The US Department of Justice reported today that UC San Diego has reached a settlement with the Departments of Justice and Education over the racial incidents in February 2010 associated with the now infamous “Compton Cookout“. The settlement arose from an investigation by these Departments over complaints of racial harassment against African-American students on campus, in violation […]
Category: diversity
UCSD Campus Climate: Still Hostile
In advance of today’s Campus Climate Council meeting (2-4pm in Chancellor’s Complex 111A), the SDFA is speaking out against racist comments and student harassment that occurred at a recent Associated Students meeting. There, Students for Justice in Palestine proposed a resolution to divest in corporations they believe profit from violent conflict (see the resolution here). Instead […]
Post-“Compton Cookout” UCSD: Jorge Mariscal reflects on what has (not) changed
The following is reproduced from the UCSD Guardian: Two Years Later, UCSD Still Has Much to Learn from Student Struggles By Jorge Mariscal Department of Literature “No great victories are won in a war for transformation…without total participation. Less than this will not create a new society; it will only evoke more sophisticated token amelioration,” […]
Results from the 2011 SDFA Faculty Survey
In September 2011, the SDFA conducted an attitudinal survey of its membership over several issues relevant to the UCSD faculty. The survey was emailed to 108 members and 55 replied, yielding a response rate of 51%. To protect the anonymity of respondents, personal identifying information was not collected, so it is not possible to break […]