Organizing and Mobilizing Conference for Public Higher Education

Gov. Newsom announced a new round of cuts to the UC and CSU systems for the next academic year, while several CSU and UC campuses experience ongoing austerity measures, including lay-offs, and student fee increases.

Organizers are calling for unionized and non-unionized faculty, student-worker and staff unions, and others interested in advocating for a fully funded CSU system and other public education systems. The conference will also focus on the defense of civil liberties and academic freedom. Click here to register for this organizing conference on Saturday February 22 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

At the conference attendees will strategize how we stop the cuts to education, build mass support for redirecting CSU statewide funds to serve students, defend academic freedom and civil liberties, and prioritize CA state funding for public education and social services instead of incarceration, deportation, and occupation. The April 17th National Day for Higher Education will be discussed.

San Francisco State has been a stronghold of social justice activism since the 1968 Third World Liberation Strike, and last academic year the faculty and students showed their combined power in two historic strikes, and Students for Gaza won divestment from weapons manufacturing companies and those who violate human rights.

When we fight together, we can project the future we want and need, and be the best advocates for quality public education for working people in California.

Let’s organize, agitate and mobilize for public education this coming Spring!