I Am Not Your Professor
Lecturers teach a third of the credit hours at UC Santa Cruz, but we are chronically disrespected by UC, with devastating effects for undergraduate education. That’s why we are ready to strike. When my students call me “professor,” I feel like an imposter. See, I’m…
Submission: Law Enforcement Actions That Harm Rather Than Heal
On Jan. 6, we all witnessed a horrific event unfold on the news. Thousands of people who “disagreed” with the election results marched to the Capitol with violent intent. Armed with zip ties, nooses, metal batons, firearms, and stun guns, they pushed past the “thin…
UC Labor Unions are Fighting for Housing Rights During Global Pandemic
As unions representing low-wage workers at the University of California, many of our members faced housing vulnerability before the pandemic. Now, with COVID-19, housing insecurity is an even scarier reality. The shelter-in-place order will not keep us safe if we cannot stay housed. And to…
An Open Letter to the UCSC Administration
I write this letter as an individual faculty member who has been at UC Santa Cruz since 1990. I am not representing any faculty group, department or Academic Senate Committee. It is my own assessment after 30 years at this university. I attended the Academic…
Students Led the Way to Divestment
Submission by Fossil Free UCSC After six years of student organizing, meetings, sit-ins, calls, letters, emails, direct action, political education on climate justice, academic senate votes on all 10 UC campuses and nonstop efforts from fossil free’ers, the UC has committed to divesting from fossil…
Students Led the Way to Divestment
After six years of student organizing, meetings, sit-ins, calls, letters, emails, direct action, political education on climate justice, academic senate votes on all 10 UC campuses and nonstop efforts from fossil free’ers, the UC has committed to divesting from fossil fuels. “We believe hanging on…
Submission: Is There a Litmus Test for Being Black?
By Simelia Rogers and Davon Thomas No, there is not. So next time you try to quantify someone’s Blackness, you should take a step back and consider how you are contributing to the erasure of Black identity on this campus and in society. A litmus…
Submission: A letter to you, from the UC Student Association
Students don’t have lobbyists, don’t have focus groups, and don’t have Political Action Committees funding candidates that uplift our issues. Students are our own best advocates, and we oftentimes are the only ones advocating for ourselves. These circumstances have led to the formation of the…
Submission: Resolution Requesting the Removal of Mission Bell from UC Santa Cruz Campus
Whereas the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band represents the Awaswas-speaking indigenous people of the historic Uypi tribe of Santa Cruz; Whereas the ancestral territory of the Uypi tribe encompasses the lands of the UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) campus; Whereas UCSC campus currently features a mission bell…
Submission: An Open Letter to the UC Santa Cruz Administration
We neighborhood/residential assistants (N/RAs) for UC Santa Cruz, as leaders in our community, feel the utmost need to speak out about concerns on this campus. There will be a UC-wide workers strike in order to bring attention to low wages, cuts to their benefits and…