Update, December 7. UC’s Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Michael Brown, responded. November 6, 2020 Professor Janet Napolitano Goldman School of Public Policy, UCB 2607 Hearst Avenue Berkeley, CA 94720-7320 Dear Professor Napolitano, We write to you Read More …
Update, November 3. UC’s Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Michael Brown, responded to our letter about the potential for censorship of faculty by private technology providers with the attached letter, the plain text of which is below: Read More …
Updated 11/24/2020: It appears from “A Message from President Drake about UC’s Commitment to Preserving Jobs during the Pandemic” that the efforts of CUCFA (below), the UC Union Coalition, and the Academic Senate to analyze and push back on the dangerously short-sighted curtailment plan Read More …
Update, November 3. UC’s Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Michael Brown, responded. September 24, 2020 President Michael V. Drake Office of the President University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Delivered via Email Read More …
Yesterday, UCSC and UAW 2865 announced that they had reached an agreement to allow for eligibility for re-employment of academic student employees who were dismissed for their failure to submit grades during the 2019-20 academic year. More information is available Read More …
July 28, 2020 Office of the President University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Sent Via Email: president@ucop.edu, regentsoffice@ucop.edu Dear Presidents Drake and Napolitano: We represent academic, educator, and healthcare unions in the UC system, and Read More …
July 7, 2020 President Janet Napolitano and President-Elect Michael V. Drake Office of the President University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Dear President Napolitano and President-Elect Drake, We write as members of the Board of Read More …
As a member of the coalition to Reclaim California’s Public Higher Education Systems, CUCFA signed on to their budget letter: June 11, 2020 Dear Governor Gavin Newsom, Speaker Anthony Rendon, Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, We are the Reclaim Read More …
Dear President Napolitano, We are writing to urge the UCOP to adopt a system-wide policy rejecting and discontinuing all remote, external proctoring services (e.g., ProctorU, Respondus) effective immediately. Forcing students to submit to a protocol that entails personal surveillance during Read More …
A letter from the workers, students and faculty who know firsthand what Higher Ed needs COVID 19 and the uprisings following George Floyd’s murder are a wake-up call for higher education in the U.S. Will higher ed actually deliver the Read More …