The scams are costly.
“A handful of University of California professors will “leverage art and design as a powerful medium to engage the public in climate resilience and sustainability” with the help of a $2 million grant.
The project, led by professors Karolina Karlic and Jennifer Parker, “unites cultural and artistic programming rooted in climate justice across UC campuses to inspire public engagement and align with California’s Climate Adaptation Strategies,” according to a University of Santa Cruz news release.
Eleven other professors from seven different campuses will contribute to the project, which received money from the University of California system.”
They are using education funds to indoctrinate the public. To make it worse, they are using the credibility of our universities to lie to the public. I hope DOGE will end this open corruption and ideological effort to kill jobs and the economy.
UC professors receive $2 million for ‘climate action’ art initiative
Bradley Galvin, The College Fix, 2/27/25 https://www.thecollegefix.com/uc-professors-receive-2-million-for-climate-action-art-initiative/
Project will use ‘art and design’ to ‘engage the public’ about climate issues
A handful of University of California professors will “leverage art and design as a powerful medium to engage the public in climate resilience and sustainability” with the help of a $2 million grant.
The project, led by professors Karolina Karlic and Jennifer Parker, “unites cultural and artistic programming rooted in climate justice across UC campuses to inspire public engagement and align with California’s Climate Adaptation Strategies,” according to a University of Santa Cruz news release.
Eleven other professors from seven different campuses will contribute to the project, which received money from the University of California system.
Professor Karlic (pictured, right) referred The College Fix to the initial news release when asked for comment. “This is all we can provide at this time as we embark on our work for change,” Professor Karlic said via email.
The Fix asked for examples of current projects the art department is working on relating to climate change and for examples of “workforce development in arts-driven climate solutions,” one of the promised goals. The Fix also asked for more information on funding and potential projects.
Karlic stated in the news release the group will be “engaging our local and global communities to take meaningful action through the arts” and “addressing climate change.”
She directs her university’s environmental art and social practice graduate program and is the “inaugural Art + Science Director of the Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History,” according to her website.
Professor Jennifer Parker said the “grant allows us to deepen the intersection of art and climate action,” according to the news release. Parker (pictured, left), who also teaches in the art and social practice program, “explores the intersection of biology, technology, art, and ecology,” through her research, according to her faculty bio. “Through multi-sensory and transdisciplinary collaborations, she combines scientific inquiry with creative practices to uncover the sensorial worlds around us.”
A senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research criticized the use of taxpayer dollars on this project.
“Doling out $2 million to professors at UC Santa Cruz and other universities for ‘climate resilience and sustainability’ is pure folly,” Bonner Cohen told The Fix via email.
Cohen wrote a book about the consequences of environmentalism and has testified in front of U.S. Senate and House committees. He also regularly writes and comments about energy policy.
He put his comments in the context of the wildfires in California.
“The state’s forests and rangelands are tinderboxes waiting to explode,” Cohen said. “Rather than take responsibility for their gross negligence, state and local officials blame ‘climate change’ for the calamity they helped create. California’s climate has not changed in centuries.”
“The measures being taken to combat ‘climate change’ are the real problem,” Cohen said.
UC Santa Cruz and other California universities are not the only ones seeking to combat climate change through the arts.
For example, Yale University’s sacred music center launched a “Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative,” as reported by The Fix in 2023. The center’s plans included an art exhibit about endangered species and a concert.
Princeton University also has an “eco-theater” course where students learn how to write plays about climate change, as recently reported by The Fix.
Students will also “study performance texts and films about climate change, to understand critical concepts that facilitate the development of eco-theater,” as The Fix reported.
