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Today, September 24th at
noon students from the University of California system will be walking out
of their classes and demanding concrete action and solutions
that will benefit the students, workers, and faculty who make up
the University of California system.
Let
the UC administration that you stand behind the
students!
On September 11, the Los Angeles Times and
the San Francisco Chronicle reported the UC President's proposal
to raise student fees by over 30 percent by the fall of 2010.
This unprecedented increase will bring student fees to over
$10,000 annually for the first time ever, leading the University
even further away from UC's original mandate to provide free
public education to the students of California. Such measures
are typical of the administration's approach to budget cuts.
Instead of using surpluses from the university's
revenue-generating units, such as its medical centers, or
through steeper pay cuts to top-paid executives, the Office of
the President has sought to fund the budget shortfall on the
backs of students and low-paid workers through fee increases,
layoffs, and furloughs.
The administration has used state cuts to
advance a preexisting program of privatization and corporate
streamlining. In doing so it has shown a heavy-handed disregard
for shared governance with faculty, and has attempted to evade
student reaction by making these decisions over the summer.
Let the UC administration that you
stand behind the students!
Sign this petition :
Today September 24th at noon, students from
the University of California system will be walking out of their
classes and demanding concrete action and solutions that will
benefit the students, workers, and faculty who make up the
University of California system.
Given the economic
crisis; budget cuts and unwarranted tuition hikes seem to be
trends that most universities are currently focusing on. There
is no university that stands immune to such rash actions. By
standing in solidarity with the students in the UC system, we
are showing university administrations nationwide that such
negligent action will not be tolerated by students nationwide.
This walkout is in solidarity with faculty whose
organizational efforts have given students an opportunity to act
on their concerns. It is in solidarity with striking UC workers,
who are confronted with pay cuts throwing them back into
poverty. It is in solidarity with graduate students, who are
forced to deal with diminished funding and overcrowded
classrooms. First and foremost the student walkout will
demonstrate the refusal of the administration's
policies.
I stand in solidarity with the students,
faculty and workers of the University of California system in
demanding:
1) Rollback of student fees to 2008-2009
level. No new fee increases beyond the rate of
inflation.
2) No furloughs or pay cuts for employees
making under $40,000.
3) Return UC executive pay to 2006
levels, with a freeze on further increases.
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What's At Stake:
Student fees already contribute almost as
much to the UC budget as funding from the state legislature
(students: $2.5 billion, legislature: $2.6 billion). UC
President Yudof’s proposal to raise student fees by an
additional 32% over the next year, for an unprecedented increase
of $2,500, will bring student fees to over $10,000 a year for
resident students for the first time ever, leading the UC
further away from its original mandate to provide free public
education to the students of this state.
These budget cuts are not inevitable. Rather
than accepting the state legislature’s cuts to advance an
agenda of privatization, the UC should be advocating on our
behalf to re-prioritize public education in the state of
California. There is a budget crisis, but there is also a crisis
of priorities. If this 32% fee increase goes through it will
mean a serious blow to the quality, accessibility, and diversity
of the UC system. And it will open the door for further fee
increases in the years to come, which will systematically price
out California students from what was once the educational jewel
of this state.
Campaign Expiration Date:
October 23,
2009
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