No Confidence Resolution

The No Confidence Resolution makes the following points:

• Student protestors were peacefully raising concerns, and there was no evidence of violence and no disruption of teaching and research activities;

• UCSD Campus police had a liaison with student leaders and could have taken care of any potential safety concerns;

• Faculty leaders made repeated efforts to bring the Administration leadership to talk with students and to come up with a resolution, while other Senate faculty wrote to encourage the Chancellor to engage in dialogue with the protestors, and the Administration refused to respond;

• UCSD has a professional staff of mediators in the Office of the Ombuds trained to help resolve issues “arising from interpersonal and group conflict” that could have been the perfect entity to help the Administration and protestors to engage in constructive dialogue (but this opportunity was also missed and avenues of dialogue and peaceful resolution were not pursued);

• Chancellor Khosla’s decision to call in the UCSD Police, San Diego Police, and California Highway Patrol to break up a peaceful demonstration with violence and arrests violated free speech, inflicted undeserved trauma on students, and provoked serious disruption of university business.

On this basis, the resolution states that we can no longer have confidence in Chancellor Khosla due to his failure to uphold the right to peaceful protest, the UCSD Principles of Community, and the mechanisms of shared governance, as well as to model one of the most fundamental skills of leadership – the ability to dialogue and resolve disagreements with constituents.

For detailed justification for each of these points, see here.

The No Confidence Resolution was introduced to the Rep Assembly by Professor Harvey Goldman - click below to read his remarks.