Whereas in the wake of the recent Presidential election, many people live in fear of President Donald Trump’s large-scale deportation agenda, including the administration’s directive to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to arrest up to 1,500 people a day, the threat of immigrant incarceration in Guantanamo Bay, the possible revocation of birthright citizenship, and the Laken…
Dear Colleagues: On Thursday, March 13th, at 6pm, the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) will hold a town hall on the ongoing threats to federal research funding, the state’s current proposal to cut a further 8% from the UC system, and the concomitant uncertainty pertaining to the provision of graduate and undergraduate student financial…
Dear colleagues: We are currently experiencing an unprecedented attack on higher education. The Trump and Musk administration has proposed massive cuts to critical funding that universities receive from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts. At the same time, the…
On February 18, CUCFA delivered the following letter to President Drake, Provost Newman, Academic Senate Chair Cheung, members of the APC Workgroup, and the Division Senate Chairs. February 18, 2025 Dear President Drake, Provost Newman, Academic Senate Chair Cheung, members of the APC Workgroup, and Division Senate Chairs: We write to share the grave concern by a…
Below is a summary of comments submitted in our survey of UC faculty regarding the Academic Planning Council (APC)’s convening of a joint Senate-Administration workgroup focused on the possibility of a common systemwide calendar. The full collection of comments (as of February 12th) is available here. Overall Sentiment: A significant portion of the faculty expresses…
CUCFA has recently surveyed UC faculty regarding the Academic Planning Council (APC)’s convening of a joint Senate-Administration workgroup focused on the possibility of a common systemwide calendar. We have collected 1,263 survey responses to date. As of February 12th, we have been able to distribute our survey on five campuses, and these make up the…
Dear Colleagues, We write to inform you that at UCOP’s request, the Academic Planning Council (APC) has convened a joint Senate-Administration workgroup focused on the possibility of a common systemwide semester calendar. You can see its charge, composition, and plans here. The workgroup aims to issue its report in Spring 2025. While the charge refers…
CUCFA President Constance Penley participated in a UC Regent’s townhall soliciting input on the hiring of a new UC President. Here is what she said: The Council of UC Faculty Associations is an umbrella organization for each UC campus’s Faculty Associations (FAs). The Faculty Associations are comprised of all ranks of UC Senate faculty, emeriti,…
We signed on to the University of California Student Association and UC Union Coalition letter to UC President Michael Drake: January 16, 2025 Dear President Michael V. Drake, In light of the recent election and the upcoming transition to a new presidential administration, we, University of California Union Coalition and UC Student Association, request to…
Faculty from across the UC system — long synonymous with the Free Speech Movement — have organized to fight a systematic, illegal campaign to repress academic freedom Los Angeles, CA – Today, the Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) and faculty associations from seven University of California (UC) campuses filed an Unfair Labor…