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Workgroup"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj1MxjpGI1IgDxjqnPtGJztIoN83zfI7duCQHRqK-kYVaXEybjW_s8aWtaOkE-t0UXWRBuON17gwam1YQukkMgY1ExlLO6wWloUMhcA0bAEBRQOwV6pgp3zIPWFPTrHKQuUWmvvq_qloj0\/s1436\/budget+does+not+reflect+our+priorities+Cambridge+MA+Day+060921.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"956\" data-original-width=\"1436\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj1MxjpGI1IgDxjqnPtGJztIoN83zfI7duCQHRqK-kYVaXEybjW_s8aWtaOkE-t0UXWRBuON17gwam1YQukkMgY1ExlLO6wWloUMhcA0bAEBRQOwV6pgp3zIPWFPTrHKQuUWmvvq_qloj0\/w400-h266\/budget+does+not+reflect+our+priorities+Cambridge+MA+Day+060921.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EBy Dylan Rodríguez, Professor, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003EDear Chancellor Wilcox and UCR Administrative Colleagues:\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EPlease accept this note as my formal response to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1TqWX0ObZJCPiF3glpFNjZsXwljaXtYhAeCH5i6opYg8\/edit?usp=sharing\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Eyour invitation to join\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;the Chancellor’s Campus Safety Workgroup. I am writing to contextualize my response with a concise analysis of the UC Riverside Campus Safety Task Force’s “\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/chancellor.ucr.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/rcwecm761\/files\/2021-03\/CSTF%20report%20final%203.18.21.pdf\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003EReport and Recommendations\u003C\/a\u003E” of March 18, 2021, which was finalized after a mere three months of deliberation. I note that Chancellor Wilcox circulated a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/insideucr.ucr.edu\/announcements\/2021\/03\/22\/campus-safety-task-force-and-next-steps\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Ecampus memo\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;four days later that declared his unqualified endorsement of the Task Force document, claiming that “for many years, we have been striving at UC Riverside to redefine campus safety in a way that addresses the needs of our diverse community.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EI write to you as a researcher and scholar who has published widely on the topic of United States policing over more than two decades. My work pays particular attention to the historical conditions of police violence that consistently create asymmetrical casualties among targeted and criminalized communities, bodies, and geographies.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EWhile the UCR Task Force Report acknowledges that “systemic racism exists in U.S. society and in policing, and must be eliminated wherever possible,” its nine recommendations fail to challenge the fundamental centrality of police power to the university’s infrastructure and everyday operations. At first glance, the Task Force appears to advocate a modest downscaling of the UCRPD’s campus presence. Upon further analysis, however, its proposals cultivate an\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eexpansion\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Eof police power through the deputization of campus staff and administrators to act as civilian surrogates of the police department. Perhaps most revealingly, campus employees in specific units (including Student Affairs, Human Resources, and the Title IX office) are expected “to pair and cross-train [with] public safety personnel [e.g. UCRPD officers].” The Report does not bother to elaborate on the substance of such “pairing and cross-training” other than to indicate that select staff and administrators will be expected to build collegial relationships with the UCRPD that, by extension, further legitimize and extend the reach of campus police power by institutionalizing what amounts to a civilian\/employee shadow police force.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Ca name=\"_Hlk73376839\"\u003EThe paradigm of “campus safety” operationalized by the Task Force Report fails to remotely heed the widespread, growing body of both university-based and community-accountable research, organizational innovation, and institutional leadership exemplified by students, faculty, staff, administrators, and concerned community members (including survivors of police harassment and violence) at educational institutions like\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/gems.peralta.edu\/peralta-community-college-district-to-hire-three-new-community-based-security-services-to-replace-alameda-county-sheriffs-on-campuses\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003EPeralta Community College District\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2020\/06\/24\/oakland-board-agrees-to-eliminate-its-police-force-at-school-campuses\/\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003EOakland Unified School District\u003C\/a\u003E, both of which have effectively eliminated police presence at their college and school campuses. Rather, by appropriating and distorting a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/m.box.com\/shared_item\/https%3A%2F%2Fpopulardemocracy.app.box.com%2Fv%2FFreedomtoThrive?fbclid=IwAR2V_pAIs2r_572GfT17jpaDQtsJ_9y3sgR3Kr2NL2RkOXhbxUrTDgYHpJM\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Epedagogical framework\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;widely used by abolitionist researchers, activists, organizers, and teachers for much of the early 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;century—“Re-imagining Campus Safety”—the UCR Task Force offers a series of recommendations that allege to take steps “toward\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Enarrowing\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;the role of traditional law enforcement” by “[integrating] UCR’s Police Department into a more comprehensive Campus Safety Division.” The history of modern police reforms indicates that such proposals\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eexpand\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;the bureaucratic, ideological, cultural, and institutional capacity of policing and police violence in their various forms, from surveillance and harassment to crowd control, involuntary hospitalization, and bodily (sexual) assault. Regrettably, the Task Force Report proposes a reorganization and redistribution of police power that rests on an “[integration of] campus safety activities, including prevention and response, more deliberately with existing campus-based programs that address issues such as mental health, domestic violence, sexual harassment, and drug or alcohol abuse.”\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"color: #954f72; vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E[i]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"color: #954f72; vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003ESuch reforms of campus police power replicate the widely criticized models of “community policing” attributed to well-known late-20\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;and early-21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;century police administrators like Daryl Gates, William Bratton, and numerous others who have implemented scaled-up versions of similar policing protocols in Los Angeles, New York City, and numerous other locales known for rampant, normalized gendered antiblack police violence.\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E[ii]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;To invoke David Correia and Tyler Wall’s entry on “community policing” in their indispensable keyword text\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EPolice: A Field Guide\u003C\/i\u003E, “advocates for community policing claim that it offers a suite of best practices and policies that promote collaboration and partnership with communities as a way to enlist the active support of an entire community in the fabrication of social order.”\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E[iii]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EWidely read policing scholar Kristian Williams further crystallizes the philosophical, organizational, and strategic logic of community policing in terms that anticipate the boilerplate proposals of the UCR Task Force:\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EPhilosophically\u003C\/i\u003E, community policing is characterized by the solicitation of citizen input, the broadening of the police function, and the attempt to find solutions based on the values of the local community.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EOrganizationally\u003C\/i\u003E, community policing requires that departments be restructured such as to de-centralize command, flatten hierarchies, reduce specialization, civilianize staff positions, and encourage teamwork.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EStrategically\u003C\/i\u003E, community policing efforts reorient operations away from random patrols and responding to 911 calls, towards more directed, proactive, and preventive activities.\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_edn4\" name=\"_ednref4\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E[iv]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;[emphasis added]\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThe UCR Task Force’s recommendations are attempting to solve a “legitimacy problem” for the UCPD in the context of unprecedented challenges to its institutional power and reach. “The legitimacy problem for police,” as Correia and Wall write, “is about the legitimacy to use violence.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Community policing is not about making police friendlier, but about making police violence more acceptable.”\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_edn5\" name=\"_ednref5\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E[v]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003ENumerous members of the UC community have\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ucop.edu\/research-policy-analysis-coordination\/policies-guidance\/campus-safety\/index.html\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Erepeatedly testified\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that “police violence” is not limited to incidents of bodily harm, and includes everyday forms of gendered antiblack, racist, ableist, transphobic, and queerphobic harassment, surveillance, profiling, detention, and intimidation that manifest in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Ethe mere presence of a campus police force.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003EUnless there are sustained and accelerated attempts at collective critical analysis, shared study, and concrete institutional intervention, the next phase of campus police reforms at UCR and beyond will directly reflect the logics of collaboration, re-legitimation, and deputization outlined by Correia, Wall, Williams, and many others.\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_edn6\" name=\"_ednref6\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E[vi]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EI acknowledge your invitation dated May 24, 2021 to join the “Chancellor’s Campus Safety Workgroup,” chaired by Provost Liz Watkins. I acknowledge that part of the agenda for this workgroup entails “[integrating] UCPD into the new Division of Campus Health, Well-being, and Safety,” thus expanding the reach of the campus police to include mediated involvement in matters related to mental and physiological trauma, illness, and vulnerability. For these reasons among the others previously outlined above as well as\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/campus-safety-task-forces-as-police.html\"\u003E in a previously published article\u003C\/a\u003E, i respectfully decline this invitation.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003EPeace\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003Edylan\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr clear=\"all\" \/\u003E\u003Chr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn1\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[i]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;“UC Riverside Campus Safety Task Force Report and Recommendations,” p. 2.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn2\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[ii]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;See Kristian Williams, “Ch. 9, Your Friendly Neighborhood Police State,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EOur Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E(2004) (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2007), p. 197-222.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn3\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_ednref3\" name=\"_edn3\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[iii]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;David Correia and Tyler Wall,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EPolice: A Field Guide\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(London: Verso Press, 2018), p. 130.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn4\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_ednref4\" name=\"_edn4\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[iv]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Williams,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EOur Enemies In Blue\u003C\/i\u003E, p. 204.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn5\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_ednref5\" name=\"_edn5\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[v]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Correia and Wall, p. 130.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn6\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_ednref6\" name=\"_edn6\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[vi]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;See Christian Parenti,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ELockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(London: Verso, 2001); Alex S. Vitale,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EThe End of Policing\u003C\/i\u003E. (London: Verso, 2017); Stuart Schrader,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EBadges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr clear=\"all\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2287224061481382265\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/a-public-response-to-ucr-chancellors.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2287224061481382265"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2287224061481382265"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/a-public-response-to-ucr-chancellors.html","title":"A public response to the UCR Chancellor’s invitation to join the Campus Safety Workgroup"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj1MxjpGI1IgDxjqnPtGJztIoN83zfI7duCQHRqK-kYVaXEybjW_s8aWtaOkE-t0UXWRBuON17gwam1YQukkMgY1ExlLO6wWloUMhcA0bAEBRQOwV6pgp3zIPWFPTrHKQuUWmvvq_qloj0\/s72-w400-h266-c\/budget+does+not+reflect+our+priorities+Cambridge+MA+Day+060921.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-4500161027274020685"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-17T14:38:00.004-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-17T14:44:26.064-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Covid-19"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Covid-19 Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cuts \u0026 Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Funding Model"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"FutherCuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"More Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"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":"UC Regents"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Riverside"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":" Stop Redlining UCR! "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjfCQc3sMZlxvC8Lhv1AIwJW4-xJ5HIO7Y-ctEFhz3TsNrWbpEz-2y4ZBYwCFL9oL0C7EIzpspjNsYJx-43V8Foq3QAei6tQCRYs_Ktran7YT7O9Vey7e-tIxZkUBQMrzVYRO2OFnzQqck\/s1024\/ops.editorial.ucrtoday-1024x768.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"768\" data-original-width=\"1024\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjfCQc3sMZlxvC8Lhv1AIwJW4-xJ5HIO7Y-ctEFhz3TsNrWbpEz-2y4ZBYwCFL9oL0C7EIzpspjNsYJx-43V8Foq3QAei6tQCRYs_Ktran7YT7O9Vey7e-tIxZkUBQMrzVYRO2OFnzQqck\/w400-h300\/ops.editorial.ucrtoday-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAn Open Letter to University of California President Michael V. Drake and the University of California Board of Regents\u003Cp\u003EDear President Drake and Members of the UC Board of Regents,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe write to you today with our backs against the wall. As department chairs and program directors in the most racially diverse college at one of the two most racially diverse campuses in the University of California system, we in UC Riverside’s College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS) and our staff and faculty colleagues across UCR have been struggling for years to make ends meet. Already chronically underfunded by the state, UCR was devastated by the budget decisions made by then-President Yudof and the Regents at the height of the Great Recession. We have worked in staggeringly understaffed and underfunded conditions since then. Yet on top of our chronic underfunding by the state, we now face an additional – and permanent – 11 percent budget cut. This is not just unsustainable financially, it is unsupportable on grounds of fairness, equity, and most importantly, of racial justice – pillars of the University of California’s mission.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUCR’s budget is made up almost entirely of salaries and benefits – in CHASS, the proportion is 98 percent. Thus any permanent budget cut inevitably is a cut in people. We hemorrhaged staff and faculty during the Great Recession, and although we have been able to hire additional faculty in subsequent years, our student population has grown rapidly enough to largely outpace those gains, leaving us severely overcrowded and still struggling to rebuild. Our world-class research university already operates on a shoestring; further cuts would be devastating. For many of us, this pattern of systemic neglect and chronic underfunding of a university serving a student body composed of at least 85 percent students of color is troublingly reminiscent of redlining, the practices consolidated after the Second World War that devastated thriving neighborhoods made up predominantly of people of color. We are writing to implore you to stop the redlining of UCR.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith roots stretching back to the turn of the twentieth century, UCR has a distinguished history in the UC system. A former agricultural experiment station, UCR was meant to serve as a flagship undergraduate institution in the UC system, serving the Inland region of Southern California. UCR is second only to UC Merced in the percentage of students of color, has one of the highest percentages of Pell grant recipients in the nation, and serves a student body that is well over 50 percent first-generation college students. Yet our increasingly brown and working-class campus has frequently been overlooked or sidelined within the UC system.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is not simply a symbolic move; even after a post-recession reconfiguration of the UC system’s distribution of state funds to its campuses, UCR currently receives approximately $8,500 per student, whereas UCLA receives closer to $11,500 and the Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, and San Diego campuses receive $10,000. Yet our student-to-faculty ratio is higher than the UC system average, and our student-to-staff ratio is fully 38% higher. We applaud the recent “re-benching” decision that will bring the funding of UCR and other under-funded campuses to within 95 percent of the systemwide per-student average by 2024. But as with redlined neighborhoods, the damage to UCR’s resources from decades of neglect cannot be reversed simply by bringing our support from the system up to an amount that is only slightly below average rather than grossly below average, nor will the phased-in implementation of this plan help us avoid devastation in the present moment. We were facing an 11 percent budget cut before the announcement of the re-benching; we are facing the same budget cut after its announcement, because rebenching is not enough.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt takes more funding, not less, to create an educational environment in which first-generation college students and students of color can thrive. UCR has been lauded for closing the gap in graduation rates between white students and students of color, and for the past two years \u003Ci\u003EUS News and World Report\u003C\/i\u003E has ranked us the top US university for social mobility. We have an internationally renowned faculty that includes two Nobel Laureates, close to fifty Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows, and nineteen Guggenheim Fellows. But in addition to being highly accomplished researchers, scholars, and artists, our faculty are something more: many of us came to and have remained at UCR because of our deep commitment to serving first-generation and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) students. UCR educates Californians – 96 percent of our students are California residents – and in return, because we do not expand our budget with out-of-state tuition, we suffer. Were all UC campuses facing the same dire circumstances, we would weather the storm shoulder-to-shoulder with them. Instead, we are being left out in the cold yet again: when many colleges at other UC campuses are losing only two to three percent of their budgets, we are facing the stark decisions demanded by an 11 percent permanent budget cut. This abandonment by the President’s office and the Board of Regents is a demoralizing example of structural racism.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor nearly a year, we have all witnessed the disproportionate impact of both COVID-19 and the pandemic-induced recession on BIPOC communities, some of them the same communities devastated by redlining and nearly destroyed by the Great Recession. Communities subjected to decades and, in many cases, centuries of systemic racism have few of the resources that have helped many white communities to remain safe and financially solvent during this crisis. Systematically deprived of resources through decades of neglect, our campus – with one of the brownest and poorest student bodies in the entire UC system – is facing economic devastation. How will staff who already do the work of two people take on more, if we have to cut our staffing even further? How will departments that are already stretched to breaking stretch further? Should we increase our teaching load even more, and destroy the stellar educational system we have built in favor of an impersonal factory model? Should we turn away from our research and creative production and deprive our students of the cutting-edge insights and opportunities afforded by a world-class faculty? With a globally engaged student body, should we meekly accept the elimination of UCR from the UCDC program and others like it? The UC system clearly believes that students at other UC campuses deserve these opportunities; are our students any less deserving?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe correlation is glaring between the fact that we serve one of the highest numbers of BIPOC students in the system, the historic lack of systemwide investment in our campus, and the offer of a solution that brings the UC system’s support of us to less far below average over the course of the next several years. In a time of long-overdue attention to the destruction wreaked by systemic racism in the US, it should finally be clear that UCR’s students deserve a fully equal investment from the UC system, including support to correct for years of economic marginalization. It’s time to stop redlining UCR.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERespectfully,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJuliann Emmons Allison, Director, Global Studies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESheila Bergman, Executive Director, UCR ARTS\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHeidi Brayman, Director, Liberal Studies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERogerio Budasz, Chair, Department of Music\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEdward T. Chang, Director, Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies Christopher K. Chase-Dunn, Director, Institute for Research on World-Systems Walter A. Clark, Director, Center for Iberian and Latin American Music Derick A. Fay, Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETod Goldberg, Program Director, Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing \u0026amp; Writing for the Performing Arts\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWeihsin Gui, Director, Southeast Asian Studies Program\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESherine Hafez, Chair, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESteven M. Helfand, Chair, Department of Economics\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERickerby Hinds, Chair, Department of Theater, Film, and Digital Production Tamara C. Ho, Director, California Center for Native Nations\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMatthew King, Director, Asian Studies Program\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJacques Lezra, Chair, Department of Hispanic Studies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDavid Lloyd, Chair, Department of English\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETom Lutz, Chair, Department of Creative Writing\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJohn N. Medearis, Chair, Department of Political Science\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYunhee Min, Chair, Department of Art\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJennifer R. Nájera, Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDaniel Ozer, Chair, Department of Psychology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAndrews Reath, Chair, Department of Philosophy\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEllen Reese, Co-Chair, Department of Sociology and Chair of Labor Studies Judith Rodenbeck, Chair, Department of Media and Cultural Studies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJeff Sacks, Chair, Department of Comparative Literature and Languages Michele Salzman, Chair, Department of History\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoel Mejia Smith, Chair, Department of Dance\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGlenn Stanley, Co-chair, Department of Sociology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJason Weems, Chair, Department of the History of Art\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMelissa M. Wilcox, Chair, Department of Religious Studies\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4500161027274020685\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/stop-redlining-ucr.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4500161027274020685"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4500161027274020685"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/stop-redlining-ucr.html","title":" Stop Redlining UCR! "}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjfCQc3sMZlxvC8Lhv1AIwJW4-xJ5HIO7Y-ctEFhz3TsNrWbpEz-2y4ZBYwCFL9oL0C7EIzpspjNsYJx-43V8Foq3QAei6tQCRYs_Ktran7YT7O9Vey7e-tIxZkUBQMrzVYRO2OFnzQqck\/s72-w400-h300-c\/ops.editorial.ucrtoday-1024x768.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$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; 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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: 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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; 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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 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l0:level7\n\t{mso-level-number-format:bullet;\n\tmso-level-text:;\n\tmso-level-tab-stop:none;\n\tmso-level-number-position:left;\n\ttext-indent:-.25in;\n\tfont-family:Symbol;}\n@list l0:level8\n\t{mso-level-number-format:bullet;\n\tmso-level-text:o;\n\tmso-level-tab-stop:none;\n\tmso-level-number-position:left;\n\ttext-indent:-.25in;\n\tfont-family:\"Courier New\";}\n@list l0:level9\n\t{mso-level-number-format:bullet;\n\tmso-level-text:;\n\tmso-level-tab-stop:none;\n\tmso-level-number-position:left;\n\ttext-indent:-.25in;\n\tfont-family:Wingdings;}\n\n--\u003E\n\u003C\/style\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ENOTES \u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pe.com\/2012\/01\/20\/riverside-white-defends-university-police\/\"\u003EPhoto Credit\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr clear=\"all\" \/\u003E\u003Chr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn1\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[1]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;See UCFTP social media sites at\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCFTP\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCFTP\/\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ucftp\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/twitter.com\/ucftp\u003C\/a\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uc_ftp\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uc_ftp\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021); UCLA Divest\/Invest website,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu\/abolition-repository\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu\/abolition-repository\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021); UCSA June 2, 2020 press release,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ucsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/UCSA-Statement-Anti-Blackness-Police-Violence-6_2.pdf\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/ucsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/UCSA-Statement-Anti-Blackness-Police-Violence-6_2.pdf\u003C\/a\u003E; and Thao Nguyen, “Coalition launches campaign to remove police from UC campuses,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EThe Daily Californian\u003C\/i\u003E, September 4, 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2020\/09\/04\/coalition-launches-campaign-to-remove-police-from-uc-campuses\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2020\/09\/04\/coalition-launches-campaign-to-remove-police-from-uc-campuses\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn2\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[2]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;By way of example, see University of California Office of the President, “UC statement on protests, violence following George Floyd’s death,” Sunday, May 31, 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/uc-statement-protests-violence-following-george-floyd-s-death\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/uc-statement-protests-violence-following-george-floyd-s-death\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021); UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Cynthia Larive, “Statement on George Floyd to UC Santa Cruz Community,” May 29, 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/news.ucsc.edu\/2020\/05\/statement-on-george-floyd.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/news.ucsc.edu\/2020\/05\/statement-on-george-floyd.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed December 2020); UC Davis Chancellor Gary May, “Chancellor’s Statement on George Floyd,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/leadership.ucdavis.edu\/news\/messages\/chancellor-messages\/statement-on-george-floyd\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/leadership.ucdavis.edu\/news\/messages\/chancellor-messages\/statement-on-george-floyd\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed December 2020).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn3\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref3\" name=\"_edn3\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[3]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;UCFTP, “Against Task Forces,” public statement issued January 2, 2021,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ucftp\/status\/1345460418714562560\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/twitter.com\/ucftp\/status\/1345460418714562560\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn4\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref4\" name=\"_edn4\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[4]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;See Dylan Rodríguez, “Beyond ‘Police Brutality’: Racist State Violence and the University of California,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EAmerican Quarterly\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Currents), Vol. 64, No. 2, June 2012, p. 301-313; Gabe Schneider, “UC Campuses Have Disclosed Virtually No Records Under Police Transparency Law,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EVoice of San Diego\u003C\/i\u003E, May 12, 2020,\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/public-safety\/uc-campuses-have-disclosed-virtually-no-records-under-police-transparency-law\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/public-safety\/uc-campuses-have-disclosed-virtually-no-records-under-police-transparency-law\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021); Tyler Kingkade, “University Of California Campus Police Have History Of Excessive Force Against Protesters,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EThe Huffington Post\u003C\/i\u003E, December 9, 2011,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/california-campus-police-clash-with-protesters-ows_n_1125537\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/california-campus-police-clash-with-protesters-ows_n_1125537\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021); Paul D. Thacker , ‘Shock and Anger at UCLA,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EInside Higher Ed\u003C\/i\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003ENovember 17, 2006,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2006\/11\/17\/shock-and-anger-ucla\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2006\/11\/17\/shock-and-anger-ucla\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021); Lauren Hernández and Sarah Ravani, “Students protest UC Berkeley police arrests they say were racially motivated,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ESan Francisco Chronicle\u003C\/i\u003E, March 20, 2019,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/crime\/article\/Students-racially-profiled-brutalized-by-13701947.php\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/crime\/article\/Students-racially-profiled-brutalized-by-13701947.php\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn5\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref5\" name=\"_edn5\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[5]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;University of California Presidential Task Force on Universitywide Policing Implementation Report, June 2020.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn6\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref6\" name=\"_edn6\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[6]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003EMichael V. Drake to become 21st president of the University of California\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003EUC Office of the President\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003ETuesday, July 7, 2020\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/michael-v-drake-become-21st-president-university-california\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/michael-v-drake-become-21st-president-university-california\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn7\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref7\" name=\"_edn7\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[7]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;See Summers, L., \u0026amp; Gougelet, K. (2020). Whose University? When Police Pass the Baton to Campuses,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ESociety for the Anthropology of Work\u003C\/i\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.21428\/1d6be30e.8cc96f6f\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.21428\/1d6be30e.8cc96f6f\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/saw.americananthro.org\/pub\/whose-university-when-police-pass-the-baton-to-campuses\/release\/1\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/saw.americananthro.org\/pub\/whose-university-when-police-pass-the-baton-to-campuses\/release\/1\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoHyperlink\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E(accessed January 2021); Nina Agrawal, “‘Violation of our values,’ UCLA chancellor says of LAPD’s use of Jackie Robinson Stadium,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ELos Angeles Times\u003C\/i\u003E, June 4, 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-06-04\/ucla-chancellor-calls-lapd-use-of-jackie-robinson-stadium-to-process-arrests-a-violation\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-06-04\/ucla-chancellor-calls-lapd-use-of-jackie-robinson-stadium-to-process-arrests-a-violation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed December 2020); “Statement on LAPD using Jackie Robinson Stadium,” June 4, 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/releases\/ucla-a-violation-of-our-values\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/releases\/ucla-a-violation-of-our-values\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed December 2020);\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn8\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref8\" name=\"_edn8\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[8]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Teresa Watanabe, “UC President-elect Michael V. Drake knows firsthand about harsh police tactics,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ELA Times\u003C\/i\u003E, JULY 8, 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-07-08\/uc-president-elect-michael-v-drake-knows-firsthand-about-harsh-police-tactics\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-07-08\/uc-president-elect-michael-v-drake-knows-firsthand-about-harsh-police-tactics\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn9\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref9\" name=\"_edn9\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[9]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Chancellor Kim Wilcox, Campus safety task force announcement, September 14, 2020\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/insideucr.ucr.edu\/announcements\/2020\/09\/14\/campus-safety-task-force-announcement\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/insideucr.ucr.edu\/announcements\/2020\/09\/14\/campus-safety-task-force-announcement\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn10\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref10\" name=\"_edn10\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[10]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003ETeresa Watanabe\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003EAfrican American students thrive with high graduation rates at UC Riverside\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ELos Angeles Times\u003C\/i\u003E, June 14, 2017\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-uc-riverside-black-students-20170623-htmlstory.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-uc-riverside-black-students-20170623-htmlstory.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn11\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref11\" name=\"_edn11\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[11]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;University of California Universitywide Police Policies and Administrative Procedures, January 7, 2011, p. 8.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/policy.ucop.edu\/doc\/4000382\/PoliceProceduresManual\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/policy.ucop.edu\/doc\/4000382\/PoliceProceduresManual\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021). Cited in UC Senate Systemwide Public Safety Task Force Final Report Submitted to the University Committee on Faculty Welfare (UCFW)\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003EJune 1, 2018, p. 71.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/reports\/SNW-JN-gold-book-task-force-report.pdf\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/reports\/SNW-JN-gold-book-task-force-report.pdf\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021)\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn12\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref12\" name=\"_edn12\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[12]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Ibid.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn13\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref13\" name=\"_edn13\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[13]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Task Force on Campus Safety Town Hall, November 12, 2020\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/chancellor.ucr.edu\/task-force-campus-safety\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/chancellor.ucr.edu\/task-force-campus-safety\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed December 2020).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn14\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca 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Berkeley"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Regents"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Riverside"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Arc of History Bends Towards Narrative (Part 2): True Budget Stories for Governing Boards"},"content":{"type":"html","$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\/AVvXsEgvIt4O7qBCOKkkofB-Dy0UpZ37CqQ507QAcw9TgOu7OPXlNGjVu97Rmg-QP597QdT3WHZppV8jAnWQLDZEJrFUMDqP9V6PoU6hWfaIpAdaSB5SjZwoRA1mEsLQYUqSQEPG_fPQMqudKW8\/s1200\/Wilcox+Kim+UCRiverside+Highlander+0320+on+SAT.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgvIt4O7qBCOKkkofB-Dy0UpZ37CqQ507QAcw9TgOu7OPXlNGjVu97Rmg-QP597QdT3WHZppV8jAnWQLDZEJrFUMDqP9V6PoU6hWfaIpAdaSB5SjZwoRA1mEsLQYUqSQEPG_fPQMqudKW8\/s320\/Wilcox+Kim+UCRiverside+Highlander+0320+on+SAT.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhile UC campuses weighed current-year budget cuts in the range of 6 to 15 percent, the Board of Regents contemplated a vision of equilibrium. When the UC Office of the President's November presentation was done, a regent invited chancellors to respond. UC Riverside's Kim Wilcox (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.highlandernews.org\/37877\/chancellor-wilcox-expresses-his-belief-that-the-uc-should-not-drop-sats-from-admissions\/\"\u003Eat left\u003C\/a\u003E, perhaps showing the size of his budget gap) started a courteous series of dissents from the junior campuses, with a timely assist from Berkeley's Carol Christ. Wilcox was featured in Teresa Watanabe's\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-12-12\/uc-chancellors-tuition-increase\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;LA \u003Ci\u003ETimes\u003C\/i\u003E story\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that covered\u0026nbsp;the disconnect between celebrating UC's racial diversity (done) and actually funding it (not). The effects of cuts are swaddled in confusion, a confusion seeded by UCOP's budget narrative and planted in the fertile soil of the regents' modest knowledge of their university.\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1. UCOP\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach November, UCOP proposes a budget to the Board of Regents for the following fiscal year. In November 2020, they\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov20\/b4.pdf\"\u003Eproposed a budget for 2021-22\u003C\/a\u003E, which the regents then voted unanimously to approve. The result becomes the University's official budget request to the governor and the legislature.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHere's the summary attachment of the request. Noteworthy items include the request for a full restoration of the state legislature's cut to UC's 2020-21 budget of about $300 million, a second year of pay freezes for faculty and most unrepresented staff (merit increases are funded), and a 1.5% wage increase for a category of non unionized frontline staff.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj_BNH-54Uguft6e5ghvvWBgi5IqweaLTU5iAqi7802-Ly_NGiJxZrz2WZkrDzU7p-yi_iQ8Z9Bq28jf_v72utkOxBUpivI_GzDZ64sGY7zEuhxurpf_czDmQqMEXKHKmD3Rp7-IJRQxak\/s1718\/Budget+Statement+UCOP+B4attach+to+Regents+1120.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1582\" data-original-width=\"1718\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj_BNH-54Uguft6e5ghvvWBgi5IqweaLTU5iAqi7802-Ly_NGiJxZrz2WZkrDzU7p-yi_iQ8Z9Bq28jf_v72utkOxBUpivI_GzDZ64sGY7zEuhxurpf_czDmQqMEXKHKmD3Rp7-IJRQxak\/w640-h590\/Budget+Statement+UCOP+B4attach+to+Regents+1120.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe dominant narrative is . . . a balanced budget! (Same for \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com\/2020\/11\/listen-to-afternoon-meeting-of-regents.html\"\u003EFinance and Capital Strategies.\u003C\/a\u003E) Each item is an increment on an invisible base. Nearly all the items are personnel costs, in keeping with the perennial narrative element that workers are the cost albatross around the university's neck. \u0026nbsp;The failure of the state to fund capital projects is given the artificially minute price tag of $15 million (debt service). \u0026nbsp;The exception is deferred maintenance, featured as mostly an investment in cost savings, and expressed as a one-time sum, with no definition of total need (likely 100 times larger) or notice that DM is in fact the opposite of a one-time thing, by its very nature. The request for a state funding increase ($217.4 million, oddly parceled into four items) is not defined as a percentage of a general fund base or as a response to specified campus conditions. The amounts are very small, and have no obvious connection to the mass of current operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe budget \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov20\/b4.pdf\"\u003Edocument\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(B4) was presented to the regents by the two budget officials who do these honors at regular two month intervals, Nathan Brostrom and David Alcocer. They are both highly competent people who are genuinely devoted to the wellbeing of UC: my comments are not about the individuals but the narrative. \u0026nbsp;The presentation began about 2'15\" into the last session (bottom video on \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/meetings\/videos\/nov2020\/nov2020.html\"\u003Ethis page\u003C\/a\u003E; perma-archive of audio is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/2-regents-board-11-19-20\/2-Regents-Governance+Committee%2C+Special+Committee+on+Basic+Needs%2C+Board+11-19-20.mp3\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E). \u0026nbsp;UCOP framed the current year cuts with a full \"V-shaped\" recovery.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi0-hOrMhGAtvOV2_9to2Q3k8XQT-Txjyanw4KRzSnQSY0WqafIAQ3wDn3Yj1D5pyB6TJvDsuw9q_WiM-i3HFoqK6SN9ap56Q8zadtdA6xVwP4yzpj0PkAsOhCg_FFnUQ3n1RMOirgTrX0\/s2048\/Screen+Shot+2020-12-13+at+16.23.55.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1531\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi0-hOrMhGAtvOV2_9to2Q3k8XQT-Txjyanw4KRzSnQSY0WqafIAQ3wDn3Yj1D5pyB6TJvDsuw9q_WiM-i3HFoqK6SN9ap56Q8zadtdA6xVwP4yzpj0PkAsOhCg_FFnUQ3n1RMOirgTrX0\/w400-h299\/Screen+Shot+2020-12-13+at+16.23.55.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe shortfall is minimized as \"near-time,\" even though these non-core operations are, on campuses, forcing cuts to the educational core. \u0026nbsp;The term \"bridging strategies\" suggests losses have been contained, the further implication being no damage to the workforce and no need for better state funding support. As we have often noted in this space, the virtue signaling of self-reliance lets the state off the budget hook.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn presenting this slide, Brostrom noted the campuses have different shortfalls and different strategies for filling them. \u0026nbsp;This slide looks at the system aggregate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgid3rnWcb6A3mdrjXEBDjLR_pUz16ugDSt4x0Pqa31BT9vyKsj-HKkhTqJsb2coaeNslaxwIm4dwurXR7nIco4_vYbYfHo-1rGV2M5VZ4evj0U8aIWQRyTXVMpiuZa3KB7yyfk0fqEdpk\/s2048\/Screen+Shot+2020-12-13+at+16.28.43.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1531\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgid3rnWcb6A3mdrjXEBDjLR_pUz16ugDSt4x0Pqa31BT9vyKsj-HKkhTqJsb2coaeNslaxwIm4dwurXR7nIco4_vYbYfHo-1rGV2M5VZ4evj0U8aIWQRyTXVMpiuZa3KB7yyfk0fqEdpk\/w400-h299\/Screen+Shot+2020-12-13+at+16.28.43.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe main message is, again, the balanced budget. The state cut UC $300 million in the middle of a pandemic when it was losing $2.2 billion in revenue and incurring an additional $431 million in Covid-19 expenses. This reality disappears. \u0026nbsp;In the UCOP story, cuts don't really matter because the cuts were made up with a bunch of harmless-sounding stuff, like attrition and using reserves.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESame thing for next year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhAbcg-Q7-Td08G_p_e5itzsPPY5JPkQ43AEe5yH1BQbaUdhWU6cFkVJbrWkkzfe8mdyOYXsyN5aVBUL9pGtjmT8ZyYefr1xwGNPlqdWZPiKQFheinM6xikAaH3c3ENhmNCQBomq614-rk\/s2048\/Screen+Shot+2020-12-13+at+16.35.01.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1531\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhAbcg-Q7-Td08G_p_e5itzsPPY5JPkQ43AEe5yH1BQbaUdhWU6cFkVJbrWkkzfe8mdyOYXsyN5aVBUL9pGtjmT8ZyYefr1xwGNPlqdWZPiKQFheinM6xikAaH3c3ENhmNCQBomq614-rk\/w400-h299\/Screen+Shot+2020-12-13+at+16.35.01.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe state's cut to UC funding is permanent, so it shows up again. The current year's cost increases do too--so they apparently weren't actually covered as shown in the previous slide. \u0026nbsp;There are some new \"savings.\" These are really self-imposed cuts: the 10-year UCPath fiasco (a systemwide personnel transactions platform), in which IT \"efficiencies\" have really meant \"morale-crushing rigidity and huge new costs,\" should have ended UCOP's annual invocation of such savings. But the regents don't seem to know operations realities like UCPath's impacts on staff, so there they are again. \u0026nbsp;Non-resident student tuition is assigned a full bounce back, and the rest is supplied by restored state funding (though Brostrom noted verbally that this would be \"one-time\"). It all adds up to the standard budget narrative of equilibrium. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn reality, it doesn't. \u0026nbsp;It adds up to cuts on every campus, and a scramble to maximize alternative revenue streams that, in another unstated problem, move workforce effort away from the state-funded educational core. \u0026nbsp;The actuality of cuts surfaced briefly when the opening regental questioner, Michael Cohen, said about the phrase \"cost savings\" that \"I think you probably grabbed a sentence from some prior documents from the last decade or so,\" and then asked what long-term savings they mean. Brostrom noted that NRST is capped now, and new high-tuition programs are already in wide use. Translation: the budget patches of the 2010s are now used up. In fact, that leaves workforce cuts, delicately phrased as \"attrition and others.\" \u0026nbsp;(Cohen also got Brostom to move the number for reserves on the core budget from $174 million to $2 billion, although the issue died there.) In short, \"cost savings\" mainly means \"workforce cuts.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore we get to the Riverside dissent, let's tote up the core budget story elements:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Col style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBudget cuts happen, but they never cut UC's world-leading excellence.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUCOP cannot stop these budget cuts, but has already neutralized them.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAll fund sources are basically the same: private is as good as public; borrowing is as viable as state funding.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe burdensome costs are personnel (not capital projects, deferred maintenance, or internal subsidies for sponsored research).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECampus budgets have inherent differences that the campuses are handling differently.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENovember brought the latest installment of the \"wait and see\" policy advanced in every budget presentation during the 2020 Covid period. Covid will fade, and the business cycle will bring UC back to normal. In this story, no new framing, no new thinking, no new policies, no new advocacy, no new mobilization is needed.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E2. The Chancellors\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECohen's question was followed by one from Lark Park, who noted that the system budget doesn't always reflect the campuses and asked if one or two chancellors would like to speak. Enter UC Riverside's chancellor Wilcox.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EA lot of people have talked about the pandemic as a magnifier of differences. . . . It's true that we haven't raised resident tuition in many years. And we are a campus that is almost exclusively resident students. That part of our budget has been fixed for many years. . . .And of course that's in the face of the same kind of cost increases that everyone else has faced. \u0026nbsp;This has been a serious challenge for us at Riverside. To give you an idea, we have now people on campus suggesting that we eliminate the entire athletics program, shut down the study abroad program, our UCDC participation, and our UC Sacramento participation. And that's simply so we can preserve the dollars so we can maintain the core of the university. And ironically the last three . . . are because of our low participation rate, which, ironically, is because our students have fewer resources to participate. So for us, this is a dire situation. There are 6 FTE employed in the chancellor's office at UC Riverside. \u0026nbsp;I'm one of those six. We anticipate next year there will be 4. \u0026nbsp;We're cutting everything we can to manage this budget situation. While I appreciate the perspective of Nathan and David on the total being balanceable, the impact on the ground is significant. (2'44'':45 - 2'46\":30)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwo other junior campus chancellors backed Wilcox. Juan Sánchez Muñoz at Merced added that his local community depends on campus services that are being curtailed. Cynthia Larive at Santa Cruz noted the added burden of the very high cost of housing in that coastal location. Finally, Berkeley's Carol Christ chimed it to say that although Berkeley's budget is completely different from that of the younger, smaller campuses, \"this is the most severe crisis I've ever experienced in my career in higher education. It is a really challenging crisis for the campus. \u0026nbsp;. . .We have a deficit measured from March 2020 through June 2021 of 340 million dollars.\" She described a few sources and added, \"our losses in athletics are catastrophic.\" \u0026nbsp;While there are differences around the UC system, she concluded, \"it's not a question of not having budgetary duress on the campuses.\" (2'55\" - 2'56\")\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe regents' responses made it clear that they do not know what Covid costs and losses plus state cuts are doing to the the campuses. At the end, Regent George Kieffer said, \"if we maybe think about a working group, a smaller group, to understand how the process works within UCOP. . . [Formulas for campus allocations] are something I think that the regents have not understood--that I have not understood for most of my term.\" \u0026nbsp;Kieffer is the immediate past chair of the Board of Regents. \u0026nbsp;This admission suggests that the vast majority of the governing board has no real idea of how budgeting works or affects the campuses over which they have complete fiduciary responsibility and control.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA remarkable summation of the board's competence came from Park, speaking between Wilcox and the other chancellors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChancellor Wilcox I appreciate your candor on this. I know it can't be easy. I am surprised to hear this news, but I guess maybe in some ways I shouldn't be. There was a speaker in public comment this morning who alluded to the per-pupil funding disparities. [At the presidential search town hall at Riverside], we did hear an earful from faculty at the time, about how they felt undervalued in terms of per-pupil funding. \u0026nbsp;I guess I'm kind of taken aback by this. It's kind of ironic because I remember a presentation you gave, this time last year even, we heard about all that Riverside has achieved. And if we could just tell the Riverside story and the Merced story, it would be tremendous and we'd just get so much state support--in terms of the kind of students we're trying to support. I'm really worried that we are doing a real disservice here. And it worries me--I think that rather than advancing our interests on equity we're actually impeding it when we let the disparity continue to exist. I guess I should look to myself too--I've heard this and I've seen the numbers, but it just hasn't struck me as much. I do know it's tough times across the board because of Covid. But just as we know that some populations are struggling more than others in the real world here, I think that if we don't come to grips with this, we're not serving the system well. I think we need to figure out whether our formula advantages the already advantaged, which is something that goes against a lot of principles we've stated in the last year when we've done away with SAT when we endorsed Prop 209 \u0026nbsp;[sic]. I just think we need to go beyond this veneer, to get at what equity really means. . . . I appreciate your being candid with us and I appreciate the speaker who spoke in public comment. It reminded me of what we heard in Riverside. \u0026nbsp;I just would like to see this discussion continued in the very near future. I think we have to solve it. I think we have to decide that we want to do more than talk about equity, that we want to put our money where our mouth is. (2'47\" - 2'50\")\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOf course Park is right: the regents have been giving lip service to racial equity and inclusion because they have never bothered to insure that equity was budgeted. They seem not to study before the meetings, nor do they appear to read widely and think independently about systemic issues, even those overlapping with their expertise in finance, construction, and the like. The information is widely available. The Senate's UCPB produced a version of the campus funding disparities chart (via UCSD professor Andrew Dickson) around 2006. \u0026nbsp;The Santa Cruz chancellor's office injected a similar chart into budget negotiations with UCOP in 2009-10. A state audit thoroughly investigated the situation in 2011, and here at the blog we did a detailed, two-part post on the racialized funding inequities (2011-12; \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/racial-patterns-of-campus-budget.html\"\u003EPart 2\u003C\/a\u003E). \u0026nbsp;The Riverside campus hosts leading scholars of US and educational racism, structural and otherwise; one of these is Dylan Rodriguez, current president of the American Studies Association and immediate past chair of Riverside's divisional senate. The immediate past chair of Riverside's Council for Planning and Budget, physics professor Harry Tom, could produce an eloquent, comprehensive campus budget summary with an hour's notice. A former president of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, Pat Morton, teaches at Riverside. The current systemwide Senate chair, Mary Gauvin, teaches at Riverside, and was at the regents' budget presentation. And so on. \u0026nbsp;The information is out there for the regents to find: it's just not found for them by UCOP. \u0026nbsp; Unfortunately, this \"disengagement compact\" at the top of UC has hurt 21st century UC students, particularly the very high share of disadvantaged students that are relegated to the poorest campuses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChair Pérez concluded item B4 by saying, \"I did hear very clearly a desire from regents to dig down, and get a more granular view of the budget, so I will work with the president's office to figure out how we can achieve that.\" \u0026nbsp;The regents almost made it a full 50-minute hour on the UC budget proposal for 2020-21 (2'15\"-3'03\"). With some collective effort, it could be a turning point.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E3. The Story\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHere are some key elements of the better budget narrative that UC and other public universities desperately need.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EA. Big picture context: \u003C\/b\u003EIn contrast to current practice,\u0026nbsp;each budget proposal must be compared to the previous regental request (November 2020 to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/nov20\/b4.pdf\"\u003ENovember 2019)\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;(November 2019's B4 was a better presentation because it included metrics that nearly touched the third rail of UC politics: budget-driven quality declines.) \u0026nbsp;The year-on-year pattern should then be put in historical context. \u0026nbsp;Here's an example from our \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3d1CtZP\"\u003E\"essential charts\" post in May.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgScL1OgmGkmH3cdQ_p7R4evWjL1B1IJbpebvesstbREayeF_lJ-gT10GI85qiZ6Ww2OFQYaF2T_sFOqILUmBAwolYTNaK7617-Vb0ONnpzR-ctZEmjmkFFqnoumyqP4OltgZuLzJPv_N4\/s1386\/Chart+A+Final+052320.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"830\" data-original-width=\"1386\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgScL1OgmGkmH3cdQ_p7R4evWjL1B1IJbpebvesstbREayeF_lJ-gT10GI85qiZ6Ww2OFQYaF2T_sFOqILUmBAwolYTNaK7617-Vb0ONnpzR-ctZEmjmkFFqnoumyqP4OltgZuLzJPv_N4\/w400-h240\/Chart+A+Final+052320.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe state underfunds UC (red line) compared to the state personal income benchmark (blue line), and falls dramatically short of funding that tracked both income and enrollment growth (yellow line). State government has been saving money on the UC system for 20 years, and the regents can't see sub-standard campus resources without this context. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, the inadequate net revenues from past tuition hikes and the terrible effects of new unfunded costs need to be factored in to grasp\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Enet\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;per-student funding. UCOP could produce a more authoritative version of this effort:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh0vGB2MAjTqovUJiTwVruHn9HRxuF-9ilYLzoj8zqZ0AQwPqDmvLbK8dBC2FLXqvO8jIBuFXLcCNeom-xN7jt9RXu4EBA5D7A8xkAYGohBiNFY05yvQ9_CIOtkdXAWoPmn-9bzPJf4thk\/s1640\/Chart+E+052320+Formula+UCRP.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"842\" data-original-width=\"1640\" height=\"205\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh0vGB2MAjTqovUJiTwVruHn9HRxuF-9ilYLzoj8zqZ0AQwPqDmvLbK8dBC2FLXqvO8jIBuFXLcCNeom-xN7jt9RXu4EBA5D7A8xkAYGohBiNFY05yvQ9_CIOtkdXAWoPmn-9bzPJf4thk\/w400-h205\/Chart+E+052320+Formula+UCRP.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIn the calculation, net educational revenues (green line) follow the clearly inadequate state funding (red line), not higher gross figures the regents see (details are at the post linked above). This is a very bad situation that is redefining the quality and nature of UC. It of course won't be fixed until it is faced.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EB. Tie budgeting directly to its effects on policy priorities. \u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;Today's board is rightly obsessed with racial equity and inclusion. It's fairly easy to show a prima facie racist correlation in state funding for UC (from our \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3l7k5mW\"\u003E\"First Black President\" post\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi9XmpCsq7G8X0uOHU7alqliVVvmM7sighJOIlQCrsAdpi9J_R3cFCMMi1400_ppHWK4betK1zqpepnZZD4-VZ1ZK0g24N8fkP6sT0EmBBnI1eu0IOXXps0XK_u9yxYXeqKF8UAC4mx_1w\/s1600\/White+Share+UC+Enroll+x+State+GF+0620.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"916\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"229\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi9XmpCsq7G8X0uOHU7alqliVVvmM7sighJOIlQCrsAdpi9J_R3cFCMMi1400_ppHWK4betK1zqpepnZZD4-VZ1ZK0g24N8fkP6sT0EmBBnI1eu0IOXXps0XK_u9yxYXeqKF8UAC4mx_1w\/w400-h229\/White+Share+UC+Enroll+x+State+GF+0620.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis should be used to shame the legislature out of its practice of giving half the per-student funding to today's minority-majority UC that it gave to white UC.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EC. Clearly explain funding allocations to the campuses, including \"rebenching.\"\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHere's a down payment on an explanation the regents need to have. Rebenching was UC's response to a state audit back in 2011. The audit identified funding inequities that it set forth as racialized \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/racial-patterns-of-campus-budget.html\"\u003E(\"Racial Patterns of Campus Budget Inequality\").\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; Not only had UCOP allowed campuses to keep all their non-resident student tuition, which \"advantaged the already advantaged,\" to cite Regent Park, but was giving less state general funding to the newer (and browner) campuses. \u0026nbsp;The plan was to increase the average per-student allocation to the highest level (UCLA's) with new money. \u0026nbsp;It took about six years, and here's the theory of what happened.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiHtR7bglsRqEuPMukrkFQZZeDvLmjsZ-dcENP-zMsWMIALPMBPmLqneedFQHx5gFqp4CVE72k8AQOp-QaFhx5zpwolyyzibCGQKlgTPmlJIwTLsMhXkPNOatf9tAOTTLbYs78o08KJOhg\/s1872\/Ideal+Rebenching+UCOP+2016.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1400\" data-original-width=\"1872\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiHtR7bglsRqEuPMukrkFQZZeDvLmjsZ-dcENP-zMsWMIALPMBPmLqneedFQHx5gFqp4CVE72k8AQOp-QaFhx5zpwolyyzibCGQKlgTPmlJIwTLsMhXkPNOatf9tAOTTLbYs78o08KJOhg\/w400-h299\/Ideal+Rebenching+UCOP+2016.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHere UCOP has told the regents that the campuses now live in budgetary equality. So why was Riverside Chancellor Wilcox saying his campus gets the least money per student? \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause of how rebenching actually worked. \u0026nbsp;Rebenching carved out some kinds of campus specific state earmarks and gave each campus a fixed base, so not all state funding was rebenched. Secondly, students were weighted by type, with doctoral students counting 2.5. For example, UC Berkeley had 41,891 students (headcount) at a census point in 2017-18. But it has a high share of doctoral students, so its \"weighted\" enrollment was 49,894. Berkeley gets the same rate of $6000 and odd per student, but for 8,003 students more than it physically has. Riverside moves from 23,279 unweighted to 26,338 weighted, or an increase of 3059. Berkeley's increase is 19 percent relative to its unweighted base; Riverside's is 13 percent. \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;This in keeping with the other features of the formula leads to \"advantaging those already advantaged.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA final factor is that only a campus's enrollments at the start of the rebenching period were actually rebenched. (I am inferring this from the fact that I was not able to reproduce the UCOP chart above, and got an approximation only by holding enrollment constant.) Sometime during this period, UCOP decided to accept a \"surge\" of resident students to compensate for the political liability that high non-resident enrollments had created. New resident undergraduates were given whatever amount was cooked up in a Brown-Napolitano deal in a given year ($5000 one year, $0 in another, etc.). Here's \u003Ci\u003Eactual\u003C\/i\u003E (weighted) enrollments look like:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjdgRjoEiJ4tEvEymjIpYWqYblLTYoAMGDpU7U2DRnYjKmZrGBHwg50PZYKTLRI6jjarJ4qwhQVLMlDFx6XMmVYU_aQPRRUcdAku-WC1SAcHfWT4D8D7W1hPPlYFfM9HDMtl64O1wcGySc\/s2120\/Funding+Per+Weighted+Enroll+CJN+Standard+ebenching.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"972\" data-original-width=\"2120\" height=\"184\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjdgRjoEiJ4tEvEymjIpYWqYblLTYoAMGDpU7U2DRnYjKmZrGBHwg50PZYKTLRI6jjarJ4qwhQVLMlDFx6XMmVYU_aQPRRUcdAku-WC1SAcHfWT4D8D7W1hPPlYFfM9HDMtl64O1wcGySc\/w400-h184\/Funding+Per+Weighted+Enroll+CJN+Standard+ebenching.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENo convergence. Flat funding. And Riverside bumping along the bottom. (I assume UCSB did better because it grew less in this period.) The surge's underfunded resident undergrads were the price UC paid for rapid non-resident tuition growth, meaning that campuses like Riverside paid for NRST revenues at campuses like Berkeley.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach campus experiences its educational quality through total available revenues. Adding tuition (including the non-resident tuition and for-profit masters programs (SSPs) at 3x resident rates to state funding looks like this:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhImyH3SNCjPm99slAybEZfXoyWLmwSrANrUHZSSSWbYbjSVM-o7x5ELf2b4mLLds5__FesAhnCANv492iTHMT_J2Ukarf2ZodnD15geQQG4TJDwSGd98lYZURGHF9ghK4RbUmXS4SWYs4\/s1842\/Funding+per+Unweighted+GF%252BTuition+CJN.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"946\" data-original-width=\"1842\" height=\"205\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhImyH3SNCjPm99slAybEZfXoyWLmwSrANrUHZSSSWbYbjSVM-o7x5ELf2b4mLLds5__FesAhnCANv492iTHMT_J2Ukarf2ZodnD15geQQG4TJDwSGd98lYZURGHF9ghK4RbUmXS4SWYs4\/w400-h205\/Funding+per+Unweighted+GF%252BTuition+CJN.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThis confirms Wilcox's claim that Riverside has the least revenues per student. UCOP in effect is sending poorer (and mostly URM) students to the poorest campus in defiance of UC's professed values, to say nothing of standards of educational and social effectiveness. \u0026nbsp; You can also see here the chronic problem of \"Two UC Systems,\" separate and unequal, which the enrollment surge intensified.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003ED. Tell the budget stories from the bottom up\u003C\/b\u003E. \u0026nbsp;Wilcox disrupted budget orthodoxy by talking about his campus for 105 seconds. \u0026nbsp;The other chancellors spoke for around 60 seconds each. \u0026nbsp;These vignettes changed the Board's budget perceptions, at least temporarily. They could and should be multiplied a thousand-fold and turned into coherent stories. \u0026nbsp;Faculty, staff, and students could create a different master narrative by laying out what is happening in classrooms, grad student cubicles, libraries, and laboratories. It would fundamentally change budget perceptions, and also, over time, public understanding and budget politics in a bewieldered state.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany other people need to tell their alternative budget stories. \u003Ci\u003EYou\u003C\/i\u003E other people. All kinds of campus people. Neither the regents nor UCOP can or will do this on their own. \u0026nbsp;They don't know enough, and they aren't correctly placed. \u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EYou\u003C\/i\u003E actually do know enough. \u0026nbsp;This knowledge can overcome the current stumbling blocks: top-down governance, and the absence of a UC opposition party to put forth a New Budget platform for UC. \u0026nbsp;The Senate hasn't done it. CUCFA hasn't done it. \u0026nbsp;Even AFSCME, whose Claudia Preparata has done the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Afscme3299\/videos\/1146560455717757\"\u003Ebest independent analysis of UC reserves\u003C\/a\u003E, hasn't done it. \u0026nbsp;The pieces of alternatives are a good start but aren't enough. Individual work can always be marginalized in the time-honored UC tradition of shunning the messenger and ignoring the message. \u0026nbsp;(Even tenured faculty fear shunning, since it makes them feel devalued and also blocks the possibility of an administrative appointment that, during decades of sub-par salaries, is the main way to get a significant raise.) A complete rebuilding of a broken budget model is too important to keep delaying the day regular campus folks start pooling their experiences, saying the way things ought to be, building the story line, and detailing how to fund it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWarmest congratulations for getting to the end of 2020. \u0026nbsp;Happy 2021 to one and all.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/9132012026213510402\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/the-arc-of-history-bends-towards_31.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/9132012026213510402"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/9132012026213510402"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/the-arc-of-history-bends-towards_31.html","title":"The Arc of History Bends Towards Narrative (Part 2): True Budget Stories for Governing Boards"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgvIt4O7qBCOKkkofB-Dy0UpZ37CqQ507QAcw9TgOu7OPXlNGjVu97Rmg-QP597QdT3WHZppV8jAnWQLDZEJrFUMDqP9V6PoU6hWfaIpAdaSB5SjZwoRA1mEsLQYUqSQEPG_fPQMqudKW8\/s72-c\/Wilcox+Kim+UCRiverside+Highlander+0320+on+SAT.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-3696469701003866473"},"published":{"$t":"2018-11-30T09:32:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-07-17T07:24:45.026-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guest post"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Policing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Davis"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Riverside"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Fiat Lux, Free Speech, and Police Violence"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh4RtbHD6CmtaWrEx13A6D3WnUk7CvRpkLTdidZhK3sMgo-xqzTcvsS-Te0rq8MplyS1Aq1EJyhbhGM4y-QKGExVD8ONOu5EgdyvzwNzPYapopFPg7f10Pv5wWwt55C-YoDR8c-_qx7Kso\/s1600\/General-Barrows-Armistice-Day+1926.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"480\" data-original-width=\"600\" height=\"256\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh4RtbHD6CmtaWrEx13A6D3WnUk7CvRpkLTdidZhK3sMgo-xqzTcvsS-Te0rq8MplyS1Aq1EJyhbhGM4y-QKGExVD8ONOu5EgdyvzwNzPYapopFPg7f10Pv5wWwt55C-YoDR8c-_qx7Kso\/s320\/General-Barrows-Armistice-Day+1926.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EComments from the 150th Anniversary Symposium of the University of California Academic Senate, Oakland, California, October 27, 2018,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003Eby \u003C\/i\u003EDylan Rodríguez,\u003Ci\u003E Chair of the UC Riverside Academic Senate, Professor, Department of Media and Cultural Studies\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E[Photo: Gen. David Barrows, Armistice Day, 1926, courtesy of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.foundsf.org\/index.php?title=File:General-Barrows-Armistice-Day.jpg\"\u003EFoundSF\u003C\/a\u003E.]\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLet us reconsider the full historical context of the University of California’s founding moment and the context in which it coined its motto, “Fiat Lux.”\u0026nbsp; A brief reflection on the UC’s political, geographic, and historical conditions of possibility may offer some vital complexity and depth to recent college- and university-based discourses on free speech and academic freedom, while raising deeper questions about the notions of “speech” and “freedom” in-and-of-themselves.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe founding of the University of California represents a particular confrontation between Western Euroamerican modernity and the high point of Manifest Destiny—a nation-building cultural, political, and military regime that is inseparable from the UC’s academic and juridical infrastructure.\u0026nbsp; During this extended period, the UC’s founding faculty and administrators were engaged in a variety of global colonial projects, which is to say racial colonial projects, including the US conquest and protracted colonial governance of the Philippines.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAs a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, i spent a lot of time in a building named after David Barrows, President of the University of California from 1919-1923.\u0026nbsp; Barrows had an interest in California Indians, particularly the Cahuilla Tribe, the topic of his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Chicago (where else?).\u0026nbsp; Before he became the UC president, Barrows played a pivotal role in the US colonization of the Philippines, during which the US military was engaged in a genocidal military campaign to liquidate and neutralize indigenous resistance to colonial occupation throughout the archipelago.\u0026nbsp; As people and ecologies were destroyed, burned, and displaced, Barrows accepted an appointment as Chief of the “Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes of the Philippine Islands.”\u0026nbsp; I imagine that if he were awakened from his mortal slumber, President Barrows might concede that the conditions of his own “academic freedom,” of his freedom to speak and his “freedom of speech,” were not only entangled in but constituted by his lifelong engagements with projects of colonial dominance, from the Cahuilla to the “non-Christian” Philippine tribes.\u0026nbsp; “Fiat Lux” indeed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAcross these and other historical political geographies of racial-colonial dominance, modern law, rights, and disciplinary academic knowledges affirm white life’s ascendancy over all other life.\u0026nbsp; This has been the historical, if generally tacit mission statement of the modern university, including the University of California.\u0026nbsp; War against other life, culture, ecology, and sociality is the genesis of law, rights, and university epistemologies in this instance, structuring the “civility” and the “freedom” that disciplines those who are on the historical margins of that civil society, the underside of the thing called Civilization.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn this sense, it is horrifically appropriate that so many of us engaged in the counter-knowledge productions of critical ethnic studies, queer studies, gender and feminist studies, and decolonial studies have encountered David Barrows’ bronze bust in that building at UC Berkeley.\u0026nbsp; His visage reminds us that the intellectual space and infrastructure to engage in such counter-knowledge production is the outcome of intense, rigorous, collective social movement that critically extends the entitlements of academic freedom while confronting the ways in which the institutional stability constructed around the edifices of academic freedom is actively policed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAllow me to turn to the fact of policing in the second half of my reflections on this 150th anniversary.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nA spectacle of police violence at UC Davis on November 18, 2011 catalyzed a national and international response, fixated on the vulnerable bodies of young white people engaged in an act of civil disobedience. (With all due respect to the people of color who were also in the line of fire at Davis, my contention is that their bodies were not the ones with which the national and international response was primarily concerned, nor was their vulnerability centrally responsible for inciting this global outrage in the first place.)\u0026nbsp; Largely displaced by the righteous outcry over the UC Davis police’s pepper spraying of students in November 2011 was a more massive and militarized display of police force\/violence that occurred at my home campus of UC Riverside two months later, on January 19, 2012.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOn this day, UCR students were shot with “less than lethal” police pellets during protests of tuition\/fee increases at a meeting of the UC Regents.\u0026nbsp; (Here i will gently suggest that we modify our language to acknowledge that these actions might be more comprehensively described as “debt protests.”)\u0026nbsp; In anticipation of this student-led demonstration, police were mobilized from every UC campus other than Davis and Merced, supplemented by officers from the City of Riverside Police Department and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.\u0026nbsp; Police helicopters periodically circled over the protest, while officers appeared to assume sniper positions at strategic high points on several campus buildings.\u0026nbsp; The climate was thick with police presence, and the pageantry of political intimidation represented a massive show of force against the students, faculty, staff, and ordinary people who populated the crowd.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjej8oTYZeTA8gta0Lt8Alm1yChb4CUDrfO2r31mYwQk2bm5bamlIxe6qtYb8CEt-_vA0HzYpvKbBAwfD3swDlEaOcMhLcEZqm-WHjLNJC8AS6OTCUmo4QNFiUYMTN328unXuqQXFloyMM\/s1600\/Riverside+CopLine+DylanRodriguez.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1200\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjej8oTYZeTA8gta0Lt8Alm1yChb4CUDrfO2r31mYwQk2bm5bamlIxe6qtYb8CEt-_vA0HzYpvKbBAwfD3swDlEaOcMhLcEZqm-WHjLNJC8AS6OTCUmo4QNFiUYMTN328unXuqQXFloyMM\/s640\/Riverside+CopLine+DylanRodriguez.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003ERiot police confronting student protest at UC Regents meeting, UC Riverside, January 19, 2012 (photo courtesy of the author)\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis police presence starkly contrasted with the protest’s well-disciplined adherence to tactics of “nonviolence.” (By way of definition, i do not consider loud chants, intense and vitriolic rhetorics of protest, militant refusal to disperse an alleged “unlawful assembly” or sit-down blockades to constitute “violence”; further, even if one wishes to perform the academic gymnastics of labeling such activities as forms of discursive, symbolic, existential, and\/or immanent violence, they are not of a kind remotely comparable to the aforementioned marshaling of legitimated state violence.) For reasons i have explained elsewhere, we should not be surprised that UC Riverside’s scene of police repression—images of which were easily accessible via e-mail listservs, public YouTube videos, Facebook photos, and the like—did not attract remotely the kind of attention and righteous reaction as did the incident at UC Davis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere is something structurally white supremacist about how expressions of outrage and institutional shaming over the UC Davis police spectacle seemed to be fueled by an overidentification with (historically white) university campuses as places of presumed innocence, wherein enrolled and employed (white) bodies are presumed to presume innocence.\u0026nbsp; On the other hand, UC Riverside students generally signify (and biographically reflect) the normalized policing and criminalization of Black, Native, and Brown people—young and old, urban and rural, transgender, queer, and straight.\u0026nbsp; Such bodies—such people—are incapable of extracting the consensus of liberal outrage surrounding (and ultimately protecting) the repressive university policing of white, able-bodied college youth.\u0026nbsp; Thus, while all campus policing is fundamentally “political,” only a select few of its most acute forms are addressed as such.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere is a punchline to this story that takes place in a former UCR Chancellor’s living room…\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDuring this period, Chancellor Tim White periodically invited groups of department chairs to his residence for friendly dinners, during which he engaged us in conversation about things we felt were important to the campus.\u0026nbsp; During the dinner i attended, a fellow departmental chair and i raised concerns over the heavy handedness of the police response to the nonviolent, student-led action of January 19.\u0026nbsp; (Other chairs seemed either unaware of this matter or uninterested in raising such criticisms of police violence and administrative complicity.)\u0026nbsp; After eating, the fellow chair and i sat with Chancellor White on his living room couch.\u0026nbsp; He looked us both in the eye and, in a most calm and reassuring tone, expressed sympathy with our concerns and informed us that he had taken pains to instruct the police to shoot the student protestors “below the knees.”\u0026nbsp; My colleague and i took turns staring at each other and the floor.\u0026nbsp; Not long thereafter, i watched Chancellor White shed crocodile tears over the financial hardships of a Black woman undergraduate on an episode of the reality show “Undercover Boss.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI offer these reflections to deprovincialize and radically contextualize the concepts and jurisprudence of free speech and academic freedom beyond the institutional mythologies of “Fiat Lux.”\u0026nbsp; Allow me to conclude with a set of overlapping questions that may offer some productive reframing of our ongoing discussions:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWho are the assumptive subjects of “free speech” and “academic freedom?”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EHow are these notions of liberty (particularly as they are inseparable from the jurisprudential regime that produces them as such) structured in relations of gender, race, sexual, and colonial dominance in the long historical and recurrent-present tense?\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EHow are free speech and academic freedom actually inhabited by people whose speech and thought are constituted in relations of dominance, such that the underlying humanist allegation at the core of both terms is (perhaps radically) demystified and disrupted?\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWhat forms of policing are martialed through the politics of free speech and academic freedom?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhile both \"free speech\" and \"academic freedom\" suggest discourses of liberty, i would argue that they cannot be separated from the densely historical, gendered racial-colonial logics that persistently claim to secure such “freedom” and “liberty” against lurking threats from what W.E.B. DuBois famously called “the darker peoples of the world.”"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3696469701003866473\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2018\/11\/fiat-lux-free-speech-and-police-violence.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3696469701003866473"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3696469701003866473"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2018\/11\/fiat-lux-free-speech-and-police-violence.html","title":"Fiat Lux, Free Speech, and Police Violence"}],"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\/AVvXsEh4RtbHD6CmtaWrEx13A6D3WnUk7CvRpkLTdidZhK3sMgo-xqzTcvsS-Te0rq8MplyS1Aq1EJyhbhGM4y-QKGExVD8ONOu5EgdyvzwNzPYapopFPg7f10Pv5wWwt55C-YoDR8c-_qx7Kso\/s72-c\/General-Barrows-Armistice-Day+1926.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-5286560327609511619"},"published":{"$t":"2017-05-07T10:47:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-05-07T10:47:23.886-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Shared Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Transparency"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Riverside"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The UCOP Audit and University Governance"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhjOe9uQZaKHHKUnX5J5RuP70AVnU39MMBJn5auToy3_sLeKedVOOGj6QjCDVYi3G1ZHt2ss9E62fRwTHuocef0jyGG1HXLP62F1COc0EpItzUjsifvX_pt9jzYugW6FWOFvf50ChQKU2GE\/s1600\/Directors%2527+Court+Room%252C+East++India+House+compressed+MM1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhjOe9uQZaKHHKUnX5J5RuP70AVnU39MMBJn5auToy3_sLeKedVOOGj6QjCDVYi3G1ZHt2ss9E62fRwTHuocef0jyGG1HXLP62F1COc0EpItzUjsifvX_pt9jzYugW6FWOFvf50ChQKU2GE\/s320\/Directors%2527+Court+Room%252C+East++India+House+compressed+MM1.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nAs expected, the State Auditor's report on UCOP has triggered a huge political uproar. The charges of secret reserves, out of control personnel policies, special benefits for executives, and UCOP interference into the audit process have been explosive to say the least. \u0026nbsp;There have been two legislative committee meetings that addressed it, numerous statements from politicians about its implications for UC, and editorials and op-eds expressing justifiable outrage about UCOP secrecy and management practices. Predictably enough, some legislators have called into question UC's constitutional autonomy. \u0026nbsp;Despite, or perhaps because of, efforts by UCOP and the Regents to explain away some of the problems, the damage to the University's reputation has been considerable. \u0026nbsp;This report is going to haunt the University for a good while.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAmidst all of the heated disagreement, however, there has been one fundamental, and fundamentally wrong, point at which all of the arguing parties appear to agree: \u0026nbsp;that the answer to the problems the audit revealed can and should be solved from the top down. \u0026nbsp;Wherever you turn in the discussion (whether in the auditor's suggestion that the legislature pass a separate budget for UCOP and establish an outside overseer, or President's Napolitano's assurance that she had established an internal UCOP working group to improve things, or Regent Lozano's insistence that the Regents were hard at work in ensuring their \"governance\" of the institution as well as hiring an outside consultant to help with UCOP reforms), the common element in all of the proposals is that the answer is to be found in a closed loop of decision makers shuttling between Oakland and Sacramento (with the occasional nod to the campus chancellors). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn fact, the most striking aspect of the auditor's report and UCOP's response was the almost total absence of any acknowledgement of faculty or staff knowledge or perspectives. \u0026nbsp;Where were the formal responses of Senate Committees in the report? \u0026nbsp;How exactly is the auditor to know if the programs that UCOP oversees are productive if they don't get unfiltered responses from the people who are providing the education and front-line services to students, are engaging in research, and are attempting to convey that research to the public? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMoving forward, the Regents have decided to hire an outside consultant to review UCOP's plans for reforms. \u0026nbsp;This suggests that the University has no business or public policy schools with faculty who are experts in these issues. \u0026nbsp;If only the Senate had a knowledgeable committee on Budget and Planning or perhaps one on Research that could provide meaningful and ongoing oversight of practices that are supposed to enable the university's core functions. But apparently not. \u0026nbsp;Instead we are to witness UCOP organize an internal reorganization with some review by a paid outside contractor answerable to the Regents who have never demanded from UCOP either the clarity of presentation or the documentation that everyone now seems to agree is essential going forward.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTo be fair, this problem is not limited to either UCOP or the Regents. \u0026nbsp;Although arguably an effect of the Yudof administration and the wrong turn taken by the University Commission on the Future, the proliferation of task forces, the sidelining of formal Senate oversight, the general decay of shared governance, and the centralization of management and authority is deeply embedded on campuses as well. \u0026nbsp;Task forces not only serve to tilt authority in the direction of management but also eliminate the production of institutional memory and documentation that are, or at least should be, one offshoot of standing Senate committees. \u0026nbsp;Of course, that institutional faculty memory will only matter if faculty themselves are willing to take the time and effort to press for their viewpoints to be heard and to have influence. \u0026nbsp;As one Anonymous argued in a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/what-ucop-audit-means.html?showComment=1494096844006#c2264472657759574290\"\u003Ecomment \u003C\/a\u003Eon Chris' \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/what-ucop-audit-means.html\"\u003Elast post\u003C\/a\u003E, it is up to faculty to begin to take the time to work with staff to clarify and understand university budgeting from the departments on up. \u0026nbsp;This knowledge will not solve all of our problems. \u0026nbsp;But given what we know from the audit and its responses, reform cannot depend on top-down initiatives.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI recognize that all of these things may seem to be lost causes; too many of us have accepted the new rules of the game. While we complain, we do not see any possibility of change. \u0026nbsp;To make matters more difficult, secrecy tends to protect specific rather than general interests. \u0026nbsp;But more is at stake than simply a desire for faculty voice. \u0026nbsp;The contemporary managed university does not have the internal democracy nor the free flow of information and institutional knowledge it needs to meet its purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn his \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/what-ucop-audit-means.html?showComment=1493939278475#c6548008269132910295\"\u003Ecomment\u003C\/a\u003E on Chris' last post, Bob Samuels noted that some of the changes to the audit responses made the online education program look better. \u0026nbsp;But UC's online venture is a \u0026nbsp;classic example of managerially imposed and rushed changes made in the nature of a supposed market driven necessity. \u0026nbsp;I'm sure we have all heard managers complain about how faculty do not want to change fast enough; perhaps they might consider that a rush to bad judgment marginalizes the deeper thinking that makes failure less likely. \u0026nbsp;If the University really wants to think about how to educate and create knowledge more effectively for the twenty-first century, \u0026nbsp;they would do well to recognize that in universities knowledge flows upward. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe recent experience at UC Riverside is only one example of the crises that can result from a managerial failure to learn from faculty and front line staff. \u0026nbsp; There the administration sidelined faculty input in the early stages of its planned expansion, rushed to hire despite faculty concerns, didn't think about the necessary lab and classroom space its new hires needed and marginalized departments. \u0026nbsp;In the end, the Riverside Senate had to step in and salvage the situation. \u0026nbsp;If there had been genuine consultation the situation would have been avoided in the first place rather than being redone later. \u0026nbsp;This situation was not the result of evil or self-serving administrators but rather of the collapse of the practices of shared governance and the recognition that institutions require a structured way to absorb the multiple perspectives that exceed the managerial groups. \u0026nbsp;But that is not an idea one would find in the closed managerial circuit between the State Auditor, UCOP, the Regents, the California Legislature, or, most likely, local campus administrators.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOf course, these problems are not limited to UC. \u0026nbsp;As indicated by the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/academeblog.org\/2017\/05\/03\/mitch-daniels-wants-to-sell-the-soul-of-public-education-purdue-faculty-must-stop-him\/\"\u003Eongoing revolt of the faculty \u003C\/a\u003E(including a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2017\/05\/05\/purdue-faculty-votes-against-kaplan-process\"\u003Eresolution of the university's faculty senate\u003C\/a\u003E) over Purdue University's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.jconline.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/dave-bangert\/2017\/05\/02\/bangert-law-shields-purdues-new-online-school\/101183110\/\"\u003Esecretly negotiated agreement\u003C\/a\u003E with \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/There-s-a-Reason-the\/239954\"\u003EKaplan's online education business\u003C\/a\u003E, the willingness of university administrators to seek deals without proper consultation and without due public debate is widespread. \u0026nbsp;Nor is this limited to public universities (indeed private universities are probably worse). Yale and Columbia (neither of which have robust traditions of faculty governance) \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dissentmagazine.org\/blog\/yale-columbia-trump-nlrb-graduate-employee-union-busting\"\u003Ehave sought to mobilize a seemingly endless array of technicalities\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to keep their graduate student workers from collective bargaining. Vanderbilt University has recently sought to prevent the unionization of their NTT faculty by claiming that they are managerial (a position \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/quicktakes\/2017\/05\/05\/nlrb-vanderbilt-full-time-non-tenure-track-instructors-arent-managers\"\u003Erejected by the NLRB\u003C\/a\u003E) and suggesting that their unionization would break down traditions of shared governance (although few NTT are included in that). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThese may at first glance appear to be distant from the controversies about UCOP. \u0026nbsp;But they all point to the same issue: the refusal of top managers to recognize that the cost of achieving their expanded flexibility is the increasing inability of universities to take advantage of the practical knowledge held by faculty and staff. \u0026nbsp;There is, of course, a perspective of system and of the whole that must be part of any decision-making process. \u0026nbsp;But it is only one such perspective. \u0026nbsp;And if that perspective is, as has happened, increasingly sundered from the perspectives of the faculty and staff, then we will see more and more examples of universities cut off from their purposes and surrendering to demands to serve other interests than their own.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5286560327609511619\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/the-ucop-audit-and-university-governance.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/5286560327609511619"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/5286560327609511619"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/the-ucop-audit-and-university-governance.html","title":"The UCOP Audit and University Governance"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhjOe9uQZaKHHKUnX5J5RuP70AVnU39MMBJn5auToy3_sLeKedVOOGj6QjCDVYi3G1ZHt2ss9E62fRwTHuocef0jyGG1HXLP62F1COc0EpItzUjsifvX_pt9jzYugW6FWOFvf50ChQKU2GE\/s72-c\/Directors%2527+Court+Room%252C+East++India+House+compressed+MM1.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-785598063146511321"},"published":{"$t":"2016-03-07T07:42:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-18T18:21:28.639-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Administrative Overreach"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"For-Profit"},{"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":"UC"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Berkeley"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Davis"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Riverside"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Managerial Disconnect"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjsfToszp1PsYvlKlMtlZi3AoEN1KzaOEHjBC5smXImGJjKfkJwttzpD7GFFY7aIMgtE68HROJT5ia6j5ikw8BdxKQI5vOAWjOC97YQvskTHhi8q8erIZOsXyR0278m_jOcA8uP8WZilKQf\/s1600\/marlborough-house-time-of-anne-mansion-westminster-london-pall-mall-B8P4GJ.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjsfToszp1PsYvlKlMtlZi3AoEN1KzaOEHjBC5smXImGJjKfkJwttzpD7GFFY7aIMgtE68HROJT5ia6j5ikw8BdxKQI5vOAWjOC97YQvskTHhi8q8erIZOsXyR0278m_jOcA8uP8WZilKQf\/s320\/marlborough-house-time-of-anne-mansion-westminster-london-pall-mall-B8P4GJ.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\nThe \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-uc-davis-chancellor-20160304-story.html\"\u003Escandal\nengulfing\u003C\/a\u003E UC Davis Chancellor Katehi is only the latest sign of the disconnection between our managerial elite and the rest of the University. While students face increased tuition and debt, faculty and staff face a reduction in benefits, and the entire Berkeley campus faces the possibility of a reduction in academic range and quality, some managers operate in a bubble of their own, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2015\/01\/how-are-universities-adapting-to-globalization\/\"\u003Ehobnobbing\nin Davos\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/investigations\/the-public-eye\/article64041327.html\"\u003Ebeing paid to sit on corporate boards\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe story surrounding Chancellor Katehi is fairly simple.  It turns out that she \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/investigations\/the-public-eye\/article63917982.html\"\u003Eaccepted a position\u003C\/a\u003E on the Board of the Devry Educational Group, a for-profit college under investigation by two federal agencies. Before that she had also served on the Board of John Wiley and Sons, a publisher of textbooks and academic journals from whom she received $420,000 in stocks and cash.  Each of these positions posed potential conflicts of interest: advising companies doing business with UC, her primary employer; supporting a for-profit (and arguably sub-prime) competitor to UC; and assuming responsibility for a textbook company (and implicitly its profits) at a time when the University as a whole has been seeking to ensure lower textbook costs for students.  To make matters worse, it appears that Chancellor Katehi accepted the position at Devry without getting the required approval from UCOP.  She has now resigned from the DeVry Board.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe case of Chancellor Katehi is remarkable, of course, because her choices have raised obvious questions about conflict of interest.  It is hard to imagine that neither she nor her staff could see that joining these Boards (especially DeVry) was unacceptable.  If nothing else, one would think that they would recognize that even the appearance of these conflicts would damage the ability of UC to justify increased state funding.  It certainly does not generate confidence in her effectively navigating the challenges facing higher education in general and UC in particular.  Indeed the situation boggles the mind.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut it would be a mistake to focus too much on her singular case.  She is not alone among Chancellors in serving on Boards (and receiving supplemental pay). Nor is she alone in assuming that it is\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article64148602.html\"\u003E productive for Chancellors to serve on corporate boards\u003C\/a\u003E.  It is this last assumption that lies at the heart of the problem. One aspect of so-called \"new normal\" (which is \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/the-new-normal-isnt-normal-it-erodes.html\"\u003Eneither new nor normal\u003C\/a\u003E) has been the growing separation of campus and universities managers from the vast majority of employees and the everyday life of their institutions. Determining the extent of \"administrative bloat\" is admittedly complicated (most of the additional positions are not high-level) but the growth of administrative structures have shifted funds from the core practices of the university--teaching and research. Moreover, the persistence of administrative growth speaks to the lack of transparency that campus administrations provide about the actual functions and effects of this growth.  Whatever the justification, the end result is a senior administration cut off from campus and operating in an endless round of fundraising while caught in the echo-chamber of assumptions about the need for closer ties to business and their management models, which are in turn fueled by state funding cuts that rest in part on the belief in their inevitability.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOne sign of this separation is Chancellor Katehi's retriggering of the perennial question of executive comp, but it is not the only one. Chris and I have pointed repeatedly to UCOP's consistent willingness to avoid the established mechanisms of shared governance in the University. (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2015\/11\/this-week-at-regents-ii-medical-centers.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2015\/11\/this-week-at-regents-budget.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2015\/11\/the-weak-vs-wrong-and-emerging.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E for recent discussions).  The effect of withdrawing from public discussion is, paradoxically, a more deeply politicized process in which all the key decisions appear to be made by hand-picked participants in a closed system that wastes most of the collective intelligence of the institution. The campuses are not free of similar issues.  Let me mention two:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n1) The clearest example of the problem is the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/uc-berkeley-chancellor-says-new-normal.html\"\u003Eongoing crisis at UC Berkeley\u003C\/a\u003E.  In the period after Chancellor Dirks' held his meeting with faculty and staff (which provided little if any clarity by all accounts) the public discussion of change has proceeded through rumor and fear.  First were the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2016\/02\/25\/campus-considers-dissolving-college-chemistry-cut-costs\/\"\u003Erumors of the closing of the College of Chemistry\u003C\/a\u003E with \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2016\/03\/04\/students-rally-possible-dissolution-campus-college-chemistry-friday\/\"\u003Eresulting protests\u003C\/a\u003E,  Then there was the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sph.berkeley.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Undergraduate-program-update_2-29-16.pdf\"\u003Eclosing\u003C\/a\u003E and\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2016\/03\/04\/school-of-public-health-reopens\/\"\u003E reopening\u003C\/a\u003E of the major in public health, amid rumors surrounding the possibility of major cuts to the School of Public Health.  Although it may be inevitable that there will be rumor and agitation at a time of crisis, what we might call \"negotiation by anxiety and innuendo\" is a sign of the lack of open and transparent discussion.  Even the Chancellor's meeting with faculty and staff \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/the-new-normal-isnt-normal-it-erodes.html\"\u003Eseemingly offered little to assure people\u003C\/a\u003E of genuine, open, campus discussion of budget options based upon shared evidence and data made available to the campus as a whole.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n2) A similar faux discussion recently took place at UC Riverside.  There \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2016\/02\/01\/uc-riverside-faculty-survey-suggests-outrage-cluster-hiring-initiative\"\u003Ethe issue concerned the constitution and extent of a new proposal for cluster hires\u003C\/a\u003E.  There is much to be said in favor of cluster hires (although they are no panacea and in some cases can simply be a way of forcing more labor onto faculty members). But for them to work they need to be initiated from the bottom and grow out of teaching and research initiatives.  At Riverside the opposite was the case.  The proposal was initiated from the top by a\nnew administration and, to listen to the results of a survey of faculty experience, the process was unclear, inconsistent, and in the end open to serious distortion at the top. From Inside Higher Ed:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\"The process was chaotic, disorganized and very opaque,” reads one narrative survey response, echoing dozens of others expressing similar criticisms. “Enormous amounts of the faculty’s time was wasted. … We’ve been given new instructions repeatedly, have had to redo job descriptions and must search for all the positions simultaneously, which will be very difficult. I doubt the outcome will be good.” \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe new Provost Paul D'Anieri, on the other hand, speaking in the language of ownership often typical of senior management, insisted that UC Riverside is \"\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2016\/02\/01\/uc-riverside-faculty-survey-suggests-outrage-cluster-hiring-initiative\"\u003Every excited\u003C\/a\u003E\" about the clusters.  In this context I suppose that the faculty who spoke out are not part of Riverside.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEach of these cases--Chancellor Katehi's concealed service to UC competitors, UCOP's unilateralism, Berkeley's concealed re-engineering, and Riverside's top down\nhiring--is a symptom of the general disconnect of senior administrators from the everyday life of the university community.  Remarkably, their faith in the wisdom of that world survives the self-inflicted wounds that recur again and again through the disconnection between central administration and faculty and staff. In\nthis the University mimics the world at large, where technocratic elites, anxiously mixing with the masters of capital and business, ignore the needs of the population while their societies and polities spiral ever downward.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/785598063146511321\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/managerial-disconnect_7.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/785598063146511321"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/785598063146511321"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/managerial-disconnect_7.html","title":"Managerial Disconnect"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjsfToszp1PsYvlKlMtlZi3AoEN1KzaOEHjBC5smXImGJjKfkJwttzpD7GFFY7aIMgtE68HROJT5ia6j5ikw8BdxKQI5vOAWjOC97YQvskTHhi8q8erIZOsXyR0278m_jOcA8uP8WZilKQf\/s72-c\/marlborough-house-time-of-anne-mansion-westminster-london-pall-mall-B8P4GJ.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-6125815348971825437"},"published":{"$t":"2013-12-09T10:31:00.001-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-18T18:35:42.102-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Employee Benefits"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Politics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Care"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Davis"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Riverside"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Santa Barbara"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Obamacare and UC Care"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEigzwtHzVuVo0gB6ZG29LbrqGuiVpcSWPggD0pv89zzijLW765JqjDwOpSRtoiK2rf2Kc9GjPlPWEaW0kq1OFFghEWU4uOylhK3BlJeH-2zuuxYegisQlbC06AjzDUVzjzz4D_8fWyr0G0\/s1600\/uninsured+in+stadium.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEigzwtHzVuVo0gB6ZG29LbrqGuiVpcSWPggD0pv89zzijLW765JqjDwOpSRtoiK2rf2Kc9GjPlPWEaW0kq1OFFghEWU4uOylhK3BlJeH-2zuuxYegisQlbC06AjzDUVzjzz4D_8fWyr0G0\/s1600\/uninsured+in+stadium.jpeg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nWe're continuing to get mail from all the campuses about the impacts of UC's cancellation of Blue Cross-Anthem and its replacement by UC Care. Most drill down into the kind of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/10\/more-on-uc-care.html\"\u003Edetail offered by our Berkeley contributor\u003C\/a\u003E in October. (If you have already forgotten the blessings of your departing plan, that post chronicled many of them.)\u0026nbsp; After open enrollment closed at the end of November, a colleague wrote from Irvine:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nA group of us just realized that the 20% for use of Tier 2 would affect many people who have dependents living out of state--grown-children students taking a gap year, students in boarding schools, students just graduated.\u0026nbsp; An accident and hospital stay for these families would be devastating, as they can no longer enroll in the Anthem Blue Cross guest HMO.\u0026nbsp; And perhaps even worse, retirees on the UC pension living out of state would be in the same situation. I can tell you that my colleagues have no idea of any of this.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nShortly thereafter, one of those out-of-state retirees forwarded an email she'd sent to her campus benefits representative:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nI am shocked to learn today that my prescription expenses will increase 500-600% switching from Anthem PPO to UC Care.\u0026nbsp; While their benefits look pretty much the same on the material sent to us, it is not quite the case when you dig in. It comes down to this in my case: Anthem calculates a $45.00 copay for drugs that are not on their \"preferred drug list\" while UC Care, via Blue Cross, calculates a 20% co-insurance for a drug that is not on their list, with a $3000.00 maximum.\u0026nbsp; I have to have shots that are not on either insurer's lists and that cost $1800.00 to $1900.00 a month.\u0026nbsp; Under Anthem I was paying $45 x 12 = $530 a year. Under UC Care I would have to pay $1850 x\u0026nbsp; 20% x 12=$4440, meaning each year I will pay the $3000.00 maximum. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nI found this out just today from one of the \"Concierge\" at Blue Shield and I find it simply outrageous.\u0026nbsp; It is outrageous that we are told that coverage will remain pretty much the same, outrageous that UC Care manages to hide so well the real costs to us, outrageous that Oakland did not notice or chose not to notice the real costs to its faculty and retirees. My question to you: is there something you can do about this? and if not, what do you suggest that I can do?\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe answer appears to be no. This is a sizable pay cut, particularly for a retired person.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe UCSB Faculty Association wrote a letter pointing out that UCSB employees are still without local Tier 1 hospitalization under UC Care. It included this summary:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nAll is, of course, not lost.\u0026nbsp; If you are insured as an individual, your Tier 2 co-insurance contributions are capped at $3,000.00 per year.\u0026nbsp; After that, UC Care pays for everything.\u0026nbsp; Were you also to sign up for an HRA spending account, you could accumulate $2,500.00 in tax-free dollars each year to help with co-insurance costs, and save a little money that way.\u0026nbsp; Still, many of us would find being out-of-pocket for @$2,200.00 an unwelcome challenge in these diminished times.\u0026nbsp; Note, too, that the Tier 2 cap for families is much higher than the cap for individuals.\u0026nbsp; And should we need, while in hospital, to consult a doctor who is not a designated UC Care provider, we would still be responsible for 50% of those costs.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUCOP officials insisted that UC Care was not about shifting health costs from employer to employees, and the initial publicity spotlighted the drop in monthly payments in moving from Anthem to UC Care.\u0026nbsp; But sizable cost shifting is indeed occurring, with the burden shouldered first by the chronically (if non-catastrophically) ill, and those with serious but manageable permanent conditions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhat is happening with the project of Tier 1 hospitalization that I \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/11\/ucsb-health-care-update-rest-of-tier-1_23.html\"\u003Enoted a couple of weeks ago was still incomplete\u003C\/a\u003E? The short answer is nothing for this year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere is now better information than there was last month.\u0026nbsp; One can find lists of participating hospitals, like \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/hr.ucr.edu\/docs\/benefits\/oe\/oe_bensum_uccare_select_hospitals.pdf\"\u003Ethis one for UC Riverside.\u003C\/a\u003E The list seems OK when one reads it from somewhere else, but as the $4400 prescription writer pointed out, the picture changes when one gets past the material to the nuts and bolts.\u0026nbsp; Riverside's Tier 1 UC Medical Center is in Irvine, not Los Angeles.\u0026nbsp; In addition, a staff member at UC Riverside reported,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nRiverside Community Hospital, the best hospital in the area and a partner with UCR's new medical school, is not included in Tier 1 (UC Select).\u0026nbsp; If enrolled in UC Care, the faculty in the Medical School will not be able to use the hospital where they're training their students, unless they're willing to pay Tier 2 copayments.\u0026nbsp; The nearest UC Select hospital, Parkview Community Hospital, does not have a trauma center. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe only hospital in Davis is not in Tier 1, Santa Cruz staff will be driving to Palo Alto for Tier 1 clinical care, and so on. Various complaints we've received suggest that staff at the non-metropolitan campuses will pay more to use UC Care locally.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn Santa Barbara, the inclusion of Sansum Clinic in Tier 1 was the result of an executive buy-out for 2014.\u0026nbsp; The deal is off for the years following, pending more successful negotiations.\u0026nbsp; Cottage Hospital is accessible through Health Net and through Tier 2, but it appears to have had no interest in negotiating Tier 1 with UC.\u0026nbsp; I was told that UCOP was looking for a per-patient employer payment keyed to their stated costs at the nearest UC Med Center, and the Sansum wanted 50% more.\u0026nbsp; UCOP apparently was willing to do a one-year top-up for UCSB employees with Sansum, but not with Sansum and Cottage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/10\/health-care-troubles-and-simple-solution.html\"\u003Esuggested a version of this\u003C\/a\u003E employer buyout of employee deductibles on the principle of insurance cost pooling, in which individual and group differences come out in the wash. I conclude from my conversations that UCOP rejects this principle and continues to see the UC system as a set of separate cost pools for the purposes of health insurance.\u0026nbsp; As UC Care continues into out-years, Individual campuses will be expected in effect to self-insure and cover their own costs--except that UCOP controls the overall structure and will not support campuses in cutting their own deals with local providers. In a sense, this is worst of both worlds: UCOP not delivering on the savings of \"strategic sourcing,\" which is supposed to give everybody volume discounts, but individual campuses can't go it alone with local medical groups whom they generally know face-to-face.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUC Care isn't the only insurance system whose opacities take time to penetrate. The \u003Ci\u003ENew York Times\u003C\/i\u003E ran a piece today on \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/09\/us\/on-health-exchanges-premiums-may-be-low-but-other-costs-can-be-high.html?_r=0\u0026amp;pagewanted=all\"\u003Eunexpectedly high costs with Obamacare plans\u003C\/a\u003E--which are not designed by the government, but by private insurance companies. Here is part of the article:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nInsurers devised the new policies on the assumption that consumers would\n pick a plan based mainly on price, as reflected in the premium. But \ninsurance plans with lower premiums generally have higher deductibles. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nIn El Paso, Tex., for example, for a husband and wife both age 35, one \nof the cheapest plans on the federal exchange, offered by Blue Cross and\n Blue Shield, has a premium less than $300 a month, but the annual \ndeductible is more than $12,000. For a 45-year-old couple seeking \ninsurance on the federal exchange in Saginaw, Mich., a policy with a \npremium of $515 a month has a deductible of $10,000. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nIn Santa Cruz, Calif., where the exchange is run by the state, Robert \nAaron, a self-employed 56-year-old engineer, said he was looking for a \nlow-cost plan. The best one he could find had a premium of $488 a month.\n But the annual deductible was $5,000, and that, he said, “sounds really\n high.” \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv itemprop=\"articleBody\"\u003E\nBy contrast, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average \ndeductible in employer-sponsored health plans is $1,135.        \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUC Care deductibles are lower than these, but the lower-premium higher-deductible is the same.\u0026nbsp; The scheme is souring potential beneficiaries on Obamacare, and it's not helping relationship within UC either.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6125815348971825437\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2013\/12\/obamacare-and-uc-care.html#comment-form","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6125815348971825437"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6125815348971825437"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2013\/12\/obamacare-and-uc-care.html","title":"Obamacare and UC Care"}],"author":[{"name":{"$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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEigzwtHzVuVo0gB6ZG29LbrqGuiVpcSWPggD0pv89zzijLW765JqjDwOpSRtoiK2rf2Kc9GjPlPWEaW0kq1OFFghEWU4uOylhK3BlJeH-2zuuxYegisQlbC06AjzDUVzjzz4D_8fWyr0G0\/s72-c\/uninsured+in+stadium.jpeg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-4886345307086105770"},"published":{"$t":"2013-11-17T13:44:00.001-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-18T18:14:45.006-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Senate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Employee Benefits"},{"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":"Income"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Care"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Riverside"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"UCR Faculty Association Letter to Colleagues on UC Care and Riverside (Hint:  It is a lot like Santa Barbara)"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhOsPjRq88xuB0u5NpgyoHROhe3PVerqaxrMu_lDPyPmllKlgpi_er07VQH3Uae-jdFrB7MNYsKCnX7nMuTivG5n8D1w0Jl9hgnCzBu2A79bCYP96YL8nKFT-17WcQQicGWUDXtsZbvbcx_\/s1600\/Wizard-of-oz_hologram.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhOsPjRq88xuB0u5NpgyoHROhe3PVerqaxrMu_lDPyPmllKlgpi_er07VQH3Uae-jdFrB7MNYsKCnX7nMuTivG5n8D1w0Jl9hgnCzBu2A79bCYP96YL8nKFT-17WcQQicGWUDXtsZbvbcx_\/s320\/Wizard-of-oz_hologram.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\nDear Colleagues,\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe\n recent changes to the health care insurance plans available to UC \nfaculty and staff have resulted in a radical reduction in both choices \nand quality of our insurance options. \u0026nbsp;In particular, UC Care,\u0026nbsp;a new \n“self-funded” PPO medical insurance plan that\u0026nbsp;replaces Blue Cross Plus \nand Blue Cross PPO, does not provide equivalent coverage for campuses \nthat do not have a medical center, such as UCR. The UC Select (Tier 1) \nnetwork of providers and facilities is grossly inadequate, excluding \nmany of the best doctors and hospitals that were covered under the Blue \nCross plans.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFor\n example, Riverside Community Hospital, a partner with UCR's new medical\n school, and\u0026nbsp;Loma Linda University Medical Center are\u0026nbsp;NOT included in \nthe UC Select network. \u0026nbsp;The nearest UC Select hospital, Parkview \nCommunity Hospital, does not have a trauma center and has twice almost \ngone bankrupt. \u0026nbsp;This leaves UCR faculty and staff with the poor choice \nof paying 20% co-payments for care at the best \u0026nbsp;facilities, using the \nfacilities in the UC Select network or choosing another health insurance\n plan.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe\n Riverside Faculty Association endorses the Riverside Division Senate \nresolution protesting the paucity of choices available to Riverside \nfaculty and staff in the\u0026nbsp;UC-Care option:\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nThe\n Riverside Division writes to register its outrage at both the health \nbenefit options available to its faculty for the 2014-calendar year and \nthe process by which these options were determined.\u0026nbsp; In particular, UC \nCare, which replaces multiple Anthem plans, leads to serious inequities \nbetween faculty and staff on those campuses with medical centers and \nfaculty on those campuses without them.\u0026nbsp; As a whole, moreover, the new \nbenefits raise concerns about recruiting and retaining faculty and \nstaff. Therefore, w\u003Cspan style=\"background-image: initial;\"\u003Ee insist on an\n expanded set of tier 1 options under UC Care so that campuses without \nmedical centers can provide the same level of care as those with medical\n centers.\u0026nbsp; We also insist on a more consultative process with regard to \nall future changes. Both the process and the result of changing our health care options are unworthy of the University of California.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn\n addition we demand that the Riverside Community Hospital and the Loma \nLinda University Medical Center be added to the Tier 1 option in the UC \nCare\u0026nbsp;plan immediately. Otherwise many faculty and staff will migrate to \nKaiser or other plans. \u0026nbsp;Adding these hospitals to UC Select must be done\n and announced before the closing of the open enrollment period on November 26, 2013.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSincerely,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Board of the UC Riverside Faculty Association\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nhttp:\/\/ucrfa.org\/\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis statement from the systemwide\u0026nbsp;Academic Council outlines the inequities and problems with UC Care\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/reports\/BJ_JN_UCCare_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/reports\/BJ_JN_UCCare_FINAL.pdf\u003C\/a\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4886345307086105770\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2013\/11\/ucr-faculty-association-letter-to.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4886345307086105770"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4886345307086105770"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2013\/11\/ucr-faculty-association-letter-to.html","title":"UCR Faculty Association Letter to Colleagues on UC Care and Riverside (Hint:  It is a lot like Santa Barbara)"}],"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\/AVvXsEhOsPjRq88xuB0u5NpgyoHROhe3PVerqaxrMu_lDPyPmllKlgpi_er07VQH3Uae-jdFrB7MNYsKCnX7nMuTivG5n8D1w0Jl9hgnCzBu2A79bCYP96YL8nKFT-17WcQQicGWUDXtsZbvbcx_\/s72-c\/Wizard-of-oz_hologram.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-3467476584066524622"},"published":{"$t":"2012-10-08T08:51:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-04-07T12:50:20.011-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Admin Responses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Budget"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cal State"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guest post"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Protests"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Public Funding"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Students"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Riverside"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Undercover Chancellor"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjgHH8yIW3286z9oAnZ61S10sUVVZtGma-V9pUWyVoYEz_LzD3ymHEYDrWwSY3uI0DgJCJfcOz-wndPPmZRhUeMS3RhH1bs1oEPG0Om7FMDqd84m85aSrT0tQMraA1ZLbEokhEQpiTE84g\/s1600\/WhiteUCRChancellorLockers.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjgHH8yIW3286z9oAnZ61S10sUVVZtGma-V9pUWyVoYEz_LzD3ymHEYDrWwSY3uI0DgJCJfcOz-wndPPmZRhUeMS3RhH1bs1oEPG0Om7FMDqd84m85aSrT0tQMraA1ZLbEokhEQpiTE84g\/s320\/WhiteUCRChancellorLockers.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nBy Pat Morton, UC Riverside\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTimothy White, Chancellor of UC Riverside, announced\nyesterday that he will become Chancellor of the California State University\nsystem at the end of this year.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003EThe surprise announcement was greeted with unalloyed delight by activists\non campus. \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EThis response might seem\nstrange to those who know little about Tim White, whose public persona is\nrelatively untarnished by scandal or controversy.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EHe has never been publicly vilified like UCD’s Chancellor Katehi,\nnor has he ever faced calls for his resignation or a vote of no confidence from\nthe Academic Senate. In fact, White’s positive public image is probably one of\nthe chief reasons he was chosen by CSU.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003EBy carefully managing this image as an affable, nice guy despite presiding\nover a period of budget cuts, student protests and declining educational\nquality at UCR, Tim White has been able to keep his real agenda undercover.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\nIn spring 2011, Tim White disguised himself as “Pete” and\nposed as an assistant chemistry professor, a track coach, a library worker and\na campus tour guide for the reality TV show “\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/showtracker\/2011\/04\/uc-riverside-chancellor-tim-white-goes-incognito-for-cbs-undercover-boss-.html\"\u003EUndercover\nBoss\u003C\/a\u003E.”\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EThe stunt attracted enormous\npress attention for White and UCR, and prompted an outpouring of uncritical\naffection for this Chancellor who proved he was capable of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blogger.g?blogID=1170716682680204889\" name=\"_GoBack\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Ebeing\njust like us.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003ETo see the episode\nin this light, however, you had to ignore the condescension that permeated his\ninteractions with staff and students, and the fundamentally corrupt premise of\nthe show, which allowed White to dole out money and special favors to his\nunsuspecting interlocutors.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003ELeaving\naside the propriety of a Chancellor appearing on a reality show in the first\nplace, the display of his selective largesse was particularly distasteful at a\nmoment when UCR faced a $50 million budget gap resulting in staff layoffs, work\ntime reductions, huge class size increases, decreases in student and academic\nsupport, reductions in faculty by attrition, mergers of academic units, and\nother draconian measures that eroded educational quality. \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\nThe bread-and-circuses approach worked to distract attention\nfrom White’s policy decisions, such as the pursuit of a new Medical School that\nhas taken millions of dollars and more than a dozen FTE out of the campus\nbudget.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EThe Medical School was not\nWhite’s initiative, however; it was the pet project of previous Chancellors Ray\nOrbach and France Cordova, who left him with the unlucky task of starting the\nSchool during the collapse of state funding.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EThe Legislature has never committed a steady stream of\nfunding for the Medical School, on the advice of the Legislative Analyst. \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EAfter a humiliating \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/local-news\/riverside-county\/riverside\/riverside-headlines-index\/20110609-riverside-ucr-med-school-stalled-over-funding.ece\"\u003Erejection\u003C\/a\u003E\nby the national accreditation committee, which last year refused to grant a\ntemporary accreditation without a clear and permanent funding stream, White and\nhis team did manage to cobble together private donations, grants from local\ngovernment, and other funds sufficient to get preliminary accreditation right\nbefore he announced his departure.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003EWhile the Medical School should be a positive benefit to the Inland\nregion, the price paid, measured in opportunity cost and the ongoing drain on\nUCR’s budget, raises questions about its sustainability and its negative effect\non instruction and research elsewhere on campus.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\nWhite touts the diversity of UCR at every opportunity, and\nhis ability to “reach out to minority and low-income students” was \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-1005-calstate-20121005,0,2140672.story\"\u003Ecited\u003C\/a\u003E\nas one reason for his appointment at CSU, yet the paucity of ethnic and gender\ndiversity among UCR’s upper administrators reveals a different agenda.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EUnder his leadership, almost all upper\nadministrative positions have been given to white men, with the exception of one\nwoman of color.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003EUnder former Chancellor Cordova, women\nheld the majority of upper administrative posts, including EVC\/Provost. \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EShe also created programs that made\ndiversity a genuine priority in faculty and staff hiring.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EWhite has gutted those programs, failed\nto replace a diversity officer who left UCR, and created a singularly male and\npale administration.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EThe search\nfor a new EVC\/Provost revealed the hollowness of this administration’s\ncommitment to diversity when Republican politician Tom Campbell became a\ncandidate for the position in 2009.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003ECampbell is a public supporter of AB 1070, Arizona’s infamous\nanti-immigrant legislation, and has taken several anti-immigrant positions,\nsuch as proposing, while a US Congressman, legislation to make English the\nofficial language of the US.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003ECampbell’s brief candidacy provoked an enormous outcry, including a\npetition that gained coverage in the local press, and he withdrew from\nconsideration.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EWhite’s\nadministration seemed oblivious to the hypocrisy of hyping UCR as a Hispanic-Serving\ninstitution while proposing Campbell as a candidate for \u003C\/span\u003Eits second most\npowerful administrative position.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003EThe most embarrassing\npublicity disaster of White’s time at UCR occurred last December when his administration\nattempted to regulate dissent on campus by issuing the notorious “\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/petition\/say-no-to-ucr-protest-guidelines\/blog\/8085\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003EProtest Guidelines\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003E.”\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003EA laughable list of paternalistic rules that included a checklist of\napprovals required for protests and prohibitions against signs with rigid\nsticks, camping or the disruption of normal activity on campus, the Guidelines\nprompted a petition that was signed by close to thousand people and attracted\nnational press \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2011\/12\/14\/uc-riverside-protest-guidelines-trouble-students-faculty\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003Ecoverage\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003E.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003EWhite’s initial response was to establish a Task Force on free speech\nand assembly, rather than remove the Guidelines as the petition demanded, but\ncontinued negative publicity forced him to remove them from the campus web\nsite.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\nWhite proved himself an adept master of spin, however, in\nthe aftermath of the January 19, 2012 Regents’ meeting at UCR and the police\nviolence, which he authorized, against peaceful protestors.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EOn January 19, hundreds of students,\nfaculty and community members gathered at UCR to demonstrate against further\ntuition increases and to demand a more transparent form of decision-making by\nthe Regents.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EIn response, UC\nPolice and Riverside County Sheriffs in full riot gear marched provocatively\nthrough the protesters, taunted and made sexually suggestive noises at them.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EThe police shot pepper-spray paint\nbullets at peaceful protesters, hit them with batons, shoved them to the ground\nand dragged them across pavement, tore their clothing and used other forms of excessive\nforce.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EIn the following days, a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/petitions\/chancellor-university-of-california-riverside-take-responsibility-for-january-19-and-protect-free-speech-at-ucr\"\u003Epetition\u003C\/a\u003E\nexpressing outrage at these events was signed by over 400 members of UCR’s\ncommunity, and White launched a public relations campaign that demonized the\nprotestors as violent agitators who had no agenda except disrupting the\nRegents’ business. He justified his authorization of police violence by\nclaiming it was provoked by the protestors (claims that have been \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/open-letter-to-ucr-chancellor-tim-white.html\"\u003Erefuted\u003C\/a\u003E\nby eyewitnesses and by video footage from that day). At a Town Hall meeting in\nMarch, he displayed photographs which he claimed showed the protestors\nattacking the police and dismissed those who questioned his decision to\nauthorize force.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EWhile the\nrepercussions from January 19 continue to resonate on campus, White has been\nable to leave this shameful incident behind.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003ETo demonstrate how successful he has been at the spin game,\nthe \u003Ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003ELA Times\u003C\/i\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-1005-calstate-20121005,0,2140672.story\"\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E\non his appointment as CSU Chancellor describes White handing out bottles of\nwater to student protestors on January 19 and telling “\u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003Ecampus police not to\ntake any measures that would turn into a confrontation.”\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EThe stunning unreality of this account\nmakes me wonder if that might have been “Pete” with the water bottles, playing\nthe scripted role of Chancellor White.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3467476584066524622\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/the-undercover-chancellor.html#comment-form","title":"18 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3467476584066524622"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3467476584066524622"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/the-undercover-chancellor.html","title":"The Undercover Chancellor"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjgHH8yIW3286z9oAnZ61S10sUVVZtGma-V9pUWyVoYEz_LzD3ymHEYDrWwSY3uI0DgJCJfcOz-wndPPmZRhUeMS3RhH1bs1oEPG0Om7FMDqd84m85aSrT0tQMraA1ZLbEokhEQpiTE84g\/s72-c\/WhiteUCRChancellorLockers.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"18"}}]}});