List of Demands (PDF)

We

the

Students

o f U C L A , o n b e h a l f o f o u r p e e rs, a l u m n i , a n d

p re d e c e s s o rs, h e re b y d e m a n d t h a t t h e U n i v e rs i t y i m p l e m e n t t h e f o l l o w i n g
actions

to

fulfill

its

re s p o n s i b i l i t y

as

a

public

institution

to

serve

the

c i t i ze n s o f C a l i f o r n i a , t h e l o c a l c o m m u n i t y, a n d t h e w o r l d a t - l a rg e :

1.

Cease the Communication Studies Department’s mistreatment of Professor
Fink and ensure that he is permitted to keep teaching and positively influencing
the lives of students at UCLA;

2.

Refrain from interfering with faculty members’ issuance of PTEs to students;

3.

Restore the fundamental concepts of basic fairness and due process rights to all
university dealings;

4.

Implement mandatory “intellectual diversity” training for all faculty members at
UCLA;

5.

Implement educational pedagogies and curriculums that increase intellectual
tolerance within the campus community;

6.

Require the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to expand it’s definition of
“incidents of bias” to encompass all forms of bias —including bias based on
political or ideological disagreement — not just those that are based on race,
sex, or disability status;

7.

Require Communication Studies Department Chair Kerri Johnson to
immediately resign, or alternatively, issue a public apology for repeatedly lying to
Professor Fink about matters pertaining to his class size and Excellence Review;

8.

Institute a formal administrative review process to sanction Department Chairs,
Deans, and Vice Chancellors who act in dereliction of the same True Bruin
values (e.g., Integrity) that they repeatedly promulgate to students;

9.

Renegotiate the Unit 18 MOA to include strengthened protections for lecturers especially those undergoing Excellence Review

10. Maintain a written record of “current practices” pertaining to personnel
matters, rather than inventing them on-the-fly without minimal-to-no notice to
faculty, staff, and students.