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

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By UCSB

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

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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