An Independent Senate Faculty Union
An Independent Senate Faculty Union
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Update 2/19/21 – The SCFA is pleased to announce that the university has withdrawn the suspension of Carlos Cruz, a position supported by SCFA and Faculty Associations from across the University of California: ——————————————————– December 6,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…
Professor Christopher Newfield is perhaps the U.S.’s foremost scholar in “university studies.” Chris is Professor in the English Department at UC Santa Barbara, and is a co-organizer of the important and crucial website “Remaking the University” (utotherescue.blogspot.com). His books on…
June 10, 2020 Jennifer Schiffner Director, Employee & Labor Relations University of California, Santa Cruz Dear Jen, Thanks for your letter of June 9. The clarifications you sent, particularly the sunset clause, represent progress in the protection of faculty rights.…
This spring the university put out a call for online course proposals, to be developed over the summer with a summer stipend. A condition of the university’s call was that awardees “be willing to share these materials with their colleagues…
As the exclusive senate-faculty bargaining unit at UCSC, the SCFA is empowered to bargain with the administration over terms and conditions of senate-faculty employment at UCSC (not including system-wide matters). On February 18, the SCFA delivered a request to bargain…