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SCFA Budget Teach-in: Nov 4th, 6pm

Are you worried about budget cuts and austerity measures at UCSC?  The Santa Cruz Faculty Association (SCFA) invites you to a budget teach-in where you will learn more about how the budget works (and doesn’t) and discuss how faculty can…

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May day message

Happy May Day! The Executive Board of SCFA sends you greetings and solidarity in advance of this international workers’ day. We write to encourage faculty to attend tomorrow’s May Day rally in solidarity with the Palestine General Federation of Trade…

End of the year party and next year’s(2023-24) board

We are looking forward to seeing you at our final SCFA gathering of the academic year.  We’ll hold an End of Year Social at the Cowell Provost’s House tomorrow, June 13th, from 5-7pm, with beer, wine and food from Namaste.…

April 20: Higher Education for All! The Future is Free

Registration:  Higher Ed For All! Campaign Launch Thursday, April 20, 2023; Noon PT/ 1pm MT/ 2pm CT/ 3pm ET In person at Portland State University and virtually on Zoom HELU is launching our national coalition campaign with partners from the…

SCFA Open Meeting: Weds January 18, 2023 5PM

We hope you are doing as well as possible given the accumulated fatigue from last quarter as well as the recent storms. While the strike has ended (although the contract was overwhelmingly rejected by our campus), we realize that many…

CUCFA and UAW virtual town hall – November 11, 2022

CUCFA and UAW virtual town hall Friday, November 11, 4-5 pm, Please pre-register for this event:   Dear Colleagues, The Academic Student Employees, Postdocs, Academic Researchers, and Student Researchers plan to begin striking this coming Monday, November 14th. The…

SCFA General Meeting, April 8, 2021 4-5:30pm

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…

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Support ALL Faculty at UC: February 26th, 2021

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…

SCFA General Meeting 10/26/20

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…

Democratizing the University: Are Tenure-Stream Faculty for or Against?

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…

SCFA General Meeting, 1/13/20 from 5-7, Humanities 1, Room 202

Last quarter the SCFA executive board issued public statements supporting a COLA for graduate students and outlining our understanding of faculty obligations during the grade strike. Those communications followed extensive consultation with SCFA’s lawyers. We have since met with the…

Saving Public Education: Public Lecture and Policy Document Release

The UCSC Faculty Association is very excited to announce a talk by Christopher Newfield, Professor at UC Santa Barbara and author of several important books on higher education, on Thursday February 2, 2017:   “After the Great Mistake: Fixing Public Universities in…