The Coalition To Save Community Studies
Welcome, my friends, to activism in action. The 40-year-old Community Studies Major at UCSC is about to be downsized, and we, Bassnectar Labs, will not let the program Lorin got his Bachelor’s Degree from go down without the UCSC bureaucracy gettin’ womped!
(In the bad way.)
The Coalition to Save Community Studies, a student-led group, came to educated, fundraise, and hellraise over the downsizing of a program that, according to its website, “has maintained a focus on identifying, analyzing, and helping to construct sites for social change and cultural transformation.”
Isn’t that exactly what we all need to be learning right now? Sadly, UCSC has decided to stop supporting the programs that really matter. The Coalition asserts that there are many social science programs at UCSC that are hiring new faculty and receiving extra resources. This fact and other lead students to believe that the budget cuts are about more than the money- politics.
These people are working very fast and very effectively to save their department, and we at Bassnectar Labs request your full support, whether it be on the ground at UCSC, through an email, or through addressing a similar travesty in your local community.
Get involved and check out the excellent example these individuals are setting for organizing around what matters.
UCSC administration, our toes cringe at the idea of being in your shoes!
