Academic Freedom

 SCFA draws on our relationship with AAUP to promote and defend academic freedom, understood as “the freedom of a teacher or researcher in higher education to investigate and discuss the issues in his or her academic field, and to teach or publish findings without interference from political figures, boards of trustees, donors, or other entities.” 

• * CUCFA’s Letter to UC about the Potential for Censorship of Faculty by Private Technology ProvidersSeptember 24, 2020
  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 to: president@ucop.edu Dear President Drake, As members of the Board of the Council of UC… Read more: * CUCFA’s Letter to UC about the Potential for Censorship of Faculty by Private Technology Providers
• * Joint Statement with AAUP in support of Academic Freedom for LibrariansAugust 19, 2018
  August 18, 2018 President Janet Napolitano University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Email: president@ucop.edu Joint statement by CUCFA and CA-AAUP: On July 26, 2018 UC negotiators rejected a proposal by the UC-AFT Unit 17 that… Read more: * Joint Statement with AAUP in support of Academic Freedom for Librarians
• * Followup with UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic EngagementAugust 6, 2018
  Towards the end of May, CUCFA sent a letter to the leaders of UC’s new National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, asking for their help in stopping the “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act” (ASAA) and H.R. 4508 (commonly known as… Read more: * Followup with UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement
• * CUCFA call on UC’s new Center for Free Speech to call for the defeat of ASSA and the proposed “Prosper Act”May 30, 2018
  May 30, 2018 Dear President Napolitano, Chancellor Gillman, Dean Chemerinsky and Executive Director Deutchman, The Council of the University of California Faculty Associations writes to you as Chair and officers of the National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement… Read more: * CUCFA call on UC’s new Center for Free Speech to call for the defeat of ASSA and the proposed “Prosper Act”