UC’s Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Michael Brown, responded to our letter about Professor Napolitano serving on the Board of Directors for Zoom with the attached letter, the plain text of which is below: Dear Executive Board of the Council of UC Faculty Associations: I write to follow-up on my letter to…
Update 2/19/2021: The university has withdrawn the suspension of Carlos Cruz. He will remain on conduct probation for two-years. This will allow Carlos to continue his work toward a Ph.D. This fulfills the request we made in our letter to the chancellor: December 6, 2020 Dear Chancellor Larive, The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA)…
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 as University of California colleagues and the Council of UC Faculty Associations board of directors…
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: Dear Executive Board of the Council of UC Faculty Associations: Your letter dated September 24,…
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 paid off. But we still have to struggle with each of our campus administrations to…
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 to: president@ucop.edu Dear President Drake, As members of the Board of the Council of UC…
Our letter to the Governor and legislators about the 2020-21 California budget: June 11, 2020 Dear Governor Gavin Newsom, Speaker Anthony Rendon, Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, We are the Reclaim CA Higher Education Coalition, stakeholders committed to the reaffirmation of California’s Master Plan for Higher Education. We are the student, staff, faculty, and…
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 from media coverage of this story via the Santa Cruz Sentinel. The COLA issue and…
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 we welcome President Drake as the new President of the University of California. We wish…
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 the Council of UC Faculty Associations to express our outrage and deep concern at the…