Mission:
The Council of University of California Faculty Associations is a coordinating and service agency for the several individual Faculty Associations -- associations of UC Senate faculty -- on the separate campuses of the University of California, and it represents them to all state- or university-wide agencies on issues of common concern. It gathers and disseminates information on issues before the legislative and executive branches of California's government, other relevant state units dealing with higher education, the University administration, and the Board of Regents. The Faculty Associations are voluntary dues supported organizations and are therefore completely independent. [More...]
Vision:
CUCFA is committed to renewing public investment in California higher education by giving every California family a stake in the system by restoring full access and by regaining the trust of the people by restoring accountability. The public-spirited legacy of generations will be squandered if the best of the system is financially out of reach for most citizens and increasingly controlled by corporate funders. The people of California will support higher education if it serves us all again. [More...]
Latest News and Issues:
Response to Commission on the Future and Proposal for a Cyber-Campus
A picture of UC’s future is emerging from a combination of the initial recommendations forwarded by the Working Groups of the UC Commission on the Future (UCOF, aka “the Gould Commission”) and the proposal for a Cyber Campus recently described by Law School Dean Edley. As you will see, we find this picture to be a gravely troubling one. Both faculty governance and the standards and integrity of a UC education are at stake. [More...]
Without quality public education, there is no future for democracy
UC Berkeley professor of political science Wendy Brown was among the more than 200 Berkeley faculty members who traveled to Sacramento on March 4. A co-chair of the Berkeley Faculty Association, she gave the following address on the capitol steps during the "Educate the State" rally. [More...]
Robert Meister Presentation at UC Irvine
CUCFA chair Robert Meister gave an extended presentation to students and faculty at UC Irvine on February 19th. His presentation is now available on Youtube.
They Pledged Your Tuition
All three parts of Robert Meister's exploration of UC's use of tuition as collateral for construction bonds, video presentations of the report, material from his presentation to the Regents Committee on Audit and Compliance about the topic, and a cache of relevant UC documents. [More...]