Deans, Department Heads, Management Services Officers, Administrative Assistants:

The memo below is being sent to the dlist-l listserv. Thank you for serving as one of the representatives for your department to receive this memo. Please distribute this message to the colleagues in your department.

Thank you.

***PLEASE GIVE WIDEST DISTRIBUTION***

October 5, 2009

TO THE CAMPUS COMMUNITY

SAVE THE DATE - OCTOBER 14!

On Wednesday, October 14, 2009 a broad coalition of UCSB faculty, students, and staff hosts a "teach-in" to explore, through multiple perspectives, the origins and character of the current crisis at the University of California. Held in Campbell Hall from 2:33 p.m. to 10 p.m., a wide variety of speakers from academe, politics, and labor will offer an alternative analysis of the budget crisis and a positive road forward for California, the UC system, and education at all levels in our state. Among the confirmed speakers: UC Berkeley linguist George Lakoff on framing the issues; California Senator Loni Hancock on ending the Sacramento deadlock; Ruth Gilmore of USC on the budget-draining prison complex; Stan Glantz, UC San Francisco, on UCOP's budget blunders; Art Pulaski, AFL-CIO, on labor's stake in UC's vitality; Kent Wong, UCLA, on a "Dream Act" for undocumented students; Lenny Goldberg, California Tax Reform Association, on where UC can get the money; Nelson Lichtenstein, UCSB, on Clark Kerr's forgotten legacy; plus student leaders, staff unionists, and many others.

For more information contact Donna Moore at moore@msi.ucsb.edu or
Nelson Lichtenstein at nelson@history.ucsb.edu
www.Option4.org