israel lobbyists, and conservative donors.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003EAs further university “leaders”, including the University of California’s Michael Drake, preemptively deliberate the path of no resistance, abandoning DEI programs and introducing disciplinary regulations on student protest and even curricula in advance of the arrival of a clown-cart of DoE Joint Task Force “investigators” on some 60 university campuses, one is left in the embarrassing position of having to invoke the memory of a U.S. Defense Department lawyer,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink1\" style=\"background: repeat white; color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/about\/powers-procedures\/investigations\/mccarthy-hearings\/have-you-no-sense-of-decency.htm\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003EJoseph Welch\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E. Welch famously brought down Senator McCarthy after his long series of red-baiting hearings, merely by asking “Have you no decency?” But the corruption and intellectual debasement of the US universities and their leadership has descended to the point where it proves impossible for a single university president to call out the ignorance and stupidity of the politicians that harass them and whose project is by no means the protection of Jewish students, many of whom were among the encampments, but the erosion of higher education itself. That not a single one of these leaders of some of the wealthiest and most prestigious institutions in the country, supposedly the intellectual hubs of the nation, could summon the courage to defend the importance of knowledge, ethics,\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;and thought, or to condemn the genocide and the scholasticide ongoing at that very moment in Gaza, awareness and defiance of which were fully on display at their own students’ encampments, is both a symptom and a cause of the destruction of the university in the United States. Calculating connivance in stupidity, whether of politicians or of donors, consolidates the tropism towards intellectual vacuity and moral posturing that has long been the tendency of the corporate university's leadership. The greater the wealth and prestige, the less the ethical courage, comes to seem the basic principle of the university’s intellectual bankruptcy.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ECollaboration\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003EPrior to around 2009 and Israel’s first all-out war on Gaza, which slaughtered around 1400 Palestinians, systematic repression of pro-Palestinian speech on US campuses was relatively rare: the general “common sense” of the university as of the US public was implicitly if not explicitly pro-Zionist, persuaded as people were that Israel was “the only democracy in the Middle East”, that the Oslo Accords had instituted a peace process from which Palestinians constantly walked away, and that—especially in the wake of 9\/11 and the second Intifada, Palestinians were terrorists in any case. Grotesque racist cartoons of Arafat and other Palestinians, close kin to Nazi anti-semitic caricatures, appeared in every mainstream news outlet with mind-numbing regularity.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Understanding of Israel’s apartheid, of the reality of what passed for an “occupation”, of the conditions for Palestinian prisoners, of Israel’s ongoing theft of Palestinian land and resources, and of the draconian slow genocide of the siege on Gaza were confined to a minority. Under such an effective news blockade, censorship and repression were unnecessary.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003EBut the launching of public campaigns for BDS and in particular of the campaign for academic and cultural boycott of Israeli institutions called forth a heightened degree of censorship and repression now that the hegemony of the Zionist narrative could no longer be assured. Initial Zionist willingness to debate advocates of BDS, in the cocksure belief that, having held the dominant narrative for so long, they would easily prevail, rapidly waned as defense of Israel’s regime became increasingly fraught. Argument was displaced in short order by lawfare, a strategy that has developed and expanded in time with the brutalization of Israel’s own methods of repression and genocidal warfare. In warfare and lawfare, the failure to overcome resistance leads inevitably to retrenchment and amplification rather than recognition of the injustice of the cause. Here again, Khalil's case is exemplary: lawfare having repeatedly failed to break Palestinian solidarity in the courts, whether in cases brought against the American Studies Association for its boycott resolution in 2013 or Fordham University’s efforts to ban its SJP, the Zionist agenda is now being enacted in extralegal ways by an authoritarian state apparatus in the hope that gross violations of civil rights will produce a de facto transformation of the law, much as Israel’s violations of international law, as Noura Erakat has shown, have had the effect of producing new and brutal legal norms.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003EUniversity administrations have not been shy of collaborating with the censorship and repression of Palestinian solidarity in synch with a wider political agenda that has seen the passage of House Resolutions condemning BDS, the banning of BDS by state contractors (including universities) in numerous states, and, most recently, actions like the direct interference of the Governor of New York State\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink1\" style=\"background: repeat white; color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hochul-palestinian-studies-genocide-cuny-hunter-04f5e9bf1b718bf0441f9b6cde260141\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003EKathy Hochul\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E, who removed a job listing at CUNY’s Hunter College for a Palestinian Studies Scholar, on the grounds that the inclusion of the well-established scholarly terms and empirical or legal descriptors of Palestinian and other colonial conditions—apartheid, genocide, and settler colonialism—when applied to well-documented Israeli practices constituted antisemitism. University repression has tended to proceed under the familiar mask of institutional neutrality but has not stopped short of outright censorship—as with the banning of student-led Palestine solidarity organizations (including Jewish ones)—and prosecutions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003EAlthough, as Palestine Legal reports,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink1\" style=\"background: repeat white; color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/548748b1e4b083fc03ebf70e\/t\/664fbc07860df7037ba81300\/1716501546613\/Pal+Legal+Report+Reverberations+of+Oct+7th\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003Euniversity repression\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;has escalated markedly under Zionist pressure over the past 18 months or so, it has been so widespread since 2009 that a handful of examples will have to suffice. The rash of prosecutions of student protesters that have taken place since the breaking of the encampments by police force last spring had a forerunner in then-Chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, Michael Drake’s initiation of a disciplinary process that in 2010 led to the prosecution of the “Irvine 11”. Palestinian and Muslim students had disrupted a speech by then Israeli ambassador Michael Oren, whose invitation to campus at that moment was clearly provocative in the wake of Operation Cast Lead. The Orange County prosecutor relied on Drake’s sanctions to charge the arrested students with misdemeanors. The recent firings of Columbia Law professor Katherine Franke and Yale International Law professor\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white; color: #333333;\"\u003EHelyeh Doutaghi were notoriously preceded by that of Steven Salaita at the University of Illinois in 2014. University presidents have almost univocally condemned the academic and cultural boycott despite overwhelming and well-\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink1\" style=\"background: repeat white; color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mayaywind.com\/book\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003Edocumented evidence\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white; color: #333333;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;of the complicity of the Israeli universities with which they maintain close financial and research collaborations in Israel’s war crimes and violations of human rights.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003EThat 100 US university presidents should have condemned the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003EAmerican Studies Association for its boycott resolution in 2013 came then as no surprise. Why would it have? Such\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;are the presidents of institutions, like former UC President\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink0\" style=\"color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/globetrotter.berkeley.edu\/conversations\/Gardner\/gardner-con7.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003EDavid Gardner\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, whose refusal to divest from apartheid in the 1980s fueled the student-led divestment movement that eventually brought many colleges and universities to do the right thing, which, indeed, they now celebrate on their\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink0\" style=\"color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/news\/how-students-helped-end-apartheid\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003Ewebsites\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E. At that time, supporters of South Africa\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink0\" style=\"color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/article\/apologists-without-remorse\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003Eargued\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;that “South Africa [was] freer than most African countries\" and that it “was scarcely the only country in Africa systematically to violate human rights”.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Fed by a well-funded South African propaganda campaign, they questioned the readiness of black Africans for democracy and argued for “increasing all forms of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink0\" style=\"color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/article\/apologists-without-remorse\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003Econtact\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E” under the rubric of “constructive engagement.” Then, too, university administrators unleashed the police on demonstrators, dismantling the “shanty-towns” that were their encampments.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003EAbsent from that moment, however, was the charge of antisemitism, that has been so irresponsibly and recklessly flung at social justice activists as to have become virtually content-free. No divestment activist was ever charged with anti-Afrikanerism, though Elon Musk and Donald Trump have sought lately to appeal to the wounded feelings of white South African racists. The weaponization of antisemitism by Zionism has offered the university authorities a new instrument with which to suppress calls for divestment from Israel and corporations that support its apartheid agenda that build on the experience of anti-apartheid campaigns against South Africa. Resistance to divestment and the preservation of university investments in corporations that systematically abet Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights and assist the commission of genocide—from Hewlett Packard and Caterpillar to Boeing and Raytheon, Maersk and Chevron—is continuous with longstanding university complicity in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink0\" style=\"color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/universitiesinbu0000feld\/page\/n5\/mode\/2up\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003Ethe business of repression\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E. Antagonism to BDS is intensified by its intersection with the rise of demands on universities to divest from fossil fuel corporations that have both accelerated and denied climate change and imperiled the future of the planet and of their students’ futures, thus exacerbating the contradictions that universities face between their putatively humanistic missions and their material as well as ideological embeddedness in a rapacious neoliberal order.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003EIn some respects, then, the Zionist-led campaign against student activists and their faculty allies is parasitic on the longer history of efforts to subordinate the university to business interests or to those of the neoliberal corporate-state convergence. In its ever-more open embrace of fascist tendencies that has stripped away the democratic mask Israel has always sported, Zionism has seen its image in the mirror of global authoritarianism and found its real face there, to the alarm of whatever remains of that\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink0\" style=\"color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2017\/08\/supremacy-zionist-exception\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003Eself-deluded category\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, the liberal Zionist. With unabashed alacrity, it has served as the leading-edge of a right-wing and corporate reclamation of the university whose aim is ultimately the destruction of an already hollowed out liberal institution. Appeals to protect the injured sensibilities of Jewish (read Zionist, since JVP and If Not Now clearly don’t count) students and faculty cynically mobilizes the last admissible remnant of the much-maligned campus DEI policies, ever caricatured and exploited by conservative media to generate a loss of faith in higher education that should have been laid at the foot of right-wing cuts.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003EAt the same time, Zionist fear of such “woke” coalitions as that between Black Lives Matter and the Palestine solidarity movements has amplified right-wing antagonism to DEI and energized the Trump regime’s determination to abolish any vestige of anti-racism in the university. The conflation by Zionist organizations like the ADL of Palestine solidarity with antisemitism succeeds only in isolating the real struggle against actual antisemitism from genuine antiracist social movements. But the underlying aim is not to fight antisemitism but to defend an Israeli state predicated on Jewish supremacy which must make alliance with white supremacist authoritarianism to survive. The shared goal is to deradicalize our campuses at a moment when, as during the 60s, capitalism has lost its hegemony and finds that the majority of younger people lean socialist and the majority of the population favor government programs that by any other name would be social democratic, from universal healthcare to social security.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003ESUBORDINATION\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003EZionist organizations’ success in their campaign to shut down pro-Palestinian solidarity on our campuses accordingly finds its condition of possibility in a half-century right-wing campaign to transform the university in a direction that would subordinate it to the needs of the corporations. In 1971, Lewis Powell, later Supreme Court Justice, wrote for the American Chamber of Commerce a\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink0\" style=\"color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu\/powellmemo\/1\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003Ememorandum\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;in which he laid out the necessity to take back the campuses and stem what he calls—in terms remarkably resonant with the language of the contemporary right—the “ideological war against the enterprise system and the values of western society” whose “disquieting voices” he found among the New Left. His portrait of the “minority” of left voices has become drearily familiar, as has his insistence on the lack of “balance”, “conspicuous by its absence on many campuses” and on the lack of “conservative or moderate” voices. Powell lays out a blueprint for taking back the American university which furnished the map for a concerted and long-drawn out right-wing campaign to regain hegemony, extending from the campuses to the media.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003EPowell’s analysis and recommendations were amplified some years later by the conservative intellectual warrior Samuel Huntington (of “clash of civilizations” fame) in the Trilateral Commission report,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink2\" style=\"color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheCrisisOfDemocracy-TrilateralCommission-1975\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003EThe Crisis of Democracy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;of 1975, where he\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003Eexpressed alarm over “an excess of democracy” driven in large part by “\u003C\/span\u003Ea tremendous expansion in higher education.” Huntington expressed most clearly the anxiety shared by the Trilateral Commission that the result of the postwar expansion of higher education was “the overproduction of people with university education in relation to the jobs available for them,” leading to frustration and discontent with capitalism. The corollary of this perception was that “higher educational institutions should be induced to redesign their programs so as to be geared to the patterns of economic development and future job opportunities.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003EPursuant to Powell’s and Huntington’s logic, the following 50 years saw the steady decrease in state funding to higher education and the corresponding increase in university reliance on student fees and on wealthy and largely conservative donors to make up the shortfall, along with the increasing vocationalization of higher education. This has gone hand in hand with the shift from the notion of public education as a\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;right\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(historically a right racially distributed, it must be said, primarily to white citizens) to the conception of education as a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Ecommodity\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;in which to invest—and the corresponding transformation of the students themselves into commodities of varying value for accumulation. As Trump’s recent appointee to head the Department of Education,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink0\" style=\"color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/about\/news\/speech\/secretary-mcmahon-our-departments-final-mission\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003ELinda McMahon\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;succinctly put it, reflecting the desperately impoverished conception of education that best serves capitalist culture, “\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white; color: #393939;\"\u003EPostsecondary education should be a path to a well-paying career aligned with workforce needs.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003EWe continue to live in the shadow of these antidemocratic definitions of the crisis of democracy and the remarkable degree to which it was blamed on the radicalization of the campuses. At the same time, we retain a similar but inverse understanding of the university and its functions. For a decade or so after the end of the 1960s, the university continued to offer shelter to critical and even radical voices and continued to present that as an essential part of its educational mission. To some extent, the relative hospitality of the university to critique stemmed from the origins of Anglo-American conceptions of the university in late Enlightenment philosophers like Immanuel Kant and Wilhelm von Humboldt, for whom the university provided space for what Kant called the philosophical critique of the faculties—Law, Medicine, and Theology—that he saw as direct “tools of the state” (the contemporary equivalent would be the academic-military-industrial complex). They recognized that the university was, as Louis Althusser would later term it, an “ideological state apparatus”, but believed that critique could insure its openness to transformation and to the accommodation of new ideas. In some respects, Kant’s liberal idea of the university remains what we understand by a university and its meaning, an understanding that underlies the mostly under-theorized dismay on the part of faculty at the erosion of the humanities and the shrinking of the space in research or teaching for radical critique of the institution or of society.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003EThrough the 1980s, to a very large extent left critical thinking did exercise a considerable degree of counterhegemonic influence within the university, including antiracist as well as anticapitalist thought. In a sense, we would not be wrong to claim that within the university and through the teaching of generations of students, the left “won” the so-called culture wars as these played out in a gradual liberalization of social mores, from what the right now term “gender ideology” to the rise of social movements against globalization and of antiracist organizing, and even the emergence of a vigorous and theoretically informed Palestine solidarity movement that always understood itself in conjunction with other social movements.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003ESuch achievements, however, went hand in hand with a series of compromises with institutionalized modes of containment of critique. Thus “affirmative action”, attacked in courts and political initiatives, gave way first to “multiculturalism”, as the university sanitized the demands of the student divestment activists to end “apartheid on campus,” and multiculturalism, which responded to the student demand for diversification of the faculty, in turn succumbed first to the rubric of “excellence and diversity” (code for “diversity within the existing protocols of the university”), and finally to the fully bureaucratized DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion. The university succeeded in successive neutralizations of efforts to transform its institutional function as an instrument of racial capitalism. The bitter irony is that the left seems forever doomed to defend institutional policies imposed by the right in effort to contain genuine desegregation and which the same right then attacks as extreme and absurd.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003ENo less important to the assault on higher education were the fundamental historical changes in the conditions of possibility of the postwar liberal university. That university was more precisely a Cold War university: ideologically, it needed to demonstrate a link between capitalism, democracy and freedom, including the freedom to dissent that the capitalist West found essential to hold up against “totalitarian” socialism. This fact did mean that the universities furnished to a limited degree exploitable political space for a minority of radical intellectuals, and even to the more extensive class whom Powell identified as ranging “from\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003Ea Herbert Marcuse, Marxist faculty member at the University of California at San Diego, and convinced socialists, to the ambivalent liberal critic who finds more to condemn than to commend.” That space, which the Cold War university could not entirely close down, enabled critical intellectual work within the university and in coalition with social movements and student organizations. Inevitably, the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a still incomplete project of the neoliberal “New World Order” in its wake obviated the need to maintain that space of so-called “academic freedom” and entailed its gradual but steady erosion, until now, only remnants remain. The steady downsizing of the “critical” disciplines of the humanities and interpretive social sciences that responds to capital’s growing demand for outcomes and skill-sets to produce a docile and malleable labor force, relayed in a drumbeat of full-throated attacks on university education in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EWall Street Journal\u003C\/i\u003E, heralded the transformation of higher education into vocational training, a tendency justified precisely by its increasing cost as a commodity that must repay the investment.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003EEven as “tenured radicals,” as the right liked to call them, were extending their limited cultural hegemony in a restricted sphere of the university, conservative forces, always the better Marxists, played the economic card, militating for cuts in public support of higher education that gradually reduced both state and federal funding to a small percentage of university budgets. Consequently, if not programmatically, universities’ dependence on corporate funding or billionaire donors, who can de facto determine the educational policy of the institutions, left them vulnerable to the ideological demands of their patrons. Powell’s prescription to the Chamber of Commerce, to take back the American university, has been all but achieved.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EContradiction\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003EInto that space of vulnerability of the university, a product of both its internal contradictions and of external economic and political developments, Zionism has stepped, drawing in its wake the extreme right white supremacists with their hatred of wokeness, DEI, critical race theory, intellectual life, student radicals and “Marxist” faculty. It has proven as adept at leveraging the power of donors to limit expression on campuses as it has in making common cause with fundamentally antisemitic tendencies, from Christian Zionists to right-wing extremists, including openly antisemitic leaders like Hungary’s authoritarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, the idol of CPAC. We should recall that the fall of UPenn president, Liz Magill began not with October 7, but a few weeks before in the efforts of\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink1\" style=\"background: repeat white; color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/25\/business\/palestine-writes-literature-festival-what-happened\/index.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003EZionist donors\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;and organizations like the ADL and the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink1\" style=\"background: repeat white; color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.org\/news\/5-things-to-know-about-the-palestine-writes-event-at-penn-and-antisemitism\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003EAmerican Jewish Committee\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;to suppress the Palestine Writes festival on that campus in September 2023, on the grounds that it hosted “provocateurs willing to spread antisemitism.” For all these organizations’ protestations that they respect freedom of expression, it is clear that the aim is to suppress any critical analysis of the state of Israel that causes discomfort to Zionists, much as the Republican legislatures in Florida and other states have sought to suppress the teaching of the facts of Black enslavement, Indigenous genocide, and US structural racism on the grounds that they disturb white students. To claim, as the AJC did, that “Events that gather writers, scholars, and artists to focus on a particular culture’s experience and its art are vital parts of the university environment on American campuses” while at the same time denying Palestinians or their allies the right to name\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Ein the terms that they choose\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;the determining factors in that cultural experience, Israeli apartheid, settler colonialism, and genocide, betrays the insurmountable contradictions in which the Zionist narrative consistently founders.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003EAs\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Hyperlink1\" style=\"background: repeat white; color: #0563c1; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2020\/06\/albert-memmi-contradictions-of-the-colonial-condition\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003EAlbert Memmi\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;long ago pointed out in his classic text on settler colonialism,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EThe Colonizer and the Colonized\u003C\/i\u003E, every colonialist eventually gravitates into violent authoritarianism, driven there by insuperable contradictions. “Every colonial nation carries the seeds of fascist temptation in its bosom”, Memmi observed. The tendency of Israeli political culture towards an ever-more extreme and genocidal racism over the last couple of decades bears out Memmi’s logic, just as his equally trenchant remark on the ways in which those fascist tendencies return to exert their influence on the “mother country”, or the states that sponsor the settler colony. The rightward turn of Zionism, which has stemmed from its inability to maintain its liberal façade once confronted with a vigorous Palestine solidarity movement capable of communicating Palestine’s “particular culture’s experience” under Israeli domination, now exerts its destructive influence on the American university, seeking the silencing, the detention, the prosecution, the dismissal of those who make its contradictions and its crimes uncomfortably public.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003EThe common cause that Zionist organizations have made with the fascistic Trump regime in its similarly motivated antagonism to intellectual life and genuine education is not a merely contingent or opportunistic alliance. It belongs with the very logic that has informed Zionism since its inception and that was initially openly expressed: every colonial enterprise has to eliminate both the physical presence and the cultural and intellectual life of the indigenous population. Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza destroyed every one of its universities but has not broken the spirit or the creative and intellectual will of the Palestinian people. On the contrary, cultural destruction tends to rebound on the perpetrator and Zionism's deepening antagonism to intellectual debate and creative life manifests all the mediocrity and spiritual rigidification characteristic of what Memmi dubbed \"the colonizer who accepts\", the willing agent of racism and dehumanization.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Body\" style=\"border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: repeat white;\"\u003EIt remains to be seen whether the administrations and trustees of American universities will muster the courage to face down Zionist pressure to close down what remains of free inquiry and expression in the US university and resist MAGA’s inroads under the spurious cover of investigations of antisemitism. The record to date of capitulation and preemptive collaboration makes it unlikely that they will find the will to do so. That may leave us the sole alternatives either of imagining and realizing a transformation of the university and its mission radical enough to constitute its abolition or of abandoning it to sink into the ruins it has brought down upon itself.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8249727349213219874\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/03\/where-there-are-no-universities-guest.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/8249727349213219874"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/8249727349213219874"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2025\/03\/where-there-are-no-universities-guest.html","title":"Where There are No Universities (Guest Post)"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj81gibynNgG8ilnRckHB29WsDT1U2snp1KrZnKd0LR0a69ZkQzIllJ3ELGrh3zv6TWfRz0kEhh8gqCZ9yO6yhLoWGbTNHphlfsb48fIqKIlRrNBtZF7w0vF5rEKEYV8W1ly4fOvRW71U336E8rKsJ0QP97KRqMuqbTuLrfua7yFDajzLA8FJiBCWBb_5I\/s72-w300-h400-c\/Sacramento%20on%20April%207,%202008.jpeg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-6792378240373376555"},"published":{"$t":"2025-02-25T03:35:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-02-25T08:29:50.241-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Labor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Admin Responses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Administrative Overreach"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Faculty"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guest post"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Research"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"ON MINIGRANTS AND SHARED GOVERNANCE (Guest Post)"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: left;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgfFKGiNbWrjRr9mCUVcQnq1hOe8szyQrDcS5N4sOEQrQ0k2OVlGaKRODIq-swuvY1ezVmgfJz6Tt7Rp1GKs7xG0smSj2NOxvX9osqwCEXefj4ebJGS8S2GNeWpeheI0T6_yFNQQWVagYSynuPzQuASq4VyYw9Q3x1wn8ln7Pe5H9_6hIQMMSWogPMZN9g\/s3264\/Outside%20Layfayette,%20La%20Oct%2027%202018.jpeg\" style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2448\" data-original-width=\"3264\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgfFKGiNbWrjRr9mCUVcQnq1hOe8szyQrDcS5N4sOEQrQ0k2OVlGaKRODIq-swuvY1ezVmgfJz6Tt7Rp1GKs7xG0smSj2NOxvX9osqwCEXefj4ebJGS8S2GNeWpeheI0T6_yFNQQWVagYSynuPzQuASq4VyYw9Q3x1wn8ln7Pe5H9_6hIQMMSWogPMZN9g\/w400-h300\/Outside%20Layfayette,%20La%20Oct%2027%202018.jpeg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EOutside Lafayette, La. on October 27, 2018\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EBy Leslie Bary, University of Louisiana at Lafayette\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI just wrote a mini-grant for $858, to cover flight and hotel for a speaker. To justify the choice of speaker and the validity of event, I composed a few hundred words, to explain to an audience out of field and possibly outside of academia why one invites speakers from other institutions to share their expertise. My speaker is a full professor and department chair at a major research institution. They are a noted scholar in our field of Latin American Studies. Their appropriateness as a speaker is not in the slightest doubt.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn the past, the $858 would have come out of a departmental speaker budget. I would not have to spend the afternoon explaining in words of one syllable why the event was being held and who the person was, nor creating documentation to prove I really had looked up and compared flight costs. But that was how I spent a lot of time today that would otherwise have been dedicated to research and teaching.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EI have been a professor for many years and before that, I was a graduate student with a teaching role. I have written many small internal grants. Initially, it was only one every couple of years, for special activities like summer research travel. Now almost every routine activity requires a mini-grant. The five-year vita I recently prepared listed ten in a category I now call “Selected Internal Funding.” A complete list would have crowded the document, since as departmental budgets shrink, funding requests for everyday operations are needed more and more often.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EI have never been turned down for a funding request. Never. I suspect the reason is that the institution funds all legitimate proposals. I repeat, these grants are for amounts that in the past department chairs or deans would have controlled and would have simply authorized. They would do this not out of corruption or favoritism, but because they were familiar with the field and could exercise good judgment about it.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EWhen I raise this issue, some faculty say they have given up writing mini-grants and only apply for major external grants. I am also a good writer of these, but major grants, at least in my field, do not fund everyday operations. And by major grants I mean grants from national research organizations like the NEH or ACLS. I do not mean fundraising. I also lobby civic organizations to support campus projects, but such fundraising covers different kinds of activities than do research grants to the Guggenheim Foundation.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe mini-grants address needs not covered by other mechanisms. That is why I continue to apply. I do have some better paid and wealthier colleagues who dispense with the mini-grants and support university activities with personal funds, but they are few. Others take consulting gigs to substitute for the mini-grants, pointing out that if it takes five hours to write and then administer a mini-grant for $750, and they can raise $750 in three hours’ consulting, they’ll do the consulting.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EMy research office suggests that applying for mini-grants helps us to reflect and articulate our research programs to ourselves. The fact is it doesn’t. Writing a book proposal or a major external grant can do that, just as updating and reformatting a vita can help rethink a career trajectory. But explaining basic things like why we go to conferences or, as I did for one mini-grant, why professors read books, does not help me clarify my ideas. At the outside, it might help explain what I am doing to an uninformed auditor. But that kind of explanation to such a person makes a negative contribution to my scholarly life.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe formulae for the mini-grants typically imitate those of major grants in the sciences, as does the idea that everything done should be grant funded. But in these fields, people spend as much as half of their work time applying for the funds they need to do their jobs. Rather than address that impractical situation, universities now replicate it at every level. The exercise seems particularly absurd when we are asked by our university to defend our job positions, or to explain that conducting research is part of our contract with them, and we are complying.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EBut what is happening here? Every time there is a new, allegedly competitive, centralized internal funding opportunity, it is presented as new funding intended to help us, yet simultaneously, money disappears from regular departmental budgets and the regular library budget. A central committee reviews all the proposals, and individual units across campus lose autonomy. The university says this reduces “siloing.” In some cases it can be fairer since there are always people involved who do not know the applicants. But overall, it seems to be about a reduction in shared governance.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThat is to say that every mini-grant application is a symptom of a department without a budget and, in the case of many of mine, a library without materials. When departments do not have budgets for research and libraries do not have them for materials, and faculty instead apply for funding to a mysterious committee in Academic Affairs, that committee has taken over functions that multiple department chairs, librarians, and others would have shared in the past. This is a concentration of power in a rather faceless group. Even if there were a Senate committee administering such things, the atmosphere would be less corporate.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EI note further that Human Resources nowadays is not a department of my university, but a service we have outsourced to a corporate “partner.” People who have increasing power over us are not colleagues or university employees. I wonder when the same will happen to the committee that judges the mini-grants.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EWhat should be happening instead? Universities should restore department budgets for routine scholarly activities that are central to university education, central for undergraduate students as much as for everyone else. This would increase the use of decentralized academic expertise, lodged in departments, which would in turn increase the efficiency of the overall system. And it would reduce the excessive administrative labor of the many, many scholars in my position.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjqbS44tuby0zSUDTVmxOhu9G928moDV6s5QUCznVxjYEnoiA80wyxZ7qIGghfBXKu6ynuMRz3AVQP9tVWkIWQD5sup543aGR-fXl7W4k7eULsTywcHawBqFfzAUQbD9hP4rjX7SKss4hvRsU_Ki2KkL4ZzBMQTbryLEMDqs4t8Q5r-MXLmsqjL1bR_cnM\/s3264\/IMG_7958.jpeg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2448\" data-original-width=\"3264\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjqbS44tuby0zSUDTVmxOhu9G928moDV6s5QUCznVxjYEnoiA80wyxZ7qIGghfBXKu6ynuMRz3AVQP9tVWkIWQD5sup543aGR-fXl7W4k7eULsTywcHawBqFfzAUQbD9hP4rjX7SKss4hvRsU_Ki2KkL4ZzBMQTbryLEMDqs4t8Q5r-MXLmsqjL1bR_cnM\/w400-h300\/IMG_7958.jpeg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EUniversity of Louisiana, Lafayette on October 25, 2018\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 12pt; 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white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EProfessor, Dept. of Media and Cultural Studies\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003EUniversity of California, Riverside\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EPolice Restoration at the University of California\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003ECollective movement against antiblack policing has prolife\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Erated among University of California (UC) faculty, employees, and students since the summer months of \u0026nbsp;2020. Influenced and led by the practices and frameworks of Black radicalism—specifically, Black diasporic, Black feminist, and Black queer and trans abolitionist organizing—a growing number of people affiliated with the UC system are challenging the university’s complicity in the normalized state violence that kills people like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, Atatiana Jefferson, Michael Brown, Philando Castile, Korryn Gaines, Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice, Tyisha Miller, and so many others.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EThe formation of the abolitionist Cops Off Campus campaign led by the UC systemwide group\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ucftp?lang=en\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EUCFTP\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;(of which i am an active member), emergence of the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu\/abolition-repository\/\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EDivest\/Invest\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Ecollective at the UCLA campus, and statements of commitment to abolitionist principles by the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ucsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/UCSA-Statement-Anti-Blackness-Police-Violence-6_2.pdf\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EUniversity of California Student Association\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;are just three prominent examples of\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2020\/09\/04\/coalition-launches-campaign-to-remove-police-from-uc-campuses\/\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2020\/09\/04\/coalition-launches-campaign-to-remove-police-from-uc-campuses\/\"\u003Erecent mobilizations\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;that have drawn from campus-based groups, including contingent faculty, labor unions, student organizations, mutual aid organizations, and even some research centers.\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E[1]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EAlmost inevitably, this surge of activism has been accompanied by dozens of\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/uc-statement-protests-violence-following-george-floyd-s-death\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Epublic statements\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;from UC departments,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/leadership.ucdavis.edu\/news\/messages\/chancellor-messages\/statement-on-george-floyd\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Euniversity\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/news.ucsc.edu\/2020\/05\/statement-on-george-floyd.html\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Eadministrators\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E, and police chiefs expressing varieties of concern, outrage, sympathy, and disgust over police killings of Black people.\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\" title=\"\"\u003E[2]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EThe administrative response of the UC system to revolts against antiblack police violence and “systemic racism” mirrors the broader national drift toward a reformist restoration of law-and-order, political stability, and respectable policing.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003ERelying on the triage and public relations model of administratively appointed “campus safety task forces” (in which university police are core members), UC administrators exemplify a process of institutional consultation, auditing, and piecemeal reform that installs the reproduction of police power as a premise of deliberation.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003ECampus safety task forces are not merely\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Einadequate\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;to the task of slowing, interrupting, or ending the asymmetrical terror produced through modern campus policing—including but not limited to gendered antiblackness, Islamophobia, queer and transphobia, misogyny, ableism, white supremacy, and racial violence.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Beyond this fundamental and unsurprising inadequacy, these task forces work to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Esustain and re-legitimize police power\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;while\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Eextending the parameters of policing as a layered infrastructure of state and state-condoned violence.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;To echo UCFTP’s January 2, 2021\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ucftp\/status\/1345460418714562560\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Estatement\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E, “Task forces allow universities to preserve and protect the violent institution of policing…. Declining to serve on task forces… recognizes and exposes task forces for what they are.”\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E[3]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAudit, Wash, and Repeat:\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EThe UCOP Task Force on Universitywide Policing (2018-2020)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003EFormer UC President Janet Napolitano—who served as Secretary of Homeland Security under President Barack Obama—exemplified the logic and function of such police reform task forces in the creation of the 2018 UC\u0026nbsp;Presidential Task Force on Universitywide Policing. While it is beyond the intent of this short contribution to thoroughly detail the content and outcomes of its full report, it is worth emphasizing that the Presidential Task Force was solely concerned with improving the UCPD’s internal efficiency and restoring its institutional legitimacy in the aftermath of multiple, prominent incidents of police violence against students during the 2010s.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;While Lt. John Pike’s pepper spraying of UC Davis students during a nonviolent demonstration in 2011 was the most notorious such spectacle,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/california-campus-police-clash-with-protesters-ows_n_1125537\"\u003Eexamples\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of the UCPD’s proclivity for\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/crime\/article\/Students-racially-profiled-brutalized-by-13701947.php\"\u003Ephysical\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and chemical\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2006\/11\/17\/shock-and-anger-ucla\"\u003Eviolence\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;against campus and community members abound.\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn4\" name=\"_ednref4\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E[4]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Yet, of the task force’s twenty-eight recommendations, none alluded to this\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/public-safety\/uc-campuses-have-disclosed-virtually-no-records-under-police-transparency-law\/\"\u003Earchive\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of violence as cause to reconsider the campus policing paradigm.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Instead,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7pt \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E15 recommendations focus on data “transparency” and the rationalization of processes for filing and investigating complaints against the UC police;\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7pt \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E7 recommendations address “use of force” protocols and police training for “\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\"\u003Eprocedural justice, implicit bias, mental health, de-escalation, cultural sensitivity, sexual orientation and trauma-informed interviewing” as well as “\u003C\/span\u003Eeducational and awareness presentations for students, staff and faculty;” and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7pt \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E5 recommendations outline the need for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003Ecampus based “\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\"\u003Eindependent advisory boards” alongside measures to improve the UCPD’s “community engagement.”\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn5\" name=\"_ednref5\" style=\"color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;\"\u003E[5]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E(The 28\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;recommendation is to create the implementation plan itself.) While Napolitano’s task force completed its work in 2019, it seems clear that the variously titled UC “campus safety” task forces created since June 2020 have drawn from her administrative blueprint.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EThe mandate for a renewed, public-facing round of campus police reform seemed clear in July 2020 when the UC Regents\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/michael-v-drake-become-21st-president-university-california\" style=\"font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Eannounced\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;their selection of Michael V. Drake to succeed UC President Janet Napolitano.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn6\" name=\"_ednref6\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" title=\"\"\u003E[6]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;During the late winter and early spring, under the authority of Chancellor Cynthia Larive, the UCPD had violently repressed the graduate student-led wildcat COLA (cost of living adjustment) strike at UC Santa Cruz.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;In June, the Los Angeles (city) Police Department prevailed on an\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.21428\/1d6be30e.8cc96f6f,%20https:\/saw.americananthro.org\/pub\/whose-university-when-police-pass-the-baton-to-campuses\/release\/1\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Eagreement\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;with the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-06-04\/ucla-chancellor-calls-lapd-use-of-jackie-robinson-stadium-to-process-arrests-a-violation\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EUCLA administration\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;to convert\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/releases\/ucla-a-violation-of-our-values\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EJackie Robinson Stadium\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;into a temporary outdoor jail for people arrested during mass demonstrations throughout Los Angeles after the police killing of George Floyd.\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn7\" name=\"_ednref7\" style=\"font-size: medium;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E[7]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EAt the time of Drake’s appointment, widespread condemnation of UC administrators’ history of sanctioning law enforcement violence seemed to mesh with the incoming UC President’s poignant\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-07-08\/uc-president-elect-michael-v-drake-knows-firsthand-about-harsh-police-tactics\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Eaccount\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;of his own encounters with police harassment: “\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003EIt’s been a part of American life for all too long, and it’s something that needs to stop and we need to find better ways of being able to keep our communities safe.”\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn8\" name=\"_ednref8\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E[8]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(\u003C\/span\u003EWidely acclaimed for his impressive academic and administrative credentials, Drake is also the first Black President of the University of California.)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: black;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: black;\"\u003ETo “Reflect Our Values”:\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EUCR Campus Safety Task Force (2020-present)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EDuring the latter part of 2020, Chancellors at individual UC campuses convened various task forces and advisory boards as part of an urgent administrative attempt to navigate the crisis of police legitimacy. Upon forming the UC Riverside Campus Safety Task Force in September, UCR Chancellor Kim Wilcox\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/insideucr.ucr.edu\/announcements\/2020\/09\/14\/campus-safety-task-force-announcement\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Edescribed\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;its purpose as a “review of our overall campus safety efforts, focusing primarily on operation of the UCR Police Department and its relationship to other entities on campus and throughout the community.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;While Wilcox offered the Task Force wide latitude “to prioritize topics that they believe to be more important,” he took special pains to address what he considered to be the limits of its charge:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EI am not asking the Task Force to opine on the issue of whether we should maintain a police force.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EWe are better served as a community by having our own police force\u003C\/i\u003E, which\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Ereflects our values and reports to the campus\u003C\/i\u003E. Without our own police, we would fall under the jurisdiction of the Riverside Police Department and the Riverside County Sheriff.\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn9\" name=\"_ednref9\" style=\"color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E[9]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;[emphasis added]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETwo parts of Wilcox’s qualifying statement clarify the assumptive premises of the UCR Task Force’s convening.\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EFirst, while it is a common rhetorical convention for elected officials, police chiefs, and other institutional executives and administrators to invoke a universalized notion of “our values” in the course of narrating their policies and decisions, such pronouncements avert sober consideration of the ethical premises of the university:\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EWhat if “our values,” read as the institutionally enforced priorities of the university, effectively (though tacitly)\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eencompass\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;systemic, discursive, normalized antiblackness and antiblack policing at the very same time that they fetishize notions of Black student “success” and graduation rates?\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn10\" name=\"_ednref10\" style=\"color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"\"\u003E[10]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EPosed another way: How does the policing of Black people, Black presence, and Black (intellectual, cultural, and social) life form the historical conditions of possibility for “our values,” which in turn cohere institutional notions of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” especially when they are applied to the work of university policing task forces?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003ESecond, Wilcox’s preemptive dismissal of abolitionist forms of campus safety as a concession to the jurisdiction of the city police and county sheriff is a red herring. \u0026nbsp;This is because of the longstanding practice of “\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/policy.ucop.edu\/doc\/4000382\/PoliceProceduresManual\"\u003Econcurrent jurisdiction\u003C\/a\u003E.”\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn11\" name=\"_ednref11\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E[11]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Put simply, city and county police\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Ealready\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;have shared authority with the UCRPD on campus and campus-owned property, and such is a common arrangement for campuses that employ their own police forces.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003EUnder concurrent jurisdiction, a campus administration creates a mutually recognized agreement (memorandum of understanding) with city police and county sheriff’s departments that allows the university\/college police to operate with relative autonomy on campus grounds (or, in the UCPD’s case “within one mile of the [campus’s] exterior boundaries”).\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn12\" name=\"_ednref12\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E[12]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Importantly, there is no inherent prohibition on the possibility of a university negotiating concurrent jurisdiction with external police departments\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Ein the absence of a campus police force,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;provided alternative forms of security and safety are instituted in place of the UCPD. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EThe spectacle of the UCR Task Force’s one hour virtual “\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/chancellor.ucr.edu\/task-force-campus-safety\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Etown hall\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E,” held on November 12, 2020, evidenced the administrative leadership’s lack of preparation, research, and seriousness in grasping their topic. \u0026nbsp;This was despite the fact that, according to Associate Chancellor Christine Victorino, it was\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Eprovided with a “shared drive with scholarly work in the area of police abolitionism [sic] and racial profiling.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;(Full transparency: this shared drive apparently includes at least one of my published scholarly articles on policing and police violence in the UC system.)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EThe hourlong town hall provided ample reason to conclude that the Task Force’s primary purpose—in resonance with the Chancellor’s protective pro-UCPD dictate—is to support and defend the existence of the campus police, while making non-binding, consultative suggestions to modestly revise some of its internal and public-facing practices.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EWhile the Chair of the Task Force (a local attorney and UCR alumnus) assured the hundred or so audience members that the group was “open” to considering abolitionist alternatives to the UCRPD, the prominent (and rather defensive) presence of UCR Police Chief John Freese constituted an embodied rebuttal of the Chair’s generous claim.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EIn response to Freese’s description of the “diversity” of the UCRPD (“We have twenty-two male officers, three female, one Asian [sic] officer, two Black officers, seven Hispanic [sic] officers, and fifteen white officers”), i posed a written question to the panel:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EIs the Task Force aware that increased diversity of police personnel does not lead to less racist, less sexist, less transphobic, less antiblack police practices?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EThe Police Chief’s rambling response to this rudimentary question further undermined confidence in the Task Force’s credibility and analytical rigor, given Freese’s central role in its deliberations:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWe—like all police departments—we hire from the human race.\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EIt doesn’t matter what color our police officers are.\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EOur police officers, just like any human beings, can have, um, feelings and things that are part of their lives and that they act on, sometimes subconsciously. As the leader of this department, I’ve always had a clear stance that we do not stand for any kind of prejudiced behavior from our officers….\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E[T]he best way I can answer that question, is that we do the best with hiring from the human race. I acknowledge that it doesn’t matter what color or the makeup of our police department or any police department, you’re, you’re uh, you’re dealing with human beings.\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn13\" name=\"_ednref13\" style=\"color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E[13]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EEspecially revealing is a passage from the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/chancellor.ucr.edu\/task-force-campus-safety\" style=\"color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eminutes\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;of the Task Force meeting held immediately after the Town Hall:\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[UCR Police Chief] John Freese raised his concern about a recommendation for abolishing the police force; [Associate Chancellor] Christine Victorino suggested focusing on developing justified, well-founded, and implementable recommendations.\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn14\" name=\"_ednref14\" style=\"color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E[14]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWhile the Town Hall was nothing short of an administrative shitshow, the Task Force continued its work unabated, spurred by a January 2021 deadline to submit “recommendations” to the Chancellor.\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003ESerious questions about the Task Force’s credibility have persisted, due in part to administrative incompetence in the appointment of its members:\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Eat least two Black student appointees were not initially asked to consent to be publicly named as Task Force members, and one was no longer enrolled at the university at the time of their appointment (their name was still listed as a Task Force member in early January 2021).\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EYet, questions of credibility and competence ultimately have little to do with the Task Force’s most important purpose:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eto simply exist\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;for a finite period.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETask Force As Police Power\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EThe public ritual of the “campus safety task force” reproduces the legitimacy of police presence by inviting criticism of its excess, dysfunction, mismanagement, corruption, antiblackness, racism, misogyny, queer phobia, transphobia, ableism, and white supremacy (etc.).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003ESuch task forces are\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Ea production and performance of police power\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Eand are thus constitutive of, rather than external to it; their deliberations (including task force reports, white papers, and recommendations) extend the technology of policing to incorporate the ceremonial participation of critics, individualized and communal targets of police terror, and survivors of acute (and homicidal) police violence.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EThese processes tend to not only incorporate the direct participation of police, but also extend the reach of domestic counterinsurgency as a defense of the fundamental legitimacy of police power (violence) and police militarization (domestic war).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EThis counterinsurgency serves to protract and reproduce antiblack (etc.) state violence at the very same time that it solicits indignant outrage against it.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EYet, the omnipresence of police reform task forces at university and college campuses also occasions an overdue reflection on the\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Econtinuities\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Eof policing and police power beyond “the police.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EThe university administration\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Eis\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Epolice power, and university police are the direct expression of administrative power.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, 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l0:level7\n\t{mso-level-number-format:bullet;\n\tmso-level-text:;\n\tmso-level-tab-stop:none;\n\tmso-level-number-position:left;\n\ttext-indent:-.25in;\n\tfont-family:Symbol;}\n@list l0:level8\n\t{mso-level-number-format:bullet;\n\tmso-level-text:o;\n\tmso-level-tab-stop:none;\n\tmso-level-number-position:left;\n\ttext-indent:-.25in;\n\tfont-family:\"Courier New\";}\n@list l0:level9\n\t{mso-level-number-format:bullet;\n\tmso-level-text:;\n\tmso-level-tab-stop:none;\n\tmso-level-number-position:left;\n\ttext-indent:-.25in;\n\tfont-family:Wingdings;}\n\n--\u003E\n\u003C\/style\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ENOTES \u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pe.com\/2012\/01\/20\/riverside-white-defends-university-police\/\"\u003EPhoto Credit\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr clear=\"all\" \/\u003E\u003Chr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn1\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[1]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;See UCFTP social media sites at\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCFTP\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCFTP\/\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ucftp\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/twitter.com\/ucftp\u003C\/a\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uc_ftp\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uc_ftp\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021); UCLA Divest\/Invest website,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu\/abolition-repository\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu\/abolition-repository\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021); UCSA June 2, 2020 press release,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ucsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/UCSA-Statement-Anti-Blackness-Police-Violence-6_2.pdf\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/ucsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/UCSA-Statement-Anti-Blackness-Police-Violence-6_2.pdf\u003C\/a\u003E; and Thao Nguyen, “Coalition launches campaign to remove police from UC campuses,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EThe Daily Californian\u003C\/i\u003E, September 4, 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2020\/09\/04\/coalition-launches-campaign-to-remove-police-from-uc-campuses\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2020\/09\/04\/coalition-launches-campaign-to-remove-police-from-uc-campuses\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn2\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[2]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;By way of example, see University of California Office of the President, “UC statement on protests, violence following George Floyd’s death,” Sunday, May 31, 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/uc-statement-protests-violence-following-george-floyd-s-death\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/uc-statement-protests-violence-following-george-floyd-s-death\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021); UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Cynthia Larive, “Statement on George Floyd to UC Santa Cruz Community,” May 29, 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/news.ucsc.edu\/2020\/05\/statement-on-george-floyd.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/news.ucsc.edu\/2020\/05\/statement-on-george-floyd.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed December 2020); UC Davis Chancellor Gary May, “Chancellor’s Statement on George Floyd,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/leadership.ucdavis.edu\/news\/messages\/chancellor-messages\/statement-on-george-floyd\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/leadership.ucdavis.edu\/news\/messages\/chancellor-messages\/statement-on-george-floyd\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed December 2020).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn3\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref3\" name=\"_edn3\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[3]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;UCFTP, “Against Task Forces,” public statement issued January 2, 2021,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ucftp\/status\/1345460418714562560\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/twitter.com\/ucftp\/status\/1345460418714562560\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn4\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref4\" name=\"_edn4\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[4]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;See Dylan Rodríguez, “Beyond ‘Police Brutality’: Racist State Violence and the University of California,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EAmerican Quarterly\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Currents), Vol. 64, No. 2, June 2012, p. 301-313; Gabe Schneider, “UC Campuses Have Disclosed Virtually No Records Under Police Transparency Law,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EVoice of San Diego\u003C\/i\u003E, May 12, 2020,\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/public-safety\/uc-campuses-have-disclosed-virtually-no-records-under-police-transparency-law\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/public-safety\/uc-campuses-have-disclosed-virtually-no-records-under-police-transparency-law\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021); Tyler Kingkade, “University Of California Campus Police Have History Of Excessive Force Against Protesters,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EThe Huffington Post\u003C\/i\u003E, December 9, 2011,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/california-campus-police-clash-with-protesters-ows_n_1125537\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/california-campus-police-clash-with-protesters-ows_n_1125537\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021); Paul D. Thacker , ‘Shock and Anger at UCLA,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EInside Higher Ed\u003C\/i\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003ENovember 17, 2006,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2006\/11\/17\/shock-and-anger-ucla\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2006\/11\/17\/shock-and-anger-ucla\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021); Lauren Hernández and Sarah Ravani, “Students protest UC Berkeley police arrests they say were racially motivated,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ESan Francisco Chronicle\u003C\/i\u003E, March 20, 2019,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/crime\/article\/Students-racially-profiled-brutalized-by-13701947.php\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/crime\/article\/Students-racially-profiled-brutalized-by-13701947.php\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn5\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref5\" name=\"_edn5\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[5]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;University of California Presidential Task Force on Universitywide Policing Implementation Report, June 2020.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn6\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref6\" name=\"_edn6\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[6]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003EMichael V. Drake to become 21st president of the University of California\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003EUC Office of the President\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003ETuesday, July 7, 2020\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/michael-v-drake-become-21st-president-university-california\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/michael-v-drake-become-21st-president-university-california\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn7\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref7\" name=\"_edn7\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[7]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;See Summers, L., \u0026amp; Gougelet, K. (2020). Whose University? When Police Pass the Baton to Campuses,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ESociety for the Anthropology of Work\u003C\/i\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.21428\/1d6be30e.8cc96f6f\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.21428\/1d6be30e.8cc96f6f\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/saw.americananthro.org\/pub\/whose-university-when-police-pass-the-baton-to-campuses\/release\/1\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/saw.americananthro.org\/pub\/whose-university-when-police-pass-the-baton-to-campuses\/release\/1\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoHyperlink\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E(accessed January 2021); Nina Agrawal, “‘Violation of our values,’ UCLA chancellor says of LAPD’s use of Jackie Robinson Stadium,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ELos Angeles Times\u003C\/i\u003E, June 4, 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-06-04\/ucla-chancellor-calls-lapd-use-of-jackie-robinson-stadium-to-process-arrests-a-violation\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-06-04\/ucla-chancellor-calls-lapd-use-of-jackie-robinson-stadium-to-process-arrests-a-violation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed December 2020); “Statement on LAPD using Jackie Robinson Stadium,” June 4, 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/releases\/ucla-a-violation-of-our-values\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/releases\/ucla-a-violation-of-our-values\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed December 2020);\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn8\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref8\" name=\"_edn8\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[8]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Teresa Watanabe, “UC President-elect Michael V. Drake knows firsthand about harsh police tactics,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ELA Times\u003C\/i\u003E, JULY 8, 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-07-08\/uc-president-elect-michael-v-drake-knows-firsthand-about-harsh-police-tactics\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-07-08\/uc-president-elect-michael-v-drake-knows-firsthand-about-harsh-police-tactics\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn9\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref9\" name=\"_edn9\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[9]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Chancellor Kim Wilcox, Campus safety task force announcement, September 14, 2020\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/insideucr.ucr.edu\/announcements\/2020\/09\/14\/campus-safety-task-force-announcement\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/insideucr.ucr.edu\/announcements\/2020\/09\/14\/campus-safety-task-force-announcement\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn10\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref10\" name=\"_edn10\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[10]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003ETeresa Watanabe\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003EAfrican American students thrive with high graduation rates at UC Riverside\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ELos Angeles Times\u003C\/i\u003E, June 14, 2017\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-uc-riverside-black-students-20170623-htmlstory.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-uc-riverside-black-students-20170623-htmlstory.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn11\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref11\" name=\"_edn11\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[11]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;University of California Universitywide Police Policies and Administrative Procedures, January 7, 2011, p. 8.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/policy.ucop.edu\/doc\/4000382\/PoliceProceduresManual\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/policy.ucop.edu\/doc\/4000382\/PoliceProceduresManual\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021). Cited in UC Senate Systemwide Public Safety Task Force Final Report Submitted to the University Committee on Faculty Welfare (UCFW)\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003EJune 1, 2018, p. 71.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/reports\/SNW-JN-gold-book-task-force-report.pdf\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/reports\/SNW-JN-gold-book-task-force-report.pdf\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021)\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn12\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref12\" name=\"_edn12\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[12]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Ibid.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn13\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref13\" name=\"_edn13\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[13]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Task Force on Campus Safety Town Hall, November 12, 2020\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/chancellor.ucr.edu\/task-force-campus-safety\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/chancellor.ucr.edu\/task-force-campus-safety\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed December 2020).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn14\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca 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src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgOjnCzXkNvl3TtOup67LOQNHFHDjDiZ-hT46P7-wd08zIicZJkHfgaa3vau7utZlwgmXfrDuRpjoy4853wJ70AP21lPEDoinErfRt0EX5SUWHOJhGbQo340BztxryWpGEjtRO0clnHUZk\/w410-h317\/Michael-Drake-Thomas+A+Parham+CSUDH+Feb-2019-Investiture.jpg\" width=\"410\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAugust 17th was new UC President Michael V. Drake's first day of work (red gown at left, at CSU Dominguez Hills).\u0026nbsp; He picked a hard time to start the job. But the Board of Regents has made it harder by pushing the president and the faculty out of the search for the campus chancellors.\u0026nbsp; The Board did this to the University's first Black president in the name of diversity.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ELack of diversity was the lead reason the Board of Regents (BoR) gave for rushing through changes in the selection process.\u0026nbsp; Both staff and faculty (especially tenure-track faculty) do need to be more diverse at UC.\u0026nbsp; But the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/july20\/g6attach.pdf\"\u003ERegent-commissioned report \u003C\/a\u003Edidn't\u0026nbsp; analyze applicant pools and hires to show racial disparity or anything else.\u0026nbsp; They would have had to offer evidence of systemic bias, since, in terms of outcomes, President Janet Napolitano (2013-2020) has a reasonably good diversity record with her 6 chancellor hires.\u0026nbsp; She brought on board two white men, Sam Hawgood (San Francisco, 2014) and Howard Gillman (Irvine, 2014), both promoted from within the campus, an African American man, Gary S. May (Davis, 2017), two white women, Carol Christ (Berkeley, 2017, from the campus) and Cynthia K. Larive (Santa Cruz, 2019), and a Latino man, Juan Sánchez Muñoz (Merced, 2020).\u0026nbsp; The 3 external hires were a Black man, a white woman, and a Latino.\u0026nbsp; First glance suggests that the easiest way to cut the white majority is not to hire from within.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cp\u003EThe Regents proposed a much more dramatic solution: a set of new search rules that overshadowed all other issues at their July meeting, including Covid infections and costs and the possible 12-16% revenue losses in 2020-21 that \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/our-converging-crises-july-death-drift.html\"\u003EI discussed last time\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; A review of the case suggests that a lack of chancellor diversity was not the main motivation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn November 2019, Board Chair John Pérez convened a Regents Working Group on Chancellor Search and Selection. It produced the\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/july20\/g6attach.pdf\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;report,\u003C\/a\u003E which does note the opportunity to \"underscore how UC can better integrate\ndiversity, equity, and inclusion practices into its chancellor search and selection process.\" But first came this:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote style=\"border: medium none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EWhile over the years, the Regents have delegated authority for many of the operations of the\nUniversity to the President, appointing chancellors remains one of the most important\nresponsibilities, which the Board has reserved unto itself.1 This reservation of authority requires\nparticular attention and dedication by Regents with respect to the appointment of chancellors—\nthe specific process which is set forth in Regents Policy 7102. (1)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFootnote 1 cites Bylaws 22.2 and 31.\u0026nbsp; Bylaw 22.2 sets out specific reservations of regental authority, and is a series of unilateral approval rights.\u0026nbsp; Bylaw 31 states that chancellors \"are appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Board,\" with the president advising and consulting on appointments without appointment power.\u0026nbsp; It also defines the chancellor as a direct subordinate of the Board as well as the president--as someone who can be line-managed by the Board.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Board's main motivation for the review appears to have been to increase its direct power over appointing chancellors.\u0026nbsp; The two discussions of the items were fraught, with both the Senate and the current UC President objecting to the changes and asking for further discussion. In the end the changes sailed through.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFirst, the changes. The Board's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/july20\/gov.pdf\"\u003EGovernance Committee Agenda for July 29th\u003C\/a\u003E had three items on this matter, in which the acceptance of the Working Group Report would lead to immediate changes in the search policy, Regents' Policy 7102.\u0026nbsp; You can \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/july20\/g8attach1.pdf\"\u003Esee the modifications here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;The new and approved clean copy is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/governance\/policies\/7102.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;The key changes are:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Col style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThough the Board of Regents always appointed chancellors, candidates were identified and a finalist proposed to the Board by a \"Committee.\" Now, this body is a \"search advisory committee,\" with its powers identified as advisory only.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe president was the lead on running the search.\u0026nbsp; Now, \"the Board and the President each has a role\"--they are co-managers of the search process.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe five faculty members of the Committee were appointed by the Academic Senate.\u0026nbsp; Other groups selected and sent their representatives. Now, the chair(s) of the search advisory committee will select members from a slate of three for each position.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe Committee membership was constituted by the process of submitting names, not subject to further adjudication (I assume).\u0026nbsp; Now, the president meets only with the regental members prior to retaining a search firm or any committee meeting to insure a \"strong balance\" on the committee.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe five faculty members of the Committee were responsible for reviewing candidates and submitting names to the full committee, \"working with the president.\"\u0026nbsp; Now, this reviewing is done by an outside search firm.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe Committee deliberated the virtues of the long and short lists submitted by the faculty reviewers.\u0026nbsp; Now, the lists prepared by the outside search firm are discussed by the president and the regental members of the committee.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe Committee came to a conclusion about the final candidate(s) together, through some (unspecified )process; the president would then communicate the nomination to the Board of Regents for approval. Now, only the regental members of the search advisory committee will vote amongst themselves on the name to be forwarded to the full Board of Regents.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn short, the chancellor search will be run by an outside search firm hired by the Regents and the Regent members of the search advisory committee. Only Regents will vote on the committee, and the result will be handed from the Regent members to the full Board. The president has been removed as lead authority in the search, and the faculty have been removed from the review process.\u0026nbsp; Faculty can submit nominations to the committee, just like anyone else.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIronically, the actual search issue this year was not faculty having too much influence over administrative hires but having no influence at all.\u0026nbsp; During the search for the new president that led to Michael Drake-- the Regents completely excluded the faculty advisory body from contact with the applications or any of the candidates. The Senate Chair has in the past functioned as a member of the Special Committee; after an initial meeting, she was never allowed back. The Academic Assembly formally protested in a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/reports\/assembly-resolution-presidential-search.pdf\"\u003EFebruary Resolution\u003C\/a\u003E, when the problem could have been fixed.\u0026nbsp; The Academic Council also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/reports\/kkb-regents-president-search.pdf\"\u003Eprotested in a July letter\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;dated the day before the discussion of the chancellor search items. It objected to the refusal of the Regents even to acknowledge receipt of formal requests to be consulted. The new chancellor's search process will make them more like presidential searches, which in the current case meant the near-total bypassing of the faculty.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Senate response to the Working Group's search changes was strongly negative.\u0026nbsp; Before the letter I just mentioned, on July 23rd, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/reports\/kkb-jn-chancellor-search-regents-report.pdf\"\u003EAcademic Council wrote to the president\u003C\/a\u003E to say that the \"lack of inclusion\" of faculty from the Report's interviews had skewed the results, and that it offered no justification for marginalizing faculty expertise about and personal commitment to their campus. It also stated that research university faculty members have special knowledge of what it takes to run a research university and asked that the new rules be delayed for further consultation, including consultation with President Drake.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe next Senate response was the bombshell, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/7009266-UCRegents-Policy-7102-Letter-Final-1.html\"\u003Ea letter signed by 20 former chairs of the Academic Senate\u003C\/a\u003E, including virtually every head of the Senate for the past quarter century.\u0026nbsp; Though I've often wished for it, especially for demanding the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/why-public-universities-cant-take-new.html\"\u003ERegents improve their generally poor job of maintaining UC revenues\u003C\/a\u003E, I've never seen this kind of united Senate front before. The chairs' letter rejected the implication that \"the UC faculty have been an impediment to the diversification of the University,\" pointedly contrasting the Senate's longstanding defense of affirmative action with the BoR's overturning of it in 1995, from which Underrepresented Minority (URM) student representation has never fully recovered. The letter defined the process of the recommendations as \"not in keeping with the best practices of our University\" in having excluded faculty from the Working Group and the Senate from meaningful prior review.\u0026nbsp; In addition, the former Senate chairs criticized the demotion of the president in the chancellor's search.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E[T]he proposed Section 6 of the policy . . . would require the President to meet privately with only the regental members of the search committee, and then seek their \u003Ci\u003Eapproval\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;of the President's choice prior to submission for approval by the full board.\u0026nbsp; The effect of this change is to fundamentally undercut the authority of the President in selecting Chancellors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis critique of the Regents on both process and substance was the basis of a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-07-29\/uc-faculty-mount-collective-protest-over-proposal-to-reduce-their-role-in-chancellor-searches\"\u003ELos Angeles \u003Ci\u003ETimes \u003C\/i\u003Earticle by Teresa Watanabe\u003C\/a\u003E. Many Regents, including the Board chair, first read about the 20 Chairs' retort in the newspaper, and they were riled before the discussion began.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere were two discussions of the search process changes during the meetings , first on July 29th (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jELR4sJWldE\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E) and then July 30th (starting at 2'09\" \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rtvAAQA1kPk\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E). The Working Group report was defended by Regent Lark Park, the WG chair, and by several of its other members.\u0026nbsp; I watched both discussions on line, and didn't hear anyone identify a clear operational problem to which the changes were a solution.\u0026nbsp; Park said the point was to be \"more efficient, accountable, and inclusive\" (2'04\").\u0026nbsp; No one objected to this goal,\u0026nbsp; but there were questions about how these changes accomplish that? A few Regents expressed frustration with getting only one finalist\u0026nbsp; at the end of the search on which they were asked to do an up-or-down vote. But there were other, simpler ways to address this understandable concern. For example, the Committee could meet with the BoR while the process is ongoing, or the President could write reports to the Board chair every 2 weeks, or the Committee could submit a short list of 3 final candidates to the full Board instead of just one (as will now be done for Committee selection). None of these would require pushing the faculty or the President out of the process, as these changes do.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe outgoing President didn't support the changes. Janet Napolitano noted there's \"the question of what the problem is that we're trying to fix here\" (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jELR4sJWldE\"\u003E2'41\"\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp; She said the Working Group could try to reduce their differences with the faculty and also said that \"it would be useful to consult with President Drake.\" She noted that while most of the changes are \"not necessarily objectionable,\" that one is a change to the president's power and the other is change to the faculty power. She said to the Board that her preference was that they \"receive the report\" at that meeting and engage in \"greater consultation\" with the faculty. They should \"then consult with President Drake. I think that would be very respectful of him \"(2'43\").\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHere the President offered the Regents accurate definitions of both respect -- consultation and discussion prior to a decision--and of shared governance, in which the process treats the views of all parties subject to equal treatment.\u0026nbsp; The sharing of governance requires what we can call \u003Ci\u003Eepistemic parity, \u003C\/i\u003Ein which one set of views cannot simply negate the other, but must seek some kind of mutual understanding if not reconciliation.\u0026nbsp; In the previous process for selecting a UC campus chancellor, the sharing took place during the review and consultation process, after which the BoR hd full decision rights.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe expression of regental views went on for quite a while. A handful of Regents, including immediate past chair George Kieffer, acknowledged the deep dissastisfaction of the faculty and the clear non-support of the president, and said these were reasons enough to delay the vote until further consultation had amended views (3'08\").\u0026nbsp; They were in effect speaking for shared governance's underlying principle of treating the epistemic positions of each party as valid, requiring further efforts at accommodation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA bit later Board Chair Pérez asked Regent Park a narrower question-- whether she had in fact not shown the document to the Senate leadership in time for the Senate to deliberate and opine. She said there had been a meeting with the chair and vice-chair, and they had noted they needed to consult with the Council, which then produced the negative letter linked above.\u0026nbsp; Park then responded to the general concerns (starting\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jELR4sJWldE\"\u003E 3'23\"\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI will just go back to this Chancellor appointment being the purview, responsibility, and duty of the Board members and the Board members alone in ultimate approval, and that is why Regent search committee members are treated differently in the proposed amendments to Policy 7102.\u0026nbsp; With regard to . . . the letter signed by many academic chairs. I was at some level astonished to receive that letter. I felt that the letter was not respectful, or did not acknowledge the purview of the Board, and the many Bylaws and Standing Orders that currently exist that show exactly who reports to whom, what has been delegated to whom, and what responsibility lies where.\u0026nbsp; 22.1, 22.2, 30, 31 of the Bylaws all speak to this. Standing Orders 100.1, 100.4 clearly lay out the responsibility. . .\u0026nbsp; This idea that the Board does not have this prerogative is frankly surprising in terms of coming from past members of academic leadership in that acknowledgement, and seemed to suggest that the Chancellors function more as political appointees of the President, and again that if they're not picked by a president they cannot be loyal.\u0026nbsp; I find that not credible, and contrary to all the policies and bylaws that I have seen. Not to mention that upon that logic, none of these chancellors today could be loyal or follow the direction of our new President because he did not have a hand in picking them. So that to me is a fear that can be quickly dispelled by taking a more vigorous look at the existing Bylaws and Standing Orders.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI really welcome the wisdom of our new president in a great many things. But I will take today as a case in point for not delaying further action.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPark said that we've had a lot of discussions already and that to say \"we should spend a great deal more time on these recommendations \" would suggest that the Board cannot do\u0026nbsp; time and process management, and \"then as a Board we cannot govern if we literally tie ourselves up in endless discussion.\" She was totally opposed to further consultation. She added,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is not an attack on shared governance. Truly it is not.\u0026nbsp; Faculty are the lifeblood of the university. That will not change with these recommendations. . . . And I would really love to see 24 [sic] academic senate leaders come together to opine on things that are deeply concerning and weighty to the institution--rather than whether shared governance has been quite respected enough in these modest recommendations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere are several issues here. First, Regent Park missed the point of the Past Chairs letter.\u0026nbsp; It did not challenge the Board of Regents' appointment authority, but disputed the plan to end the shared procedures that had traditionally led up to the exercise of that authority.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESecond, Park read disagreement as an attack on regental authority.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThird, her response to that perceived attack was to reassert that regental authority-- as unilateral.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFourth, she told President Drake that approving her recommendations was more important than getting his \"wisdom.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFifth, she denied Academic Senate's clam that this was an attack on shared governance by asserting that it wasn't.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe full Board did indeed respond to Park's call to power.\u0026nbsp; Few explicitly echoed Park's claim that the point of the changes was to give the Regents full unilateral control.\u0026nbsp; Many instead told the faculty that they didn't want what they said they wanted, or that not having it didn't matter like they thought.\u0026nbsp; Regent Leib specialized in this Orwellian discourse, telling faculty that the Report was a \"gift\" to them because it meant they wouldn't have to do so much work.\u0026nbsp;The discussion was often patronizing and dismissive, and oblivious to common sense basics of sharing and collaboration.\u0026nbsp; Regents like Lansing and Leib didn't want the faculty to feel bad, or think they were part of doing a bad thing to them. But they and nearly all of the rest of the BoR voted not to wait to give either the faculty or President Drake reason not to feel bad.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EObviously nobody is going to die from all this, but the Regents' report, discussion, and vote were a textbook case of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Epistemic-Injustice-Power-Ethics-Knowing\/dp\/0199570523\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1OLBVO7IOJ2EF\u0026amp;dchild=1\u0026amp;keywords=epistemic+injustice+power+and+the+ethics+of+knowing\u0026amp;qid=1597710050\u0026amp;sprefix=epistemic+in%2Caps%2C216\u0026amp;sr=8-1\"\u003Eepistemic injustice\u003C\/a\u003E, resting on the five features above.\u0026nbsp; This happens when the more powerful side tells the other that their concerns are wrong, that they need not be considered further, and that they comprise an attack on legitimate authority.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELet me finish by widening the picture a bit.\u0026nbsp; Faculty, staff, and most campus administrators have no power over major University decisions of top management appointments, budget policy, layoffs and furloughs, system health and safety regulations, and the like.\u0026nbsp; But they do have clear jobs to do on their campuses. The function of governing boards is not so clear. What, today, is their value-added to the overall institution?\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUniversity governing boards were justified in earlier centuries as a kind of natural aristocracy: the better people had a monopoly on wisdom, and board membership were drawn exclusively from them.\u0026nbsp; Few now espouse this kind of social Darwinist view of concentrated intelligence.\u0026nbsp; In addition, today's universities are enormously complex. The needed intelligence is widely distributed.\u0026nbsp; Experiences and needs are quite diverse. Front-line contact is more valuable than ever. The intelligence that solves problems must be integrated from a range of quarters. In this context, boards of trustees or regents are archaic forms.\u0026nbsp; The unilateral authority affirmed by Regent Park is this form at its most archaic point.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoard members almost always lack university expertise, so that members of the campus community cannot be heard to say to each other, \"How can we keep UCPath from ruining our lives? Regent N might be able to help us.\"\u0026nbsp; Or, \"How do we reduce houselessness among formerly incarcerated students? Let's call Regent Q: she knows a ton about this, and would be glad to listen.\"\u0026nbsp; I have never heard a comment like this. Campuses and their many units feel entirely on their own;\u0026nbsp; the BoR is treated as a ruler, distant and adversarial, to be managed and dodged but not consulted for special insight.\u0026nbsp; The stereotype is that they are most concerned with (1) implementing the views of external powers in business and politics; and (2) exercising their own rights and powers.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUnfortunately, Regent Park fulfilled this stereotype.\u0026nbsp; The Board, faced with a choice between power and consultation, sided with power.\u0026nbsp; Personally, I would love to bring to bear the achievements and capabilities of Regents in their own domains. I would love to see them exercise their sophistication and influence to protect the university from political interference and financial damage. Such Regents would be outward facing. Their internal gaze would focus mostly on managerial competence--on helping the senior managers serve the increasingly beset employees of the institution.\u0026nbsp; In the three domains of politics, management, and finance, such Regents would be especially focused on the third. They would insure financial vitality--they would protect and increase core revenues as necessary.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGood trustees--like good professors, physicians, presidents, landscapers, cooks, civil engineers, parents-- don't push their authority beyond the limits of their competence. Power beyond knowledge is the great American temptation: U.S. organizations are top-down and prone to chains of command. University governing boards are generally granted quasi-monarchial sovereignty, as is UC's. The structure is inherently and deliberately anti-democratic. It is not justifiable on grounds of standard political theory. Elizabeth Anderson's book \u003Ci\u003EPrivate Government \u003C\/i\u003Eis a good analysis of the anomaly of governing authorities that have \"arbitrary and unaccountable power over workers\" in a putatively democratic society. Still, though lacking in political justification, unilateral power might have operational claims: Power can be earned by operational effectiveness.\u0026nbsp; But, as we have been forced to note repeatedly on this blog, the operational achievements of the UC Regents are rather modest.\u0026nbsp; Instead of addressing this problem by, for example, spending all of one day on the buried budget crisis, the Regents made themselves less accountable to faculty and to the president--the clear purpose of Regent Park's Working Group.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the Regents succeed at greater power and distance, epistemological bubbles will form around them, and consultants--who report to them and are unlikely to challenge them--will replace people in touch with real conditions on the ground. UC's split between Oakland's Office of the President and the campuses will continue to make this worse with a structural gulf that can be crossed only with consistent and accurate communication, and that has been undermined here by the regents own action. To be accurate, this communication must be between parties with relatively equal standing.\u0026nbsp; Exchange between superior and inferior is distorted by the inferior's need for self-protection, and the superior's entitlement and self-overestimation. I can't go into this here.\u0026nbsp; To summarize in a formula, epistemic inequality insures error.\u0026nbsp; When the Board turned a collaborative committee into a two-tier set up with superdelegate privileges for its Regents, they insured the intellectual distortions that no one actually wants.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne final note: governing boards all over the country, like UCs, have gradually come to regard the faculty as a problem for university success.\u0026nbsp; There are many sources and causes for this, but the result is default prejudice against faculty as people who just defend their privileges rather than the interests of education or university.\u0026nbsp; I must call this managerial bigotry against professionals. It is categorical, uninformed, and wrong.\u0026nbsp; UC will never move forward until its Board, including its Jerry Brown Bloc, and its allies can work through their anti-faculty prejudice and make use of their deep expertise, always freely given.\u0026nbsp; For example, each of UC's 10 campuses has some of the world's most respected scholars of race and ethnicity, who would bend over backwards to help increase educational justice and diversity.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe saddest moments in the regental discussion on July 30th were when outgoing president Napolitano asked the Board, at least twice, not to decide the new president's role in chancellor searches before President Drake arrived. It would have meant waiting 3 weeks.\u0026nbsp; The Regents couldn't wait, and so the outcome of her last meeting as president was the triumphant affirmation of Bylaws 22.1, 22.2, 30, 31, and Standing Orders 100.1 and 100.4.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI wish President Drake the very best in his new role. I'm very sorry the Regents cut his power over\u0026nbsp; chancellor's searches.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPhoto Credit: \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/lasentinel.net\/the-legacy-of-black-excellence-continues-to-shine-with-continued-presidential-appointments.html#:~:text=President%20of%20California%20State%20University%20Dominguez%20Hills,%20Thomas%20A.%20Parham\"\u003ELos Angeles \u003Ci\u003ESentinel\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (Michael Drake at the investiture of\u0026nbsp; CSU Dominguez Hills President Thomas A Parham)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1757864234269035808\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/08\/regents-greet-first-black-uc-president.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1757864234269035808"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1757864234269035808"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/08\/regents-greet-first-black-uc-president.html","title":"Regents Greet First Black UC President by Cutting His Power"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgOjnCzXkNvl3TtOup67LOQNHFHDjDiZ-hT46P7-wd08zIicZJkHfgaa3vau7utZlwgmXfrDuRpjoy4853wJ70AP21lPEDoinErfRt0EX5SUWHOJhGbQo340BztxryWpGEjtRO0clnHUZk\/s72-w410-h317-c\/Michael-Drake-Thomas+A+Parham+CSUDH+Feb-2019-Investiture.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-8385156372853782321"},"published":{"$t":"2020-08-10T16:51:00.004-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-10-08T02:54:20.662-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic everything"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Admin Responses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Austerity"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cal State"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Covid-19"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Politics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Regents"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Our Converging Crises V:  Weak Democrats and their Governing Boards Feed Austerity Budgets"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjH7MMeRdYDMhZdnWSd_QqjO9q85Ed3RCGZOtfVIUz3m9bQiwWAx2XPWOV83hxfq5lh99AvW-KGGB_fvNUzQGBJrMrTGs_aG619foyMOfGO3Fvo4Sd2Mfu0LLjooPrgYuHNpqrek4VdJNU\/s628\/UCRegents+SFGate+091511.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"418\" data-original-width=\"628\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjH7MMeRdYDMhZdnWSd_QqjO9q85Ed3RCGZOtfVIUz3m9bQiwWAx2XPWOV83hxfq5lh99AvW-KGGB_fvNUzQGBJrMrTGs_aG619foyMOfGO3Fvo4Sd2Mfu0LLjooPrgYuHNpqrek4VdJNU\/w402-h267\/UCRegents+SFGate+091511.jpg\" width=\"402\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThat may be my worst title ever but it's an important point.\u0026nbsp; So here we go.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EWhere are university budgets near the end of our bad policy summer?\u0026nbsp; In a bad place -- a worse place than seemed likely during the weeks of activist government from mid-March to mid-May. In this post, I'll discuss the national issue, describe a flawed university budget discourse that makes universities more vulnerable, and link this to the failure of today's mainstream Democrats to accept the economic role of government.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe federal CARES Act was signed on March 27th, and sent universities $14 billion of the $46.6 billion they'd requested (with half of that going directly to students). Having gotten 1\/6th of their stated need, higher ed advocates placed their hopes in a follow-up HEROES Act passed the House on May 15th, which Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader, sat on throughout the summer.\u0026nbsp; Thus the nation's schools and colleges planned for fall in a state of deep uncertainty and growing dread.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThis past weekend, POTUS \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2020\/08\/09\/heres-what-is-actually-trumps-four-executive-orders\/ \"\u003Esigned executive orders (mostly \"memoranda\") \u003C\/a\u003Emandating supplemental unemployment benefits \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/rachelsandler\/2020\/08\/08\/600-weekly-unemployment-check-cut-to-400-under-trump-executive-orders-and-more\/#383bbd30392a\"\u003Eat $300 rather than CARES's $600 per week\u003C\/a\u003E, with another $100 to come from the states. He extended student loan forbearance from September 30 to the end of the year.\u0026nbsp; Even if these orders go into effect, there are no provisions for supplemental funding for education at any level, including nothing for the K-12 systems that POTUS and his Department of Education secretary have been trying to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/07\/07\/politics\/trump-education-schools-reopening\/index.html\"\u003Ebully into opening\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; If the states are forced to pay part of the federal unemployment supplement, which \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-orders-states-to-fund-unemployment-boost-governors-fear-they-cant\/ar-BB17MIdA\"\u003Esome say they can't\u003C\/a\u003E, that will mean even bigger state cuts to education.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe American Council on Education has a\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.acenet.edu\/News-Room\/Pages\/ACE-Other-Associations-Outline-Key-Provisions-for-Student-and-Institutional-Aid-in-COVID-19-Emergency-Legislation.aspx\"\u003E helpful summary of the current situation\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere are technically three bills under discussion in the COVID-19 \nemergency aid negotiations. The first bill is the HEROES Act written by \nHouse Democrats and approved by the full House two months ago. The \nsecond is the HEALS Act, which represents the ideas of Senate \nRepublicans and the White House. Finally, the Coronavirus Childcare and \nEducation Relief Act (CCCERA) is legislation introduced by Sens. Chuck \nSchumer (D-NY) and Patty Murray (D-WA) that reflects Senate Democrats' \nideas about education spending in response to the pandemic. . . . The bills all include \nemergency aid for students and institutions, but the levels of funding \nproposed differ greatly. ACE has estimated that institutions have a \ntotal of $46.6 billion in increased student financial need and lost \nrevenues, and will spend at least $73.8 billion on new expenditures to \nreopen in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. While CCCERA provides a total \nof $132 billion to meet these needs, the $37 billion provided for higher\n education in HEROES and the $29 billion provided in HEALS fall far \nshort.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe federal bill that comes closest to meeting actual higher ed need--at $132 billion--has no chance of passing McConnell's Senate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERepublican control of key governing bodies has artificially induced massive state failure in suppressing SARS-CoV-2.\u0026nbsp; The U.S. has the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/06\/us\/united-states-failure-coronavirus.html\"\u003Eworst Covid-19 suppression record in the wealthy world\u003C\/a\u003E, and, by failing to build public health infrastructure (see \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/14\/magazine\/covid-19-public-health-texas.html\"\u003EJeneen Interlandi's superb overview\u003C\/a\u003E), will continue to inflict massive suffering, disparately along lines of race and class, in all of the areas where common life should offer equal treatment, including education.\u0026nbsp; The failure of public infrastructure is damaging the private economy that Republican-driven premature opening was trying to protect. Republican opposition to a new stimulus increases the odds of a new depression (see\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2020-07-29\/congress-600-unemployment-pay\"\u003EHiltzik\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/06\/opinion\/coronavirus-us-recession.html\"\u003EKrugman\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for summaries).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOperating on this familiar political landscape, it's hard for people to maintain transformative ambition.\u0026nbsp; I sketched one version at the end of April (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/our-converging-crises-iii-we-need-to.html\"\u003E\"Our Converging Crises III\"\u003C\/a\u003E), which involved massive public spending for full Covid-19 suppression, full employment, and educational experimentation. The American self-conception is of a nation that leads the world into a better future. The reality, given our decrepit social infrastructure, is a vast majority focused entirely on getting by.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Real Covid Budget Crisis\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe same is true in higher education. There's been no follow-up on the early burst of federal effort,\u0026nbsp; and higher ed is engaged in a new round of austerity, translated as operations cuts, layoffs, and program downsizing. The Cal State system threw in the towel early, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2020\/05\/14\/cal-state-pursuing-online-fall\"\u003Eannouncing on May 12th that it would be all-online\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; This was at a time when most administrations assumed Covid-19 would be well in hand by fall; Cal State's Chancellor Timothy White could see pretty clearly that they didn't have the extra billion they needed for testing, tracing, isolating, cleaning, tent classrooms, and the rest. Since then, reopening plans have gone into full reverse, including at wealthy private institutions like \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/07\/fall-2020-update-undergraduate-education-be-fully-remote\"\u003EPrinceton\u003C\/a\u003E and J\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/johns-hopkins-goes-fully-remote-for-fall-urges-students-not-to-come-to-campus\"\u003Eohns Hopkins\u003C\/a\u003E whose core value is small-scale face-to-face learning.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUniversity of California campuses are quietly joining Cal State's closures on a case-by-case basis.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/news.berkeley.edu\/2020\/07\/21\/uc-berkeley-to-begin-fall-semester-with-remote-instruction\/\"\u003EBerkeley announced\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;all-online on July 21st.\u0026nbsp; The other semester campus, UC Merced, will open August 26th with an \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/news.ucmerced.edu\/content\/update-fall-2020-instruction-and-student-housing\"\u003Eunspecified ratio \u003C\/a\u003Eof remote and in-person. Among quarter campuses, which start a month later, UCLA has dropped its in-person proportion \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/covid-19.ucla.edu\/update-on-fall-quarter-plans\/\"\u003Efrom the 15-20% announced in June to 8%\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; UCSB hasn't officially updated its \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/chancellor.ucsb.edu\/memos\/2020-06-18-covid-19-update-fall-planning#undergraduate-instruction\"\u003Emid-June\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;description of fall quarter as \"some face-to-face,\" but is heading toward basically closed. UC Irvine is keeping its students in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/uci.edu\/coronavirus\/faq\/index.php\"\u003Ethe \"most classes will start remotely\" twilight zone\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; All sorts of intensive planning is going on behind the scenes.\u0026nbsp; And so are planning for budget cuts when UC needs that same extra billion that Cal State needed to open safely.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough dominated by liberal Democrats, the California state legislature put stable CSU and UC funding in the hands of Mitch McConnell at at time when he was already holding it hostage.\u0026nbsp; In \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/2020-21\/pdf\/Enacted\/GovernorsBudget\/6000\/6440.pdf\"\u003Ethe final state budget, UC \u003C\/a\u003Ewill get a 5% increase over 2019-20 if and only if California gets $14 billion in federal stimulus.\u0026nbsp; If there's no stimulus, UC gets what UCOP calls an 8% cut from 2019-20.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, the permanent state budget is cut either way: the federal stimulus money will be treated as a one-time backfill on the state cut.\u0026nbsp; Even that was a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/budget\/2020-21EN\/#\/Department\/6440\"\u003Ebizarre combination\u003C\/a\u003E of \"augmentations totaling $212.9 million and\u0026nbsp;reductions totaling $471.6 million.\" Rather than offering higher ed affirmation and stability during the pandemic, the legislature provided a changing combination of cuts and increases that, without an unlikely Senate backfill, gives UC and CSU a major cut.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHow big a cut, actually?\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/2020-21\/pdf\/Enacted\/GovernorsBudget\/6000\/6440.pdf\"\u003EThe legislature reduced the state allocation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for UC from $3.938 billion in 2019-20 to $3.466 billion in 2020-21.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;This is a year-on-year reduction of 12.2%.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003EIts a Covid cut of a size that a red-state legislature could brag about.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt's worth remembering all the way back to November 2019, when The Regents requested an increase of $422.1M in overall state funding, which would have brought state general funding to $4.360B (see the slide\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/02\/budget-strategy-poem.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;minus $25M for the Riverside School of Medicine).\u0026nbsp; Annual base cost increases at UC are a bit more than 5%, and since that's 5% on less than half the revenues of the core budget, which comes mostly from (long-frozen) tuition, 5% state increases put core funding further behind.\u0026nbsp; Campuses have tirelessly tried all sorts of revenue workarounds, mostly involving overenrollment coupled with non-resident student growth, but it hasn't worked. (For the resulting long-term austerity, see \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/why-public-universities-cant-take-new.html\"\u003E\"Three Essential Charts\"\u003C\/a\u003E). On top of its rather brutalist history, the California legislature now proposes to cut UC by $903.5M from its November request--barring a McConnell conversion like Saul's on the road to Damascus. The is a cut of 20.7% from the Regents's November request.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERemember too that even had that $903.5 million November increase been enacted, many campuses were projecting deficits in 2020-21 or the following year. That was not a luxury budget. To repeat: because of prior cuts by Govs. Schwarzenegger and Brown, years of tuition freezes, and sub-inflation state growth, the non-miracle state budget cut that now looks likely is a 20.7% cut from pre-Covid's home for UC semi-solvency.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis would be a disaster for UC (and CSU). And it's likely enough to be treated explicitly in plans for both budgeting and the University's political engagements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EBudget Idealism at the UC Regents\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis brings is to the July 30th UC Regents meeting. The Regents have absolute authority over budgeting, revenue strategies like borrowing, as well as political advocacy. If alerted to a budgetary emergency, the Regents might be expected to instruct UCOP to mount a massive siege of Sacramento and Washington D.C., pulling in their contacts in the tech community as well as in national politics.\u0026nbsp; But UCOP's budget presentation (see the July 30 afternoon session at the bottom of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/meetings\/videos\/july20\/july2020.html\"\u003Ethis page\u003C\/a\u003E), rather than rallying the Regents, kept the real dangers behind the curtain. And Regental behavior encouraged this concealment.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUCOP presented the budget as in basically good shape.\u0026nbsp; Medical losses for March-June 2020 are $1.7 billon rather than the earlier projection of $2.8 billion.\u0026nbsp; UC Health VP Carrie Byington had already suggested that the med centers have learned so much about Covid treatment that they won't repeat spring's revenue losses during the current and future infection spikes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUndergrad enrollments are \"looking very strong,\" in the words of associate budget VP David Alcocer (11'47\"). He said the same was true of international enrollments, in spite of a very turbulent policy picture on top of Covid travel problems.\u0026nbsp; He basically claimed that enrollment targets would be hit no matter what. I'm also a bit of an optimist on enrollments because I'm a pessimist on the economy: even remote-college looks good compared to a nonexistent job market.\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/admissions\/article\/2020\/08\/10\/survey-40-percent-freshmen-may-not-enroll-any-four-year-college\"\u003EPolling data suggest we're both wrong\u003C\/a\u003E, and that colleges should expect a growing enrollment melt.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe presentation noted that housing and dining revenues will be down, but UCOP did not quantify or tie these to different durations of Covid-related reductions. A bit later, UCLA chancellor Block offered some campus numbers, and in later questions a couple of Regents clarified that only single rooms will be offered in the fall, though without revenue numbers for system losses. New VP for Research and Innovation, Teresa Maldonado, gave a candid appraisal of major disruption to research, UC's distinguishing educational activity. She was particularly direct on the damage to women and early-career researchers. But this remained a matter of delayed research progress more than a fiscal crisis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe presentation of the state budget was a delicate matter (starting around 7'40\"; I'm not following UCOP slide order). Alcocer explained the numbers in the slide below (they are different from my calculations above). He noted that the final July budget has a better upside than the May Revise and a smaller potential downside.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhdf7qhH1vWa_Qm7EBodtDoTa1jqmSzDHZ6iYdOw7dvauOTO7fxmgMQAheJnzRl_oxti-tGi5kLU6_OsECxFpEVEgBbyoQJo1GIupdjc4Oe1UhsQSuVvFTMhavW9yuY0MJF_aR0XakYlOc\/s1908\/Budget+from+State+Alcocer+Regents+0720.png\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1352\" data-original-width=\"1908\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhdf7qhH1vWa_Qm7EBodtDoTa1jqmSzDHZ6iYdOw7dvauOTO7fxmgMQAheJnzRl_oxti-tGi5kLU6_OsECxFpEVEgBbyoQJo1GIupdjc4Oe1UhsQSuVvFTMhavW9yuY0MJF_aR0XakYlOc\/s640\/Budget+from+State+Alcocer+Regents+0720.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe then went on to explain his right-hand column. He noted that \"there's a lot of uncertainty here\" because the range of outcomes is nearly half a billion dollars, or 5% of the core budget (9'20\").\u0026nbsp; I can attest that the uncertainty has created in campus planning a somewhat toxic mixture of paralysis, wishful thinking, gloom, and fatalism about cuts. Uncertainty is actually encouraging austerity by making the early stages seem very mild.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut Alcocer's statement about uncertainty incurred an interruption from Chair John Pérez, who said,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI just want to push back on the way we characterize this uncertainty. And here's why. The way this reads to me, in simple terms, is \"uncertainty is bad, and smaller uncertainty is better than greater uncertainty.\" When in fact the final budget, in both the worst-case scenario and the best-case scenario, are better for the University, than the May Revise. . .\u0026nbsp; \"Uncertainty\" is inherently a bad term, so if we want to look at \"range\"--some other way to characterize it--because we don't want a negative connotation to the spread we see in the final budget, when in fact it serves us better than the May Revise does.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis intervention forced Alcocer to repeat what he had said two minutes before, which was that the upside was better in July than in May. It suggested to me that Pérez has no idea how uncertainty is weakening the campuses. It also suggested that he would not tolerate university officials criticizing the state legislature in even a polite and indirect way. Any campaign to get a reliably flat budget from the state (not conditioned on McConnell's conversion to St. Mitch), or an increased budget that could cover Covid costs, would never get off the drawing board under Pérez.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe misty aura of fiscal stability was punctured only by Berkeley chancellor Carol Christ, who projected a $340M deficit through fiscal 2021 (or more than ten percent of the campus's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ucop.edu\/financial-accounting\/financial-reports\/campus-financial-schedules\/18-19\/berkeley.pdf\"\u003E$3 billion or so in annual revenues\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp; She read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/news.berkeley.edu\/2020\/07\/15\/update-on-budget-expense-reduction-measures\/\"\u003Ea version of her administration's July 15th statement\u003C\/a\u003E, and stressed the dependence of the campus on tuition and state revenues. She stated that the latter were $100M below their 2008 level even though the campus enrolls 8200 more students today.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf the Regents had paused to take that in, they'd get a glimpse of the system's deep structural woes. Berkeley is historically wealthier per student than any campus except UCLA, so a responsible Board might wonder what its woes say about the rest of the system.\u0026nbsp; This was the only time in living memory that a Berkeley chancellor has said point blank that privatization doesn't work and thus we need good state support. Actually Christ didn't say that, but she came closer than ever before to noting that the problem isn't just Covid but a flawed business model in which the University has let state funding massively decline.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELater, as Alcocer was about to move to UCLA chancellor Block for a campus view of losses in auxiliaries, Board chair Pérez interrupted to complain about how long the budget presentations were taking.\u0026nbsp; \"This was identified as a thirty minute discussion. . . . when an item is 30 minutes, the presentation is no more than half of that. We've now exceeded 35 minutes, before we've gotten a single Regent engaged in discussion.\" (32'30\"). The obvious remedy would be to allocate more than a half-hour to analyzing what may be most important fiscal crisis in the University's history.\u0026nbsp; The time overrun was entirely due to letting three chancellors say a few words about their campus finances outside of the UCOP PowerPoint story.\u0026nbsp; Things got even more rushed after that--and even more superficial.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn questions, terribly delayed to minute 38, Regent Makarichian performed his solo role of asking for budget numbers, and guessed at overall losses by adding some numbers in his head.\u0026nbsp; Pérez instructed CFO Brostrom to have those figures in the September meeting. I know Brostrom had versions he could have produced then, but who would dare try the Pérezian patience by pulling up another slide?\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the meantime, UC is covering its losses with borrowing. It floated a bond for $2.8 billion in July, with $1.5 billion in \"working capital\" and the rest for capital projects. (UC debt has doubled in a decade from \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/finreports.universityofcalifornia.edu\/index.php?file=09-10\/pdf\/fullreport_10.pdf\"\u003Earound $10 billion in 2009-10\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/finreports.universityofcalifornia.edu\/index.php?file=18-19\/pdf\/fullreport-1819.pdf\"\u003E$24.6 billion in 2018-19\u003C\/a\u003E). The budget discussion ended with a hopeful wait-and-see good-case scenario which, as I've said, is translated on the campuses as cuts.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EA Plausible Scenario for 2020-21\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Office of the President and the campuses are all doing projections, so I'm going to adjust some internal UC numbers to draft a plausible negative scenario.\u0026nbsp; This is not a good case, but it's not a worst-case: for example, I optimistically assume that students who can enroll do enroll, and that all are willing to pay full tuition for mostly remote instruction.\u0026nbsp; The nicer scenarios assume a return to mostly-normal after the fall term. Based on our country's failed-state approach to Covid suppression, I assume that full fall impacts last through the end of Spring 2021.\u0026nbsp; I use the governor's January budget as a base for state funding, which was $220M less than the Regents' November budget.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe assumptions:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETuition: full undergraduate enrollment.\u0026nbsp; Though 75% of admitted international students do not enroll, many are replaced by domestic non-resident and resident students. Waitlists and \"appeal\" lists are liberally used, maintaining overall totals.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHousing is converted to singles, and dining does not return to normal, costing campuses 70% of normal revenues.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGrad student enrollment. This falls 15%, slowing research, but it has little impact on revenues as campuses simply eliminate sections as necessary in remote courses, while canceled grad seminars free up some faculty to teach more undergraduates.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EResearch continues to be affected by outbreaks made worse by shortages of tracing and isolation programs.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPhilanthropy is reduced by renewed turbulence in the markets, as is UC investment income.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMedical center and clinical revenues recover from spring 2020 levels but don't get back to normal.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe Republicans block higher ed stimulus funding in the Senate. Although the Democrats win back the Senate in November, President Biden wishes to govern from the center, and decides not to antagonize the 48 remaining Republicans by giving too much help to education.\u0026nbsp; Like public universities everywhere,UC goes to its lower permanent state funding base.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EHere's a rough estimate of what this would look like by standard budget category.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"MsoTable15Grid4Accent2\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; border: medium none; margin-left: -0.25pt;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #ed7d31; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(237, 125, 49); border-image: initial; border-left: 1pt solid rgb(237, 125, 49); border-style: solid none solid solid; 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font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; 2279\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"90\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E15\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-image: initial; border-left: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 220.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"294\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003EEducational Activities (esp Clinical Rev)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 76.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"102\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; 521\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"90\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E12\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-image: initial; border-left: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 220.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"294\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003EState General Fund Appropriation\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 76.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"102\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; 481\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"90\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E12\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-image: initial; border-left: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 220.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"294\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003ETotal Losses\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 76.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"102\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;6555\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"90\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E16.6\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-image: initial; border-left: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 220.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"294\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003EProjected 2020-21 UC Revenues\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 76.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"102\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E32,823\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-right: 1pt solid rgb(244, 176, 131); border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"90\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EScenario B is a decent guess at one possible program for 2020-21: 17% revenue declines for the UC system overall, and 12% or so for the educational core.\u0026nbsp; Cuts like these would cause major damage to teaching and research, and of course prevent meaningful Covid-19 suppression.\u0026nbsp; If two things happen, first, Covid illness persists for several years, as some medical officials predict, and second, U.S. politics allows economic decline, then UC, like other universities, will be permanently downgraded.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Governance Problem\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Republicans are obviously the biggest problem, but so are Democrats and their governing boards.\u0026nbsp; The Republican donor base sees government as a potentially victorious competitor to business and finance in economic management (through equitable tax policy and regulation but also better social infrastructure and more productive investment).\u0026nbsp; Weak government has enabled today's \"\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/plutonomy-1.pdf\"\u003Eplutonomy\u003C\/a\u003E.\" Republican politicians logically oppose programs that will make government useful, effective, and popular and thus empower their direct rival.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut Democrats are also a problem when they reject \u003Ci\u003Eboth\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;strong \u003Ci\u003Eand\u003C\/i\u003E weak Keynesianism.\u0026nbsp; In the strong version, public agencies spend massively to reconstruct society on the principle of equal treatment. This would fund a Green New Deal in which, for example, some of our tens of millions of unemployed people would be paid by the government to insulate the country's housing stock, starting with those owned by low-income people. I pointed towards this kind of spending in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/our-converging-crises-iii-we-need-to.html\"\u003Ean April post\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; Let's call it democratic-socialist Keynesianism, Sanders and AOC-style.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere's also weak Keynesianism, a very useful combination of FDR and LBJ, in which public agencies spend massive amounts to keep an unjust and unequal status quo economy from imploding.\u0026nbsp; That would include the common-sense goal of keeping the education sector from shedding employees into a non-functional economy by giving schools and colleges stable funding. It would include the UK policy--enacted by the Conservative government--of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ifs.org.uk\/publications\/14786\"\u003Ecovering 80% of the salary of laid-off employees\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;so they can be furloughed rather than fired.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMainstream Democrats don't exactly oppose this kind of thing. But they don't promote it as their bread and butter. They also don't clearly expose the urgent need for it, or encourage others to expose it. At times, liberal Democrats like John Pérez actively block the creation of a budgetary need for weak Keynesian spending by preventing the open declaration of a budgetary problem.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe current UC Board of Regents is chaired by the former Democrat Speaker of the Assembly. It includes the Democrat Lt.Governor, the husband of California's senior U.S. senator, and several former or current members of two Democratic governors' immediate offices. It also boasts several wealthy and prominent Hollywood liberals.\u0026nbsp; There is really no reason for this group not to activate itself in centrist Keynesian fashion. They would then create an urgent obligation on the part of the state to sustain its educational workforce, infrastructure, and student population, whose lives are currently set to be permanently damaged by the Covid depression.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI don't understand the complacency that demands the current UC budgetary vagueness in which nothing is true and everything is possible, until the only possibility becomes austerity. It feels like proleptic excuse making--\"we didn't fail to act, because we didn't know.\" I don't understand the lack of ambition, even the bare ambition to keep the rising generation whole. We can \u003Ci\u003Eobviously\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Edo that, but it will take much clearer budget work at the level of senior management and governing boards.\u0026nbsp; It will take boards willing to support unprecedented mobilizations of political will for higher education, or at least willing not to block them,\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8385156372853782321\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/our-converging-crises-july-death-drift.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/8385156372853782321"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/8385156372853782321"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/our-converging-crises-july-death-drift.html","title":"Our Converging Crises V:  Weak Democrats and their Governing Boards Feed Austerity Budgets"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjH7MMeRdYDMhZdnWSd_QqjO9q85Ed3RCGZOtfVIUz3m9bQiwWAx2XPWOV83hxfq5lh99AvW-KGGB_fvNUzQGBJrMrTGs_aG619foyMOfGO3Fvo4Sd2Mfu0LLjooPrgYuHNpqrek4VdJNU\/s72-w402-h267-c\/UCRegents+SFGate+091511.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-4446973408030671757"},"published":{"$t":"2020-07-30T15:47:00.014-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-07-31T08:26:50.835-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Labor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Admin Responses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Covid-19"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Unions"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Workforce"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"UCSD Lays Off Housing \u0026 Dining Workers- Temporarily? "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"border: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0in 1.2pt 0in 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhR7JC3ftyw-2atm5w15JE3gInWZVEVODkyNIGOEm9CJHjevTAfTDNfq9-X5vXDcA43423SUOOCgXxcELKDjbmNq4exlIiLEG-9N3rTXQuwZdNDKpzdwI53ryJfqaDs7j4o6KfBHT43W10\/s771\/UCSD+North+Campus+Erik+Jepsen+Triton051619.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"454\" data-original-width=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhR7JC3ftyw-2atm5w15JE3gInWZVEVODkyNIGOEm9CJHjevTAfTDNfq9-X5vXDcA43423SUOOCgXxcELKDjbmNq4exlIiLEG-9N3rTXQuwZdNDKpzdwI53ryJfqaDs7j4o6KfBHT43W10\/s320\/UCSD+North+Campus+Erik+Jepsen+Triton051619.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"border: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0in 1.2pt 0in 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Cfont style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003Eby Amie Campos, PhD Candidate, History\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"border: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0in 1.2pt 0in 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Cfont style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003ESimeon Man, Associate Professor, History\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"border: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0in 1.2pt 0in 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Cfont style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003ERihan Yeh, Associate Professor, Anthropology\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"border: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0in 1.2pt 0in 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Cfont style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"border: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0in 1.2pt 0in 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Cfont style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003EOn the morning of June 15th, \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1155cc; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.10news.com\/news\/coronavirus\/about-200-ucsd-employees-laid-off-temporarily-due-to-pandemic\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Eapproximately 200\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003EHousing, Dining, and Hospitality workers at UC San Diego were given notices of “temporary layoffs.” Those who were at work that day were instructed by management to meet at a cafeteria, with a promise of free lunch. Citing a 90% drop in students on campus, management told the majority-Spanish-speaking workforce - via a management-appointed translator - that they would be laid off for the rest of the summer. They were handed some information, including a sheet on how to apply for unemployment, and dismissed with written assurances that they would be returned to their jobs in early September. Lunch, unsurprisingly, was never served.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"border: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 18.95pt 5pt 0.0001pt 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003EThis move came just two weeks after Chancellor Pradeep Khosla’s \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\"\u003Eto the university community denouncing the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery — a message that included a promise of “doing what can be done within our institution to make sure everyone feels that they belong and that they matter.” This juxtaposition reveals the unwillingness of the university to put its money where its mouth is. It has chosen a path that leaves 200 workers and their families, from low-income communities of color disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, without income for at least 2 months.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"border: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 18.95pt 5pt 0.0001pt 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003EIn a public statement regarding this mass firing, the university characterized the layoffs as \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1155cc; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/adminrecords.ucsd.edu\/Notices\/2020\/2020-6-23-2.html\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Einevitable.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E We should not be misled into accepting this austerity narrative. AFSCME, the union representing the majority of the affected workers, released its \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1155cc; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/afscme3299.org\/media\/new-research-covid-19-austerity-not-necessary-at-university-of-california\/\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Eresearch findings \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003Ebased on publicly-available UC financial statements on May 18th. This report showed that the UC system can leverage its vast resources and stellar credit standing to lead California’s economic recovery by maintaining employment for its 227,000 workers rather than pursuing cuts. UCOP has not refuted AFSCME’s claims about usable reserves. Further undermining the austerity narrative, \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1155cc; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003Ethe university advertised \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003Etemporary positions in dining services following the layoffs. At the May 20 \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1155cc; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/meetings\/videos\/may2020\/may2020.html#board5.20\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003ERegents meeting \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003Eon “Projected COVID-19 Impact on 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 Revenue,” UC’s Chief Financial Officer Paul Jenny also presented a variety of options for weathering the COVID-19 financial storm, including dipping\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;\"\u003Einto the endowment’s unrestricted funds and applying for low-interest federal loans through the CARES Act at different campuses.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"border: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 18.95pt 15.35pt 0.0001pt 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003EWithout evidence that the University will face financial hardship if it does not enact layoffs, UCSD affiliates should not accept the administration’s chosen course. Dining service workers have an average annual salary of $41,000 -- well below San Diego County’s \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1155cc; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegocounty.gov\/sdhcd\/rental-assistance\/income-limits-ami\/\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003EArea Median Income (AMI).\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E While significant for workers, a two-month layoff has a negligible effect on UCSD’s overall budget. Chancellor Khosla, whose gross salary in 2018 was $477,384, has taken just a 10% pay cut, and the University continues to employ over 600 people whose \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1155cc; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ucannualwage.ucop.edu\/wage\/\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Eregular pay\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003Eexceeds $200,000. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"border: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 18.95pt 1.2pt 0.0001pt 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003EUCSD’s treatment of its workers also exposes the dangerous assumptions and inequities embedded in its \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1155cc; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/06\/23\/us\/uc-san-diego-covid-19-fall\/index.html\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Emuch-publicized \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E“Return to Learn” program. The majority of laid-off workers have been working on campus on rotating shifts throughout the pandemic, serving students who could not leave and staff who could not work from home. Yet since the university began its ambitious \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1155cc; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ucsdnews.ucsd.edu\/pressrelease\/introducing-the-uc-san-diego-return-to-learn-program\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Epilot plan\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;in May to test all students on campus prior to the official start of “Return to Learn” in the fall quarter, UCSD has not offered its workers ample opportunities for free testing, nor has it provided them with adequate \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1155cc; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/afscme3299.org\/blog\/covid19\/\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003EPPE \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003Eor regular COVID-related training. Many workers have had to take precautionary measures themselves, in the absence of clear protocols or guidelines from supervisors, and have for months been worried about being exposed to the virus on campus and bringing it home to their families. The university’s demonstrated disregard for the health and well-being of its essential workers underscores the view that they are disposable and not part of the “campus community” deemed worthy of protection. This casts further doubt that the university will ensure the safety of other campus workers including students, and faculty as the “Return to Learn” program ramps up.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"border: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 18.95pt 1.2pt 0.0001pt 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003EThe effects of these decisions will reinforce existing racial and gender inequalities at UCSD and fly in the face of ongoing organizing by students, faculty, and staff, who demand that administrators address the institution’s own anti-Black, anti-Latinx, and anti-Indigenous \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1155cc; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"#\"\u003Erealities\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E. A 15-page list of \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1155cc; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"#\"\u003Edemands \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003Eissued by the Black Student Union (BSU) on June 22nd, which objects to these layoffs and calls for the defunding of the campus police, is one important example. Another is an \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1155cc; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"#\"\u003Eop-ed \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003Epublished on July 4th by United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS Local 94) titled “We Will Not ‘Return to Earn.’”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"border: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 18.95pt 3.1pt 0.0001pt 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003EWe reject the University’s plan to wait until early September to return laid-off workers to campus when they will have to scramble to meet the needs of arriving students. We view the plan as part of a flimsy and unethical strategy of UCSD administration hedging its bets to collect housing deposits from students who are promised a \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1155cc; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/06\/23\/us\/uc-san-diego-covid-19-fall\/index.html\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Esafe campus opening \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003Ein the fall despite rapidly \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1155cc; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/health\/story\/2020-06-24\/surge-in-coronavirus-cases-puts-reopening-of-uc-san-diego-in-doubt\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Erising infection rates\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E, while keeping labor costs down and reneging on its rehiring promise in the event that “Return to Learn” is unfeasible.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"border: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 18.95pt 3.8pt 0.0001pt 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003EUCSD must reverse these layoffs, especially given Covid-19's trajectory and disproportionate impact on communities of color in San Diego. The close to 200 Housing and Dining workers and their families are invaluable members of the campus community and should be treated as such. UCSD is a major employer in the San Diego region that holds the livelihoods of many people in its hands. As a research institution, medical center, and major hospital, UCSD depends on labor provided by communities in San Diego, including low-income communities that have served as sites of \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1155cc; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/meded.ucsd.edu\/index.cfm\/groups\/hfit\/students\/undergraduate_students\/\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Eclinical training\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E, research, and experimentation for UCSD researchers. Reinstating these workers will be a small step in repairing the extractive relationships on which UCSD’s reputation as one of the nation’s top research institutions depend.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"border: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 18.95pt 26.35pt 0.0001pt 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003EHow you can support HDH workers:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003EWe call on the university to reverse the layoffs. In the meantime, donations can be made to UCSD Mutual Aid’s \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1155cc; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/covid19-mutual-aid-for-ucsd?utm_source=customer\u0026amp;utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet\u0026amp;utm_medium=copy_link-tip\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Egofundme page \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003Ein order to support workers facing financial difficulties. Chancellor Khosla’s office can be reached at 858-534-3135.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"border: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 18.95pt 26.35pt 0.0001pt 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;\"\u003EA Spanish language version of this piece is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Oqdill-9KqBD5qvdiSWUVgGJQ12Ke52G\/view?usp=sharing\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"border: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 18.95pt 26.35pt 0.0001pt 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 14.6667px;\"\u003EUCSD North Campus:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EPhoto Credit\u0026nbsp; Erik Jepsen,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ETriton\u003C\/i\u003E May 16, 2019\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4446973408030671757\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/ucsd-lays-off-housing-dining-workers.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4446973408030671757"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4446973408030671757"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/ucsd-lays-off-housing-dining-workers.html","title":"UCSD Lays Off Housing \u0026 Dining Workers- Temporarily? 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