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 …
Workers and Students Presented Findings in Tuesday Zoom Conference Oakland: In research presented in a webinar this morning and streamed live on Facebook, a coalition of University of California Unions representing nearly 100,000 UC employees has found that UC has Read More …
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 …