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together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CTA’s complaints include some recently voiced by some advocacy organizations for English learners and bilingual education that \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/english-learner-advocates-oppose-science-of-reading-bill/707178\">oppose the bill\u003c/a> and have refused to negotiate any changes to make the bill more acceptable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Yolie Flores, president, Families in Schools\"]‘It’s not the only thing that teachers will need to do and to adhere to, but it’s sort of the basic foundational knowledge of how children’s brains work in order to learn to read.’[/pullquote]The teachers union put its opposition to \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 2222\u003c/a> in writing in a lengthy letter to Assembly Education Committee Chairman Al Muratsuchi last week. The committee is expected to hear the bill, introduced in February, later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/EarllyLit-AB2222-CTA-no-032824.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The letter \u003c/a>includes a checklist of complaints including that the proposed legislation would duplicate and potentially undermine current literacy initiatives, would not meet the needs of English learner students and cuts teachers out of the decision-making process, especially when it comes to curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Educators are best equipped to make school and classroom decisions to ensure student success,” the letter said. “Limiting instructional approaches undermines teachers’ professional autonomy and may impede their effectiveness in the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marshall Tuck, CEO of EdVoice, an advocacy nonprofit co-sponsoring the bill, said he was surprised that CTA would oppose legislation that would ensure all teachers are trained to use the latest brain research to teach children how to read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, a lot of folks in the field haven’t actually been trained on that, and a lot of the instruction materials in classrooms today don’t align with that,” Tuck said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuck said CTA appears to misunderstand the body of evidence-based research known as the science of reading. It “is not a curriculum and is not a program or a one-size-fits-all approach,” he said. “It will give teachers a foundational understanding of how children learn to read. Teachers will still have a lot of room locally to decide which instructional moves to make on any given day for any given children. So, you’ll still have significant differentiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A nationwide push\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s push to adopt the science of reading approach to early literacy is in sync with \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/the-science-of-reading-in-2024-5-state-initiatives-to-watch/2024/01#:~:text=These%20actions%20join%20a%20mounting,to%20evidence%2Dbased%20reading%20instruction.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">37 states \u003c/a>and some cities, such as New York City, that have passed similar legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11972684,mindshift_63241,news_11969236\" label=\"Related Stories\"]States nationwide are rejecting balanced literacy as failing to effectively teach children how to read, since it trains children to use pictures to recognize words on sight, also known as three-cueing. The new method would teach children to decode words by sounding them out, a process known as phonics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although phonics, the ability to connect letters to sounds, has drawn the most attention, the science of reading focuses on four other pillars of literacy instruction: phonemic awareness, identifying distinct units of sounds; vocabulary; comprehension; and fluency. It is based on research on how the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/why-theres-more-to-the-science-of-reading-than-phonics/695976\">brain connects \u003c/a>letters with sounds when learning to read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with mandating the science of reading approach to instruction, AB 2222 would require that all TK to fifth-grade teachers, literacy coaches and specialists take a 30-hour-minimum course in reading instruction by 2028. School districts and charter schools would purchase textbooks from an approved list endorsed by the State Board of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation goes against the state policy of local control that gives school districts authority to select curriculum and teaching methods as long as they meet state academic standards. Currently, the state encourages, but does not mandate, districts to incorporate instruction in the science of reading in the early grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big bill,” said Yolie Flores, president of Families in Schools, a co-sponsor. “We’re very proud that it’s a big bill because that means it is truly consequential in the best way possible for children. It’s not a sort of tweak around the edges kind though, it’s the kind of bill that really brings transformation. So we are hoping that the Legislature sees beyond the sort of typical pushback and resistance, and in the end, I think, teachers will see that this was a huge benefit for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Seeking compromise\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bill’s author, Blanca Rubio (D-Baldwin Park) said she took CTA’s seven-page letter not as an outright rejection but as an opportunity for negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad they sent this letter,” she said. “They outline their objections and the reasons why, and that’s something I can work with. It’s not a flat, ‘No, we don’t want you to do it.’ They gave me specific items that I can look at and have a conversation about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that Assemblymember Muratsuchi asked her to work with the CTA on a compromise. She is also meeting with consultants for Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas) “to look at the big picture,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Flores says the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/legislative-analyst-update-projects-bigger-funding-drop-for-schools-community-colleges/706457\">budget problems\u003c/a>, with predictions of no money for new programs, may be a bigger hurdle to getting the bill passed than the CTA opposition. The cost of paying for the required professional development for teachers would total $200 million to $300 million, she said. Because it is a mandate, the state would be required to repay districts for the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is a drop in the bucket for something so transformational, so consequential,” Flores said. “I hope that the Legislature really comes to that realization. We’re in a budget deficit, but our budget is a statement of priorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say that it is imperative that California mandate instruction in the science of reading. In 2023, just 43% of California third graders met the academic standards on the state’s standardized test in 2023. Only 27.2% of Black students, 32% of Latino students and 35% of lower-income children were reading at grade level, compared with 57.5% of white, 69% of Asian and 66% of non-low-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s foundational,” Flores said. “It’s not the only thing teachers need to know. It’s not the only thing that teachers will need to do and to adhere to, but it’s sort of the basic foundational knowledge of how children’s brains work in order to learn to read.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would sunset in 2028 when all teachers are required to have completed training. Beginning in July, all teacher preparation programs would be required to teach future educators to base literacy instruction on the science of reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Needs of English learners\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The CTA and other critics of AB 2222 charge that it ignores the need of English learners for oral language skills, vocabulary and comparison between their home languages and English, which they need in order to learn how to read.\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/california-lags-behind-other-states-in-bilingual-education-for-english-learners/701270\"> Four out of 10 students\u003c/a> in California start school as English learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuck disputes this. “We actually emphasize oral language development,” he said. “This would be the first statute that would say when instructional materials are adopted, and when teachers are trained in the science of reading, they must include a focus on English learners and oral language development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from Californians Together, an advocacy organization for English learners and bilingual education, applauded the CTA’s opposition to the bill. They oppose the bill, rather than suggest amendments, because they disagree with its overall approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just don’t think this is the right bill to address literacy needs,” said Executive Director Martha Hernandez. “It’s very restrictive. We know that mandates don’t work. It lacks a robust, comprehensive approach for multilingual learners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Californians Together and the California Association for Bilingual Education have both said they would prefer California fund the training of teachers and full implementation of the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/rl/cf/documents/elaeldfwintro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">English Language Arts/English Language Development Framework (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The framework was adopted in 2014 and encourages, but does not mandate, explicit instruction in foundational skills and oral language development for English learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Language Teachers Association has requested the bill be amended to include information about teaching literacy in languages not based on the English alphabet, such as Japanese, Chinese or Arabic, according to Executive Director Liz Matchett. However, the organization has not yet taken a position on the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I agree that we want to support all children to be able to read. If they can’t read, they can’t participate in education, which is the one way that is proven to change people’s circumstances,” said Matchett, who teaches Spanish at Gunn High School in Palo Alto. “There’s nothing to oppose about that. I’m still a classroom teacher, and all the time, you get kids in high school who can’t read.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://west.edtrust.org/press-release/statement-on-ab-2222-rubio-early-literacy-science-of-reading/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Education Trust-West\u003c/a> urges changes in the bill to center the needs of “multilingual learners” — children who speak languages other than English at home — and to include more oversight and fewer mandates, such as those that may discourage new teachers from entering the profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If our recommended amendments were to be accepted, EdTrust-West would support it as a much-needed solution to California’s acute literacy crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claude Goldenberg, professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, said “it was disappointing” to see CTA’s opposition, particularly because the union did not suggest amendments. He said he had met with representatives from CTA and urged them to identify what could be changed in the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/english-learners-too-would-benefit-from-fixing-how-we-teach-reading-in-california-this-bill-is-a-good-start/708799\"> EdSource commentary\u003c/a>, Goldenberg urged opponents to “do the right thing for all students. AB 2222’s introduction is an important step forward on the road to universal literacy in California. We must get it on the right track and take it across the finish line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to the CTA’s opposition, Goldenberg said, “Obviously my urgings fell flat. They identified why they’re opposing, but there’s no indication of any possible re-evaluation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/english-learners-too-would-benefit-from-fixing-how-we-teach-reading-in-california-this-bill-is-a-good-start/708799\">Goldenberg\u003c/a>, who served on the National Literacy Panel, which synthesized research on literacy development among children who speak languages other than English, has called on the bill’s authors to amend it to include a more comprehensive definition of the “science of reading” and include more information about teaching students to read in English as a second language and in their home languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CTA has \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/cta-sponsored-legislation-would-remove-one-of-states-last-required-tests-for-teachers/706391\">changed its position\u003c/a> on bills related to literacy instruction in the last two years. It had originally supported \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/cta-sponsored-legislation-would-remove-one-of-states-last-required-tests-for-teachers/706391\">Senate Bill 488\u003c/a>, which passed in 2022. The legislation requires a literacy performance assessment for teachers and oversight of literacy instruction in teacher preparation. The union is now in support of a bill that would do away with both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change of course was attributed to a survey of 1,300 CTA members, who said the assessment caused stress, took away time that could have been used to collaborate with mentors and for teaching, and did not prepare them to meet the needs of students, according to Leslie Littman, vice president of the union, in a prior interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veteran political observer Dan Schnur said he’s not surprised CTA would oppose the bill since some of its political allies are against it; the question is how important CTA considers the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it becomes a pitched battle, CTA will have to decide whether it is one of its highest priorities in this session,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom hasn’t indicated his position yet, but Schnur, the press secretary for former Gov. Pete Wilson, who teaches political communications at UC Berkeley and USC, said, “This is not the type of fight Newsom needs or wants right now. If he has strong feelings, it’s hard to see him going to war for or against.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/bill-to-mandate-science-of-reading-in-california-schools-faces-teachers-union-opposition/709193\">\u003cem>This story was originally published in EdSource.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California’s largest teachers union has moved to put the brakes on legislation that mandates instruction, known as the 'science of reading,' that spotlights phonics to teach children to read.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712597059,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":45,"wordCount":2128},"headData":{"title":"California Teachers Union Opposes Bill Mandating 'Science of Reading' in Schools | KQED","description":"California’s largest teachers union has moved to put the brakes on legislation that mandates instruction, known as the 'science of reading,' that spotlights phonics to teach children to read.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Teachers Union Opposes Bill Mandating 'Science of Reading' in Schools","datePublished":"2024-04-08T00:30:52.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-08T17:24:19.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"EdSource","sourceUrl":"https://edsource.org/","sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/dlambert\">Diana Lambert\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/jfensterwald\">John Fensterwald\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/zstavely\">Zaidee Stavely\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11982196/california-teachers-union-opposes-bill-mandating-science-of-reading-in-schools","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California’s largest teachers union has moved to put the brakes on legislation that mandates instruction, known as the “science of reading,” that spotlights phonics to teach children to read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move by the politically powerful California Teachers Association (CTA) puts the fate of Assembly Bill 2222 in question as supporters insist that there is room to negotiate changes that will bring opponents together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CTA’s complaints include some recently voiced by some advocacy organizations for English learners and bilingual education that \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/english-learner-advocates-oppose-science-of-reading-bill/707178\">oppose the bill\u003c/a> and have refused to negotiate any changes to make the bill more acceptable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It’s not the only thing that teachers will need to do and to adhere to, but it’s sort of the basic foundational knowledge of how children’s brains work in order to learn to read.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Yolie Flores, president, Families in Schools","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The teachers union put its opposition to \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 2222\u003c/a> in writing in a lengthy letter to Assembly Education Committee Chairman Al Muratsuchi last week. The committee is expected to hear the bill, introduced in February, later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/EarllyLit-AB2222-CTA-no-032824.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The letter \u003c/a>includes a checklist of complaints including that the proposed legislation would duplicate and potentially undermine current literacy initiatives, would not meet the needs of English learner students and cuts teachers out of the decision-making process, especially when it comes to curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Educators are best equipped to make school and classroom decisions to ensure student success,” the letter said. “Limiting instructional approaches undermines teachers’ professional autonomy and may impede their effectiveness in the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marshall Tuck, CEO of EdVoice, an advocacy nonprofit co-sponsoring the bill, said he was surprised that CTA would oppose legislation that would ensure all teachers are trained to use the latest brain research to teach children how to read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, a lot of folks in the field haven’t actually been trained on that, and a lot of the instruction materials in classrooms today don’t align with that,” Tuck said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuck said CTA appears to misunderstand the body of evidence-based research known as the science of reading. It “is not a curriculum and is not a program or a one-size-fits-all approach,” he said. “It will give teachers a foundational understanding of how children learn to read. Teachers will still have a lot of room locally to decide which instructional moves to make on any given day for any given children. So, you’ll still have significant differentiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A nationwide push\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s push to adopt the science of reading approach to early literacy is in sync with \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/the-science-of-reading-in-2024-5-state-initiatives-to-watch/2024/01#:~:text=These%20actions%20join%20a%20mounting,to%20evidence%2Dbased%20reading%20instruction.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">37 states \u003c/a>and some cities, such as New York City, that have passed similar legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11972684,mindshift_63241,news_11969236","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>States nationwide are rejecting balanced literacy as failing to effectively teach children how to read, since it trains children to use pictures to recognize words on sight, also known as three-cueing. The new method would teach children to decode words by sounding them out, a process known as phonics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although phonics, the ability to connect letters to sounds, has drawn the most attention, the science of reading focuses on four other pillars of literacy instruction: phonemic awareness, identifying distinct units of sounds; vocabulary; comprehension; and fluency. It is based on research on how the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/why-theres-more-to-the-science-of-reading-than-phonics/695976\">brain connects \u003c/a>letters with sounds when learning to read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with mandating the science of reading approach to instruction, AB 2222 would require that all TK to fifth-grade teachers, literacy coaches and specialists take a 30-hour-minimum course in reading instruction by 2028. School districts and charter schools would purchase textbooks from an approved list endorsed by the State Board of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation goes against the state policy of local control that gives school districts authority to select curriculum and teaching methods as long as they meet state academic standards. Currently, the state encourages, but does not mandate, districts to incorporate instruction in the science of reading in the early grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big bill,” said Yolie Flores, president of Families in Schools, a co-sponsor. “We’re very proud that it’s a big bill because that means it is truly consequential in the best way possible for children. It’s not a sort of tweak around the edges kind though, it’s the kind of bill that really brings transformation. So we are hoping that the Legislature sees beyond the sort of typical pushback and resistance, and in the end, I think, teachers will see that this was a huge benefit for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Seeking compromise\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bill’s author, Blanca Rubio (D-Baldwin Park) said she took CTA’s seven-page letter not as an outright rejection but as an opportunity for negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad they sent this letter,” she said. “They outline their objections and the reasons why, and that’s something I can work with. It’s not a flat, ‘No, we don’t want you to do it.’ They gave me specific items that I can look at and have a conversation about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that Assemblymember Muratsuchi asked her to work with the CTA on a compromise. She is also meeting with consultants for Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas) “to look at the big picture,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Flores says the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/legislative-analyst-update-projects-bigger-funding-drop-for-schools-community-colleges/706457\">budget problems\u003c/a>, with predictions of no money for new programs, may be a bigger hurdle to getting the bill passed than the CTA opposition. The cost of paying for the required professional development for teachers would total $200 million to $300 million, she said. Because it is a mandate, the state would be required to repay districts for the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is a drop in the bucket for something so transformational, so consequential,” Flores said. “I hope that the Legislature really comes to that realization. We’re in a budget deficit, but our budget is a statement of priorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say that it is imperative that California mandate instruction in the science of reading. In 2023, just 43% of California third graders met the academic standards on the state’s standardized test in 2023. Only 27.2% of Black students, 32% of Latino students and 35% of lower-income children were reading at grade level, compared with 57.5% of white, 69% of Asian and 66% of non-low-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s foundational,” Flores said. “It’s not the only thing teachers need to know. It’s not the only thing that teachers will need to do and to adhere to, but it’s sort of the basic foundational knowledge of how children’s brains work in order to learn to read.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would sunset in 2028 when all teachers are required to have completed training. Beginning in July, all teacher preparation programs would be required to teach future educators to base literacy instruction on the science of reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Needs of English learners\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The CTA and other critics of AB 2222 charge that it ignores the need of English learners for oral language skills, vocabulary and comparison between their home languages and English, which they need in order to learn how to read.\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/california-lags-behind-other-states-in-bilingual-education-for-english-learners/701270\"> Four out of 10 students\u003c/a> in California start school as English learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuck disputes this. “We actually emphasize oral language development,” he said. “This would be the first statute that would say when instructional materials are adopted, and when teachers are trained in the science of reading, they must include a focus on English learners and oral language development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from Californians Together, an advocacy organization for English learners and bilingual education, applauded the CTA’s opposition to the bill. They oppose the bill, rather than suggest amendments, because they disagree with its overall approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just don’t think this is the right bill to address literacy needs,” said Executive Director Martha Hernandez. “It’s very restrictive. We know that mandates don’t work. It lacks a robust, comprehensive approach for multilingual learners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Californians Together and the California Association for Bilingual Education have both said they would prefer California fund the training of teachers and full implementation of the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/rl/cf/documents/elaeldfwintro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">English Language Arts/English Language Development Framework (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The framework was adopted in 2014 and encourages, but does not mandate, explicit instruction in foundational skills and oral language development for English learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Language Teachers Association has requested the bill be amended to include information about teaching literacy in languages not based on the English alphabet, such as Japanese, Chinese or Arabic, according to Executive Director Liz Matchett. However, the organization has not yet taken a position on the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I agree that we want to support all children to be able to read. If they can’t read, they can’t participate in education, which is the one way that is proven to change people’s circumstances,” said Matchett, who teaches Spanish at Gunn High School in Palo Alto. “There’s nothing to oppose about that. I’m still a classroom teacher, and all the time, you get kids in high school who can’t read.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://west.edtrust.org/press-release/statement-on-ab-2222-rubio-early-literacy-science-of-reading/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Education Trust-West\u003c/a> urges changes in the bill to center the needs of “multilingual learners” — children who speak languages other than English at home — and to include more oversight and fewer mandates, such as those that may discourage new teachers from entering the profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If our recommended amendments were to be accepted, EdTrust-West would support it as a much-needed solution to California’s acute literacy crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claude Goldenberg, professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, said “it was disappointing” to see CTA’s opposition, particularly because the union did not suggest amendments. He said he had met with representatives from CTA and urged them to identify what could be changed in the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/english-learners-too-would-benefit-from-fixing-how-we-teach-reading-in-california-this-bill-is-a-good-start/708799\"> EdSource commentary\u003c/a>, Goldenberg urged opponents to “do the right thing for all students. AB 2222’s introduction is an important step forward on the road to universal literacy in California. We must get it on the right track and take it across the finish line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to the CTA’s opposition, Goldenberg said, “Obviously my urgings fell flat. They identified why they’re opposing, but there’s no indication of any possible re-evaluation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/english-learners-too-would-benefit-from-fixing-how-we-teach-reading-in-california-this-bill-is-a-good-start/708799\">Goldenberg\u003c/a>, who served on the National Literacy Panel, which synthesized research on literacy development among children who speak languages other than English, has called on the bill’s authors to amend it to include a more comprehensive definition of the “science of reading” and include more information about teaching students to read in English as a second language and in their home languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CTA has \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/cta-sponsored-legislation-would-remove-one-of-states-last-required-tests-for-teachers/706391\">changed its position\u003c/a> on bills related to literacy instruction in the last two years. It had originally supported \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/cta-sponsored-legislation-would-remove-one-of-states-last-required-tests-for-teachers/706391\">Senate Bill 488\u003c/a>, which passed in 2022. The legislation requires a literacy performance assessment for teachers and oversight of literacy instruction in teacher preparation. The union is now in support of a bill that would do away with both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change of course was attributed to a survey of 1,300 CTA members, who said the assessment caused stress, took away time that could have been used to collaborate with mentors and for teaching, and did not prepare them to meet the needs of students, according to Leslie Littman, vice president of the union, in a prior interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veteran political observer Dan Schnur said he’s not surprised CTA would oppose the bill since some of its political allies are against it; the question is how important CTA considers the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it becomes a pitched battle, CTA will have to decide whether it is one of its highest priorities in this session,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom hasn’t indicated his position yet, but Schnur, the press secretary for former Gov. Pete Wilson, who teaches political communications at UC Berkeley and USC, said, “This is not the type of fight Newsom needs or wants right now. If he has strong feelings, it’s hard to see him going to war for or against.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/bill-to-mandate-science-of-reading-in-california-schools-faces-teachers-union-opposition/709193\">\u003cem>This story was originally published in EdSource.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11982196/california-teachers-union-opposes-bill-mandating-science-of-reading-in-schools","authors":["byline_news_11982196"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_18286","news_29925","news_1928"],"affiliates":["news_33681"],"featImg":"news_11982200","label":"source_news_11982196"},"news_11955994":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11955994","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11955994","score":null,"sort":[1689809114000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"stanford-university-president-to-resign-after-concerns-about-his-research","title":"Stanford University President to Resign After Concerns About His Research","publishDate":1689809114,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Stanford University President to Resign After Concerns About His Research | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The president of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stanford-university\">Stanford University\u003c/a> said Wednesday he would resign, citing an \u003ca href=\"https://boardoftrustees.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2023/07/Scientific-Panel-Final-Report.pdf\">independent review (PDF)\u003c/a> that cleared him of research misconduct but found flaws in papers authored by his lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marc Tessier-Lavigne said in a statement to students and staff that he would step down Aug. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resignation comes after the board of trustees launched a review in December following allegations he engaged in fraud and other unethical conduct related to his research and papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tessier-Lavigne said he “never submitted a scientific paper without firmly believing that the data were correct and accurately presented.” But he added he should have been more diligent in seeking corrections regarding his work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The review assessed 12 papers that Tessier-Lavigne worked on, and he is the principal author of five of them. He said he was aware of issues with four of the five papers, but acknowledged taking “insufficient” steps to deal with the issues. He said he’ll retract three of the papers and correct two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel reviewed a dozen scientific papers on which Tessier-Lavigne is listed as a co-author after allegations of misconduct aired on PubPeer, a website where members of the scientific community can raise issues or concerns regarding scientific publications, the report stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More on Education' tag='education']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those comments were essentially ignored until November of 2022,” said Dr. Ivan Oransky, who teaches at \u003ca href=\"https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/ivan-oransky-md/\">New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute\u003c/a> and co-founded the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://retractionwatch.com/\">Retraction Watch\u003c/a>. He’s also on the board of directors for PubPeer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oransky told KQED that the rise of online publication of scientific journals has encouraged more scientists and reporters to discuss concerns in a variety of forums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s treat scientific error and frankly misconduct as the regular, frequent event that it is. There are 5,000 retractions a year now,” Oransky said. “I don’t know that they’re happening much more often. They’re in the news much more often.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The devil is always in the details,” Oransky went on, “so you don’t actually have to know about something to be responsible for it. I see a very common pattern of a leader who created and encouraged a culture of success above all else. … We must get these results and we must be able to publish them in these big journals because that’s how he (Tessier-Lavigne) continues to get grants and win support and get good positions. There was a deeper problem in that lab.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel cleared him of the most serious allegation, that a 2009 paper published in the scientific journal Nature, was the subject of a fraud investigation and that fraud was found. The paper proposed a model of neurodegeneration, which could have great potential for Alzheimer’s disease research and therapy, the panel wrote in its report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the panel also concluded the paper had multiple problems, including a lack of rigor in its development and that the research that went into the paper and its presentation contained “various errors and shortcomings.” The panel did not find evidence that Tessier-Lavigne was aware of the lack of rigor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The review, however, did find that Tessier-Lavigne did not work hard enough to get some of the problematic papers retracted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Scientific Panel has concluded that at various times when concerns with Dr. Tessier-Lavigne’s papers emerged … [he] failed to decisively and forthrightly correct mistakes in the scientific record,” the review stated. “… timely correction or retraction and/or more forthright and transparent actions toward correcting the scientific record would have better-served science and all concerned.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Matthew Schrag, assistant professor of neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center\"]‘This is not one single episode — and this has been pointed out to him and to the scientific community in various forums for quite a lot of years.’[/pullquote]Matthew Schrag, assistant professor of neurology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told KQED he understands how people could also look at this pattern as somewhat eyebrow-raising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not one single episode — and this has been pointed out to him and to the scientific community in various forums for quite a lot of years — to the point that you see that he initiated some corrective steps years ago that were never completed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the supervising scientists become aware, they acquire a responsibility,” Schrag added. “It doesn’t mean they’re at fault for what happened, but they do have a responsibility to correct it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tessier-Lavigne said he’s stepping down because he expects continued debate about his ability to lead the university. He will remain on the faculty as a biology professor. He also said he will continue his research into brain development and neurodegeneration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has been president for nearly seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/rachael-myrow\">Rachael Myrow\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne will step down in August after a review of alleged misconduct on papers he authored. He will remain on faculty.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1689809114,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":866},"headData":{"title":"Stanford University President to Resign After Concerns About His Research | KQED","description":"Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne will step down in August after a review of alleged misconduct on papers he authored. 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He said he was aware of issues with four of the five papers, but acknowledged taking “insufficient” steps to deal with the issues. He said he’ll retract three of the papers and correct two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel reviewed a dozen scientific papers on which Tessier-Lavigne is listed as a co-author after allegations of misconduct aired on PubPeer, a website where members of the scientific community can raise issues or concerns regarding scientific publications, the report stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Education ","tag":"education"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those comments were essentially ignored until November of 2022,” said Dr. Ivan Oransky, who teaches at \u003ca href=\"https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/ivan-oransky-md/\">New York University’s Arthur L. 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I see a very common pattern of a leader who created and encouraged a culture of success above all else. … We must get these results and we must be able to publish them in these big journals because that’s how he (Tessier-Lavigne) continues to get grants and win support and get good positions. There was a deeper problem in that lab.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel cleared him of the most serious allegation, that a 2009 paper published in the scientific journal Nature, was the subject of a fraud investigation and that fraud was found. The paper proposed a model of neurodegeneration, which could have great potential for Alzheimer’s disease research and therapy, the panel wrote in its report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the panel also concluded the paper had multiple problems, including a lack of rigor in its development and that the research that went into the paper and its presentation contained “various errors and shortcomings.” The panel did not find evidence that Tessier-Lavigne was aware of the lack of rigor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The review, however, did find that Tessier-Lavigne did not work hard enough to get some of the problematic papers retracted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Scientific Panel has concluded that at various times when concerns with Dr. Tessier-Lavigne’s papers emerged … [he] failed to decisively and forthrightly correct mistakes in the scientific record,” the review stated. “… timely correction or retraction and/or more forthright and transparent actions toward correcting the scientific record would have better-served science and all concerned.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘This is not one single episode — and this has been pointed out to him and to the scientific community in various forums for quite a lot of years.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Matthew Schrag, assistant professor of neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Matthew Schrag, assistant professor of neurology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told KQED he understands how people could also look at this pattern as somewhat eyebrow-raising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not one single episode — and this has been pointed out to him and to the scientific community in various forums for quite a lot of years — to the point that you see that he initiated some corrective steps years ago that were never completed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the supervising scientists become aware, they acquire a responsibility,” Schrag added. “It doesn’t mean they’re at fault for what happened, but they do have a responsibility to correct it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tessier-Lavigne said he’s stepping down because he expects continued debate about his ability to lead the university. He will remain on the faculty as a biology professor. He also said he will continue his research into brain development and neurodegeneration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has been president for nearly seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/rachael-myrow\">Rachael Myrow\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11955994/stanford-university-president-to-resign-after-concerns-about-his-research","authors":["byline_news_11955994"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_221","news_31934","news_20013","news_27942","news_353","news_1928"],"featImg":"news_11956028","label":"news"},"news_11954612":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11954612","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11954612","score":null,"sort":[1688079287000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"u-s-supreme-court-strikes-down-affirmative-action-barring-california-private-universities-from-considering-race-in-admissions","title":"US Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action, Barring California Private Universities From Considering Race in Admissions","publishDate":1688079287,"format":"standard","headTitle":"US Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action, Barring California Private Universities From Considering Race in Admissions | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf\">U.S. Supreme Court ruling (PDF)\u003c/a> barring colleges from considering race in admissions effectively outlaws affirmative action at California’s private universities, broadly expanding a ban that had previously only applied to the state’s public campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Thursday’s 6-3 decision, the court’s conservative majority invalidated race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, the nation’s oldest private and public colleges, respectively, finding them in violation of the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection. The historic ruling overturns a spate of cases reaching back nearly half a century and will force the nation’s private and public universities to dramatically alter how they select their students.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rev. Paul Fitzgerald, president, University of San Francisco\"]‘We’ve spent decades building out an academic program to welcome a student population that looks like the future of our nation. To be told now that we cannot use race as a particular factor is going to cause us to think very hard to figure out a way to continue our mission.’[/pullquote]Writing for the court’s majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said that for too long universities have “concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The entire point of the Equal Protection Clause is that treating someone differently because of their skin color is not like treating them differently because they are from a city or from a suburb, or because they play the violin poorly or well,” Roberts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision, bringing a long-sought conservative goal to fruition, comes nearly 30 years after California voters \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/1996/prop209_11_1996.html\">passed Proposition 209\u003c/a>, which prohibited the state’s public universities — including those in the University of California and California State University systems — from considering race and gender in admissions and hiring decisions. But that law did not apply to the state’s private colleges, including University of San Francisco, Stanford and Santa Clara universities, who until now have continued to consider race as a factor in admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of numerous private colleges across California were quick to denounce the court’s decision, calling it a major setback to efforts aimed at diversifying campuses and to expand opportunities for underrepresented student populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ruling is quite disturbing and really quite challenging to us,” said Rev. Paul Fitzgerald, president of the University of San Francisco. “We’ve spent decades building out an academic program to welcome a student population that looks like the future of our nation. To be told now that we cannot use race as a particular factor is going to cause us to think very hard to figure out a way to continue our mission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fitzgerald noted his school has worked to draw communities that are historically underrepresented on college campuses, including outreach at high schools that serve primarily Black, Latino or Indigenous students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court’s ruling was the culmination of a lawsuit first brought against Harvard in 2014 when a group called Students for Fair Admissions argued the university’s consideration of race in admission decisions unfairly discriminated against Asian students. The group made a similar argument in its subsequent suit against the University of North Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954607\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230629-SCOTUS-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-KN-02-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954607\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230629-SCOTUS-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-KN-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People with the Asian American Coalition for Education rally outside of the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, DC on June 29, 2023.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230629-SCOTUS-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-KN-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230629-SCOTUS-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-KN-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230629-SCOTUS-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-KN-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230629-SCOTUS-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-KN-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230629-SCOTUS-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-KN-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230629-SCOTUS-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-KN-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Asian American Coalition for Education, who oppose affirmative action in college admissions decisions, rally outside of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on June 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stanford threw its support behind the school’s affirmative action policies, and last August submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court outlining how race is just one element the university considers when reviewing applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These factors, among numerous others and viewed in the context of the entire application, may sometimes shed light on the critical questions of a candidate’s ability to deal with adversity and make the most of the opportunities that the University offers,” Stanford’s \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/report/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/08/20-1199-21-707-MIT-et-al.-Amici-Brief.pdf\">brief (PDF)\u003c/a> reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to students and faculty on Thursday, Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne said he was “deeply disappointed” by the court’s decision, arguing it would hinder his school’s efforts to build a more diverse student body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ability to consider race as one part of a holistic review of each applicant has helped to foster a campus environment at Stanford that is diverse in many ways, where people of varied backgrounds and experiences are able to learn from one another and contribute to the creation of knowledge,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of affirmative action bans, which have already been enacted to some degree in nine states — including California — say the practice is racially discriminatory and does little to increase economic mobility for the lowest-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But until now, the high court has consistently preserved race-conscious admission practices, upholding affirmative action in two separate challenges over the last 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That departure was underscored in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s biting dissent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat,” she wrote. “But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since banning affirmative action in 1996, the University of California has spent more than $500 million on programs aimed at recruiting and graduating lower-income students and students who are first in their family to attend college.[aside label=\"more on affirmative action\" tag=\"affirmative-action\"]The UC system also \u003ca href=\"https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requirements/freshman-requirements/california-residents/statewide-guarantee/\">started a program\u003c/a> that guarantees admission to the top 9% of students in each high school across the state, an attempt to attract strong students from diverse backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those efforts have not had the success many had hoped for. By 1998, just two years after the state ban went into effect, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/01/us/black-and-hispanic-admissions-off-sharply-at-u-of-california.html\">Black and Hispanic enrollment fell dramatically at UC Berkeley and UCLA\u003c/a>, the system’s two most selective campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Particularly at UC’s most selective campuses, feelings of racial isolation persist and hinder UC’s efforts to provide the educational benefits of diversity,” the \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1199/232355/20220801134931730_20-1199%20bsac%20University%20of%20California.pdf\">University of California wrote (PDF)\u003c/a> in a brief submitted to the Supreme Court, urging it to uphold affirmative action policies. “Second, UC’s student population at many of its campuses is now starkly different, demographically speaking, from the population of California high school graduates. That raises concerns that UC is not enrolling sufficient students with diverse perspectives, and that it will not be perceived as open to, and welcoming of, all students across the State — which in turn threatens its legitimacy in the eyes of citizens of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the court’s decision on Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2023/06/29/biden-slams-scotus-this-is-not-a-normal-court-00104223?tab=most-read\">President Joe Biden\u003c/a> and Gov. Gavin Newsom expressed similar concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right-wing activists — including those donning robes — are trying to take us back to the era of book bans and segregated campuses,” Newsom said in a press statement. “While the path to equal opportunity has now been narrowed for millions of students, no court case will ever shatter the California Dream. Our campus doors remain open for all who want to work hard — and our commitment to diversity, equity, and equal opportunity has never been stronger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a host of progressive organizations in California that focus on racial and economic justice for Asian Americans lambasted the decision as an attack on racial diversity and opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For Asian American students and all others, racially diverse student bodies both enhance their learning and foster understanding of each student’s lived experience,” Connie Chung Joe, CEO of Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California, said in a press statement. “In our ever-changing global economy and platform, we must continue to give all students the opportunity to fulfill their potential and shape a future built strong on our biggest asset — our diversity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said that affirmative action policies have helped people like him have opportunities that may not have otherwise been possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am an Asian American Harvard graduate, who would not be in a public policy career but for an affirmative action program,” Chiu said in a press statement following the decision Tuesday. We know that students at more diverse campuses benefit academically and socially.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court’s decision, he added, “is simply another attempt to roll back civil rights and the progress made in recent years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The decision, which comes nearly 30 years after California voters banned the state's public universities from considering race in admissions, effectively extends that ban to private colleges, including the University of San Francisco, Stanford and Santa Clara universities. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"US Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action, Barring California Private Universities From Considering Race in Admissions","datePublished":"2023-06-29T22:54:47.000Z","dateModified":"2023-06-30T04:49:31.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11954612/u-s-supreme-court-strikes-down-affirmative-action-barring-california-private-universities-from-considering-race-in-admissions","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf\">U.S. Supreme Court ruling (PDF)\u003c/a> barring colleges from considering race in admissions effectively outlaws affirmative action at California’s private universities, broadly expanding a ban that had previously only applied to the state’s public campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Thursday’s 6-3 decision, the court’s conservative majority invalidated race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, the nation’s oldest private and public colleges, respectively, finding them in violation of the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection. The historic ruling overturns a spate of cases reaching back nearly half a century and will force the nation’s private and public universities to dramatically alter how they select their students.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We’ve spent decades building out an academic program to welcome a student population that looks like the future of our nation. To be told now that we cannot use race as a particular factor is going to cause us to think very hard to figure out a way to continue our mission.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Rev. Paul Fitzgerald, president, University of San Francisco","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Writing for the court’s majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said that for too long universities have “concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The entire point of the Equal Protection Clause is that treating someone differently because of their skin color is not like treating them differently because they are from a city or from a suburb, or because they play the violin poorly or well,” Roberts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision, bringing a long-sought conservative goal to fruition, comes nearly 30 years after California voters \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/1996/prop209_11_1996.html\">passed Proposition 209\u003c/a>, which prohibited the state’s public universities — including those in the University of California and California State University systems — from considering race and gender in admissions and hiring decisions. But that law did not apply to the state’s private colleges, including University of San Francisco, Stanford and Santa Clara universities, who until now have continued to consider race as a factor in admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of numerous private colleges across California were quick to denounce the court’s decision, calling it a major setback to efforts aimed at diversifying campuses and to expand opportunities for underrepresented student populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ruling is quite disturbing and really quite challenging to us,” said Rev. Paul Fitzgerald, president of the University of San Francisco. “We’ve spent decades building out an academic program to welcome a student population that looks like the future of our nation. To be told now that we cannot use race as a particular factor is going to cause us to think very hard to figure out a way to continue our mission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fitzgerald noted his school has worked to draw communities that are historically underrepresented on college campuses, including outreach at high schools that serve primarily Black, Latino or Indigenous students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court’s ruling was the culmination of a lawsuit first brought against Harvard in 2014 when a group called Students for Fair Admissions argued the university’s consideration of race in admission decisions unfairly discriminated against Asian students. The group made a similar argument in its subsequent suit against the University of North Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954607\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230629-SCOTUS-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-KN-02-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954607\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230629-SCOTUS-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-KN-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People with the Asian American Coalition for Education rally outside of the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, DC on June 29, 2023.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230629-SCOTUS-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-KN-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230629-SCOTUS-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-KN-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230629-SCOTUS-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-KN-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230629-SCOTUS-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-KN-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230629-SCOTUS-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-KN-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230629-SCOTUS-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-KN-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Asian American Coalition for Education, who oppose affirmative action in college admissions decisions, rally outside of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on June 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stanford threw its support behind the school’s affirmative action policies, and last August submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court outlining how race is just one element the university considers when reviewing applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These factors, among numerous others and viewed in the context of the entire application, may sometimes shed light on the critical questions of a candidate’s ability to deal with adversity and make the most of the opportunities that the University offers,” Stanford’s \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/report/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/08/20-1199-21-707-MIT-et-al.-Amici-Brief.pdf\">brief (PDF)\u003c/a> reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to students and faculty on Thursday, Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne said he was “deeply disappointed” by the court’s decision, arguing it would hinder his school’s efforts to build a more diverse student body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ability to consider race as one part of a holistic review of each applicant has helped to foster a campus environment at Stanford that is diverse in many ways, where people of varied backgrounds and experiences are able to learn from one another and contribute to the creation of knowledge,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of affirmative action bans, which have already been enacted to some degree in nine states — including California — say the practice is racially discriminatory and does little to increase economic mobility for the lowest-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But until now, the high court has consistently preserved race-conscious admission practices, upholding affirmative action in two separate challenges over the last 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That departure was underscored in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s biting dissent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat,” she wrote. “But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since banning affirmative action in 1996, the University of California has spent more than $500 million on programs aimed at recruiting and graduating lower-income students and students who are first in their family to attend college.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"more on affirmative action ","tag":"affirmative-action"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The UC system also \u003ca href=\"https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requirements/freshman-requirements/california-residents/statewide-guarantee/\">started a program\u003c/a> that guarantees admission to the top 9% of students in each high school across the state, an attempt to attract strong students from diverse backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those efforts have not had the success many had hoped for. By 1998, just two years after the state ban went into effect, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/01/us/black-and-hispanic-admissions-off-sharply-at-u-of-california.html\">Black and Hispanic enrollment fell dramatically at UC Berkeley and UCLA\u003c/a>, the system’s two most selective campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Particularly at UC’s most selective campuses, feelings of racial isolation persist and hinder UC’s efforts to provide the educational benefits of diversity,” the \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1199/232355/20220801134931730_20-1199%20bsac%20University%20of%20California.pdf\">University of California wrote (PDF)\u003c/a> in a brief submitted to the Supreme Court, urging it to uphold affirmative action policies. “Second, UC’s student population at many of its campuses is now starkly different, demographically speaking, from the population of California high school graduates. That raises concerns that UC is not enrolling sufficient students with diverse perspectives, and that it will not be perceived as open to, and welcoming of, all students across the State — which in turn threatens its legitimacy in the eyes of citizens of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the court’s decision on Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2023/06/29/biden-slams-scotus-this-is-not-a-normal-court-00104223?tab=most-read\">President Joe Biden\u003c/a> and Gov. Gavin Newsom expressed similar concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right-wing activists — including those donning robes — are trying to take us back to the era of book bans and segregated campuses,” Newsom said in a press statement. “While the path to equal opportunity has now been narrowed for millions of students, no court case will ever shatter the California Dream. Our campus doors remain open for all who want to work hard — and our commitment to diversity, equity, and equal opportunity has never been stronger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a host of progressive organizations in California that focus on racial and economic justice for Asian Americans lambasted the decision as an attack on racial diversity and opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For Asian American students and all others, racially diverse student bodies both enhance their learning and foster understanding of each student’s lived experience,” Connie Chung Joe, CEO of Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California, said in a press statement. “In our ever-changing global economy and platform, we must continue to give all students the opportunity to fulfill their potential and shape a future built strong on our biggest asset — our diversity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said that affirmative action policies have helped people like him have opportunities that may not have otherwise been possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am an Asian American Harvard graduate, who would not be in a public policy career but for an affirmative action program,” Chiu said in a press statement following the decision Tuesday. We know that students at more diverse campuses benefit academically and socially.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court’s decision, he added, “is simply another attempt to roll back civil rights and the progress made in recent years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11954612/u-s-supreme-court-strikes-down-affirmative-action-barring-california-private-universities-from-considering-race-in-admissions","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_1895","news_28520","news_221","news_27626","news_1928","news_1172","news_206"],"featImg":"news_11954671","label":"news"},"news_11907792":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11907792","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11907792","score":null,"sort":[1647019044000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"owning-their-ukrainian-identity-is-an-act-of-resistance-for-these-stanford-students","title":"Owning Their Ukrainian Identity Is an 'Act of Resistance' for These Stanford Students","publishDate":1647019044,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>On the eve of Catarina Buchatskiy’s 13th birthday, on Nov. 30, 2013, Ukrainian police attacked protesters in her hometown of Kyiv.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Buchatskiy entered young adulthood, those protests changed everything for her and her country. It couldn’t have been a better introduction to her teenage years, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/02/19/279673384/four-things-to-know-about-whats-happening-in-ukraine\">Those protests, known as the Maidan uprising\u003c/a>, decried former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to back out of a trade agreement with the European Union and instead remain more closely tied to Russia. More than 70 people were killed and hundreds were wounded in clashes between protesters and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buchatskiy — now a 21-year-old international student at Stanford University studying international security — said it was the first day that Ukraine woke up and started taking its sovereignty more seriously. It was at that point, she said, that she realized she was part of something bigger than herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was the first awakening of my Ukrainian identity, because this happened on a day so monumental — not just to me personally,\" Buchatskiy said. \"It became a day monumental to the entire country.\"[aside postID=\"news_11907164,news_11906497,news_11906335\" label=\"More From Ukrainians in the Bay Area\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yanukovych reached an agreement with opponents on Feb. 21, 2014, including imposing constitutional changes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/02/22/281083380/unkrainian-protesters-uneasy-president-reportedly-leaves-kiev\">but he fled to Russia that same day\u003c/a>. Less than a month later, Russian President Vladimir Putin \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/world/europe/ukraine.html\">took control of Crimea\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russia’s intense bombardment of the port city of Mariupol this week — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/09/world/europe/ukraine-mariupol-hospital-strike.html\">a strike on a hospital that included a maternity ward\u003c/a> — is part of an apparent attempt to link Crimea with Russia along Ukraine’s southeastern coast. Russia’s attacks have caused \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/08/tuesday-briefing-refugee-crisis\">the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another of 10 Ukrainian international students currently enrolled at Stanford, 19-year-old Andrii Torchylo, said that historically, every attempt Ukraine has made to build a democracy has been met with strong Russian opposition. He said Russia’s current attacks on Ukraine are an attack on democracy in Eastern Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If Ukrainian people are able to overthrow our tyrant, that means that Russian people can stand up to Putin. And that's what's happening right now,\" Torchylo told KQED last week. He is studying theoretical physics at Stanford and aims to graduate in 2024.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Andrii Torchylo, Ukrainian international student, Stanford University\"]'If Ukrainian people are able to overthrow our tyrant, that means that Russian people can stand up to Putin. And that's what's happening right now.'[/pullquote]\u003c/span>Thousands of miles away from their homeland, Buchatskiy and Torchylo said one way they can contribute to the fight is to keep control over the narrative of their identities. Both students said the fact that Ukraine's identity existed before Russia’s is often omitted from history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torchylo said there are very few Russian textbooks that recognize the existence of Ukrainian identity and include the colonization of Ukraine by Russia, but Ukrainians are learning to distinguish accurate historical facts from Russian propaganda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buchatskiy said she feels a responsibility to change that narrative. She has been affected by Russian propaganda firsthand and said it’s different from what Americans think propaganda is, because it’s not always as obviously recognizable as \"fake news\" and aims to instill pro-Russian sentiment. She said Russian propaganda undermines Ukrainian independence and influences Ukrainians to think that Russia was a better country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said when she was younger she felt an \"inferiority complex\" of being Ukrainian that wasn’t \"easy to describe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The annexation of Crimea challenged the validity of Ukrainian identity being separate from that of Russia, by weaponizing the use of the Russian language and saying it made Ukraine all the more part of the Russian empire. Buchatskiy stopped speaking Russian to preserve her Ukrainian identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When those choices that you make every day — even the choice of what language you speak — when that's challenged, and [you're] told that choice makes you this, or makes you that,\" Buchatskiy said, \"you come to realize that you have a personal responsibility in every choice you make to ensure that you are preserving your own identity and culture in it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, she’s doing everything she can to do right by Ukraine. She said her decision to study international security at Stanford is her way of contributing to her country, calling it an act of \"defiance.\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Catarina Buchatskiy, Ukrainian international student, Stanford University\"]'You come to realize that you have a personal responsibility in every choice you make to ensure that you are preserving your own identity and culture in it.'[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\"Every moment I spend being Ukrainian and protecting my Ukrainian-ness is a moment of defiance, and an act of resistance. Because there's people out there that don't think that we should exist,\" Buchatskiy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torchylo’s family in Ukraine is doing all they can to protect their homeland — and he's doing everything he can in Palo Alto. He’s been attending protests and calling for donations to the Ukrainian army, for Western powers to continue taking steps to debilitate Russia’s economy and for educating non-Ukrainians about the country's history. He, too, said the conflict was bigger than himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s more important than just my life, or my family’s,\" Torchylo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11907815\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Torch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Torch.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Torch-160x146.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'If Ukrainian people are able to overthrow our tyrant, that means that Russian people can stand up to Putin. And that's what's happening right now,' said Andrii Torchylo, a 19-year-old Ukrainian student studying at Stanford. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Andrii Torchylo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In December, Ukrainian officials estimated that 94,000 Russian troops circled the Ukrainian border. Torchylo recalled feeling that tension during his last visit to Ukraine on winter break, something he called his \"last Christmas.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both he and his sister are international students, but his sister decided to take a gap year and remained in Kyiv. His father volunteered for the army after his parents fled their farming town a day before the invasion.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Catarina Buchatskiy, Ukrainian international student, Stanford University\"]'Every moment I spend being Ukrainian and protecting my Ukrainian-ness is a moment of defiance, and an act of resistance.'[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\"People are not supposed to just stand by and watch how the country of the aggressor [is] bombing Ukrainian cities like Nazis did in 1944,\" Torchlyo said. \"It’s not supposed to happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he said he feels \"pathetic\" for not returning to Ukraine to join the physical fight, he said he knows the Russian government is targeting the most educated and patriotic Ukrainians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When Russia attacks, their main goal is to kill the most patriotic, the most pro-democratic people of Ukraine — because those will be the ones who first volunteer to the army,\" Torchylo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buchatskiy said she felt immense pride to see average Ukrainians taking arms to defend their homeland, and decided to help in any way she could. She's booked a one-way ticket to Poland and will reunite with friends at the Polish-Ukrainian border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she is dropping out for a semester to serve humanitarian aid and distribute supplies. Some professors at Stanford put together a \"military-aid\" backpack filled with supplies for her trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torchylo said he debated whether to fly to Ukraine and pick up a gun, but decided to remain at Stanford after speaking to a professor who told him that while it's much harder to live for your country than die for your country, it's more useful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see my mission right now is to get as much as I can out of my Stanford education to come back to Ukraine to help rebuild my country,\" Torchylo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to note that Buchatskiy does not intend to work with the Red Cross, and that Russian textbooks often have not recognized Ukrainian identity (as opposed to Ukrainian textbooks, as the story originally stated.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As Russia continues its attacks on Ukraine, these two Ukrainian international students at Stanford University share their experience — and their immediate plans for the future.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1647456542,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1364},"headData":{"title":"Owning Their Ukrainian Identity Is an 'Act of Resistance' for These Stanford Students | KQED","description":"As Russia continues its attacks on Ukraine, these two Ukrainian international students at Stanford University share their experience — and their immediate plans for the future.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Owning Their Ukrainian Identity Is an 'Act of Resistance' for These Stanford Students","datePublished":"2022-03-11T17:17:24.000Z","dateModified":"2022-03-16T18:49:02.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11907792 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11907792","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/03/11/owning-their-ukrainian-identity-is-an-act-of-resistance-for-these-stanford-students/","disqusTitle":"Owning Their Ukrainian Identity Is an 'Act of Resistance' for These Stanford Students","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com/anaophlin\">Anaïs-Ophelia Lino\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"Yes","path":"/news/11907792/owning-their-ukrainian-identity-is-an-act-of-resistance-for-these-stanford-students","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On the eve of Catarina Buchatskiy’s 13th birthday, on Nov. 30, 2013, Ukrainian police attacked protesters in her hometown of Kyiv.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Buchatskiy entered young adulthood, those protests changed everything for her and her country. It couldn’t have been a better introduction to her teenage years, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/02/19/279673384/four-things-to-know-about-whats-happening-in-ukraine\">Those protests, known as the Maidan uprising\u003c/a>, decried former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to back out of a trade agreement with the European Union and instead remain more closely tied to Russia. More than 70 people were killed and hundreds were wounded in clashes between protesters and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buchatskiy — now a 21-year-old international student at Stanford University studying international security — said it was the first day that Ukraine woke up and started taking its sovereignty more seriously. It was at that point, she said, that she realized she was part of something bigger than herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was the first awakening of my Ukrainian identity, because this happened on a day so monumental — not just to me personally,\" Buchatskiy said. \"It became a day monumental to the entire country.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11907164,news_11906497,news_11906335","label":"More From Ukrainians in the Bay Area "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yanukovych reached an agreement with opponents on Feb. 21, 2014, including imposing constitutional changes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/02/22/281083380/unkrainian-protesters-uneasy-president-reportedly-leaves-kiev\">but he fled to Russia that same day\u003c/a>. Less than a month later, Russian President Vladimir Putin \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/world/europe/ukraine.html\">took control of Crimea\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russia’s intense bombardment of the port city of Mariupol this week — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/09/world/europe/ukraine-mariupol-hospital-strike.html\">a strike on a hospital that included a maternity ward\u003c/a> — is part of an apparent attempt to link Crimea with Russia along Ukraine’s southeastern coast. Russia’s attacks have caused \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/08/tuesday-briefing-refugee-crisis\">the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another of 10 Ukrainian international students currently enrolled at Stanford, 19-year-old Andrii Torchylo, said that historically, every attempt Ukraine has made to build a democracy has been met with strong Russian opposition. He said Russia’s current attacks on Ukraine are an attack on democracy in Eastern Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If Ukrainian people are able to overthrow our tyrant, that means that Russian people can stand up to Putin. And that's what's happening right now,\" Torchylo told KQED last week. He is studying theoretical physics at Stanford and aims to graduate in 2024.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'If Ukrainian people are able to overthrow our tyrant, that means that Russian people can stand up to Putin. And that's what's happening right now.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Andrii Torchylo, Ukrainian international student, Stanford University","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>Thousands of miles away from their homeland, Buchatskiy and Torchylo said one way they can contribute to the fight is to keep control over the narrative of their identities. Both students said the fact that Ukraine's identity existed before Russia’s is often omitted from history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torchylo said there are very few Russian textbooks that recognize the existence of Ukrainian identity and include the colonization of Ukraine by Russia, but Ukrainians are learning to distinguish accurate historical facts from Russian propaganda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buchatskiy said she feels a responsibility to change that narrative. She has been affected by Russian propaganda firsthand and said it’s different from what Americans think propaganda is, because it’s not always as obviously recognizable as \"fake news\" and aims to instill pro-Russian sentiment. She said Russian propaganda undermines Ukrainian independence and influences Ukrainians to think that Russia was a better country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said when she was younger she felt an \"inferiority complex\" of being Ukrainian that wasn’t \"easy to describe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The annexation of Crimea challenged the validity of Ukrainian identity being separate from that of Russia, by weaponizing the use of the Russian language and saying it made Ukraine all the more part of the Russian empire. Buchatskiy stopped speaking Russian to preserve her Ukrainian identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When those choices that you make every day — even the choice of what language you speak — when that's challenged, and [you're] told that choice makes you this, or makes you that,\" Buchatskiy said, \"you come to realize that you have a personal responsibility in every choice you make to ensure that you are preserving your own identity and culture in it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, she’s doing everything she can to do right by Ukraine. She said her decision to study international security at Stanford is her way of contributing to her country, calling it an act of \"defiance.\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'You come to realize that you have a personal responsibility in every choice you make to ensure that you are preserving your own identity and culture in it.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Catarina Buchatskiy, Ukrainian international student, Stanford University","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\"Every moment I spend being Ukrainian and protecting my Ukrainian-ness is a moment of defiance, and an act of resistance. Because there's people out there that don't think that we should exist,\" Buchatskiy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torchylo’s family in Ukraine is doing all they can to protect their homeland — and he's doing everything he can in Palo Alto. He’s been attending protests and calling for donations to the Ukrainian army, for Western powers to continue taking steps to debilitate Russia’s economy and for educating non-Ukrainians about the country's history. He, too, said the conflict was bigger than himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s more important than just my life, or my family’s,\" Torchylo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11907815\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Torch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Torch.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Torch-160x146.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'If Ukrainian people are able to overthrow our tyrant, that means that Russian people can stand up to Putin. And that's what's happening right now,' said Andrii Torchylo, a 19-year-old Ukrainian student studying at Stanford. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Andrii Torchylo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In December, Ukrainian officials estimated that 94,000 Russian troops circled the Ukrainian border. Torchylo recalled feeling that tension during his last visit to Ukraine on winter break, something he called his \"last Christmas.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both he and his sister are international students, but his sister decided to take a gap year and remained in Kyiv. His father volunteered for the army after his parents fled their farming town a day before the invasion.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Every moment I spend being Ukrainian and protecting my Ukrainian-ness is a moment of defiance, and an act of resistance.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Catarina Buchatskiy, Ukrainian international student, Stanford University","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\"People are not supposed to just stand by and watch how the country of the aggressor [is] bombing Ukrainian cities like Nazis did in 1944,\" Torchlyo said. \"It’s not supposed to happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he said he feels \"pathetic\" for not returning to Ukraine to join the physical fight, he said he knows the Russian government is targeting the most educated and patriotic Ukrainians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When Russia attacks, their main goal is to kill the most patriotic, the most pro-democratic people of Ukraine — because those will be the ones who first volunteer to the army,\" Torchylo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buchatskiy said she felt immense pride to see average Ukrainians taking arms to defend their homeland, and decided to help in any way she could. She's booked a one-way ticket to Poland and will reunite with friends at the Polish-Ukrainian border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she is dropping out for a semester to serve humanitarian aid and distribute supplies. Some professors at Stanford put together a \"military-aid\" backpack filled with supplies for her trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torchylo said he debated whether to fly to Ukraine and pick up a gun, but decided to remain at Stanford after speaking to a professor who told him that while it's much harder to live for your country than die for your country, it's more useful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see my mission right now is to get as much as I can out of my Stanford education to come back to Ukraine to help rebuild my country,\" Torchylo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to note that Buchatskiy does not intend to work with the Red Cross, and that Russian textbooks often have not recognized Ukrainian identity (as opposed to Ukrainian textbooks, as the story originally stated.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11907792/owning-their-ukrainian-identity-is-an-act-of-resistance-for-these-stanford-students","authors":["byline_news_11907792"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_1928","news_26723"],"featImg":"news_11907813","label":"news"},"news_11900423":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11900423","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11900423","score":null,"sort":[1640806254000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"unapologetic-in-the-prioritization-of-black-women-bell-hooks-remembered-by-loved-ones","title":"'Unapologetic in the Prioritization of Black Women': bell hooks Remembered by Loved Ones","publishDate":1640806254,"format":"standard","headTitle":"NPR | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":253,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>M. Shadee Malaklou had just been hired as the new chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.berea.edu/wgs/\">Women's and Gender Studies department at Berea College\u003c/a> in Kentucky when she was invited to have lunch with bell hooks. When she arrived, Malaklou remembers, hooks said with a nod and a wink, \"'I was against your hire.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than being taken aback, Malaklou leaned into hooks's irreverence and witty honesty — a trait of her writing, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was her way,\" says Malaklou. hooks had assumed that Malaklou, a woman of Iranian descent from Southern California, wouldn't like Berea's lack of an Iranian American community and would leave. But three years later, hooks was writing a glowing commendation for Malaklou's tenure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11899786\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Bellhooks.jpeg\"]Malaklou, now the inaugural director of Berea College's recently opened \u003ca href=\"https://www.berea.edu/bhc/\">bell hooks center\u003c/a>, speaks about her friendship with hooks with gratitude, recognizing she had access to the private and mundane side of her, while others celebrated her public figure and academia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last three years of bell hooks's life, she and Malaklou became close friends and confidants. Sometimes, she would call Malaklou to share McDonald's cheeseburgers, even in the middle of class. It's also well-known that hooks had an endless craving for Juicy Fruit gum: \"She would ask me to order it for her in hordes from Amazon,\" says Malaklou.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the world probably knows hooks best through her most popular books, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.routledge.com/Feminism-Is-for-Everybody-Passionate-Politics/hooks/p/book/9781138821620\">Feminism Is for Everybody\u003c/a>,\" \"\u003ca href=\"https://sites.utexas.edu/lsjcs/files/2018/02/Teaching-to-Transcend.pdf\">Teaching to Transgress\u003c/a>\" and \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.mahoganybooks.com/9780060959470\">All About Love: New Visions\u003c/a>,\" which reemerged in the pandemic as a New York Times bestseller despite being published in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899786/she-was-prophetic-bay-area-remembers-groundbreaking-author-and-cultural-critic-bell-hooks\">hooks's passing on Dec. 15\u003c/a>, social media has flooded with eulogies and poignant reflections on almost three decades of her work in feminism, teaching and theory. Many noted the accessibility of her language, as well as her willingness to write from life experience as a way to speak on spirituality and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before she was bell hooks, though, she was Gloria Watkins, a rising scholar teaching at Yale University in the 1980s. At that time, Rachel Chapman, now a tenured professor of anthropology at the University of Washington, had the professor as her undergraduate thesis advisor. Chapman remembers that her classes were highly sought after, and that she led a support group of Black women, called \"Sisters of the Yam,\" who idolized her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While working with hooks, Chapman recognized that much of her mentor's work was concerned with the loss of Black life. \"She was writing about what it means to be young and Black and angry and seeing clearly the thin line between being mad and madness, between radical action and personal self-destruction,\" says Chapman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right']Before she was bell hooks, though, she was Gloria Watkins, a rising scholar teaching at Yale University in the 1980s.[/pullquote]What Chapman witnessed at the time was someone working through the pain and the hurt that would later lead to \"All About Love.\" Chapman would see hooks again in Los Angeles, while she was working toward her doctoral degree at UCLA in 1992. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/524744989/when-la-erupted-in-anger-a-look-back-at-the-rodney-king-riots\">Los Angeles riots were raging after the police beating of Rodney King\u003c/a>, and hooks was addressing a beleaguered crowd of the college's student activists. She offered them advice that would stay with Chapman over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'I don't do social justice work with anyone who's not in a movement with me for a lifetime. And that really reduces the number of people who I'm willing to interact with on that level,'\" Chapman remembers hooks saying. \"That gave me permission to not have to engage every person running their racism at me. I now do whatever gives me strength and move on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>hooks's work with students and approach to education has also become part of her legacy, says Jody Greene, founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://citl.ucsc.edu/\">Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning\u003c/a> at UC Santa Cruz, where hooks received her doctoral degree. She says the writer's books about the practice of teaching have been deeply influential to teachers like herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"hooks strongly believed in education as the cultivation of a human being and not just an instrument for creating good employees,\" says Greene, who was a student at Yale during hooks's time there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Professor Rachel Chapman, University of Washington\"]'She was writing about what it means to be young and Black and angry.'[/pullquote]In her last decade of life, hooks wasn't growing complacent in her ideas, friends say: She was actively learning and growing, giving talks and having conversations with other academics and public figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelby Chestnut, director of policy and programs at the Transgender Law Center, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oMmZIJijgY&t=1081s\">introduced hooks and Laverne Cox at their conversation at the New School\u003c/a> in 2014. Chestnut remembers meeting hooks for the first time, particularly her generosity and tenderness toward strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was like, 'Hold my hand.' And so I held her hand and then Laverne held her other hand, and we just walked around the [West Village],\" says Chestnut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chestnut saw hooks working to understand and include the trans community in her understandings about feminism, even at a time it wasn't popular. Her foundational works on feminism, including \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.routledge.com/Aint-I-a-Woman-Black-Women-and-Feminism/hooks/p/book/9781138821514\">Ain't I a Woman\u003c/a>,\" critiqued white feminism and began farsighted conversations around intersectionality even before \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/29/982357959/what-does-intersectionality-mean\">the term was created by Kimberlé Crenshaw\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even her kindness to all, to feminism more broadly, she was really unapologetic in the prioritization of Black women,\" says Chestnut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple people shared how hooks profoundly cared for young people and children, too. Linda Strong-Leek, former professor at Berea College and now provost at Haverford College, remembered hooks's concern that \"'we had never seen a book with a Black boy just sitting and reading.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of her hooks's books, such as \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.lbyr.com/titles/bell-hooks/be-boy-buzz/9781484788400/\">Be Boy Buzz\u003c/a>,\" were aimed at increasing literacy for children of color and providing meaningful representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='education']hooks gave over 30 years of her life to groundbreaking scholarship, but she also identified as an Appalachian scholar and chose to return to her home state of Kentucky in the last years of her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her book \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.routledge.com/Belonging-A-Culture-of-Place/hooks/p/book/9780415968164\">Belonging: A Culture of Place\u003c/a>,\" hooks wasn't an abstract theorist, but someone grounded in the geography of her rural upbringing in contrast to city life. Her friends say her love for community was both political and personal. Strong-Leek recalls that, first and foremost, hooks was dedicated to the people around her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would go out in Berea. Most people didn't know who she was if they weren't connected to the college or readers [of] feminist theory,\" she says. \"I want people to remember that she loved regular people.\"\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"\"She was writing about what it means to be young and Black and angry and seeing clearly the thin line … between radical action and personal self-destruction,\" says former student and now University of Washington professor Rachel Chapman.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1640820700,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1148},"headData":{"title":"'Unapologetic in the Prioritization of Black Women': bell hooks Remembered by Loved Ones | KQED","description":""She was writing about what it means to be young and Black and angry and seeing clearly the thin line … between radical action and personal self-destruction," says former student and now University of Washington professor Rachel Chapman.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'Unapologetic in the Prioritization of Black Women': bell hooks Remembered by Loved Ones","datePublished":"2021-12-29T19:30:54.000Z","dateModified":"2021-12-29T23:31:40.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11900423 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11900423","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/12/29/unapologetic-in-the-prioritization-of-black-women-bell-hooks-remembered-by-loved-ones/","disqusTitle":"'Unapologetic in the Prioritization of Black Women': bell hooks Remembered by Loved Ones","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jireh_deng\">Jireh Deng\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11900423/unapologetic-in-the-prioritization-of-black-women-bell-hooks-remembered-by-loved-ones","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>M. Shadee Malaklou had just been hired as the new chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.berea.edu/wgs/\">Women's and Gender Studies department at Berea College\u003c/a> in Kentucky when she was invited to have lunch with bell hooks. When she arrived, Malaklou remembers, hooks said with a nod and a wink, \"'I was against your hire.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than being taken aback, Malaklou leaned into hooks's irreverence and witty honesty — a trait of her writing, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was her way,\" says Malaklou. hooks had assumed that Malaklou, a woman of Iranian descent from Southern California, wouldn't like Berea's lack of an Iranian American community and would leave. But three years later, hooks was writing a glowing commendation for Malaklou's tenure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11899786","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Bellhooks.jpeg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Malaklou, now the inaugural director of Berea College's recently opened \u003ca href=\"https://www.berea.edu/bhc/\">bell hooks center\u003c/a>, speaks about her friendship with hooks with gratitude, recognizing she had access to the private and mundane side of her, while others celebrated her public figure and academia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last three years of bell hooks's life, she and Malaklou became close friends and confidants. Sometimes, she would call Malaklou to share McDonald's cheeseburgers, even in the middle of class. It's also well-known that hooks had an endless craving for Juicy Fruit gum: \"She would ask me to order it for her in hordes from Amazon,\" says Malaklou.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the world probably knows hooks best through her most popular books, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.routledge.com/Feminism-Is-for-Everybody-Passionate-Politics/hooks/p/book/9781138821620\">Feminism Is for Everybody\u003c/a>,\" \"\u003ca href=\"https://sites.utexas.edu/lsjcs/files/2018/02/Teaching-to-Transcend.pdf\">Teaching to Transgress\u003c/a>\" and \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.mahoganybooks.com/9780060959470\">All About Love: New Visions\u003c/a>,\" which reemerged in the pandemic as a New York Times bestseller despite being published in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899786/she-was-prophetic-bay-area-remembers-groundbreaking-author-and-cultural-critic-bell-hooks\">hooks's passing on Dec. 15\u003c/a>, social media has flooded with eulogies and poignant reflections on almost three decades of her work in feminism, teaching and theory. Many noted the accessibility of her language, as well as her willingness to write from life experience as a way to speak on spirituality and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before she was bell hooks, though, she was Gloria Watkins, a rising scholar teaching at Yale University in the 1980s. At that time, Rachel Chapman, now a tenured professor of anthropology at the University of Washington, had the professor as her undergraduate thesis advisor. Chapman remembers that her classes were highly sought after, and that she led a support group of Black women, called \"Sisters of the Yam,\" who idolized her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While working with hooks, Chapman recognized that much of her mentor's work was concerned with the loss of Black life. \"She was writing about what it means to be young and Black and angry and seeing clearly the thin line between being mad and madness, between radical action and personal self-destruction,\" says Chapman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"Before she was bell hooks, though, she was Gloria Watkins, a rising scholar teaching at Yale University in the 1980s.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"large","align":"right","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>What Chapman witnessed at the time was someone working through the pain and the hurt that would later lead to \"All About Love.\" Chapman would see hooks again in Los Angeles, while she was working toward her doctoral degree at UCLA in 1992. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/524744989/when-la-erupted-in-anger-a-look-back-at-the-rodney-king-riots\">Los Angeles riots were raging after the police beating of Rodney King\u003c/a>, and hooks was addressing a beleaguered crowd of the college's student activists. She offered them advice that would stay with Chapman over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'I don't do social justice work with anyone who's not in a movement with me for a lifetime. And that really reduces the number of people who I'm willing to interact with on that level,'\" Chapman remembers hooks saying. \"That gave me permission to not have to engage every person running their racism at me. I now do whatever gives me strength and move on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>hooks's work with students and approach to education has also become part of her legacy, says Jody Greene, founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://citl.ucsc.edu/\">Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning\u003c/a> at UC Santa Cruz, where hooks received her doctoral degree. She says the writer's books about the practice of teaching have been deeply influential to teachers like herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"hooks strongly believed in education as the cultivation of a human being and not just an instrument for creating good employees,\" says Greene, who was a student at Yale during hooks's time there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'She was writing about what it means to be young and Black and angry.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Professor Rachel Chapman, University of Washington","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In her last decade of life, hooks wasn't growing complacent in her ideas, friends say: She was actively learning and growing, giving talks and having conversations with other academics and public figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelby Chestnut, director of policy and programs at the Transgender Law Center, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oMmZIJijgY&t=1081s\">introduced hooks and Laverne Cox at their conversation at the New School\u003c/a> in 2014. Chestnut remembers meeting hooks for the first time, particularly her generosity and tenderness toward strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was like, 'Hold my hand.' And so I held her hand and then Laverne held her other hand, and we just walked around the [West Village],\" says Chestnut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chestnut saw hooks working to understand and include the trans community in her understandings about feminism, even at a time it wasn't popular. Her foundational works on feminism, including \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.routledge.com/Aint-I-a-Woman-Black-Women-and-Feminism/hooks/p/book/9781138821514\">Ain't I a Woman\u003c/a>,\" critiqued white feminism and began farsighted conversations around intersectionality even before \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/29/982357959/what-does-intersectionality-mean\">the term was created by Kimberlé Crenshaw\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even her kindness to all, to feminism more broadly, she was really unapologetic in the prioritization of Black women,\" says Chestnut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple people shared how hooks profoundly cared for young people and children, too. Linda Strong-Leek, former professor at Berea College and now provost at Haverford College, remembered hooks's concern that \"'we had never seen a book with a Black boy just sitting and reading.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of her hooks's books, such as \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.lbyr.com/titles/bell-hooks/be-boy-buzz/9781484788400/\">Be Boy Buzz\u003c/a>,\" were aimed at increasing literacy for children of color and providing meaningful representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"education"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>hooks gave over 30 years of her life to groundbreaking scholarship, but she also identified as an Appalachian scholar and chose to return to her home state of Kentucky in the last years of her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her book \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.routledge.com/Belonging-A-Culture-of-Place/hooks/p/book/9780415968164\">Belonging: A Culture of Place\u003c/a>,\" hooks wasn't an abstract theorist, but someone grounded in the geography of her rural upbringing in contrast to city life. Her friends say her love for community was both political and personal. Strong-Leek recalls that, first and foremost, hooks was dedicated to the people around her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would go out in Berea. Most people didn't know who she was if they weren't connected to the college or readers [of] feminist theory,\" she says. \"I want people to remember that she loved regular people.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11900423/unapologetic-in-the-prioritization-of-black-women-bell-hooks-remembered-by-loved-ones","authors":["byline_news_11900423"],"categories":["news_29992","news_223","news_8"],"tags":["news_30407","news_20013","news_27626","news_30448","news_22557","news_1222","news_16988","news_178","news_1928","news_2792"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11900443","label":"news_253"},"news_11898991":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11898991","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11898991","score":null,"sort":[1639518637000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"it-saved-my-life-depression-treatment-turns-lives-around-in-five-days","title":"'It Saved My Life': Depression Treatment Is Turning Lives Around in Five Days","publishDate":1639518637,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>After 40 years of fighting debilitating depression, Emma was on the brink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was suicidal,” said Emma, a 59-year-old Bay Area resident. KQED is not using her full name because of the stigma that can surround mental illness. “I was going to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Emma sat through hours of talk therapy and tried countless anti-depression medications \"to have a semblance of normalcy.\" And yet she was consumed by relentless fatigue, insomnia and chronic nausea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depression is the \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2618635\">world's leading cause of disability\u003c/a>, partly because treatment options often result in numerous side effects or patients do not respond at all. And there are many people who never seek treatment because mental illness can carry \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1489832/\">heavy stigma and discrimination\u003c/a>. Studies show \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/answers/mental-health-and-substance-abuse/does-depression-increase-risk-of-suicide/index.html\">untreated depression can lead to suicidal ideation\u003c/a>.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Shan Siddiqi, a Harvard psychiatrist\"]'This study not only showed some of the best remission rates we've ever seen in depression, but also managed to do that in people who had already failed multiple other treatments.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years ago, Emma’s psychiatrist urged her to enroll in a \u003ca href=\"https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.19070720\">study\u003c/a> at Stanford University School of Medicine designed for people who had run out of options. When she arrived, scientists took an MRI scan to determine the best possible location to deliver electrical pulses to her brain. Then for 10 hours a day for five consecutive days, Emma sat in a chair while a magnetic field stimulated her brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the first day, an unfamiliar calm settled over Emma. Even when her partner picked her up to drive home, she stayed relaxed. “I’m usually hysterical,” she said. “All the time I'm grabbing things. I'm yelling, you know, ‘Did you see those lights?’ And while I rode home that first night I just looked out the window and I enjoyed the ride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remedy was a new type of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) called \"Stanford neuromodulation therapy.\" By adding imaging technology to the treatment and upping the dose of rTMS, scientists have developed an approach that’s more effective and works more than eight times faster than the current approved treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898997\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/STIM-Dierdre_088-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11898997\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/STIM-Dierdre_088-1-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a business suit holds a thin metal object over a woman's head who is seated in an office.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/STIM-Dierdre_088-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/STIM-Dierdre_088-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/STIM-Dierdre_088-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/STIM-Dierdre_088-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/STIM-Dierdre_088-1-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/STIM-Dierdre_088-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nolan Williams demonstrates the magnetic brain stimulation therapy he and his colleagues developed, on Deirdre Lehman, a participant in a previous study of the treatment. \u003ccite>(Steve Fisch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A coil on top of Emma’s head created a magnetic field that sent electric pulses through her skull to tickle the surface of her brain. She says it felt like a woodpecker tapped on her skull every 15 seconds. The electrical current is directed at the prefrontal cortex, which is the part of the brain that plans, dreams and controls our emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an area thought to be underactive in depression,” said Nolan Williams, a psychiatrist and rTMS researcher at Stanford. “We send a signal for the system to not only turn on, but to stay on and remember to stay on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams says pumping up the prefrontal cortex helps turn down other areas of the brain that stimulate fear and anxiety. That’s the basic premise of rTMS: Electrical impulses are used to balance out erratic brain activity. As a result, people feel less depressed and more in control. All of this holds true in the new treatment — it just works faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent randomized control trial, published in The American Journal of Psychiatry, shows \u003ca href=\"https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2021.20101429\">astounding results are possible in five days or less\u003c/a>. Almost 80% of patients crossed into remission — meaning they were symptom-free within days. This is compared to about 13% of people who received the placebo treatment. Patients did not report any serious side effects. The most common complaint was a light headache.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford’s new delivery system may even outperform electroconvulsive therapy, which is the most popular form of brain stimulation for depression, but it requires both general anesthesia and a full medical team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This study not only showed some of the best remission rates we've ever seen in depression,” said Shan Siddiqi, a Harvard psychiatrist not connected to the study, “but also managed to do that in people who had already failed multiple other treatments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siddiqi also said the study’s small sample size, which is only 29 patients, is not cause for concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Often, a clinical trial will be terminated early [according to pre-specified criteria] because the treatment is so effective that it would be unethical to continue giving people placebo,” said Siddiqi. “That's what happened here. They'd originally planned to recruit a much larger sample, but the interim analysis was definitive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark George, a psychiatrist and neurologist at the Medical University of South Carolina, agrees. He points to other similarly sized trials for depression treatments like \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-new-nasal-spray-medication-treatment-resistant-depression-available-only-certified\">ketamine, a version of which is now FDA-approved\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the new rTMS approach could be a game changer because it’s both more precise and faster. George pioneered an rTMS treatment that was approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for depression in 2008. Studies show that: It produces \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32799106/\">a near total loss of symptoms in about a third of patients\u003c/a>; another third feel somewhat better; and another third do not respond at all. But the main problem with the original treatment is that it takes six weeks, which is a long time for a patient in the midst of a crisis.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tommy Van Brocklin, civil engineer\"]'I wake up now and I want to come to work, whereas before I'd rather stick a sharp stick in my eye.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This study shows that you can speed it all up and that you can add treatments in a given day and it works,” said George.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shorter treatment will increase access for a lot of people who cannot get six weeks off work or cover child care for that long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more exciting applications, however, are due to the rapidity,” said George. \"These people [the patients] got unsuicidal and undepressed within a week. Those patients are just clogging up our emergency rooms, our psych hospitals. And we really don't have good treatments for acute suicidality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 45 years of depression and numerous failed attempts to medicate his illness, Tommy Van Brocklin, a civil engineer, says he didn’t see a way out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The past couple of years I just started crying a lot,” he said. “I was just a real emotional wreck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So last September, Van Brocklin flew across the country from his home in Tennessee to Stanford, where he underwent the new rTMS treatment for a single five-day treatment. Almost immediately he started feeling more optimistic and sleeping longer and deeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wake up now and I want to come to work, whereas before I’d rather stick a sharp stick in my eye,” said Van Brocklin. “I have not had any depressed days since my treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is hopeful the changes stick. More larger studies are needed to verify how long the new rTMS treatment will last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least for Emma, the woman who received Stanford’s treatment three years ago in a similar study, the results are holding. She says she still has ups and downs but \"it's an entirely different me dealing with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the regimen rewired her from the inside out. “It saved my life, and I'll be forever grateful,” said Emma, her voice cracking with emotion. “It saved my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford’s neuromodulation therapy could be widely available by the end of next year — that’s when scientists are hoping FDA clearance comes through. Williams, the lead researcher at Stanford, says he’s optimistic insurance companies will eventually cover the new delivery model because it works faster, so it’s likely more cost-effective than a conventional rTMS regimen. Major insurance companies and Medicare currently cover rTMS, though \u003ca href=\"https://www.tmsbrainhealth.com/tms-therapy/how-much-does-tms-therapy-cost/\">some plans\u003c/a> require patients to demonstrate that they’ve exhausted other treatment options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next step is studying how rTMS may improve other mental health disorders like addiction and traumatic brain injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This study is hopefully just the tip of the iceberg,” said Siddiqi. “I think we're finally on the verge of a paradigm shift in how we think about psychiatric treatment, where we'll supplement the conventional chemical imbalance and psychological conflict models with a new brain circuit model.” In other words, psychiatrists will use electricity instead of talk therapy and drugs to treat mental health disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A new type of brain stimulation is being used to treat people with depression, with promising results: In five days or fewer, almost 80% of patients were symptom-free.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1644356261,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1479},"headData":{"title":"'It Saved My Life': Depression Treatment Is Turning Lives Around in Five Days | KQED","description":"A new type of brain stimulation is being used to treat people with depression, with promising results: In five days or fewer, almost 80% of patients were symptom-free.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'It Saved My Life': Depression Treatment Is Turning Lives Around in Five Days","datePublished":"2021-12-14T21:50:37.000Z","dateModified":"2022-02-08T21:37:41.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11898991 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11898991","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/12/14/it-saved-my-life-depression-treatment-turns-lives-around-in-five-days/","disqusTitle":"'It Saved My Life': Depression Treatment Is Turning Lives Around in Five Days","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/1d05e8fe-57e8-461a-9d57-adfa0160c6e7/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11898991/it-saved-my-life-depression-treatment-turns-lives-around-in-five-days","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After 40 years of fighting debilitating depression, Emma was on the brink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was suicidal,” said Emma, a 59-year-old Bay Area resident. KQED is not using her full name because of the stigma that can surround mental illness. “I was going to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Emma sat through hours of talk therapy and tried countless anti-depression medications \"to have a semblance of normalcy.\" And yet she was consumed by relentless fatigue, insomnia and chronic nausea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depression is the \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2618635\">world's leading cause of disability\u003c/a>, partly because treatment options often result in numerous side effects or patients do not respond at all. And there are many people who never seek treatment because mental illness can carry \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1489832/\">heavy stigma and discrimination\u003c/a>. Studies show \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/answers/mental-health-and-substance-abuse/does-depression-increase-risk-of-suicide/index.html\">untreated depression can lead to suicidal ideation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'This study not only showed some of the best remission rates we've ever seen in depression, but also managed to do that in people who had already failed multiple other treatments.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Shan Siddiqi, a Harvard psychiatrist","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years ago, Emma’s psychiatrist urged her to enroll in a \u003ca href=\"https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.19070720\">study\u003c/a> at Stanford University School of Medicine designed for people who had run out of options. When she arrived, scientists took an MRI scan to determine the best possible location to deliver electrical pulses to her brain. Then for 10 hours a day for five consecutive days, Emma sat in a chair while a magnetic field stimulated her brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the first day, an unfamiliar calm settled over Emma. Even when her partner picked her up to drive home, she stayed relaxed. “I’m usually hysterical,” she said. “All the time I'm grabbing things. I'm yelling, you know, ‘Did you see those lights?’ And while I rode home that first night I just looked out the window and I enjoyed the ride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remedy was a new type of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) called \"Stanford neuromodulation therapy.\" By adding imaging technology to the treatment and upping the dose of rTMS, scientists have developed an approach that’s more effective and works more than eight times faster than the current approved treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898997\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/STIM-Dierdre_088-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11898997\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/STIM-Dierdre_088-1-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a business suit holds a thin metal object over a woman's head who is seated in an office.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/STIM-Dierdre_088-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/STIM-Dierdre_088-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/STIM-Dierdre_088-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/STIM-Dierdre_088-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/STIM-Dierdre_088-1-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/STIM-Dierdre_088-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nolan Williams demonstrates the magnetic brain stimulation therapy he and his colleagues developed, on Deirdre Lehman, a participant in a previous study of the treatment. \u003ccite>(Steve Fisch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A coil on top of Emma’s head created a magnetic field that sent electric pulses through her skull to tickle the surface of her brain. She says it felt like a woodpecker tapped on her skull every 15 seconds. The electrical current is directed at the prefrontal cortex, which is the part of the brain that plans, dreams and controls our emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an area thought to be underactive in depression,” said Nolan Williams, a psychiatrist and rTMS researcher at Stanford. “We send a signal for the system to not only turn on, but to stay on and remember to stay on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams says pumping up the prefrontal cortex helps turn down other areas of the brain that stimulate fear and anxiety. That’s the basic premise of rTMS: Electrical impulses are used to balance out erratic brain activity. As a result, people feel less depressed and more in control. All of this holds true in the new treatment — it just works faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent randomized control trial, published in The American Journal of Psychiatry, shows \u003ca href=\"https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2021.20101429\">astounding results are possible in five days or less\u003c/a>. Almost 80% of patients crossed into remission — meaning they were symptom-free within days. This is compared to about 13% of people who received the placebo treatment. Patients did not report any serious side effects. The most common complaint was a light headache.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford’s new delivery system may even outperform electroconvulsive therapy, which is the most popular form of brain stimulation for depression, but it requires both general anesthesia and a full medical team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This study not only showed some of the best remission rates we've ever seen in depression,” said Shan Siddiqi, a Harvard psychiatrist not connected to the study, “but also managed to do that in people who had already failed multiple other treatments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siddiqi also said the study’s small sample size, which is only 29 patients, is not cause for concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Often, a clinical trial will be terminated early [according to pre-specified criteria] because the treatment is so effective that it would be unethical to continue giving people placebo,” said Siddiqi. “That's what happened here. They'd originally planned to recruit a much larger sample, but the interim analysis was definitive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark George, a psychiatrist and neurologist at the Medical University of South Carolina, agrees. He points to other similarly sized trials for depression treatments like \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-new-nasal-spray-medication-treatment-resistant-depression-available-only-certified\">ketamine, a version of which is now FDA-approved\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the new rTMS approach could be a game changer because it’s both more precise and faster. George pioneered an rTMS treatment that was approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for depression in 2008. Studies show that: It produces \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32799106/\">a near total loss of symptoms in about a third of patients\u003c/a>; another third feel somewhat better; and another third do not respond at all. But the main problem with the original treatment is that it takes six weeks, which is a long time for a patient in the midst of a crisis.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I wake up now and I want to come to work, whereas before I'd rather stick a sharp stick in my eye.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Tommy Van Brocklin, civil engineer","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This study shows that you can speed it all up and that you can add treatments in a given day and it works,” said George.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shorter treatment will increase access for a lot of people who cannot get six weeks off work or cover child care for that long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more exciting applications, however, are due to the rapidity,” said George. \"These people [the patients] got unsuicidal and undepressed within a week. Those patients are just clogging up our emergency rooms, our psych hospitals. And we really don't have good treatments for acute suicidality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 45 years of depression and numerous failed attempts to medicate his illness, Tommy Van Brocklin, a civil engineer, says he didn’t see a way out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The past couple of years I just started crying a lot,” he said. “I was just a real emotional wreck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So last September, Van Brocklin flew across the country from his home in Tennessee to Stanford, where he underwent the new rTMS treatment for a single five-day treatment. Almost immediately he started feeling more optimistic and sleeping longer and deeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wake up now and I want to come to work, whereas before I’d rather stick a sharp stick in my eye,” said Van Brocklin. “I have not had any depressed days since my treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is hopeful the changes stick. More larger studies are needed to verify how long the new rTMS treatment will last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least for Emma, the woman who received Stanford’s treatment three years ago in a similar study, the results are holding. She says she still has ups and downs but \"it's an entirely different me dealing with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the regimen rewired her from the inside out. “It saved my life, and I'll be forever grateful,” said Emma, her voice cracking with emotion. “It saved my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford’s neuromodulation therapy could be widely available by the end of next year — that’s when scientists are hoping FDA clearance comes through. Williams, the lead researcher at Stanford, says he’s optimistic insurance companies will eventually cover the new delivery model because it works faster, so it’s likely more cost-effective than a conventional rTMS regimen. Major insurance companies and Medicare currently cover rTMS, though \u003ca href=\"https://www.tmsbrainhealth.com/tms-therapy/how-much-does-tms-therapy-cost/\">some plans\u003c/a> require patients to demonstrate that they’ve exhausted other treatment options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next step is studying how rTMS may improve other mental health disorders like addiction and traumatic brain injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This study is hopefully just the tip of the iceberg,” said Siddiqi. “I think we're finally on the verge of a paradigm shift in how we think about psychiatric treatment, where we'll supplement the conventional chemical imbalance and psychological conflict models with a new brain circuit model.” In other words, psychiatrists will use electricity instead of talk therapy and drugs to treat mental health disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11898991/it-saved-my-life-depression-treatment-turns-lives-around-in-five-days","authors":["11229"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_20634","news_27626","news_17983","news_30381","news_30382","news_1928","news_2883"],"featImg":"news_11898996","label":"news"},"news_11854484":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11854484","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11854484","score":null,"sort":[1610157121000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"la-da-george-gascon-covid-19-vaccine-distribution-week-in-politics","title":"LA DA George Gascón, COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution, Week in Politics","publishDate":1610157121,"format":"video","headTitle":"KQED Newsroom | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7052,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cb>Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Did skin color make a difference in the police response to the insurrection in Washington, D.C.? G\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">eorge Gascón, the newly elected district attorney of Los Angeles County, says absolutely yes. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He shares with us his strategy for a more equitable criminal justice system.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>California COVID-19 Vaccine Update\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hundreds of thousands of the new COVID-19 vaccine have been stuck in warehouses or in transit, and Gov. Gavin Newsom has acknowledged that the state needs to do better. We get the latest on vaccine distribution from Stanford University infectious disease expert Dr. Yvonne Maldonado. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Week in Politics: US Capitol Riots and Recall Efforts\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From the armed insurgency at the U.S. Capitol to efforts to recall Gov. 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G\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">eorge Gascón, the newly elected district attorney of Los Angeles County, says absolutely yes. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He shares with us his strategy for a more equitable criminal justice system.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>California COVID-19 Vaccine Update\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hundreds of thousands of the new COVID-19 vaccine have been stuck in warehouses or in transit, and Gov. Gavin Newsom has acknowledged that the state needs to do better. We get the latest on vaccine distribution from Stanford University infectious disease expert Dr. Yvonne Maldonado. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Week in Politics: US Capitol Riots and Recall Efforts\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From the armed insurgency at the U.S. Capitol to efforts to recall Gov. 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We support using masks, social distancing, and conducting surveillance and diagnostic testing,\" Stanford said \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2020/11/16/statement-regarding-scott-atlas/\">in a statement Monday\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We also believe in the importance of strictly following the guidance of local and state health authorities,\" the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atlas is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative-leaning think tank based at the university. He's currently on leave and is serving as an adviser to President Trump. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atlas was a professor and chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center from 1998 to 2012, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.stanford.edu/scott-atlas\">university biography\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He does not specialize in the treatment of infectious disease. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atlas has come under fire for a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ScottWAtlas/status/1328120887128842240\">tweet Sunday\u003c/a> referencing Michigan's new restrictions, where he said: \"The only way this stops is if people rise up. You get what you accept.\" He also added the hashtags \"FreedomMatters\" and \"StepUp.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atlas \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ScottWAtlas/status/1328171502211043328\">later tweeted\u003c/a>: \"NEVER would I endorse or incite violence. NEVER!!\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ScottWAtlas/status/1328171502211043328?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a first-term Democrat, said Atlas' response towards the state's upcoming \"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GovWhitmer/status/1328129545665470464\">three week pause\u003c/a>\" that seeks to limit some indoor activities in the state \"took my breath away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those restrictions, set to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/11/16/935348332/not-going-to-be-bullied-michigan-issues-new-covid-19-restrictions\">take effect on Wednesday\u003c/a>, include a temporary halt of in-person classes at colleges and high schools in the state. They also will close indoor service at bars and restaurants. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The episode seems to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/18/925103289/michigan-gov-whitmer-says-trump-incites-domestic-terrorism\">renewed tensions\u003c/a> between the Trump administration and Whitmer, who the FBI said was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/08/921655143/militia-members-plotted-to-abduct-michigan-gov-whitmer-fbi-says\">the target of a kidnapping plot\u003c/a> by men linked to a far-right militia group earlier this year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first time comments from Atlas have run counter to those at Stanford. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of about 100 infectious disease physicians, immunologists and health policy experts \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/130OXUjdnwHmfmbiEZWK9d354QHaRi0-r/view\">signed a letter in September\u003c/a> calling \"attention to the falsehoods and misrepresentations of science recently fostered by Dr. Scott Atlas.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter said many of his comments and statements \"run counter to established science and, by doing so, undermine public health policy.\" In response, Atlas \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2020/10/30/academic-freedom-questions-arise-campus-covid-19-strategy-conflicts/\">reportedly threated\u003c/a> to sue his colleagues. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Stanford+University+Appears+To+Distance+Itself+From+Scott+Atlas+After+%27Rise+Up%27+Tweet&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Atlas, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, tweeted that Michigan residents should 'rise up' against new COVID-19 restrictions. 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We support using masks, social distancing, and conducting surveillance and diagnostic testing,\" Stanford said \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2020/11/16/statement-regarding-scott-atlas/\">in a statement Monday\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We also believe in the importance of strictly following the guidance of local and state health authorities,\" the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atlas is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative-leaning think tank based at the university. He's currently on leave and is serving as an adviser to President Trump. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atlas was a professor and chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center from 1998 to 2012, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.stanford.edu/scott-atlas\">university biography\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He does not specialize in the treatment of infectious disease. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atlas has come under fire for a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ScottWAtlas/status/1328120887128842240\">tweet Sunday\u003c/a> referencing Michigan's new restrictions, where he said: \"The only way this stops is if people rise up. You get what you accept.\" He also added the hashtags \"FreedomMatters\" and \"StepUp.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atlas \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ScottWAtlas/status/1328171502211043328\">later tweeted\u003c/a>: \"NEVER would I endorse or incite violence. NEVER!!\" \u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1328171502211043328"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a first-term Democrat, said Atlas' response towards the state's upcoming \"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GovWhitmer/status/1328129545665470464\">three week pause\u003c/a>\" that seeks to limit some indoor activities in the state \"took my breath away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those restrictions, set to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/11/16/935348332/not-going-to-be-bullied-michigan-issues-new-covid-19-restrictions\">take effect on Wednesday\u003c/a>, include a temporary halt of in-person classes at colleges and high schools in the state. They also will close indoor service at bars and restaurants. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The episode seems to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/18/925103289/michigan-gov-whitmer-says-trump-incites-domestic-terrorism\">renewed tensions\u003c/a> between the Trump administration and Whitmer, who the FBI said was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/08/921655143/militia-members-plotted-to-abduct-michigan-gov-whitmer-fbi-says\">the target of a kidnapping plot\u003c/a> by men linked to a far-right militia group earlier this year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first time comments from Atlas have run counter to those at Stanford. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of about 100 infectious disease physicians, immunologists and health policy experts \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/130OXUjdnwHmfmbiEZWK9d354QHaRi0-r/view\">signed a letter in September\u003c/a> calling \"attention to the falsehoods and misrepresentations of science recently fostered by Dr. Scott Atlas.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter said many of his comments and statements \"run counter to established science and, by doing so, undermine public health policy.\" In response, Atlas \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2020/10/30/academic-freedom-questions-arise-campus-covid-19-strategy-conflicts/\">reportedly threated\u003c/a> to sue his colleagues. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Stanford+University+Appears+To+Distance+Itself+From+Scott+Atlas+After+%27Rise+Up%27+Tweet&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11847774/stanford-appears-to-distance-itself-from-scott-atlas-after-rise-up-tweet","authors":["byline_news_11847774"],"categories":["news_457","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_27350","news_27504","news_1323","news_28815","news_28814","news_1928"],"featImg":"news_11847775","label":"source_news_11847774"},"news_11831577":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11831577","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11831577","score":null,"sort":[1596840593000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"amid-weareunited-movement-a-stanford-volleyball-star-fights-to-save-his-team","title":"Amid #WeAreUnited Movement, a Stanford Volleyball Star Fights to Save His Team","publishDate":1596840593,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>After about a month of organizing, student athletes in the Pac-12 conference created the #WeAreUnited movement, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/pac-12-players-covid-19-statement-football-season\">issued a list of demands\u003c/a> last Sunday related to health and safety, racial injustice and players' economic rights. Unhappy with how their universities have handled those issues, they're threatening to opt out of the upcoming season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Athletes representing #WeAreUnited met with officials from Gov. Gavin Newsom's office on Tuesday, and with Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott in a late-evening call Thursday. Both meetings focused on players' concerns with schools' health and safety protocols around COVID-19, concerns outlined in one of their top demands: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Because we are being asked to play college sports in a pandemic in a system without enforced health and safety standards, and without transparency about COVID cases on our teams, the risks to ourselves, our families, and our communities, #WeAreUnited.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The group's list of demands also includes a section on \"preserving all existing sports by eliminating excessive expenditures\" – a section which specifically calls out Stanford University. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"End lavish facility expenditures and use some endowment funds to preserve all sports,\" the statement reads. \"As an example, Stanford University should reinstate all sports discontinued by tapping into their $27.7 billion endowment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Stanford University – a Pac-12 institution – \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2020/07/08/athletics/#:~:text=Stanford%20will%20discontinue%2011%20of,swimming%2C%20men's%20volleyball%20and%20wrestling.\">announced its decision\u003c/a> to eliminate 11 varsity sports teams at the end of the 2020-21 academic year, citing major financial concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you can imagine this has been a heartbreaking day for all of us, especially with those student athletes and coaches involved,” Stanford Athletic Director Bernard Muir said \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/14a9b95d892dfde558900c8a11f429b3\">when announcing the cuts\u003c/a>. “It recently became painfully clear we would not remain financially stable and support 36 varsity sports at a nationally competitive level, which is what we desire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jaylen Jasper\"]'To hear that I'm not going to be able to play at the school that I've come to love so much was a shock. It was heartbreaking, confusing.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comprising more than 240 student athletes and 22 coaches, the 11 teams on the chopping block were men’s and women’s fencing, field hockey, lightweight rowing, men’s rowing, co-ed and women’s sailing, squash, synchronized swimming, wrestling and men’s volleyball (but not women's volleyball). The university also plans to cut 20 support staff positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the teams are scheduled to have one final season of varsity competition in 2020-21, after which they can become club sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jaylen Jasper, a diehard member of the Stanford men's volleyball team, that's cold comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His team's previous season had already come to a screeching halt in early March when the university canceled in-person classes and sports due to the pandemic. To then learn that the university planned to eliminate the sport altogether, was nothing short of devastating, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Volleyball has been my whole life since I started playing end of my freshman, beginning of sophomore year of high school,” Jasper said from his hometown of Annapolis, Maryland, where he is spending the summer training, coaching youth leagues and organizing to save his team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_1167.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11831631\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_1167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1242\" height=\"1229\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_1167.jpg 1242w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_1167-800x792.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_1167-1020x1009.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_1167-160x158.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanford volleyball player Jaylen Jasper prepares to serve in a 2019 game against University of Southern California. \u003ccite>(Rob Ericson/Stanford)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jasper, 21, will be one of the team's captains next season — if there is a next season. And until the announcement, he had planned to repeat his junior year so he could have two more full seasons of volleyball and complete a double major in psychology and political science. But faced with the prospect of having no team to play on, he's reconsidering those plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To hear that I'm not going to be able to play at the school that I've come to love so much was a shock,” he said. “It was heartbreaking, confusing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a formidable \u003ca href=\"https://gostanford.com/sports/mens-volleyball/roster/jaylen-jasper/16575\">6-foot-7\u003c/a>, Jasper plays the opposite hitter position, attacking the ball with an intimidating ferocity. One of the conference's standout players, with hopes of playing professionally after college, he’s been an all-American honorable mention three years in a row, played on the youth and junior national teams, gone to the World University Games and made the collegiate national team roster, to name just a handful of distinctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jasper is also one of the few people of color on his team — and the only one who identifies as African American — in a sport not widely known for its racial diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jaylen Jasper\"]'[Volleyball] is a community that is so accepting ... that diversity can thrive. We're just building on it every day and we pride ourselves on it. So it was painful to hear that (Stanford officials) don't see it how we see it.'[/pullquote]“I'm half Black, quarter white, quarter Mexican. Tri-racial,” he said. “I mean, in all honesty, when I look at Division 1 men's volleyball, it's not the most diverse sport in the world. There are plenty of teams that I can pick out just the one or two Black kids they have. And honestly, a lot of them are also number 23. I'm not sure if that's a trend or what's going on. But a lot of Black volleyball players wear number 23, and that's kind of interesting to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of diversity in men's volleyball, Jasper said, was no doubt a major factor in the university's decision to cut the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They gave us a whole list of reasons why ... But one of the reasons, or some of the reasons were, you know, diversity, that the teams that were cut weren't the most diverse. They were (also) saying that we were having financial hardships from COVID-19 and the teams that were cut weren't exactly moneymakers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford officials earlier said the 11 teams cut were chosen “after a comprehensive evaluation of all of our sports across a broad set of criteria and considerations,” including local and national fan interest, each sport's future success at Stanford – and its impact on diversity at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understood, but at the same time, our sport is growing,” he said, noting that six historically Black colleges just added men's volleyball teams at the Division 1 and Division 2 level. “So right there, that is just increasing diversity in the sport in general. And I come back home to Annapolis and Baltimore, and I go work at these camps and I see a lot of minorities playing. ... I think you have to go to the right areas to actually see the diversity. You're not going to see it at the top level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond racial diversity, he said, the sport also has a large LGBTQ community and a strong culture of inclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a community that is so accepting ... that diversity can thrive,” he said. “And we're just building on it every day and we pride ourselves on it. So it was painful to hear that (Stanford officials) don't see it how we see it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he was not an organizer with the #WeAreUnited players movement, Jasper expressed support and said he was encouraged and thankful when he first read their list of demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am so proud of the athletes that are standing up for themselves and what they believe is right and demanding better from the people who essentially control their way of life,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Football is the sport everyone has their eyes on, and will most likely have the most impact on the conference and the NCAA, so to see them come together and not only try to better the situation for themselves, but trying to better the situation for ALL college athletes – and specifically Stanford athletes including myself and my team – is amazing. I am beyond grateful for their courage and their inclusivity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of Jasper's parents were college athletes: His mom played basketball and his dad football at the University of Hawaii where they met. As a kid, his dad pushed him to play football, and in defiance he picked basketball. And when his dad then pressured him to take that sport more seriously, he went searching for something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I told myself, I'm going to pick one sport you know nothing about and just go with that,\" Jasper said. He was introduced to volleyball when his sister started playing in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jasper said he had until then struggled to find his passion, but became enamored with volleyball “as soon as I stepped onto the court.” He quickly formed a club team with some friends and was soon getting national recognition for his skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a non-contact team sport that's played where balls are hit damn near 70, 80, 90 miles an hour, and you have to angle your arm to get it to a 2-foot radius on the court,” he said. “It was intellectually stimulating. And I loved the challenge athletically. And the people that I met were some of the nicest, most generous, accepting people that I've ever met in my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSLaUAmuqtc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “It changed me for the better, because I learned how to be a good teammate, how to be encouraging, how to, you know, show up on time, how to be a leader.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford was among the many colleges that recruited Jasper, offering him an athletic scholarship that covered most of his tuition (the university has agreed to honor all athletic scholarships, even for sports being eliminated).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just remember talking to our athletic director and him welcoming me into the Stanford family and that Stanford prides itself on its amazing academics, but also its amazing athletics,” he said. “So that's really what attracted me to the school in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jaylen Jasper\"]'It changed me for the better, because I learned how to be a good teammate, how to be encouraging, how to, you know, show up on time, how to be a leader.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also what makes the Stanford's decision to eliminate his sport such a bitter pill to swallow, one that he said left Jasper and his teammates feeling “very blindsided and almost lied to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hardly surprising the school is prioritizing more popular, revenue-generating teams like football, he said, but argues that shouldn’t come at the expense of equally valuable, if less appreciated, sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately after the announcement was made, Jasper said, the men's volleyball alumni network stepped in to try to save the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just so cool to see — some people that had graduated so long ago still care so much about the program and what it did for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group of current and former players has since started a crowdfunding campaign and social media blitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're just trying to raise as much awareness and get as much publicity as possible, because in order to actually have anything done, we need the biggest base possible to basically pressure the university and make it a PR nightmare for them,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although the athletic director made clear that the decision is final, officials told Jasper's group they were willing to at least continue the discussion, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So in all honesty, I really don't know what the chances are, but I do know that it is not going to be a sprint,” he said. “We're not going to accomplish anything in the next month or so. It's going to be a marathon and we're going to be fighting this battle for a while. If I have to be fighting it until the end of next year and then on through that, and they just keep cracking the door open, eventually we're gonna bust that door down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Jasper also got involved in another organizing effort, joining a group of more than 50 other Stanford athletes of color in response to the police killing of George Floyd and the movement it galvanized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_8670-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11831634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_8670-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1555\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_8670-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_8670-800x486.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_8670-1020x620.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_8670-160x97.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_8670-1536x933.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_8670-2048x1244.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_8670-1920x1166.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasper spikes the ball in a 2019 game against Purdue Fort Wayne. \u003ccite>(Mike Rasay/Stanford)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the athletes involved were, like him, among the only people of color on their teams. And in that moment of intense racial reckoning, many felt isolated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn't know who to talk to either,” he said. “So I guess we also just wanted a space for us to talk, which we basically ended up creating ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But beyond that, the group also wanted the athletic department to actively acknowledge racial injustice and take a strong stand against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of us really felt like our teams or coaches really understood, and like, decided to say something. We were very unhappy with, I guess, the privilege that a lot of the athletic department was showing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After that, I feel like it just got picked up and became a thing. All the teams put out a statement saying, we don't support racism, we love diversity. And then I feel like it just kind of became a trend for companies and whatever, and basically everyone just started saying that. But it was better than nothing and it was putting it out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immersing himself in both campaigns this summer, Jasper said, has made him that much more aware of the tremendous influence volleyball has had in almost every facet in his life, particularly in shaping into a leader and a fighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really hit me how much volleyball has taught me. And I don't know what I would do or where I would be without it. And I'm forever in debt. I love the sport,” he said. “And, you know, like with everything that we're going through right now, I've got to fight as hard as I can to make sure that that opportunity that I have exists for the next kid down the road and that the community can to continue to thrive and grow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Ever since Stanford announced it was cutting 11 teams, men's volleyball star Jaylen Jasper has been leading the charge to save the sport he's devoted much of his life to.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1596846357,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":54,"wordCount":2458},"headData":{"title":"Amid #WeAreUnited Movement, a Stanford Volleyball Star Fights to Save His Team | KQED","description":"Ever since Stanford announced it was cutting 11 varsity sports, men's volleyball star Jaylen Jasper has been leading the charge to save his team.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Amid #WeAreUnited Movement, a Stanford Volleyball Star Fights to Save His Team","datePublished":"2020-08-07T22:49:53.000Z","dateModified":"2020-08-08T00:25:57.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11831577 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11831577","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/08/07/amid-weareunited-movement-a-stanford-volleyball-star-fights-to-save-his-team/","disqusTitle":"Amid #WeAreUnited Movement, a Stanford Volleyball Star Fights to Save His Team","path":"/news/11831577/amid-weareunited-movement-a-stanford-volleyball-star-fights-to-save-his-team","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After about a month of organizing, student athletes in the Pac-12 conference created the #WeAreUnited movement, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/pac-12-players-covid-19-statement-football-season\">issued a list of demands\u003c/a> last Sunday related to health and safety, racial injustice and players' economic rights. Unhappy with how their universities have handled those issues, they're threatening to opt out of the upcoming season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Athletes representing #WeAreUnited met with officials from Gov. Gavin Newsom's office on Tuesday, and with Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott in a late-evening call Thursday. Both meetings focused on players' concerns with schools' health and safety protocols around COVID-19, concerns outlined in one of their top demands: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Because we are being asked to play college sports in a pandemic in a system without enforced health and safety standards, and without transparency about COVID cases on our teams, the risks to ourselves, our families, and our communities, #WeAreUnited.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The group's list of demands also includes a section on \"preserving all existing sports by eliminating excessive expenditures\" – a section which specifically calls out Stanford University. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"End lavish facility expenditures and use some endowment funds to preserve all sports,\" the statement reads. \"As an example, Stanford University should reinstate all sports discontinued by tapping into their $27.7 billion endowment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Stanford University – a Pac-12 institution – \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2020/07/08/athletics/#:~:text=Stanford%20will%20discontinue%2011%20of,swimming%2C%20men's%20volleyball%20and%20wrestling.\">announced its decision\u003c/a> to eliminate 11 varsity sports teams at the end of the 2020-21 academic year, citing major financial concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you can imagine this has been a heartbreaking day for all of us, especially with those student athletes and coaches involved,” Stanford Athletic Director Bernard Muir said \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/14a9b95d892dfde558900c8a11f429b3\">when announcing the cuts\u003c/a>. “It recently became painfully clear we would not remain financially stable and support 36 varsity sports at a nationally competitive level, which is what we desire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'To hear that I'm not going to be able to play at the school that I've come to love so much was a shock. It was heartbreaking, confusing.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Jaylen Jasper","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comprising more than 240 student athletes and 22 coaches, the 11 teams on the chopping block were men’s and women’s fencing, field hockey, lightweight rowing, men’s rowing, co-ed and women’s sailing, squash, synchronized swimming, wrestling and men’s volleyball (but not women's volleyball). The university also plans to cut 20 support staff positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the teams are scheduled to have one final season of varsity competition in 2020-21, after which they can become club sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jaylen Jasper, a diehard member of the Stanford men's volleyball team, that's cold comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His team's previous season had already come to a screeching halt in early March when the university canceled in-person classes and sports due to the pandemic. To then learn that the university planned to eliminate the sport altogether, was nothing short of devastating, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Volleyball has been my whole life since I started playing end of my freshman, beginning of sophomore year of high school,” Jasper said from his hometown of Annapolis, Maryland, where he is spending the summer training, coaching youth leagues and organizing to save his team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_1167.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11831631\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_1167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1242\" height=\"1229\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_1167.jpg 1242w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_1167-800x792.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_1167-1020x1009.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_1167-160x158.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanford volleyball player Jaylen Jasper prepares to serve in a 2019 game against University of Southern California. \u003ccite>(Rob Ericson/Stanford)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jasper, 21, will be one of the team's captains next season — if there is a next season. And until the announcement, he had planned to repeat his junior year so he could have two more full seasons of volleyball and complete a double major in psychology and political science. But faced with the prospect of having no team to play on, he's reconsidering those plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To hear that I'm not going to be able to play at the school that I've come to love so much was a shock,” he said. “It was heartbreaking, confusing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a formidable \u003ca href=\"https://gostanford.com/sports/mens-volleyball/roster/jaylen-jasper/16575\">6-foot-7\u003c/a>, Jasper plays the opposite hitter position, attacking the ball with an intimidating ferocity. One of the conference's standout players, with hopes of playing professionally after college, he’s been an all-American honorable mention three years in a row, played on the youth and junior national teams, gone to the World University Games and made the collegiate national team roster, to name just a handful of distinctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jasper is also one of the few people of color on his team — and the only one who identifies as African American — in a sport not widely known for its racial diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'[Volleyball] is a community that is so accepting ... that diversity can thrive. We're just building on it every day and we pride ourselves on it. So it was painful to hear that (Stanford officials) don't see it how we see it.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Jaylen Jasper","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I'm half Black, quarter white, quarter Mexican. Tri-racial,” he said. “I mean, in all honesty, when I look at Division 1 men's volleyball, it's not the most diverse sport in the world. There are plenty of teams that I can pick out just the one or two Black kids they have. And honestly, a lot of them are also number 23. I'm not sure if that's a trend or what's going on. But a lot of Black volleyball players wear number 23, and that's kind of interesting to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of diversity in men's volleyball, Jasper said, was no doubt a major factor in the university's decision to cut the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They gave us a whole list of reasons why ... But one of the reasons, or some of the reasons were, you know, diversity, that the teams that were cut weren't the most diverse. They were (also) saying that we were having financial hardships from COVID-19 and the teams that were cut weren't exactly moneymakers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford officials earlier said the 11 teams cut were chosen “after a comprehensive evaluation of all of our sports across a broad set of criteria and considerations,” including local and national fan interest, each sport's future success at Stanford – and its impact on diversity at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understood, but at the same time, our sport is growing,” he said, noting that six historically Black colleges just added men's volleyball teams at the Division 1 and Division 2 level. “So right there, that is just increasing diversity in the sport in general. And I come back home to Annapolis and Baltimore, and I go work at these camps and I see a lot of minorities playing. ... I think you have to go to the right areas to actually see the diversity. You're not going to see it at the top level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond racial diversity, he said, the sport also has a large LGBTQ community and a strong culture of inclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a community that is so accepting ... that diversity can thrive,” he said. “And we're just building on it every day and we pride ourselves on it. So it was painful to hear that (Stanford officials) don't see it how we see it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he was not an organizer with the #WeAreUnited players movement, Jasper expressed support and said he was encouraged and thankful when he first read their list of demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am so proud of the athletes that are standing up for themselves and what they believe is right and demanding better from the people who essentially control their way of life,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Football is the sport everyone has their eyes on, and will most likely have the most impact on the conference and the NCAA, so to see them come together and not only try to better the situation for themselves, but trying to better the situation for ALL college athletes – and specifically Stanford athletes including myself and my team – is amazing. I am beyond grateful for their courage and their inclusivity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of Jasper's parents were college athletes: His mom played basketball and his dad football at the University of Hawaii where they met. As a kid, his dad pushed him to play football, and in defiance he picked basketball. And when his dad then pressured him to take that sport more seriously, he went searching for something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I told myself, I'm going to pick one sport you know nothing about and just go with that,\" Jasper said. He was introduced to volleyball when his sister started playing in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jasper said he had until then struggled to find his passion, but became enamored with volleyball “as soon as I stepped onto the court.” He quickly formed a club team with some friends and was soon getting national recognition for his skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a non-contact team sport that's played where balls are hit damn near 70, 80, 90 miles an hour, and you have to angle your arm to get it to a 2-foot radius on the court,” he said. “It was intellectually stimulating. And I loved the challenge athletically. And the people that I met were some of the nicest, most generous, accepting people that I've ever met in my life.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/lSLaUAmuqtc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/lSLaUAmuqtc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>He added, “It changed me for the better, because I learned how to be a good teammate, how to be encouraging, how to, you know, show up on time, how to be a leader.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford was among the many colleges that recruited Jasper, offering him an athletic scholarship that covered most of his tuition (the university has agreed to honor all athletic scholarships, even for sports being eliminated).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just remember talking to our athletic director and him welcoming me into the Stanford family and that Stanford prides itself on its amazing academics, but also its amazing athletics,” he said. “So that's really what attracted me to the school in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It changed me for the better, because I learned how to be a good teammate, how to be encouraging, how to, you know, show up on time, how to be a leader.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Jaylen Jasper","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also what makes the Stanford's decision to eliminate his sport such a bitter pill to swallow, one that he said left Jasper and his teammates feeling “very blindsided and almost lied to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hardly surprising the school is prioritizing more popular, revenue-generating teams like football, he said, but argues that shouldn’t come at the expense of equally valuable, if less appreciated, sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately after the announcement was made, Jasper said, the men's volleyball alumni network stepped in to try to save the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just so cool to see — some people that had graduated so long ago still care so much about the program and what it did for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group of current and former players has since started a crowdfunding campaign and social media blitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're just trying to raise as much awareness and get as much publicity as possible, because in order to actually have anything done, we need the biggest base possible to basically pressure the university and make it a PR nightmare for them,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although the athletic director made clear that the decision is final, officials told Jasper's group they were willing to at least continue the discussion, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So in all honesty, I really don't know what the chances are, but I do know that it is not going to be a sprint,” he said. “We're not going to accomplish anything in the next month or so. It's going to be a marathon and we're going to be fighting this battle for a while. If I have to be fighting it until the end of next year and then on through that, and they just keep cracking the door open, eventually we're gonna bust that door down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Jasper also got involved in another organizing effort, joining a group of more than 50 other Stanford athletes of color in response to the police killing of George Floyd and the movement it galvanized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_8670-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11831634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_8670-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1555\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_8670-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_8670-800x486.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_8670-1020x620.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_8670-160x97.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_8670-1536x933.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_8670-2048x1244.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_8670-1920x1166.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasper spikes the ball in a 2019 game against Purdue Fort Wayne. \u003ccite>(Mike Rasay/Stanford)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the athletes involved were, like him, among the only people of color on their teams. And in that moment of intense racial reckoning, many felt isolated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn't know who to talk to either,” he said. “So I guess we also just wanted a space for us to talk, which we basically ended up creating ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But beyond that, the group also wanted the athletic department to actively acknowledge racial injustice and take a strong stand against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of us really felt like our teams or coaches really understood, and like, decided to say something. We were very unhappy with, I guess, the privilege that a lot of the athletic department was showing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After that, I feel like it just got picked up and became a thing. All the teams put out a statement saying, we don't support racism, we love diversity. And then I feel like it just kind of became a trend for companies and whatever, and basically everyone just started saying that. But it was better than nothing and it was putting it out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immersing himself in both campaigns this summer, Jasper said, has made him that much more aware of the tremendous influence volleyball has had in almost every facet in his life, particularly in shaping into a leader and a fighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really hit me how much volleyball has taught me. And I don't know what I would do or where I would be without it. And I'm forever in debt. I love the sport,” he said. “And, you know, like with everything that we're going through right now, I've got to fight as hard as I can to make sure that that opportunity that I have exists for the next kid down the road and that the community can to continue to thrive and grow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11831577/amid-weareunited-movement-a-stanford-volleyball-star-fights-to-save-his-team","authors":["1263"],"categories":["news_457","news_8","news_10"],"tags":["news_28379","news_4963","news_27350","news_27504","news_4843","news_178","news_28349","news_1928","news_28350"],"featImg":"news_11831633","label":"news"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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