The UCR Academic Senate and the Riverside Faculty Association (RFA) will co-sponsor a town hall on the search for a new UC President on January 16. Our town hall will take place from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm in HUB 302. Immediately after, the UC Board of Regents will hold a public town hall from 1:00 to 3:00 pm in HUB 302.
We write to encourage you to attend and speak at one or both of these events. These town halls will allow UCR faculty to express their concerns and questions about the search and other issues of vital importance to UCR’s future. If you like to speak at the Regents’ town hall, please call (510) 987-9220 and inform them of your intent to speak. The town hall will also be livestreamed on the Presidential search website.
RFA is particularly concerned about plans to expand UCR’s enrollment to 35,000 students by 2035, an expansion we oppose unless UCR receives funding proportionate to other UC campuses and to the cost of educating our students. UCR receives less state funding per student than any other UC campus, which has resulted in deteriorating conditions for our teaching and research.
This is an opportunity for us to speak about the poor conditions at UCR and demand that the next UC President reverse the structural inequalities that undermine our ability to serve our students and California.