Our community will soon be joined by Prof. Elisabeth Ayuk-Etang, a Cameroonian scholar of Anglophone literature whose academic freedom, livelihood, and life have been threatened by a civil war raging in her home country since 2017, which intensified last year. Prof. Ayuk-Etang will be the first “Scholar at Risk” (SAR) to be hosted by UCSB […]
It was so nice to reconnect again with our members, and to see some new faces. Thank you all for making this such a successful event.
Our second Racial Justice Series event took place on 4/26/21. Titled “Divesting from Campus Policing in the UC System and Investing in Community Alternatives,” this Town Hall featured UCSB Professors Paul Amar (Global Studies, Chair of Academic Freedom committee), Charmaine Chua (Global Studies, Cops Off Campus coalition), and Terrance Wooten (Black Studies, Cops Off Campus […]
Our second Racial Justice Series event took place on 4/26/21. Entitled “Divesting from Campus Policing in the UC System and Investing in Community Alternatives,” this Town Hall featured Professors Paul Amar, Charmaine Chua, and Terrance Wooten. Professors Chua and Wooten illustrated the principles and horizons of the abolitionist movement, stressing the fact that abolition is […]
Dear Colleagues, In reminding you of the upcoming April 26 UCSB Town Hall on “Divesting from Campus Policing in the UC System and Investing in Community Alternatives,” we would also like to alert you to a timely addition to our program. UCOP has circulated for faculty comment by May 3 four proposed revisions to the Universitywide […]