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	"author_name": "United Campus Workers Colorado",
	"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/united-campus-workers-colorado",
	"title": "CU: Commit to Fair Budget Priorities",
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	"description": "Please sign this petition if you are a CU employee, student, alum, community member, or generally concerned with the state of public education in Colorado. Colorado has some of the lowest state funding for higher education in the United States. This has led the University of Colorado (CU) to act more as a business, privatizing public education to the detriment of workers and students. CU now relies more on tuition and fee revenue from students (who are seen as &quot;customers&quot; or &quot;consumers&quot; of education), uses private financing for projects that ought to be state-funded, and is more concerned with the university&#x27;s investment portfolio and credit rating than providing a quality education and decent workplace. The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified those trends and shown that CU now prioritizes this business model over the public good.   CU is a public institution and this model does not reflect the mission of public higher education in the US and Colorado. There are other, better choices that CU leadership can make; choices that prioritize good jobs and affordable education that are equitable and accessible to all Colorado communities. CU needs to immediately adopt fair budget priorities that place workers and students at the center of public education. This requires public funding. CU must use all of its political weight to fight for radical increases in public funding from the state, which will require changes to Colorado law. CU needs to prioritize: Living wages for all. More egalitarian distribution of salaries. Increased funding anti-racism initiatives. Benefit improvements. Reversing trends towards ever-greater contingency and precariousness in the academic workforce.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/cu-commit-to-fair-budget-priorities"
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