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.,…
TO: UC President Mark Yudof FROM: Bob Meister,President of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, and Professor of Political and Social Thought, UC Santa Cruz SUBJECT: Your Open Letter to Californians of November 8, 2010 DATE: 11/15/2010 CC: Governor-Elect Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Lieutenant Governor-Elect Gavin Newsom, and all UC students So, you’re raising tuition…
CUCFA President Robert Meister was asked to give the keynote speech at the AAUP West Coast conference this year. His one hour speech, which anticipated that the UC Regents would vote to increase student fees at their November meeting and rebuts the fee increase proposal, was recorded and is presented in four 15 minute installments…
When delivered to UC President Yudof, this letter served as a cover letter to a longer report. October 14, 2010 Dear President Yudof, On behalf of the many faculty across the UC system who are members of our constituent Faculty Associations, we write to inform you that the Council of University of California Faculty Associations…
At California’s gubernatorial debate on September 28, 2010 Capital Public Radio’s Marianne Russ asked the question we (and others, apparently, as she attributed the question to a UC student) asked her to ask during yesterday’s debate: “As Governor would you roll back all of the funding cuts to the UC, CSU and CC systems, why…
August 10, 2010 Senator Felipe Fuentes, Chair Assembly Committee on Appropriations Re: Oppose SB 969 Dear Chair Fuentes, The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) opposes SB 969. Although CUCFA has a record of strong support for affordable public higher education in California, we cannot support the approach in SB 969. In the absence of…
In 2008, before the 2009 massive tuition increases at UC and CSU, students graduating from 11 public four year colleges in California graduated with more debt than students graduating from Stanford: College College Administered Debt Estimated Total Debt CSU Northridge $21,943 $44,000 CSU San Bernadino $17,872 $36,000 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo $17,848 $36,000 UC…
July 8, 2010 Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger State Capitol Sacramento, CA 95816 Dear Governor Schwarzenegger: The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) respectfully requests your signature of Senate Bill (SB) 650 – an important measure that will provide University of California (UC) employees the same whistleblower protections and legal standing currently provided to California State University…