Please do not eliminate yet another opportunity for students to fund themselves. Funding is an issue for grad students in our division. Please consider reflecting your discourse focused on equity with actions that support students.
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Jean
8 years ago
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Heechoong Lee
8 years ago
The university's decision is harmful to the students.
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Junghee Lee
8 years ago
My daughter depends on this funding to pursue her educational dreams.
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Derek V Lu
8 years ago
This position should absolutely be eligible for the fee remission! CAMs are important to student retention and success!
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William Robertson-Geibel
8 years ago
Health care and remission must remain for these vital positions!
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Sheila Breeding
8 years ago
These students provide a valuable service to students, as advisors, mentors, and role models. I have seen one of the advisors speak to students about the importance and benefits of studying abroad. She did an excellent job articulating the educational and personal growth possible with such an experience. She shared her own story about her summer abroad and the students interacted with her more than any of the other speakers. This example is only one of many that clearly demonstrate the significance and importance of the work done by these advisors. The proposed changes in their positions are unfair and show a lack of understanding and respect for the jobs they do and their contributions to the students in the College and the university. Finally, in this time of striving to improve equity, diversity, and inclusion, it is crucial that students, particularly under-represented students, see advisors that can relate directly to them and their life at UCLA.
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Alex Lee
8 years ago
CAMs are an essential part of a vibrant and healthy student community. To cut funding is to seriously jeopardize the UC system's mission statement: "Learning occurs not only in the classroom, but also through engagement in campus life and in communities and organizations beyond the university." As an alumnus of the UC system (UCSD), I stand in solidarity with CAMs aims and respectfully demand the university to reconsider its decision to cut compensation. Doing so will seriously undermine the quality of educational and emotional life of UCLA's undergraduates.
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Makaela Newsome
8 years ago
This is a direct attack on marginalized students!
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Anonymous
8 years ago
Hurting the CAM program only hurts undergraduates!
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Anonymous
8 years ago
The CAMs are invaluable in providing student support that make it possible for UCLA students to be academically successful and graduate in a timely manner. The university needs to keep providing support for CAMs in the form of tuition waivers so they can be mentors and graduate students.
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Cynthia Roncoroni
8 years ago
Why limit education?
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Justin Jimenez
8 years ago
The accountability procedures of the neoliberal university most often eschew spaces of belonging and connection, especially for people of color. If the strategic priorities of the university espouse the refrains of "success," "excellence," and "equity," we should seriously reconsider the content and character of discourses and actions. CAMs are needed.
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Erin Manalo-Pedro
8 years ago
CAM was such a key piece of my career trajectory, giving me the skills I needed to now manage a federally funded program for first generation college students. As a first generation grad student myself, the fee remission helped me to get my master's degree debt free--something that not many public health graduates of color can say. Additionally, for those of us in the helping professions that do not have lucrative salaries, funding plays a major role in deciding what career to pursue after graduation. Lastly, CAC helped me feel more connected to the rest of campus and allowed me to break out of my south campus silo. I got to build my network / support system with fellow CAMs. Changing the status of CAMs would negatively alter the pipeline of professionals and educators that become the alumni leaders that create UCLA's reputation.
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James Huynh
8 years ago
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Graduate students deserve funding to pay for their schooling! If UCLA truly wants to tout its horn about being accessible for first-generation students, then CAMs need to keep their ASE status.
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Lee Romero
8 years ago
Save our college academic mentors!
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Danielle Maris
8 years ago
Why end a program that is highly beneficial to so many? CAMs are a vital part of academic advising at UCLA. Without them, our undergraduates will have less access to advising, which, often, is a key component to their academic success. Not only will more pressure be put upon academic advising staff in both the College and individual departments but our graduate students will also be deprived of an excellent opportunity to work closely with undergrads in a dynamic and supportive environment. In short, everybody loses.
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Anonymous
8 years ago
The CAM position is how I am funding my graduate education. The change will have a huge impact on graduate students and undergraduate advising.
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Robbie Henry
8 years ago
Please Help!
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Lauren Ilano
8 years ago
This policy is shortsighted at best. The grad division at UCLA never seems to have student interests in mind—at least not the interests of those of us who have to work in order to afford living in LA...
Please do not eliminate yet another opportunity for students to fund themselves. Funding is an issue for grad students in our division. Please consider reflecting your discourse focused on equity with actions that support students.
!
The university's decision is harmful to the students.
My daughter depends on this funding to pursue her educational dreams.
This position should absolutely be eligible for the fee remission! CAMs are important to student retention and success!
Health care and remission must remain for these vital positions!
These students provide a valuable service to students, as advisors, mentors, and role models. I have seen one of the advisors speak to students about the importance and benefits of studying abroad. She did an excellent job articulating the educational and personal growth possible with such an experience. She shared her own story about her summer abroad and the students interacted with her more than any of the other speakers. This example is only one of many that clearly demonstrate the significance and importance of the work done by these advisors. The proposed changes in their positions are unfair and show a lack of understanding and respect for the jobs they do and their contributions to the students in the College and the university. Finally, in this time of striving to improve equity, diversity, and inclusion, it is crucial that students, particularly under-represented students, see advisors that can relate directly to them and their life at UCLA.
CAMs are an essential part of a vibrant and healthy student community. To cut funding is to seriously jeopardize the UC system's mission statement: "Learning occurs not only in the classroom, but also through engagement in campus life and in communities and organizations beyond the university." As an alumnus of the UC system (UCSD), I stand in solidarity with CAMs aims and respectfully demand the university to reconsider its decision to cut compensation. Doing so will seriously undermine the quality of educational and emotional life of UCLA's undergraduates.
This is a direct attack on marginalized students!
Hurting the CAM program only hurts undergraduates!
The CAMs are invaluable in providing student support that make it possible for UCLA students to be academically successful and graduate in a timely manner. The university needs to keep providing support for CAMs in the form of tuition waivers so they can be mentors and graduate students.
Why limit education?
The accountability procedures of the neoliberal university most often eschew spaces of belonging and connection, especially for people of color. If the strategic priorities of the university espouse the refrains of "success," "excellence," and "equity," we should seriously reconsider the content and character of discourses and actions. CAMs are needed.
CAM was such a key piece of my career trajectory, giving me the skills I needed to now manage a federally funded program for first generation college students. As a first generation grad student myself, the fee remission helped me to get my master's degree debt free--something that not many public health graduates of color can say. Additionally, for those of us in the helping professions that do not have lucrative salaries, funding plays a major role in deciding what career to pursue after graduation. Lastly, CAC helped me feel more connected to the rest of campus and allowed me to break out of my south campus silo. I got to build my network / support system with fellow CAMs. Changing the status of CAMs would negatively alter the pipeline of professionals and educators that become the alumni leaders that create UCLA's reputation.
Graduate students deserve funding to pay for their schooling! If UCLA truly wants to tout its horn about being accessible for first-generation students, then CAMs need to keep their ASE status.
Save our college academic mentors!
Why end a program that is highly beneficial to so many? CAMs are a vital part of academic advising at UCLA. Without them, our undergraduates will have less access to advising, which, often, is a key component to their academic success. Not only will more pressure be put upon academic advising staff in both the College and individual departments but our graduate students will also be deprived of an excellent opportunity to work closely with undergrads in a dynamic and supportive environment. In short, everybody loses.
The CAM position is how I am funding my graduate education. The change will have a huge impact on graduate students and undergraduate advising.
Please Help!
This policy is shortsighted at best. The grad division at UCLA never seems to have student interests in mind—at least not the interests of those of us who have to work in order to afford living in LA...