August 18, 2018 President Janet Napolitano University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Email: president@ucop.edu Joint statement by CUCFA and CA-AAUP: On July 26, 2018 UC negotiators rejected a proposal by the UC-AFT Unit 17 that academic freedom be recognized as a right of all UC librarians as academic employees. UC…
Towards the end of May, CUCFA sent a letter to the leaders of UC’s new National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, asking for their help in stopping the “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act” (ASAA) and H.R. 4508 (commonly known as the “Prosper Act”). Last week, Executive Director Deutchman responded to our letter. Our original letter…
June 21, 2018 President Janet Napolitano University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Email: president@ucop.edu Dear President Napolitano, The Board of the Council of UC Faculty Associations applauds you for your forthright support for UC’s undocumented students, your lawsuit against the Trump administration’s rescission of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA),…
May 30, 2018 Dear President Napolitano, Chancellor Gillman, Dean Chemerinsky and Executive Director Deutchman, The Council of the University of California Faculty Associations writes to you as Chair and officers of the National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement to express our strong concern about, and opposition to, two bills, that are presently before…
The Retiree Health Working Group convened by UCOP has released an Interim Summary of different options for saving UC money. The Working Group has not yet formulated its recommendations, which will go to President Napolitano on June 1. But it is safe to say that the overall impact of all these “savings” would be to…
CUCFA’s statement about AFSCME 3299’s new research report Pioneering Inequality: Race, Gender, and Income Disparities at the University of California: “This report proves essential reading for anyone concerned with ongoing economic, racial and gender disparities in the UC system. We urge immediate attention to its recommendations. UC workers and contracted employees deserve better. The UC…
Dear President Napolitano, The Council of UC Faculty Associations understands that UC has begun collective bargaining with the UC Student-Workers Union — UAW 2865. We find great merit in many of the Student-Workers bargaining goals, as outlined at: http://www.uaw2865.org/wp-content/uploads/UAW-2865-Final-2018-Bargaining-Goals-for-Ratification.pdf These goals include their desire for affordable housing, childcare, sanctuary campuses, demilitarizing UC police, and improving…
On March 12th, CUCFA sent the following letter to Susan Carlson, Vice Provost for Academic Personnel and Programs. Dear Vice Provost Carlson, The Council of UC Faculty Associations Board (CUCFA) is writing with an urgent request to extend the period allowed for faculty and students to comment on the proposed system-wide Open Access Dissertation Policy….
CUCFA signed on to the Reclaim California’s Higher Education coalition letter to Governor Brown about the Governor’s budget proposal. The letter expresses significant concerns about funding for public higher education in the current proposal: January 25th, 2018 Governor Jerry Brown California State Capitol Building, Suite 1173 Sacramento, CA Dear Governor Brown, The purpose of this…
A coalition of UC unions, including the Council of UC Faculty Associations, sent the following letter to UC President Janet Napolitano, asking to be a part of a new working group that UC is creating to discuss retiree health benefits: October 26, 2017 The Honorable Janet Napolitano, President University of California 1111 Franklin Street Oakland,…