Below, you will find a non-comprehensive list of significant emails from the administration, students, and other parties having to do with COLA. Since December, important moments in the campaign have happened over email, and in reply-alls to emails.
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May 2020
May 15 – Statement regarding UCSC student conduct charges
May 7 – Re: ‘Summons to Discuss Possible Rules Violations
April 2020
Apr 29 – Universal COVID-19 Time to Degree Extension for All Graduate Students
Apr 28 – UC-Wide May Day Strike // UCSC May Day Caravan
Apr 27 – COLA strikers will collectively submit grades and organize for a ULP strike
Apr 22 – Inter-Campus Faculty Statement on Support for UAW ULP strike
Apr 1 – The Next Phase of the COLA Struggle
March 2020
Mar 31 – Counter-Offer to Latest Deadline, “Last Chance Agreement”
Mar 25 – I am withholding grades today
Mar 21 – What does the pandemic change about our strike?
Mar 18 – COLA: Re: This Week’s Emails from Public Affairs
Mar 16 – Information and Resources Re: Withholding Winter Grades
Mar 8 – We Are Moving the Picket Line
Mar 8 – COLA: Dear President Napolitano, We Shut It Down
Mar 6 – Strike Updates Day 19: We are winning.
Mar 5 – CAMPUS SHUT DOWN – Why Classes Are Cancelled
February 2020
Feb 29 – A note on the firings
Feb 29 – COLA Pledges: ACTION NEEDED!
Feb 28 – STRIKE UPDATE: nearly 80 grad workers fired today, picket continues on Monday!
Feb 28 – Strike Updates Day 14 / MAYDAY
Feb 28 – [From Admin] Confidential Personnel Matter
Feb 28 – [From Admin] Notice of Intent to Dismiss for for Spring Teaching Fellow Appointment
Feb 28 – [From Admin] Update on grade strike
Feb 24 – After Doomsday/ Life After Death
Feb 24 – Picket Teach-in Coordination
Feb 23 – Statement on Doomsday
Feb 22 – Response to Janet Napolitano’s Invitation to Meet with UCGPC
Feb 20 – March for COLA, 11am Quarry Plaza
Feb 20 – UCSC international graduate students on strike | Statement against de facto deportation
Feb 19 – Friday Undergrads4COLA March
Feb 19 – Letter to Lecturers, Workers, & Staff
Feb 18 – Notice of Violation of UC-UAW CBA
Feb 17 – Faculty Concerns About Recent Administrative Communications
Feb 16 – As I Complete My UCSC Doctorate
Feb 15 – Response to Janet Napolitano: SPREAD THE STRIKE
Feb 14 – [From Admin] Confidential Personnel Matter
Feb 14 – [From Admin] Graduate student strike update
Feb 14 – [From Napolitano] An Open Letter to Faculty, Staff, and Students at UC Santa Cruz
Feb 13 – How to prevent admin from using snitch form to punish TAs
Feb 13 – Response to Public Affairs About Arrests
Feb 13 – [From Admin] Yesterday’s protest and arrests
Feb 13 – Feb 13 Strike Recap: Police Escalation Continues
Feb 11 – Tuesday (and Tomorrow)
Feb 9 – Feminist Studies Grads Call for Full Work Stoppage
Feb 8 – One faculty response to Monday’s strike
Feb 7 – Admin cancels February Friendship First Friday
Feb 7 – Response to “Opportunities for Dialogue”
Feb 7 – [From Admin] Opportunities for Dialogue
Feb 6 – International Graduate Student Employees (ASEs) and the Strike
Feb 6 – Strike Teach-in Slides
Feb 5 – Response to “Written Warning for Withholding Undergraduate Student Grades”
Feb 5 – Call for Proposals, Coastal Campus “work-in,” wildcat shirts, and more
Feb 2 – Response to January 31st Financial Aid Email, Affecting 50 Undergraduates
Feb 2 – Information About Delayed Paychecks (UC Path)
January 2020
Jan 31 – COLA General Assembly Update
Jan 30 – Response from Humanities Graduate Directors to Chancellor RE: the “Offer”
Jan 30 – Freezing CM Graduate Program Funds in Response to “Offer”
Jan 29 – Undergraduate Message of Support RE: the Threats and “Offer”
Jan 28 – Response to Larive Email Comparing Demands to “Offer”
Jan 28 – UAW 2865 Response to Discipline and Threats
Jan 27 – Chancellor Larive’s Email Announcing Two “Support Programs” for Graduate Students
Jan 24 – UCSC WILDCAT STRIKE: Esteemed Scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Speaks
Jan 23 – Tables Summarizing Wage, Rent, And Rent Burden for 2014 vs. 2018
Jan 22 – The UC is Making Us Sick
Jan 22 – UCSD Response to Sick-Out Email
Jan 22 – Detailed Response to Labor Relations RE: Sick Day
Jan 21 – One Response to Labor Relations RE: Sick Day
Jan 21 – Admin Threatens Workers Taking a Sick Day
Jan 21 – Winter Quarter Strike Escalation
Jan 20 – [STRIKE UPDATE] The numbers are in: we’re striking this winter, and here’s how!
Jan 17 – Info and How to Respond to Yesterday’s Financial Aid Email
Jan 16 – Two Easy Steps To Raise Awareness of Rent Burden at UCSC?
Jan 15 – GSA Email in Response to UAW Letter
Jan 15 – Campus Conduct and EVC Kletzer’s January 6th Email
Jan 13 – COLA Strike Poll Online!
Jan 10 – IMPORTANT: Strike Assembly Update and Strike Poll Instructions
Jan 10 – URGENT: FINANCIAL AID UPDATE
Jan 10 – Grad Life Before COLA #10: Financial Precarity Takes a Toll on Mental Health
Jan 9 – URGENT: Financial Aid Request for Grades
Jan 9 – Grad Life Before COLA #9: An Abusive Landlords Leads to Houselessness
Jan 8 – Grad Life Before COLA #8: “The only thing that can keep me going is a COLA”
Jan 7 – Dealing with requests for grades
Jan 7 – COLA 4 ALL Commitment Poll
Jan 6 – GSA Response to Kletzer and William’s Intimidation Tactics
Jan 6 – Lori Kletzer Further Threatens and Intimidates Striking Grad Students
Jan 6 – Grad Life Before COLA #7: Juggling Four Part-Time Jobs to Afford Rent
Jan 4 – template COLA presentation for the first class you teach in Winter
Jan 3 – Response to Registrar Email On Missing Grades
Jan 3 – Grad Life Before COLA #6: “I need a COLA to keep faith in this institution”
Jan 2 – Grad Life Before COLA #5: Unsafe Housing and Living Unhoused
Jan 1 – Urgent: Info about January 2nd Payday and UCPath
Jan 1 – Grad Life Before Cola #4, New Year’s Edition: Struggling Every Day
December 2019
Dec 31 – Grad Life Before Cola #3: Five Years of Mold Poisoning
Dec 30 – Grad Life Before COLA #2: Internet, Food, or Medical Care? Choose One
Dec 29 – Grad Life Before COLA #1: Salad Days
Dec 27 – Next steps re grades re COLA?
Dec 23 – A Response to UC Labor Relations and UC Administrators
Dec 20 – Dispelling Myths About “Missing Grades”
Dec 20 – UCSC Admin Continues to Refuse to Negotiate
Dec 19 – Further Contextualization on Reopening Negotiations with a “Side Letter”
Dec 19 – Request to Reopen TA Contract Negotiations
Dec 18 – The Original Authority on Questioning Authority?
Dec 16 – Admin Grading Poll Update
Dec 16 – Faculty Organizing Group Urges Kletzer to Extend Grading Deadline Until Strike Ends
Dec 16 – COLA Meeting Demand Statement
Dec 14 – Original Letter to Faculty Regarding Admin Grading Poll (See Update)
Dec 13 – Email Response from A Really Pissed Off Undergraduate
Dec 13 – GSA Response Email on Legality & History of Wildcat Strikes
Dec 13 – Lori Kletzer Email Continuing to Claim the Strike is “Illegal”
Dec 12 – History of Student’s Attempts to Engage Admin
Dec 11 – The Message that would have been Read to Admin had they Attended the Dec 10 Meeting
Dec 11 – Factual Correction to UCSC’s “FAQs”
Dec 10 – GSA Response to the Admin Who Are Refusing to Negotiate
Dec 10 – Admin Sends Email Explaining Why They Are “Unable to Negotiate”
Dec 10 – COLA Email Response Setting Open Meeting in Humanities