Talking Points to/re the Commission on the Future of the University

1. This commission clearly shows the failure of shared governance in its focus on many
   topics that fall under the purview of the faculty senates.  By participating, the system-wide Academic Council is failing to protect the interests and rights of faculty.
2. We protest the lack of union involvement in the working groups.
3. We protest the lack of representation of the humanities in the working groups.
4. It is still unclear what powers this commission holds and how they will make
   decisions.
5. We reject the proposal to move classes online. This issue falls under the sole
   purview of the Academic Senate.
6. We reject the further privatization of the University, including proposals to increase
   out-of-state students and decrease in-state students for the sole purpose of
   raising revenues and to impose differential fees for different campuses and
   different majors.
7. This unrepresentative “UC Commission” and its so-called “Listening Forums” are fake
   forms of consultation and shared governance.

We challenge this commission's authority, qualifications, premises, conclusions, process, and above all, the impoverished idea of the future of this University that it is promoting.  This s0-called UC Commission is engaged in a betrayal of the University community and of the public trust.  We demand that it be replaced by a truly representative group with a transparent process and clear mechanisms for accountability.