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Letter to Admin: Rescind Disciplinary Action"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhh26X9lJ9so9Kr9YZDBd3lzVlj5riAt-VXIJ4tDPVZb1z1fExmFTgZzzv7XEp5byv6AqthF9HMjDqBJ7i7A4ywXjkR866bgzVhZGMSSzavqkBUYW8KnXOAk7XuV6Pr0OcNAbkcDKl7-E0\/s1600\/shameonUCSC-min-1536x864.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"864\" data-original-width=\"1536\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhh26X9lJ9so9Kr9YZDBd3lzVlj5riAt-VXIJ4tDPVZb1z1fExmFTgZzzv7XEp5byv6AqthF9HMjDqBJ7i7A4ywXjkR866bgzVhZGMSSzavqkBUYW8KnXOAk7XuV6Pr0OcNAbkcDKl7-E0\/s320\/shameonUCSC-min-1536x864.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EThis is an open letter expressing the concerns of around a dozen Assistant Professors from the Faculty Organizing Group (FOG) at UCSC. The authors would like to encourage all colleagues to share stories of surveillance, intimidation and\/or punitive measures taken by university administrations during the COVID-19 crisis with the hashtag #DisciplineAnd Punish. Also please follow the “Ad Hoc Committee of Scholars 4 COLA” on Facebook and on Twitter (handle: @COLASolidarity).\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDear Colleagues,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssistant professors have been repeatedly asked, both formally and informally, to provide information about how the graduate student wildcat strike (and later, the COVID-19 pandemic) has impacted our research, teaching, and service on campus. Here is our collective response. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEchoing numerous calls from the faculty senate, individual departments, and colleagues at institutions across the United States, we write in the form of an open letter, to call upon the administration to stop their harmful disciplinary actions against graduate and undergraduate members of our campus community.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTo our great dismay, what has impacted us the most is not the circumstances created by the strike itself, such as the absence of TAs in our lecture courses, additional grading, and general disruption to our teaching. Rather, the most taxing element has been the emotional, logistical, and material support we have provided graduate and undergraduate students as a direct result of the administration’s punitive responses to the strike. And now, in the midst of a global pandemic, many of us have been working countless additional hours to assist students who have been caught up in a needlessly aggressive disciplinary dragnet because of their involvement in the strike. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe are deeply frustrated by our campus administration’s misguided approach in responding to the strike, particularly the ongoing disciplinary hearings whose only purpose seems to be to intimidate and overwhelm students. These actions traumatize the students involved; it is unconscionable that they continue at a time when students are struggling in the face of unprecedented financial, psychological, and health risks. They also put a disproportionate burden on junior faculty members who have often been on the frontlines (sometimes literally—at the picket) in defending these students from a bureaucratic machine whose punitive actions seem to know no rhyme or reason.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe administration has been carrying out disciplinary proceedings against at least 49 students for strike-related activities, despite the passing of a faculty senate resolution and numerous faculty letters and requests calling for these disciplinary actions to stop. Students arrested at the picket line received interim suspensions; some of these students had been injured by police, and the suspensions impeded their timely access to medical care on campus. Arrested students and those who withheld grades have received warning letters in their files. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDisciplinary hearings have been ongoing, even after the onset of COVID-19, and even as cities and states closed courts and halted criminal proceedings. The administration has refused to halt or revoke any of these measures even after students submitted grades. Perhaps most mysteriously, they have formed a “Demonstrations Operations Team,” whose role remains opaque at best. Ostensibly charged with “coordinating the campus’ specific operational planning and response needs related to campus activism,” we have no information about who team members are and little to no knowledge about their budget, surveillance activities, oversight role, or involvement in issuing summons. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAs faculty, our role has involved providing for the physical safety, emotional health, and academic success of our students. We have accompanied them to multiple disciplinary hearings when they were intimidated by disciplinary officers. We have also provided time and emotional support to vulnerable, frightened, and sometimes ill students. We organized a daily faculty march and picket line support group so that faculty observers were at all times at the base of campus to protect students from campus-paid police, and to serve as witnesses should testimonials later be required, which they were. We made donations of money and food to help already-struggling students continue to meet their daily needs. We worked to secure alternative funding and employment for fired graduate students and wrote numerous letters. These included character letters for students as part of the disciplinary proceedings and letters to campus administration expressing our dismay about how these proceedings have unfolded.\u0026nbsp; We spent afternoons being interviewed by disciplinary officers who were attempting to corroborate police reports with student accounts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nQuantitatively, many of us easily spent between ten and twenty hours a week on these activities during winter quarter (and into the present). This workload has only become more complex and time-consuming in the context of COVID-19, as we navigate the many bureaucratic and procedural inconsistencies caused by moving these disciplinary hearings to Zoom. In total, we estimate that assistant professors have spent at least 2,000 hours engaged in hearings and other activities related to our students’ punishment, intimidation, and dismissal—undoubtedly enough time to publish one or more articles, or even finish first books. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThese numbers only gesture at a more worrying reality: the disturbing skill-sets acquired by assistant professors on our campus. We now know the answers to many questions we had previously never wished to ask: What is the difference between the CHP and campus police? What is the correct tone to use when speaking with police officers in riot gear to de-escalate a situation and avoid physical harm being inflicted on students? Where does our academic freedom begin and end when it comes to using Canvas or modifying our syllabi? Is a grade property—and, if so, who “owns” a grade? Should we be worried about our security of employment based on a student’s online report via the administration-provided Canvas widget (dubbed the Tattlebot by faculty)? Might photos taken of us by police at the picket line be used against us in future tenure and promotion decisions?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTo offer an example of what this disciplining has looked like, one of us accompanied a graduate student - who had in fact submitted grades - to a hearing. They were being “investigated” for having temporarily moved these grades off Canvas. The charges included “interference with courses of instruction, theft or damage of intellectual property; unauthorized entry to, possession of, receipt of, duplication of, or use of any university services; theft or abuse of university computers and other University electronic resources; forgery, alteration or misuse of any university, state, federal or other government documents; obstruction or disruption of teaching; failure to identify oneself to, or comply with directions of, a university official; violation of any other university policy or campus regulation.” This list can only be read as a concerted attempt to intimidate and harass this student.\u0026nbsp; This heavy-handed process raises troubling questions—for us\u0026nbsp; as well as our graduate students—about the potential uses of Canvas for surveillance and discipline.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTo offer a second example, another of us supported an undergraduate student who, after being present at the picket line in February, was later investigated for alleged “obstruction of university activities.” This student was one of a large number of undergraduates who had assembled at the base of campus in support of their TAs. That day, a number of faculty saw this student arrested during the well-documented episode of police overreach and outright brutality. During this student’s hearing, the faculty support person saw their student forced to relive the anxiety and lingering trauma from their interaction with police (a condition that has been formally diagnosed by a medical professional) as the student conduct officer posed confusing, leading questions. This student never received the opportunity to review the full evidence held against them, and was only sent piecemeal and contradictory police testimonies. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMany of us arrived at UC Santa Cruz excited about the university’s history of support for radical and progressive politics and intellectual thought. We looked forward to fulfilling the three components of our responsibilities as assistant professors—teaching, research, and service—at a public, Hispanic-serving institution that takes its commitment to undergraduates seriously. One of our primary activities in the past year has fallen somewhere between teaching and service: working closely with UCSC students, helping expand their intellectual horizons and acting as a source of support, as so many mentors have done for us. This role is rewarding but challenging for many of us—particularly for female-identified assistant professors and faculty of color, as we try to establish a balance between caring for our students’ welfare and maintaining our professional role as professors. It is particularly difficult on this campus even during the best of times, as campus services struggle to keep up with the very real problems of food insecurity, homelessness, sexual violence, and expressions of racism that confront our students. As a result, our role is often something between a social worker and a professor. We have no training for the former, nor is this labor particularly valued as we approach mid-career reviews and the always-ticking tenure clock.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSome will say it was our decision—and not our responsibility—to assume this role. We could have watched from the sidelines as our students were harassed, arrested, and even physically injured. Yet such a position implies that professors’ mentorship and care should be restricted to classroom discussions. Moreover, the Academic Personnel Manual (210) states that, “Mentoring and advising of students and faculty members, particularly from underrepresented and underserved populations, should be given due recognition in the teaching or service categories of the academic personnel process.” Indeed, we see our activities around the strike as fully in line with our responsibility to support the most precarious members of our community.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThese activities have continued into the spring. The administration’s present actions continue to undermine the well-being of our students, precisely at a time when their precarity has been heightened by COVID-19. While we worry about the welfare of our community, the administration seems to be undermining our efforts at every turn, continuing to traumatize students at a precarious time. Not only do their actions harm graduate students, they have also been profoundly destabilizing for undergraduates who have been swept up in disciplinary hearings. Indeed, for\u0026nbsp; all the UCSC administration’s statements of concerns about the impact of the strike on undergraduate learning, the reality is that undergraduate learning has been severely disrupted by such an opaque and inconsistent disciplinary process. It is alarming that as we transition to distance learning, the most immediate connection that students maintain with UCSC is through its disciplinary bureaucracy. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNow that the graduate students have announced that they will collectively submit outstanding fall and winter quarter grades, we believe that it is time to bring this disciplinary process to a close. We ask again that the university halt all disciplinary proceedings, end probationary periods and other sanctions (including the possible loss of housing stipends), and expunge the records of all graduate and undergraduate students under investigation. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe hope that the administration will take seriously our request to halt the disciplinary process and will offer a response to this letter. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSincerely,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssistant Professors of FOG, UCSC\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6256801941652316090\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/ucsc-assistant-professor-letter-to.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6256801941652316090"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/6256801941652316090"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/ucsc-assistant-professor-letter-to.html","title":"UCSC Assistant Professor Letter to Admin: Rescind Disciplinary Action"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhh26X9lJ9so9Kr9YZDBd3lzVlj5riAt-VXIJ4tDPVZb1z1fExmFTgZzzv7XEp5byv6AqthF9HMjDqBJ7i7A4ywXjkR866bgzVhZGMSSzavqkBUYW8KnXOAk7XuV6Pr0OcNAbkcDKl7-E0\/s72-c\/shameonUCSC-min-1536x864.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-3060155592211470141"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-05T11:29:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-05T11:29:28.535-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Labor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Affordability"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Graduates"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guest post"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Student Debt"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCSC"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"MLA Statement on the Termination of Graduate Student Strikers at the University of California, Santa Cruz"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003EThe Executive Council approved the following statement\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003Ein March 2020.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;\"\u003E\nThe Executive Council of the Modern Language Association condemns the termination of employment for graduate student strikers at the University of California,\u0026nbsp;Santa\u0026nbsp;Cruz, calls for their reinstatement, and urges the university to commence negotiations with the students as soon as possible. We consider that their demands for an appropriate augmentation of salary in line with the increased costs of living are legitimate and note that they now have the full support of the UAW,\u0026nbsp;with whom the university is\u0026nbsp;contracted. Graduate students are indispensable workers who cannot be expected to execute their teaching duties and to pursue their own research when housing and food costs are not affordable with their current wages. The Modern Language Association maintains that graduate students should be compensated at a level that makes it possible for them to flourish on campus as research assistants, teachers, and emerging scholars. A fair wage correlated with cost of living increases is a necessary precondition for their own work, essential to fulfilling the educational mandate of their\u0026nbsp;departments, and essential for the dignity of all workers at the university. To punish students for exercising their rights to demand a decent wage is, in our view, unjust and unacceptable, and all penalties should be reversed immediately.\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3060155592211470141\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/mla-statement-on-termination-of.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3060155592211470141"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3060155592211470141"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/mla-statement-on-termination-of.html","title":"MLA Statement on the Termination of Graduate Student Strikers at the University of California, Santa Cruz"}],"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"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-2313356488874336228"},"published":{"$t":"2020-02-24T22:01:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-02-24T22:01:17.028-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Administrative Overreach"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Graduates"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Students"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCSC"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Faculty Letter Opposing Request that UCSC Undergrads Inform on Disruptors"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi_z-vhpEte0dUM16iqRShiwXb_fBLRyE6mIJO8YXVmNJ9j6Qfo_9DXynnyTTVZ4PlAOD15Usz9UMoZdpPdsfVZt31mIagSiDgf2fShgQzSq5GMmIGkby8UVFNGv2jubGo4PPw8JJLPbjQ\/s1600\/Informant+Intercept+header.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"808\" data-original-width=\"1346\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi_z-vhpEte0dUM16iqRShiwXb_fBLRyE6mIJO8YXVmNJ9j6Qfo_9DXynnyTTVZ4PlAOD15Usz9UMoZdpPdsfVZt31mIagSiDgf2fShgQzSq5GMmIGkby8UVFNGv2jubGo4PPw8JJLPbjQ\/s320\/Informant+Intercept+header.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EFebruary 13, 2020\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EDear Chancellor Larive and Campus Provost and Executive Vice\nChancellor Kletzer,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EWe, the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cascholars4academicfreedom.wordpress.com\/\"\u003ECalifornia Scholars for Academic Freedom\u003C\/a\u003E,* a group\nof over two hundred scholars throughout California, write with grave concern\nabout the Google form “Notification of Class and Section Disruption” sent on\nFebruary 7, 2020 to UCSC undergraduates in relation to the graduate student\nstrike demanding a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA).\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EThis form asks students to surveil and report on\nconversations occurring in the course of instruction.\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EIt sets a dangerous precedent of\nsurveillance that undermines the core principles of academic freedom. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EThe university produces knowledge and practice\ncritical to the operations of a democracy. The ideal of academic freedom is at\nthe core of the university in a democratic society.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EAcademic freedom is a cornerstone of education\nin a free society. Its definition includes such items as what are called ‘the\nfour essential freedoms’ of a university, to determine, on academic grounds,\nwho will teach, what they may teach, how they teach and who may study. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EAcademic freedom requires that faculty and\nstudents can participate in intellectual debate free of any censorship or\nretaliation. Central to academic freedom is that the political, religious, or\nphilosophical beliefs of others, including politicians, administrators and\nmembers of the public shall not be imposed on students or faculty.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003ECalifornia\nScholars for Academic Freedom call on you rescind the link to the Google form and refuse to use any data collected\nthrough that mechanism as the grounds for disciplinary measures against faculty\nand students.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EOn behalf\nof California Scholars for Academic Freedom,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003ESusan 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small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EWalid\nAfifi\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EUniversity\nof California - Santa Barbara\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv 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Overreach"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Affordability"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Graduates"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guest post"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Janet Napolitano"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCSC"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"An Open Letter to the UCSC Administration"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiy2_NB1g5jyErX2pzaTcfppOahg4CEd6LHp1kpI2jo8-0_Pz9BZTkHumDn4rnJsT86TxfgiUPtZDrKJdBqBedpzt-Nd2ZL_oIGZkwu8c-lz3VTSq2tB90-ZAnaGTBrzWCKblgZbw80pgDq\/s1600\/95+Theses.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1126\" data-original-width=\"700\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiy2_NB1g5jyErX2pzaTcfppOahg4CEd6LHp1kpI2jo8-0_Pz9BZTkHumDn4rnJsT86TxfgiUPtZDrKJdBqBedpzt-Nd2ZL_oIGZkwu8c-lz3VTSq2tB90-ZAnaGTBrzWCKblgZbw80pgDq\/s320\/95+Theses.jpg\" width=\"198\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EBy \u003Ci\u003ERonnie Lipschutz\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Political Science, UCSC))\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EFebruary\n20, 2020\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003ETo:\nChancellor Cynthia Larive, Provost, and EVC Lori Kletzer\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EFrom:\nRonnie Lipschutz\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"\u003EI\nwrite this letter as an individual faculty member who has been at UCSC since\n1990.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"\u003EI am not representing any faculty\ngroup, department or Academic Senate Committee.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"\u003EIt is my own assessment after 30 years at this campus.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EI\nattended the Academic Senate meeting on Wednesday, February 19, and felt a\ngrowing sense of dismay as I listened to your presentations and your responses\nto questions from the floor. \u0026nbsp;I was\nespecially dismayed by EVC Kletzer’s repeated statement that she did not know\nwhat would happen after the Friday midnight deadline issued to the striking TAs\nto turn in Fall grades.\u0026nbsp; Nor was I\nreassured by her stated position that, should a shortage of qualified TAs\nfollow, departments and faculty are responsible for dealing with problems of\nenrollments, class capacity, teaching and workload. While I am aware that such\ndecisions are generally made “locally,” this response is a rather disingenuous one\nand ignores the fact that the present situation is a consequence of\nAdministration decisions and actions taken over the past decade. Over that\ntime, the Administration has paid little heed to either Senate or faculty\nwarnings about the lack of funding to support new initiatives, such as graduate\ngrowth, Silicon Valley and others.\u0026nbsp; Now\nthe faculty is being asked to address the results of 20 years of poor\nadministration, planning and judgement.\u0026nbsp; \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EI\nwill not belabor this last point except to point out that the increase in undergraduate\nenrollments since 2000—which have greatly exacerbated the local housing\ncrisis—have also required growing graduate student enrollment to teach them,\nwithout having in hand the necessary resources to support the latter.\u0026nbsp; Generally, the formula was something like the\nfollowing: undergraduate growth would bring in the tuition required to fund\nteaching while graduate growth would facilitate research and recognition which,\nin turn, would provide the extramural research funds and private donations that\nwould support such growth.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EMoreover,\nso far as I can recall, during those two decades, a number of strategic\nacademic plans were prepared explaining that such growth was necessary for the\nglory of UCSC, without any transparent, public explanation of how the necessary\nfunding was to be procured. This hallucinatory vision became dogma ten years\nago when UCOP offered “rebenching” funds in exchange for a new “graduate\ngrowth” initiative. These funds were accepted with in full recognition that they\nwere insufficient to support the new FTEs and graduates students coming to\ncampus.\u0026nbsp; \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EI\nwill not repeat here the many assurances that were offered by the\nAdministration about how such growth would be achieved—those are available in\nthe many documents and studies, none of which clearly explained how this would\nbe financed.\u0026nbsp; And, until the TA strike,\nthe Administration continued to blithely assume continued undergraduate and\ngraduate growth as necessary from both financial and branding perspectives. Needless\nto say, we are now reaping the whirlwind. The Administration appears poised to\nuse the TA strike as a pretext for reducing graduate enrollments to levels that\ncan be funded given available resources.\u0026nbsp;\nIf this is the plan, it is an extremely cynical one.\u0026nbsp; \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EFurthermore,\nto put the onus on faculty for dealing with the resulting crisis is even more\ncynical.\u0026nbsp; I do not blame you for this\nsituation; it is the result of two decades of administrative ineptness and\nopacity as mentioned above.\u0026nbsp; But to shift\nthe burden of coping to faculty, who will have to scramble to adapt, and\nundergraduates, who will be shut out of necessary classes and receive a\ndegraded education, is inexcusable.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EFinally, to announce that yet another committee will be established to\nconsider the contradictions is simply kicking the can down the road.\u0026nbsp; We all know that such committees tend to make\nreasonable recommendations that cannot be funded, and that their reports end up\non a (metaphorical) shelf somewhere, to be ignored the next time a similar\nproblem arises.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EWhich\nleads to the fiction of “shared governance.”\u0026nbsp;\nSomehow, there is a wide (mis)perception that this means joint\nmanagement between administration and faculty.\u0026nbsp;\nOf course, it means no such thing: the Administration decides what it\nwants to do and then consults with the Faculty Senate for comments (with\nobjections routinely ignored). Over the past decade, there were ample warnings\nfrom faculty that the graduate growth initiative was unsupportable, but these\nwere simply dismissed with the proviso that “we will take care of it.”\u0026nbsp; So, perhaps you should take care of this,\nrather than shifting the onus onto the faculty.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EIf\nthis letter sounds bitter, it is—very bitter. For 30 years, I participated in\nwhat was a promising and exciting experiment and that has been transformed from\ngold to dross.\u0026nbsp; I am retiring at the end\nof June and so none of this matters very much to me in practical terms.\u0026nbsp; But it matters greatly to undergraduates,\nwhose credentials may well be very tarnished by this fiasco, to the graduate\nstudents, who were made promises that have been broken repeatedly and many of\nwhom have, at best, a future career of “freeway flying” in store, and to\nfaculty and staff, who have to bear the burden of the Administration’s\ngenerally inept administration.\u0026nbsp; We have \u003Ci\u003Eethical\u003C\/i\u003E\nobligations to our students and, if we cannot fulfill them, we would do better\nnot to make empty promises to them in the first place.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1338174978868742456\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/02\/an-open-letter-to-ucsc-administration.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1338174978868742456"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1338174978868742456"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/02\/an-open-letter-to-ucsc-administration.html","title":"An Open Letter to the UCSC Administration"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiy2_NB1g5jyErX2pzaTcfppOahg4CEd6LHp1kpI2jo8-0_Pz9BZTkHumDn4rnJsT86TxfgiUPtZDrKJdBqBedpzt-Nd2ZL_oIGZkwu8c-lz3VTSq2tB90-ZAnaGTBrzWCKblgZbw80pgDq\/s72-c\/95+Theses.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});