The current crisis has brought into focus the extreme precarity that contingent faculty live with year in and year out. UC-AFT (the union that represents UC lecturers) is circulating a pledge that asks ladder rank faculty at the University of Read More …
Below is a letter The Council of UC Faculty Associations and other unions and student groups delivered to UC President Napolitano, the Board of Regents, the Chancellors, and the Medical Center CEOs. It is an enumeration of our concerns and Read More …
The federal government, which is not required to be balanced each year as California’s state budget is, has a unique ability to engage in countercyclical spending in times like the current crisis. CUCFA has signed on to the following letter: Read More …
March 16, 2020 TO: President Janet Napolitano FROM: Council of UC Faculty Associations We write to ask you to delay the start of spring quarter by two weeks, to begin on April 13 rather than March 30. We came to Read More …
March 14, 2020 Dear President Napolitano, The Faculty Organizing Group at UCSC has just issued a very important letter to UCSC’s EVC Kletzer (copied below) in which they call for an act of “empathy, compassion, and responsibility” in reinstating the Read More …
Should UC affiliate with religious health systems that prohibit choice in reproductive health care and LGBTQ-inclusive care? Those prohibitions are based on policies written by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and not on any recognized medical standard of care. Read More …
Dear President Napolitano, We share with you a commitment to the mission of the University of California. Your February 14 letter to the UC Santa Cruz community, however, raises concerns among faculty across the UC system about how best to Read More …
Governor Gavin Newson presented his 2020-21 state budget proposal last Friday. The full budget summary is here. The detailed budget is also online, and the UC portion can be found here. UC Board of Regents Chair John Pérez and UC Read More …
The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) recognizes that the teaching excellence of UC depends in no small part on lecturers, who teach many of our courses (in one UC campus study, more than 40%, in terms of student credit Read More …
November 5, 2019 Lande Ajose and Joseph Freeman Office of California Governor Gavin Newsom 1303 10th Street, Suite 1173 Sacramento, CA 95814 Re: Request for a meeting to discuss implementation of Article 9 Section 9e of the California Constitution for Read More …