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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a>, every incarcerated individual taking a college course now has a tool those of us on the outside take for granted: a laptop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past three years, the prison system spent $23.2 million to distribute 30,000 laptops to all incarcerated students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost half of those went to the 13,000 inmates enrolled in community college, who are increasingly doing their coursework online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growth of online learning marks a shift away from correspondence courses, where inmates receive assignments in physical packets, fill them out, and mail them back to colleges, with limited feedback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some community colleges still offer those types of courses, the laptops are starting to replace the packets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, students and faculty alike debate whether online courses are as effective as in-person courses. Some teachers say online options reduce disruptions when students have to miss class due to court hearings or prison lockdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088391\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/052626_Project-Rebound_JAH_13_CM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/052626_Project-Rebound_JAH_13_CM.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/052626_Project-Rebound_JAH_13_CM-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/052626_Project-Rebound_JAH_13_CM-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Project Rebound study room at Cal State Northridge on May 26, 2026. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some students say they prefer in-person courses because they can build invaluable connections. In either mode of learning, inmates say using laptops helps them prepare for life on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more we understand about today’s world, the better we’ll be equipped to get out into the workforce as things continue to change,” incarcerated student Richard Moye said in an interview. “We don’t want to get left behind. … Tech literacy is of the utmost importance behind prison walls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Online courses could increase enrollment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2024, the state Legislative Analyst’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2024/4913/CC-Programs-State-Prisons-070124.pdf\">recommended\u003c/a> improving the California Community Colleges’ prison education program, called Rising Scholars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature’s spending and policy adviser recommended addressing limited classroom space by offering more online courses. The office also suggested Rising Scholars prioritize enrollment for students still pursuing their first degrees, to allow for greater student access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, 104 of the 116 community colleges in the state partner with prisons to provide courses and degree programs. According to data tracked by the community colleges, over 21,000 courses took place in prisons during fall 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088394\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/052626_Project-Rebound_JAH_18_CM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/052626_Project-Rebound_JAH_18_CM.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/052626_Project-Rebound_JAH_18_CM-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/052626_Project-Rebound_JAH_18_CM-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garret Eiferman, a graduate student, uses one of the computers inside the Project Rebound study room at Cal State Northridge on May 26, 2026. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twenty colleges offer courses in person, with a faculty member commuting to the prison to teach the course. The rest teach courses either online or, with diminishing frequency, via mail correspondence, according to the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The true number of online versus mail correspondence courses taken by incarcerated community college students is unknown. While community colleges have the option to track courses using the data labels “correspondence” or “text one-way,” there is no consistency as far as which ones they use, according to the Chancellor’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In-person classes can be difficult to get into because of enrollment caps and limited classroom space. The average in-person course generally ranges from 18 to 40 students.[aside postID=news_12087201 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/CollegeGraduationGetty.jpg']Many colleges enroll students on a first-come, first-served basis, enabling people on their second or third degree to “crowd out” those on their first degree, according to Orlando Sanchez Zavala, a policy analyst for the Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez Zavala said prioritizing enrollment for people pursuing their first degree would have the most impact on lowering recidivism rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving prison with a degree can make parolees eligible for a wider range of jobs, and more prepared to enter the workforce, reducing their likelihood of reoffending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the prison system’s recidivism report, during the 2018-2019 fiscal year, those who earned an associate’s degree while incarcerated had a 8.5% conviction rate in the three years after getting out, compared to a 41.9% conviction rate for all individuals released that same year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez Zavala also suggested utilizing correspondence and online classes to open more courses with lower enrollment caps, allowing more incarcerated people to access community college.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Incarcerated students face multiple barriers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For in-person courses, a major challenge is finding classroom space in prisons. Though prisons have classrooms, they are also used for other programming and group meetings. Sometimes, classes take place in gyms or dining areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph Bruno Martinez, 40, said he struggled to get into classes when he was incarcerated at high-security facilities, where institution-wide lockdowns sometimes interrupted learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Formerly incarcerated student Garret Eiferman, 56, said he found that prison correctional officers were not always amenable to helping incarcerated students complete degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054782\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/PrisonHeatCM1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/PrisonHeatCM1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/PrisonHeatCM1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/PrisonHeatCM1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guard towers outside Kern Valley State Prison on Nov. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters via CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He had to build relationships with officers so he could use the classrooms past 7 p.m., and, at times, even convince officers to allow his classmates to leave their buildings to attend class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cited other obstacles to his instruction as well, including out-of-date textbooks with the hard covers ripped off for safety reasons, little to no feedback on his correspondence coursework, and challenges balancing work and other prison programs with classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he didn’t take any online-only courses when he was in prison, Eiferman said he can see the benefits for students as they grapple with the obstacles he went through trying to take in-person courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Online courses improve tech literacy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new laptops offer much to the inmates: education, enrichment, and — for those who will go free one day — future employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Moye, online education is important for technology literacy. Moye, 44, has been incarcerated for 16 years and takes courses online and in-person through Solano Community College at California Medical Facility in Vacaville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moye said a lack of emphasis on tech literacy in prisons is a “disservice to this community” as jobs on the outside require applicants to be skilled at using computers and other tech. Online learning is closing this gap for incarcerated people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088395\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/052626_Project-Rebound_JAH_23_CM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/052626_Project-Rebound_JAH_23_CM.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/052626_Project-Rebound_JAH_23_CM-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/052626_Project-Rebound_JAH_23_CM-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graduate student Garret Eiferman at Cal State Northridge campus on May 26, 2026. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Students and teachers told CalMatters they now complete much of their coursework and grading through the online learning site Canvas, which is used across the state’s higher education systems for assigning and submitting work, as well as messaging between students and instructors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isela Ocegueda is the vice president of instruction at Coastline College and teaches an online English course to incarcerated students. She says using Canvas streamlines an incarcerated student’s transition from school on the inside to school on the outside. At her college, 80% of instruction is online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until 2023, Coastline College provided courses in prisons through mail-in correspondence. The college calls its new online format “Canvas-supported correspondence.” Ocegueda says the online format allows instructors to offer more creative assignments and thorough feedback. Her first assignment to her English class last semester was a journal entry, in which she asked students to introduce themselves and tell her how she can help them throughout the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class final is a research paper, on which Ocegueda can give instant feedback and edits to students who can turn in multiple drafts, which was nearly impossible through snail-mail correspondence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine just trying to receive essays in the mail and then make your corrections and then send them back,” Ocegueda said. “That was really hard to do in the mail version of correspondence. … Canvas-supported correspondence allows more for that writing process to actually happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Obstacles to online instruction\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While major improvements to Wi-Fi connectivity and research materials for inmate coursework have been made, there are still obstacles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wi-Fi access varies from prison to prison, and it can often take up to a week for students to get reading materials approved by prison librarians for them to access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students at Pelican Bay State Prison in Del Norte County and California Institution for Women in San Bernardino County say they can’t access Canvas in their cells due to a lack of Wi-Fi, while students at Folsom State Prison and San Quentin Rehabilitation Center say they are able to complete coursework from their cells, where the Wi-Fi is strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11992341\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_NEWFOLSOMPRISONSACRAMENTO_04132023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A watchtower at a prison, with prison walls and barbed wire in the foreground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_NEWFOLSOMPRISONSACRAMENTO_04132023-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_NEWFOLSOMPRISONSACRAMENTO_04132023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_NEWFOLSOMPRISONSACRAMENTO_04132023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_NEWFOLSOMPRISONSACRAMENTO_04132023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_NEWFOLSOMPRISONSACRAMENTO_04132023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_NEWFOLSOMPRISONSACRAMENTO_04132023-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A watch tower at California State Prison, Sacramento, on April 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to a state prison system spokesperson, inmates have Wi-Fi access in the housing units at all but four state prisons. All prisons have Wi-Fi in education areas and classrooms, though signal strength may vary, according to the spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students pursuing bachelor’s degrees in prisons \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/08/prison-education/\">reported\u003c/a> to CalMatters last year ongoing challenges with Wi-Fi and limited access to research materials, with some wishing they could do a simple Google search for information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solano College English professor Ben Brookeshire’s main teaching challenge is delay in students accessing what he calls the “information space.” Some documents his students might need to explore on digital research libraries require approval from prison librarians.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In-person courses boost engagement\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Eiferman, now a Cal State Northridge graduate student, did most of his in-prison coursework via correspondence courses from Palo Verde and Coastline colleges from 2009 to 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eiferman holds an associate in arts, an associate in science and a business certificate from his time incarcerated. He was also pursuing a U.S. history degree when he paroled in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bulk of my interaction with professors during the degree completion was very minimal. It’s distance learning, so that means it’s all done with an envelope and a stamp, and feedback was never a thing,” Eiferman said. “It was extremely challenging to transfer out here to the university, thinking that I knew stuff that I didn’t or stuff that I knew that needed to be retaught and relearned correctly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2230923952.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2230923952.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2230923952-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2230923952-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State University, Northridge on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Myung J. 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They also offer group interaction, peer support, tutoring and collaboration on class assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data tracked by the community college system indicates a 77% success rate for internet-based and correspondence instruction, and an 85% success rate for in-person instruction, for incarcerated students in spring 2025.[aside postID=news_12086323 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250923-ASPIRE-SAFETY-CONDITIONS-MD-02-KQED-1.jpg']“Success” means the student earned a C or higher, or a “pass” in non-letter graded courses. Incarcerated students have a success rate 10% higher than community college students overall in in-person courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a fan of in-person learning,” Moye said. “That’s my favorite style of learning, because to me, it resembles most what’s going on in society. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growth of online learning marks a shift away from correspondence courses, where inmates receive assignments in physical packets, fill them out, and mail them back to colleges, with limited feedback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some community colleges still offer those types of courses, the laptops are starting to replace the packets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, students and faculty alike debate whether online courses are as effective as in-person courses. Some teachers say online options reduce disruptions when students have to miss class due to court hearings or prison lockdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088391\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/052626_Project-Rebound_JAH_13_CM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/052626_Project-Rebound_JAH_13_CM.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/052626_Project-Rebound_JAH_13_CM-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/052626_Project-Rebound_JAH_13_CM-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Project Rebound study room at Cal State Northridge on May 26, 2026. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some students say they prefer in-person courses because they can build invaluable connections. In either mode of learning, inmates say using laptops helps them prepare for life on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more we understand about today’s world, the better we’ll be equipped to get out into the workforce as things continue to change,” incarcerated student Richard Moye said in an interview. “We don’t want to get left behind. … Tech literacy is of the utmost importance behind prison walls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Online courses could increase enrollment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2024, the state Legislative Analyst’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2024/4913/CC-Programs-State-Prisons-070124.pdf\">recommended\u003c/a> improving the California Community Colleges’ prison education program, called Rising Scholars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature’s spending and policy adviser recommended addressing limited classroom space by offering more online courses. The office also suggested Rising Scholars prioritize enrollment for students still pursuing their first degrees, to allow for greater student access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, 104 of the 116 community colleges in the state partner with prisons to provide courses and degree programs. According to data tracked by the community colleges, over 21,000 courses took place in prisons during fall 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088394\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/052626_Project-Rebound_JAH_18_CM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/052626_Project-Rebound_JAH_18_CM.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/052626_Project-Rebound_JAH_18_CM-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/052626_Project-Rebound_JAH_18_CM-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garret Eiferman, a graduate student, uses one of the computers inside the Project Rebound study room at Cal State Northridge on May 26, 2026. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twenty colleges offer courses in person, with a faculty member commuting to the prison to teach the course. The rest teach courses either online or, with diminishing frequency, via mail correspondence, according to the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The true number of online versus mail correspondence courses taken by incarcerated community college students is unknown. While community colleges have the option to track courses using the data labels “correspondence” or “text one-way,” there is no consistency as far as which ones they use, according to the Chancellor’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In-person classes can be difficult to get into because of enrollment caps and limited classroom space. The average in-person course generally ranges from 18 to 40 students.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Many colleges enroll students on a first-come, first-served basis, enabling people on their second or third degree to “crowd out” those on their first degree, according to Orlando Sanchez Zavala, a policy analyst for the Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez Zavala said prioritizing enrollment for people pursuing their first degree would have the most impact on lowering recidivism rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving prison with a degree can make parolees eligible for a wider range of jobs, and more prepared to enter the workforce, reducing their likelihood of reoffending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the prison system’s recidivism report, during the 2018-2019 fiscal year, those who earned an associate’s degree while incarcerated had a 8.5% conviction rate in the three years after getting out, compared to a 41.9% conviction rate for all individuals released that same year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez Zavala also suggested utilizing correspondence and online classes to open more courses with lower enrollment caps, allowing more incarcerated people to access community college.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Incarcerated students face multiple barriers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For in-person courses, a major challenge is finding classroom space in prisons. Though prisons have classrooms, they are also used for other programming and group meetings. Sometimes, classes take place in gyms or dining areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph Bruno Martinez, 40, said he struggled to get into classes when he was incarcerated at high-security facilities, where institution-wide lockdowns sometimes interrupted learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Formerly incarcerated student Garret Eiferman, 56, said he found that prison correctional officers were not always amenable to helping incarcerated students complete degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054782\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/PrisonHeatCM1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/PrisonHeatCM1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/PrisonHeatCM1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/PrisonHeatCM1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guard towers outside Kern Valley State Prison on Nov. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters via CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He had to build relationships with officers so he could use the classrooms past 7 p.m., and, at times, even convince officers to allow his classmates to leave their buildings to attend class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cited other obstacles to his instruction as well, including out-of-date textbooks with the hard covers ripped off for safety reasons, little to no feedback on his correspondence coursework, and challenges balancing work and other prison programs with classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he didn’t take any online-only courses when he was in prison, Eiferman said he can see the benefits for students as they grapple with the obstacles he went through trying to take in-person courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Online courses improve tech literacy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new laptops offer much to the inmates: education, enrichment, and — for those who will go free one day — future employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Moye, online education is important for technology literacy. Moye, 44, has been incarcerated for 16 years and takes courses online and in-person through Solano Community College at California Medical Facility in Vacaville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moye said a lack of emphasis on tech literacy in prisons is a “disservice to this community” as jobs on the outside require applicants to be skilled at using computers and other tech. 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She says using Canvas streamlines an incarcerated student’s transition from school on the inside to school on the outside. At her college, 80% of instruction is online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until 2023, Coastline College provided courses in prisons through mail-in correspondence. The college calls its new online format “Canvas-supported correspondence.” Ocegueda says the online format allows instructors to offer more creative assignments and thorough feedback. Her first assignment to her English class last semester was a journal entry, in which she asked students to introduce themselves and tell her how she can help them throughout the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class final is a research paper, on which Ocegueda can give instant feedback and edits to students who can turn in multiple drafts, which was nearly impossible through snail-mail correspondence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine just trying to receive essays in the mail and then make your corrections and then send them back,” Ocegueda said. “That was really hard to do in the mail version of correspondence. … Canvas-supported correspondence allows more for that writing process to actually happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Obstacles to online instruction\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While major improvements to Wi-Fi connectivity and research materials for inmate coursework have been made, there are still obstacles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wi-Fi access varies from prison to prison, and it can often take up to a week for students to get reading materials approved by prison librarians for them to access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students at Pelican Bay State Prison in Del Norte County and California Institution for Women in San Bernardino County say they can’t access Canvas in their cells due to a lack of Wi-Fi, while students at Folsom State Prison and San Quentin Rehabilitation Center say they are able to complete coursework from their cells, where the Wi-Fi is strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11992341\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_NEWFOLSOMPRISONSACRAMENTO_04132023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A watchtower at a prison, with prison walls and barbed wire in the foreground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_NEWFOLSOMPRISONSACRAMENTO_04132023-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_NEWFOLSOMPRISONSACRAMENTO_04132023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_NEWFOLSOMPRISONSACRAMENTO_04132023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_NEWFOLSOMPRISONSACRAMENTO_04132023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_NEWFOLSOMPRISONSACRAMENTO_04132023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_NEWFOLSOMPRISONSACRAMENTO_04132023-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A watch tower at California State Prison, Sacramento, on April 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to a state prison system spokesperson, inmates have Wi-Fi access in the housing units at all but four state prisons. 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He was also pursuing a U.S. history degree when he paroled in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bulk of my interaction with professors during the degree completion was very minimal. It’s distance learning, so that means it’s all done with an envelope and a stamp, and feedback was never a thing,” Eiferman said. “It was extremely challenging to transfer out here to the university, thinking that I knew stuff that I didn’t or stuff that I knew that needed to be retaught and relearned correctly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2230923952.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2230923952.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2230923952-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2230923952-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State University, Northridge on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Myung J. 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It’s tucked between a BevMo! and a car dealership. There are spaces for about 45 small homes, or RVs, on both sides of a one lane road. It’s long been an affordable option in Marin County, where rent is among the highest in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the cramped street and the constant traffic noise, for Yessica Pérez, this is home. She was seven when her parents — who immigrated from Guatemala — moved their family here 17 years ago. “I think we were the only children in the neighborhood because there were a lot of seniors living here. Then, just little by little, there were a lotta Hispanic kids running around here so it was really nice. A very nice childhood,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since property management company Harmony Communities took over in 2021, residents at the RV park have faced increasing rent, new rules and the threat of eviction. Pérez’s family received 60-day notices for both of their properties. “For basic things like having a porch, having a broom outside,” she said. “We would receive multiple violations. We would fix the violation. Seven days later, we would receive another violation on top of another violation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family was able to get a lawyer and fight back. But others weren’t so lucky. At least a quarter of the 45 households who originally lived there have left or been evicted from the park.\u003cbr>\nAttorney Mariah Thompson said this is a repeat of what happened at other properties owned or managed by the company across the state. “As soon as Harmony started managing the park, they immediately issued a rent increase that substantially violated the rent control ordinance and kicked off what would be an extremely contentious legal battle with the city,” Thompson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Harmony Communities said the notices sent to residents “address severe health and safety violations” and that they did not impose rent increases, just requested them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Trump Administration Targets Cal State University System In Latest Antisemitism Probe\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The California State University system is \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/cal-state-system-targeted-for-antisemitism-probe-by-the-trump-administration\">now under investigation by the Trump administration\u003c/a> over allegations of antisemitism. The probe by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was revealed in an email sent by chancellor Mildred Garcia to the Cal State community on Friday. \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-27/trump-administration-probes-alleged-antisemitism-in-cal-state-university-system\">The Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> first reported on the email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[T]he EEOC has begun direct outreach to some faculty and staff members across the system to review allegations of antisemitism and to speak with them about their experiences on campus,” the email reads. Garcia went on to state that Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has alleged that the Cal State system, among other universities across the nation, of “racial discrimination” over their links to a private nonprofit called PhD Project, an organization with the “goal of diversifying business education and the corporate workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State University has confirmed the EEOC probe and the Department of Education claims. An EEOC spokesperson told LAist, “Under federal law, charges filed with the EEOC are confidential. The EEOC can neither confirm nor deny the existence of any charge.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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These are among the incidents detailed in discrimination complaints against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> universities since the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, at least 17 colleges in the state are in the crosshairs of multi-pronged federal investigations into antisemitism in higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Justice is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029887/trump-doj-investigate-university-california-over-antisemitism-allegations\">investigating\u003c/a> whether the University of California system has allowed antisemitism to create a hostile work environment for Jewish employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-educations-office-civil-rights-sends-letters-60-universities-under-investigation-antisemitic-discrimination-and-harassment\">investigations\u003c/a> into allegations that students of Jewish ancestry have been denied access to education at nearly a dozen schools in the state — including a handful of UCs, California State Universities at Sacramento and San Diego and private institutions such as the University of Southern California, Chapman University and Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, President Donald Trump’s administration has gone even further by withholding federal funds from schools, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/doj-hhs-ed-and-gsa-announce-initial-cancelation-of-grants-and-contracts-columbia-university-worth-400-million\">Columbia\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/g-s1-59090/trump-officials-halt-1-billion-in-funding-for-cornell-790-million-for-northwestern\">Northwestern and Cornell\u003c/a>. Immigration agents have arrested international students like \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration-08d7f08e1daa899986b7131a1edab6d8\">Rumeysa Ozturk\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-15014bcbb921f21a9f704d5acdcae7a8\">Mahmoud Khalil\u003c/a> for their actions in support of Palestine. The latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-to-begin-screening-aliens-social-media-activity-for-antisemitism\">news\u003c/a> is that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now monitoring the social media feeds of immigrants for evidence of antisemitism and “terrorist sympathizers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Federal Antisemitism Investigations in California Higher Ed\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-P7BCl\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/P7BCl/7/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"794\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in civil rights law and academia warn that the extraordinary and even extralegal tactics and disregard for existing discrimination protections point to the administration’s true ambition: Not to create an inclusive campus climate for all, but to stir up fear and extract concessions from traditionally left-leaning centers of learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past month, \u003ca href=\"https://chancellor.ucla.edu/messages/initiative-to-combat-antisemitism\">UCLA\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-848726\">UCSB\u003c/a> have announced new initiatives to address antisemitism, while some state \u003ca href=\"https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=ac9da6d3c73d17a4&docid=fb2a1b12b6b3fe52_ac9da6d3c73d17a4&dapvm=1&highlight=e0218af7ac44146a&utm_source=highlight_deep_link\">lawmakers\u003c/a> and faculty groups have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034221/trump-administration-subpoenas-uc-faculty-information-antisemitism-investigation\">called on\u003c/a> university leaders to stand up to the federal government in order to protect privacy and free speech rights. With billions of dollars in federal research funding on the line, there’s no easy path forward: Columbia, which largely capitulated to the administration’s demands, \u003ca href=\"https://communications.news.columbia.edu/news/statement-federal-funding\">still hasn’t seen\u003c/a> its funding restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we have from this new task force from the federal government is an unprecedented, unique, coalition of federal agencies and they’re operating absent law,” said Catherine Lhamon, assistant secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education under Biden and chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Commission_on_Civil_Rights\">United States Commission on Civil Rights\u003c/a> between 2016 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal actions announced since January have also largely ignored the fact that many of these universities were already under scrutiny — and in some cases, had strict compliance agreements with the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was theater for the current administration to list University of California schools as schools that are somehow newly under investigation [for antisemitism],” Lhamon said. “They’re already subject to federal monitoring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Gutting the Office of Civil Rights\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel’s subsequent devastating war in Gaza, campuses across the country became freshly embroiled in widespread \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984636/violence-erupts-at-ucla-as-protests-over-israels-war-in-gaza-escalate-across-the-u-s\">protests\u003c/a>, labor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987499/academic-workers-at-ucla-davis-are-next-to-strike-over-response-to-protests\">strikes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984645/photos-campus-protests-grow-across-bay-area\">encampments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lhamon said her office received “a huge influx of new cases” including antisemitic complaints like those listed above along with allegations that Palestinian and Muslim students had been doxxed, physically assaulted and greeted with signs reading “Hamas will kill and rape you all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993683\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UC Berkeley pro-Palestinian encampment outside of Sproul Hall in Berkeley, California, on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response, the OCR opened cases against more than a dozen higher education institutions in California, requesting voluminous responses including school policies, the names of witnesses and complainants and disciplinary actions taken by the schools. In those investigations, “what we saw, to my shock and horror, was that lots of schools in K–12 and in higher education had not understood their legal obligations under Title VI,” Lhamon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCR has jurisdiction under \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/crt/fcs/TitleVI\">Title VI\u003c/a> of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars the use of federal funds for programs that discriminate on the basis of “race, color, or national origin.” But Lhamon said Title VI also requires there be a process for the university to come into compliance before federal funds can be withheld — unlike the Trump administration’s move to withhold $400 million from Columbia without a full investigation or any kind of compliance process.[aside postID=news_12034742 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250129_UCBerkeleyRally_GC-72_qed-1020x680.jpg']To that end, the UC reached a resolution \u003ca href=\"https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=ac9da6d3c73d17a4&docid=12292ad5a6780a_ac9da6d3c73d17a4&page=1&dapvm=1&highlight=634e6ffe678dfce1&utm_source=highlight_deep_link\">agreement\u003c/a> with the Department of Education in December to address discrimination against students with “Jewish, Israeli, Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim ancestry” and close nine open Title VI cases. While a March 10, 2025, letter from the incoming head of the OCR called resolutions like this toothless, it includes extensive reporting requirements, campus police training, and individual redress for specific students, including reimbursement of tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, Lhamon wonders who is actually monitoring the agreement. On March 11, half of the OCR employees in the country were terminated, and the Office of Civil Rights in San Francisco, which had spearheaded investigations in California schools, was closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a single investigator in the state of California anymore in the Office of Civil Rights,” Lhamon said. “Not a single person who was involved in those cases is still involved in those cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many other cases investigating discrimination against students with disabilities, Black, Palestinian and Muslim students are also in limbo, court filings show. California is among the states \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031176/california-other-states-gear-up-fight-department-educations-dismantling\">suing\u003c/a> the department over the mass firings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out to OCR attorneys named in complaint documents posted on the DOE website, but none agreed to be interviewed. DOE officials did not respond to multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Denise Katz-Prober of the Brandeis Center, a Jewish advocacy nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., which has filed numerous administrative complaints on behalf of students, said many resolution agreements haven’t gone far enough to address the “root causes” of antisemitism on campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035691\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1409\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-800x564.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-1536x1082.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-1920x1353.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A building at Scripps College through a corridor of trees in Claremont, California, on Aug. 13, 2022. Scripps College is one of 17 California colleges and universities under federal investigation. \u003ccite>(Jim Brown/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said her group feels optimistic that the Trump administration is “ acting quite forcefully and vigorously to hold institutions, accountable.” So far, she doesn’t have concerns about the functioning of the OCR, which she said acted swiftly to open a new case after the center filed a complaint against Scripps College in February. Another case against Chapman, filed over a year ago, is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Monica College, which has three pending complaints with the OCR, was among the 60 institutions that received letters from the Trump administration on March 10. A spokesperson said via email that the \u003ca href=\"https://admin.smc.edu/administration/campus-counsel/documents/OCR-3-10-2025.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> didn’t include any new information — or determination — about the three pending cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you actually care about kids, if you actually care about discrimination that’s occurring in school, you fully monitor the agreements that you have, and you look for the other places that need you,” Lhamon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the Trump administration has made no mention of enforcing the parts of the agreement crafted to address discrimination complaints filed by Palestinian students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestine protesters attempt to block a counter-protester with an Israeli flag at UCLA on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Attendees rallied to protest ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who led protests at Columbia University last year. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UCLA distinguished professor Sherene Razack chairs the Task Force on Anti-Palestinian, Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim Racism, which has submitted three \u003ca href=\"https://uclaracismtaskforce.com/\">reports\u003c/a> to university leaders. Razack said the consequences of this bias to faculty and students can be severe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Medical residents who even mention anything to do with the genocide are getting seriously doxxed,” she said. The consequences of doxxing range from death threats to people “writing to you and saying, ‘You’ll never get a job,’” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Razack said the administration has largely \u003ca href=\"https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46594/Open-Letter-to-Chancellor-Julio-Frenk-From-the-Ucla-Task-Force-on-Anti-Palestinian,-Anti-Muslim-and-Anti-Arab-Racism\">ignored\u003c/a> her task force’s recommendation, instead adopting recommendations from the \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ucla.edu/ucla-announces-initiative-to-combat-antisemitism\">Antisemitism Task Force\u003c/a>, perhaps in “anticipatory compliance” to escape federal repercussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Distinguished Professor Stuart Gabriel of the UCLA Anderson School of Management — who has been tapped to lead the Initiative to Combat Antisemitism — did not respond to KQED’s emails requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘False flag’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The DOJ investigation brought under \u003ca href=\"https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/title-vii-civil-rights-act-1964\">Title VII\u003c/a>, which prohibits workplace discrimination, has already begun contacting people, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/10/trump-administration-begins-interviewing-uc-faculty-as-part-of-antisemitism-probe-00282965\">reporting\u003c/a> by \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em>. Faculty unions had urged the administration to fight \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034221/trump-administration-subpoenas-uc-faculty-information-antisemitism-investigation\">the subpoena of the names and contact information\u003c/a> of hundreds of UC employees who signed letters in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A letter to members from the University Council — American Federation of Teachers, the union that represents almost 7,000 UC teaching faculty and librarians, called on university leaders to protect “worker privacy and due process of law at every turn,” and encouraged workers and students to “resist participating in investigations that are clearly motivated by politics and the intent to silence debate, dissent, and disagreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035694\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Leigh Kimberg speaks during a press conference with UCSF medical professionals to call for a ceasefire in Gaza outside of the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights in San Francisco, California, on Oct. 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The UC Office of the President did not answer questions about the compliance agreement or the actions of the federal task force. In an email, a spokesperson said the institution “unequivocally condemns antisemitism in all forms” and ”is committed to responding to all inquiries in good faith as we continue to take important steps to foster a welcoming and safe environment for all.” A spokesperson for the DOJ declined to comment on the status of the workplace investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while some faculty members see a sharp divergence between the Biden administration’s approach to civil rights enforcement and the Trump administration’s, others, like Leigh Kimberg, a UCSF professor of medicine, feel this is merely a continuation of the ongoing suppression of legitimate protest and pro-Palestinian voices, which includes many Jewish voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I have spoken out saying that actually the liberation of the Jewish people and the Palestinian people are inextricable,” Kimberg said.[aside postID=news_12034703 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-14-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']As a result, she said she has been accused of antisemitism. After speaking about Palestine during a talk about trauma-informed care, she said she was banned from speaking in public courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberg said students have shown incredible bravery even in the face of potential discipline, arrest and immigration enforcement actions. In the past month, dozens of students and faculty at California universities, including Stanford, UCLA and UCSB, have had their visas revoked by the State Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katz-Prober said she’s not an immigration expert, but said the Brandeis Center appreciates the Trump administration taking antisemitism seriously and “that there are consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poulomi Saha, a UC Berkeley associate professor of English who was faculty co-chair of an advisory committee on Muslim and Palestinian student life, sees these investigations as a “false flag mission” in an attempt by Trump to “control what happens on college campuses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, it’s antisemitism. Tomorrow, it will be something else. This is an incursion into a project of free inquiry and free speech on college campuses,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, DOE has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/office-civil-rights-initiates-title-vi-investigations-institutions-of-higher-education-0\">set its sights\u003c/a> on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at universities and K–12 schools. Cal-Poly Humboldt, California State University San Bernardino and UC Berkeley have received notice that the OCR is investigating “race-exclusionary” practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Department is working to reorient civil rights enforcement to ensure all students are protected from illegal discrimination,” wrote U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Immigration agents have arrested international students like \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration-08d7f08e1daa899986b7131a1edab6d8\">Rumeysa Ozturk\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-15014bcbb921f21a9f704d5acdcae7a8\">Mahmoud Khalil\u003c/a> for their actions in support of Palestine. The latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-to-begin-screening-aliens-social-media-activity-for-antisemitism\">news\u003c/a> is that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now monitoring the social media feeds of immigrants for evidence of antisemitism and “terrorist sympathizers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Federal Antisemitism Investigations in California Higher Ed\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-P7BCl\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/P7BCl/7/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"794\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in civil rights law and academia warn that the extraordinary and even extralegal tactics and disregard for existing discrimination protections point to the administration’s true ambition: Not to create an inclusive campus climate for all, but to stir up fear and extract concessions from traditionally left-leaning centers of learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past month, \u003ca href=\"https://chancellor.ucla.edu/messages/initiative-to-combat-antisemitism\">UCLA\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-848726\">UCSB\u003c/a> have announced new initiatives to address antisemitism, while some state \u003ca href=\"https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=ac9da6d3c73d17a4&docid=fb2a1b12b6b3fe52_ac9da6d3c73d17a4&dapvm=1&highlight=e0218af7ac44146a&utm_source=highlight_deep_link\">lawmakers\u003c/a> and faculty groups have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034221/trump-administration-subpoenas-uc-faculty-information-antisemitism-investigation\">called on\u003c/a> university leaders to stand up to the federal government in order to protect privacy and free speech rights. With billions of dollars in federal research funding on the line, there’s no easy path forward: Columbia, which largely capitulated to the administration’s demands, \u003ca href=\"https://communications.news.columbia.edu/news/statement-federal-funding\">still hasn’t seen\u003c/a> its funding restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we have from this new task force from the federal government is an unprecedented, unique, coalition of federal agencies and they’re operating absent law,” said Catherine Lhamon, assistant secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education under Biden and chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Commission_on_Civil_Rights\">United States Commission on Civil Rights\u003c/a> between 2016 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal actions announced since January have also largely ignored the fact that many of these universities were already under scrutiny — and in some cases, had strict compliance agreements with the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was theater for the current administration to list University of California schools as schools that are somehow newly under investigation [for antisemitism],” Lhamon said. “They’re already subject to federal monitoring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Gutting the Office of Civil Rights\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel’s subsequent devastating war in Gaza, campuses across the country became freshly embroiled in widespread \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984636/violence-erupts-at-ucla-as-protests-over-israels-war-in-gaza-escalate-across-the-u-s\">protests\u003c/a>, labor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987499/academic-workers-at-ucla-davis-are-next-to-strike-over-response-to-protests\">strikes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984645/photos-campus-protests-grow-across-bay-area\">encampments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lhamon said her office received “a huge influx of new cases” including antisemitic complaints like those listed above along with allegations that Palestinian and Muslim students had been doxxed, physically assaulted and greeted with signs reading “Hamas will kill and rape you all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993683\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UC Berkeley pro-Palestinian encampment outside of Sproul Hall in Berkeley, California, on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response, the OCR opened cases against more than a dozen higher education institutions in California, requesting voluminous responses including school policies, the names of witnesses and complainants and disciplinary actions taken by the schools. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>To that end, the UC reached a resolution \u003ca href=\"https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=ac9da6d3c73d17a4&docid=12292ad5a6780a_ac9da6d3c73d17a4&page=1&dapvm=1&highlight=634e6ffe678dfce1&utm_source=highlight_deep_link\">agreement\u003c/a> with the Department of Education in December to address discrimination against students with “Jewish, Israeli, Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim ancestry” and close nine open Title VI cases. While a March 10, 2025, letter from the incoming head of the OCR called resolutions like this toothless, it includes extensive reporting requirements, campus police training, and individual redress for specific students, including reimbursement of tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, Lhamon wonders who is actually monitoring the agreement. On March 11, half of the OCR employees in the country were terminated, and the Office of Civil Rights in San Francisco, which had spearheaded investigations in California schools, was closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a single investigator in the state of California anymore in the Office of Civil Rights,” Lhamon said. “Not a single person who was involved in those cases is still involved in those cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many other cases investigating discrimination against students with disabilities, Black, Palestinian and Muslim students are also in limbo, court filings show. California is among the states \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031176/california-other-states-gear-up-fight-department-educations-dismantling\">suing\u003c/a> the department over the mass firings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out to OCR attorneys named in complaint documents posted on the DOE website, but none agreed to be interviewed. DOE officials did not respond to multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Denise Katz-Prober of the Brandeis Center, a Jewish advocacy nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., which has filed numerous administrative complaints on behalf of students, said many resolution agreements haven’t gone far enough to address the “root causes” of antisemitism on campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035691\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1409\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-800x564.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-1536x1082.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-1920x1353.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A building at Scripps College through a corridor of trees in Claremont, California, on Aug. 13, 2022. Scripps College is one of 17 California colleges and universities under federal investigation. \u003ccite>(Jim Brown/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said her group feels optimistic that the Trump administration is “ acting quite forcefully and vigorously to hold institutions, accountable.” So far, she doesn’t have concerns about the functioning of the OCR, which she said acted swiftly to open a new case after the center filed a complaint against Scripps College in February. Another case against Chapman, filed over a year ago, is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Monica College, which has three pending complaints with the OCR, was among the 60 institutions that received letters from the Trump administration on March 10. A spokesperson said via email that the \u003ca href=\"https://admin.smc.edu/administration/campus-counsel/documents/OCR-3-10-2025.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> didn’t include any new information — or determination — about the three pending cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you actually care about kids, if you actually care about discrimination that’s occurring in school, you fully monitor the agreements that you have, and you look for the other places that need you,” Lhamon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the Trump administration has made no mention of enforcing the parts of the agreement crafted to address discrimination complaints filed by Palestinian students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestine protesters attempt to block a counter-protester with an Israeli flag at UCLA on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Attendees rallied to protest ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who led protests at Columbia University last year. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UCLA distinguished professor Sherene Razack chairs the Task Force on Anti-Palestinian, Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim Racism, which has submitted three \u003ca href=\"https://uclaracismtaskforce.com/\">reports\u003c/a> to university leaders. Razack said the consequences of this bias to faculty and students can be severe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Medical residents who even mention anything to do with the genocide are getting seriously doxxed,” she said. The consequences of doxxing range from death threats to people “writing to you and saying, ‘You’ll never get a job,’” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Razack said the administration has largely \u003ca href=\"https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46594/Open-Letter-to-Chancellor-Julio-Frenk-From-the-Ucla-Task-Force-on-Anti-Palestinian,-Anti-Muslim-and-Anti-Arab-Racism\">ignored\u003c/a> her task force’s recommendation, instead adopting recommendations from the \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ucla.edu/ucla-announces-initiative-to-combat-antisemitism\">Antisemitism Task Force\u003c/a>, perhaps in “anticipatory compliance” to escape federal repercussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Distinguished Professor Stuart Gabriel of the UCLA Anderson School of Management — who has been tapped to lead the Initiative to Combat Antisemitism — did not respond to KQED’s emails requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘False flag’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The DOJ investigation brought under \u003ca href=\"https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/title-vii-civil-rights-act-1964\">Title VII\u003c/a>, which prohibits workplace discrimination, has already begun contacting people, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/10/trump-administration-begins-interviewing-uc-faculty-as-part-of-antisemitism-probe-00282965\">reporting\u003c/a> by \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em>. Faculty unions had urged the administration to fight \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034221/trump-administration-subpoenas-uc-faculty-information-antisemitism-investigation\">the subpoena of the names and contact information\u003c/a> of hundreds of UC employees who signed letters in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A letter to members from the University Council — American Federation of Teachers, the union that represents almost 7,000 UC teaching faculty and librarians, called on university leaders to protect “worker privacy and due process of law at every turn,” and encouraged workers and students to “resist participating in investigations that are clearly motivated by politics and the intent to silence debate, dissent, and disagreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035694\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Leigh Kimberg speaks during a press conference with UCSF medical professionals to call for a ceasefire in Gaza outside of the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights in San Francisco, California, on Oct. 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The UC Office of the President did not answer questions about the compliance agreement or the actions of the federal task force. In an email, a spokesperson said the institution “unequivocally condemns antisemitism in all forms” and ”is committed to responding to all inquiries in good faith as we continue to take important steps to foster a welcoming and safe environment for all.” A spokesperson for the DOJ declined to comment on the status of the workplace investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while some faculty members see a sharp divergence between the Biden administration’s approach to civil rights enforcement and the Trump administration’s, others, like Leigh Kimberg, a UCSF professor of medicine, feel this is merely a continuation of the ongoing suppression of legitimate protest and pro-Palestinian voices, which includes many Jewish voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I have spoken out saying that actually the liberation of the Jewish people and the Palestinian people are inextricable,” Kimberg said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As a result, she said she has been accused of antisemitism. After speaking about Palestine during a talk about trauma-informed care, she said she was banned from speaking in public courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberg said students have shown incredible bravery even in the face of potential discipline, arrest and immigration enforcement actions. In the past month, dozens of students and faculty at California universities, including Stanford, UCLA and UCSB, have had their visas revoked by the State Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katz-Prober said she’s not an immigration expert, but said the Brandeis Center appreciates the Trump administration taking antisemitism seriously and “that there are consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poulomi Saha, a UC Berkeley associate professor of English who was faculty co-chair of an advisory committee on Muslim and Palestinian student life, sees these investigations as a “false flag mission” in an attempt by Trump to “control what happens on college campuses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, it’s antisemitism. Tomorrow, it will be something else. This is an incursion into a project of free inquiry and free speech on college campuses,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, DOE has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/office-civil-rights-initiates-title-vi-investigations-institutions-of-higher-education-0\">set its sights\u003c/a> on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at universities and K–12 schools. Cal-Poly Humboldt, California State University San Bernardino and UC Berkeley have received notice that the OCR is investigating “race-exclusionary” practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Department is working to reorient civil rights enforcement to ensure all students are protected from illegal discrimination,” wrote U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California State University is taking the forecast of a snowballing budget gap so seriously, even a recent message touting a new hire came with the equivalent of a financial weather advisory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nation’s largest university system \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/sonoma-state-interim-president-appointed-2024.aspx\">welcomed Emily F. Cutrer as the new interim president of\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/sonoma-state-interim-president-appointed-2024.aspx\"> Sonoma State University\u003c/a> last week with the stern reminder that she must address “enormous financial pressures” facing the university, where fall 2023 enrollment was down more than 36% over the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sobering message was repeated to the system’s 23 campuses at the last board of trustees meeting before the fall term — a moment of truth when campus leaders aiming to reverse declines in student enrollment will find out if their bids to attract and retain students worked. Even if efforts to boost enrollment succeed, cutting costs could prove a necessity on many campuses, CSU officials warned. Board Chair Jack B. Clarke Jr., addressing school presidents directly, said they ultimately will determine how to manage limited resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Presidents, we understand that you’re going to have to make some hard decisions and, within your campus communities and your general communities, you’re going to be criticized,” he said. “Understand that we’re behind you in terms of making the hard decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU could be staring down a $1 billion budget gap in the 2025–26 school year as the result of dwindling state support for higher education and rising costs, staff said at the July board of trustees meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU has also unveiled a plan to reshuffle dollars from campuses that fall short of enrollment goals. In April, the system \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/about-the-csu/budget/Documents/fy-budget-coded-memos/B_2024-01_Preliminary_Budget_Allocations_Memo.pdf\">released a preliminary budget document (PDF)\u003c/a> sketching how the system could reallocate $32 million in enrollment funding from 12 campuses that didn’t meet resident enrollment targets or target increases and shift it into nine campuses where 2024–25 resident enrollment targets have been increased. A CSU spokesperson said the system is finalizing those plans over the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system expects more budgetary trade-offs going forward, CSU Chief Financial Officer Steve Relyea said to trustees at their July meeting. Major expenses include a backlog of facilities and infrastructure projects, employee compensation costs and obligations the schools must meet under legal mandates such as Title IX, the federal law barring sex-based discrimination in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We anticipate negative impacts on academic offerings and student support services,” Relyea said. “The funding that we’re receiving, while it’s more, is still not sufficient to cover the increased cost on our current operations, and at this point universities will likely have to redirect significant dollars from existing university budgets to cover employee compensation commitments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Enrollment drops lead to cuts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CSU earlier this year \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/cal-state-faculty-approve-new-salary-agreement\">agreed to a 10% raise\u003c/a> for faculty represented by the California Faculty Association following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-22/csu-and-faculty-reach-surprise-tentative-agreement-ending-strike\">one-day strike\u003c/a>. Trustees last week voted to approve salary increases for four campus leaders over the objections of some speakers during public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grim forecast underscores the challenges facing CSU at a time of \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/retention/2024/03/13/doubts-about-value-are-deterring-college-enrollment\">flagging student enrollment\u003c/a> across higher education amid \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/508352/americans-confidence-higher-education-down-sharply.aspx\">declining public trust\u003c/a> in the value of a college degree. Systemwide, fall 2023 enrollment stood \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/about-the-csu/facts-about-the-csu/enrollment\">more than 30,000 students shy\u003c/a> of its 2020 peak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus efforts to entice students back to campus include \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/cal-states-new-online-transfer-planner-aims-to-ease-burden-on-community-college-students/707467\">easing transfers\u003c/a> into the system, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/california-state-university-adopts-new-approach-to-entice-students-back/663928\">reengaging students\u003c/a> who started but did not finish a degree and more support for \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/csu-campuses-focus-on-new-strategies-to-help-students-of-color/707174\">students of color\u003c/a>. And CSU leaders say they remain focused on long-term goals like boosting graduation rates for historically underrepresented students and rebuilding trust in Title IX and other anti-discrimination programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding those priorities will require hard choices. Officials anticipate they can partially plug holes in the budget with reserve funds, but they said school presidents and the system itself must tighten their belts to cover the rest — cuts they acknowledged could prove painful and unpopular. The university system also will have to contend with pressure from faculty, who argue they should have a greater say in university decision-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuts are nothing new at some CSU campuses. In recent years, as enrollment fell more than 15% from pre-pandemic levels at schools including \u003ca href=\"https://www.csuci.edu/apb/documents/2023-staffingplan-justificationform.pdf\">Cal State Channel Islands (PDF)\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/anticipating-less-state-aid-csu-campuses-start-making-cuts/705092\">San Francisco State\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonoma.edu/updates/2023/2023-24-campus-budget-plan%C2%A0\">Sonoma State\u003c/a>, campus leaders have held off on filling some open positions or launched voluntary separation programs to reduce staffing costs. \u003ca href=\"https://www.montereyherald.com/2024/05/23/csu-monterey-bay-announces-layoffs/\">Cal State Monterey Bay\u003c/a> in May announced 16 layoffs and an additional 86 departures under an early retirement program. At \u003ca href=\"https://www.csueastbay.edu/administration/sandeen-messages/staff-reduction-faq.html\">Cal State East Bay\u003c/a>, another campus that has seen a dip in enrollment, campus leaders in May \u003ca href=\"https://eastbaypioneers.com/news/2024/5/8/water-polo-cal-state-east-bay-announces-discontinuation-of-womens-water-polo-sponsorship.aspx\">announced\u003c/a> that the school would no longer sponsor its women’s water polo to save money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Upending 19 student-athletes’ East Bay careers is without precedent,” said Jeff Newcomb, a lecturer and president of the California Faculty Association’s East Bay executive board, at the July meeting. “Going forward, authentic shared governance — it’s hard— but it’s crucial if we are to emerge from austerity measures with trust and strategic vitality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Sonoma State as another example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/18938489/embed\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school has weathered enrollment declines with serious cost-cutting. To manage a budget shortfall, spokesperson Jeffery Keating said in a statement, Sonoma State has trimmed $21.4 million from its base budget since 2020–21 and plans an additional $7.5 million cut in 2024–25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those savings have come from reducing the number of faculty and staff, including through attrition and early retirement programs. Keating said faculty and staff headcount fell 22% between 2019 and 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aim has been “to protect student services and academic programs,” according to the statement, and the school doesn’t plan to scale back areas like financial aid, health services or career counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the school sees some positive signs on the horizon: It projects that net student headcount will rise in 2024–25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the system, CSU anticipates a $218 million shortfall this school year, according to a budget presentation. Making up the difference in funds likely will require tapping into reserves and “aggressively pursuing new students and working to retain current students,” said Ryan Storm, the system’s assistant vice chancellor for budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget presentation was not the first time Cal State has flashed financial warning signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of educating CSU students far outstrips the money the system actually has to educate them, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/board-of-trustees/past-meetings/2023/Documents/FIN-May-21-24-2023.pdf\">2023 report by CSU leaders found (PDF)\u003c/a>. Trustee Diego Arambula reminded colleagues last week that the gap between what the system estimated it \u003cem>should\u003c/em> spend to meet student needs and what it \u003cem>does\u003c/em> spend was $1.5 billion, and could grow as campuses trim their budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The search for savings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The search for cost savings starts with the central office, Chancellor Mildred García said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chancellor’s Office is reviewing each of its divisions in pursuit of “not efficiency for its own sake or purely for cost savings, but for mission-driven efficiency,” she said in a report to the trustees. In that vein, the office will split the division of academic and student affairs into two, a reorganization García said was estimated to save at least $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The July meeting also highlighted CSU’s smallest university — Cal Maritime — as both a cautionary tale and a possible inspiration for how the system’s campuses might share costs and academic programs in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board considered a proposal to merge the maritime academy into Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in a bid to save the Vallejo-based maritime school following a steep drop in enrollment and rising overhead costs. The board will resume those discussions in September and make a final decision in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Maritime interim President Michael J. Dumont \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/cal-state-trustees-weigh-bid-to-merge-cal-maritime-cal-poly-san-luis-obispo/715959\">told the board\u003c/a> the school has “taken a chainsaw to every expense on our campus” in pursuit of financial sustainability. Trustees praised the proposal to integrate the maritime academy into Cal Poly San Luis Obispo as an “elegant solution” that would save costs as the campuses consolidate administrative services and other operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU officials have left the door open for future campus mergers but say no additional integrations are immediately planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A document \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/board-of-trustees/past-meetings/2024/Documents/July-22-24-2024-Full-Binder.pdf\">announcing the integration proposal (PDF)\u003c/a> said it’s in keeping with CSU’s goal to look for cost savings “from consolidation of certain administrative functions and from inter-campus cooperation and collaboration in the offering of programs and services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions about whether future campus mergers are likely, a CSU spokesperson cited a \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/cal-poly-maritime-integration.aspx\">document\u003c/a> that says CSU “must remain open to considering all options in the future to ensure the financial health of the system and its universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/board-of-trustees/past-meetings/2024/Documents/Full-BoT-Agenda-Mar-24-27-2024.pdf\">ongoing initiatives to save money (PDF)\u003c/a> short of full mergers, such as negotiating systemwide contracts with vendors and purchasing electricity for multiple campuses on the wholesale energy market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of tools in the toolkit in addition to an integration like this,” CFO Relyea told trustees last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Relyea noted that the $1 billion budget gap forecast for the 2025–26 school year is an estimate based on assumptions that could prove flawed. A shortfall could be avoided by making permanent cuts this school year, pausing new investments, bridging the gap with reserves and successfully lobbying the state for additional money, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some campuses might try to streamline their budgets in ways students won’t notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the goal at Cal State Northridge, where administrators said that measures like cutting nonessential staff travel or delaying plans to replace older technology and equipment were among the ways they hope to save money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything that’s related to student success, we’re trying to shield that as much as we can,” said Edith Winterhalter, who leads the university’s budget department. “It’s really on the administrative side that we’re doing a lot of strategies to reduce our costs as much as we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A painful year’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A wild card in CSU’s finances is its reliance on the California Legislature, which has funded \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/about-the-csu/facts-about-the-csu/csu-funding\">roughly 60% of the school system’s operating costs\u003c/a> in recent years. That can expose the university system to swings in state revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU dodged the worst in this year’s budget. \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/gov-newsom-proposes-to-shield-schools-community-colleges-from-drop-in-state-revenue/703711\">Early budget drafts\u003c/a> proposed pushing a 5% funding hike that had been promised for 2024–25 into the following year. The \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/gov-newsoms-twists-and-tricks-to-spare-cuts-to-schools-and-community-colleges-in-state-budget/714604\">final budget\u003c/a> landed on a compromise: a one-time cut of $75 million, offset by an ongoing increase of $240 million. Staff attributed the improvement to an energetic lobbying campaign on behalf of the universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11986301,news_11961149,news_11990668\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget outlook going forward is less rosy. Anticipating more lean years ahead, state legislators envision an 8% cut to CSU’s ongoing state funding in 2025–26, according to a CSU budget presentation. On top of that, state legislators have proposed that CSU front $252 million in the 2025–26 school year, which the state would subsequently reimburse in 2026–27. A similar spend-and-reimburse maneuver would occur in the 2026–27 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such an arrangement could prove risky for Cal State, Storm observed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we spend, in advance, hundreds of millions of dollars and the state does not reimburse us, it would significantly deplete our one-time balances and reserves, and we could be left with new ongoing commitments and no new funding to support them,” \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/nm9x5Umylek?feature=shared&t=3267\">he said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That reality has compelled Cal State to look to grow other funding sources, including what students pay to attend its universities. Trustee Christopher Steinhauser defended the board’s previous decision to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/cal-state-students-will-see-6-tuition-hike/697358\">increase tuition by 6% annually\u003c/a> starting this fall, saying the additional revenue will allow the system to save hundreds of jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We heard earlier in the spring we have to do less with less,” Steinhauser said. “This is going to be a painful year. … If we didn’t pass that tuition, we would be in a whole big mess, much bigger than we’re in now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU leaders have also pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://senate.humboldt.edu/sites/default/files/senate/8-24-5%20Draft%20Report%20of%20the%20CSU%20Sustainable%20Financial%20Model%20Task%20Force.pdf\">other possible sources of funding (PDF)\u003c/a>, including operating campuses year round and pursuing more public-private partnerships. Trustee Larry L. Adamson urged university presidents to think creatively about raising money from philanthropic sources as one additional revenue stream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many endowed chairs do we do every year in the CSU? And I think the answer is few to none,” he said during last week’s meeting. “We have to start doing more and more of that kind of thinking, as the UCs and privates do constantly. And instead of trying to just raise money for buildings, which we do a lot of, let’s start trying to raise money that offsets our actual ongoing expenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/cal-state-board-anticipates-a-painful-year-as-campuses-cut-costs/716849\">\u003cem>This story originally appeared in EdSource.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California State University is taking the forecast of a snowballing budget gap so seriously, even a recent message touting a new hire came with the equivalent of a financial weather advisory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nation’s largest university system \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/sonoma-state-interim-president-appointed-2024.aspx\">welcomed Emily F. Cutrer as the new interim president of\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/sonoma-state-interim-president-appointed-2024.aspx\"> Sonoma State University\u003c/a> last week with the stern reminder that she must address “enormous financial pressures” facing the university, where fall 2023 enrollment was down more than 36% over the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sobering message was repeated to the system’s 23 campuses at the last board of trustees meeting before the fall term — a moment of truth when campus leaders aiming to reverse declines in student enrollment will find out if their bids to attract and retain students worked. Even if efforts to boost enrollment succeed, cutting costs could prove a necessity on many campuses, CSU officials warned. Board Chair Jack B. Clarke Jr., addressing school presidents directly, said they ultimately will determine how to manage limited resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Presidents, we understand that you’re going to have to make some hard decisions and, within your campus communities and your general communities, you’re going to be criticized,” he said. “Understand that we’re behind you in terms of making the hard decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU could be staring down a $1 billion budget gap in the 2025–26 school year as the result of dwindling state support for higher education and rising costs, staff said at the July board of trustees meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU has also unveiled a plan to reshuffle dollars from campuses that fall short of enrollment goals. In April, the system \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/about-the-csu/budget/Documents/fy-budget-coded-memos/B_2024-01_Preliminary_Budget_Allocations_Memo.pdf\">released a preliminary budget document (PDF)\u003c/a> sketching how the system could reallocate $32 million in enrollment funding from 12 campuses that didn’t meet resident enrollment targets or target increases and shift it into nine campuses where 2024–25 resident enrollment targets have been increased. A CSU spokesperson said the system is finalizing those plans over the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system expects more budgetary trade-offs going forward, CSU Chief Financial Officer Steve Relyea said to trustees at their July meeting. Major expenses include a backlog of facilities and infrastructure projects, employee compensation costs and obligations the schools must meet under legal mandates such as Title IX, the federal law barring sex-based discrimination in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We anticipate negative impacts on academic offerings and student support services,” Relyea said. “The funding that we’re receiving, while it’s more, is still not sufficient to cover the increased cost on our current operations, and at this point universities will likely have to redirect significant dollars from existing university budgets to cover employee compensation commitments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Enrollment drops lead to cuts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CSU earlier this year \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/cal-state-faculty-approve-new-salary-agreement\">agreed to a 10% raise\u003c/a> for faculty represented by the California Faculty Association following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-22/csu-and-faculty-reach-surprise-tentative-agreement-ending-strike\">one-day strike\u003c/a>. Trustees last week voted to approve salary increases for four campus leaders over the objections of some speakers during public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grim forecast underscores the challenges facing CSU at a time of \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/retention/2024/03/13/doubts-about-value-are-deterring-college-enrollment\">flagging student enrollment\u003c/a> across higher education amid \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/508352/americans-confidence-higher-education-down-sharply.aspx\">declining public trust\u003c/a> in the value of a college degree. Systemwide, fall 2023 enrollment stood \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/about-the-csu/facts-about-the-csu/enrollment\">more than 30,000 students shy\u003c/a> of its 2020 peak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus efforts to entice students back to campus include \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/cal-states-new-online-transfer-planner-aims-to-ease-burden-on-community-college-students/707467\">easing transfers\u003c/a> into the system, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/california-state-university-adopts-new-approach-to-entice-students-back/663928\">reengaging students\u003c/a> who started but did not finish a degree and more support for \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/csu-campuses-focus-on-new-strategies-to-help-students-of-color/707174\">students of color\u003c/a>. And CSU leaders say they remain focused on long-term goals like boosting graduation rates for historically underrepresented students and rebuilding trust in Title IX and other anti-discrimination programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding those priorities will require hard choices. Officials anticipate they can partially plug holes in the budget with reserve funds, but they said school presidents and the system itself must tighten their belts to cover the rest — cuts they acknowledged could prove painful and unpopular. The university system also will have to contend with pressure from faculty, who argue they should have a greater say in university decision-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuts are nothing new at some CSU campuses. In recent years, as enrollment fell more than 15% from pre-pandemic levels at schools including \u003ca href=\"https://www.csuci.edu/apb/documents/2023-staffingplan-justificationform.pdf\">Cal State Channel Islands (PDF)\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/anticipating-less-state-aid-csu-campuses-start-making-cuts/705092\">San Francisco State\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonoma.edu/updates/2023/2023-24-campus-budget-plan%C2%A0\">Sonoma State\u003c/a>, campus leaders have held off on filling some open positions or launched voluntary separation programs to reduce staffing costs. \u003ca href=\"https://www.montereyherald.com/2024/05/23/csu-monterey-bay-announces-layoffs/\">Cal State Monterey Bay\u003c/a> in May announced 16 layoffs and an additional 86 departures under an early retirement program. At \u003ca href=\"https://www.csueastbay.edu/administration/sandeen-messages/staff-reduction-faq.html\">Cal State East Bay\u003c/a>, another campus that has seen a dip in enrollment, campus leaders in May \u003ca href=\"https://eastbaypioneers.com/news/2024/5/8/water-polo-cal-state-east-bay-announces-discontinuation-of-womens-water-polo-sponsorship.aspx\">announced\u003c/a> that the school would no longer sponsor its women’s water polo to save money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Upending 19 student-athletes’ East Bay careers is without precedent,” said Jeff Newcomb, a lecturer and president of the California Faculty Association’s East Bay executive board, at the July meeting. “Going forward, authentic shared governance — it’s hard— but it’s crucial if we are to emerge from austerity measures with trust and strategic vitality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Sonoma State as another example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/18938489/embed\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school has weathered enrollment declines with serious cost-cutting. To manage a budget shortfall, spokesperson Jeffery Keating said in a statement, Sonoma State has trimmed $21.4 million from its base budget since 2020–21 and plans an additional $7.5 million cut in 2024–25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those savings have come from reducing the number of faculty and staff, including through attrition and early retirement programs. Keating said faculty and staff headcount fell 22% between 2019 and 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aim has been “to protect student services and academic programs,” according to the statement, and the school doesn’t plan to scale back areas like financial aid, health services or career counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the school sees some positive signs on the horizon: It projects that net student headcount will rise in 2024–25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the system, CSU anticipates a $218 million shortfall this school year, according to a budget presentation. Making up the difference in funds likely will require tapping into reserves and “aggressively pursuing new students and working to retain current students,” said Ryan Storm, the system’s assistant vice chancellor for budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget presentation was not the first time Cal State has flashed financial warning signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of educating CSU students far outstrips the money the system actually has to educate them, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/board-of-trustees/past-meetings/2023/Documents/FIN-May-21-24-2023.pdf\">2023 report by CSU leaders found (PDF)\u003c/a>. Trustee Diego Arambula reminded colleagues last week that the gap between what the system estimated it \u003cem>should\u003c/em> spend to meet student needs and what it \u003cem>does\u003c/em> spend was $1.5 billion, and could grow as campuses trim their budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The search for savings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The search for cost savings starts with the central office, Chancellor Mildred García said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chancellor’s Office is reviewing each of its divisions in pursuit of “not efficiency for its own sake or purely for cost savings, but for mission-driven efficiency,” she said in a report to the trustees. In that vein, the office will split the division of academic and student affairs into two, a reorganization García said was estimated to save at least $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The July meeting also highlighted CSU’s smallest university — Cal Maritime — as both a cautionary tale and a possible inspiration for how the system’s campuses might share costs and academic programs in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board considered a proposal to merge the maritime academy into Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in a bid to save the Vallejo-based maritime school following a steep drop in enrollment and rising overhead costs. The board will resume those discussions in September and make a final decision in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Maritime interim President Michael J. Dumont \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/cal-state-trustees-weigh-bid-to-merge-cal-maritime-cal-poly-san-luis-obispo/715959\">told the board\u003c/a> the school has “taken a chainsaw to every expense on our campus” in pursuit of financial sustainability. Trustees praised the proposal to integrate the maritime academy into Cal Poly San Luis Obispo as an “elegant solution” that would save costs as the campuses consolidate administrative services and other operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU officials have left the door open for future campus mergers but say no additional integrations are immediately planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A document \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/board-of-trustees/past-meetings/2024/Documents/July-22-24-2024-Full-Binder.pdf\">announcing the integration proposal (PDF)\u003c/a> said it’s in keeping with CSU’s goal to look for cost savings “from consolidation of certain administrative functions and from inter-campus cooperation and collaboration in the offering of programs and services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions about whether future campus mergers are likely, a CSU spokesperson cited a \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/cal-poly-maritime-integration.aspx\">document\u003c/a> that says CSU “must remain open to considering all options in the future to ensure the financial health of the system and its universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/board-of-trustees/past-meetings/2024/Documents/Full-BoT-Agenda-Mar-24-27-2024.pdf\">ongoing initiatives to save money (PDF)\u003c/a> short of full mergers, such as negotiating systemwide contracts with vendors and purchasing electricity for multiple campuses on the wholesale energy market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of tools in the toolkit in addition to an integration like this,” CFO Relyea told trustees last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Relyea noted that the $1 billion budget gap forecast for the 2025–26 school year is an estimate based on assumptions that could prove flawed. A shortfall could be avoided by making permanent cuts this school year, pausing new investments, bridging the gap with reserves and successfully lobbying the state for additional money, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some campuses might try to streamline their budgets in ways students won’t notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the goal at Cal State Northridge, where administrators said that measures like cutting nonessential staff travel or delaying plans to replace older technology and equipment were among the ways they hope to save money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything that’s related to student success, we’re trying to shield that as much as we can,” said Edith Winterhalter, who leads the university’s budget department. “It’s really on the administrative side that we’re doing a lot of strategies to reduce our costs as much as we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A painful year’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A wild card in CSU’s finances is its reliance on the California Legislature, which has funded \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/about-the-csu/facts-about-the-csu/csu-funding\">roughly 60% of the school system’s operating costs\u003c/a> in recent years. That can expose the university system to swings in state revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU dodged the worst in this year’s budget. \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/gov-newsom-proposes-to-shield-schools-community-colleges-from-drop-in-state-revenue/703711\">Early budget drafts\u003c/a> proposed pushing a 5% funding hike that had been promised for 2024–25 into the following year. The \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/gov-newsoms-twists-and-tricks-to-spare-cuts-to-schools-and-community-colleges-in-state-budget/714604\">final budget\u003c/a> landed on a compromise: a one-time cut of $75 million, offset by an ongoing increase of $240 million. Staff attributed the improvement to an energetic lobbying campaign on behalf of the universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Gavin Newsom promised California’s public universities five years of annual growth in state support totalling more than $2 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the governor’s updated budget plan for next year instead aims to cut the University of California and California State University by a combined $200 million in response to the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/05/california-budget-deficit-newsom-may-proposal/\">state’s project multi-billion-dollar budget deficit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five-year compact is at risk of turning into a humbler two-year vow, underscoring the difficulty of projecting multiple years of support for California’s top generators of bachelor’s degree recipients — a state particularly at the mercy of large revenue swings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11985798,news_11983823\" label=\"Related Stories\"]The UC would see a $125 million base funding cut in 2024-25, with plans to restore that dip in 2025-26. For Cal State, the governor’s May budget revision includes a $75 million cut that’ll be restored in 2025-26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers were shared with CalMatters after it sought more detail from the California Department of Finance about its higher-education plans that are part of the annual May Revise process. It’s an update to the governor’s initial January proposal and sets the stage for intense budget negotiations with the Legislature to finalize a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/budget/\">state budget\u003c/a> by late June. The 2024-25 budget year begins July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fiscal outlook gets modestly rosier later for the two systems, which combined run 33 universities that enroll around 750,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each system would receive a modest bump of 2.05% in 2025-26 — a far cry from the 10% the governor projected in his January budget proposal. That 10% itself was a compromise. Each system was supposed to see a 5% bump in 2024-25 and the same in 2025-26. But in January, Newsom called for no bump in year one and to double-up in year two as a way to manage the state deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That 10% for the two systems would have meant $1 billion combined in 2025-26, \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4829#:~:text=%241%C2%A0billion%20ongoing%20General%20Fund%20augmentation\">according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/a>. A mere 2% increase would total roughly $200 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analyst’s office basically presaged the change of fortune for the universities. When Newsom unveiled his compact plan in 2022, a promise of increased spending in exchange for improvements in student academics, \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4499#:~:text=Compacts%20Historically%20Have%20Not%20Been%20Accurate%20Guide%20for%20the%20Future\">the office wrote\u003c/a>: “We caution the Legislature against putting too much stake in the Governor’s outyear commitments to the universities.” Previous governors have rarely “been able to sustain their compacts over time,” the office noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason? “In some cases, changing economic and fiscal conditions in the state have led governors to suspend their compacts,” the office wrote then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether lawmakers fight to restore these cuts is an open question. More money for campuses means they can pay to hire more faculty and offer more classes students need to graduate. The additional state support is also a particular lifeline for Cal State, which agreed to 5% raises for its roughly 60,000 unionized workers, including the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/02/cal-state-faculty-contract/\">nearly 30,000 faculty who went on strike\u003c/a> late last year and early this year demanding wage and benefits gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a dollar spent one place means it’s not spent elsewhere, and the governor is also proposing to swing his budgetary scythe at student financial aid. Under his May revision, the Middle Class Scholarship would shrink by more than $500 million to $100 million \u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/352/2024/05/2024-25-May-Revision-General-Fund-Solutions.pdf#page=8\">each of the next two years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 300,000 students received that award this year, with average amounts between $2,000 and $3,000. If the governor’s plan becomes law, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/california-financial-aid-2/\">those amounts could shrink by 80%, on average\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One higher-education watchdog worries the cuts and limited growth will affect low-income students most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this funding being cut, I think it’s going to require a real concerted effort over multiple years to make sure that those students are brought back into higher education and have the supports that they need over multiple years to actually make it to graduation,” said Joshua Hagen, director of policy and advocacy at the Campaign for College Opportunity, a nonprofit advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fiscal outlook gets modestly rosier later for the two systems, which combined run 33 universities that enroll around 750,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each system would receive a modest bump of 2.05% in 2025-26 — a far cry from the 10% the governor projected in his January budget proposal. That 10% itself was a compromise. Each system was supposed to see a 5% bump in 2024-25 and the same in 2025-26. But in January, Newsom called for no bump in year one and to double-up in year two as a way to manage the state deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That 10% for the two systems would have meant $1 billion combined in 2025-26, \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4829#:~:text=%241%C2%A0billion%20ongoing%20General%20Fund%20augmentation\">according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/a>. A mere 2% increase would total roughly $200 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analyst’s office basically presaged the change of fortune for the universities. When Newsom unveiled his compact plan in 2022, a promise of increased spending in exchange for improvements in student academics, \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4499#:~:text=Compacts%20Historically%20Have%20Not%20Been%20Accurate%20Guide%20for%20the%20Future\">the office wrote\u003c/a>: “We caution the Legislature against putting too much stake in the Governor’s outyear commitments to the universities.” Previous governors have rarely “been able to sustain their compacts over time,” the office noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason? “In some cases, changing economic and fiscal conditions in the state have led governors to suspend their compacts,” the office wrote then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether lawmakers fight to restore these cuts is an open question. More money for campuses means they can pay to hire more faculty and offer more classes students need to graduate. The additional state support is also a particular lifeline for Cal State, which agreed to 5% raises for its roughly 60,000 unionized workers, including the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/02/cal-state-faculty-contract/\">nearly 30,000 faculty who went on strike\u003c/a> late last year and early this year demanding wage and benefits gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a dollar spent one place means it’s not spent elsewhere, and the governor is also proposing to swing his budgetary scythe at student financial aid. Under his May revision, the Middle Class Scholarship would shrink by more than $500 million to $100 million \u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/352/2024/05/2024-25-May-Revision-General-Fund-Solutions.pdf#page=8\">each of the next two years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 300,000 students received that award this year, with average amounts between $2,000 and $3,000. If the governor’s plan becomes law, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/california-financial-aid-2/\">those amounts could shrink by 80%, on average\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One higher-education watchdog worries the cuts and limited growth will affect low-income students most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this funding being cut, I think it’s going to require a real concerted effort over multiple years to make sure that those students are brought back into higher education and have the supports that they need over multiple years to actually make it to graduation,” said Joshua Hagen, director of policy and advocacy at the Campaign for College Opportunity, a nonprofit advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This report contains a clarification.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faculty members at San Francisco State University gathered on campus on Thursday to oppose the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973267/csu-faculty-start-weeklong-strike-across-23-campuses-heres-what-to-know\">tentative agreement\u003c/a> reached by their union’s leadership with California State University. Faculty from other CSU campuses, including CSU East Bay and San José State, also joined the rally in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Brad Erickson, CFA chapter president, SFSU\"]‘Whatever the specifics, we were not informed, and we were not in the room, and this was a breach of trust. Extending the contract another year without your input means waiting even longer to bargain for a better deal.’[/pullquote]A rally was planned for Thursday, which was meant to be the fourth day of a systemwide strike across all of the CSU’s 23 campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But late Monday night, the California Faculty Association announced that it had reached a deal with the university and that the strike was over. Rather than cancel their planned rally, San Francisco faculty chose to use the opportunity \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CFASF/status/1750275984958582810\">to speak out against the deal’s terms\u003c/a>, which many have called unsatisfactory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever the specifics, we were not informed, and we were not in the room, and this was a breach of trust,” said Brad Erickson, SF State’s union chapter president. “Extending the contract another year without your input means waiting even longer to bargain for a better deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as last Friday, union leaders were still insisting on pushing for a 12% salary increase. Their most recent official proposal demanded that increase be retroactive to last October. The union had also previously rejected an offer of a three-year deal with annual 5% raises. The first would have been retroactive to last July, and the next two would be contingent on California not reducing its base funding to the CSU below 2023 levels over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973756\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973756\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240125-SFSUNoVote-47-BL-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a red t-shirt holds a cardboard sign in one hand and a trumpet in the other while standing on a grassy area in front of a group of people in mostly red attire.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240125-SFSUNoVote-47-BL-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240125-SFSUNoVote-47-BL-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240125-SFSUNoVote-47-BL-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240125-SFSUNoVote-47-BL-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240125-SFSUNoVote-47-BL-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240125-SFSUNoVote-47-BL-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240125-SFSUNoVote-47-BL-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty, students and CFA union members form a ‘No’ in The Quad at San Francisco State University on Jan. 25, 2024, to urge a no vote on the tentative deal that ended this week’s California State University strike. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So some faculty members were disappointed when they learned that the union had accepted a deal for a 5% retroactive raise and 5% for the coming year, with the future raise including the same contingency language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A handful of leaders demonstrated a lack of faith in our ability to organize, and this is actually what really hurt a lot of us,” Erickson said. “They say that this is the best deal we could have gotten, but we’ll never know because we didn’t have the option to follow through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Allan Davis, an associate professor of Africana Studies and member of the contract development and bargaining strategies committee, expressed a similar sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973741\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973741\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240125-SFSUNoVote-37-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a red shirt holds a fist in the air surrounded by other people mostly in red clothing.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240125-SFSUNoVote-37-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240125-SFSUNoVote-37-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240125-SFSUNoVote-37-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240125-SFSUNoVote-37-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240125-SFSUNoVote-37-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240125-SFSUNoVote-37-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240125-SFSUNoVote-37-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tobin Galang, from the Metro College Success Program, cheers during a rally with the San Francisco State University chapter of the California Faculty Association at SFSU in San Francisco on Jan. 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The biggest disappointment in all of this is that … a few people did not believe that all the work that we were doing, and power that we were generating, and camaraderie and solidarity that was building, it wasn’t believed that it could be successful that whole week,” Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, CFA statewide officials said, “Bargaining is an iterative process, and we did not secure everything that we wanted. This has led to disappointment among some of us but also excitement among many. We hope everyone understands that this deal is far beyond what CSU management initially proposed and what they imposed on us earlier this month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order for the deal to be ratified, a majority of voting faculty members will need to vote for it. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A rally was planned for Thursday, which was meant to be the fourth day of a systemwide strike across all of the CSU’s 23 campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But late Monday night, the California Faculty Association announced that it had reached a deal with the university and that the strike was over. Rather than cancel their planned rally, San Francisco faculty chose to use the opportunity \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CFASF/status/1750275984958582810\">to speak out against the deal’s terms\u003c/a>, which many have called unsatisfactory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever the specifics, we were not informed, and we were not in the room, and this was a breach of trust,” said Brad Erickson, SF State’s union chapter president. “Extending the contract another year without your input means waiting even longer to bargain for a better deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as last Friday, union leaders were still insisting on pushing for a 12% salary increase. Their most recent official proposal demanded that increase be retroactive to last October. The union had also previously rejected an offer of a three-year deal with annual 5% raises. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco State University faculty held a single-day strike on Tuesday, demanding significant pay increases, amid the looming threat of widespread layoffs and hundreds of class cuts across campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of faculty members, including professors, librarians, counselors and coaches, gathered on the campus alongside some of their students, holding signs and shouting chants as passing cars honked in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When education is under attack, what do we do?” one strike leader called out. “Stand up, fight back!” the crowd responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The action is the second in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968948/thousands-of-cal-state-faculty-launch-rolling-1-day-walkouts-in-fight-for-higher-pay\">series of one-day strikes\u003c/a> at four California State University campuses this week, with Cal Poly Pomona faculty kicking things off on Monday. CSU Los Angeles faculty plan to strike on Wednesday, followed by Sacramento State faculty on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Faculty Association, which represents some 29,000 CSU employees, is demanding a retroactive 12% salary hike for the current academic year, more manageable workloads and an increase in parental leave — from six weeks to a full semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969093\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-27-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969093\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-27-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a baseball cap speaks into a microphone in front of a group of people in red shirts carry picket signs in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" 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LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The work stoppages come after months of fruitless negotiations between the union and university system administrators, who have held fast to their offer of a 5% increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And neither side accepted some of the key terms that an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968703/cal-state-faculty-plans-to-strike-as-officials-reject-a-12-salary-increase\">independent fact finder recommended last week\u003c/a> — including a 7% pay hike — in a final effort to avert a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanca Missé, an associate professor of French at SF State, blamed administrators for failing to seriously consider the union’s demands, noting that a 5% pay increase would not even cover inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to look at the facts of the cost of living, the cost of keeping faculty working in this institution because a lot of faculty are leaving because they cannot afford to live in the Bay Area anymore,” said Missé, who joined the campus picket line on Tuesday. “We have a high turnover of faculty, which in turn affects the quality of education for students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Leora Freedman, CSU’s vice chancellor for human resources, said that while the university system aims to pay its workers fairly and provide competitive benefits, it simply lacked the financial resources to accommodate the union’s demands.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"csu\"]“We recognize the need to increase compensation and are committed to doing so, but our financial commitments must be fiscally sustainable,” she said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State, more so than any other CSU campus, is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967471/sf-state-faculty-and-students-rally-against-layoffs-class-cuts-planned-for-spring\">facing the prospect of sweeping cuts\u003c/a>, with over 300 lecturers expected to be laid off in the spring and more than 650 classes on the chopping block following years of declining enrollment and a projected budget shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Missé said that although the strike was not about the planned layoffs, that grim context helped mobilize faculty and students to show up on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re losing 300 lecture-line faculty, people who have been working here for 20 years, when you see programs being decimated, students struggling to graduate, people get angry,” Missé said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali Noorzad, a fourth-year history student who participated in Tuesday’s strike, said his education is directly dependent on the working conditions of his professors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking at my class schedule, there’s classes I needed to take that I could not take because so many classes are cut because so many faculty have been cut,” Noorzad said. “Faculty are obviously the ones being most directly affected by [cuts], but you can see how this is affecting us as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of Teamsters Local 2010, which represents some 1,100 plumbers, electricians and other skilled trade workers in the CSU system, joined Tuesday’s strike in a show of solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969091\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969091\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people in red shirts carry picket signs in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF State student Violet Street chants in support of faculty during Tuesday’s campus walkout. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always had crappy negotiating and bad contracts, and that’s why we’re here,” said David Hagstrom, the Teamsters Local 2010 chief steward, whose own union held a one-day strike last month after also failing to agree on a new contract with university administrators. “The CSU has pushed us to this point where we have to stand up and we have to do something or they’re just going to walk all over us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For CSU faculty, the current three-year contract now under negotiation expires in the spring, at the end of this academic year. So even if the two sides do reach a compromise, they will have to return to the negotiating table in a matter of months to face off over the next contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ali Kashani, a senior lecturer of political philosophy at SF State, said the prospect of that ongoing struggle doesn’t daunt him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are fed up. They want to have better living conditions, so we’re not afraid of that,” he said. “This is actually a good testing ground for us. We’re going to get ready, solidarity is going to be there, we’re going to actually get more militant for our next contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We recognize the need to increase compensation and are committed to doing so, but our financial commitments must be fiscally sustainable,” she said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State, more so than any other CSU campus, is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967471/sf-state-faculty-and-students-rally-against-layoffs-class-cuts-planned-for-spring\">facing the prospect of sweeping cuts\u003c/a>, with over 300 lecturers expected to be laid off in the spring and more than 650 classes on the chopping block following years of declining enrollment and a projected budget shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Missé said that although the strike was not about the planned layoffs, that grim context helped mobilize faculty and students to show up on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re losing 300 lecture-line faculty, people who have been working here for 20 years, when you see programs being decimated, students struggling to graduate, people get angry,” Missé said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali Noorzad, a fourth-year history student who participated in Tuesday’s strike, said his education is directly dependent on the working conditions of his professors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking at my class schedule, there’s classes I needed to take that I could not take because so many classes are cut because so many faculty have been cut,” Noorzad said. “Faculty are obviously the ones being most directly affected by [cuts], but you can see how this is affecting us as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of Teamsters Local 2010, which represents some 1,100 plumbers, electricians and other skilled trade workers in the CSU system, joined Tuesday’s strike in a show of solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969091\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969091\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people in red shirts carry picket signs in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF State student Violet Street chants in support of faculty during Tuesday’s campus walkout. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always had crappy negotiating and bad contracts, and that’s why we’re here,” said David Hagstrom, the Teamsters Local 2010 chief steward, whose own union held a one-day strike last month after also failing to agree on a new contract with university administrators. “The CSU has pushed us to this point where we have to stand up and we have to do something or they’re just going to walk all over us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For CSU faculty, the current three-year contract now under negotiation expires in the spring, at the end of this academic year. So even if the two sides do reach a compromise, they will have to return to the negotiating table in a matter of months to face off over the next contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ali Kashani, a senior lecturer of political philosophy at SF State, said the prospect of that ongoing struggle doesn’t daunt him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are fed up. They want to have better living conditions, so we’re not afraid of that,” he said. “This is actually a good testing ground for us. We’re going to get ready, solidarity is going to be there, we’re going to actually get more militant for our next contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands of faculty on four California State University campuses, are holding a series of one-day strikes this week, starting Monday, to demand higher pay and more parental leave for professors, librarians, counselors, coaches and other academic employees of the country’s largest public university system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Poly Pomona faculty are striking Monday, followed by faculty walkouts later this week at San Francisco State, Cal State Los Angeles and Sacramento State. The 1-day rolling work stoppages mark the latest push by the California Faculty Association to fight for better pay and benefits for the roughly 29,000 workers it represents.[aside label=\"more CSU coverage\" tag=\"csu\"]The union is seeking a 12% salary raise and an increase in parental leave from six weeks to a full semester. They also want more manageable workloads for faculty, better access to breastfeeding stations and more gender-inclusive restrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re doing is in the spirit of maintaining the integrity of what the public education system should be for,” said Maria Gisela Sanchez, a counselor at Cal Poly Pomona, who picketed Monday. “Public education belongs to all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anne Luna, president of the union’s Sacramento chapter, said CSU faculty need this boost to cover the rapidly rising cost of rent, groceries, child care and other necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can afford to provide fair compensation and safe working conditions,” Luna said in a statement. “It’s time to stop funneling tuition and taxpayer money into a top-heavy administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CSU chancellor’s office says the pay increase the union is demanding would cost the system $380 million in new recurring spending — more than twice the amount the system will receive from the state in increased funding for the next school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leora Freedman, the vice chancellor for human resources, said in a statement that while the university system can’t meet the union’s demands, it still aims to pay its workers fairly and provide competitive benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize the need to increase compensation and are committed to doing so, but our financial commitments must be fiscally sustainable,” Freedman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the chancellor’s office respects workers’ right to strike and is preparing to minimize disruptions on campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Poly Pomona leadership said the campus would remain open on Monday and that some faculty would still hold classes. Instructors participating in the strike notified students about cancellations and gave them instructions to prepare for the next class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kate Ozment, an English assistant professor and assembly delegate for the union’s Cal Poly Pomona chapter, said the only reason she could afford to take her job at the university after earning $18,000 annually as a graduate student in Texas was because she is married.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what we’re seeing is that people who are two-income households or have generational wealth are the ones who can afford to take these jobs,” she said. “That’s not actually what the CSU is supposed to be about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walkout comes as other non-faculty workers at CSU are also fighting for better pay and bargaining rights. In October, student workers across the university system’s 23 campuses became eligible to vote to form a union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And last month, the Teamsters Local 2010 union, which represents some 1,100 plumbers, electricians and maintenance workers employed by the university system, held a one-day strike to demand better pay. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>To view the campus reports, \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/titleix/Pages/cozen-title-ix-assessment.aspx\">click this link\u003c/a>. There’s a dropdown for each campus.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California State Auditor found \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-state-university\">California State University\u003c/a> routinely failed to address sexual harassment allegations across some of its 23 campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2022-109/index.html#section1\">The audit\u003c/a>, released Tuesday, continues to shed light on a system in disarray and disorder. The state auditor reviewed multiple alleged cases of sexual harassment and several investigations to determine that, in some cases, universities improperly closed cases and failed to provide adequate discipline or take action against offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit arrives one day after the release of \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/cal-state-fails-to-fully-address-sexual-harassment-and-discrimination-complaints/694120\">a year-long independent investigation\u003c/a> ordered by the CSU Board of Trustees to review the system’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/civil-rights/for-individuals/sex-discrimination/title-ix-education-amendments/index.html\">Title IX\u003c/a> practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/titleix/Documents/california-state-university_systemwide-report_july-17-2023.pdf\">That report (PDF)\u003c/a>, assembled by Cozen O’Connor law firm, also found that the nation’s largest public university system fails to respond adequately to sexual harassment and discrimination complaints from employees and students because of few resources and little staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state auditor reviewed 40 CSU sexual harassment cases from 2016 to 2022 that showed employees potentially engaging in sexual harassment. Twenty-one of those cases led to a formal investigation and four led to an informal resolution agreement. Out of 15 cases that were closed upon their first assessments, the audit found that campuses did not provide clear reasons for closing 11 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those cases, the campuses did not move forward with a formal investigation, even though the cases contained concerning allegations that may have warranted an investigation,” according to the audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit gives one such example of a student who alleged that a faculty member made, “inappropriate comments about her body, consistently walked her toward her residence after class, talked about his personal and romantic life, and compared her to women he dated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The student filed a written complaint, met with a campus official and made it clear she wanted to take action. But the campus, which is unnamed in the audit, declined to investigate stating that the alleged conduct was “on the border” of the campus’s purview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor found that some campuses did not contact all the complainants before closing cases or made little effort to pursue investigating allegations if the complainants chose not to participate in the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Individual, according to the audit\"]‘In those cases, the campuses did not move forward with a formal investigation, even though the cases contained concerning allegations that may have warranted an investigation.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor also found issues with the way CSU conducts investigations. Seven investigations contained “deficiencies that caused us to question the campuses’ determinations that sexual harassment had not occurred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another example from the audit, a contractor reported that a faculty member made “inappropriate comments to her on multiple occasions, hugged her, touched her hair, and kissed a different staff member without that person’s consent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university substantiated the allegations but found the conduct “did not meet the definition of sexual harassment in CSU’s policy — an outcome we question, given the details of the case and deficiencies in the campus’ investigative analysis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In seven cases, the audit found that the university failed to implement action even when campuses determined an employee’s behavior required discipline. Three cases were closed by campuses that also referred those cases to a different university department for possible corrective action, such as having a conversation with the accused person or a letter of reprimand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another example, an unnamed campus found a male professor responsible for sexual harassment, sexual violence, and stalking in 2016 but failed to take disciplinary action for more than five years. The campus did issue a letter reprimanding the professor for his conduct, but nothing else because the campus determined it missed the statute of limitations for any other disciplinary action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that letter wasn’t given to the professor until six years later in 2022 when a new report alleged he engaged in inappropriate conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This professor is also participating in a faculty early-retirement program that reduces his employment to half-time until his anticipated retirement,” according to the audit. “The personnel administrator for that campus stated that given the professor’s past behavior, the campus is making every effort to keep him away from the classroom and engaged only in projects that do not involve students.”[aside postID=news_11950873 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490480975-1020x680.jpg']The Joint Legislative Audit Committee called for the audit last summer after multiple reports showed poor responses to sexual harassment complaints from faculty, administrators and students. The committee requested access to sexual harassment complaints against employees at the chancellor’s office, San Jose State, Fresno State and Sonoma State campuses where there had been publicly reported allegations of misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report found that from 2018 to 2022, the system received 1,251 sexual harassment reports against CSU employees across the 23 campuses. However, the audit cautions that the data from the chancellor’s office is unreliable and inconsistent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit also found that of the 40 cases, 24 were missing documents, making it difficult for auditors to assess if campuses handled the allegations appropriately. Those missing documents included interview notes, relevant evidence, outreach to complainants, and timeline extensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also identified two cases in which a campus’s lack of accessible documentation about the outcome of a previous case may have affected its handling of a new allegation of sexual harassment against the same” individual, according to the audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes the corrective actions were not severe enough to stop individuals from misconduct. In another example from the audit, a female student reported a male faculty member repeatedly asked her out, hugged and kissed her. When the Title IX coordinator and a personnel administrator met with the faculty member to address his behavior. 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Those actions could allow the employees to be hired elsewhere with no information shared on the allegations that led to the settlements.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jolene Koester, interim chancellor, California State University\"]‘We agree with and will implement the recommendations provided in the audit report … to strengthen our culture of care and compliance and advance the CSU’s core values of equity, diversity and inclusion.’[/pullquote]The chancellor’s office has partially addressed this issue by creating a new policy that doesn’t award positive letters of recommendation to any employee that has been fired or separated from the system due to sexual misconduct. 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Paul Fitzgerald, president, University of San Francisco\"]‘We’ve spent decades building out an academic program to welcome a student population that looks like the future of our nation. To be told now that we cannot use race as a particular factor is going to cause us to think very hard to figure out a way to continue our mission.’[/pullquote]Writing for the court’s majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said that for too long universities have “concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The entire point of the Equal Protection Clause is that treating someone differently because of their skin color is not like treating them differently because they are from a city or from a suburb, or because they play the violin poorly or well,” Roberts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision, bringing a long-sought conservative goal to fruition, comes nearly 30 years after California voters \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/1996/prop209_11_1996.html\">passed Proposition 209\u003c/a>, which prohibited the state’s public universities — including those in the University of California and California State University systems — from considering race and gender in admissions and hiring decisions. But that law did not apply to the state’s private colleges, including University of San Francisco, Stanford and Santa Clara universities, who until now have continued to consider race as a factor in admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of numerous private colleges across California were quick to denounce the court’s decision, calling it a major setback to efforts aimed at diversifying campuses and to expand opportunities for underrepresented student populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ruling is quite disturbing and really quite challenging to us,” said Rev. Paul Fitzgerald, president of the University of San Francisco. “We’ve spent decades building out an academic program to welcome a student population that looks like the future of our nation. To be told now that we cannot use race as a particular factor is going to cause us to think very hard to figure out a way to continue our mission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fitzgerald noted his school has worked to draw communities that are historically underrepresented on college campuses, including outreach at high schools that serve primarily Black, Latino or Indigenous students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court’s ruling was the culmination of a lawsuit first brought against Harvard in 2014 when a group called Students for Fair Admissions argued the university’s consideration of race in admission decisions unfairly discriminated against Asian students. 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That raises concerns that UC is not enrolling sufficient students with diverse perspectives, and that it will not be perceived as open to, and welcoming of, all students across the State — which in turn threatens its legitimacy in the eyes of citizens of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the court’s decision on Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2023/06/29/biden-slams-scotus-this-is-not-a-normal-court-00104223?tab=most-read\">President Joe Biden\u003c/a> and Gov. Gavin Newsom expressed similar concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right-wing activists — including those donning robes — are trying to take us back to the era of book bans and segregated campuses,” Newsom said in a press statement. “While the path to equal opportunity has now been narrowed for millions of students, no court case will ever shatter the California Dream. 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