Dear all,   Just an update that we continue to resist EO 1100 (revised) and EO 1110 by attending the CSU Board of Trustees meetings in January 30 and 31, 2018 and March 20 and 21, 2018. If you plan to attend any of these meetings, please stay tuned because we will coordinate with CFA to provide us with busses to leave from CSUN to the Chancellor’s Office. If you plan to speak at the meetings, please check back with the secretariat of the CO to sign up to speak (https://www2.calstate.edu/csu-system/board-of-trustees). They don’t have an agenda yet for January. Let’s coordinate who will say what if possible so that we don’t repeat ourselves. Students plan to continue their efforts in reaching out to the larger campus community about these EOs. We will need to have a few meetings in January before the BoT meetings. Tuition increase is on the table. This will definitely NOT help students to graduate faster. Meanwhile, no one could give us data that students were harmed by GE Section F. Yet, the reason for the streamlining of GE was this anecdote of transfer students needing to take extra units. Also, there is no study nor data to back up why students need to take an extra 3 unit of upper-division science. We anticipate this will slow down graduation not hasten it as the EO 1100 (revised) suggests. On a few other campuses, the required double counting of GE courses will harm smaller programs and departments as well as undermine the purpose of GE requirement.   For 2018, here is our tentative plan: • We plan to coordinate with local CSU campuses to show up at the BoT meetings. (January 30 and 31; March 20 and 21) • We want the CFA to help us to coordinate all the campuses when we do a week of actions in calling and emailing the CO and the BoT with our message of resistance against policies that will hurt students, especially poor students and students of color, and departments and programs such as ethnic studies, gender & women’s studies and queer studies that are helping marginalized students • We will be contacting legislatures to let them know what “student success” should really entail (e.g., affordable if not free tuition)   Despite CSUN faculty senate’s vote to not comply to EO 1100 and EO 1110, it appears that individual faculty members feel obligated to align with features of these ill-conceived policies (e.g., adding more upper-division GE science courses, creating new math courses to replace developmental math) because if the well-meaning people don’t do it then others will. President Harrison has called for a task force “to move us forward” and we are hoping to populate with folks who will reframe the issues of “student success” to be centered on student needs not bureaucrats’ arrogance and authoritarianism. For us to move forward, we need transparency, genuine consultation and restoration of trust from the misinformation effort that has occurred.   Meanwhile, CSUN chairs have also met and created a list of grievance and issues as it pertains to the loss of faculty governance. (Please see at https://caeducatorsunited.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/council-of-chairs-statement.pdf)   Thanks for your support. In solidarity against unjust policies!