OPINION: 'It’s time to prioritize the wellbeing of our students, employees, and public mission,' write Gary Rhoades and Jeremy Bernick of United Campus Workers, Arizona.
Arizona Board of Regents Chair-Elect Fred DuVal’s Jan. 8 op-ed suggested President Robert C. Robbins is one of the University of Arizona’s most “consequential” presidents in recent history. We agree he’s been consequential, but in adverse ways.
People are also reading… Enrollments were neither “crushed” by the pandemic, nor have they come “roaring back,” as DuVal claimed. Enrollments were increasing prior to Robbins, between 0.4% and 3.9% annually from 2014-2017, then grew slowly, between 0.6% and 2.3% annually from 2018-2022. What about the wellbeing of campus employees, whose working conditions are students’ learning conditions? Staff and faculty were furloughed at the highest levels nationally by far among peer institutions , according to a 2020 UA Faculty Senate report. Most universities had no furloughs . Additionally, hundreds of staff, career-track faculty, and graduate assistants’ contracts were “nonrenewed.”
And, as the Feb. 1 UA faculty committee report indicated, UA has failed to address safety needs leading up to, during, and after Professor Meixner’s murder. That’s consequential, broken trust.
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