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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":"4"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"10"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-3474286349631788883"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-12T02:14:00.004-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-01-08T00:10:48.557-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Funding Model"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Graduate Student Conditions"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Newsom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"public goods"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public vs. Private"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Structural Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Student Debt"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"For UC and CSU, Newsom's *Big Funding* Budget is Flat"},"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\/a\/AVvXsEgi5YvM6VnYxjHzRygSKYGNyeZIbYDT32QkfodB1LwIbLud9_k1sQ7fIKiA9IvX7p45ipSdO3DtyBRb2OVqjCVJZtubHL_78i51oM9qU5BzMi6EDqjaw1uus9tydfu391zo6lXrcz5gUuQ4OxuOjPEBOruOLHFuBNKJbnbrETX4yOJpTK1hMvDAHdnf=s2224\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1668\" data-original-width=\"2224\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgi5YvM6VnYxjHzRygSKYGNyeZIbYDT32QkfodB1LwIbLud9_k1sQ7fIKiA9IvX7p45ipSdO3DtyBRb2OVqjCVJZtubHL_78i51oM9qU5BzMi6EDqjaw1uus9tydfu391zo6lXrcz5gUuQ4OxuOjPEBOruOLHFuBNKJbnbrETX4yOJpTK1hMvDAHdnf=w400-h300\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EI've fixed the mistake in the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-01-10\/newsom-gives-california-colleges-and-universities-big-funding-pledge-with-a-catch\"\u003ELos Angeles\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ETimes\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;headline\u003C\/a\u003E on Gov. Gavin Newsom's higher ed budget proposal for 2022-23. \u0026nbsp;In fact, if you add one-time money from the current and coming years, Newsom is proposing overall cuts to UC and CSU.\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe base general fund increase is five percent next year (see summary slide above), with five percent promised each year for five years total in a new compact between the university systems and the state. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENewsom delivered \u0026nbsp;the compact promise with a joke about how he knows the people who lived through the last (broken) compacts will doubt this one too. \u0026nbsp;Newsom signaling he knows we think Sacramento compacts are worthless doesn't make Sacramento compacts less worthless. \u0026nbsp;So I assume only next year's five percent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENewsom's five percent is better than Gov Jerry Brown's annual two or three percent--apparently twice as good. \u0026nbsp;However, Newsom gets an inflation rate that is twice Brown's too. The Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Index \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bea.gov\/news\/2021\/personal-income-and-outlays-november-2021\"\u003Eaccelerated from 4.2 percent to 5.7 percent\u003C\/a\u003E from July to November 2021. CPI hit 6.8 percent, and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fanniemae.com\/research-and-insights\/forecast\/economy-finishes-2021-strong-inflation-top-risk-concern-2022\"\u003Eprojections for inflation in 2022 by Fannie Mae \u003C\/a\u003Eand others suggest a five percent increase will be entirely consumed by inflation. \u0026nbsp;Hence the term \"flat,\" and also my sense that the corrected headline is still optimistic. \u0026nbsp;For more than a decade, two Democratic governors have been giving UC and CSU flat annual budgets--when they are not cutting them. \u0026nbsp;That is not changing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe other touted feature is that the state is funding residential enrollment growth. \u0026nbsp;Newsom proposes it support\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/budget\/2022-23\/#\/Department\/6440\"\u003E6,230 new California undergraduates with $67.8 millio\u003C\/a\u003En (or $10,882.83 per student). \u0026nbsp;Again, it looks good compared to Jerry Brown. \u0026nbsp;He proposes an additional $31 million to buy out 902 nonresident slots at the three flagships (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and San Diego), at $34,368.07 per student. Don't ask me how they came up with those numbers. \u0026nbsp;What is clear is that the nonflagships are not getting state funding for the nonresident students they have been unable to admit because of the enrollment cap that emerged from the political blowback caused by the flagships. \u0026nbsp;Newsom sets up UC for a multi-year series of tuition carve-outs that allow the flagships to keep their nonresident tuition premiums, maintaining intra-campus budget inequality.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMost UC campuses are at capacity and have been for some time, so getting new students means hiring new faculty and staff and building or expanding facilities. \u0026nbsp;In practice, it means more costs and also more hardships for existing students. They will have even more trouble getting courses and housing. \u0026nbsp;Next year's per-student rate is less than half of what UCOP says is the average cost of instruction of each student (that is vastly more than most departments receive per major but never mind). We can say that $10,882.83 will at best cover costs of the new students and at worse create new deficits. \u0026nbsp;Like the base increase, this is \u003Ci\u003Enot\u003C\/i\u003E an increase in UC's per-student operating budget. \u0026nbsp;(The small \"cohort tuition\" hike will also make very little difference.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast fall, I suggested 2021 might well be, financially speaking,\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/10\/and-if-this-is-peak-uc.html\"\u003E Peak UC\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;The governor's new proposal confirms that fear about a stagnant 2020s of unfunded mandates. \u0026nbsp;Further confirmation came from UC president Michael Drake \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/uc-statement-gov-newsom-s-2022-23-budget-proposal\"\u003Eritually praising the governor's generosity\u003C\/a\u003E, putting a cap on growth in the bigger revenues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI'm not going to go into more detail on the numbers until they settle down, and won't chart any trends until spring. \u0026nbsp;Newsom is right to see budgets as \"expressing our values,\" as he said at the end, but his presentation was a numerical mess, referencing three different sizes of surplus ($42 billion, $20 billion, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/lao.ca.gov\/Publications\/Report\/4472\"\u003E$31 billion)\u003C\/a\u003E, two from his own office, and identifying dozens of individual program totals from two different budget years. \u0026nbsp;So in the meantime, let's take a look at some other issues raised by the presentation, both on the campuses and the state as a whole.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENewsom has exactly two ideas about higher education. One is that it maximize access on the basis of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). \u0026nbsp;The other is that it prepare students for jobs, and by jobs he means jobs in technology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENewsom makes state funding contingent on several 2030 goals: UC eliminating racial gaps in grad rates, getting grad rates to 76 percent for four-year students, and getting students to debt-free\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Egraduation. These are essential goals and UC must achieve them. But they require fundamental change in the UC business model. \u0026nbsp;That now depends on undergrad tuition subsidizing research and other activities--so less money is in instruction and student support, which hurts retention differentially across racial groups. \u0026nbsp;The business model also depends on saving a lot of university money (my estimate is $755 million in 2019-20 using \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu\/2021\/chapters\/chapter-2.html\"\u003EAccountability\u003C\/a\u003E data) by capping financial aid, therefore forcing undergrads to borrow and work during the academic year (see\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu\/title\/great-mistake\"\u003EStage 2 and Stage 5 respectively\u003C\/a\u003E). \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is such an important point--the need to \u003Ci\u003Efund \u003C\/i\u003Egoals rather than simply assert them--that I'll expand a bit.\u0026nbsp;You improve graduation rates in part by hiring enough instructors so that every student can get every class they need, when they need it. Because of chronic underfunding, many or most students on all UC campuses wait quarters or years to get admitted into at least a few of their core required courses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHow do you reduce racial gaps in graduation rates? You offer personalized, individual advising to every student who wants or needs it. \u0026nbsp;You don't tolerate caseloads of 740 students for each advisor, which Laura Hamilton and Kelly Nielson, in their important book \u003Ci\u003EBroke\u003C\/i\u003E, report is the case at UC Merced's school of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/B\/bo33896239.html\"\u003Epage 123\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou also reduce racial gaps in graduation rates by taking students of color out of the cafeteria job they use to reduce their borrowing and into class: you cut their work hours ideally to zero while they are enrolled full time. You do \u003Ci\u003Enot\u003C\/i\u003E impose a Self-Help Expectation of $8,500 or $9,200 or $10,000 on every student with financial aid, even if they are low income, as every UC campus does. In other words, if you want to reduce racial gaps in graduation, you don't do \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu\/2021\/chapters\/chapter-2.html#i2.3.6\"\u003Ethis\u003C\/a\u003E, for years and years: have a net cost of attendance of $10,000 per year (after financial aid) for students whose whole family earns $60,000 or less.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjVeklnoBzuLlhb189M1w2DwHnHYR8Lygu6ilog9OAdJAsoeCi2OINcpr7klBN9OHB4JMr0k0CxrfAdtT-nodH61MeUbtjQTAN0_QknQ3Xtt1SUtnjNvy1iOJpmictbxDy_mSAiLUcPG6KMuY_EXZY7nOxK05KuSVIXz_EamxQgXvtWjPeAeSeDYc_h=s1826\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1160\" data-original-width=\"1826\" height=\"254\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjVeklnoBzuLlhb189M1w2DwHnHYR8Lygu6ilog9OAdJAsoeCi2OINcpr7klBN9OHB4JMr0k0CxrfAdtT-nodH61MeUbtjQTAN0_QknQ3Xtt1SUtnjNvy1iOJpmictbxDy_mSAiLUcPG6KMuY_EXZY7nOxK05KuSVIXz_EamxQgXvtWjPeAeSeDYc_h=w400-h254\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou also don't allow the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu\/2021\/chapters\/chapter-2.html#i2.3.6\"\u003Epoorest students to have the most debt at graduation.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou stop doing these things by buying out financing gaps for poor and otherwise disadvantaged students, and then you put money into \u0026nbsp;personalized, intensive advising, well-funded student centers, and other things most UC faculty and staff could name off the tops of their heads. \u0026nbsp;When you start paying to provide these things, you're then able close your graduation gaps.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese are all things UC campuses want to do. None of them are things that either the governor or the legislature want to pay for. \u0026nbsp;None of them are things whose costs UCOP has itemized and justified in public in order to inspire the desire to pay for these essential things.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe governor mentioned diversifying university faculty. \u0026nbsp;This has been an explicit UC goal since the 1980s. Again there are racio-cultural obstacles. But the material ones are at least as important. \u0026nbsp;A diverse faculty comes from diverse doctoral programs, which means strong retention in those programs, means fully funding grad students from working-class backgrounds who are at greater risk of dropping out for lack of funds or excess debt. \u0026nbsp;UC does not fund its doctoral programs at the needed level. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThus in 2019-20, grad students went on a multi-campus strike over their rent burden, demanding a cost of living increase outside their union contract so they could cover costs in the private rental market. Nothing was done, and the students who started it (at UC Santa Cruz) were expelled for a while. \u0026nbsp;In the midst of the pandemic in early 2021, UCSD grads had to protest in the face of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/education\/ucsd-students-faculty-push-back-against-steep-rent-hikes\/\"\u003Emassive rent hikes in campus housing. \u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;In 2022,\u0026nbsp;rent burden is, if anything, even worse. The diversity of the faculty stops \u003Ci\u003Ethere\u003C\/i\u003E, with unmanageable costs of living. \u0026nbsp;If it is serious about faculty diversity, UC should announce debt-free doctoral programs. But the governor and legislature would have to pay for it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn sum, Newsom insists that UC close graduation gaps with essentially the same per-student funding that caused the gaps in the first place. \u0026nbsp;UC officials should point this out.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow, on this question of college for jobs: Newsom and most policy people continue to work with a version of Human Capital Theory (HCT) descended from the 1950s, in which \"learning equals earning.\" \u0026nbsp;In reality that is true only for a subset of students (generally already financially advantaged--for the theory's flaws see our \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/a-socialist-alternative-to-human-capital-theory\/\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ELARB \u003C\/i\u003Ereview-essay\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Policymakers are trying to fix the theory by saying, \"\u003Ci\u003Etech \u003C\/i\u003Elearning equals earning,\" and UCOP encourages this splitting of STEM from other fields by publishing wages-by-major data.).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEnter Gavin Newsom: propelled by half-baked but established neo-HCT, he\u0026nbsp;is making these five percent state funding increase contingent on \"supporting workforce preparedness and high-demand career pipelines,\" requiring 25 percent increases in degrees in STEM \"and Education or Early Education\" disciplines, as well as the same increase in \"academic doctoral degrees,\" all by 2026-27. \u0026nbsp;The requirement is not exactly water-tight, and it also has a very weak justification in existing jobs projections. \u0026nbsp;The original 2015 report that started this \"million missing college degrees\" fixation shows most new jobs appearing outside of STEM (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ppic.org\/publication\/will-california-run-out-of-college-graduates\/\"\u003EFigure 4)\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp; Did anyone in the governor's office read the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/oes\/2020\/may\/oes_ca.htm#15-0000\"\u003Ecurrent occupational breakdowns for the state\u003C\/a\u003E? It's the same story here, with tech a minor employer by size (though not by wages, which are high). But the STEM quota sails anyway, towing a legitimate fear about teaching shortages behind.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEven if the job market really did say STEM, it's an invasive step for a governor to mandate changes in degree outputs in a university. \u0026nbsp;Californians felt sorry for Floridians having to put up with Gov. Rick Scott making nasty cracks about anthropology and saying he didn't want taxpayers to foot the bill for useless degrees. Newsom is effectively doing the same thing. It raises allocation questions: Will new faculty lines to teach the expanded enrollments \u003Ci\u003Eall \u003C\/i\u003Ego to STEM plus a few for education? \u0026nbsp;Will provosts need to stop hiring in arts and humanities for a number of years to pool lines in the \"high demand careers\"? Should California's future musicians, screenwriters, architects, designers, painters, film editors, historians, novelists, and journalists avoid the experience of being second-class citizens by going to UC?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere are no answers, and this brings me to the experience of watching a governor's budget presentation on dozens of topics where the word \"education\" wasn't uttered until well after minute 70. Newsom organized his address around five existential threats. He had no vision of a New California, but ran through a series of hard problems that must be solved. I sympathize: he has not been having a joyful time. There's pandemic illness and also its political madhouse, with the recall trying to get rid of him for doing his public health job. There's drought and fire and the climate crisis behind them. There's the cost of living crisis. There's decades of underinvestment in transportation and other infrastructure. \u0026nbsp;There's a very polarized state economy, where a third of the workforce earns less than $15 per hour \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.labor.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/338\/2021\/02\/ca-future-of-work-report.pdf\"\u003E(page 3)\u003C\/a\u003E. There's a decades-old housing crisis, where so much private wealth has been absorbed into inflated housing assets that the state spent $5.2 billion last year--an additional University of California state budget--paying people's rent.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENewsom brings a lot of energy to this slate of problems. He fired dozens of powerpoint bullets at them, each carrying a $100 M or $200 M or $1 B payload. But it's all the equivalent of filling (very important) potholes, keeping the electricity on, getting the shots in arms, giving the kids something to do in school until their parents get home. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEven the tech future of green transition is remedial, trying to undig the hole of climate change in a state still almost entirely dependent on the private car. \u0026nbsp;There was something hollow in Newsom's enthusiasm for the state's green tech leadership: he cast the state's investment as bait for private investors, took it as an opportunity to hype the hegemonic tech sector that I think he quietly dislikes for its entitlement and arrogance as do most Californians, overpraised legislative honchos and others, and started referring to California as a \"leader in this space\" or that space--space being a term he used dozens of times.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContrast this with how Newsom sounds on things he cares about. Then he is serious, knowledgeable, plainspoken, and open. What he really cares about is pre-K, school nutrition, homelessness, getting people out of encampments, mental health, universal health care, summer school for poor kids, a decent access to basic goods for disadvantaged people. \u0026nbsp;Whatever his neoliberal policies might be, Newsom's deeper desire, I felt watching him, is to ease the worst suffering. \u0026nbsp;This is also where he feels useful, even perhaps a bit of a hero. \u0026nbsp;But this desire doesn't find much to feed on in higher education as officials present it to him.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt's not just Newsom: the media isn't interested in higher ed either. During question time, the press had crisp questions about Newsom's contradictions on personal exemptions from Covid vaccines, his concrete plans for supporting reproductive rights, his borrowing of his recall opponents' plans for the mental health system, and his proposed changes in the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/clinics-lawsuit-prescription-drugs-medicaid\/\"\u003EMedicaid prescription program\u003C\/a\u003E. They had nothing about higher ed. \u0026nbsp;This is a real problem for the sector. The governors' office doesn’t get vigorously questioned about higher ed, so they don’t prep for that, they rightly think the media and its consumers don't care about the details, so they never think, \"we’re going to get pounded on mandating STEM degrees so we’d better think this through.\" \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI’ve written about Biden-era Democrats assigning college to a dedicated space in the welfare state. The good news is that they want government-run social development—Biden has in fact broken with key tenants of neoliberal Obama-Clintonism. \u0026nbsp;The bad news for higher ed is that the Biden-Newsom mainstream has no intellectual developmental plan for higher ed to address. Biden-Newsom are a real policy advance on Obama-Brown--an advance for children, the food insecure, the mentally ill, the unhoused, the uninsured, but not an advance for college students or the educational system. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor them, the knowledge economy is abstract scenery, a slightly smoggy familiar sky. \u0026nbsp;We may need a million more college degrees, but that's just a logistics problem—there’s no interest in process or content or quality upgrades to say nothing of revolutions in thought or in the public's collective cultural and political capabilities. For them, UC and CSU are server farms that should run quietly in the background. There's nothing heroic about them, and they won't make a hero of any president or governor. \u0026nbsp;They are of modest interest as economic infrastructure. They are certainly not, for this Democratic party, a state engine of destiny. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis could be changed, in a couple of diverging ways. One would be all three segments busting out of the workforce preparation trap and developing exciting stories of college-fueled individual and social transformation. \u0026nbsp;I know some deans and individual faculty who could do this. I don't know anyone at the senior manager level who would. Please correct me if I've missed some folks.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe second, more plausible path is to comply fully with the mainstream Democrat welfarist passion. Inspiration is also needed here, that makes the state's politicians heroes of social justice. But that means defining the processes that would allow UC (and CSU) really to meet graduation and the other targets, and then setting their \u003Ci\u003Eactual\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Eprice.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFix the funding, or miss the goals. It shouldn't be a hard decision.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3474286349631788883\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/newsoms-big-funding-budget-for-uc-and.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3474286349631788883"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3474286349631788883"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/newsoms-big-funding-budget-for-uc-and.html","title":"For UC and CSU, Newsom's *Big Funding* Budget is Flat"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgi5YvM6VnYxjHzRygSKYGNyeZIbYDT32QkfodB1LwIbLud9_k1sQ7fIKiA9IvX7p45ipSdO3DtyBRb2OVqjCVJZtubHL_78i51oM9qU5BzMi6EDqjaw1uus9tydfu391zo6lXrcz5gUuQ4OxuOjPEBOruOLHFuBNKJbnbrETX4yOJpTK1hMvDAHdnf=s72-w400-h300-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-6256801941652316090"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-07T12:15:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-11T11:52:36.000-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Grad Student Strike"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Graduate Student Conditions"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCSC"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Unions"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"UCSC Assistant Professor Letter to Admin: Rescind Disciplinary Action"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhh26X9lJ9so9Kr9YZDBd3lzVlj5riAt-VXIJ4tDPVZb1z1fExmFTgZzzv7XEp5byv6AqthF9HMjDqBJ7i7A4ywXjkR866bgzVhZGMSSzavqkBUYW8KnXOAk7XuV6Pr0OcNAbkcDKl7-E0\/s1600\/shameonUCSC-min-1536x864.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"864\" data-original-width=\"1536\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhh26X9lJ9so9Kr9YZDBd3lzVlj5riAt-VXIJ4tDPVZb1z1fExmFTgZzzv7XEp5byv6AqthF9HMjDqBJ7i7A4ywXjkR866bgzVhZGMSSzavqkBUYW8KnXOAk7XuV6Pr0OcNAbkcDKl7-E0\/s320\/shameonUCSC-min-1536x864.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EThis is an open letter expressing the concerns of around a dozen Assistant Professors from the Faculty Organizing Group (FOG) at UCSC. The authors would like to encourage all colleagues to share stories of surveillance, intimidation and\/or punitive measures taken by university administrations during the COVID-19 crisis with the hashtag #DisciplineAnd Punish. Also please follow the “Ad Hoc Committee of Scholars 4 COLA” on Facebook and on Twitter (handle: @COLASolidarity).\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDear Colleagues,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssistant professors have been repeatedly asked, both formally and informally, to provide information about how the graduate student wildcat strike (and later, the COVID-19 pandemic) has impacted our research, teaching, and service on campus. Here is our collective response. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEchoing numerous calls from the faculty senate, individual departments, and colleagues at institutions across the United States, we write in the form of an open letter, to call upon the administration to stop their harmful disciplinary actions against graduate and undergraduate members of our campus community.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTo our great dismay, what has impacted us the most is not the circumstances created by the strike itself, such as the absence of TAs in our lecture courses, additional grading, and general disruption to our teaching. Rather, the most taxing element has been the emotional, logistical, and material support we have provided graduate and undergraduate students as a direct result of the administration’s punitive responses to the strike. And now, in the midst of a global pandemic, many of us have been working countless additional hours to assist students who have been caught up in a needlessly aggressive disciplinary dragnet because of their involvement in the strike. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe are deeply frustrated by our campus administration’s misguided approach in responding to the strike, particularly the ongoing disciplinary hearings whose only purpose seems to be to intimidate and overwhelm students. These actions traumatize the students involved; it is unconscionable that they continue at a time when students are struggling in the face of unprecedented financial, psychological, and health risks. They also put a disproportionate burden on junior faculty members who have often been on the frontlines (sometimes literally—at the picket) in defending these students from a bureaucratic machine whose punitive actions seem to know no rhyme or reason.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe administration has been carrying out disciplinary proceedings against at least 49 students for strike-related activities, despite the passing of a faculty senate resolution and numerous faculty letters and requests calling for these disciplinary actions to stop. Students arrested at the picket line received interim suspensions; some of these students had been injured by police, and the suspensions impeded their timely access to medical care on campus. Arrested students and those who withheld grades have received warning letters in their files. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDisciplinary hearings have been ongoing, even after the onset of COVID-19, and even as cities and states closed courts and halted criminal proceedings. The administration has refused to halt or revoke any of these measures even after students submitted grades. Perhaps most mysteriously, they have formed a “Demonstrations Operations Team,” whose role remains opaque at best. Ostensibly charged with “coordinating the campus’ specific operational planning and response needs related to campus activism,” we have no information about who team members are and little to no knowledge about their budget, surveillance activities, oversight role, or involvement in issuing summons. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAs faculty, our role has involved providing for the physical safety, emotional health, and academic success of our students. We have accompanied them to multiple disciplinary hearings when they were intimidated by disciplinary officers. We have also provided time and emotional support to vulnerable, frightened, and sometimes ill students. We organized a daily faculty march and picket line support group so that faculty observers were at all times at the base of campus to protect students from campus-paid police, and to serve as witnesses should testimonials later be required, which they were. We made donations of money and food to help already-struggling students continue to meet their daily needs. We worked to secure alternative funding and employment for fired graduate students and wrote numerous letters. These included character letters for students as part of the disciplinary proceedings and letters to campus administration expressing our dismay about how these proceedings have unfolded.\u0026nbsp; We spent afternoons being interviewed by disciplinary officers who were attempting to corroborate police reports with student accounts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nQuantitatively, many of us easily spent between ten and twenty hours a week on these activities during winter quarter (and into the present). This workload has only become more complex and time-consuming in the context of COVID-19, as we navigate the many bureaucratic and procedural inconsistencies caused by moving these disciplinary hearings to Zoom. In total, we estimate that assistant professors have spent at least 2,000 hours engaged in hearings and other activities related to our students’ punishment, intimidation, and dismissal—undoubtedly enough time to publish one or more articles, or even finish first books. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThese numbers only gesture at a more worrying reality: the disturbing skill-sets acquired by assistant professors on our campus. We now know the answers to many questions we had previously never wished to ask: What is the difference between the CHP and campus police? What is the correct tone to use when speaking with police officers in riot gear to de-escalate a situation and avoid physical harm being inflicted on students? Where does our academic freedom begin and end when it comes to using Canvas or modifying our syllabi? Is a grade property—and, if so, who “owns” a grade? Should we be worried about our security of employment based on a student’s online report via the administration-provided Canvas widget (dubbed the Tattlebot by faculty)? Might photos taken of us by police at the picket line be used against us in future tenure and promotion decisions?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTo offer an example of what this disciplining has looked like, one of us accompanied a graduate student - who had in fact submitted grades - to a hearing. They were being “investigated” for having temporarily moved these grades off Canvas. The charges included “interference with courses of instruction, theft or damage of intellectual property; unauthorized entry to, possession of, receipt of, duplication of, or use of any university services; theft or abuse of university computers and other University electronic resources; forgery, alteration or misuse of any university, state, federal or other government documents; obstruction or disruption of teaching; failure to identify oneself to, or comply with directions of, a university official; violation of any other university policy or campus regulation.” This list can only be read as a concerted attempt to intimidate and harass this student.\u0026nbsp; This heavy-handed process raises troubling questions—for us\u0026nbsp; as well as our graduate students—about the potential uses of Canvas for surveillance and discipline.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTo offer a second example, another of us supported an undergraduate student who, after being present at the picket line in February, was later investigated for alleged “obstruction of university activities.” This student was one of a large number of undergraduates who had assembled at the base of campus in support of their TAs. That day, a number of faculty saw this student arrested during the well-documented episode of police overreach and outright brutality. During this student’s hearing, the faculty support person saw their student forced to relive the anxiety and lingering trauma from their interaction with police (a condition that has been formally diagnosed by a medical professional) as the student conduct officer posed confusing, leading questions. This student never received the opportunity to review the full evidence held against them, and was only sent piecemeal and contradictory police testimonies. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMany of us arrived at UC Santa Cruz excited about the university’s history of support for radical and progressive politics and intellectual thought. We looked forward to fulfilling the three components of our responsibilities as assistant professors—teaching, research, and service—at a public, Hispanic-serving institution that takes its commitment to undergraduates seriously. One of our primary activities in the past year has fallen somewhere between teaching and service: working closely with UCSC students, helping expand their intellectual horizons and acting as a source of support, as so many mentors have done for us. This role is rewarding but challenging for many of us—particularly for female-identified assistant professors and faculty of color, as we try to establish a balance between caring for our students’ welfare and maintaining our professional role as professors. It is particularly difficult on this campus even during the best of times, as campus services struggle to keep up with the very real problems of food insecurity, homelessness, sexual violence, and expressions of racism that confront our students. As a result, our role is often something between a social worker and a professor. We have no training for the former, nor is this labor particularly valued as we approach mid-career reviews and the always-ticking tenure clock.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSome will say it was our decision—and not our responsibility—to assume this role. We could have watched from the sidelines as our students were harassed, arrested, and even physically injured. Yet such a position implies that professors’ mentorship and care should be restricted to classroom discussions. Moreover, the Academic Personnel Manual (210) states that, “Mentoring and advising of students and faculty members, particularly from underrepresented and underserved populations, should be given due recognition in the teaching or service categories of the academic personnel process.” Indeed, we see our activities around the strike as fully in line with our responsibility to support the most precarious members of our community.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThese activities have continued into the spring. The administration’s present actions continue to undermine the well-being of our students, precisely at a time when their precarity has been heightened by COVID-19. While we worry about the welfare of our community, the administration seems to be undermining our efforts at every turn, continuing to traumatize students at a precarious time. Not only do their actions harm graduate students, they have also been profoundly destabilizing for undergraduates who have been swept up in disciplinary hearings. Indeed, for\u0026nbsp; all the UCSC administration’s statements of concerns about the impact of the strike on undergraduate learning, the reality is that undergraduate learning has been severely disrupted by such an opaque and inconsistent disciplinary process. It is alarming that as we transition to distance learning, the most immediate connection that students maintain with UCSC is through its disciplinary bureaucracy. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNow that the graduate students have announced that they will collectively submit outstanding fall and winter quarter grades, we believe that it is time to bring this disciplinary process to a close. We ask again that the university halt all disciplinary proceedings, end probationary periods and other sanctions (including the possible loss of housing stipends), and expunge the records of all graduate and undergraduate students under investigation. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe hope that the administration will take seriously our request to halt the disciplinary process and will offer a response to this letter. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSincerely,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssistant Professors of FOG, UCSC\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6256801941652316090\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/ucsc-assistant-professor-letter-to.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6256801941652316090"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6256801941652316090"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/ucsc-assistant-professor-letter-to.html","title":"UCSC Assistant Professor Letter to Admin: Rescind Disciplinary Action"}],"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\/AVvXsEhh26X9lJ9so9Kr9YZDBd3lzVlj5riAt-VXIJ4tDPVZb1z1fExmFTgZzzv7XEp5byv6AqthF9HMjDqBJ7i7A4ywXjkR866bgzVhZGMSSzavqkBUYW8KnXOAk7XuV6Pr0OcNAbkcDKl7-E0\/s72-c\/shameonUCSC-min-1536x864.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-3112451354832282501"},"published":{"$t":"2020-04-17T11:35:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-04-17T11:36:01.972-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Labor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Covid-19"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Faculty"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Graduate Student Conditions"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guest post"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"opinion survey"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Two Upheavals, One Solution: A UC Faculty Survey"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjNzspDuDAZb7cdNOrVu55Kp29wYz9e2gnnfYbFzuu1JHTWFBkYcFxWO8M75Z9AxXHEtJWyWy2Pt2CV_HNvXthMmUajDwURA3VOTOYwp9ECL_peaec3xtaxzzDXAkXwZUE7Zt9BMRLxLk4\/s1600\/UCLA+Empty+DailyBruin+031620.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1067\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjNzspDuDAZb7cdNOrVu55Kp29wYz9e2gnnfYbFzuu1JHTWFBkYcFxWO8M75Z9AxXHEtJWyWy2Pt2CV_HNvXthMmUajDwURA3VOTOYwp9ECL_peaec3xtaxzzDXAkXwZUE7Zt9BMRLxLk4\/s320\/UCLA+Empty+DailyBruin+031620.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EBy Hannah\nChadeayne Appel, Asst Prof of Anthropology,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E and Ananya\nRoy, Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography and The Meyer\nand Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy, UCLA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\n\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EWe are two\nof the faculty members who have written a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfCfFER4zxta8G5w1bES8pBcVlVp9lJuobDXDWIJpwOAkHayw\/viewform\"\u003Esurvey\u003C\/a\u003E that we are asking our colleagues\nto take.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EIt is about the relations\nbetween the UC graduate student strike and the covid-19 pandemic: how do you\nsee this relationship, and how would you most like to respond.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EThe survey can be found at this link.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EAnd here’s a bit more on the thinking that\nlies behind it.\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=\"background: white; color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003ECovid-19\nlays bare a precarity that long predates it. The virus’ routes\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003E expose\nand deepen lived inequalities, demonstrating that the taking of human life is\nneither natural nor inevitable, but rather an outcome of political decisions\nthat have ravaged social protections and hollowed out infrastructures of care.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: black; 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=\"background: white; color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EAs this\nblog has chronicled over the years, the formerly public university is\nparadigmatic of this hollowing out—increasingly reliant on the tuition of\nindebted students and the shamefully under-remunerated labor of adjunct\nfaculty. As calls for rent strikes resound across the U.S., severely \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Erent-burdened graduate students\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E in the University of\nCalifornia system \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Ewere\nalready months into a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) wildcat strike.\nPrecisely. Covid-19 lays bare precarity that long predates it. \u003Cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\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=\"background: white; color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003ECovid-19’s\nsafer-at-home mandates, remote instruction, hiring freezes, evaporation of\nsummer teaching and of broader job prospects exacerbate the pre-existing\nhousing insecurity and financial stress that the COLA movement aims to reveal\nand remedy. Undergraduates as well as graduate students are asked to \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #202020; font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Esucceed as students in communities where they\ncannot afford to live and work. Now undergraduates find themselves lacking\naccess to technologies, space, and other resources required for online\ninstruction, while graduate students are expected to teach from \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/For-Many-Graduate-Students\/248360?cid=wcontentgrid_hp_1b\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Eliving conditions not appropriately conducive to that labor\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #202020; font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E. A COLA means compensation adequate to the cost\nof living, and this is even more necessary in a pandemic. If the COLA movement emphasizes\nthat \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/us-policy\/2019\/02\/14\/with-teachers-lead-more-workers-went-strike-than-any-year-since\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003Eteachers’ working conditions are students’ learning\nconditions\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #202020; font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003E, covid-19\nexacerbates the inadequacy of all those conditions and foregrounds the urgency\nof addressing these problems together.\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=\"background: white; color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EThe\nInter-Campus Faculty Solidarity Network is a group of about 40 tenured,\nuntenured, and adjunct faculty from across the UCs who had been communicating\nweekly throughout the COLA campaign. We have continued to do so into the covid-19\ncrisis. This network is in turn generated by Faculty Organizing Groups and\nother bodies of long-standing faculty activism that emerged from previous\nmoments of austerity. As the network watched covid begin to overshadow COLA, we\nfelt that articulating their intersection and (re)mobilizing faculty was all\nthe more pressing. Thus we wrote the survey you find here, which aims to better\nunderstand faculty concerns during this time and to organize potential future\ncollective action to respond to those concerns – from support for the COLA\ndemands to our own uncertain futures at a time of looming economic recession.\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=\"background: white; color: #202020; font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif;\"\u003EWe cannot return to business\nas usual once the masks are off. We cannot sit by, again, as we are told, \u003Ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003Ethere is no alternative. \u003C\/i\u003EThere are\nalternatives. And it will not be administrators who envision them or build the\npower to champion them. It will be us – adjunct and tenure-line faculty and\nundergraduate and graduate students and student debtors – categories that blur\nincreasingly for those of us who were schooled and indebted in neoliberal\ntimes.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\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;\"\u003EAs Robin\nD.G. Kelley, \u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003EDistinguished Professor of\nHistory \u0026amp; Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History at UCLA said\non the occasion of UCLA’s COLA rally:\u003C\/span\u003E “This is bigger than a cost of\nliving adjustment. You are on the frontlines of a broader struggle against a\nnew university order that entails the casualization of labor; rising tuitions;\nthe financialization of higher education resulting in unsustainable student\ndebt and corporate profit; not to mention investments in institutions that\nviolate human rights and hasten the planet’s demise. You are fighting for a\ndifferent future, and as faculty who want a university that practices equity\nand ethical behavior, that can reverse its neoliberal trend, we have no choice\nbut to stand in solidarity and to stand up.”\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;\"\u003EPlease take \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfCfFER4zxta8G5w1bES8pBcVlVp9lJuobDXDWIJpwOAkHayw\/viewform\"\u003E\"Two Upheavals, One Solution: A UC Faculty Survey\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cstyle\u003E\n\u003C!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\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-alt:Calibri;\n mso-font-charset:0;\n mso-generic-font-family:swiss;\n mso-font-pitch:variable;\n mso-font-signature:-469750017 -1073732485 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;}\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;}size:8.5in 11.0in;\n margin:.5in .5in .5in .5in;\n mso-header-margin:.5in;\n mso-footer-margin:.5in;\n mso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.WordSection1\n {page:WordSection1;}\u003C\/style\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3112451354832282501\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/by-hannahchadeayne-appel-asst-prof-of.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3112451354832282501"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3112451354832282501"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/by-hannahchadeayne-appel-asst-prof-of.html","title":"Two Upheavals, One Solution: A UC Faculty Survey"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjNzspDuDAZb7cdNOrVu55Kp29wYz9e2gnnfYbFzuu1JHTWFBkYcFxWO8M75Z9AxXHEtJWyWy2Pt2CV_HNvXthMmUajDwURA3VOTOYwp9ECL_peaec3xtaxzzDXAkXwZUE7Zt9BMRLxLk4\/s72-c\/UCLA+Empty+DailyBruin+031620.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-1065622090081763209"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-18T16:26:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-18T16:26:15.472-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Covid-19"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Graduate Student Conditions"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Regents"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Impact of Covid-19 on UC Graduate Students: Now is the Time to Improve their Funding, Not Cut It"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh5ud1vfZLEflE2PE6mo3MUUS8EeYjhn6f-ynrc2MWElXLIjC0uUoerFuIfFTY9iBfrgLHiNQ642SQ1rfbWch28-ZpvXSjysB-Qo5vE073NupolEUhoRfIGFzaJCQz3KYMXdwsd1Hprqjg\/s1600\/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+8.50.46+AM.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"918\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh5ud1vfZLEflE2PE6mo3MUUS8EeYjhn6f-ynrc2MWElXLIjC0uUoerFuIfFTY9iBfrgLHiNQ642SQ1rfbWch28-ZpvXSjysB-Qo5vE073NupolEUhoRfIGFzaJCQz3KYMXdwsd1Hprqjg\/s320\/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+8.50.46+AM.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nStatement to the UC Board of Regents by \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ags.uci.edu\/governance\/executive-board\/\"\u003EShane K. M. Wood\u003C\/a\u003E, President, UC Irvine Associated Graduate Students; Department of Theater and Drama \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Pandemic we find ourselves currently enduring has shown just how precarious the lives of our students across the state are. Within days of the rolling campus closures, the student governments from each campus began receiving reports of students who would be losing their housing because of lack of work or inability to move as has been suggested for social distancing. In particular, our graduate population has been specifically impacted, many scrambling to create online classes with little to know training while being expected to also contend with all the other logistics \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen speaking about the need for more funding for our graduate students, it is often mentioned that the state is cautious of another economic downturn and therefore will not contribute more money to the system. Frankly, this is an unacceptable stance to take. Our graduate students are a huge economic driver for the UC System and the state as a whole. Not only are we responsible for a large portion of undergraduate education, but also the research our system, state, and society depend on--including the continual study of the Covid-19 virus and the media, literature, and art we’re being urged to utilize during social isolation. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the graduate students navigate the next few months, foregoing personal research, travel, and coursework as they continually adapt to the changing needs of this pandemic, the Regents must urge the state to begin investing in its graduate students, not only to support the current population doing this essential work, but to allow the UC to get back on track once this crisis is over to continue the enormous growth of the graduate population that is being asked of each campus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nA logical start is to insist that state commitment for graduate students be raised and expanded to cover the additional costs that this 20% increase in graduate numbers will represent to the state. The UC simply cannot commit to this increase without a firm commitment from the state for their increased and continued financial investment in this vital population.\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1065622090081763209\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/impact-of-covid-19-on-uc-graduate.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1065622090081763209"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1065622090081763209"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/impact-of-covid-19-on-uc-graduate.html","title":"Impact of Covid-19 on UC Graduate Students: Now is the Time to Improve their Funding, Not Cut It"}],"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\/AVvXsEh5ud1vfZLEflE2PE6mo3MUUS8EeYjhn6f-ynrc2MWElXLIjC0uUoerFuIfFTY9iBfrgLHiNQ642SQ1rfbWch28-ZpvXSjysB-Qo5vE073NupolEUhoRfIGFzaJCQz3KYMXdwsd1Hprqjg\/s72-c\/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+8.50.46+AM.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});