An Independent Senate Faculty Union
An Independent Senate Faculty Union
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…
June 21, 2018 President Janet Napolitano University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Email: president@ucop.edu Dear President Napolitano, The Board of the Council of UC Faculty Associations applauds you for your forthright support for UC’s undocumented…
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…
Below is the link to the updated version of the “$48. fix: Reclaiming California’s MASTER PLAN for Higher Education“ that was produced by the Reclaim California Higher Education coalition, which includes the Council of University of California Faculty Associations and other…
The Board of the UCSC Faculty Association supports the following AAUP statement which was released September 7, 2017, and is also signed by the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of Colleges and Universities. ———————————– In recent months…
We concluded our bargaining with the university over revenues for online course offerings in December 2016. Under the current agreement, 40% of any revenues above course development costs will go to the faculty developer, a figure double the university’s original…
In December 2016 the university proposed a cap on summer school salaries, and the SCFA began bargaining on the issue. We first succeeded in getting the university to agree not to implement proposed changes in Summer 2017. Bargaining on the…
The SCFA is pleased to announce that the University’s contract with Academic Analytics (AA), a private firm that contracts with universities to manage a range of data, including faculty research productivity and other material used in the personnel and resource…
The Campaign for the Future of Higher Education is trying to prevent the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education. The SCFA supports this campaign and encourages colleagues to call our senators (phone numbers below). As well, please forward…
On Thursday, January 26, the UC Regents will consider and likely approve their budget for the University for 2017-2018. It and the Governor’s budget, to which it is closely tied, perpetuate decades of failed privatization and persistent under funding of…