<div dir="ltr">Dear SEHE friends,<div>For your consideration, please see a petition below addressed to the Chancellor, Provost and Senate Chair regarding flexible modes of instruction given recent ICE activity:<br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Dylan Rodríguez</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:dylanr@ucr.edu">dylanr@ucr.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 9:19 PM<br>Subject: SIGNATURES REQUESTED: immediate action proposal re: ICE<br></div><br><br><div class="msg7776106512825860998"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_7776106512825860998WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Hi everyone:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Based on affirmative feedback from colleagues in this email thread and beyond, i have drafted an urgent request to the UCR administrative and Senate leadership regarding the ongoing intensification of ICE presence in the surrounding area. The link to the google doc is below.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Please feel free to circulate among UCR faculty members (departmental and otherwise) and sign if you desire. Due to the urgency of matters, i ask that we complete our signature gathering by <b><u>5 p.m. this Friday the 23^rd,</u></b> after which i will send it on everyone’s behalf to the UCR Chancellor, Provost/EVC, and Divisional Academic Senate Chair.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FRJrJP1kYlxE6fHusR7AREGCobz5MDaioFcegFswTsY/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FRJrJP1kYlxE6fHusR7AREGCobz5MDaioFcegFswTsY/edit?usp=sharing</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">ingat/peace</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">dylan<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Projects, writing, media, organizations, etc.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><a href="https://linktr.ee/dylanrodriguez73" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/dylanrodriguez73 </a></span><u><span style="color:blue"><u></u><u></u></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Online office hours scheduling:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><a href="https://calendly.com/dylanrodriguez73-ucr/dr-office-hours" target="_blank">https://calendly.com/dylanrodriguez73-ucr/dr-office-hours</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Dylan Rodríguez</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Distinguished Professor</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Dept. of Black Study</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Dept. of Media and Cultural Studies</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">University of California, Riverside<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">(please send ideas and proposals for organizational, collective study, collaborative, and educational engagements here: <span style="color:#444746;letter-spacing:.1pt;background:white"><a href="mailto:dylanrodriguez.collective@gmail.com" target="_blank">dylanrodriguez.collective@gmail.com</a>)</span></span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">(send Center for Ideas and Society related emails here: <a href="mailto:dylanrodriguez73.CIS@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1">dylanrodriguez73.CIS@gmail.com</span></a>)</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">“If one were forced for the sake of clarity to define [fascism] in a word simple enough for all to understand, that word would be ‘reform.’”<br>-George Jackson<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>