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DESCRIPTION:Dear Students, Faculty, Staff, and Community Members,\n\nWe are writing to 
 have our voices heard and call people to action to defend public education. 
 Our futures are being mortgaged in order to maintain bloated administrative 
 salaries and further privatize critical social services across this state, 
 country, and around the world.\n\nIn the past decade alone the UC has seen 
 a 342.2% increase in tuition and fees. This trend directly corresponds with 
 a period of exorbitant administrative growth and devastating cuts to 
 instruction, support services and staff, and other critical UC programs. On 
 December 13, 2011 Governor Jerry Brown announced another $100 million in 
 cuts to the UC system, which brings the total to $750 million this fiscal 
 year alone.\n\nThe annual fees for attending a UC were $3,859 in 2001-2002; 
 now they are $13,218, and estimated to increase substantially within the 
 next four years. This trend runs completely contradictory to the 1960 CA 
 Master Plan which calls for tuition-free public higher education in this 
 state. Quality, accessible public higher education is a cornerstone for 
 establishing social and economic equality on local to global levels and as 
 such demands our active support and protection.\n\nOur public institutions 
 of higher education are being actively privatized and glutted by regents, 
 trustees and administrators who are deeply invested in large private 
 business interests. These people and the interests they represent want to 
 continue profiting from a drive to remake our public institutions in the 
 image of private-for-profit models.\n\nWe are asking that all of us 
 continue to take a stand and fight back to defend our public institutions 
 against the betrayal of many of those charged with their protection. As the 
 students, faculty, and staff who run California’s public colleges and 
 universities, it is our responsibility to assert every day that these are 
 OUR SCHOOLS and that we are not powerless to further the mission of 
 maintaining affordable, accessible and quality public higher education not 
 only in this state, but around the world. An accessible educational 
 experience is important for people everywhere to be able to obtain if they 
 so choose that we might construct a more equitable, just and peaceful world 
 for everyone.\n\nThe UC regents are invested with the responsibility of 
 “managing” the UC system. They have insistently refused to engage in 
 constructive dialogue with students, faculty and staff on critical issues 
 that have been repeatedly brought to their attention. Some of them are 
 personal friends and/or business partners of former Governor Arnold 
 Schwarzenegger or other influential politicians and that is precisely how 
 they obtained their initial appointment as regents. A vast majority of the 
 current regents have no professional background in public education and a 
 corresponding majority of them maintain direct ties to business interests 
 that seek to develop financially profitable relationships with the UC and 
 other public institutions.\n\nBanks and other corporations get bailed out 
 and we get sold out, time and again. The regents’ silence in Sacramento 
 fits the destructive model of privatization that they have in mind for the 
 UC. As part of this agenda, it also fits their interests to raise the 
 salaries of administrators even as they tell the rest of us that we need to 
 “continue making sacrifices.”\n\nWe are the instruments of change and 
 the power to create it lies in our hands. Enough is enough. We will let our 
 voices be heard and continue to demand that the UC regents and 
 administrators be held accountable. Please join us for a day of non-violent 
 protest at the regents’ next meeting, which is scheduled to take place at 
 UC Riverside on January 17-19, 2012. \n\nA day of mass mobilization to 
 defend public education is being called for Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 
 UC Riverside. Come join us as we continue the fight to defend and maintain 
 quality and accessible public education not only in this state but around 
 the world.\n\nSincerely,\n\nConcerned Students, Faculty, Staff and 
 Community Members of UC Riverside\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/01/06/18704276.php
SUMMARY:UC Regents Meeting: Mass-Student Mobilization Against Austerity and Fee Hikes
LOCATION:University of California, Riverside\n900 University Ave, Riverside, CA 
 92521-0001
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/01/06/18704276.php
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