March 4Th: Uc Faculty Pace Upward Their Efforts To Defend World Education
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
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Two recent letters written past times UC senate faculty exhibit how professors are getting engaged inwards defending the importance of world teaching inwards the province of California. One letter, originating from UC Santa Cruz, begins inwards the next manner: “The hereafter of the University of California, as well as world teaching inwards California to a greater extent than generally, is nether extreme threat. Governor Schwarzenegger as well as the State Legislature accept slashed funding, as well as the UC Regents, Office of the President, as well as campus administrations accept responded amongst measures that undermine the amount teaching, research, as well as service mission of the university: pupil fees accept been raised dramatically, hiring has been frozen, faculty as well as staff accept been furloughed, lecturers accept been fired, as well as many staff positions accept been consolidated or eliminated, fifty-fifty equally salaries of the highest UC executives accept been increased. Market standards accept superseded the values of intellectual inventiveness as well as excellence. Next year’s planned cuts volition exclusively accelerate these trends. The defunding of world higher teaching makes a college teaching inaccessible to many Californians, particularly those already most disadvantaged; it endangers the vibrancy as well as livelihood of the state; it lowers the character of life of all of its inhabitants” (click here for the entire letter)
Faculty as well as Chairs from UCSB accept too circulated the next alphabetic character inwards back upward of the March fourth protests as well as rallies: “We, equally Department Chairs inwards the Social Sciences as well as Humanities as well as Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara, endorse the statewideDay of Education on March 4, 2010. We back upward the efforts, organized past times representatives of the entire educational community--administrators, teachers, staff, students, alumni, as well as concerned parents as well as students of
the UC, CSU, CC as well as K-12 systems--to demonstrate the take away for a renewed commitment to world education. As UC faculty, nosotros learn by amongst increased workloads as well as reduced pay. We come across austere pupil fee hikes, overcrowded classes, graduate students squeezed, overworked as well as demoralized staff, worker layoffs, shrinking departmental as well as curriculum budgets, as well as eroding funding to pupil services. How long tin the UC keep itself equally a peak quality, Tier I enquiry university? Meanwhile, K-12 schools aspect upward severe budget cuts as well as curricular pressures created past times the demands for standardized testing, a province of affairs of draw of piece of occupation to us since the products of the K-12 organisation learn our students as well as the country's hereafter citizenry.
It's fourth dimension to halt as well as contrary this steady defunding as well as degradation of our educational organisation as well as to defend a first-rate world education. We urge you lot to back upward our students' organizing efforts inwards back upward of the statewide March on Sacramento on Thursday, March 4.”
These letters exhibit that the UC faculty are non exclusively concerned virtually their ain institutions, only they are too worried virtually the plight of world teaching inwards full general inwards the province of California. Moreover, these letters telephone phone for all of us to participate inwards actions on March 4th. Next week, everything changes.
Faculty as well as Chairs from UCSB accept too circulated the next alphabetic character inwards back upward of the March fourth protests as well as rallies: “We, equally Department Chairs inwards the Social Sciences as well as Humanities as well as Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara, endorse the statewideDay of Education on March 4, 2010. We back upward the efforts, organized past times representatives of the entire educational community--administrators, teachers, staff, students, alumni, as well as concerned parents as well as students of
the UC, CSU, CC as well as K-12 systems--to demonstrate the take away for a renewed commitment to world education. As UC faculty, nosotros learn by amongst increased workloads as well as reduced pay. We come across austere pupil fee hikes, overcrowded classes, graduate students squeezed, overworked as well as demoralized staff, worker layoffs, shrinking departmental as well as curriculum budgets, as well as eroding funding to pupil services. How long tin the UC keep itself equally a peak quality, Tier I enquiry university? Meanwhile, K-12 schools aspect upward severe budget cuts as well as curricular pressures created past times the demands for standardized testing, a province of affairs of draw of piece of occupation to us since the products of the K-12 organisation learn our students as well as the country's hereafter citizenry.
It's fourth dimension to halt as well as contrary this steady defunding as well as degradation of our educational organisation as well as to defend a first-rate world education. We urge you lot to back upward our students' organizing efforts inwards back upward of the statewide March on Sacramento on Thursday, March 4.”
These letters exhibit that the UC faculty are non exclusively concerned virtually their ain institutions, only they are too worried virtually the plight of world teaching inwards full general inwards the province of California. Moreover, these letters telephone phone for all of us to participate inwards actions on March 4th. Next week, everything changes.