June 18, 2018
President Janet Napolitano
University of California
1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607
Dear President Napolitano:
As contingent faculty and librarians represented by UC-AFT, we work with undocumented 
students at the University of California on a daily basis.  Your initiative to support the UC’s 
undocumented students and your lawsuit against the Trump administration’s rescission of 
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) have been powerful advocacy for some of our 
most vulnerable community members. 
 
Today, we ask that you extend that leadership to immediately canceling the UC’s contract with 
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a defense contractor.  The UC currently 
contracts out the management and administration of the Analytical Writing Placement 
Examination (AWPE) to GDIT. Many UC faculty, including a number of our members, score more 
than 16,000 AWPE exams taken by admitted first-year students every year.  During that process, 
we are in regular communication with GDIT staff. GDIT is also a contractor for the U.S. Office of 
Refugee Resettlement and employs staff who support and facilitate the forced separation of 
children and parents seeking asylum at the U.S. border. 
 
Contracting out an educational process is a questionable practice for a university to begin with.  
Contracting out to a defense contractor forces faculty to be complicit with war profiteering.  
Contracting out to a defense contractor that enables the U.S. government to rip children away 
from their parents and place them in concentration camps is an unconscionable moral failing. 
 
In the strongest possible terms, we urge you to halt the UC’s participation in these abuses by 
immediately withdrawing from any and all agreements between the UC and GDIT. 
Sincerely,
UC-AFT Executive Board
Mia L. McIver, UCLA 
Axel Borg, UC Davis 
Ben Harder, UC Riverside 
Roxi Power, UC Santa Cruz 
Miki Goral, UCLA