// API callback
related_results_labels_thumbs({"version":"1.0","encoding":"UTF-8","feed":{"xmlns":"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom","xmlns$openSearch":"http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/","xmlns$blogger":"http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008","xmlns$georss":"http://www.georss.org/georss","xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-03-30T16:55:02.094-07:00"},"category":[{"term":"Budget"},{"term":"UC"},{"term":"Admin Responses"},{"term":"Crisis"},{"term":"guest post"},{"term":"Funding Model"},{"term":"Cuts"},{"term":"Faculty"},{"term":"Public Funding"},{"term":"UC Regents"},{"term":"Protests"},{"term":"Public vs. Private"},{"term":"Costs"},{"term":"Politics"},{"term":"UCOP"},{"term":"Governance"},{"term":"Students"},{"term":"Strategies \u0026 Goals"},{"term":"Academic Labor"},{"term":"California"},{"term":"Academic Freedom"},{"term":"Management"},{"term":"Austerity"},{"term":"Inequality"},{"term":"Jerry Brown"},{"term":"Online Education"},{"term":"Privatization"},{"term":"Employee Benefits"},{"term":"UC Berkeley"},{"term":"Janet Napolitano"},{"term":"Shared Governance"},{"term":"Campus Safety"},{"term":"Income"},{"term":"Research"},{"term":"Academic Senate"},{"term":"Cal State"},{"term":"Tuition Hikes"},{"term":"archives"},{"term":"Affordability"},{"term":"Contingent Faculty"},{"term":"Future University"},{"term":"Quality"},{"term":"Humanities"},{"term":"UC Santa Barbara"},{"term":"Race"},{"term":"UCOF"},{"term":"Administrative Overreach"},{"term":"Development"},{"term":"International"},{"term":"Mark Yudof"},{"term":"Pension"},{"term":"Unions"},{"term":"UC Care"},{"term":"UC Davis"},{"term":"public goods"},{"term":"Transparency"},{"term":"Liberal Arts"},{"term":"Covid-19"},{"term":"Events"},{"term":"Financial Aid"},{"term":"Community College"},{"term":"Furlough"},{"term":"UC Riverside"},{"term":"Graduates"},{"term":"Policing"},{"term":"STEM"},{"term":"Tenure"},{"term":"democratic university"},{"term":"For-Profit"},{"term":"University of Wisconsin System"},{"term":"Discrimination"},{"term":"Diversity"},{"term":"Economy"},{"term":"Steven Salaita"},{"term":"Teaching"},{"term":"UC Los Angeles"},{"term":"Athletics"},{"term":"Corruption"},{"term":"Critical University Studies"},{"term":"Neoliberalism"},{"term":"Religion \u0026 Culture"},{"term":"UCLA"},{"term":"Graduate Student Conditions"},{"term":"UC Irvine"},{"term":"UCPD"},{"term":"UCSC"},{"term":"health care"},{"term":"Academic everything"},{"term":"Grad Student Strike"},{"term":"Isla Vista Shootings"},{"term":"Linda Katehi"},{"term":"Philanthropy"},{"term":"Structural Racism"},{"term":"Student Debt"},{"term":"UCSB"},{"term":"Academic Boycotts"},{"term":"Admissions"},{"term":"Biden"},{"term":"British Universities"},{"term":"Budget Cuts"},{"term":"Closures"},{"term":"Democrats"},{"term":"K-12"},{"term":"Margaret Spellings"},{"term":"Munger Hall"},{"term":"Newsom"},{"term":"Presidential search"},{"term":"Quantification"},{"term":"Sexual Harassment"},{"term":"UC Health"},{"term":"Workforce"},{"term":"anti-racist pedagogy"},{"term":"higher education policy"},{"term":"reparations"},{"term":"2020 Election"},{"term":"ACCJC vs. CCSF"},{"term":"Cooper Union"},{"term":"Covid-19 Cuts"},{"term":"Cuts \u0026 Cuts"},{"term":"Debt-Free College"},{"term":"Fake Knoweldge"},{"term":"Fake Knowledge"},{"term":"FutherCuts"},{"term":"Gender"},{"term":"LGBTQ"},{"term":"Metrics"},{"term":"More Cuts"},{"term":"Nonpecuniary effects"},{"term":"November 2009"},{"term":"President Drake"},{"term":"State Audit"},{"term":"UC Merced"},{"term":"UCSF"},{"term":"USC"},{"term":"University of Missouri"},{"term":"Vegara vs. California"},{"term":"abolition"},{"term":"abortion"},{"term":"carbon offsets"},{"term":"climate crisis"},{"term":"climate policy"},{"term":"human capital theory"},{"term":"opinion survey"},{"term":"public support"},{"term":"review of The Great Mistake"},{"term":"slavery"},{"term":"stimulus"},{"term":"value of a college degree"},{"term":"white nationalism"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Remaking the University II: Knowledge Rebellion"},"subtitle":{"type":"html","$t":"A blog on higher education and related issues."},"link":[{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/-\/Admin+Responses?alt=json-in-script\u0026max-results=10"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Admin%20Responses"},{"rel":"hub","href":"http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"},{"rel":"next","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/-\/Admin+Responses\/-\/Admin+Responses?alt=json-in-script\u0026start-index=11\u0026max-results=10"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"152"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"10"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-4630532160352347876"},"published":{"$t":"2021-01-29T14:36:00.008-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-16T06:55:14.004-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Admin Responses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Policing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Riverside"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCPD"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Campus Safety Task Forces As Police Power (Updated with Signature Link)"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-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; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg-dsFZaZYY5WsCBRnAiIFIqNOBbxSft3_02Iw4IkHRbTQHa-OcJ0r57slrWrAs9K_6h3G-FlCfCAuEn-5wbObCH0WA7f0ZZp7K_VU6fUR-YUvGhjpXrNS-rezNtudJroGOji8eSfrvNjI\/s1736\/Police+UC+Riverside+0112++2.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1056\" data-original-width=\"1736\" height=\"244\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg-dsFZaZYY5WsCBRnAiIFIqNOBbxSft3_02Iw4IkHRbTQHa-OcJ0r57slrWrAs9K_6h3G-FlCfCAuEn-5wbObCH0WA7f0ZZp7K_VU6fUR-YUvGhjpXrNS-rezNtudJroGOji8eSfrvNjI\/w400-h244\/Police+UC+Riverside+0112++2.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\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;\"\u003Eby Dylan Rodríguez\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\u003Cspan style=\"color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/caseygrants.org\/freedomscholars\/#Dylan\" style=\"color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E2020 Freedom Scholar\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\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, 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;\"\u003EUCRFTP Statement on the UCR Campus Safety (Policing) Task Force is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1r9f1GmEH93o4EGsk06-4GHo8U4ZNFhkHURPj2GbuBcA\/edit\"\u003EHERE\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 style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003ESigning page is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSexXD7V1f2h-IFjZvrSttHcakol3SGsm6k7f_ofAkNQOqfo2Q\/viewform\"\u003EHERE \u003C\/a\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\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\u003Cstyle class=\"WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style\"\u003E\n\u003C!--\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\n p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin:0in;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Garamond\",serif;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\np.MsoFooter, li.MsoFooter, div.MsoFooter\n\t{mso-style-priority:99;\n\tmso-style-link:\"Footer Char\";\n\tmargin:0in;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\ttab-stops:center 3.25in right 6.5in;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Garamond\",serif;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\nspan.MsoEndnoteReference\n\t{mso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tmso-style-unhide:no;\n\tvertical-align:super;}\np.MsoEndnoteText, li.MsoEndnoteText, div.MsoEndnoteText\n\t{mso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tmso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-link:\"Endnote Text Char\";\n\tmargin:0in;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Garamond\",serif;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\na:link, span.MsoHyperlink\n\t{mso-style-priority:99;\n\tcolor:#0563C1;\n\tmso-themecolor:hyperlink;\n\ttext-decoration:underline;\n\ttext-underline:single;}\na:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed\n\t{mso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tmso-style-priority:99;\n\tcolor:#954F72;\n\tmso-themecolor:followedhyperlink;\n\ttext-decoration:underline;\n\ttext-underline:single;}\np.MsoListParagraph, li.MsoListParagraph, div.MsoListParagraph\n\t{mso-style-priority:34;\n\tmso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmargin-top:0in;\n\tmargin-right:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:0in;\n\tmargin-left:.5in;\n\tmso-add-space:auto;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Garamond\",serif;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\np.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\n\t{mso-style-priority:34;\n\tmso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmargin-top:0in;\n\tmargin-right:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:0in;\n\tmargin-left:.5in;\n\tmso-add-space:auto;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Garamond\",serif;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\np.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\n\t{mso-style-priority:34;\n\tmso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmargin-top:0in;\n\tmargin-right:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:0in;\n\tmargin-left:.5in;\n\tmso-add-space:auto;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Garamond\",serif;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\np.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\n\t{mso-style-priority:34;\n\tmso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmargin-top:0in;\n\tmargin-right:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:0in;\n\tmargin-left:.5in;\n\tmso-add-space:auto;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Garamond\",serif;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\nspan.EndnoteTextChar\n\t{mso-style-name:\"Endnote Text Char\";\n\tmso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tmso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-locked:yes;\n\tmso-style-link:\"Endnote Text\";\n\tmso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;}\nspan.FooterChar\n\t{mso-style-name:\"Footer Char\";\n\tmso-style-priority:99;\n\tmso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-locked:yes;\n\tmso-style-link:Footer;}\n.MsoChpDefault\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmso-default-props:yes;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Garamond\",serif;\n\tmso-ascii-font-family:Garamond;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-hansi-font-family:Garamond;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\n \/* Page Definitions *\/\n @page\n\t{mso-footnote-separator:url(\"\/Users\/cnewf\/Library\/Group Containers\/UBF8T346G9.Office\/TemporaryItems\/msohtmlclip\/clip_header.htm\") fs;\n\tmso-footnote-continuation-separator:url(\"\/Users\/cnewf\/Library\/Group Containers\/UBF8T346G9.Office\/TemporaryItems\/msohtmlclip\/clip_header.htm\") fcs;\n\tmso-endnote-separator:url(\"\/Users\/cnewf\/Library\/Group Containers\/UBF8T346G9.Office\/TemporaryItems\/msohtmlclip\/clip_header.htm\") es;\n\tmso-endnote-continuation-separator:url(\"\/Users\/cnewf\/Library\/Group Containers\/UBF8T346G9.Office\/TemporaryItems\/msohtmlclip\/clip_header.htm\") ecs;}\n@page WordSection1\n\t{size:8.5in 11.0in;\n\tmargin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;\n\tmso-header-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-footer-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.WordSection1\n\t{page:WordSection1;\n\tmso-endnote-numbering-style:arabic;}\n \/* List Definitions *\/\n @list l0\n\t{mso-list-id:317196646;\n\tmso-list-type:hybrid;\n\tmso-list-template-ids:505184902 2086819164 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693;}\n@list l0:level1\n\t{mso-level-start-at:15;\n\tmso-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\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}\n@list l0:level2\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:level3\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@list l0:level4\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:level5\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:level6\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@list 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 href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref14\" name=\"_edn14\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[14]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Task Force on Campus Safety, UC Riverside Office of the Chancellor,\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\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cstyle class=\"WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style\"\u003E\n\u003C!--\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\n p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin:0in;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Garamond\",serif;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\nspan.MsoEndnoteReference\n\t{mso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tmso-style-unhide:no;\n\tvertical-align:super;}\np.MsoEndnoteText, li.MsoEndnoteText, div.MsoEndnoteText\n\t{mso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tmso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-link:\"Endnote Text Char\";\n\tmargin:0in;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Garamond\",serif;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\na:link, span.MsoHyperlink\n\t{mso-style-priority:99;\n\tcolor:#0563C1;\n\tmso-themecolor:hyperlink;\n\ttext-decoration:underline;\n\ttext-underline:single;}\na:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed\n\t{mso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tmso-style-priority:99;\n\tcolor:#954F72;\n\tmso-themecolor:followedhyperlink;\n\ttext-decoration:underline;\n\ttext-underline:single;}\np.MsoListParagraph, li.MsoListParagraph, div.MsoListParagraph\n\t{mso-style-priority:34;\n\tmso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmargin-top:0in;\n\tmargin-right:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:0in;\n\tmargin-left:.5in;\n\tmso-add-space:auto;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Garamond\",serif;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\np.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\n\t{mso-style-priority:34;\n\tmso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmargin-top:0in;\n\tmargin-right:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:0in;\n\tmargin-left:.5in;\n\tmso-add-space:auto;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Garamond\",serif;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\np.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\n\t{mso-style-priority:34;\n\tmso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmargin-top:0in;\n\tmargin-right:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:0in;\n\tmargin-left:.5in;\n\tmso-add-space:auto;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Garamond\",serif;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\np.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\n\t{mso-style-priority:34;\n\tmso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmargin-top:0in;\n\tmargin-right:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:0in;\n\tmargin-left:.5in;\n\tmso-add-space:auto;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Garamond\",serif;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\nspan.EndnoteTextChar\n\t{mso-style-name:\"Endnote Text Char\";\n\tmso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tmso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-locked:yes;\n\tmso-style-link:\"Endnote Text\";\n\tmso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;}\n.MsoChpDefault\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmso-default-props:yes;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Garamond\",serif;\n\tmso-ascii-font-family:Garamond;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-hansi-font-family:Garamond;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\n \/* Page Definitions *\/\n @page\n\t{mso-footnote-separator:url(\"\/Users\/cnewf\/Library\/Group Containers\/UBF8T346G9.Office\/TemporaryItems\/msohtmlclip\/clip_header.htm\") fs;\n\tmso-footnote-continuation-separator:url(\"\/Users\/cnewf\/Library\/Group Containers\/UBF8T346G9.Office\/TemporaryItems\/msohtmlclip\/clip_header.htm\") fcs;\n\tmso-endnote-separator:url(\"\/Users\/cnewf\/Library\/Group Containers\/UBF8T346G9.Office\/TemporaryItems\/msohtmlclip\/clip_header.htm\") es;\n\tmso-endnote-continuation-separator:url(\"\/Users\/cnewf\/Library\/Group Containers\/UBF8T346G9.Office\/TemporaryItems\/msohtmlclip\/clip_header.htm\") ecs;}\n@page WordSection1\n\t{size:8.5in 11.0in;\n\tmargin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;\n\tmso-header-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-footer-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.WordSection1\n\t{page:WordSection1;}\n \/* List Definitions *\/\n @list l0\n\t{mso-list-id:317196646;\n\tmso-list-type:hybrid;\n\tmso-list-template-ids:505184902 2086819164 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693;}\n@list l0:level1\n\t{mso-level-start-at:15;\n\tmso-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\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}\n@list l0:level2\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:level3\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@list l0:level4\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:level5\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:level6\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@list 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"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4630532160352347876\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/campus-safety-task-forces-as-police.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4630532160352347876"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4630532160352347876"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/campus-safety-task-forces-as-police.html","title":"Campus Safety Task Forces As Police Power (Updated with Signature Link)"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg-dsFZaZYY5WsCBRnAiIFIqNOBbxSft3_02Iw4IkHRbTQHa-OcJ0r57slrWrAs9K_6h3G-FlCfCAuEn-5wbObCH0WA7f0ZZp7K_VU6fUR-YUvGhjpXrNS-rezNtudJroGOji8eSfrvNjI\/s72-w400-h244-c\/Police+UC+Riverside+0112++2.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-1757864234269035808"},"published":{"$t":"2020-08-18T15:16:00.004-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-08-18T15:19:07.869-07:00"},"category":[{"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":"Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Janet Napolitano"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Presidential search"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Regents Greet First Black UC President by Cutting His Power"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgOjnCzXkNvl3TtOup67LOQNHFHDjDiZ-hT46P7-wd08zIicZJkHfgaa3vau7utZlwgmXfrDuRpjoy4853wJ70AP21lPEDoinErfRt0EX5SUWHOJhGbQo340BztxryWpGEjtRO0clnHUZk\/s2048\/Michael-Drake-Thomas+A+Parham+CSUDH+Feb-2019-Investiture.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1584\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"317\" 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":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1757864234269035808\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/08\/regents-greet-first-black-uc-president.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1757864234269035808"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1757864234269035808"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/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; border-top: 1pt solid rgb(237, 125, 49); 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\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\" style=\"color: white;\"\u003EScenario B\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"\" style=\"color: white;\"\u003EBudget Category\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"background-color: #ed7d31; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(237, 125, 49); border-style: solid none; border-top: 1pt solid rgb(237, 125, 49); 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=\"\" style=\"color: white;\"\u003EDecline $Millions\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\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-right: 1pt solid rgb(237, 125, 49); border-style: solid solid solid none; border-top: 1pt solid rgb(237, 125, 49); 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=\"\" style=\"color: white;\"\u003ENegative % Change\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=\"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=\"\"\u003E2020-21 Base\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=\"\"\u003E39,738\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=\"\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\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=\"\"\u003EStudent Tuition and Fees\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;\u0026nbsp; 775\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=\"\"\u003E14\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=\"\"\u003EAuxiliary Enterprises\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; 1165\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=\"\"\u003E61\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=\"\"\u003EResearch Contracts \u0026amp; Grants\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;\u0026nbsp; 779\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=\"\"\u003EPhilanthropy \u0026amp; Investment Income\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; \u0026nbsp;555\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=\"\"\u003E19\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=\"\"\u003EMedical Centers\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; 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":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8385156372853782321\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/our-converging-crises-july-death-drift.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/8385156372853782321"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/8385156372853782321"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/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":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4446973408030671757\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/ucsd-lays-off-housing-dining-workers.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4446973408030671757"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4446973408030671757"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/ucsd-lays-off-housing-dining-workers.html","title":"UCSD Lays Off Housing \u0026 Dining Workers- Temporarily? "}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhR7JC3ftyw-2atm5w15JE3gInWZVEVODkyNIGOEm9CJHjevTAfTDNfq9-X5vXDcA43423SUOOCgXxcELKDjbmNq4exlIiLEG-9N3rTXQuwZdNDKpzdwI53ryJfqaDs7j4o6KfBHT43W10\/s72-c\/UCSD+North+Campus+Erik+Jepsen+Triton051619.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-4948374734555641468"},"published":{"$t":"2020-07-06T16:01:00.002-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-07-08T14:47:17.843-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Admin Responses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Presidential search"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"UC's Next President: A Few Necessities  (Updated for the Appointment of former UC Irvine Chancellor Michael V. Drake)"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhh1LC_lNu5XAwlbmnAQLBmgJSzbvGoZRBaiH7L82aYSD-RhMMcehf6Pi0yWCvyTvHwWH_eMRvn3WIY8aXuluNkj89B3MLeXg-ceFtJKs4iBz382b1FGubx972DeCUveTS2lopOnAvRygo\/s1600\/michaelvdrake.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"570\" data-original-width=\"545\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhh1LC_lNu5XAwlbmnAQLBmgJSzbvGoZRBaiH7L82aYSD-RhMMcehf6Pi0yWCvyTvHwWH_eMRvn3WIY8aXuluNkj89B3MLeXg-ceFtJKs4iBz382b1FGubx972DeCUveTS2lopOnAvRygo\/s320\/michaelvdrake.jpg\" width=\"305\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nCalifornia is a state with nearly 40 million people (bigger than Canada and Poland, smaller than Algeria and Spain). It had a 2019 Gross State Product of around $3.2 trillion (bigger than India, Great Britain and France, smaller than Germany and Japan).\u0026nbsp; It has ten research universities with the letters \"UC\" in front of their place names. Each of those ten universities has a president, though the ten call this president a \"chancellor.\"\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Tomorrow, July 7th, the UC Board of Regents will announce their selection for UC president, a kind of president of presidents.\u0026nbsp; What functions might this new person perform\u0026nbsp; to avoid being superfluous, or worse, a conduit of oligarchic state policy into the university?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nA few come to mind, moving from specific to general. The new president should:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E1. Get separate state and federal funding for full Covid-19 mitigation. \u003C\/i\u003EAfter \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/why-public-universities-cant-take-new.html\"\u003Etwo decades of austerity budgets,\u003C\/a\u003E March-June 2020 losses of\u0026nbsp; $1.8 billion, and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\"\u003Ea likely 7 percent cut from the state legislature for 2020-21\u003C\/a\u003E (p 43), UC doesn't have the money to open campuses safely. Continuous testing alone \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/going-online-due-to-covid-19-this-fall-could-hurt-colleges-future-138926\"\u003Ecould cost around $1 billion a year\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; The many other needed changes\u0026nbsp; would pile costs on top of that.\u0026nbsp; UC campuses may eventually decide to put fall term (almost) entirely online (they will need to comply with today's ICE rule that international students in all-online programs cannot stay in the United States).\u0026nbsp; But they shouldn't have the program decision forced by sheer lack of funds for testing, tracing, isolating, and temporary facilities.\u0026nbsp; The new president will need to seek special Covid-19 funding for at least the two-year period 2020-22.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E2. Undo top-down governance.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/i\u003EPresident Richard Atkinson (1995-2003) was not an organizational democrat, but UCOP rule-giving used to be balanced by new-program funding and distinctive UCOP expertise.\u0026nbsp; The latter was long ago duplicated on the campuses, and UCOP no longer supports growth or quality upgrades: the underdeveloped Merced campus is Exhibit A, the Riverside campus's medical facility is Exhibit B . . . UCOP never asks the state for enough \nmoney to cover the actual costs of combining full access with high \nquality. Several years of underfunded enrollment increases--the \"surge\" that President Napolitano \nnegotiated with Jerry Brown and state government--caused serious damage \nto education on the campuses, but this news, which I and others still \nregularly try to convey in meetings with UCOP officials, has yet to be received.\u0026nbsp; Although they are removed from the everyday struggles of the campuses, UCOP monopolizes the University's public image as well as its governmental and financial policy.\u0026nbsp; Campuses spend quite a bit of time conveying basic information up the chain, with apparently limited success.\u0026nbsp; The next president will need to restore campus confidence in UCOP's ability to formulate policy that reflects campus needs, rather than trim campuses to fit state policy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E3. Fix the broken funding model\u003C\/i\u003E.\u0026nbsp; In the coming years, the University of California needs to do a lot of things: increase racial diversity and equality of outcomes, expand STEM research, fully support social and cultural research, improve undergraduate learning, increase doctoral student pay to relieve rent burden, rebuild a deteriorating physical plant, reverse the adjuncting drift, and close employee pay gaps.\u0026nbsp; But UC doesn't have the money to do these things. The reason is that the half-privatized funding model doesn't work, and never did.\u0026nbsp; The only way to make up for low state funding is with massive, unacceptable tuition increases.\u0026nbsp; The only way to freeze or cut tuition is to increase public funding.\u0026nbsp; I've written volumes about this, with abundant data, but proof lies not only in the financial critique of privatization but in the policy of the privatizers themselves. The \"compact\" with UC and CSU devised by Arnold Schwarzenegger and his first finance director, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/to-reduce-political-fraud-budgeting.html\"\u003EDonna Arduin\u003C\/a\u003E, cut state funding increases to 2-3 percent per year. But even they knew that neither UC nor CSU could live on that, so the compact required tuition increases of 7-10 percent per year.\u0026nbsp; Those folks didn't care about UC greatness, but they understood that if they held state funding growth to inflation then UC would need in-state tuition of around $20,000 by this year to keep the place afloat. Today, UC gets about \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/why-public-universities-cant-take-new.html\"\u003E40 percent per student of its 2001-02 funding\u003C\/a\u003E, had that kept up with enrollment and state income growth. The next president needs to rebuild the public funding model, not do extend and pretend with the current semi-privatized hybrid. This person will also need to explain that \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/when-are-access-and-inclusion-also.html\"\u003Epoliticians who underfund\u0026nbsp; public universities are politicians who advance systemic racism\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E4. Redefine university education around nonmonetary goals.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/i\u003EA college degree should lead to employment at good wages, but this is the only thing college presidents and politicians have been selling lately. \u0026nbsp; Economists and policymakers also fixatee on college's impact on upward mobility, which is another version of wage gains.\u0026nbsp; There are two problems with this.\u0026nbsp; First, private monetary effects are only a portion of higher ed's total effects, which are mostly social or nonmonetary or both. (Nonmonetary benefits include analytical skill, research findings, and dozens of others.)\u0026nbsp; So colleges hide most of their benefits behind a rhetorical invisibility cloak, and speak only of money all the time.\u0026nbsp; Second, the money payoff has never been more uncertain in the postwar era than it is today.\u0026nbsp; Net monetary gains have become harder and riskier as the cost of a degree goes up and automation and the gig economy chew into the white-collar vocations that seemed impregnable as recently as the 1990s.\u0026nbsp; Recall Robert Reich's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Work-Nations-Preparing-21st-Century-Capitalism\/dp\/0394583523\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1594075841\u0026amp;sr=8-1\"\u003E\"symbolic-analysts\" inheriting the earth,\u003C\/a\u003E then read Scott Timberg for a good overview of the 2010s in his book subtitled \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Culture-Crash-Killing-Creative-Class\/dp\/0300216939\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1\u0026amp;keywords=culture+crash\u0026amp;qid=1593984398\u0026amp;sr=8-1\"\u003E\"the killing of the creative class.\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe current economy weakens higher ed's financial arguments, but the next president should see this as an opportunity to take the PR eggs out of a shrinking basket, and educate everyone on the non-monetary and social benefits of universities.\u0026nbsp; The latter are more exciting and gratifying than wages alone, but more to the point, they are more durable in our post-knowledge economy in which universities are building a post-middle class. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOverall, I'm perhaps most sad about how hard it has been for UC folks to feel excited about and confident in the university's future.\u0026nbsp; Recent presidents have modeled a diminished realism, which has meant accepting less and learning the austerity mindset.\u0026nbsp; This is obviously at odds with the state and country's self-image as heroic leaders of technological and social progress, but who notices the contradiction anymore?\u0026nbsp; The Regents further demoralized the UC community by kicking everyone except themselves out of the search process, and making the selection of the next president an expression of their sole ownership of the University.\u0026nbsp; Then Covid-19 came along, and the immediate reflex was to start planning for cuts. With rare exceptions, administrators did not resist, even for a few days. It's obvious to me that the university, the state, and the country can only \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/our-converging-crises-iii-we-need-to.html\"\u003Espend its way out of this crisis\u003C\/a\u003E, and that we should spend massively on the things we want, like environmental sustainability, intellectual progress, and social justice. Universities should be central articulators of the solutions.\u0026nbsp; Do we have it in us? We've spent years just trying to hang on financially while ignoring the stupid slings and arrows politically.\u0026nbsp; Can we still go really big?\u0026nbsp; UC needs a president that wants a major role for universities in maximalist social reconstruction-- and will learn from the people of the university how to enable it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EUPDATE JULY 7:\u003C\/b\u003E My first reaction to the widely-expected announcement that Michael Drake is coming back to UC as president is total relief.\u0026nbsp; He's an academic. He's an educator. He's a good administrator. He knows how UC works.\u0026nbsp; He will not require basic education--quite the opposite. He'll be the first president of color of a university whose student body is\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2BMyMtg\"\u003E 27 percent white.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; He is\u0026nbsp; certainly capable of doing the things listed above.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTwo other things.\u0026nbsp; During the financial crisis of 2007-2011, when he was serving as Irvine's chancellor, he told the regents more of the truth about quality decline on campus than did any other officials. In \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/change-culture-of-helplessness.html\"\u003EMarch 2011\u003C\/a\u003E, he told the Board that \"faculty members now spend a great deal of \ntime mitigating damage caused by cuts rather than building for the \nfuture. He described the situation of the University as one of slow \ndecay rather than growth. Most effort is focused on protecting the \neducational path for students; innovation and growth are not being \nfostered.\"\u0026nbsp; He fudged it a bit, and said UC was going from A+ to A, but his statements of struggle and slow decline was a pointed heresy in a rigid, formulaic governing system. It got the regents to pay more attention to the chancellors. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOn the other hand, Drake gave up on public funding in the 2000s. He may continue to think, as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/change-culture-of-helplessness.html\"\u003EI wrote at the time\u003C\/a\u003E, that \"the budget shortfalls can be handled with regrettable but \nnonetheless manageable layoffs that have already taken place.  The \nnon-UC reader would think, well they’re tightening their belts and \nfixing their IT problems and we’ll end up with a UC that gets an A for \nonly $2.5 billion in state funds.  There is no screaming on our end that\n says no it cannot be this way and also no it need not be this way.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMichael Drake is an historic appointment--of a continuity candidate, in a time when continuity won't work, in the minimal sense of keeping UC solvent with an intact workforce.\u0026nbsp; If he is going to rebuild UC for the future, by doing those things listed above, he will need help and also pressure from faculty, staff, and students beyond anything that has been offered up before. Lots of work to do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4948374734555641468\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/ucs-next-president-few-necessities.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4948374734555641468"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4948374734555641468"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/ucs-next-president-few-necessities.html","title":"UC's Next President: A Few Necessities  (Updated for the Appointment of former UC Irvine Chancellor Michael V. Drake)"}],"author":[{"name":{"$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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhh1LC_lNu5XAwlbmnAQLBmgJSzbvGoZRBaiH7L82aYSD-RhMMcehf6Pi0yWCvyTvHwWH_eMRvn3WIY8aXuluNkj89B3MLeXg-ceFtJKs4iBz382b1FGubx972DeCUveTS2lopOnAvRygo\/s72-c\/michaelvdrake.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-1128290734190457803"},"published":{"$t":"2019-09-29T17:11:00.004-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-09-29T17:11:35.363-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Senate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Admin Responses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Janet Napolitano"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Management"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Shared Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Regents"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A Systemwide Process for Presidential Searching"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgCxNVo6EkR8UnowTK_XEatOBh1FNGjtyJCEBja2-R342_kaMxrGIPvKKcIVQ-s2TQO8b_UuCMXa5qS11BxHUj6UpVoRkMDwVsUHgVul0DGczEEpKrEvMYGeyp0-U_z8kGrGosSmM02pyA\/s1600\/StudentAssembledAfrikanBlackCoalitionUCLA2015.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"435\" data-original-width=\"640\" height=\"217\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgCxNVo6EkR8UnowTK_XEatOBh1FNGjtyJCEBja2-R342_kaMxrGIPvKKcIVQ-s2TQO8b_UuCMXa5qS11BxHUj6UpVoRkMDwVsUHgVul0DGczEEpKrEvMYGeyp0-U_z8kGrGosSmM02pyA\/s320\/StudentAssembledAfrikanBlackCoalitionUCLA2015.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nAfter UC president Janet Napolitano announced her resignation, effective August 2020, the prospect of searching awoke a quotient of dread. \"The Regents will pick,\" one Senate elder told me.\u0026nbsp; \"They won't listen to us. They don't care what we think.\"\u0026nbsp; The idea here is that a small group of uber-regents will pop out another person whose remoteness from educational functions and faculty they will deem a virtue.\u0026nbsp; This has become a national trend: secretive searches that look for a chief executive who will preside over the university rather than develop it from within, and reflect the interests of the governing board ahead of those of the university's multiple constituencies.\u0026nbsp; Examples include presidential searches in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/opinion\/commentary\/commentary-usc-faculty-students-fight-for-university\/article_45bf00b6-a7f2-11e9-bcf2-b34831c9d865.html\"\u003ESouth Carolina\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/05\/02\/mark-kennedy-university-colorado-cu-president\/\"\u003EColorado\u003C\/a\u003E this past spring.\u0026nbsp; The conflict is also present at UC (see \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2015\/11\/the-weak-vs-wrong-and-emerging.html\"\u003Ethis post \u003C\/a\u003Efor national as well as local background).\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut the UC Regents do have a formal search process.\u0026nbsp; Called \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/governance\/policies\/7101.html\"\u003ERegents Policy 7101, \u003C\/a\u003Eit requires a number of steps.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe first is that the Board Chair forms a Special Committee comprised of six Regents and other \u003Ci\u003Eex officio\u003C\/i\u003E members (paragraph 1).\u0026nbsp; The membership of the new Special Committee is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/about\/pres-search.html\"\u003Eposted here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Chair of the Special Committee then \"consults with the full Board of Regents at the beginning of the search for the purpose of reviewing the relevancy of the criteria to be considered and approved by the Board of Regents and discussing potential candidates (paragraph 4). During the search, \"all Regents will be invited to all meetings with all constituencies.\"\u0026nbsp; The Regents then make the final appointment, although Policy 7101 does not specify whether the full Board votes or how that vote proceeds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe important features here are (1) the Board retains exclusive decision rights over the selection of the president and (2) every member of the Board has equal access to the meetings that constitute the search.\u0026nbsp; The Policy protects the rights of regents whom the Chair does not appoint to the Special Committee--the process is not to be controlled by the Board Chair's Special Committee or a small group of allied Regents--and affirms the Board's sovereignty over the search. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut there is also (3): in between the beginning and the end of the Policy comes a potentially huge and dynamic systemwide consultation process conjured in luxuriant description.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nB. The Chair of the Special Committee will invite the Academic Council to appoint an Academic Advisory Committee, composed of not more than thirteen members, including the Chair of the Academic Council and at least one representative of each of the ten campuses, to assist the Special Committee in screening candidates.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nC. The Special Committee will consult broadly with constituent groups of the University, including the Academic Advisory Committee appointed by the Academic Council, Chancellors, Laboratory Directors, Vice Presidents, students, staff, and alumni. To facilitate consultation, there shall be appointed advisory committees, each with no more than twelve members, of students, staff, and alumni. The student advisory committee shall be appointed by the Presidents of the graduate and undergraduate student associations and shall include at least one student from each campus. The staff advisory committee shall be appointed by the Chair of the Council of UC Staff Assemblies and shall include at least one staff member from each campus. The alumni advisory committee shall be appointed by the President of the Alumni Associations of the University of California and shall include at least one alumna or alumnus from each campus. Such consultation will be for the purpose of (1) reviewing the relevancy of the criteria approved by the Board of Regents and (2) presenting the nominee or nominees to members of the groups at the conclusion of the search.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nIn classic UC style, the executive decision making body has parallel advisory groups that allows the appearance of consultation but which it can also ignore.\u0026nbsp; Hence the pessimism of some Senate elders. On the other hand, the advisory committees have a power of self-constitution and also activity.\u0026nbsp; The only stated rule is a cap on the number of members. The named advisory committees are:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EAcademic Advisory Committee \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EStudent Advisory Committee\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EStaff Advisory Committee\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EAlumni Advisory Committee\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\nThe Policy puts no limitations on the activities of the committees.\u0026nbsp; How do these Advisory Committees (ACs) actually influence the Special Committee and the overall Board? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe standard theory is \u003Ci\u003Eprestige\u003C\/i\u003E: find the most prominent or trusted insider from each campus and create what management theorist Clayton Christensen likes to call a \"heavyweight team.\"\u0026nbsp; In the case of the Academic Advisory Committee (AcAC), prestige theory assumes that the regents recognize academic (or senate service-based) prestige and would honor it by adapting their views.\u0026nbsp; Each heavyweight would be recognized as speaking authoritatively for the (leadership of the) particular campus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHere's the problem: I know of no evidence that the last three presidential searches have worked this way; the evidence I do have suggests the opposite.\u0026nbsp; Business culture does not respect academic culture, the class gaps between professors and most regents are too wide, and the key feature of Christensen's heavyweights--decision rights--is stripped from the ACs.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIf this isn't enough to undermine AC leverage, there's also the structural weakness of the committee.\u0026nbsp; With the AcAC, each campus gets one person to represent its ladder faculty; this committee has a maximum of 13 people for a systemwide ladder faculty of over 11,000 (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu\/2018\/documents\/pdfs\/Accountability_2018_web.pdf\"\u003Epdf p 94\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; This faculty is divided among 10 campuses, between campuses and medical centers, across all the disciplines, which have diverse needs, and across racial groups, which also have diverse needs.\u0026nbsp; The idea of one person representing hundreds or thousands of their colleagues makes no epistemological (or political) sense.\u0026nbsp; It is also a recipe for an incoherent voice coming out of the AcAC, which Senate handpicking of membership can ease only at the price of lost diversity of views. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut the UC advisory committees \u003Ci\u003Ecould\u003C\/i\u003E affect the presidential search, by using their committees to prompt campus discussions about the presidential search in the context of the immediate future of UC.\u0026nbsp; All of the Advisory Committees could set up a series of events in which they talk with their constituents on each of 10 campuses.\u0026nbsp; They listen to hopes and fears, gather ideas about leadership needs, hash them over, and then transmit the resulting comments, recommendations, or demands to the Special Committee.\u0026nbsp; One faculty member suggested a \"UC Day\" in which town halls happen across the UC system at the same time. The ACs would have to identify a deadline that would fall before the Special Committee's long-listing and short-listing of candidates such that it (and the Board overall) could fully consider the input.\u0026nbsp; Each committee could do its work in about 6 weeks--2 campus visits a week (if not all done at once), plus a week to debate, formulate, and forward recommendations.\u0026nbsp; The scope of the issue is limited and the reports should be short.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnother benefit of using the ACs as a public fulcrum: town halls and other public events would be newsworthy.\u0026nbsp; Whatever they think of professors, unions, and students, governing boards do care about institutional reputation, media coverage, and what they hear back from VIPs as a result of that.\u0026nbsp; They also care about the public debates and collective movements that shape public opinion and apply political pressure.\u0026nbsp; A recent example is the issue of food insecurity and student homelessness.\u0026nbsp; For years, the Board were told UC financial aid took care of low-income students and they took no action to mitigate student poverty.\u0026nbsp; Then, sometime after Bernie Sanders put free college on the political map in late 2015, the media started covering student hunger and homelessness.\u0026nbsp; The UC Regents responded by forming a Special Committee on Basic Needs in late 2018.\u0026nbsp; The actual results have a long way to go, but the point is that governing boards do respond to public discourse, eventually, academic discourses included.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn short, though UC governance has a top-down 19th century structure, the Regents are most likely listen to faculty, students, alums, and staff under three conditions: their Advisory Committees (A) represent a real constituency brought together by a consultation process that (B) speaks publicly about its views of the University in a way that (C) publicly (re)frames the University's needs for its next president.\u0026nbsp; The idea is to create an interest, a buzz, an excitement, a university-wide discussion over what we do and don't need, and, more importantly, to construct a constituency which then builds discourses that have an institutional and political existence.\u0026nbsp; There are no guarantees, but the wager is that the state's media would cover a process in which a university system holds a discussion about its current goals and consequent leadership needs on all ten campuses. \u0026nbsp; The process would upgrade the level of public discussion about California higher ed both inside and outside the University.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis process would also help locate potential presidents with one vital skill, which is gathering exactly this kind of information from their own institutional grassroots.\u0026nbsp; This might seem irrelevant to the president's main job of political lobbying, but it is not. Recent history shows that a president without deep knowledge of the university's daily life simply cannot make the statewide case for the University's public benefit and fiscal needs.\u0026nbsp; UC's advisory committees could set an example of the creation of this kind of profound, inspiring knowledge that the University needs in its next president.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI do hope the current Academic Senate leadership, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/about\/chair-bio.html\"\u003EChair Kum-Kum Bhavnan\u003C\/a\u003Ei and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/about\/vice-chair-bio.html\"\u003EVice Chair Mary Gauvain\u003C\/a\u003E, rapidly set up a systemwide faculty fact-finding and deliberative process via the Academic Advisory Committee, details TBD. UC needs a new president with deep understanding of the University's issues, people, and potential, and the ability to learn directly from them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/dailybruin.com\/2015\/12\/18\/uc-divests-from-private-prisons-in-response-to-student-protest\/\"\u003EPhoto credit\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1128290734190457803\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/09\/a-systemwide-process-for-presidential.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1128290734190457803"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1128290734190457803"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/09\/a-systemwide-process-for-presidential.html","title":"A Systemwide Process for Presidential Searching"}],"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\/AVvXsEgCxNVo6EkR8UnowTK_XEatOBh1FNGjtyJCEBja2-R342_kaMxrGIPvKKcIVQ-s2TQO8b_UuCMXa5qS11BxHUj6UpVoRkMDwVsUHgVul0DGczEEpKrEvMYGeyp0-U_z8kGrGosSmM02pyA\/s72-c\/StudentAssembledAfrikanBlackCoalitionUCLA2015.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-6472101385422215214"},"published":{"$t":"2019-05-02T20:24:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-05-03T19:08:47.004-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Admin Responses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Austerity"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Humanities"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Research"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Stanford Administration to Stanford University Press: Drop Dead! But Not this Year"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjCwtuUA8x3gCYjHslmWLUtXlJwzbY5ECZd7JCeTQnw-yMn5Wpadt8MurlWJbfhyphenhyphenDAuImZM0XVxQw89DVbxZusuvFG-7w7GpWbQ9zaF1YJ42ejC2RvpOFu3CLfa_SIxG-mheB7XQQ_kPp1B\/s1600\/printing+press.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"188\" data-original-width=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjCwtuUA8x3gCYjHslmWLUtXlJwzbY5ECZd7JCeTQnw-yMn5Wpadt8MurlWJbfhyphenhyphenDAuImZM0XVxQw89DVbxZusuvFG-7w7GpWbQ9zaF1YJ42ejC2RvpOFu3CLfa_SIxG-mheB7XQQ_kPp1B\/s1600\/printing+press.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nStanford University Provost Persis Drell has \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2019\/05\/01\/stanford-backs-down-year-ending-support-university-press\"\u003Estayed the execution\u003C\/a\u003E of Stanford University Press for one year.\u0026nbsp; The very existence of the issue and its non-resolution is a comment both on the state of the academic humanities and of academic governance.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOn April 25th, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2019\/04\/26\/faculty-senate-discusses-consequences-of-tight-budget-graduate-student-affordability\/\"\u003EStanford's Provost Persis Drell announced that the University will not continue to provide its annual subsidy to Stanford University Press.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/a\u003EApparently\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2019\/01\/31\/college-endowments-returned-82-percent-2018-annual-survey-adds-some-insight-how\"\u003E because the University could only manage about a 6% increase on its over $26 billion endowment,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;the Provost had decided the University could not afford a $1.7 million dollar subsidy to the prestigious press.\u0026nbsp; The announcement produced instant, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2019\/04\/29\/stanford-community-outraged-at-su-press-defunding-over-1000-sign-petitions\/\"\u003Ewidespread opposition at Stanford\u003C\/a\u003E as well as a national outcry for which the provost was clearly unprepared.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSome comments pointed out that Stanford University Press has been in existence almost as long as has Stanford University, was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sup.org\/about\/\"\u003Eestablished by the explicit desire of Stanford's first president\u003C\/a\u003E, has long published path breaking and prize-winning works in history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, business, and law, and nurtured young and innovative scholars across the humanities and social sciences.\u0026nbsp; But according to several faculty members, Provost Drell had declared the Press \"\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2019\/04\/29\/stanford-moves-stop-providing-funds-its-university-press\"\u003Esecond rate\u003C\/a\u003E\" and decided not to renew the campus contribution to its overall budget. The press spends $6.5 million a year and gets $5 million in revenues, mostly from book publications.\u0026nbsp; Academic titles produce knowledge greatly in excess of their sales.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Commercial sales depend on mass audiences that advanced research, by its nature, can never expect.\u0026nbsp; A glance at library periodical budgets proves that all research publication loses money.\u0026nbsp; Commentators pointed out that Stanford UP's operating loss was normal. No one agreed with Drell's alleged dismissal of the press's quality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe provost's proposal can't really be about the money:\u0026nbsp; As Cathy Davidson has \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.hastac.org\/blogs\/cathy-davidson\/2019\/04\/28\/how-university-can-sell-its-soul-hastacs-stanford-origins-and\"\u003Epointed out\u003C\/a\u003E, Stanford could secure the funds needed to provide the $1.7 million subsidy to the Press --for example, by drawing 5.01% rather than 5% off of its endowment each year.\u0026nbsp; I won't even mention \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/2019\/02\/11\/stanford-releases-2017-18-fundraising-results\/\"\u003Ethe $1.1 billion that the University raised in 2017-2018\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; What is lacking here is a university leadership with broad intellectual vision and a commitment to a complete array of scholarship.\u0026nbsp; This is an intellectual more than a financial crisis.\u0026nbsp; As a physicist, Provost Drell should also be familiar with universities offering funds to cover costs beyond external revenues; after all in 2017, by its own accounting, Stanford \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ncsesdata.nsf.gov\/herd\/2017\/html\/herd2017_dst_27.html\"\u003Espent over $100 million in institutional support of research\u003C\/a\u003E (spoiler alert, with little going to the humanities).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGovernance problems are all over this issue.\u0026nbsp; The decision was made without an open and meaningful consultation with Stanford's Faculty Senate.\u0026nbsp; The provost did not get prior input on her idea from the people most affected by it--scholars in the non-STEM disciplines in which the press publishes.\u0026nbsp; That is the only reason that \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2019\/05\/01\/provost-compromise-a-step-in-the-right-direction-on-su-press-defunding-but-not-enough-say-faculty\/\"\u003Eshe could have been so surprised\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nDrell wrote that she wanted to thank those who explained how the \ndecision had been interpreted as a “marginalization of the humanities at\n Stanford,” which, she wrote, “is deeply regrettable and certainly not \nwhat was intended.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nI did not anticipate it would touch such a deep nerve in the \ncommunity of our humanities and social sciences colleagues,” Drell \nwrote.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nA provost of a general campus should already have enough understanding of fields not her own to guess how they'd respond to the closure of a major research outlet.\u0026nbsp; UC has several provosts from the humanities, and they would know that if they canceled all Springer journals to save money ($8.6 M for cancelling \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/media.springernature.com\/full\/springer-cms\/rest\/v1\/content\/15877572\/data\/v3\"\u003Ethese\u003C\/a\u003E), there would be a faculty outcry.\u0026nbsp; In case a provost doesn't know anything about a university press, she should talk to those affected first.\u0026nbsp; Neither the Press' Executive Board nor the Faculty Senate's Library Committee were consulted. Much university admin exists in a filter bubble that makes normal disagreements much worse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAs the Library Committee put it in a letter written to the President and the Provost:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nIn particular, we would like to express our strong belief that any\u0026nbsp;decision about drastic restructuring at the Press should be made only after full consultation and\u0026nbsp;well-prepared discussion in the academic senate, with a chance for all members of the\u0026nbsp;university community to be heard. Moreover, we urge that any decision be based on a careful\u0026nbsp; examination of the Press’s operations by an external committee of experts with experience in\u0026nbsp;academic publishing who can offer an assessment of the Stanford University Press and\u0026nbsp;suggestions for improvement.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThat the Stanford Administration would effectively kill an institution of such long-term importance without such consultation is remarkable and disturbing. Secrecy keeps the filter bubble in place.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nInstead, Drell seems to have presented the decision to a group of humanities and social sciences department chairs and asked them to choose between the Press subvention and money spent on graduate fellowships.\u0026nbsp; It is not clear why administrators think putting two desirable goods into competition will sweeten a deal, but this kind of forced choice is a familiar strategy.\u0026nbsp; In any case, some chair(s) leaked the news and faculty had a chance to prepare for the \nspringing of the announcement in the Faculty Senate at its April 25th \nmeeting.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTwo further features are worth noting:\u0026nbsp; Prof. David Palumbo-Liu put questions to the provost in the Senate meeting:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWhy weren’t the faculty consulted before you made your\ndecision—you did not consult with either Editorial Board of the Press (which is\na Presidentially appointed committee) or the Faculty Senate?\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EYou recognize that this is not simply a\nfiscal decision, and that a university press is an intrinsic part of any great\nuniversity’s intellectual identity.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EIt is reported that you said to a gathering of chairs that\nSUP is a “second-rate press.”\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EDid you\nsay that, and if you did, upon what empirical evidence or studies, besides\nsales figures, did you base that judgment?\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EI understand that the only information you requested from\nthe Press were its financial figures.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EIf\nthis true, why did you not also ask for their list of authors, the list of\nprizes they have won, or the lists of their reviews and media appearances?\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EThat is, information that would have given\nyou a sense of the impact and value of the press, not just its cost?\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ENo university press in the country is \"solvent,\" unless it has\na major endowment. Stanford has not allowed SUP to raise an endowment—it is not\na fundraising priority.\u0026nbsp; What are your thoughts on this?\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPalumbo-Liu reports that the provost did not answer any of these questions.\u0026nbsp; One reason may be that the decision was neither empirically based nor thought through.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe second issue is that Drell is giving the press a year's reprieve--rather than a renewal of the multi-year subvention.\u0026nbsp; She \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2019\/05\/01\/provost-compromise-a-step-in-the-right-direction-on-su-press-defunding-but-not-enough-say-faculty\/\"\u003Ewrote\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n“My goal was, and continues to be, to find a financial model for the \nPress that is sustainable, builds upon the strengths of the Press and \nensures its success for years to come. . . . Numerous years of \none-time funding bridges do not make for a compelling path for the \nPress.” \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nDrell said she intends to make the funds available to help ensure a \n“smooth transition to a sustainable future.” She added that once it has a\n sustainable model, the Press “may request incremental general funds in \nthe FY21 budget process.” Drell noted that philanthropy may be an \nadditional avenue for funding as the Press “focuses on its considerable \nstrengths.” \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nShe points out the problem with her own idea, which is that one-year bridges do not mean sustainability. Sustainability would be most easily achieved by committing to an indefinite subvention of a specific amount, with regular reviews so that all sides can discuss problems and stay satisfied. But her wording suggests that she defines \"sustainability\" as \"profitable,\" which suggests continuing confusion about the economics of scholarly publication.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt's not clear why Drell doesn't just fix her tiny $1.7 million problem by offering an indefinite subvention with annual or bi-annual review.\u0026nbsp; The reason may be the theory--really a cultural assumption in contemporary management--that if you don't impose pressure up to the extinction threshold then people won't perform. The framework is that the press (like all things run by and for academics) somehow did something wrong, and won't do right unless the \"adults\" threaten it. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSince the issue is not resolved, it's not too late to sign letters of protest from the Stanford community \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfbEqyRAXcFb84N9Z8YTngOtOdJOd7JoMXBJmLQ-qG_oyt5KA\/viewform\"\u003E(here\u003C\/a\u003E) as well as from outside Stanford (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfRfxLmj5UsQn8WNiYjxD0NX5u-bLdTIvoJjsRx5ZIQxtRANw\/viewform?fbclid=IwAR2C-J-EBbGEzutKIGtulceFICrUZoheQEjVZYpz-KnBwzchJCLQWvRZXhU\"\u003Esign here\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp; You can also mediate on the deeper meanings of universities in society for President Tessier-Lavigne at president@stanford.edu and Provost Drell at provost@stanford.edu.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6472101385422215214\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/stanford-administration-to-stanford.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6472101385422215214"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6472101385422215214"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/stanford-administration-to-stanford.html","title":"Stanford Administration to Stanford University Press: Drop Dead! But Not this Year"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Michael Meranze"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05336793340375780406"},"email":{"$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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjCwtuUA8x3gCYjHslmWLUtXlJwzbY5ECZd7JCeTQnw-yMn5Wpadt8MurlWJbfhyphenhyphenDAuImZM0XVxQw89DVbxZusuvFG-7w7GpWbQ9zaF1YJ42ejC2RvpOFu3CLfa_SIxG-mheB7XQQ_kPp1B\/s72-c\/printing+press.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-1880324394201239371"},"published":{"$t":"2019-04-22T14:26:00.004-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-07-17T07:25:51.666-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Admin Responses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guest post"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Protests"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"On Making and Managing Racial Crises: Reckoning with Trauma and Institutional Responsibility in Higher Education"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhT2Snodnzsk61IA63fHAwKk-vPtIT_IEXnpVumwngu38dJFVFCl-2IaqByPSLk_jAeAkruhvQPjrcAemFJMm-PigYE4iNBEWVsD-idE6n7L85xg9sBRgZ6_YfBPybEg6-qjCwEP7_muFg\/s1600\/MIssou+Protest+2015.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"605\" data-original-width=\"908\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhT2Snodnzsk61IA63fHAwKk-vPtIT_IEXnpVumwngu38dJFVFCl-2IaqByPSLk_jAeAkruhvQPjrcAemFJMm-PigYE4iNBEWVsD-idE6n7L85xg9sBRgZ6_YfBPybEg6-qjCwEP7_muFg\/s320\/MIssou+Protest+2015.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Eby Gaurav Jashnani, Ed.M\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003ELicensed Mental Health Counselor\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EPhD Candidate in Critical Social\/Personality Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Egjashnani@gradcenter.cuny.edu\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"mailto:gjashnani@gradcenter.cuny.edu\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003ECountless\neyes were on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) this past\nfall, where \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/silencesam.com\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Estudents were organizing for racial justice\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E, particularly around the removal\nof the “Silent Sam” Confederate monument.\u0026nbsp; Black students and graduate-workers\nput their \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/education\/article213187589.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Eacademic success and future careers\non the line\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/keepingitheel.com\/2018\/12\/14\/unc-basketball-football-players-sign-open-letter-denouncing-silent-sam\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Estudent-athletes\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E and \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/14\/sports\/silent-sam.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003ENBA-playing alumni\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E took public political stances, administrators\nand trustees seemed to \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2018\/12\/uncs-board-governors-punts-silent-sam\/578224\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Elack a viable long-term plan\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E, politicians and pundits inserted\nthemselves in ways that seemed \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Historians-Should-End-Silence\/245346\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Ethoughtless and geared to exacerbate\ncurrent tensions\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E –\nand then, in January, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/UNC-Chancellor-Steps-Down-and\/245472\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Ethings got really wild\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E, with the university’s chancellor\nsuddenly removing the base of the monument while also resigning from her post.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EThis is a\nfamiliar arc, one we saw even more sharply at \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/11\/09\/us\/missouri-protest-timeline\/index.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Ethe University of Missouri (MU) in\n2015\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E, when \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/159844403\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EBlack\nstudent organizers\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E\n(in tandem with \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiamissourian.com\/news\/local\/planned-parenthood-supporters-pack-speakers-circle-with-pink\/article_5764d3c6-670b-11e5-8514-9f0abf3440b4.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Ereproductive rights activists\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E and a \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiamissourian.com\/news\/local\/graduate-students-to-stage-walkout-protest-unless-mu-meets-insurance\/article_988e1840-4694-11e5-97a0-7f715c3fac12.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Ebudding graduate student union\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E) pushed out the top two\nadministrators and overhauled the school’s approach to all things diversity,\nwith the help of the university’s Division I football team. (\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EPhoto credit \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/grade-point\/wp\/2015\/11\/10\/they-got-the-u-missouri-system-president-and-chancellor-fired-now-they-have-more-demands\/?utm_term=.771aef8fd356\"\u003Eabove\u003C\/a\u003E: Jeff Roberson.) \u003C\/span\u003ESo, what’s the best\nway for UNC to proceed in a fraught situation, especially now as it faces a \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2018\/10\/26\/spellings-steps-down-unc-system-president\/?noredirect=on\u0026amp;utm_term=.a02a7a371935\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Eleadership vacuum\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E and a damaged reputation?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003EEnter \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Ethe\nrecent \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.acenet.edu\/news-room\/Pages\/ACE-Research-Report-Explores-Lessons-Learned-from-University-of-Missouri-Crisis.aspx\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EAmerican Council on Education (ACE)\nreport\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E on how\ncampus leaders can \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003Ebuild capacity for diversity and\ninclusion\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E and\nsuccessfully manage moments of “racial crisis.” \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EI read it eagerly, on the chance that it might come to offer useful guidelines for future administrative\nresponses to perceived racial crises.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EWhile the\nreport examines the 2015 MU protests in an attempt to generate useful insights,\nit mostly puts forward meager responses that paper over the problem. As a\nclinician and social psychologist whose research focuses on institutional\nracism and higher education – including, presently, MU – I think it’s vital to\naddress some apparent misconceptions regarding trauma, racism and institutional\nresponsibility.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EAfter\nbriefly running through events at MU and their context, the bulk of the \u003Cspan class=\"msoIns\"\u003E\u003Cins cite=\"mailto:Microsoft%20Office%20User\" datetime=\"2019-04-15T21:30\"\u003EACE \u003C\/ins\u003E\u003C\/span\u003Ereport is focused on a “collective\ntrauma” framework, which the authors use to conceptualize both the problem of\nand solution to a racial crisis. Nowhere are key terms (e.g., trauma,\ncollective trauma, traumatic state) defined, and the only work on trauma cited\nin the report is \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Collective-Trauma-Collective-Healing-Promoting-Community-Resilience-in\/Saul\/p\/book\/9780415884174\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Ea book about clinical work with survivors\nof genocide, civil war and the 9\/11 attacks\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E. But the circumstances of this work – thousands being\nkilled in discrete moments of political violence – are quite distinct from the\nslow burn of long-term institutional racism and negligence, magnified by\nsocietal inequity and daily interpersonal degradations. Using the term\ncollective trauma to describe a range of disparate people, incidents and\nexperiences – without ever naming or discussing most of them – is confusing at\nbest, and most likely inaccurate and counter-productive.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EFurthermore,\nACE’s report places institutions that have harmed students in the position of\ndeciding who has been harmed, how\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E, and what they need to recover, refocusing\nracial justice efforts on “emotional healing” without also centering equity and\naccountability.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003ESince\nthe problem is determined to be collective trauma, the answer is healing, and unspecified\ncampus leaders are the ones who must heal campus, using “active listening,”\n“speaking from the heart,” and “acting with” as their tools. We are told, for\nexample, that active listening can help others to “engage with difficult\nfeelings, gain perspective on the experience…find their own solutions, and\nbuild self-esteem and resilience.” But is a lack of self-esteem and resilience\nreally the core problem when facing the stark realities of campus racism? Why\nis gaining perspective prioritized while shifting policy goes unmentioned? Why\nchoose to tell this story by relying on trauma? Is that the best way in which\nto understand the callousness of the university administration’s lack of\nresponse to ongoing racial inequity and interpersonal violence? \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003EA trauma-focused approach may center healing, support,\nconnection and healthcare resources for those harmed or targeted; one focused\non accountability might prioritize identifying the harm, who was responsible,\nmaking amends and shifting conditions to prevent future harm. Both together are\noften ideal, but when justice and institutional responsibility are nearly\nabsent, healing can become easy rhetoric that avoids harder conversations.\nAccountability for doing violence – and for colluding with it – should mean\nlosing positions of power, acknowledging wrongdoing, offering reparations,\nputting in the work to transform one’s actions and one’s understanding of the\nworld. Some of these are steps MU has taken, but they are steps ACE’s report\ndecenters in favor of decontextualized trauma therapy techniques. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003EWhen someone commits an act of violence, and someone else\ncolludes by refusing to take it seriously or even acknowledge it as a problem,\nwe shouldn’t suggest that either of these people talk like a therapist to the\nperson who was violated, as a means of moving forward. The authors have appropriated\ntools from a specific context, but the problem here is different, the stakes\nare different, and psychological responses are helpful but still insufficient\nfor structural violence. Prioritizing healing is important when people who have\nbeen harmed want it, but when the powerful use it to avoid examining and\ntransforming institutions, talk of healing can quickly become a weapon used to maintain\nthe status quo and sustain institutional violence.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003EOne widespread reality the report overlooks is that campus\nleadership generally plays an important role not merely in responding to\nstudent organizing, but in instigating it in the first place through systematic\nneglect, gross incompetence, misplaced priorities and a distinct lack of\nconcern for the learning and wellbeing of marginalized students.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E While the ACE report refers to a\nhistory or legacy of campus and societal racism, none of it make sense without\nunderstanding that racism has continued into the present. MU’s administration\nis portrayed only as reacting to racism outside their control, rather than having\nmade numerous choices – including many financial ones – that maintained or even\nexacerbated ongoing racism. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003ET\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003Ehis\ncrisis was not simply mismanaged by the administration but actively\nprecipitated by it.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E Administrators\nchose to ignore a constant barrage of racism that Black students faced, not to\nmention pervasive social segregation and disappointing graduation rates; even\nBlack student demands from 1968 were still waiting to be fulfilled. A single\nincident of interpersonal racist violence, or even several incidents, does not\ninherently become an institutional crisis. The reason that repeated moments of\nviolence escalated into a crisis – and forced the institution toward a turning\npoint – is much the same reason that \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/biz\/news\/tarana-burke-times-up-me-too-backlash-1202748822\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Erepeated moments of violence\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E became a crisis for \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/films\/features\/hollywood-me-too-movement-one-year-on-netflix-amazon-money-a8646306.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EHollywood\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E (and \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/dec\/05\/usa-gymnastics-files-for-bankruptcy-in-wake-of-larry-nassar-scandal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EUSA Gymnastics\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E, and the \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/11\/us\/catholic-gallup-survey\/index.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003ECatholic Church\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E): key players consciously decided\nthat it was not worth responding, \u003Ci\u003Edespite knowing that severe violence was\npervasive and ongoing over many years\u003C\/i\u003E. Each of these institutions weighed\nthe scales and chose collusion over conviction.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EIn other\nwords, what the report identifies as limited capacity to deal with diversity\nand inclusion issues is not only result of bad planning, but racism – an active\ninstitutional investment in white supremacy, until said investment disturbs in-flows\nof capital and business as usual. Given the previous absence of commitment to or\neven interest in racial equity\u003Cspan class=\"msoIns\"\u003E\u003Cins cite=\"mailto:Microsoft%20Office%20User\" datetime=\"2019-04-16T11:58\"\u003E \u003C\/ins\u003E\u003C\/span\u003Eon\nthe part of the administration, one of the report’s major failures is its\napparent premise that alleviating the racial crisis hinges more on managing\nperceptions and emotions than fostering long-term equity or success for all\nmarginalized students.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EEmotions\nare important and often overlooked, but they are, in this case, symptoms and\nresults of a structural problem. Any map forward must stress that attending to the\nemotional climate should happen in tandem with not only strategic planning and\n“building capacity for diversity” but also specific changes in policy,\npractices and personnel, \u003Ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003Eand shifting\nfinancial and political priorities including the allocation of resources\u003C\/i\u003E. (MU\nhas done some of this, too, but you’d be forgiven for missing that from the\nreport.) \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EAs an example,\nthe report endorses “offering small tokens of appreciation” such as notes and\ngifts to faculty and staff who take on extra racial justice and support work.\nWhy not instead pay people for their time, offer course leave, bonuses and\npromotions, credit for students? Institutions can offer not only recognition,\nbut material compensation for work deemed necessary for the campus to function,\nwhich – as the report notes – falls disproportionately upon Black women and\nother people of color. Reparations and other concrete forms of accountability\ncan, in fact, be an integral part of emotional and psychological healing from\nhistorical and institutional violence – just ask \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/amp.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/15\/georgetown-students-reparations-vote-slaves-sold-by-university\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Estudents at Georgetown\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E, who last week voted to institute\na long-term reparations “fee” as part of their tuition payments. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EHowever,\nwithout acknowledging the painful and complex realities of ongoing and systemic\nracism, intertwined with the everyday functioning of the institution, the\nnature of the problem remains obscure.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E The real objects of concern – set\nupon by student organizers, politicized athletes and other supporters, defended\nby trustees, politicians and administrators – disappear: the de facto racist\ninstitutional policies and practices that result in structural violence, and\nthe myriad interpersonal degradations that make up minoritized life. The\nviolence of the institution, its students, staff, faculty, security, policies,\nprocedures, practices; its passive and active refusal to affirm Black life and\nlearning; the choices the institution has made from its origins in slave labor,\nonward through 200 years of white supremacist institutional maintenance; all of\nthis violence, all of these decisions, all of the moments of choosing white\nsupremacy over and over again risk erasure in this framework.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003ETrauma,\nthe ostensible heart of the report’s analysis, suffers from a similar lack of\nclarity, as neither the traumatic event repeatedly referred to nor the part of\ncampus allegedly traumatized are ever identified. The collective trauma at hand\nis not explicitly attributed to Black or marginalized students, but that is the\nclear implication: victims and witnesses of racism are “angry,” student\norganizers are “distrustful,” people of color and especially Black women suffer\nfrom “racial battle fatigue,” and so on. Campus leaders should “reach out to\nfaculty, staff, and students of color” as those experiencing “particularly\nacute trauma.” \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003EWhile Black students should be at the center of any story\nabout MU that purports to identify the “work that moved the community forward\nin a time of vulnerability,” these students are largely transformed here from\nagents of racial justice to largely unnamed victims. Trauma is distorted to\nproduce out of control, irrational Black students (as well as staff and\nfaculty) who \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Ethe\nadministration needs to heal before their “traumatic state” proves an obstacle\nto improving the campus climate. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003EIn this telling, Black students too\neasily become a traumatized impediment to racial progress, rather than the\nprimary people working to advance that goal.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EOne step\ntoward rectifying this dangerous misperception is grasping that a significant\npart of those at MU who displayed fear, anger and distrust (the trauma-related\nemotions highlighted in the report) were white. The university’s most recent \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/diversity.missouri.edu\/our-work\/campus-climate-survey\/2016-campus-climate-survey\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Ecampus climate report\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E, based on data gathered in 2016 – immediately\nafter the widely publicized student organizing, and at the same time as the interviews\nthat were part of the ACE report – found that nearly 40% more white than Black people\n(in total numbers) reported experiencing “exclusionary, intimidating, offensive\nand hostile” behaviors as a result of “ethnicity.” While a greater percentage of\nBlack people described these kinds of experiences (as we would expect), this\nreport details numerous white members of the university community feeling\nharassed or intimidated by the sheer fact of Black organizing, and particularly\nby on-campus mobilizations for racial justice and related ends: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;symbol\u0026quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E“I have been targeted by racial protesters like Black\nLives Matter.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;symbol\u0026quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E“I didn't feel safe in my community because I was a\nGreek white student.\" \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;symbol\u0026quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E“The demonstration on campus…made [me] feel personally\nthreatened, threatened my family, and my family income.” \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;symbol\u0026quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E“I felt like I was racially profiled as racist because\nI am white.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EAnd while first-hand\nexperiences of exclusionary behavior due to “racial identity” are not broken\ndown in the report, observations of such behavior were reported by nine times\nas many white people as Black – nearly one-third of all white respondents. These\nsurvey respondents labeled racial justice demonstrations as “bullying,”\n“racist” “unsettling,” and of a “violent nature,” and described them as \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E“[a]n\nattack on the entire University.” \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003EWhile feeling unsafe and viewing non-violent marches or\ndemonstrations as violent may be genuine expressions of belief or emotion, they\ndo not correlate with any documented reality of violence against white people\nat MU. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EThe very idea\nthat white people could perceive themselves to be the victims of greater racial\nhostility than Black people at a university struggling with anti-Black racism\nmay seem hard to understand, but it isn’t. White people can experience racial\nreality (i.e., frank assertions of current injustice and needed movement toward\njustice) as hostile, unsettling or overwhelming – this is the underlying basis\nof recently popularized terms like \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/feb\/16\/white-fragility-racism-interview-robin-diangelo\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Ewhite fragility\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E, and this is much of the “trauma”\nto be found after racial justice organizing, at least at MU. Put differently, clear\nimprovements in the campus racial climate for students of color may be perceived\nas a decline in quality, and safety – with acute emotional and psychological\nconsequences – for a subset of predominantly white students who perceive a loss\nof status in the decreased acceptability of racism, as well as for white alumni,\nparents of prospective students, and other institutional stakeholders. Confronting\na loss of structural privilege can be overwhelming for white people, and while\nI wouldn’t suggest they need trauma therapy, it’s foolish to ignore both the difficult\nemotions these people experience as a result of institutional shifts and the \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/article224561590.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Econsequences\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article44216625.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Ethey inflict on others\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EAt UNC, as\nwas the case at MU, marginalized students don’t need help from administrators\nto gain perspective, and they have repeatedly found \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/21\/us\/unc-silent-sam-monument-toppled.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Etheir own\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2018\/12\/10\/unc-teaching-assistants-go-strike-over-confederate-monument\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Esolutions\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E. Balancing the calls of student\norganizers with the demands of other stakeholders, particularly at a public\nuniversity in \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674060364\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Eneoliberal times\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E, is tricky at best; the racial\ncrisis is primarily a crisis for the administration, who is made vulnerable (to\nreal accountability) by student organizing. However, as UNC determines how to\nproceed, trauma sensitivity alone won’t accomplish what the university needs.\nThat requires acknowledging the racism that led to Silent Sam \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kristinakillgrove\/2018\/08\/22\/scholars-explain-the-racist-history-of-uncs-silent-sam-statue\/#7333b2ac114f\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Ebeing mounted in the first place\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E, and to \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/confederate-statue-silent-sam-could-return-to-unc-chape-1830916725\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Ebeing kept up for over a century\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E, as well as \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thedemands.org\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Emaking\nup for lost time\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E when\nit comes to racial equity and following the lead of marginalized students. To\nbe effective in the long-term, responses to racial crises require institutional\ntransformation at the levels of policy, procedure, curriculum, hiring,\nadmissions, financial aid, institutional history, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/en-us\/Critical+Pedagogy+and+Race-p-9781405129688\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Eracial pedagogy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E and strategic planning, as well as\nemotional and psychological support. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EAn MU alum\nand Black activist with whom I recently spoke named \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/munews.missouri.edu\/news-releases\/2017\/0824-land-grant-compact-will-provide-access-to-missouri-residents\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Ethe university’s dramatic expansion\nof Pell Grant funding for lower-income students\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E – to cover all tuition and fees –\nas perhaps the most important victory to come from recent years of organizing. A\ndescendent of MU’s founder has created a “\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/munews.missouri.edu\/news-releases\/2008\/0123-slavery-endowment.php\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003ESlavery Atonement Endowment\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E” for Black Studies students, while\na “\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/committees.missouri.edu\/history-working-group\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EHistory Working Group\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E” has been established to reckon\nwith the institution’s financial basis in slavery and its profits. Meanwhile, organizing\nfor reparations at Georgetown may set a national precedent for \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/19\/books\/ebony-and-ivy-about-how-slavery-helped-universities-grow.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Ethe many US universities that\nflourished financially through the violent subjugation of African people\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E. The goal of an institution should\nnot be managing unrest but moving toward justice in ways that address and\naccount for long histories of injustice – removing monuments to white supremacy\nis only a first step toward materially restructuring higher education and its\npriorities.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cstyle\u003E\n\u003C!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n @font-face\n {font-family:Wingdings;\n panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;\n mso-font-charset:2;\n mso-generic-font-family:decorative;\n mso-font-pitch:variable;\n mso-font-signature:0 268435456 0 0 -2147483648 0;}\n@font-face\n {font-family:\"Cambria Math\";\n panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n mso-font-charset:0;\n mso-generic-font-family:roman;\n mso-font-pitch:variable;\n mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n@font-face\n {font-family:Calibri;\n panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;\n mso-font-charset:0;\n mso-generic-font-family:swiss;\n mso-font-pitch:variable;\n mso-font-signature:-536859905 -1073697537 9 0 511 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\n p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n {mso-style-unhide:no;\n mso-style-qformat:yes;\n mso-style-parent:\"\";\n margin:0in;\n margin-bottom:.0001pt;\n mso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n font-size:12.0pt;\n font-family:\"Calibri\",sans-serif;\n mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\na:link, span.MsoHyperlink\n {mso-style-priority:99;\n color:#0563C1;\n mso-themecolor:hyperlink;\n text-decoration:underline;\n text-underline:single;}\na:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed\n {mso-style-noshow:yes;\n mso-style-priority:99;\n color:#954F72;\n mso-themecolor:followedhyperlink;\n text-decoration:underline;\n text-underline:single;}\np.MsoListParagraph, li.MsoListParagraph, div.MsoListParagraph\n {mso-style-priority:34;\n mso-style-unhide:no;\n mso-style-qformat:yes;\n margin-top:0in;\n margin-right:0in;\n margin-bottom:0in;\n margin-left:.5in;\n margin-bottom:.0001pt;\n mso-add-space:auto;\n mso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n font-size:12.0pt;\n font-family:\"Calibri\",sans-serif;\n mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\np.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\n {mso-style-priority:34;\n mso-style-unhide:no;\n mso-style-qformat:yes;\n mso-style-type:export-only;\n margin-top:0in;\n margin-right:0in;\n margin-bottom:0in;\n margin-left:.5in;\n margin-bottom:.0001pt;\n mso-add-space:auto;\n mso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n font-size:12.0pt;\n font-family:\"Calibri\",sans-serif;\n mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\np.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\n {mso-style-priority:34;\n mso-style-unhide:no;\n mso-style-qformat:yes;\n mso-style-type:export-only;\n margin-top:0in;\n margin-right:0in;\n margin-bottom:0in;\n margin-left:.5in;\n margin-bottom:.0001pt;\n mso-add-space:auto;\n mso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n font-size:12.0pt;\n font-family:\"Calibri\",sans-serif;\n mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\np.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\n {mso-style-priority:34;\n mso-style-unhide:no;\n mso-style-qformat:yes;\n mso-style-type:export-only;\n margin-top:0in;\n margin-right:0in;\n margin-bottom:0in;\n margin-left:.5in;\n margin-bottom:.0001pt;\n mso-add-space:auto;\n mso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n font-size:12.0pt;\n font-family:\"Calibri\",sans-serif;\n mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\nspan.msoIns\n {mso-style-type:export-only;\n mso-style-name:\"\";\n text-decoration:underline;\n text-underline:single;\n color:teal;}\n.MsoChpDefault\n {mso-style-type:export-only;\n mso-default-props:yes;\n font-family:\"Calibri\",sans-serif;\n mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\n mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\n@page WordSection1\n {size:8.5in 11.0in;\n margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;\n mso-header-margin:.5in;\n mso-footer-margin:.5in;\n mso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.WordSection1\n {page:WordSection1;}\n \/* List Definitions *\/\n @list l0\n {mso-list-id:1019350751;\n mso-list-type:hybrid;\n mso-list-template-ids:1561067696 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693;}\n@list l0:level1\n {mso-level-number-format:bullet;\n mso-level-text:;\n mso-level-tab-stop:none;\n mso-level-number-position:left;\n text-indent:-.25in;\n font-family:Symbol;}\n@list l0:level2\n {mso-level-number-format:bullet;\n mso-level-text:o;\n mso-level-tab-stop:none;\n mso-level-number-position:left;\n text-indent:-.25in;\n font-family:\"Courier New\";}\n@list l0:level3\n {mso-level-number-format:bullet;\n mso-level-text:;\n mso-level-tab-stop:none;\n mso-level-number-position:left;\n text-indent:-.25in;\n font-family:Wingdings;}\n@list l0:level4\n {mso-level-number-format:bullet;\n mso-level-text:;\n mso-level-tab-stop:none;\n mso-level-number-position:left;\n text-indent:-.25in;\n font-family:Symbol;}\n@list l0:level5\n {mso-level-number-format:bullet;\n mso-level-text:o;\n mso-level-tab-stop:none;\n mso-level-number-position:left;\n text-indent:-.25in;\n font-family:\"Courier New\";}\n@list l0:level6\n {mso-level-number-format:bullet;\n mso-level-text:;\n mso-level-tab-stop:none;\n mso-level-number-position:left;\n text-indent:-.25in;\n font-family:Wingdings;}\n@list l0:level7\n {mso-level-number-format:bullet;\n mso-level-text:;\n mso-level-tab-stop:none;\n mso-level-number-position:left;\n text-indent:-.25in;\n font-family:Symbol;}\n@list l0:level8\n {mso-level-number-format:bullet;\n mso-level-text:o;\n mso-level-tab-stop:none;\n mso-level-number-position:left;\n text-indent:-.25in;\n font-family:\"Courier New\";}\n@list l0:level9\n {mso-level-number-format:bullet;\n mso-level-text:;\n mso-level-tab-stop:none;\n mso-level-number-position:left;\n text-indent:-.25in;\n font-family:Wingdings;}\nol\n {margin-bottom:0in;}\nul\n {margin-bottom:0in;}\n\u003C\/style\u003E\n\n--\u0026gt;"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1880324394201239371\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/on-making-and-managing-racial-crises.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1880324394201239371"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1880324394201239371"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/on-making-and-managing-racial-crises.html","title":"On Making and Managing Racial Crises: Reckoning with Trauma and Institutional Responsibility in Higher Education"}],"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\/AVvXsEhT2Snodnzsk61IA63fHAwKk-vPtIT_IEXnpVumwngu38dJFVFCl-2IaqByPSLk_jAeAkruhvQPjrcAemFJMm-PigYE4iNBEWVsD-idE6n7L85xg9sBRgZ6_YfBPybEg6-qjCwEP7_muFg\/s72-c\/MIssou+Protest+2015.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-6810591418097810304"},"published":{"$t":"2019-04-09T08:52:00.002-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-04-10T07:09:09.696-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Admin Responses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Administrative Overreach"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Future University"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Shared Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Students"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Crisis of Higher Ed Realpolitik: a Visit to Connecticut"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjQrzBm8SEFrP6Q-7n_15vYCIZFW_Q0ZvIZ_-HU-_A8rAXCYGGjaE-sPa8GJOrKEi27uKMVrmlfLgqkw0Yk0lRS3G8IbGB5qBwhhPKCDPcokWdCOBplQVnsg7U8la9ZW4rZqkeMNh3fAFk\/s1600\/040519+0005+01a+Planning+Committee+selfie+00+%25281%2529.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-top: .5em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1226\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjQrzBm8SEFrP6Q-7n_15vYCIZFW_Q0ZvIZ_-HU-_A8rAXCYGGjaE-sPa8GJOrKEi27uKMVrmlfLgqkw0Yk0lRS3G8IbGB5qBwhhPKCDPcokWdCOBplQVnsg7U8la9ZW4rZqkeMNh3fAFk\/s320\/040519+0005+01a+Planning+Committee+selfie+00+%25281%2529.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nYou never know exactly where contradictory visions of higher ed are going to have an edifying head-on collision.\u0026nbsp; There was one last week in New Britain, Connecticut, where I had gone to speak at the annual meeting on shared\u0026nbsp; governance and student success of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system. It was organized by the wonderful program committee in the photo at left (photo thanks to Wanda Warshauer).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe overriding issue was the CSCU president's proposed consolidation of the state's community colleges into one college (with three regions, three presidents, twelve campus \"CEOs\" etc), a plan that continues to roil the system in spite of having been critiqued last year by the regional accreditor.\u0026nbsp; Meanwhile, in the morning, I called for a massive expansion of higher ed's social benefits, which I said would involve state buyouts of tuition and the funding of many more tenure-track instructors as well as more widely distributed research. \u0026nbsp; At lunch, Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-CT), of the\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/jahana-hayes-congress-interview-797222\/\"\u003E first-year congressional cohort that includes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar\u003C\/a\u003E, gave an excellent twelve-minute summation of the social power of education.\u0026nbsp; The question is, she said, were your students \"important enough to you for you to stand in intercession until they could stand on their own\" (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XbZ_a7v9eqc\u0026amp;t=24s\"\u003E11\" here\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp; How do we free education from its current policy shackles? This is one of the great questions of our time. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLet's go in the order of the day.\u0026nbsp; At 9 am, my lecture argued that higher ed is undermining itself by focusing on only the most familiar fraction of its value, individual wage benefits.\u0026nbsp; Policy discourse leaves most of the story blank.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgyumoHthdcB2u4pgHpXjkAhVTtquSkjxjQMglln9ZNXfaBQQ7n81L2OakW8c27Dua5HVxlenVvzGqn-ZKsLuxoKcal3d1mbPrfHil5mvTqqxtHiMdJv04YS67kTWRfDAIfId1I2WUeB-w\/s1600\/PecuniaryBenefits+2x2.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"760\" data-original-width=\"1598\" height=\"291\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgyumoHthdcB2u4pgHpXjkAhVTtquSkjxjQMglln9ZNXfaBQQ7n81L2OakW8c27Dua5HVxlenVvzGqn-ZKsLuxoKcal3d1mbPrfHil5mvTqqxtHiMdJv04YS67kTWRfDAIfId1I2WUeB-w\/s400\/PecuniaryBenefits+2x2.png\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nWhat's missing are the \"external\" or public pecuniary \/ monetary benefits (upper right quadrant), and all the non-pecuniary or non-market benefits, which are themselves more than half the total.\u0026nbsp; The focus on job training and wages by major is miseducating the public about what integrative higher learning really does.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe next hour featured a student panel that proved the point about non-monetary effects. Five students of varying ages described their non-traditional journeys to graduation over the kind of obstacles that our anti-social public policies have made all too common. The family of one speaker, who'd wanted to be a computer engineer, lost home and work in the 2008 crash when he was in the 7th grade.\u0026nbsp; The family spent years living in by-the-week motels as they went from city to city and state to state looking for permanent jobs. Meanwhile, their son never attended formal school again, until a GED program and various CSCU instructors helped him back into the system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOn the same panel a 53- year-old single mother said that after years of working she went back because \"I got tired of other people controlling my livelihood. I knew that I could do more, be more.\u0026nbsp; I wanted to help people, and knew that I could be of greater help.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThree other speakers related their own struggles for education. The common issue: higher ed is about knowledge, capability, personal development.\u0026nbsp; It addresses a large and varying set of \u003Ci\u003Enon\u003C\/i\u003E-monetary issues.\u0026nbsp; Better pay plays an accepted but minor part, and on this panel was not central enough to mention.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI noted that none of these working-class students at working-class colleges mentioned that pecuniary metric du jour, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.equality-of-opportunity.org\/papers\/coll_mrc_paper.pdf\"\u003Eupward mobility\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; They focused on\u0026nbsp; \u003Ci\u003EBildung\u003C\/i\u003E, a word nobody used. It is mass \u003Ci\u003EBildung\u003C\/i\u003E: arguably \u003Ci\u003Ethe \u003C\/i\u003Ecore higher ed goal is \u003Ci\u003EBildung\u003C\/i\u003E for all.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis brought us to Rep. Jahana Hayes. Her pre-Congress career was as a teacher, one who started as a teenage mom and then as a community college student who worked three jobs before graduating from Southern Connecticut State College, who then taught for years before becoming \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/147812318\"\u003EConnecticut Teacher of the Year \u003C\/a\u003Eand then \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/neatoday.org\/2016\/04\/28\/2016-teacher-of-the-year\/\"\u003E2016 National Teacher of the Year,\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/a\u003Eafter which she ran for Congress, thinking it was a test run to prepare the ground for somebody else to run and win in 2020.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHer talk was anchored in a deep personal sense of the power of teachers to \u003Ci\u003Enegate\u003C\/i\u003E their students' self-worth with dismissive talk or treatment--or to make it possible for them to fully inhabit the world.\u0026nbsp; I came from a place, she said, where we were told in a range of ways you are nothing, your community is bad, your people have no value.\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XbZ_a7v9eqc\u0026amp;t=24s\"\u003EShe said,\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nI have to remind people at every turn: nobody \u003Ci\u003Echooses\u003C\/i\u003E to struggle. . . Our responsibility as leaders, as the adults, as the community is to hold people up until they can stand on their own, and then send them off so they can pull someone behind them. . . That's what happened in my life, when people stepped in. . . . \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nShe said, \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nEverything I learned about school, I learned at school.\u0026nbsp; We have so many people who touch down on campuses like this, and for the first time have real conversations, with fidelity, about controlling the narrative about their education.\u0026nbsp; Just because they're not having those conversations at home doesn't mean their families don't care about them. Maybe it means, just maybe, that they don't have the ability or the capacity to control those conversations.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nI grew up in a family where my grandmother could not have been more loving, could not have been more giving, could not have been more invested in my success.\u0026nbsp; But she didn't know how to translate that level of investment, that level of commitment, that love she had for me, into a conversation that was academic. So as a teacher, I always stood on the premise that it's not kids' responsibility to learn different, it's my responsibility to teach different. And I think that if we always lead with that--that everybody has value, that everybody has a gift, that everybody gets to be here, and should have access,\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nand then she paused because she was on the verge of tears. So was I.\u0026nbsp; The whole room started to applaud. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nShe said,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nit's amazing how raw this is for me, because. . . there were so many people, when I was a high school dropout, or I was a teenage mom, or I was a community college student, who had just given up on me and written me off. And I tell you, we can't write people off.\u0026nbsp; We can't decide that they're \u003Ci\u003Edone\u003C\/i\u003E. What we have to do is figure out how to put them back on track, and get them in the pipeline, and on the road to success and that road is going to look different for everybody.\u0026nbsp; There are different ways of doing and being. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nAnd once you are graced with--when I started this journey I did it because I was the beneficiary of so much undeserved grace. Now I have a responsibility--I have a responsibility to use my voice, to use my platform, to use my experiences, to use my struggle, to help insure that somebody, even if it's one person, does not have to endure the same things. To help change hearts and minds, so that the people on the other side, who have already made up their minds, they have an opinion about who certain groups are, what certain groups do, how certain groups feel--about how people act--to help them change that opinion. . . . \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nIn a conference the other day . . . I had to remind people that I was a SNAP beneficiary--not because I didn't want to work, but because I was underemployed, working three jobs, going to college full time. So\u0026nbsp; when you think about someone receiving SNAP benefits, I hope that you now begin to think that that person can become a Congresswoman. There are so many people in this room, there are so many people on this campus, there are so many people in this community, who are in the journey.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nJahana Hayes would not deny education as job benefits, even as that was subsumed by education as a journey whose supreme value she had proved.\u0026nbsp; I was struck by her fully democratized idea of value--\"everybody has a gift\"--that cannot be dealt with through standardization, which is, as an administrative reflex, itself bound up with marginalization.\u0026nbsp; Thus we get to her principle of \"teach different.\" And that is essentially what every talk I heard all day was doing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn the afternoon, I went to the panel on \"Creating a Family-Friendly Campus,\" with presentations about basic issues like easily accessible lactation rooms and free child care by Meredith Sinclair,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ctmirror.org\/2019\/01\/02\/lamont-names-bye-lead-office-early-childhood\/\"\u003EState Senator Beth Bye\u003C\/a\u003E, and Fiona Pearson, who previewed arguments from her forthcoming book, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Back-School-Student-Transforming-American\/dp\/1978801882\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=fiona+pearson\u0026amp;qid=1554744967\u0026amp;s=gateway\u0026amp;sr=8-1\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EBack in School.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere was also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/padlet.com\/lmccarthy21\/egz40f8d4l3c\"\u003ELaura McCarthy's presentation\u003C\/a\u003E on transition programs for what are sometimes called at-risk students.\u0026nbsp; The programs initially had low retention and completion rates. The instructors did a reoganization based on their immersive experience, and these rates got much better.\u0026nbsp; Here are some principles:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEilPN9vlY4LF6e59QTl4mbsUXM_sY7htDL-craW0zu_IFSzBJnTEVULzntzOV3MJHt6g3hUkCZacNANKwg5O0FHWKu11uojR3IBoE1Chs1lUepThyphenhyphenNLhrST5zRMKA-UJqvMkADg_fknzNQ\/s1600\/Conn+Program+Redesign+Laura+McCarthy+0419.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"851\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"324\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEilPN9vlY4LF6e59QTl4mbsUXM_sY7htDL-craW0zu_IFSzBJnTEVULzntzOV3MJHt6g3hUkCZacNANKwg5O0FHWKu11uojR3IBoE1Chs1lUepThyphenhyphenNLhrST5zRMKA-UJqvMkADg_fknzNQ\/s400\/Conn+Program+Redesign+Laura+McCarthy+0419.png\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nFree -- hmm, interesting idea. In conjunction with the others, which are all Hayes Principles. Mass Bildung.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\nHere's what we the instructional masses looks like--with Wanda again playing Waldo, and CCSU president Toro on the left.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh0W8dAQlxiqbPVpGsgfsWrL08RXtKIiu5_x6Gcaw89B-y1BdwN_CvaF0rJFHFsqbmlWzll9WZLgzpjA_fZWG0r1B4oWHbLVqSggh8peSMvqjDCTEefgmbzPhCOrxA4Fyul2o_yUqAj-Hw\/s1600\/040519+0012+01+Fun+selfie+group+pic+with+Congresswoman+JH+Pres+Toro+and+Conf+attendees.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1229\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh0W8dAQlxiqbPVpGsgfsWrL08RXtKIiu5_x6Gcaw89B-y1BdwN_CvaF0rJFHFsqbmlWzll9WZLgzpjA_fZWG0r1B4oWHbLVqSggh8peSMvqjDCTEefgmbzPhCOrxA4Fyul2o_yUqAj-Hw\/s400\/040519+0012+01+Fun+selfie+group+pic+with+Congresswoman+JH+Pres+Toro+and+Conf+attendees.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nAnd there was also the look on Jahana Hayes's face when I said, \"at some point we'll be needing you back in education.\"\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhJPbnTBngmu7PXIjt4yCmgmQvTzN9umWvHySjxO6lkLbxRf4UQtS2_eCqUwZZWhUyDWU0WDXWmD6Wu7Oy0n3zF3EDbe_ktBMboNjW0xFd3cY7n1WGS4-8GQgujwawptEq5Vr8boiktJKs\/s1600\/040519+0016+06+Congresswoman+JH+w+keynote+Newfield*.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1091\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhJPbnTBngmu7PXIjt4yCmgmQvTzN9umWvHySjxO6lkLbxRf4UQtS2_eCqUwZZWhUyDWU0WDXWmD6Wu7Oy0n3zF3EDbe_ktBMboNjW0xFd3cY7n1WGS4-8GQgujwawptEq5Vr8boiktJKs\/s400\/040519+0016+06+Congresswoman+JH+w+keynote+Newfield*.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\"I do miss it,\" she laughed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI said she showed why her crew could change the frame in Congress: they could end the hollowing out of social structures precisely by invoking the capabilities of absolutely everyone.\u0026nbsp; It's the Great Refusal of racist and related social stigmas on which neoliberalism depends. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAt the end of the day, the Faculty Advisory Committee to the Board of Regents had a session on the issue overhanging the day--the president's CC consolidation.\u0026nbsp; It seems to have started with the claim that the consolidation could save tens of millions of dollars on a half-billion or so of a system operating budget.\u0026nbsp; It led, however, with the motto of \"Students First,\" arguing that consolidation would allow simple student access to multiple campuses.\u0026nbsp; I mentioned above that the regional accreditor seriously challenged the proposal last year, but it is back in retooled form, with a simultaneous plan to conform all 12 campuses' curricula to a Guided Pathways template.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMy own limited reading on the issue didn't explain what problem they have to which the solution is consolidation + Guided Pathways.\u0026nbsp; One good newspaper overview is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ctmirror.org\/2019\/03\/07\/accreditation-years-away-but-cscu-presses-forward-with-college-consolidation\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; A faculty petition with concise opposing arguments is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1X5DjWguOAq3OVcv78YDD0gA6m-yc0ZWM\/view\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; The systemwide update document is \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ct.edu\/files\/pdfs\/CSCU%20Students%20First%20Update%20for%20NECHE%20April%202019.pdf\"\u003Ehere, \u003C\/a\u003Ewhere a slide summary starts on p 39; a key slide at 47 claims the system must be consolidated to solve a student registration process with 35 separate steps.\u0026nbsp; (One faculty member told me the slide is \"ridiculous\"; another said, \"even if the 35 steps are real, students to whom it would apply constituted 1.12 percent of the student body in Fall 2018\" . . . with an average of 1.3 percent.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe consolidation uses the faculty's language of \"student success,\" but otherwise is a managerial initiative that seemed unrelated to the educational issues we were discussing.\u0026nbsp; It felt to me like a legacy project.\u0026nbsp; The system president who's championing the plan, Mark E. Ojakian, was the previous governor's Chief of Staff when, in 2011, he was assigned to create the current CSCU system by pushing the community colleges into a common structure with the four-year campuses. No one had much good to say about the results then--nor could anyone point me to evidence of financial savings.\u0026nbsp; That same governor later appointed Ojakian to be the president of the system he'd created, and now he's back for a second rearrangement of the arms and legs of his creature.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI spoke to him briefly at the start of the day: he was pleasant but uninvolved, and disappeared quickly (unlike the chair of the Board of Regents, who stuck around and chatted with me and various attendees).\u0026nbsp; The consolidation was not developed in consultation with faculty and staff on the campuses.\u0026nbsp; Hence the head-on collision between unrelated models of problems and solutions coming from frontline people on the one hand and a politically-wired system office on the other.\u0026nbsp; The results are predictable: demoralization and confusion, and a low chance of meaningful results.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt also seems like an example of the sort of pragmatism that finds its problems under the proverbial lamppost, and so ignores the bigger problems in the shadows.\u0026nbsp; It doesn't actually seem pragmatic to me.\u0026nbsp; So I used my talk to insist that debates in higher ed today were not between realism and idealism, but between two kinds of realism.\u0026nbsp; The dominant one is a \u003Ci\u003Erealpolitik\u003C\/i\u003E, whose opening move is always to cast its opposition as well-intentioned but naive about real-world rules.\u0026nbsp; But what this move is really trying to forestall is actualy a competing realism.\u0026nbsp; I called this \"public realism\" (still fussing with terrminology).\u0026nbsp; Public realism is much more ambitious than realpolitik, wanting among other things adequate funding for \u003Ci\u003Eall\u003C\/i\u003E of higher ed's nonpecuniary effects, which means high quality instruction and research at what are now thousands of underfunded open access institutions much like the ones Ojakian wants to consolidate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nConsolidation is a realpolitik distraction from the real issue, which is that Connecticut, though the No. 1 richest state by our preferred funding metric of personal income, has cut its funding for its CCs by nearly 12 percent just in the last four years.\u0026nbsp; The longer trend is dismal: though Connecticut appropriations are above national averages, they are still 19 percent below their 2008 levels, while tuition is 41 percent higher.\u0026nbsp; Here's the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/profile\/sheeo1303#!\/vizhome\/SHEFInteractiveData2017\/About?publish=yes\"\u003ESHEEO wave chart\u003C\/a\u003E for CT:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgSdHhF7yZ6-nkkweDiN-lWPR9WiyqPYprI2JvaCyej-EzSSOCQ2mGFb1T3-qZiiwd34Y6jALDpR5jV96mh3N-doYAxoW8-TCxMNd1Yen3pSMLKUXRu_GogIgIe5TOkCY6Bdwn7fxuP7WU\/s1600\/ConnecticutWaveChart+SHEEO+1992-2017.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"917\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgSdHhF7yZ6-nkkweDiN-lWPR9WiyqPYprI2JvaCyej-EzSSOCQ2mGFb1T3-qZiiwd34Y6jALDpR5jV96mh3N-doYAxoW8-TCxMNd1Yen3pSMLKUXRu_GogIgIe5TOkCY6Bdwn7fxuP7WU\/s400\/ConnecticutWaveChart+SHEEO+1992-2017.png\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nA group of faculty described this root problem in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ctmirror.org\/category\/ct-viewpoints\/troubling-numbers-the-cost-of-saving\/\"\u003Ean editorial that should be read in full\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nIn an historical context, the apparent fiscal crisis that precipitated \nthe [Board of Regents’] Students First plan grew out of years of declining levels of \nstate support for higher education that became especially acute in the \naftermath of the 2008-2009 economic crisis. The state’s eroding \nbudgetary condition imposed fiscal austerity on the system that \nsimultaneously resulted in increases in students’ costs\/debts and \ncutbacks in student services and opportunities.\u0026nbsp; Full time professors \nwere replaced by adjuncts; retiring academic advisors were not replaced;\n hours of operation were reduced.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nEducational quality declines when capacity declines: it's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Research-Universities-Need-to\/246070\"\u003Erealpolitik's own idealism \u003C\/a\u003Eto think otherwise.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Connecticut system's related root problem is that it's not affordable.\u0026nbsp; From the California vantage, Connecticut charges very high tuition for community college- \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.collegetuitioncompare.com\/compare\/tables\/?state=CT\"\u003Eover $4400 a year.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; (True, it is half the tuition charged by community college in New York State, but I'm sure we can agree that $10,000 a year for first-rung local college is insane.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOjakian might thus have been expected to focus on two things as president: lowering tuition and raising state allocations in wealthy Connecticut. \u0026nbsp; (He could also have taken care of student bureaucratic hassles the old-fashioned way, by quietly instituting a common application form, which I'm told by faculty and students was promised when he formed the system back in 2011.) But these two issuse are not the leadership's focus.\u0026nbsp; The day's last session was dominated by faculty distress at a process that they feel is headed in the wrong direction in part because they have been excluded from it. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI'd said that we had been avoiding the effort to fund public colleges as public goods, which had meant the path of \"multiple revenue streams\" (aka privatization).\u0026nbsp; The key point is that none of these have\u0026nbsp; worked out as promised. I counted 12 types.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEikHUwed_sNHttexMvn-PxKx_gcNSXqtHZpftrJb2bFFwwk0Zs0vwLecxIF3Z4lJQu2e0EUG3gMYqgAIjr7mIc_gQ17yPhgkgpQtJTeJr4NbZUB7VyF-tJfWjlbQsfEOIbE_K1oz9VtD5Y\/s1600\/Multiple+Revenue+Streams+-+12+effects.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"926\" data-original-width=\"1590\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEikHUwed_sNHttexMvn-PxKx_gcNSXqtHZpftrJb2bFFwwk0Zs0vwLecxIF3Z4lJQu2e0EUG3gMYqgAIjr7mIc_gQ17yPhgkgpQtJTeJr4NbZUB7VyF-tJfWjlbQsfEOIbE_K1oz9VtD5Y\/s400\/Multiple+Revenue+Streams+-+12+effects.png\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;There are exceptions to the rules in the \"reality\" column, but I believe these are the general rules.\u0026nbsp; Most relevant to consoidation is the second item from the last: I mentioned UCPath as a disaster that emerges from a type top-down standardization that blocks local efficiencies and if anything increases costs while making everyone's job harder. Decentralization is often more efficient than consolidation: UC Berkeley's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/bains-blow-to-berkeley.html\"\u003Efailed Operation Excellence\u003C\/a\u003E is UC's Exhibit A (see \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/the-new-normal-isnt-normal-it-erodes.html\"\u003ESection 3\u003C\/a\u003E for a 2016 update).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere are some things we can do to avoid these mistakes.\u0026nbsp; A simple one is policy rooted in history and evidence. Can you show that your last reorg saved a lot of money? Do you have an example of positive top-down curricular standardization?\u0026nbsp; If not, do you have a detailed plan that convinces the people actually doing the education? If you have none of these things, talk to people all over the system and try out something else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnother is telling the truth about the damage these public-private hybrid models have already done.\u0026nbsp; It's the old Step 1 beginning: first admit you have a problem.\u0026nbsp; We have a national higher ed realpolitik, that failed.\u0026nbsp; Frontline faculty and staff have faced this. Top level admin should do the same.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe third thing we can do is a full reframing of higher ed along public good lines.\u0026nbsp; Virtually everyone I heard speak that day, from Jahana Hayes on out, already sees the transformation that would come from that. "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6810591418097810304\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/the-crisis-of-higher-ed-realpolitik.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6810591418097810304"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6810591418097810304"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/the-crisis-of-higher-ed-realpolitik.html","title":"The Crisis of Higher Ed Realpolitik: a Visit to Connecticut"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjQrzBm8SEFrP6Q-7n_15vYCIZFW_Q0ZvIZ_-HU-_A8rAXCYGGjaE-sPa8GJOrKEi27uKMVrmlfLgqkw0Yk0lRS3G8IbGB5qBwhhPKCDPcokWdCOBplQVnsg7U8la9ZW4rZqkeMNh3fAFk\/s72-c\/040519+0005+01a+Planning+Committee+selfie+00+%25281%2529.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-2988621873866902825"},"published":{"$t":"2018-06-13T11:01:00.005-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-06-13T14:19:56.194-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Admin Responses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Management"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Sexual Harassment"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"USC"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Downfall of USC's President: the Problem of Administrative Epistemology"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhwgLvf8IbQn4zohAu8GgB8-QQGFCqCqlw0eU-IJG8SarP2ukVIyVuu5gAJtTREikARgP94724Izc6_kiZW82R4aQ-pd-D_ZfWKuVljlKSVYJMCUNxWvFp0iydQgBHivmBdQmdzkAXXzfM\/s1600\/Nikias+CLN_StateOfUSC_2018_web-824x549.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"549\" data-original-width=\"824\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhwgLvf8IbQn4zohAu8GgB8-QQGFCqCqlw0eU-IJG8SarP2ukVIyVuu5gAJtTREikARgP94724Izc6_kiZW82R4aQ-pd-D_ZfWKuVljlKSVYJMCUNxWvFp0iydQgBHivmBdQmdzkAXXzfM\/s320\/Nikias+CLN_StateOfUSC_2018_web-824x549.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nIt's a good time to take stock of renewed scandal at USC. One month into the new round, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/news\/press-releases\/office-civil-rights-launches-investigation-university-southern-californias-handling-sexual-harassment-claims\"\u003Eannounced\u003C\/a\u003E a \"Title  IX directed, systemic investigation into the \nUniversity of Southern  California’s (USC) handling of reports of sexual\n harassment against former employee Dr. George Tyndall.\" \u0026nbsp; Opportunistic though it may be (see \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-usc-federal-investigation-20180611-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter\"\u003ECatherine Lhamon's comment\u003C\/a\u003E), the new DOE investigation points again to a structural management problem at the University.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI'm going to bracket the profound gender trouble that propels the kind of abuse at issue and look at the role of an ongoing epistemic crisis in administrative practice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOn May 16th, the Los Angeles \u003Ci\u003ETimes\u003C\/i\u003E broke the story of a coverup of an allegedly predatory campus gynecologist, Dr. George Tyndall, with this headline:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-usc-doctor-misconduct-complaints-20180515-story.html\"\u003E\"A USC doctor was accused of bad behavior with young women for years. \u0026nbsp;The university continued letting him treat students.\"\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; The investigation dug back decades: \"t\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ehe complaints began in the 1990s, when co-workers alleged he was improperly photographing students' genitals.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\" \"Some of the most \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-usc-doctor-firings-20180518-story.html\"\u003Eserious allegations against Tyndall \u003C\/a\u003Einvolve claims of \ninappropriate remarks about patients' bodies and his use of fingers at \nthe start of pelvic exams.\" \u0026nbsp;The story \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/projects\/la-me-usc-clinic-doctor-patients\/\"\u003Estayed on The Times front page\u003C\/a\u003E most days of the month since, as more details emerged, as 20 former students sued USC, as 400 former patients called a complaint hot line, and as the LAPD opened a criminal investigation. \u0026nbsp;The case has audible echoes of that of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2018\/01\/24\/580304914\/larry-nassar-sentenced-to-up-to-175-years-in-prison-by-michigan-judge\"\u003Econvicted Michigan State abuser Dr. Larry Nassar.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; (Tyndall denies all charges and defends his practice.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUSC president C.L Max \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-max-nikias-usc-20180525-story.html\"\u003ENikias lasted ten days\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;after the story broke. \u0026nbsp;He was pushed out in part because his administration, in 2016, had\u0026nbsp;arranged a private payout and retirement for Tyndall instead of a full investigation. \u0026nbsp;The case was concealed in spite of Nikias having\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/hscnews.usc.edu\/nikias-espouses-university-values-inclusion-in-presidential-address\/\"\u003Eaffirmed\u0026nbsp;that\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EBringing unacceptable behavior out of the shadows and into the light is the first step in eradicating it. \u0026nbsp;Change is imperative. And we stand united on this front.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nIt's a good principle, but it isn't one Nikias actually followed. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMy bleak mood about this case reflected first to how little protection such statements have afforded Tyndall's alleged victims over 27 years. \u0026nbsp;I grew up with USC--my father had two SC degrees, and many friends and children of friends have attended, including two generations of women who could have been Tyndall's patients. \u0026nbsp;I was thrilled when USC recommitted to central Los Angeles in the early 1990s and built programs reflecting a commitment to addressing systematically the country's sociocultural condition. Many of the most interesting scholars in the study of culture and society worked there--until they got fed up and left. \u0026nbsp;I know firsthand that USC overflows with intelligence. \u0026nbsp;I feel badly for how the scandal and its non-resolution is affecting thousands of dedicated faculty and staff, particularly the whistleblowers and reformers who had been trying to fix things from the inside.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut what needs to be fixed at USC? And who would will be doing the fixing?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe changes so far are preliminaries. \u0026nbsp;The USC Board of Trustees has\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003Eremoved an apparent enabler (Max Nikias).\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-caruso-usc-trustees-20180531-story.html\"\u003Echanged board leadership\u003C\/a\u003E (mall magnate Rick Caruso has replaced \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/christopherhelman\/2011\/06\/13\/john-mork-donates-110-million-to-usc-whos-john-mork\/#2d0e04fa6cfa\"\u003Egas magnate John Mork\u003C\/a\u003E, who was close to Nikias).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003Ehired an elite L.A. law firm to conduct an outside investigation (LA.'s O’Melveny \u0026amp; Myers).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nThese things needed to happen, but they aren't reform. They're housekeeping. The University will also need to\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003Ecooperate fully with the LAPD criminal investigation and Department of Education inquiry \u0026nbsp;(and not try to overshadow them with the O'Melveny inquiry).\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003Esupport all of the potential victims who may come forward rather than trying to set a cap or limit on victims or worse, try to discredit them.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\nThese things seem possible and even likely. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThen there's two other things that aren't yet in the wind. USC will need to\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003Echange its administrative culture.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003Erefocus the elite university mission.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\nThe last pair of changes are nearly impossible for universities like USC. \u0026nbsp;I'm going to talk about one of these--changing administrative culture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n***\u003C\/div\u003E\nThe most interesting commentary has been addressing this issue. \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-usc-doctor-firings-20180518-story.html\"\u003EOne of the LA Times articles\u003C\/a\u003E suggested that repeated complaints from clinic nurses were not acted on by supervisors, who nonetheless may have passed them up the chain, only to have them ignored higher up--until the Tyndall story went public, when the higher ups chopped off some heads further down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn a piece called \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2018\/06\/05\/why-do-campus-abuse-cases-keep-falling-through-cracks\"\u003E\"Why do colleges keep failing to prevent abuse,\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;the former president of the University of Puget Sound, Susan Resneck Pierce, wrote that presidents must create a wholesale institutional expectation to be informed of inappropriate behavior.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nIn cases where presidents know about misbehavior but don’t act, she said,\n fears of bad publicity often drive inaction. But she noted that in many\n cases, “The cover-up creates more negative publicity than actually \nacting on an original allegation would have done.”\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nPierce thus asks administrators to prefer the truth--no matter how ugly-- to the carefully cultivated image of an enlightened and efficient university that they have devoted their careers to building. \u0026nbsp;The first feature of a better management culture is to define risk management as cultivating the truth rather than concealing it. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHow would that happen? \u0026nbsp;As USC professor \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/readersreact\/la-ol-le-usc-max-nikias-resign-20180602-story.html\"\u003ETania Modeleski asked\u003C\/a\u003E, \"Will there be any meaningful change as long as powerful men overlook the\n harm done to students and instead privately attempt to shore up the \ncurrent power structure?\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere is a well-known alternative to management as marketing controlled from the top: open deliberation grounded in shared governance. The prominent USC education professor William Tierney spelled it out (in a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-tierney-usc-tyndall-nikias-future-20180528-story.html\"\u003Epiece that should be read in full)\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nPresident Nikias relied on a small circle of confidants and, as his \ntroubles rose, the circle grew smaller. The university's Board of \nTrustees, mostly captains of industry, seemed awed by his fundraising \nability. . . . \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nThe Academic Senate sat passively by as problems unfolded. When The \nTimes uncovered alleged misconduct on the part of medical school dean \nDr. Carmen Puliafito, Nikias declined to accept individual \nresponsibility. He ordered an independent investigation, but the report \nwas provided only to executive committee of the Board of Trustees. The \nAcademic Senate registered no public complaint. . .\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nA dramatic increase in non-tenured professors at USC has made the \nfaculty hesitant to confront the administration, lest their jobs be put \nat risk. The result is fewer checks and balances on the office of \npresident. In 2015, the trustees gave Nikias a $1.5-million bonus. The \nAcademic Senate registered no public protest at such an outlandish \nhandout. . . .\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"card collection-item\" data-type=\"text\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\" card-content \"\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nThis\n is the tragedy at USC: Instead of cultivating an environment of \nreflection and reasoned debate, the university sprinted toward growth. \nThose of us who disagreed with the president were first ignored and then\n banished. We were viewed as a distraction from the school's goal of \never-greater international prominence. And the trustees and the faculty \nessentially acquiesced.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nTo\n repair the storm damage at USC, we need a Board of Trustees that \nprovides consistent oversight and does not see itself as the handmaiden \nto the president. We need an Academic Senate that ensures that the \nfaculty is an equal partner in decision-making. We need a president who \ncan set a world record in running a marathon without forgetting what \nwinning the race truly means. And we need the entire academic community \nto recognize how important a climate of thoughtful, reasoned dialogue is\n for our university.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nOf course I agree completely. Universities are by definition the natural homes of an \"environment of reflection and reasoned debate.\" \u0026nbsp;And yet, in practice, they mostly aren't. \u0026nbsp;Senior managers have the power to ignore faculty input, and when it offers ideas they don't like, they often do. \u0026nbsp;This is particularly uncomfortable when the faculty member is right--as Tierney, a nationally renowned expert on higher ed, most likely was.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMore generally, USC leaders seem in practice not to respect the insight and knowledge of frontline workers. \u0026nbsp;They no doubt do in the abstract, but not when someone higher up has other concerns. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis disregard included the clinic employees who over decades complained about Tyndall's behavior time and again. \u0026nbsp;I've heard many tenured USC faculty members say the same thing--expertise and experience don't count when they contradict the official ethos. \u0026nbsp;Management there seems to have operated through an epistemic authority that they deny to the rest of the university. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDecades ago, feminist epistemologists analyzed the way that prevailing professional practices systematically ignored knowledge specific to womens' standpoint and experience, and\/or kept women from having critical mass in discussions, and\/or rejected their cognitive capabilities or practices as not worth taking as seriously as their own. (A good online introduction is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/feminism-epistemology\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E; and see \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Epistemic-Injustice-Power-Ethics-Knowing\/dp\/0199570523\/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EEpistemic Injustice.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E) \u0026nbsp;On its face, a textbook example would be the repeated sidelining of the USC clinic's nurses' concerns about Tyndall's gynecological practice. \u0026nbsp;Critical ethnic studies, postcolonial studies, and other disciplines have made similar arguments: epistemic privilege generates epistemic injustice, which manifests itself as, among other things, epistemic disrespect toward positions that aren't part of the official program. \u0026nbsp;This occurs even where the authority in question expresses personal regard for the individuals who are being ignored. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEpistemic disrespect nearly cost Nikias his job before, in 2017, in the wake of an investigation captured in The\u0026nbsp;Times\u0026nbsp;July headline,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-usc-doctor-20170717-htmlstory.html\"\u003E\"\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAn overdose, a young companion, drug-fueled parties: The secret life of a USC med school dean.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; In that case, Nikias moved the dean in question, Carmen Puliafito, out of his executive position while hanging on to his services and also not exposing his apparently criminal conduct to donors. \"After he stepped down as dean, USC kept Puliafito on the medical school faculty, and he continues [as of July 2017] to accept new patients at campus eye clinics.\" \u0026nbsp;The Times discovered that Puliafito's colleagues had complained about drunkenness and verbal abuse, but had never gotten any relief.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn that case, Nikias was found to be engaged in active avoidance of the facts. He was aware that the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ETimes\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;was investigating Puliafito by March 2016, because\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-usc-dean-ethics-20170723-story.html\"\u003Ethe paper repeatedly contacted him about it.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nIt remains unclear when top USC officials first learned about the allegations involving Puliafito. But The Times made repeated inquiries over the last 15 months about Puliafito, in some cases describing information reporters had gathered about the dean.\u0026nbsp;USC's leaders never responded to the inquiries. Numerous phone calls were not returned, emails went unanswered and a letter seeking an interview with USC President C.L. Max Nikias to discuss Puliafito was returned to The Times by courier, unopened.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nThe USC president had to be hunted down by the press--several times--before he admitted serious wrongdoing (see a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-nikias-timeline-20180525-htmlstory.html\"\u003E\"timeline of his troubled tenure\"\u003C\/a\u003E). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPuliafito has \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-usc-medical-school-dean-20180605-story.html\"\u003Ebeen back in the news recently\u003C\/a\u003E, trying to hang on to his medical license by blaming his former prostitute-girlfriend for seducing and addicting him. \u0026nbsp;In the process, a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-usc-medical-school-dean-20180605-story.html\"\u003Eformer vice dean of the medical school testified\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that he'd informed USC Provost Michael Quick about rumors that \"Puliafito was partying in hotels with people of 'questionable reputation'\" in early 2016.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt appears that Nikias displayed willful blindness towards Puliafito's conduct and at least condoned a coverup, even as the story was being rooted out with enormous time and effort by reporters. It may emerge that he did the same with Tyndall. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNikias's conduct is not categorically different from Tyndall's, who--best case scenario--offended even if he did not actually abuse many of his thousands of patients, and who never thought \"oh, this isn't going over well\" and stopped with the sexualized remarks or sexual-seeming manipulations--or was made to stop. \u0026nbsp;The alleged offenses consist of abusing usually very young women in their most vulnerable moment under cover of professional authority and in the name of individual care. \u0026nbsp;This involves a deep negation of consent that, in tandem with the sexualization of medical treatment, compromises the personhood of the victim and of her agency. It \u0026nbsp;is the opposite of what universities stand for. And yet in spite of the longstanding seriousness of staff concerns, senior managers, in The Times' account, acted only when one of the clinic's nurses, who had become impatient with the clinic management's inaction,\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-usc-doctor-firings-20180518-story.html\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;reported Tyndall to the campus rape crisis center\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThese appear to be examples of epistemic privilege enabling wrongdoing and a subsequent coverup.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n***\u003C\/div\u003E\nWe should also recognize that epistemic privilege puts self-governance at risk. Higher education has largely governed itself for a century and a half, partly on the theoretical grounds that professional \u0026nbsp;skills can be developed and monitored only by other professionals. \u0026nbsp;Higher ed has fought off direct federal control of colleges and universities of the type now wreaking havoc in Great Britain, using a self-regulation system of accreditation and related mechanisms. \u0026nbsp;As Heather Steffen reminded our \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/uchri.org\/awardees\/limits-numerical-metrics-humanities-higher-education\/\"\u003Eresearch group \u003C\/a\u003Ethis week, the tradition of self-regulation enabled universities to fend off the effort to apply No Child Left Behind-type learning assessment to colleges in the wake of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/about\/bdscomm\/list\/hiedfuture\/reports\/pre-pub-report.pdf\"\u003ESpellings Report\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNearly all of us\u0026nbsp;support the general principle, but the self-regulation has actually to take place. \u0026nbsp;At USC it did not. Nikias and Quick had a medical school dean with substance-abuse problems who neither took corrective action himself nor received correction from other administrators. \u0026nbsp;They did not remove (or help) him until exposure forced their hand. \u0026nbsp;The same thing allegedly occurred with Tyndall. \u0026nbsp;In failing to fix their own problems, Nikias et al. not only eroded USC's reputation--they also eroded the justification for academic freedom for all universities, which is the integrity of the self-governance procedures of learned societies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFinally, what about the reform potential of Rick Caruso and the USC Board of Trustees? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe have some evidence that the Board still lacks interest in shared governance or in Tierney's \"environment of reflection.\" On May 18th, the Times reported that USC had acknowledged receiving 200 complaints about Tyndall going back to the early 2000s. \u0026nbsp; On May 21st, 6 former USC students \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-usc-doctor-lawsuit-20180521-story.html\"\u003Esued the University, \u003C\/a\u003Ealleging that Tyndall had \"sexually victimized them \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-usc-doctor-firings-20180518-story.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eunder the pretext of medical care\u003C\/a\u003E and that USC failed to address complaints from clinic staff about the doctor's behavior.\" \u0026nbsp;On May 22nd, the Board of Trustees \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/documents.latimes.com\/read-usc-faculty-letter-demanding-president-nikias-resignation\/\"\u003Ereceived a letter from 200 faculty \u003C\/a\u003Ecalling on Nikias to resign.\u0026nbsp;USC faculty also launched a change.org petition entitled,\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/usc-board-of-trustees-a-call-for-usc-president-nikias-s-resignation\"\u003E \"Remove President Nikias: Protect USC Student Safety.\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; That day, the response of the then-Chair of the USC Board of Trustees was to express\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/alumni.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Statement-from-executive-committee_5.22.18.pdf\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\"full confidence in President Nikias’\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Eleadership, ethics,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/alumni.usc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Statement-from-executive-committee_5.22.18.pdf\"\u003Eand values.\u003C\/a\u003E\"\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe next day, on\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;May 23rd, \u0026nbsp;the L.A.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ETimes \u003C\/i\u003Ereported that\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-usc-daily-developments-20180523-story.html\"\u003E300 women had called a USC hotline\u003C\/a\u003E with a complaint about their treatment by Dr. Tyndall. \u0026nbsp;The \u003Ci\u003ETimes\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;also ran the story they had seen formal complaints about Tyndall dating from 1991 and 1995 (he started work at USC in 1989). \u0026nbsp;On May 25th, as Tyndall defended his practice in a letter to The Times, the paper reported that t\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-usc-doctor-lawsuits-20180525-story.html\"\u003Ehe number of legal filings against USC \u0026nbsp;had risen to 21\u003C\/a\u003E. At a press conference about one of them,\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;attorney Gloria Allred remarked,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/05\/25\/us\/usc-president-to-resign\/index.html\"\u003E\"this is only the beginning.\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-max-nikias-usc-20180525-story.html\"\u003ENikias's announcement that he would resign\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;came that same day. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn short, the USC Board backed Nikias against the faculty but dumped him 3 days later when they saw potential liability\u0026nbsp;on the scale of Penn State via Sandusky or Michigan State via Nassar.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis isn't a shocking thing. \u0026nbsp;The actions of Boards of Trustees express truth as grounded in legal authority rather than educational expertise. \u0026nbsp;In this sense, Boards are by definition embodiments of epistemic privilege. \u0026nbsp;USC's Board has fired Nikias, but that may only maintain the epistemological inequality that caused the problem in the first place. If it's all Nikias's fault, then USC leadership can sustain their implicit model of management in which self-governance remains the property of senior officials. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUnfortunately, the Puliafito and Tyndall cases show that self-governance and top-down governance are at odds \u0026nbsp;Self-governance depends on the intelligence of the entire community, starting with people working with students and patients in the trenches. The kind of decisional oligarchy favored by most universities today guarantees epistemic privilege, and epistemic disrespect, and the inevitable blindness and error.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWilliam Tierney is right to call for real shared governance in a \"climate of thoughtful, reasoned dialogue.\" But that's not going to happen without a sustained battle for the kind of epistemic justice that universities are better at imagining for others than for themselves.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2988621873866902825\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/downfall-of-uscs-president-problem-of.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2988621873866902825"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2988621873866902825"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/downfall-of-uscs-president-problem-of.html","title":"Downfall of USC's President: the Problem of Administrative Epistemology"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhwgLvf8IbQn4zohAu8GgB8-QQGFCqCqlw0eU-IJG8SarP2ukVIyVuu5gAJtTREikARgP94724Izc6_kiZW82R4aQ-pd-D_ZfWKuVljlKSVYJMCUNxWvFp0iydQgBHivmBdQmdzkAXXzfM\/s72-c\/Nikias+CLN_StateOfUSC_2018_web-824x549.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}}]}});