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 address the crisis under which many of our graduate students live. This is a crisis…
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 President Janet Napolitano quickly put out a statement thanking the Governor, concluding: “UC appreciates the…
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 hours). Lecturers, represented by the University of California-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT), are currently engaged…
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 nominations to the University of California Board of Regents Dear Lande Ajose and Joseph Freeman:…
Below is a copy of a letter we sent to the chair and vice chair of the systemwide Academic Senate regarding the academic advisory committee for the selection of a new UC President. October 7, 2019 With President Napolitano’s announcement of her resignation, effective August 2020, it is vital to undertake a search process that…
September 11, 2019 Governor Gavin Newsom 1303 10th Street, Suite 1173 Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone: (916) 445-2841 Fax: (916) 558-3160 Re: Support AB-130 – The Higher Education Performance, Accountability, and Coordination Commission Dear Governor Newsom, We write to you to ask that you support AB-130 and to sign it should it finish its journey in…
CUCFA signed on to a letter that was sent to the UC Regents and to the UCRS Advisory Board on August 30th: Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff to the Regents 1111 Franklin St., 12th floor Oakland, CA 94607 regentsoffice@ucop.edu Re: Unfair Proposal to Increase Employee Share of the New UCRS Normal Cost…
April 16th, 2019 The Honorable Connie Leyva Senate Education Committee 1020 N Street, Room 545 Sacramento, CA 95814 RE: Senate Bill 715 (Galgiani) Position: Support Dear Senator Leyva: The Council of UC Faculty Associations supports Senate Bill 715 which would amend the public contracts code retroactively to 2015 adding Chapter 3.95 (commencing with Section…
The executive board of the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) joins the executive board of the California Conference of the American Association of University Professors to express unconditional support for the just demands of our colleagues and friends of the Union of Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE-CWA) and American Federation of State, County, and…
CUCFA President Constance Penley has written to Academic Senate Chair Robert May and Academic Senate Vice Chair Kum-Kum Bhavnani about our ongoing concern for the lack of shared governance, this time in UC’s implementation of suggestions made in the Huron Report. Here is a copy of her letter: Dear Professors May and Bhavnani, I am…