On October 3rd, the board unanimously approved the selection of Assoc. Prof. John “Jody” Blanco (Literature) as Interim President of the San Diego Faculty Association, while President Ivan Evans (Sociology) takes a hiatus to focus on his research. A message from the outgoing President Ivan Evans: I would like to announce that I have stepped down […]
UCSD Reaches Settlement over Compton Cookout Incidents
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 […]
Albert Einstein on Collective Bargaining
Think collective action is outside the realm of science? Albert Einstein didn’t think so. In “Out of My Later Years” (most recent print by Grammercy, 1993), the Noble-prize winning physicist – and founding member of AFT Local 552 at Princeton in 1938 – devotes an entire chapter of this memoir to his thoughts on the […]
A Letter to Chancellor Fox on President Yudof’s Open Letter on Tolerance
Earlier this month, President Yudof sent an open letter to the UC community regarding policies of tolerance. However, while focus was placed on hateful speech and actions on our Jewish and Israeli students and colleagues, no mention was made of comparable attacks that have been made on community members of other faiths and, especially, community […]
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 […]