The social movement known as Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is growing and raising issues of direct relevance to the faculty, students and staff of the University of California, including contracting opportunities and increasing debt loads for our students created by a system of privatized education and a refusal to provide high quality affordable public higher…
May 12, 2011 Governor Jerry Brown c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173 Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone: (916) 445-2841 Fax: (916) 558-3160 Dear Governor Brown, The Council of UC Faculty Associations wrote to you on March 11th about our opposition to former Governor Schwarzenegger’s nomination of David Crane as UC Regent. Crane has shown disdain for a…
Christine Rosen, the Co-Chair of the Berkeley Faculty Association, wrote the following letter in response to an article in the Berkeley student paper about David Crane’s candidacy as UC Regent. This letter can also be read at the Daily Californian website, as can the original article that the letter was responding to. The flattering article…
CUCFA supports Assembly Member Warren Furutani’s proposed legislation that would raise funds for higher education through an oil extraction tax. We delivered the following letter of support with suggested changes: May 2, 2011 Assembly Member Warren Furutani State Capitol Building P.O. Box 942849 Sacramento, CA 94249-0055 Tel: (916) 319-2055 Fax: (916) 319-2155 Re: AB 1326…
The cover letter below, along with many pages of signatures, was sent to Governor Brown. A similar letter was sent to Senator Darrell Steinberg, the Chair of the Senate Rules Committee, as well as the other members of the Senate Rule Committee. March 11, 2011 Governor Jerry Brown c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173 Sacramento, CA…
CUCFA President Robert Meister wrote the following as a letter to the editor in response to a San Francisco Chronicle article that was published March 8th. The Chronicle chose not to print this response. Your recent editorial (“State Sen. Leland Yee’s attack on the Truth”) is largely an attack on Senator Yee as a potential…
March 8, 2011 Diane M. Griffiths Secretary and Chief of Staff of the UC Regents 1111 Franklin Street, 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Phone: 510-987-9220 Fax: 510-987-9224 Dear Ms. Griffiths: I note that David Crane is listed as a UC Regent on the universityofcalifornia.edu website. I wonder if the procedures for nominating and approving a…
Nearly 1000 UC faculty and staff have signed a petition to UC President Mark Yudof condemning the demands of the 36 UC executives threatening to sue UC over the pension cap on salaries above $245K. The number of signatories is remarkable given that the petition has been circulating for less than two days and campuses…
The following is a press release that the Council of UC Faculty Associations distributed to media outlets: At their Special Meeting on Monday, December 13, the Regents of the University of California will be making decisions on two significant issues – endorsing the principles of the UC Commission on the Future (UCOF) and drastically changing…
CUCFA is very concerned about an incident during student protests of the latest UC fee increase wherein a campus police officer drew his gun and pointed it towards protestors. We reprint a letter written by UC Irvine professor Rei Terada below: Peter King Director of Media Relations UC Office of the President 1111 Franklin St.,…