This week, SDFA President Ivan Evans and Vice-President Luis Martin-Cabrera are heading up to Eugene to observe the current union card membership drive that is taking place at the University of Oregon (UO). Prof. Gordon Lafer (shown here) of UO’s Labor Education and Research Center has recently written up a faculty perspective on why UO faculty should unionize. His point: […]
March 1st Walkout and Day of Action!
In solidarity with the international day of action for education happening worldwide, the Public Education Coalition of UCSD has called for a walkout and day of action for students and faculty. Student organizers are encouraging faculty to talk about the crisis in class and hold regular classes (teach-out) at the rally on the Library Walk. […]
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,” […]
Division I? Not Now: A Student’s Perspective
[The following was posted on by UCSD student Kevin Quirolo on Facebook on February 1, 2012] A new referendum proposing to fund Division 1 sports with student fees will be open to vote between February 27 and March 9th. The referendum will charge students $165 per quarter. This amount is based on the recommendation from an athletics […]
Reclaim UCSD: Booklet on the Budget Cuts
UCSD students associated with Reclaim UCSD have written up a Booklet on the Budget Cuts and have made it broadly available at the following URL: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B6eJDAEDSjt-NTRmMGY4MWItM2I4Yy00MGE1LTg4MDktZTczYTJiNjI1Yzcz&hl=en_US