August 11, 2024 President Michael V. Drake Office of the President University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Delivered via Email to: michael.drake@ucop.edu Dear President Drake, The Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) is Read More …
UC proposes adding a section to the Academic Personnel Manual’s section on Faculty Conduct and the Administration of Discipline (APM-016). Specifically, a pause on the merit and promotion process is proposed when there is even an uninvestigated allegation of misconduct. Read More …
We and 66 other organizations in signing on to a letter opposing AB-1814. The full letter, with signers organizations and singers, is available as a PDF. The text of the letter is below. Dear Assemblymember Ting: We are 67 civil Read More …
We have joined with our colleagues in UAW-4811 (representing UC’s academic student employees, postdocs, and academic researchers), the California Faculty Association (representing faculty at CSU), and numerous other allies in opposition to SB-1287, which would restrict protected free speech on Read More …
48,000 employees at the University of California represented by UAW 4811 will be voting to authorize an Unfair Labor Practice strike action from May 13-15. We don’t know the outcome of the vote yet, but we wanted to provide UC Read More …
The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) denounces the growing number of attempts to intimidate, repress, and criminalize campus protests of Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza that is supported economically and politically by the United States. Many of us have Read More …
Dear UC Regents’ Chair Leib, We are alarmed that the Regents have recently chosen to ignore the recommendations of the Academic Council and its systemwide Senate committees on a number of key issues. The centrality of faculty governance to the Read More …
March 13, 2024 The Honorable Chair, Mike Fong California State Assembly Higher Education Committee Legislative Office Building, 1020 N Street, Room 173 Sacramento, CA 95814 RE: AB 2349 (Wilson) – SUPPORT Dear Assemblymember Fong, The Council of UC Faculty Associations Read More …
Below is the letter the Council of University of California Faculty Associations sent on February 12 to the UC Regents objecting to their proposed new website policy. Dear UC Regents, At its meeting on January 24, the Regents proposed a Read More …
Below is the letter the Council of University of California Faculty Associations sent on February 12 to the UC Regents and President Drake asking them to urge the San Francisco District Attorney’s office to not pursue criminal charges against those Read More …