[Mick]

I'm not sure what their motivation was for writing this. Given that I've spent the past 25 years in the UC system as a graduate student and employee, there's nothing really new that UC folks haven't been saying since the mid-1990s.

Perhaps they think that if University presidents say what UC folks have been saying since the mid-1990s it will get a little more traction.

[Mick]

I'm not sure what their motivation was for writing this. Given that I've spent the past 25 years in the UC system as a graduate student and employee, there's nothing really new that UC folks haven't been saying since the mid-1990s.

Perhaps they think that if University presidents say what UC folks have been saying since the mid-1990s it will get a little more traction.