UWP Lecturers [Gsa-english] 1B offerings for undergrads

carol.downey at charter.net carol.downey at charter.net
Wed Dec 2 09:36:23 PST 2009


Well, here's the bind I'm in- I haven't had a teaching job, or any job, since June. Am I willing and able to teach any course at all? You bet.
 Carol Downey

---- Kate Watt <katecwatt at gmail.com> wrote: 
> It's sort of the same bind we're in.
> 
> Not much point in threatening to withhold our labor, if they are gearing up
> to do without it.   Not much point in students threatening to withhold their
> custom, if it's not much wanted either.
> 
> But since the university has not yet decided (and I really can't believe
> they will) to scuttle lower-division or undergraduate education at UCR
> entirely, they do need those freshmen to keep coming, and signing those
> checks, this winter and spring....
> 
> I admire that petition-gathering student's chutzpah!  At the same time, I
> grant that there may be ramifications of such a move that we can't yet
> foresee....
> 
> Kate



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