Monthly Archives: January 2012

Open Letter to the UC Regents: Police Violence at UC Riverside – With response from President Yudof

Posted on January 26, 2012 by ucsdfac

Dr. Charles Thorpe, Associate Professer of Sociology at UCSD, posted the following open letter to the UC Regents at change.org to condemn police aggression at last week’s protests at UC Riverside (captured in the youtube video by a UCSD student … Continue reading →

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UCSD at UCR: Protesting the January 19th UC Regents Meeting

Posted on January 24, 2012 by ucsdfac

Bright and early on the morning of January 19th, a contingent of 40 student and faculty representatives from UCSD boarded a bus provided by the SDFA and headed out to join the protest against the UC Regents meeting at UC … Continue reading →

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UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, corporate privatizer and union buster, wants UCSF out of the UC system

Posted on January 24, 2012 by ucsdfac

On January 19th, UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann floated a plan to the UC Regents to identify new funding sources for her campus.  From the announcement: “UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, proposed to the University of California Regents on Jan. 19 that a small … Continue reading →

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Get on the Bus! Speak out at the Regents meeting this week at UC Riverside

Posted on January 17, 2012 by ucsdfac

The UC Board of Regents is holding its quarterly meeting this week at UC Riverside at the Highlander Union Building. SDFA is encouraging members of the UCSD community (faculty, students, staff and alumni) to speak out at the Regents meeting about tuition … Continue reading →

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