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"Carrying 'on strike' pickets and some wearing kaffiyehs, academic workers at UCLA and UC Davis walked off the job on Tuesday, alleging their rights were violated by University of California actions during pro-Palestinian protests and encampment crackdowns."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-28/ucla-uc-davis-brace-for-strike-as-union-alleges-free-speech-violations-in-pro-palestinian-protests

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UC's attitude towards disabled people is clear in things like this.

This July will mark 34 years since ADA became law. UC doesn't do bare minimum compliance (not full accessibility & inclusion, just legal compliance) until they decide they need to do seismic upgrades. Then "ADA compliance" is piggybacked on that.

It's the very last thing listed. Whoop-de-doo, ADA "compliant" restrooms.

@disability @academicchatter

Large wooden sign board posted outside construction project. Features a bird's eye view of a floor plan. "Completion Summer 2024 Mann Laboratory Seismic Improvements. To provide increased protection for students, employees and the public, this building is being renovated to strengthen its seismic performance.The roof will be reinforced with new roof-to-wall and beam-to-beam connectors. In addition, contractors will complete major upgrades to the electrical system. remodel the restrooms, add AggieAccess to the main entry and corridor doors and update the building’s compliance with fire, safety and ADA codes. For more information, call (530) 754-1111 or visit dcm.ucdavis.edu" "Building Community UC Davis"
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    • ucaccessnow , to AcademicChatter group
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    This ought to be good. Is this the same Pablo Reguerín who was sitting alongside Chancellor May at an interview with The California Aggie's editorial where May lobbied for the student fee supporting NCAA athlete perqs by likening NCAA athletes to disabled students by saying they too needed "special" supports? And didn't say anything about that? That Reguerín?

    Do you know who was among the chancellors who never replied to hundreds of emails regarding UC's ableism? Chancellor May of UC Davis!! @disability @academicchatter

    Please forward the following information to students - especially anyone interested in learning more about how the University of California is supporting students with disabilities. Next Monday, March 11th at 11 am in Walker Hall 1220 (Gibeling Room) we will have the first session of the Chancellor's Leadership and Development Speaker Series (CLDS). This session will feature Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Pablo Reguerín, who will share his professional journey and information about a University of California systemwide report focused on increasing support for students with disabilities. Anyone interested is welcome to join and can register for the event at https://tinyurl.com/cldsmar24. See the flyer attached to this email as well.
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    The ableist analogy Chancellor May made.

    Disabled students don't only PAY to be on campus - no free ride disability scholarship - UC has a legal obligation it continues flouting to be fully accessible to the public funding it. Arguing that the student body should pay fees to support a small % of students who are given special tutors, a special health building, and other perqs already is not only patently ridiculous, but by likening it in this way to how UC chooses to segregate disabled students instead of being highest common denominator of accessible by default is bound to further encourage resentment of disabled students as a "cost"!

    https://theaggie.org/2021/12/02/editorial-board-meets-with-chancellor-may-uc-davis-administrators-4/ @disability @academicchatter

    Detail from The Cailfornia Aggie editorial. "anymore, so it’s not like this is a strange way of doing things in American society. That aside, you have to think, many of those 700 student-athletes come from marginalized communities and would not be able to go to a university without that scholarship support. We have examples of other fees that only benefit specific student populations. For example, should we extract these because there are only a small number of disabled students on campus, should we not charge the fee that funds the Student Disability Center?"
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    @disability @academicchatter If you want to know how UC Davis is treating disabled students, ask us.

    But a clue is in the fact that this is an in-person only talk. And that the advertisement of the talk contained no accessibility info even for the in-person part!

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