Issues in question #1 – Please pick your top five concerns that you would like SBFA to prioritize in addressing, and put any narrative about other concerns into the box below for comments.
- Implications of settlement that ended the recent student worker strike, and how the campus
deals with them
- Impact the strike has had on the climate on campus (relations between students and faculty
etc.)
- Housing and cost of living issues for students, staff, and faculty
- Current state and future of graduate programs
- Erosion of academic freedom locally or nationally
- Erosion of shared governance locally and systemwide
- Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies
- Care of dependents and self-care
- Disability justice/DSP issues
- Campus mental health services
- Work speed-up and burn-out
- Cops Off Campus and Surveillance State
Other:
13. Intensive Unionization drive
14. Staff morale and shortages
15. HFA Dean trying to balance the HFA budget when other divisions aren’t trying to do so at the price of vast cuts.
16. The doubling down on austerity logics/practices
17. Staffing (related to #11). We need reasonable, stable staffing at the department level in order to be able to focus on our jobs as faculty
18. Bloated Administration