Spring 2025 CA Organizing & Mobilizing Conference for Public Higher Education

Governor Newsom announced a new round of cuts to the UC and CSU systems for the next academic year, while several CSU and UC campuses experience ongoing austerity measures, including lay-offs, and student fee increases. In addition, the incoming presidential administration has signaled opposition to funding public services, basic civil liberties and social justice oriented curricula. The organizations below call on fellow unionized and non-unionized faculty, student-worker and staff unions, and other students and unions interested in advocating for a fully funded CSU and other public education systems, and for the defense of civil liberties and academic freedom to attend this organizing conference on Saturday February 22nd. 

At the conference we will strategize how we stop the cuts to education, build mass support for redirecting CSU statewide funds to the classroom, defend academic freedom and civil liberties, and prioritize CA state funding for public education and social services instead of incarceration, deportation and occupation. 

The SFSU faculty union and student organizations have offered to host the Organizing Conference. SFSU has been a stronghold of social justice activism since the 1968 Third World Liberation Strike, and last academic year the faculty and students showed their combined power in two historic strikes, and Students for Gaza won divestment from weapons manufacturing companies and those who violate human rights. When we organize together, we can project the future we want and need, and be the best advocates for quality public education for working people in California. Let's organize, agitate and mobilize for public education this coming Spring.