All of the Democrats on the state Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities just voted against giving 5,000 instructional academic staff a vote in how the UW is governed, even though they generally teach the most, have the most industry experience and are the most connected to industry and student needs. Currently, only PhDs with tenure, who tend to be theorists who don’t teach as much, have the power to distribute budgets, choose curriculum, and hire and fire people.
That means the Democrats on the committee are choosing to keep an unbreakable ceiling for these workers, including hundreds of instructors of color and women, reinforcing an example of actual structural racism.