Teach-In at UCSB to Explore Solutions to UC Budget Crisis

'Defending the University' is being organized as an educational and political event

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With the University of California system’s budget crisis generating fee increases, layoffs, furloughs and frustration, a group of faculty and staff members and students at UCSB have organized a teach-in to debate the issues and to provide a public forum for discussion.

“Defending the University: A ‘Teach-In’ on the Current Crisis” will be from 3 p.m. to midnight Oct. 14 in Campbell Hall at UCSB. Panels, workshops and break-out sessions will be held in nearby classroom buildings.

“It is both an educational and a political event designed to offer a positive road forward for the UC system and for education at all levels in California,” said event organizer Nelson Lichtenstein, also a professor of history and director of the campus’ Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy.

Among the keynote speakers are George Lakoff, professor of linguistics at UC Berkeley; Stan Gletz, professor of medicine at UC San Francisco and past chair of the UC Committee on Planning and Budget; state Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Oakland, chair of the Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee; Ruth Gilmore, professor of ethnicity and geography at USC; and Lenny Goldberg, executive director of the California Tax Reform Association.

Gletz will speak on “The Crisis at the University of California” at 3:30 p.m., and Hancock, Gilmore and Goldberg will take part in a forum on “California Politics and Higher Education” at 5 p.m. Lakoff will participate in a panel discussion titled “Where Do We Go From Here?” at 8:30 p.m. Locations of the programs are yet to be determined.

Other speakers include Robert Samuels, president of the UC-American Federation of Teachers; Robert Meister, professor of political science at UC Santa Cruz and president of UC Faculty Associations; and Jessie Bernal, student member of the UC Board of Regents. California labor leaders and UC student government officers also will participate.

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» on 10.05.09 @ 12:10 PM

Although I guessed correctly that UCSB mafia would refuse to even grant a telephone interview when I applied a few years ago for the newly created $100K/year position of Associate Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services, I applied anyway because the position was purposefully left mostly undefined and it provided a great opportunity to present my visionary ideas for how to rehabilitate and redeem the UCSB criminal mafia organization.  I want the record to show that at least one good person correctly predicted the current crisis and attempted to head it off with an excellent visionary proposal. (I did the same thing for the State of California when I presented a detailed radical but workable engineering proposal for California that would have had us in the black instead of the economic degradation experienced under the Zionist mafia-installed Arnold)

It doesn’t take an MBA or a business genius to recognize that the key to UC prosperity is increased revenue via an increased number of diverse satisfied customers willingly paying a reduced amount for a product of increased cutting-edge quality that results in greater overall income and prestige to the University. My proposal was to lead the project to better utilize 21st Century communications technology to liberate Undergrads from the bricks and mortar of an unstimulating stationary campus that allowed the UCSB campus to be converted solely into a Grad School and revenue-generating business park while permitting UCSB undergrads to trek around the World between UCSB-owned or controlled hostels through the best places of the World while earning their degrees.

I proposed the combination of Netflix, Mircrotel, tourist hostels and MIT’s online university to provide superior, exciting and stimulating undergraduate educations to Californians, out-of-staters, international students and students of non-traditional age.

Instead of reductions in service, closure of satellite campuses, furloughs, pay-cuts and the inevitable default of the retirement system, UCSB could be leading UC toward greater prosperity, greater support to graduate research programs and making a significant improvement in American student social awareness and ability to compete internationally.

Instead UCSB mafia hired Ron Cortez to supervise the UCSB campus foodwaste composting project.

UCSB mafia is, indeed, a mediocrity mill.
Where there is no vision, people perish.

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» on 10.07.09 @ 08:39 PM

The U.C system has 250.000 students but has 188.000 employees’s—thats rediculous—they deserve to go bankrupt—Thats why we pay so much for our children—Unions overcharging the poor tax payer.

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