June 19, 2017 Senator Kevin de León State Capitol, Room 205 Sacramento, CA 95814 Fax: (916) 651-4924 Re: Request that the Senate insist that the California Constitution be followed when nominating Regents to the University of California Dear Pro Tem de León, On June 10, 2017, the San Francisco Chronicle published a front page story,…
February 21, 2017 The Honorable Nancy Skinner State Capitol, Room 2059 Sacramento, CA 95814 fax 916-327-1997 Re: UC Faculty Support SB-201 (Skinner) Dear Senator Skinner, We of the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) wish to alert you to the fact that many faculty support SB 201 (Skinner), which would allow UC’s Graduate Student Researchers…
February 7, 2017 President Janet Napolitano University of California, Office of the President 1111 Franklin Street, 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 president@ucop.edu Dear President Napolitano, We applaud your clear denunciation of President Trump’s executive order restricting the ability of individuals from certain countries to re-enter the US as “contrary to the values we hold dear…
A tuition-free college education in California is possible. A new policy paper released today demonstrates that it is entirely possible today to provide the same accessible, low-cost university experience that California successfully offered its students from the 1960s through the 1990s. The report demonstrates that we can revive the California Master Plan for Higher Education—eliminating…
Dear President Napolitano, We applaud your timely declaration in the immediate aftermath of the election that the UC administration “remain[s] absolutely committed to supporting all members of our community and adhering to UC’s Principles Against Intolerance.”[1] Like you, we are gravely concerned by the statements made by President-elect Donald Trump during the campaign, and in…
A University of California Chancellor must be committed both to broad access to university education and to scholarly excellence, and have a proven record of support for the value of public education. A Chancellor must recognize that, despite increases in fundraising for specific projects, efforts at privatization have failed to sustain the University’s central mission…
Dear Dr. Cline: The Council of University of California Faculty Associations is extremely alarmed by the “lock out” action taken by your administration against the faculty of LIU-Brooklyn. The action has no precedent in higher education in this country and constitutes a grave assault on unions, labor negotiations, and faculty themselves. We urge you to…
Dear colleagues, As you are most likely aware, over the summer a failed coup attempt in Turkey has led to an unprecedented crackdown on academic freedom in that country. Thousands of professors and teachers have been fired from their jobs, arrested, and/or threatened with prosecution in trials which will most likely fail to meet even…
By Robert Meister This is more than alarming–it is the end of shared governance as a constitutional principle in the UC system. A whole jurisprudence has grown up around the idea that the Standing Orders are not mere policies/procedures at the level of rules governing the order of business at a Regents meeting. They create…
Today, the Reclaim the Master Plan for Higher Education coalition, of which CUCFA is a member, sent a letter to the Governor and State Legislators, asking for a state budget that supports public higher education. The full letter is below: Honorable Governor Jerry Brown c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173 Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone: (916) 445-2841…