In this recent article from the Santa Cruz Lookout about the UC-wide hiring freeze, UC-AFT campus rep Jeb Purucker highlighted what’s at stake for teaching faculty and librarians:
“It’s the university transferring its own budget woes and its own debt problems onto the people at the bottom,” he said. He argued that administrative positions have grown disproportionately at UCSC while front-line educators face cuts. “When times get tight, we’re going to clamp down on what I think is the most important thing that the university does, which is education [and] research.”
Read more at the Lookout: https://lookout.co/uc-santa-cruz-faces-fresh-round-of-austerity-measures-with-systemwide-hiring-freeze/story
