CUCFA sent the following letter to the six members of the legislature’s Budget Conference Committee and their Chiefs of Staff. Item 6440 UC Budget: Support for Assembly version The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) requests your support for the Assembly version of the 2014-15 University of California budget. CUCFA has long advocated for State…
Dear Colleagues, The Council of UC Faculty Associations supports the demands made by the graduate student union (UAW 2865) in its negotiations for a new contract and support the union’s right to strike on April 2 and 3 if they find it needed to bring negotiations to a speedy and respectful conclusion. We encourage you…
UC faculty need to wake up to the systematic degradation of their pay and benefits. In 2009, when the salary furlough temporarily cut faculty salaries between 6 and 10%, faculty were outraged. Yet since then our compensation has been hit by a more serious, and seemingly permanent, double blow. First, despite modest salary rises of…
On November 21, CUCFA sent the following letter to UC President Janet Napolitano and also sent copies of the letter to half a dozen UC officers. President Napolitano responded with a letter dated January 8, 2014, available here. President Janet Napolitano Office 12122 1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607 Dear President Napolitano, The recent changes…
On August 28, CUCFA sent the following letter to San Francisco’s City Attorney Dennis Herrera: August 28, 2013 City Attorney Dennis Herrera City Hall, Room 234 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place San Francisco, CA 94102-4682 cityattorney@sfgov.org fax: (415) 554-4745 (delivered by e-mail and fax) Dear City Attorney Herrera, We applaud your quest for injunctive…
On August 21, CUCFA sent the following letter to H.E. Ambassador Mohamed M. Tawfik at the Embassy of Egypt in Washington, D.C., and to Consul General El Husseuni Abdel Wahab at the Egyptian Consulate in Los Angeles. August 21, 2013 H.E. Ambassador Mohamed M. Tawfik Embassy of Egypt 3521 International Ct. NW Washington DC 20008…
The following letter was sent to California State Senator Carol Liu and the members of the Assembly Higher Education committee on August 8th: August 8, 2013 Senator Carol Liu State Capitol, Room 5097 Sacramento, CA 95814 Fax: (916) 651-4925 Re: SB 195: Support — amendments suggested. Dear Senator Liu, The Council of UC Faculty Associations…
The Council of the University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) urges brisk and open discussion within and without the university community of the Board of Regents’ choice of Janet Napolitano to replace Mark Yudof as the new President of the University of California. We also urge Janet Napolitano to join in these discussions. She was…
The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) opposes the recent decision of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) to revoke accreditation for City College of San Francisco (CCSF). CUCFA joins the California Conference of the American Association of University Professors, the American Federation of Teachers and the California Federation of Teachers in…
On May 10th, CUCFA President Robert Meister sent the following open letter to Coursera founder Daphne Koller: Can Venture Capital Deliver on the Promise of the Public University? An Open Letter to Daphne Koller, Co-Founder and Co-President of Coursera and Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University Dear Professor Koller, Because I share your vision…