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They mention Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar, Palantir and Leonardo by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the private University of San Francisco announced its own\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038385/usf-divests-from-defense-companies-tied-to-israel-after-pressure-from-students\"> plans to divest\u003c/a> from four U.S. defense companies, including Palantir, that have contracts with the Israeli military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State protesters said the school system has “millions of dollars invested in defense companies and weapons manufacturers.” In a letter to the campus community last spring, San José State University said that its philanthropic partner organization, the Tower Foundation, did not have any direct investments in specific companies that its academic senate wanted to divest from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some San José State-affiliated organizations had “nominal investments” in some of the companies, which are embedded in diversified mutual funds, according to the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hunger strikers are also calling for the Cal State system to end its international program at the University of Haifa in Israel, as well as any other study abroad programs with Israeli institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students gather for a San Francisco State University Students for Gaza press conference and rally to announce the university’s divestments from weapons manufacturers on SFSU’s campus on Aug. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San José State spokesperson Michelle Smith McDonald said in an email that the school hasn’t had a student enrolled in the program at the University of Haifa in more than a decade, and that the program was not currently on the Cal State system’s list of available programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State also has no students currently studying abroad in Israel, according to King, but he said that the school does not support academic boycotts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can have a negative effect on academic freedom, as the CSU experienced when California’s well-intentioned travel ban actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2023/07/25/california-democrats-want-to-reverse-a-travel-ban-to-anti-lgbtq-states-has-it-had-its-intended-effect/\">impeded important LGBTQ+ research\u003c/a>,” he said in a statement, referring to a California law that banned state-funded travel to states with discriminatory laws from 2016 to 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both universities confirmed that they are meeting with students in response to notifications about the hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddy Barghouti, a student striking at San José State, said he hopes the demonstration will put pressure on his campus to reach a deal with students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want our money to go to things that can help our campus and not towards weapons manufacturers,” he told KQED. “We wanted a way to use our voices and stop all of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/adahlstromeckman\">\u003cem>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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California’s Higher Education Student Housing Grant program funded about 65% of the $170 million project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We couldn’t have done it otherwise,” said Lynn Mahoney, president of the university. “The state has not traditionally funded student housing, so this is a really historic first step to what California needs to do to make sure that its public higher education remains affordable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, almost 4,000 people in the California State University system were on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/government/Advocacy-and-State-Relations/legislativereports1/CSU%20Student%20Housing%20Data%20Collection%20%E2%80%93%20Annual%20Report%20-%202024.pdf\">waiting list for student housing\u003c/a>. 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Boyer, the center’s interim executive director, is still scrambling to convince donors to pledge the money before the start of May. Otherwise, San Francisco State will start phasing out the center’s operations over the next six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very little time and a lot of money, and I am starting to lose hope,” Boyer said. “There are some folks that are interested in supporting us. Whether that can happen fast enough is a really big question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center’s turmoil is a result of San Francisco State’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016316/sf-state-lecturers-rattled-by-looming-job-cuts-enrollment-slides\">deep financial troubles\u003c/a>. With dropping enrollment and new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020389/newsom-projects-slight-budget-surplus-with-focus-on-saving-accountability\">reductions\u003c/a> to state university funding, San Francisco State is facing a budget shortfall of $23 million to $28 million. 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Although many of the defunct military structures are in disrepair, the university’s main lab buildings serve as a regional science hub. The site is also home to the \u003ca href=\"https://coast.noaa.gov/nerrs/reserves/san-francisco-bay.html\">San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://serc.si.edu/\">Smithsonian Environmental Research Center\u003c/a>.[aside postID=science_1996664 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/04/20250422_EARTHDAYRALLY_GC-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Making use of the spot’s deep-water port and ample space, the San Francisco State center works on eelgrass restoration, water quality monitoring, endangered species rehabilitation, sea-level rise adaptation and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the only marine biology center in San Francisco Bay, and it’s leading the innovation of how to use nature for sea-level rise resilience,” said Evyan Borgnis Sloane, deputy executive officer of the California State Coastal Conservancy and a San Francisco State alum who studied at the center. “If you don’t want to see the bay shoreline where you kayak, walk and swim be transformed over time to concrete sea walls, then you should care about this center closing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, if the center closes, Boyer might have to return millions of dollars in research funding, including out of a recent \u003ca href=\"https://news.sfsu.edu/news/eos-center-aims-expand-workforce-empowerment-increase-local-coastal-resiliency\">$4.3 million grant\u003c/a> from the California State Coastal Conservancy for climate change adaptation and education projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyer said she would also have to give back $5.8 million awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a new aquatic research facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-5-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-5-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-5-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oyster shells collected and bagged are used for a living shorelines project at San Francisco State’s Estuary and Ocean Science center, in Tiburon on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stakeholders from across California have joined the Friends of the Estuary and Ocean Science Center, reaching out to their representatives and the university to voice their strong support for the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the agencies responsible for managing California’s coasts and oceans owe a lot to the studies, education and leadership of the Estuary and Ocean Science Center,” said Rebecca Schwartz Lesberg, the president of consulting firm \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastalpolicysolutions.com/about\">Coastal Policy Solutions\u003c/a>, who organized the coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the fundraising and advocacy fail, Boyer, two other tenured faculty and their graduate students will move back to the university’s main campus. Additional adjunct faculty and employees who are not funded through the university could be displaced, Boyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so sad that we might not have the will to keep the one marine lab on San Francisco Bay,” Boyer said. “How can that be in a place where people care so much about the environment? It’s mind-boggling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Faculty and students at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State rallied on Thursday as part of a national day of action “to defend higher education,” amid the Trump administration’s attacks on academic freedoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The faculty-organized demonstrations come as the Trump administration, which has already slashed billions of dollars in federal funding for academic research programs across the country, threatens to withhold billions more from some of the nation’s top universities that refuse to comply with its political agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We came together because we felt like the administration needed both to be pressured and encouraged and supported … to stand up for the ongoing need for academic freedom,” Leslie Salzinger, chair of UC Berkeley’s Gender and Women’s Studies department, told KQED, as she stood among hundreds of colleagues and students at Sproul Plaza for the midday rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That means the freedom to speak, to teach, to learn and to do research … without fear of reprisals,” said Salzinger, who helped organize Thursday’s action. “So our goal is to continue making sure that that’s possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has not yet directly threatened to withhold federal funding from the University of California system, as it has with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/14/nx-s1-5364829/trump-administration-freezes-funds-after-harvard-rejects-dei-demands\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/14/nx-s1-5364829/trump-administration-freezes-funds-after-harvard-rejects-dei-demands\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Harvard\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5327573/columbia-university-students-react-to-white-house-crackdown-on-protesters\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5327573/columbia-university-students-react-to-white-house-crackdown-on-protesters\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Columbia\u003c/a> and a growing number of other prestigious universities around the country. Unlike Columbia, Harvard rejected the administration’s demands to overhaul its hiring, admissions and curriculum policies, walking away from $2.2 billion in federal funding — with the Internal Revenue Service now reportedly considering \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/trump-irs-harvard.html\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/trump-irs-harvard.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">revoking the university’s tax-exempt status\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036504\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco State University students, faculty, and staff rally at Civic Center Plaza across from City Hall in San Francisco on April 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Justice is, however, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034707/federal-antisemitism-investigations-california-higher-education-explained\">currently investigating claims\u003c/a> of antisemitism at at least 17 colleges in the state — including UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Salzinger thinks it won’t be long until UC Berkeley also finds itself at risk of losing its federal funding, and said this rally is intended to pressure university officials to strengthen their resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there are many people who are frightened, especially for our many non-citizen colleagues and students,” she said, referring to the administration’s ongoing efforts to revoke the visas of immigrant students across the country who have participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12018149 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-13-BL-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many things [the UC Berkeley administration] could do better. Like, they should commit to funding students that get their visas revoked,” she said. “But I feel like they’re going in the right direction. So we just want them to keep that up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley English professor Poulomi Saha said they have already self-censored some of their teachings as a result of the Trump administration’s actions, and attended Thursday’s rally to form a united front against its onslaught of attacks on higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saha had recently been preparing a classroom presentation that referenced the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, but ended up deleting the slides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the first time in my career, I stopped not just because I was worried about my students’ experience or discomfort around the material, but because I was worried about the surveillance of the federal government on what I do and teach,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the bay, at San Francisco State University, about 100 faculty and students gathered for a teach-in and demonstration on the campus’ Malcolm X Plaza. 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And that included getting rid of six departments, cutting 20 -degree programs and eliminating all of their NCAA Division II athletics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:51] What did the university say at the time about why this was happening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:01:57] So the campus has been struggling with money for years. It’s seeing declining enrollment like a lot of campuses and that accelerated with COVID and it’s also facing two pretty significant funding cuts. One is like this blanket cut of about 8 % to all CSU campuses from Gavin Newsom’s state budget. And then the other is actually from the CSU system. It passed a policy that reduces funding for schools that don’t meet their enrollment targets, kind of punishing them for not hitting their enrollment goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:38] You mentioned degree programs, all NCAA Division II athletics cut at Sonoma State, and there’s been really a lot of reaction and also pushback since then, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:02:49] There’s been a ton of action pretty immediately after the school announced the cuts. The men’s soccer coaches formed a group called Save Seawolves Athletics and they filed two civil rights complaints against the school for cutting sports, saying that it will disproportionately affect women and students in historically marginalized groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:03:22] Jalen Wells, who attended Sonoma State, he is a young NBA player now and he really got his start at Sonoma State and he was in town for NBA All -Star weekend. And so he came up to campus and kind of just spoke about the importance of Sonoma State in his career and how important sports are for the school community at large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jaylen Wells \u003c/strong>[00:03:46] I was kind of under recruited, you know, after the COVID season, you know, I didn’t I didn’t really have many colleges reaching out to me. Sonoma State was one of my three offers I had. So I think a lot of it is bigger than sports. I think we’re not realizing how much of an impact that Sonoma State sports actually has on the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:09] And of course, it’s been a couple of weeks now since these cuts at Sonoma State were announced. I guess where has this left the students and professors that you’ve talked with who’ve been impacted by these cuts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:04:24] So students and professors are really still coming to terms with what’s happened. A lot of the professors I’ve spoken to, like geology professor Owen Anfinson, knew that there were financial troubles and that some staff could be affected, but didn’t expect it to hit tenured professors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Owen Anfinson \u003c/strong>[00:04:46] It felt unjust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:04:48] He’s taught at Sonoma State for 10 years and is really settled in the Bay Area. And now he’s kind of in this holding pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Owen Anfinson \u003c/strong>[00:04:55] With fires in 2017, a pandemic in 2020. We have survived this. We are recovering. Our numbers show that we’re trying to recover and our geology department is trying to recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:05:07] There’s not a ton of geology professor jobs or really professor jobs in general. And the hiring season in academia is usually in the fall. So Anfinson told me he thinks it’s probably not likely he’ll find another permanent role until fall of 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Owen Anfinson \u003c/strong>[00:05:28] And I was scrolling through my phone the other day. And, you know, half of the photos in my phone are of my family and my friends. But the other half of the photos are of rocks. You know, it’s not just my career, it’s my life. 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Is Sonoma State an outlier here or is what’s happened a sign of sort of what’s to come for other CSU’s?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:06:39] I think yes and no. There are a few things that are unique about Sonoma, including a lot of leadership turnover. They’ve had three presidents since 2022. The university has also pointed to the Tubbs fire in 2017 and generally fires in the region, which have had economic effects on Sonoma and could also be playing a role in students’ decision to come to the area for college, just questioning safety. During that Tubbs fire, the campus had to close for more than a week and the school did encourage students to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:15] I remember that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:07:17] Yeah, but the campus interim president, Emily Cutrer, said that while they’re the first to make cuts, she anticipates other campuses are going to need to in the next couple of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emily Cutrer \u003c/strong>[00:07:28] All of us are suffering and those that are really suffering are those that are mainly in Northern California. We are facing decreasing enrollment and decreasing state support, and that is leading to making some changes that we just don’t like to take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:48] I do want to talk about the larger Cal State system. I mean, what else is going on at other campuses in the Bay Area? 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I mean, are we also potentially going to see cuts to entire programs or even athletic programs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:08:58] It’s definitely possible. Mahoney said that announcing a fiscal emergency was kind of just more of an old Senate policy language thing. But it does allow the school to review programs that could be cut or otherwise reorganized. And that’s something that the university says it is considering. In December, lecturers at SF State also found out that they weren’t being assigned classes for this spring. And sections of a lot of freshmen intro classes like English requirements are going to be trimmed way down next fall. And the East Bay campus is doing a lot of similar things. They shut down their Oakland campus and cut women’s water polo last spring. 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California had, I believe, like a over $300 million budget surplus this year. And so I think a lot of administrations are hoping that Newsom will take some of those funds and bring them back into the CSU’s budgets. But with the LA fires and instability at the federal level, it’s really up in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:15] But it seems like there’s still a lot of people who believe that many of these programs should stick around. I mean, I’m curious about the status of these protests and these lawsuits at Sonoma State. I mean, where do they stand? And is there any sense of whether they’re actually making a difference here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:11:34] It’s unclear right now. The athletics department is still considering filing a class action lawsuit. 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California had, I believe, like a over $300 million budget surplus this year. And so I think a lot of administrations are hoping that Newsom will take some of those funds and bring them back into the CSU’s budgets. But with the LA fires and instability at the federal level, it’s really up in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:15] But it seems like there’s still a lot of people who believe that many of these programs should stick around. I mean, I’m curious about the status of these protests and these lawsuits at Sonoma State. I mean, where do they stand? And is there any sense of whether they’re actually making a difference here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:11:34] It’s unclear right now. The athletics department is still considering filing a class action lawsuit. And I think a lot of the athletes students and staff affected are gonna have to kind of get moving on finding new places as soon as possible. So even if the cuts did get reversed, there’d be a lot of programs kind of starting from scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taylor Hodges \u003c/strong>[00:11:55] I honestly, I feel like the school’s pretty much just going downhill from here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:11:59] Taylor Hodges, she’s a sophomore and she was thinking that she would play all four years of her college career at Sonoma State. But now she’s entered the transfer portal and she’s looking for another school to go to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taylor Hodges \u003c/strong>[00:12:16] So I’m actually from the Bay Area. My goal with playing collegiate soccer is I didn’t want to be too far away from home. And so that pretty much wipes out another Bay Area school that’s played division two soccer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:12:27] She told me she’d love to stay in California, but she’s just not sure. And she’ll kind of go where she has to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:36] Well, Katie, thanks so much for this. I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The significant cuts announced by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sonoma-state\">Sonoma State University\u003c/a> are not likely to be a one-off, interim President Emily Cutrer warned — other \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-state-university\">California State University\u003c/a> campuses in the Bay Area are facing similar budget deficits and might have to take the same drastic steps as enrollment and statewide funding decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may be the first, but we’re not the last CSU where you are going to see issues,” Cutrer said Thursday morning \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101908804/what-sonoma-states-massive-budget-cuts-mean-for-the-universitys-future\">on KQED’s Forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma State is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024772/angry-sonoma-state-university-community-protests-wide-cuts\">eliminating 20 degree programs, six departments and all NCAA Division II athletics\u003c/a> at the end of the academic year to stave off a $24 million budget shortfall — worsened by a 38% decline in enrollment over the last decade. That shrinking student body affects two of the university’s major funding streams: tuition dollars and CSU funding, which the system announced in 2023 that it would reallocate away from campuses that don’t meet enrollment goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other CSUs in Northern California — including Cal State East Bay and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-state-university\">San Francisco State University\u003c/a> — have also faced declining enrollment, saddling them with significant deficits as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, university President Lynn Mahoney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016316/sf-state-lecturers-rattled-by-looming-job-cuts-enrollment-slides\">announced a fiscal emergency\u003c/a> in December, which she told KQED at the time was “just the language that [she] had to use based on a very old [Academic] Senate policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk up to the top of San Francisco State University’s campus in San Francisco, California, on Aug. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, she said in a message to staff that month that the policy allows programs to “be reduced, phased out, reorganized or discontinued.” She also said the university would cut back on hiring staff and administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State’s student body has been decreasing since the fall of 2019, and this year, its first-year class was 20% to 25% smaller than anticipated. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018149/san-francisco-state-students-faculty-mourn-job-cuts-funeral-march\">number of faculty lecturers\u003c/a> were informed in the fall that they wouldn’t be teaching classes this semester, and next year, sections of some courses, like introductory writing, will be significantly reduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University spokesperson Bobby King said the campus is just beginning to budget for next year, but he expects it to have to make $25 million in reductions based on a 5% decrease in enrollment-based funding and dwindling tuition dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SFSU has been working to align budgets with current enrollment trends for several years. But with the additional cuts that appear to be on the horizon, we — unfortunately — will have a lot more work to do,” King told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12025974 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/AP24306173842056_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More details will emerge in the coming months, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the university announced that it was beginning to phase out the use of its Romberg Tiburon Campus in Marin County, which has been a research location since 1978. It’s housed the Estuary and Ocean Science Center — which employs three tenure-track faculty members, 11 faculty researchers and nine state-funded employees — since 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students haven’t taken courses there since a master’s program in estuary science was discontinued last year, but about 40 conduct research onsite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The closure of RTC will allow SFSU to redirect critical funding into the main campus during a challenging period for the University, CSU and the state,” Mahoney said in a statement on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State faculty roles won’t be cut and will be relocated to the main campus. It’s unclear what will happen to the nine state-funded positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State East Bay is also phasing out use of one of its satellite campuses, the Oakland Center, for ongoing “significant savings.” It will terminate its lease at the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student walks past the East Bay sign at Cal State East Bay in Hayward on Feb. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are projecting a significant structural deficit,” campus President Cathy Sandeen said in a message to the school community in September. The deficit was around $14 million after enrollment fell further at the start of the fall semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson said Thursday that the campus has been able to save $10 million throughout this budget year but was still looking at discontinuing low-enrolled programs while prioritizing required courses and ensuring faculty assignments align with enrollment demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will continue to closely review all degree programs, minors, and concentrations that have consistently low enrollments, and we will recommend a path forward for those programs,” Sandeen said in a budget update last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven degree programs were identified for discontinuation at the beginning of the 2024–25 academic year and women’s water polo was cut last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last 18 months, 165 lecturers, who taught part-time or up to four classes in a semester, lost their appointments. Jeff Newcomb, the president of Cal State East Bay’s faculty union, said the union was warned that layoffs might still be coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like the other shoe hasn’t dropped yet,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandeen said at the beginning of the year that administrators were working with the faculty union since some represented positions might be eliminated and was forming an Academic Senate Layoff Committee to advise on the job cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1124\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1920x1079.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José State University’s Washington Square Hall located in downtown San José. \u003ccite>(Sundry Photography via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the CSU system’s 23 campuses will also be hit by \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2025/uc-csu-face-cuts-under-newsoms-proposed-budget/724947\">a 7.95% state funding cut\u003c/a>, based on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020389/newsom-projects-slight-budget-surplus-with-focus-on-saving-accountability\">Gov. Gavin Newson’s proposed budget\u003c/a>, released in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact of such deep funding cuts will have significant real-world consequences, both in and out of the classroom,” CSU Chancellor Mildred García said in a statement at the time. “Larger class sizes, fewer course offerings and a reduced workforce will hinder students’ ability to graduate on time and weaken California’s ability to meet its increasing demands for a diverse and highly educated workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state cuts would cost SF State $20.7 million and Cal State East Bay $11 million next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José State, which saw a 3.5% increase in its student body this year, will see enrollment-based funding go up instead of being trimmed, but spokesperson Michelle Smith McDonald called the state’s financial outlook “challenging” for the university. Between the enrollment-based increase and the overall state funding cut, SJSU expects a net reduction of 2.5% to 4%, McDonald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those cuts won’t be finalized until June, when the California Legislature approves a final budget. All of the universities have expressed hope that the state — which has a $363 million budget surplus — will reinstate school funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Romesburg, the Sonoma State Women and Gender Studies department chair who is set to be laid off at the end of the year when his department closes, said the state should be stepping up to fund the CSU system, especially as President Trump’s administration targets public institutions and social welfare programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to recognize that doing so is a way of pushing back against all of the ways in which we are being besieged by the federal government and its politics right now,” he said on Forum. “Reinvest in a California-style, quality public higher education system that creates the engines of change and social justice and prosperity and purpose for all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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It’s unclear what will happen to the nine state-funded positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State East Bay is also phasing out use of one of its satellite campuses, the Oakland Center, for ongoing “significant savings.” It will terminate its lease at the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student walks past the East Bay sign at Cal State East Bay in Hayward on Feb. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are projecting a significant structural deficit,” campus President Cathy Sandeen said in a message to the school community in September. The deficit was around $14 million after enrollment fell further at the start of the fall semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson said Thursday that the campus has been able to save $10 million throughout this budget year but was still looking at discontinuing low-enrolled programs while prioritizing required courses and ensuring faculty assignments align with enrollment demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will continue to closely review all degree programs, minors, and concentrations that have consistently low enrollments, and we will recommend a path forward for those programs,” Sandeen said in a budget update last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven degree programs were identified for discontinuation at the beginning of the 2024–25 academic year and women’s water polo was cut last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last 18 months, 165 lecturers, who taught part-time or up to four classes in a semester, lost their appointments. Jeff Newcomb, the president of Cal State East Bay’s faculty union, said the union was warned that layoffs might still be coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like the other shoe hasn’t dropped yet,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandeen said at the beginning of the year that administrators were working with the faculty union since some represented positions might be eliminated and was forming an Academic Senate Layoff Committee to advise on the job cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1124\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1920x1079.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José State University’s Washington Square Hall located in downtown San José. \u003ccite>(Sundry Photography via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the CSU system’s 23 campuses will also be hit by \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2025/uc-csu-face-cuts-under-newsoms-proposed-budget/724947\">a 7.95% state funding cut\u003c/a>, based on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020389/newsom-projects-slight-budget-surplus-with-focus-on-saving-accountability\">Gov. Gavin Newson’s proposed budget\u003c/a>, released in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact of such deep funding cuts will have significant real-world consequences, both in and out of the classroom,” CSU Chancellor Mildred García said in a statement at the time. “Larger class sizes, fewer course offerings and a reduced workforce will hinder students’ ability to graduate on time and weaken California’s ability to meet its increasing demands for a diverse and highly educated workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state cuts would cost SF State $20.7 million and Cal State East Bay $11 million next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José State, which saw a 3.5% increase in its student body this year, will see enrollment-based funding go up instead of being trimmed, but spokesperson Michelle Smith McDonald called the state’s financial outlook “challenging” for the university. Between the enrollment-based increase and the overall state funding cut, SJSU expects a net reduction of 2.5% to 4%, McDonald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those cuts won’t be finalized until June, when the California Legislature approves a final budget. All of the universities have expressed hope that the state — which has a $363 million budget surplus — will reinstate school funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Romesburg, the Sonoma State Women and Gender Studies department chair who is set to be laid off at the end of the year when his department closes, said the state should be stepping up to fund the CSU system, especially as President Trump’s administration targets public institutions and social welfare programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to recognize that doing so is a way of pushing back against all of the ways in which we are being besieged by the federal government and its politics right now,” he said on Forum. “Reinvest in a California-style, quality public higher education system that creates the engines of change and social justice and prosperity and purpose for all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ryan Moore, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-state-university\">San Francisco State University\u003c/a> lecturer, hoisted an empty wooden coffin to his shoulders with the help of five other people. They carried the heavy prop, loaned from the school’s drama department, in a jazz funeral. Hundreds joined the procession through campus, with a brass band in tow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest on the last day of the university’s fall semester mourned the loss of nontenured faculty — known as lecturers — who were let go to reduce costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our friends have taught here at SF State for five, 10, 15 or 20 years,” Moore, who teaches sociology, told the crowd. “And yet, we are gathering here in ceremony because they have been so unceremoniously dismissed and tossed away without so much as a pink slip\u003cem>.\u003c/em>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students and faculty marked the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016316/sf-state-lecturers-rattled-by-looming-job-cuts-enrollment-slides\">latest round of academic job cuts\u003c/a> at San Francisco State, which administrators attributed to shrinking enrollment. The campus, which is part of the California State University system, faces ongoing financial woes that are expected to deepen next year due to state budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other CSU campuses, such as Sonoma State University, Cal State East Bay and Cal Poly Humboldt, are also experiencing enrollment declines. Administrators at San Francisco State said the city’s high cost of housing contributed to the \u003ca href=\"https://adminfin.sfsu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/UBC%20Presentation%20Oct.%202024%20FINAL3.pdf\">school’s challenges\u003c/a> in competing with CSUs in Southern California that meet or exceed their enrollment targets, as well as other colleges with more elite reputations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017838\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-16-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-16-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-16-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-16-BL-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-16-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-16-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-16-BL-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty, staff and students protest against potential staff layoffs and cuts to classes at San Francisco State University in San Francisco on Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moore said that as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017889/sf-state-limits-investments-weapons-manufacturers-after-student-activists-push\">SF State\u003c/a> becomes smaller, the course and job cuts are disproportionately hitting certain academic departments, such as the humanities and liberal arts. He believes those reductions threaten the state’s vision of higher public education for all, regardless of ability to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are losing this vision, the idea that everybody deserves access to not just some kind of vocational training, but like a full, well-rounded education in the humanities and in the social sciences,” Moore, 54, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State enrollment hovered \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2022/09/16/college-student-population-in-sf-drops-by-10000/\">around 30,000\u003c/a> throughout much of the 2010s, but since the fall of 2019, it has been declining quickly. In the fall 2024 semester, the college had just over 22,300 registered students. That enrollment drop has led to less money from tuition and state allocations, the two \u003ca href=\"https://budget.sfsu.edu/node/10\">main sources of revenue\u003c/a> for SF State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus administrators eliminated 1,080 course sections between the fall of 2019 and 2024, letting go of 155 lecturers whose positions were dependent on the availability of classes to teach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That figure does not include current job cuts. SF State won’t know how many lecturers are losing their positions until it finalizes its course schedule in January, according to a spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a political decision that politicians and administrators are making. They’ve chosen this response, and it’s the wrong response,” said Sean Connelly, a lecturer who was told he would not be rehired next semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017839\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017839\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-35-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-35-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-35-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-35-BL-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-35-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-35-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-35-BL-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty, staff and students rally against potential staff layoffs and cuts to classes at San Francisco State University in San Francisco on Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After 17 years teaching in the school’s humanities and comparative literature department, Connelly’s last day is Dec. 30. He likened the loss of his job to the “death of a friend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my vocation. This is the thing that I studied for years and went into debt to do,” said Connelly, 57, who is applying to positions at high schools and other universities. He even put in an application with the U.S. Postal Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was very depressed, anxious about the future,” he said. “Angry, though, too, because public education is a fundamental right, in my view, and the state of California needs to fund it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a public institution, CSU has served as an avenue for upward mobility, especially for young people from lower-income backgrounds. Nearly one-third of students at SF State are the first in their families to attend college, and \u003ca href=\"https://marcomm.sfsu.edu/sf-state-facts\">70% receive financial aid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12017253 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-02_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore, a close friend of Connelly, is teaching at San Francisco State next semester, but is applying to other jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m proud to teach here, and if I had it my way, I would be here for the rest of my teaching career,” he said. “That’s what I really would like, but that seems increasingly unrealistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an October letter sent to university staff, Lynn Mahoney, SF State’s president, asked employees to reaffirm to students that the university is committed to preserving the quality of their education and the support they receive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the funeral march, many students said they had already been impacted by fewer course options and the departure of beloved lecturers at a time when student \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/CSU-Board-of-Trustees-Approves-Multi-Year-Tuition-Proposal.aspx\">tuition is increasing\u003c/a> by about 26% over the next four years. Brie Flowers, a sociology major who had just taken her last class with Connelly, had a message for the university’s administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do better. Figure it out. We need more teachers. If you are going to cut courses, your enrollment is going to continue to decline,” said Flowers, a junior who transferred from community college in Los Altos Hills, California, and is minoring in counseling. “No one wants to come to a college where they won’t be able to graduate on time and get the courses that they need to graduate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco State must reduce its budget by about $25 million, according to Mahoney. In addition, the school is expecting state budget cuts next year. Mahoney declared a financial emergency in an email to faculty on Dec. 5, adding that every university unit will need to make “hard reductions.” She urged staff to advocate for SF State to lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make it clear how important it is to fund the CSU and SF State. Cuts will inevitably have negative impacts on our students and the state’s workforce,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students and faculty marked the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016316/sf-state-lecturers-rattled-by-looming-job-cuts-enrollment-slides\">latest round of academic job cuts\u003c/a> at San Francisco State, which administrators attributed to shrinking enrollment. The campus, which is part of the California State University system, faces ongoing financial woes that are expected to deepen next year due to state budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other CSU campuses, such as Sonoma State University, Cal State East Bay and Cal Poly Humboldt, are also experiencing enrollment declines. Administrators at San Francisco State said the city’s high cost of housing contributed to the \u003ca href=\"https://adminfin.sfsu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/UBC%20Presentation%20Oct.%202024%20FINAL3.pdf\">school’s challenges\u003c/a> in competing with CSUs in Southern California that meet or exceed their enrollment targets, as well as other colleges with more elite reputations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017838\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-16-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-16-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-16-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-16-BL-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-16-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-16-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-16-BL-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty, staff and students protest against potential staff layoffs and cuts to classes at San Francisco State University in San Francisco on Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moore said that as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017889/sf-state-limits-investments-weapons-manufacturers-after-student-activists-push\">SF State\u003c/a> becomes smaller, the course and job cuts are disproportionately hitting certain academic departments, such as the humanities and liberal arts. He believes those reductions threaten the state’s vision of higher public education for all, regardless of ability to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are losing this vision, the idea that everybody deserves access to not just some kind of vocational training, but like a full, well-rounded education in the humanities and in the social sciences,” Moore, 54, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State enrollment hovered \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2022/09/16/college-student-population-in-sf-drops-by-10000/\">around 30,000\u003c/a> throughout much of the 2010s, but since the fall of 2019, it has been declining quickly. In the fall 2024 semester, the college had just over 22,300 registered students. That enrollment drop has led to less money from tuition and state allocations, the two \u003ca href=\"https://budget.sfsu.edu/node/10\">main sources of revenue\u003c/a> for SF State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus administrators eliminated 1,080 course sections between the fall of 2019 and 2024, letting go of 155 lecturers whose positions were dependent on the availability of classes to teach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That figure does not include current job cuts. SF State won’t know how many lecturers are losing their positions until it finalizes its course schedule in January, according to a spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a political decision that politicians and administrators are making. They’ve chosen this response, and it’s the wrong response,” said Sean Connelly, a lecturer who was told he would not be rehired next semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017839\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017839\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-35-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-35-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-35-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-35-BL-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-35-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-35-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-35-BL-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty, staff and students rally against potential staff layoffs and cuts to classes at San Francisco State University in San Francisco on Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After 17 years teaching in the school’s humanities and comparative literature department, Connelly’s last day is Dec. 30. He likened the loss of his job to the “death of a friend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my vocation. This is the thing that I studied for years and went into debt to do,” said Connelly, 57, who is applying to positions at high schools and other universities. He even put in an application with the U.S. Postal Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was very depressed, anxious about the future,” he said. “Angry, though, too, because public education is a fundamental right, in my view, and the state of California needs to fund it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a public institution, CSU has served as an avenue for upward mobility, especially for young people from lower-income backgrounds. Nearly one-third of students at SF State are the first in their families to attend college, and \u003ca href=\"https://marcomm.sfsu.edu/sf-state-facts\">70% receive financial aid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore, a close friend of Connelly, is teaching at San Francisco State next semester, but is applying to other jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m proud to teach here, and if I had it my way, I would be here for the rest of my teaching career,” he said. “That’s what I really would like, but that seems increasingly unrealistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an October letter sent to university staff, Lynn Mahoney, SF State’s president, asked employees to reaffirm to students that the university is committed to preserving the quality of their education and the support they receive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the funeral march, many students said they had already been impacted by fewer course options and the departure of beloved lecturers at a time when student \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/CSU-Board-of-Trustees-Approves-Multi-Year-Tuition-Proposal.aspx\">tuition is increasing\u003c/a> by about 26% over the next four years. Brie Flowers, a sociology major who had just taken her last class with Connelly, had a message for the university’s administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do better. Figure it out. We need more teachers. If you are going to cut courses, your enrollment is going to continue to decline,” said Flowers, a junior who transferred from community college in Los Altos Hills, California, and is minoring in counseling. “No one wants to come to a college where they won’t be able to graduate on time and get the courses that they need to graduate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco State must reduce its budget by about $25 million, according to Mahoney. In addition, the school is expecting state budget cuts next year. Mahoney declared a financial emergency in an email to faculty on Dec. 5, adding that every university unit will need to make “hard reductions.” She urged staff to advocate for SF State to lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make it clear how important it is to fund the CSU and SF State. Cuts will inevitably have negative impacts on our students and the state’s workforce,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:25 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A walkout at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/uc-berkeley\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> in support of the Palestinian people, one year into the deadly siege that followed Hamas’ surprise attacks in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/israel\">Israel\u003c/a> last October, grew tense on Tuesday afternoon amid a standoff with pro-Israel counterprotesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As hundreds of people gathered at Sproul Plaza, the site of last school year’s pro-Palestinian encampment, a group of about half a dozen counterprotesters draped in Israeli flags walked across the steps behind the speakers and started shouting things like, “Bring them home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the pro-Palestinian protesters formed a circle around them, and both sides shouted at each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the tense mood, students like Yousuf Abubakr of Students for Justice in Palestine were undeterred. He said although he doesn’t believe student protests will be enough to “free Palestine,” he believes it will help move the needle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We enjoy the fact that, you know, we piss off university officials,” Abubakr said. “The fact that they had these new encampment and new masking policies, I smile because it’s like … we have their attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12008683 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students cheer at a rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a man chanted, “No Zionist racists,” Jewish transfer student Ethan Tallman said he came out to show his support for the Israeli community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[My] reasons are for the hostages, for their families, and for the world to see that they matter,” Tallman said, adding that he found the crowd overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signs carried by the protesters included messages like “No Votes for Genocide,” featuring the image of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008657\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12008657 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rally attendees hold signs that read “No Votes for Genocide” at a walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sameeha Ahmed, who studies cognitive science and public health at Berkeley, said Tuesday morning that she planned to take time away from the busy midterm season to participate in the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We’ve gotten to a point in the movement where I think people are able to sort of turn a blind eye toward the horrors that are happening in Gaza just because this has been going on for so long. People are becoming so desensitized to all of the injustice that’s been occurring,” said Ahmed, who added that she is focused on the call for the University of California to divest from Israel and its war effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that makes it all the more imperative for us to … continue showing that we are not going to stand for this any longer,” Ahmed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008655\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12008655 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon on the steps of Sproul Hall at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a social media \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DA1CDoLPVJa/?img_index=1\">post\u003c/a>, a group calling itself UC Berkeley Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine wrote “The university, too, has blood on its hands. The University of California system has long committed to war and destruction through research and development of nuclear weapons, drones and other military technologies — as well as investments in weapons manufacturing, fossil fuel, and settler industries profiting from this atrocity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group also cited accusations that the UC has supported the firing, arrests and investigations of professors, the approval of military surplus for UC police forces, and the chilling of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005478/university-of-california-is-accused-of-trying-to-silence-faculty-speech-about-war-in-gaza\">free speech\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Stett Holbrook, a UC Office of the President spokesperson, said while most protests over the past year were peaceful and lawful, administrators have had to take steps to address some that were not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some instances, campuses faced significant disruptions due to protests that resulted in violence, vandalism, class and research interruption, and restricted access to public spaces,” he said. “While we provide many opportunities and venues for the expression of diverse viewpoints at UC campuses, activities that violate the law, University policy, or both, will not be tolerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holbrook added that UCPD’s equipment is not military surplus, military-grade nor designed for military use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The University’s use of this equipment provides UC police officers with non-lethal alternatives to standard-issue firearms, enabling them to de-escalate situations and respond without the use of deadly force,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008658\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12008658 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ethan Tallman (center), a pro-Israel student at Berkeley, counter-protests a walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof said the campus had been planning for walkouts and other events since July. “We’re aware what moment in time we’re in,” said Mogulof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, at San Francisco State University, protesters were back at the picket lines and faculty-led teachouts after a midday rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the event, a crowd of about 200 broke into chants like, “Not another penny, not another dollar, we won’t pay for Israel’s slaughter,” and “I can’t even pay my rent; still more bombs are being sent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008656\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12008656 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Singh (center), a pro-Israel student at Berkeley, counter-protests a walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speaker Omar Zahzah told the demonstrators that enough was enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here because we feel the connection because we’re suffering through the connections,” Zahzah said. “So long as they keep putting money towards genocide, we say no. We are here to do a critical education project where all of us are united as students and as teachers and as people embodying multiple roles. And this work that we’re starting today on Oct. 8 is just the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12008405 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-1020x681.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFSU student Rithik Hemanth came to support the Students for Gaza picket, in part because he sees conditions for Palestinians and students on campus as connected. He cited Gov. 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He said although he doesn’t believe student protests will be enough to “free Palestine,” he believes it will help move the needle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We enjoy the fact that, you know, we piss off university officials,” Abubakr said. “The fact that they had these new encampment and new masking policies, I smile because it’s like … we have their attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12008683 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/1W9A8664-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students cheer at a rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a man chanted, “No Zionist racists,” Jewish transfer student Ethan Tallman said he came out to show his support for the Israeli community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[My] reasons are for the hostages, for their families, and for the world to see that they matter,” Tallman said, adding that he found the crowd overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signs carried by the protesters included messages like “No Votes for Genocide,” featuring the image of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008657\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12008657 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rally attendees hold signs that read “No Votes for Genocide” at a walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sameeha Ahmed, who studies cognitive science and public health at Berkeley, said Tuesday morning that she planned to take time away from the busy midterm season to participate in the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We’ve gotten to a point in the movement where I think people are able to sort of turn a blind eye toward the horrors that are happening in Gaza just because this has been going on for so long. People are becoming so desensitized to all of the injustice that’s been occurring,” said Ahmed, who added that she is focused on the call for the University of California to divest from Israel and its war effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that makes it all the more imperative for us to … continue showing that we are not going to stand for this any longer,” Ahmed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008655\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12008655 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon on the steps of Sproul Hall at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a social media \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DA1CDoLPVJa/?img_index=1\">post\u003c/a>, a group calling itself UC Berkeley Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine wrote “The university, too, has blood on its hands. The University of California system has long committed to war and destruction through research and development of nuclear weapons, drones and other military technologies — as well as investments in weapons manufacturing, fossil fuel, and settler industries profiting from this atrocity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group also cited accusations that the UC has supported the firing, arrests and investigations of professors, the approval of military surplus for UC police forces, and the chilling of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005478/university-of-california-is-accused-of-trying-to-silence-faculty-speech-about-war-in-gaza\">free speech\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Stett Holbrook, a UC Office of the President spokesperson, said while most protests over the past year were peaceful and lawful, administrators have had to take steps to address some that were not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some instances, campuses faced significant disruptions due to protests that resulted in violence, vandalism, class and research interruption, and restricted access to public spaces,” he said. “While we provide many opportunities and venues for the expression of diverse viewpoints at UC campuses, activities that violate the law, University policy, or both, will not be tolerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holbrook added that UCPD’s equipment is not military surplus, military-grade nor designed for military use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The University’s use of this equipment provides UC police officers with non-lethal alternatives to standard-issue firearms, enabling them to de-escalate situations and respond without the use of deadly force,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008658\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12008658 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ethan Tallman (center), a pro-Israel student at Berkeley, counter-protests a walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof said the campus had been planning for walkouts and other events since July. “We’re aware what moment in time we’re in,” said Mogulof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, at San Francisco State University, protesters were back at the picket lines and faculty-led teachouts after a midday rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the event, a crowd of about 200 broke into chants like, “Not another penny, not another dollar, we won’t pay for Israel’s slaughter,” and “I can’t even pay my rent; 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