Dear President Drake and UC Regents: The Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) expresses its outrage and indignation over recent assaults on the constitutional, academic, and civil rights of UC faculty, students, staff, and workers. In the past Read More …
Below is our letter of support for AB-672: Dear Assemblymember Caloza, The Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) strongly supports AB-672. Our members are faculty at the University of California (UC) and employees protected by the Higher Education Read More …
Dear Colleagues: The university is under attack. The Trump administration’s all-out assault on higher education, and its commitment to science, academic freedom, and civil liberties must not stand. Faculty Associations of several campuses of the University of California call on Read More …
Whereas in the wake of the recent Presidential election, many people live in fear of President Donald Trump’s large-scale deportation agenda, including the administration’s directive to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to arrest up to 1,500 people a day, the threat Read More …
Dear Colleagues: On Thursday, March 13th, at 6pm, the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) will hold a town hall on the ongoing threats to federal research funding, the state’s current proposal to cut a further 8% from the UC Read More …
Dear colleagues: We are currently experiencing an unprecedented attack on higher education. The Trump and Musk administration has proposed massive cuts to critical funding that universities receive from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment Read More …
On February 18, CUCFA delivered the following letter to President Drake, Provost Newman, Academic Senate Chair Cheung, members of the APC Workgroup, and the Division Senate Chairs. February 18, 2025 Dear President Drake, Provost Newman, Academic Senate Chair Cheung, members of the Read More …
Below is a summary of comments submitted in our survey of UC faculty regarding the Academic Planning Council (APC)’s convening of a joint Senate-Administration workgroup focused on the possibility of a common systemwide calendar. The full collection of comments (as Read More …
CUCFA has recently surveyed UC faculty regarding the Academic Planning Council (APC)’s convening of a joint Senate-Administration workgroup focused on the possibility of a common systemwide calendar. We have collected 1,263 survey responses to date. As of February 12th, we Read More …
Dear Colleagues, We write to inform you that at UCOP’s request, the Academic Planning Council (APC) has convened a joint Senate-Administration workgroup focused on the possibility of a common systemwide semester calendar. You can see its charge, composition, and plans Read More …