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 FTE counts and graduates 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 served on the CSU's systemwide Generative AI Committee, so I know the rooms where these decisions form and the people in them, and I will use that experience 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. Faculty must shape the answers, not receive them.

3. A Senate you can see working — and a leadership bench we build on purpose

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, and continued growth in NTTF representation.

To build diversity in faculty leadership, I pledge two structural changes: I will seek a constitutional amendment so that the general faculty elect the Vice Chair and Secretary in future years, and I will develop committee Chairs and Vice Chairs deliberately, so that every committee role becomes a step toward future Senate leadership rather than a dead end. Leadership pipelines should be built, not inherited.

The year this election decides

This is a transition year without modern precedent at CSUDH: the campus is expected to select a permanent President, Provost, Vice President for Student Affairs, Dean of CBAPP, and many other key leadership roles, and faculty may face a contract fight, possibly including a strike. Every one of those processes runs through shared governance. The Chair you elect will carry the faculty's voice into all of them. My approach to setting the year's priorities is on the Priorities page.

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.