Update, November 3. UC’s Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Michael Brown, responded. September 24, 2020 President Michael V. Drake Office of the President University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Delivered via Email Read More …
Yesterday, UCSC and UAW 2865 announced that they had reached an agreement to allow for eligibility for re-employment of academic student employees who were dismissed for their failure to submit grades during the 2019-20 academic year. More information is available Read More …
July 28, 2020 Office of the President University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Sent Via Email: president@ucop.edu, regentsoffice@ucop.edu Dear Presidents Drake and Napolitano: We represent academic, educator, and healthcare unions in the UC system, and Read More …
July 7, 2020 President Janet Napolitano and President-Elect Michael V. Drake Office of the President University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Dear President Napolitano and President-Elect Drake, We write as members of the Board of Read More …
As a member of the coalition to Reclaim California’s Public Higher Education Systems, CUCFA signed on to their budget letter: June 11, 2020 Dear Governor Gavin Newsom, Speaker Anthony Rendon, Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, We are the Reclaim Read More …
Dear President Napolitano, We are writing to urge the UCOP to adopt a system-wide policy rejecting and discontinuing all remote, external proctoring services (e.g., ProctorU, Respondus) effective immediately. Forcing students to submit to a protocol that entails personal surveillance during Read More …
A letter from the workers, students and faculty who know firsthand what Higher Ed needs COVID 19 and the uprisings following George Floyd’s murder are a wake-up call for higher education in the U.S. Will higher ed actually deliver the Read More …
Workers and Students Presented Findings in Tuesday Zoom Conference Oakland: In research presented in a webinar this morning and streamed live on Facebook, a coalition of University of California Unions representing nearly 100,000 UC employees has found that UC has Read More …
The current crisis has brought into focus the extreme precarity that contingent faculty live with year in and year out. UC-AFT (the union that represents UC lecturers) is circulating a pledge that asks ladder rank faculty at the University of Read More …
Below is a letter The Council of UC Faculty Associations and other unions and student groups delivered to UC President Napolitano, the Board of Regents, the Chancellors, and the Medical Center CEOs. It is an enumeration of our concerns and Read More …