Dear UCD colleagues,
Please join us for our upcoming Know-Your-Rights event, this Thursday at noon, hosted by the Davis Faculty Association and cosponsored by the UCD School of Law’s Aoki Center. It’s a great opportunity to learn more from our colleagues in the law school about the current attacks on non-citizen students and faculty, as well as what we can do, both individually and collectively, to protect everyone’s rights on campus. RSVP here! Food will be provided.
This event is part of the nationwide Day of Action for Higher Education. See the list of events below. For information and resources, see their website here: https://www.dayofactionforhighered.org/
Online events and information about the Day of Action on April 17th
Displacement: From Palestine to Mexico
7:00 AM
The Radical Caucus of the Modern Language Association Presents the Opening Session of the CAHE Day of Action Six panelists will explore how we in higher ed understand the massive racist displacements of “surplus populations” caused by the wars, climate disasters and economic dislocations of a capitalist world-system in turmoil. Register here.
College For All
8:00 AM
A political education and collective visioning session from the Debt Collective. We’re not just fighting to cancel student debt. We’re fighting for higher education as a universal, reparative public good. Register here.
The Antidote to Repression is Information
8:00 AM
Join the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom for a session on mapping the landscape of resources and allies in the fight against the sweeping repression that began years ago and has metastasized at an alarming rate at colleges and universities nationwide. Register here.
Why Sanctuary Campuses Now?
09:00 AM
In this workshop, core organizers of the Sanctuary Campus Network (SCN) will focus on the why and how of sanctuary campuses in this political moment. Register here.
Who Rules the Academy (and How To Fight Back)?
10:00 AM
Today, higher education in the U.S. is subject to an unprecedented wave of attacks from external as well as internal sources. This panel will identify several of those sources and suggest ways to combat them. Register here.
Workshop: Doing University Debt Reveals
10:00 AM
Presenters: Sofya Aptekar, Rich Levy, and Joanna Gonsalves. Debt increasingly rules our colleges and universities. In this workshop, members of the Coalition Against Campus Debt and authors of the book Lend and Rule will share tools for revealing the debt on your campus, connecting institutional debt to student debt, and organizing against both. Register here.
Universities As Political Battlegrounds, A Call for Courage
11:00 AM
The threat to universities is escalating daily. Across the country, higher education is under siege by coordinated attacks designed to silence dissent, restrict academic freedom, and dismantle spaces of critical thinking and resistance. Register here.
The Planned Scarcity of Public Student Housing at West Chester University and the Transformative Organizing to Decommodify It
11:00 AM
In this workshop, Backer will narrate the story of researching university bonds amidst a student housing crisis, specifically unearthing certain histories of neoliberal policies pointing to administrators’ manufacturing a crisis in public student housing. Link to join the Teams meeting here.
Immigrants Rights Defense Workshop
12:00 PM
Join us for a one-hour workshop on ICE policing tactics and strategies, and what to know about constitutional and other rights. Presenters will include attorneys and organizers who have decades long experience on these issues. Register here.
Fighting Attacks on Higher Education in Red States
01:00 PM
Karma R. Chavez, Executive Committee, AAUP Chapter of UT Austin will discuss local and statewide organizing in Texas from 2023-2025 as Republican legislators, with the support of compliant administrators, have sought to completely dismantle public higher education as we know it. Register here.
Militant Education In and Beyond the University
03:00 PM
Join Common Notions authors for a brief and lively conversation as they discuss some key strategic questions confronting us today on the terrain of public higher education and its horizons, essentially: what is to be defended and what is to be developed beyond it—and how? You can watch live on YouTube and register here.
National Teach In: Free Higher Ed Now
04:00 PM
This Teach In will feature leading voices in the fightback for a Free Higher Ed. It will provide analysis and ideas of key issues taken up by the Day of Action: attacks on campus workers; organizing every campus union; fighting for academic freedom and free speech; building power against University governing boards and trustees; speaking out for Palestine; education and debt; higher ed and racial justice. Register here.