CUCFA sent the following letter to all the Regents as well as the Chairs of three Academic Senate committees, the University Committee on Faculty Welfare, the UCFW Task Force on Investment & Retirement, and the University Committee on Planning & Budget. November 16, 2007 Regent’s Chair Richard C. Blum 1111 Franklin St., 12th floor Oakland,…
The Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) mourns the loss of Professor Charles Nash. Charlie was a long time member of the UC Davis Faculty Associations and of the statewide Council, and held leadership positions in both organizations. For many years he served CUCFA – as Vice President of External Affairs, overseeing our…
CUCFA supports SCR 52, legislation which calls for employees to have equal representation on the UC Retirement System governing board. The following is a letter CUCFA distributed to the members of the Senate Public Employees Retirement Committee. May 29, 2007 The Honorable Pat Wiggins (Chair) Public Employee Retirement Committee California State Senate RE: Support of…
At a March 14 meeting, the Assembly Budget Subcommittee #2 (Education) will be discussing a revamp of the CPEC faculty salary comparison methodology. CUCFA is using the opportunity to argue the need to consider relative costs of living in any revamp. Below is a letter CUCFA sent to be distributed to the committee members. March…
On February 28th, CUCFA delivered the following letter to Senator Yee: Dear Senator Yee, The Council of University of California Faculty Associations is pleased to support SB 190. With respect to the University of California, this measure will insure that executive compensation proposals involving the principal officers of the regents and the most senior officers…
February 9, 2007 Dear Judy: We agreed at our meeting on January 29 that you would send CUCFA the agenda materials for the February 9 meeting of the UC Faculty Welfare Committee and ask Chair Susan French’s permission for us to be present as guests. I had the meeting on my calendar for today, and…
CUCFA was very active this legislative session. What follows are updates on the bills that we acted on and discussed with legislators. The Budget: This year the state budget was reasonably generous to UC, providing funding above the minimums specified in the 2004 compact between UC and the Governor. UC will receive $3.077 billion, an…
On June 26th, CUCFA delivered the following letter to Assemblyman Yee and to members and staff of the Senate Committee on Higher Education: Dear Assemblyman Yee, The Council of University of California Faculty Associations strongly endorse the intent of the amendments to Education Code 92020 offered on June 20, 2006, but having said that, we…
On May 12th, CUCFA delivered the following letter (along with print copies of the referred report) to members of the California Senate and Assembly sitting on education budget committees: The UC Academic Senate Committee on Planning and Budget has recently released a report on whether UC’s continuing privatization is educationally and fiscally feasible. CUCFA felt…
by Eric Hays and Charles Nash During the legislative session that began in January, CUCFA will be lobbying state legislators on at least three fronts: (1) Faculty Recruitment–if UC is to retain its identity as the world’s premier public university system, faculty salaries must be returned to parity much sooner than the ten-year horizon envisioned…