An Independent Senate Faculty Union
An Independent Senate Faculty Union
February 14, 2022 Dear Cindy and Lori, We write to you with concerns raised by several faculty members about the process for attaining COVID accommodations for teaching modality. We share their concerns and raise the two primary issues that have…
December 14, 2021 Dear Cindy and Lori, We write to you with concerns related to UCSC’s implementation of UC President Drake’s announced 2021-22 range adjustment of 3% to the Senate faculty salary scales. SCFA’s members have brought a query to…
August 26, 2021 Dear Colleagues, The SCFA Executive Board wanted to alert you to the below message we sent yesterday to campus administration. We have heard from members who have concerns about returning to in-person teaching next month in light…
Please see the below letter to EVC Kletzer about fall teaching, sent jointly by SCFA, UC-AFT (the lecturers’ union), and UAW 2865 (the TA’s union). Linked here is the Senate Executive Committee’s letter on this topic, which we echo in…
The SCFA invites you to a membership meeting to discuss faculty working conditions, open to all Senate Faculty. Please save the date: Thursday April 8, 2021, 4-5:30PM. Please RSVP to scfa.assist@gmail.com to receive the agenda and ZOOM link for the…
As many of you know, our lecturer colleagues—who teach over 30% of undergraduate student credit hours on this campus—have been bargaining for a new contract with UC for almost two years, and they have been working without a contract for more…
Update 2/19/21 – The SCFA is pleased to announce that the university has withdrawn the suspension of Carlos Cruz, a position supported by SCFA and Faculty Associations from across the University of California: ——————————————————– December 6, 2020 Dear Chancellor…
SCFA invites you to a membership meeting-open to all Senate faculty-on Monday October 26, 6:45-8PM. In this moment of budget cuts and remote teaching amid the COVID pandemic, this meeting is an opportunity for all of us, together, to discuss…
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…
The SCFA became concerned with the AA relationship in the spring of 2016 (see earlier report here). Reports from other universities that had contracts with AA, particularly a detailed report from Rutgers University, suggested numerous problems with their data, most…