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Miriam Posner

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Here is what you might say in an email. Please cc standup4PPFP@gmail.com and consider including your dean and chancellor.

Dear President Milliken,
I write to insist on the continued funding of the hiring incentive associated with the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship
Program (PPFP).
This program has demonstrated its efficacy for hiring exceptional scholars over the past 40 years. It is a primary engine for the transformation of the professoriate and knowledge in the UC system. The PPFP is one of the most competitive postdoctoral and hiring incentive programs in North America. It is an open competition that is in alignment with state law and does not use race, gender, national origin, gender or other protected classifications in its review and selection.

$The hiring incentive linked to the PPFP is a faculty-driven hiring process, open to all fields. More than 400 current faculty members were hired through this program. Nearly 100% have been tenured. Given the demonstrated impact of the hiring incentive on the scholarly reputation of UC, and given that the cost of the incentive represents a tiny fraction of the UC budget, budgetary prerogatives do not seem like a defensible argument for this decision. Cutting the hiring incentive would be an unacceptable concession to the Trump administration's demand letter and is taking place without transparency or consultation with faculty, deans, or other campus leaders.$ I ask you to halt this action and to consult with faculty and administrators with a long history of not only supporting but also benefiting from this program.