Three Commitments
My model of governance has not changed since I ran for ASCSU Chair: our work should be student centered, faculty led, administratively supported, and community relevant. Here is what that means for CSUDH in 2026–27.
1. An honest budget, program by program
Layoff notices and last December's emergency session made one thing plain: we are being asked to accept cuts without real program-cost accounting. I will carry that fight forward. That means insisting on transparent, complete cost and revenue data before any program decision, defending the consultation rights of affected faculty, and bringing my experience as a Los Angeles Budget Advocate and ASCSU senator to budget advocacy with the administration and the Chancellor's Office.
No program should be judged by WTU counts alone, and no college should carry cuts that the data do not justify.
2. Data and AI policy shaped by faculty, not delivered to them
The Data Governance Board charter and the systemwide ChatGPT Edu renewal both land on the Senate floor this year as implementation questions. I serve on the CSU's systemwide Generative AI Committee, so I am already in the rooms where these decisions form, and I will use that seat to make sure CSUDH faculty shape the answers: what data get collected and who governs them, how AI enters our classrooms, and how workload, academic freedom, and course modality policies protect the people doing the teaching.
3. A Senate you can see working
Agendas, minutes, and resolutions posted on time, every time, with records the whole campus can access. Weekly open Chair office hours, in person and on Zoom — the same accessibility-and-accountability practice I kept as Statewide Senator. Follow-through on the faculty role in administrator hiring, real implementation of the faculty-evaluation protections passed in May, continued growth in NTTF representation, and sustained progress on bringing minoritized faculty into Senate leadership.
Questions or Ideas?
This platform should reflect the General Faculty, not just one candidate. If something is missing, tell me — I want to hear it before the ballot goes out, not after.