On April 30, the administration of UC San Diego’s biology department sent a letter to about half of its lecturers, alerting them to an involuntary reduction to their teaching schedules following state and federal funding cuts. These cuts to lecturers’ teaching schedules will likely exacerbate existing concerns about the declining quality of biology education at UCSD. These include increased class sizes, discussion section sizes, and waitlists, fewer elective classes and classes for non-majors, and class cancellations. Lecturers cover classes that research faculty do not volunteer to teach, and if a professor unexpectedly has to drop a class, a lecturer typically takes their place. “How could I pay for those summer classes?” they asked.