May 4, 2025 Senator Scott Wiener 1021 O Street, Suite 8620 Sacramento, CA 95814 Subject: Support SB 829 — California Institute for Scientific Research: CalRx Initiative: vaccines Dear Senator Wiener: The Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) supports SB 829 (Wiener). This bill would create the California Institute for Scientific Research (CISR). CISR…
Summary of CUCFA Concerns Regarding the UCOP Cyber Security Mandate The University of California is requiring all employees to comply with a cybersecurity mandate issued last year by the University of California Office of the President (UCOP). Deadlines vary across UC campuses, but all are requiring compliance at some point within the coming weeks. We…
Dear Assemblymembers Fong, Patel, and Quirk-Silva, I am writing to express deep concern over AB 1217, AB 684, and AB 500, which seek to interfere in the University of California’s admissions process. The State of California, through Article IX, Section 9 of the California Constitution, has entrusted the Regents of the University of California with…
Dear President Drake, Provost Newman, Senate Chair Cheung, and Chancellors, The Council of University of California Faculty Associations and University Council-AFT Local 1474 urgently call upon UCOP to address the revocation of visas and deportation of international students at the University of California. It has been reported that in the past week alone, at least…
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 several weeks, faculty and students across the country have experienced unprecedented attacks on their constitutional…
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 Employer-Employee Relations Act (HEERA). Many stood in solidarity with our students and co-workers in UAW…
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 faculty to join for an hour of action to defend higher education and political freedom…
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 of immigrant incarceration in Guantanamo Bay, the possible revocation of birthright citizenship, and the Laken…
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 system, and the concomitant uncertainty pertaining to the provision of graduate and undergraduate student financial…
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 for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts. At the same time, the…