Panel: Effects of Budget Crisis on Diversity and Collective Bargaining Cecil E. Canton Assoc. Vice President & Chair, Council for Affirmative Action California Faculty Association
Workshop Goals: (1) Present ways that diversity is being affected by budget crisis/cuts (2) Strategies for protecting diversity in context of collective bargaining
Issues for Discussion: Faculty & Students Prop 209 influence on diversity CSU Mission change Program Restructuring Faculty Layoffs
Issues for Discussion: Faculty & Students Priority/Reprioritization Workload increases Class size increases Elimination of lecturers
Issues for Discussion: Faculty & Students Program elimination: disparate impact on ethnic studies programs; diversity courses Furloughs: Staff & Faculty Last hired--first fired affects diversity
Issues for Discussion: Faculty & Students Trustee’s Remediation Initiative: Early Start Deliverology/Barbarism: Chancellor’s Graduation Initiative
Some Strategies Working together for public education: March 4 & beyond Work together to impact legislature Educate Legislative Ethnic Caucuses
Some Strategies UCLA Civil Rights Project Initiative Don’t pit one system against the other (K-12, CC, CSU, UC)