Category Health and Safety

RFI: New Air Quality Request for Information

May 8, 2023 Patricia L. Hardaway Associate Vice Chancellor for Staff Human Resources and HRO (Interim) University of California, Santa Cruz RE: New Air Quality Request for Information Dear Pat, SCFA acknowledges receipt of the administration’s response to its request…

RFI: Campus-Wide Assessment of Air Exchange Rates

The SCFA filed a Request for Information concerning the campus-wide assessment of air exchange rates with the office Labor Relations, on March 17, 2023. ———————————– Thank you for fulfilling the recent RFI request to provide information on air flow exchange…

family, masks, covid-19

Fall 2022 instructors with immuno-compromised household members

SCFA sent EVC Kletzer the following letter on August 11, 2022, about teaching accommodations for instructors with immuno-compromised household members. If you haven’t already, please let us know if this or similar issues are of concern to you. Update: On…

* Faculty Concerns regarding Covid-related Accommodations

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…

* Maximum Flexibility for Fall Instructional Delivery

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…

* Fall 2021-2022 Reopening

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…

* UC abandons plans for closer affiliation with Dignity Health

We learned today that the concerted and united efforts of many (including the Faculty Association) have been successful in getting UCSF to give up on its plan to affiliate with Dignity Health. This is an especially important fight, and victory,…