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About HERC

Higher Education Report Card

In 2012, UCSA developed a rubric to track legislators’ votes affecting students and California higher education. The results are tracked in UCSA’s Higher Education Report Cards, in which legislatures receive grades based on whether they vote “Yes” or “No” on UCSA supported legislation.

View the 2012-13 Higher Education Report Cards

Explaining HERC

Bills are weighted according to the following formula:

GRADE – Breadth of student population x Depth of impact for that population

BREADTH – (1,2,3) corresponds to (Sizeable, Majority, Entire Student Population)

DEPTH – (2,4,5) corresponds to (Significant, Very Significant, Massive impact on students)

*Authorship of UCSA supported bills also earns legislators 2 “bonus” points

 

 

As Executive Director, Salih leads our staff team and organizational strategy, keeps the UCSA office in operation, supports the Board and other student leaders, and fundraises to maximize the potential of our organization. Salih also oversees planning for UCSA’s annual statewide conferences.

 

Raised in Oakland, California, Salih Muhammad strives to embody the principles of service, sacrifice, and selflessness. For much of his life, he has been committed to living toward the liberation of Black people, at home and abroad.

 

In 2009, he continued the pursuit of knowledge at the University of California, Berkeley, where he excelled as a Black student and organizer on campus. His favorite quote is from Franz Fanon, who stated, “Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.”