Statement from Our Coalition

As the Coalition Against the E0s/Student & Faculty Committee to Restore Democracy at CSUN:

We emphatically reject the implementation of EO 1100R and EO 1110

We refuse to participate in the framing of solutions or options, which have been presented as ways of “lying” about compliance while making exceptions

We refuse compliance in any form to implementation as the E0s are direct assaults on the quality of education for our students, our on-going commitment to comparative cultural studies and our legacy of leading the CSU in Ethnic Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Queer Studies

We demand that the CSUN Task Force on GE Report and Recommendations are considered for implementation. The Task Force recommendations align with the CA Ed Code, maintain flexibility in upper div GE, and sustain our legacy and on-going commitment to comparative cultural studies, ES, GWS, and QS.

In addition to implementing the GE Task Force Recommendations, we advocate that CSUN to:

• provide more support for Black students and Black faculty on our campus
• require 6 units requirement for CSUN graduation with classes that explicitly address feminist, anti-racist, queer perspectives in fighting capitalist, ablist, white supremacist cisheteropatriarchy (we are working on the set of SLOs)
• require Admin to have training(s) on race, class, gender, sexuality and ability (e.g., learn about white fragility, aversive racism, institutional racism, structural racism)
• require that Faculty take race/class,/gender/sexuality/ability (deaf students’ needs) trainings to address our diverse student needs
• require impact reports to decide on whether to implement future policies and executive orders
• require Admin to be transparent and accountable to faculty and students with regards to their attempts to implement EOs that faculty senate had rejected

• Condemn the enforcement of EO 1110 by administrators without faculty and examine data of impacts of EO 1110
  • Provide solution to undo this policy when we find evidence of harm

• • Examine impacts not only of students’ performances but also of loss of jobs on lecturers and loss of classes in vulnerable departments and programs
  • Bring in writing council representatives, especially instructors in ES and QS (e.g., Renee and Tom), to discuss what’s happening in writing and to consider their recommendations
  • Bring in math representatives, like Dr. Stevenson, to discuss what’s happening in math and to consider their recommendations

• Practice democracy, transparency, accountability, and shared governance. People need to understand how institutional and structural racism work and to begin practicing transformative justice