Dear UC Regents’ Chair Leib, We are alarmed that the Regents have recently chosen to ignore the recommendations of the Academic Council and its systemwide Senate committees on a number of key issues. The centrality of faculty governance to the University of California is critical to maintaining its international reputation for excellence and recruiting the…
March 13, 2024 The Honorable Chair, Mike Fong California State Assembly Higher Education Committee Legislative Office Building, 1020 N Street, Room 173 Sacramento, CA 95814 RE: AB 2349 (Wilson) – SUPPORT Dear Assemblymember Fong, The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA), is an umbrella organization for the Faculty Associations (FAs) at each UC campus dedicated…
Below is the letter the Council of University of California Faculty Associations sent on February 12 to the UC Regents objecting to their proposed new website policy. Dear UC Regents, At its meeting on January 24, the Regents proposed a new policy on the use of university administrative websites. The central aim of this Action…
Below is the letter the Council of University of California Faculty Associations sent on February 12 to the UC Regents and President Drake asking them to urge the San Francisco District Attorney’s office to not pursue criminal charges against those arrested for protesting at the January UC Regents meeting. Dear President Drake and UC Regents,…
January 30, 2024 Dear President Drake, UC Regents, Chancellor Hawgood, Provost Lucey, Dean King, and Chair Wachter, The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) is an umbrella organization for the Faculty Associations at each of the ten UC campuses, which advocates for the economic and employment conditions of UC faculty and faculty rights of academic…
On January 29th, the Council of UC Faculty Associations signed on to the following UC Union Coalition letter that was sent to UC. A PDF of the letter is also available. Matt Teaford Director of Labor Relations University of California matthew.teaford@ucop.edu Dear Director Teaford, In 2024, University of California workers across the state are facing…
On November 16th, we sent the following letter to President Drake and the UC Regents. A PDF of the letter is also available. Dear President Drake and UC Regents, The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) is an umbrella organization for the Faculty Associations at each of the ten UC campuses, which advocates for the…
On November 14th, the Council of UC Faculty Associations signed on to the following UC Union Coalition letter that was sent to the UC Regents and copied to President Drake. A PDF of the letter is also available. Dear Regents of the University of California: The University of California Union Coalition demands that the Regents…
Dear President Drake and UC Regents, After the Council of UC Faculty Associations sent its letter of October 30 objecting to unreasonable increases in health benefit costs to President Drake and copied to the UC Regents, several faculty members contacted us to ask if we would open up our letter for others to sign. Since…
Below is a letter to UC President Michael Drake and the UC Regents objecting to healthcare benefit costs to employees increasing by 15% to 193%, depending on plan and coverage, that we sent on October 30th. We collected 1,600 signatures for a second edition of this letter, which we sent to President Drake and the…