Administrative bloat alienates college leaders from students and faculty. They can live in a fantasy world where they are successful and good at their jobs, detatched from the consequences of their actions. Our students deserve so much better. /fin

Read the full letter here. 9/ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

PCC Admin might present this “Self-Study” process as a win, but it has led to a severe blow to our college’s reputation, a rift between administration and educators, an Unfair Labor Practice charge against PCC , and very real negative impacts to our students. 8/

Faculty provided industry-specific data on student and graduate success, as well as pointing out several mistakes with the administration’s “data.” The process led to the closure of popular and successful programs at PCC. 7/

The process has been far from “radically transparent.” It placed an undue burden on faculty and program staff to justify their right to exist. It was pushed onto faculty with little time and no support. Many faculty members worked beyond their contracted hours to oblige this process. 6/

"We are a team of PCC faculty members, academic professionals, and union representatives who served on an impact bargaining team to challenge the results of the very same “data-informed” process our administrators presented at OCCA today. 5/

They presented this process as “radically transparent” and “data-driven" - a truly shocking claim. If they presented this to their own employees, they would have been laughed and booed off the stage.

We sent an open letter sent to the OCCA leadership. Excerpts below 4/

Last week PCC administrators presented at the Oregon Community College Association annual conference. Their presentation (“Through the Data-informed Looking Glass: Rethinking Academic Program Sustainability”) was about their 2024-25 “Self-Study” process 3/

Members often wonder, what do these administrators do all day? Well, one thing they do is go to conferences and give presentations about what a great job they're doing 2/

PCC seems to be following the DOGE playbook of manufacturing a crisis and then making decisions without regard to contracts. "Move fast break things" isn't going to fly for our union. We intend to enforce the contract.

[email protected] : “We’ve had a lot of our employees join the picket line...that kind of solidarity with other workers is really important to us, because what this incident shows is that our bosses are also in solidarity with each other.” 💯

FT Faculty Emiliano Vega: “This is a familiar theme that PCC employees have seen in the last number of years with the college, which is, ‘Hey, we empathize with you, we really hear you—now do what we want you to do.’”

Bosses love to *perform* progressive values but we know whose side they're on.