Mastodawn

Cornell, Columbia, Brown, now #Northwestern, all have sold out. Harvard did not. My own University of California remains undecided, although faculty and governor Newsom have said hell no. Probably it is time to replace regents, chancellors and possibly our new president if they can't sniff and scratch their way toward the right side of history. #ucop #universityofcalifornia

https://www.rawstory.com/northwestern-university/

Another prominent university to fork over tens of millions in deal with Trump admin

A prominent university has agreed to pay tens of millions of dollars as part of a deal to have the Trump administration end federal investigations and lift stop-work orders on terminated federal grants, according to a report.Northwestern University finalized a comprehensive settlement with the Trump...

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1337 $#!+ I did that Apr 15, 2025

To be clear for history, the faculty of the University of California have spoken. The question now is, will the leadership of the #UC system choose to be a #harvard or a #columbia ?

#UCBerkeley #UCI #UCSD #UCDavis #UCLA #UCSB #UCSC #UCMerced #UCSF #UCR #UCOP

https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/academic-council-statement-defense-of-university-april-2025.pdf

Kendra K. Levine Dec 9, 2022

Yesterday I was part of an interesting discussion about #FairUCNow strike’s impacts on research. How will they afford the raises? Why do research centers have to pay the fee remission and tuition for GSRs instead of the campus?

These are structural issues #UAWOnStrike are laying bare.

And as faculty struggled for answers, because there are no good ones, this humble librarian just kept repeating, “This is something #UCOP needs to fix, but the system is truly broken all over.”

Dr. Noelle L'Etoile Nov 13, 2022

UCSF faculty who signed a letter of support for students, specialists and postdocs who are asking for a living wage and childcare supports -

Link to closed form
https://forms.gle/HtM3uLRVJNemAzo59
Link to signatures:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oJWRZedM7zB-UVoSEe810CdgZ6Ox4dW6qMP-QfQ92tQ/edit?usp=sharing

please boost.
#UCOP #UCNews #UCstrike

Statement of Support for UC Graduate Students

Statement of Support for UC Graduate Students UCSF Faculty October 24 2022 As faculty members in graduate programs at UCSF, we strongly support the efforts of our students and their union to obtain wages that allow them to afford to live in San Francisco, obtain public transit passes, receive childcare reimbursements, enjoy equitable disability services, protection from visa abuses for international scholars, security of employment, and protection from abuse and retaliation from abuse reporting. These are matters of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, which are not simply a set of evaluative standards for our Institution's faculty and staff, but need to be action items for our administrators and executive leadership. If UCSF is to remain a desirable place to study then this must also be a place that is desirable for employment, particularly when many students depend on campus employment to make their education possible. By paying our graduate workers more, providing them with access to subsidized housing, transportation and childcare, we will attract and retain the most promising scholars from around the globe, regardless of their financial capabilities. As graduate program faculty, we support our own graduate student employees and those across the University of California who are seeking fair employment contracts that include cost of living increases. We express these words of support now, in hopes that the UC can avoid a collective labor strike. We also pledge our support to student employees who may find it necessary to demonstrate their commitment to the UAW2865, UAW5810, and SRU-UAW proposals currently being considered (Fall 2022). We ask UCSF and the University of California to work urgently and in good faith with the student union. We believe we all have the same goal: to make impactful discoveries in science and in health and preserving this mission through the supportive education of the next generation. We are all in this together. Drafted by: Noelle L'Etoile, Sara Suliman, Dean Sheppard, Susan Lynch, Tomasz Nowakowski, Guo Huang, Mercedes Paredes, Carlo Condello, Rachel Rutishauser, Joanna Halkias, Nadav Ahituv, Minnie Sarwal, Andrei Goga and Alexis Combes. Undersigned are UCSF faculty in support.

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Dr. Noelle L'Etoile Nov 13, 2022

UCSF Faculty sent the following letter of strong support for students, specialists and postdocs to UC President Drake.
The most-compelling reason to increase the wages of postdocs and graduate students is equity. Having a less-than liveable wage makes advanced education inaccessible to historically underrepresented groups.
#UCOP #UCStrike#UCSFFaculty #UCStudents #UCPostdocs