<p>UC</a> Faculty Walkout - 9/24</p>
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<li>Are any of your professors participating?</li>
<li>Your thoughts?</li>
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<p>That’s the first day of school!
siiiiick</p>
<p>damnnnnnnnn!</p>
<p>Have you guys seen this:
[UC</a> proposing 32 percent fee hike - ContraCostaTimes.com](<a href=“http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_13309551?source=rss&nclick_check=1]UC”>http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_13309551?source=rss&nclick_check=1)</p>
<p>That is more shocking.</p>
<p>My birthday is going to suck for a lot of people. lol</p>
<p>Only one of my professors is participating (Mariscal - DOC).</p>
<p>@ Sync: Its is all stupid George Bush’s fault!!!</p>
<p>Woo, at least none of my teachers are participating.</p>
<p>@Madden2009,
Totally agree dude!</p>
<p>How do you know which professors is participating? Is there a website or list? Please post link. </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>i posted the link; it’s above 1. & 2.
& the professors’ names are posted on the site.</p>
<p>none of my professors are participating… nay? yay? hahah.</p>
<p>It’s hard to know how to feel anout this. Obviousl;y we don’t want our first classes cancelled but on the other hand, they seem to be taking a brave stand on some pretty important issues that will affect us all in the long run.</p>
<p>my feelings on the issue (and principles behind it) are mixed, and i’m not going to take a definitive stand on it.</p>
<p>however, i did confirm that not one of my professors in my 5 years there chose to participate in the walkout. they have my utmost respect for choosing their students over everything else. (or they may just be teaching MWF classes, in which case it doesn’t actually matter)</p>
<p>Whether a professor is scheduled to teach on the 24th or not would probably not enter into their decision to sign the letter of support. However, it is interesting that UCSD is rather sparsely represented on the list relative to other UCs.</p>
<p>The rest of the uc’s are mad at us for proposing to shut down ucr, ucm, and ucsc :p</p>
<p>Kinda agree with them there. Personally, I would prefer that the UC’s fight together th thrive as a whole system rather than throw each other under the bus to cannibalize each other’s resources.</p>
<p>I don’t know how to feel about this. I value being a student and everything but California is in the worst economic crunch in the longest time and the state needs to put a cap on spending and set budget limits. I do not want to have to spend the rest of my life paying off California’s debt and if that means a higher tuition for me, then so be it. If anything this recession has made me more thankful of what I do have, and it’s very ironic that we all in solidarity walk out on our education like this.</p>
<p>Mariscal is an amazing professor</p>
<p>subtle_overlord I envy you that you can sit there and say “so be it” to another tuition hike. I wish I didnt have to worry about it like that. I mean, the first 10% increase was like man, this sucks, then the next 13% fee hike was like, wow, I better get some more aid so I can pay for this, and now, a 32% increase has put me in a position where I wont be able to pay the difference. I already have loans that Ill be paying off forever, and getting a job wont put a dent in the tuition since I spend 90% of my time on school work. Like I said, Im envious of the manner in which you can so nonchalantly accept another 32% increase that I know will put myself along with many other students in the position where we can no longer afford to pay for our education.</p>
<p>TNE, I look forward to his class then. :)</p>
<p>Isn’t education one of the few public investments that still pays for itself? I know I’ve seen and heard it said many times. I just feel sorry for the people that depend on low paid educated workers. How many people are going to want, or even be able to take low paid public jobs when it’ll now take much longer to pay off those debts? One of my professors keeps telling me I should teach, but I keep telling him that there’s no way I could afford to achieve the most basic of my life goals if I took the salary that comes with being a teacher.</p>
<p>I’m not big on subsidies, but I am big on investing in our future. Yes, the pain will suck in the short term, but that’s a hell of a lot better than it being awful in the long run.</p>