Pressure is mounting on U.S. universities to capitulate. Yesterday, Cornell gave in and signed a “CONTRACT” with the Trump administration, agreeing to pay $30 million and fund $30 million in farm research. As time continues to burn off the clock with the UCLA negotiations, coupled with the terrible fiscal situation at UC, the risk for signed agreements that capitulate to the Trump administration increases.
The Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) has a link you can use to send personalized emails to President Millikin’s office and to the Regents with a brief 2-3 sentence reason why Newsom and UC Regents should not capitulate. It will take less than 2 minutes to copy this link into your browser and fill out the letter. You can also forward this link to one or two of your friends and ask them to send their brief thoughts to UCOP and to the UC Regents to stand firm.
https://cucfa.solidarity.tech/tell-ucop-and-the-regents-not-to-negotiate