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The Defense of the University

Please see the University of California Academic Council’s “The Defense of the University” (April 8 2025), which calls for immediate, sustained, and collective action to defend the University of California:

“We thus call on the Regents, President, and Chancellors of the University of California to expend every effort, commit necessary resources, and use all legal measures to defend our ability to conduct consequential, transformative research and provide high-quality teaching and mentoring. We call on our leaders to ensure the safety and privacy of students, faculty, and staff. And we further call on our leaders to protect academic freedom and faculty control of the curriculum—proactively and publicly . . . Let the future historical record show that we rose to the challenge of defending the University of California, and we did so in ways that did not betray its core values.”

Visit the Academic Senate’s site to view the full statement.

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  • A minimalist book cover with a coral background, white title "Coralations" and grey author name "Melody Jue."
    Coralations Author: Melody Jue
  • Book Cover for "Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History"
    Daughter of the Dragon
    Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History
    Author: Yunte Huang
  • Cover Image for 'The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media", by Bishnupriya Ghosh (2023)
    The Virus Touch
    Theorizing Epidemic Media
    Author: Bishnupriya Ghosh
  • Cover image for "Bestsellers and Masterpieces: The Changing Medieval Canon"
    Bestsellers and masterpieces
    The changing medieval canon
    Edited by Heather Blurton and Dwight F. Reynolds
  • Cover image of Heather Blurton's "Inventing William of Norwich"
    Inventing William of Norwich
    Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150–1200
    Author: Heather Blurton
  • Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Performance
    Entertaining the Idea
    Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Performance
    Edited by Jim Kearney and Lowell Gallagher, Julia Reinhard Lupton
  • Czech Broadside Ballads, Ed. Patricia Fumerton
    Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, and Song in Popular Culture, c.1600–1900 Edited by Patricia Fumerton and Marie Hanzelková and Pavel Kosek.
  • Inscriptive Studies
    Toward a Field Articulation
    Edited by Rita Raley and Paul Benzon
  • Empire and Environment, by Heidi Amin-Hong
    Empire and Environment
    Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific
    Edited by Heidi Amin-Hong and Jeffrey Santa Ana, Rina Garcia Chua, Zhou Xiaojing
  • In Praise of Limes book cover
    In Praise of Limes Author: Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
  • Book cover for Prof. Yunte Huang's "Chinese Whispers"(2022)
    Chinese Whispers
    Toward a Transpacific Poetics
    Author: Yunte Huang

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