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.@TheAENetwork is disappointed that @GavinNewsom @CAgovernor saw fit to ignore the Academic Senate @calstate, the university’s governing board, & scores of faculty, students, alumni 👨🎓 👩🎓 who favored a more inclusive, flexible (& cheaper for CA taxpayers!) alternative plan ☹️
Our organization fielded an Open Letter, signed by nearly 120 faculty across @calstate opposed to #AB1460, which represents a narrow understanding of ethnic studies pushed by “purists” & excludes Jews, women, LGBTQ as historically marginalized groups. 2/
We noted that AB1460 is unwarranted legislative interference into the academic independence of @calstate. A very good alternative proposal would have provided a more comprehensive & contemporary interpretation of ethnic studies & social justice, giving students greater choice! 3/
I will now live-tweet @calstate's full meeting of the Board of Trustees. Up until now, you've been getting feeds from me of what committees have discussed or voted on. The full board will decide the Chancellor's proposal for an ethnic studies and social justice grad requirement.
During her first Chair report, Trustee Kimbell said, "I came across a quote by Lenin, Vladimir not john lennon, but seemed particularly apt. He said, there are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." Fair.
She also proposed a new revenue source for CSU: "...to seek revenue from the knowledge industry to fund the higher education institution that trains the minds of the future, and is the principal ladder of upward mobility for the state's population." (rough quote.)
NEW: a @calstate top official says that there are no plans in the 2020-21 year to recommend tuition increases. Given Covid's impact on family finances and anticipation economy will rebound, "the option of increasing tuition is not an appropriate strategy today," Steve Relyea said
Relyea: "If the state's economy becomes more dire later this year, it may be necessary to revisit this and other options, but as of today and assuming current conditions and assumptions persist, we have no plans to recommend increasing tuition during the 2020-2021 fiscal year."
Trustee Sabalius proposes an incentive to give tenured faculty an incentive to retire early and then leave those positions open during the financial downturn. That frees up revenues to keep more lecturers, who have less stable job promises, on board. Relyea: We're considering it.
The CSU measure to establish an ethnic studies and diversity graduation requirement begins its first test today. The measure is before a committee. If it passes, it moves to the whole Board of Trustees tomorrow. Ethnic studies backers pan the CSU plan. calmatters.org/education/2020…
"Much has changed since we last met on May 12 just two weeks after our last board meeting we collectively held our breath as we watched the shocking video of the brutal murder of George Floyd." -- Loren J. Blanchard, executive vice chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs.
"The proposal before you lifts ethnic studies to prominence in our curriculum in line with the Natural and Social Sciences, the arts and the humanities," Blanchard says. That's true, but it also allows other courses not typically part of the ethnic studies curriculum.
