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Tenure-Track Faculty Are a Key Piece of the Academic Labor Puzzle
JACOBIN – January 31, 2023 Jacobin spoke with SCFA cochair Jessica Taft, professor of Latin American and Latino studies at UC Santa Cruz, to understand the relationship between tenure and labor politics at the university, touching on the increasingly corporate…
Report from the 2022 National AAUP Convention
Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA, of which SCFA is the UCSC chapter) President Constance Penley attended the historic National AAUP convention on June 16-18 in Arlington, VA, as the CUCFA delegate, which meant that she had an opportunity to…
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…
* Paid Family Leave for UC Employees
The Council of UC Faculty Associations’ board has just signed on to a proposal to provide paid family leave to all who work at the University of California. Most working residents of California have access to financial support for pregnancy,…
* Letter re: the Academic Advisory Committee for the Selection of a New UC President
Below is a copy of a letter CUCFA sent to the chair and vice chair of the systemwide Academic Senate regarding the academic advisory committee for the selection of a new UC President. ————————————————– October 7, 2019 With President Napolitano’s…
* 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,…
* Followup with UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement
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…
* UC’s Contract with General Dynamics Information Technology
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…
* CUCFA call on UC’s new Center for Free Speech to call for the defeat of ASSA and the proposed “Prosper Act”
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…
* The $66 Fix: Restore quality and access while eliminating tuition PLUS Prop 98 K-12 funding
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…
* Taking a Stand Against Harassment, Part of the Broader Threat to Higher Education
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…
The $48 fix: Reclaiming California’s Master Plan for Higher Education
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…
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…
* Statement to UC Regents about new UCRS tier
Professor Celeste Langan spoke on behalf of the UC Faculty Associations at the July 22, 2015 UC Regents meeting during the public comment period. Below is a copy of her full comments: *********************** As co-Chair of the Berkeley Faculty Association…
* Faculty Association Analysis of the UC Budget
The Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) has released the following statement to help inform faculty about the terms and consequences of the revised budget. The May Revise As the Legislature and Governor enter the end game for…
* California public higher education coalition letter to Gov. Brown
Pasted below is the text of a union coalition letter that was sent today, December 15, 2014, to Governor Brown and other state leaders, as well as the leaders of the three higher ed systems. Dear Governor Brown: The escalating…
* CUCFA statement on UC’s planned tuition increases
Below please find a letter that The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA), the systemwide organization of which the UCSC Faculty Association is a member, sent today to President Napolitano and the UC Regents regarding their recent proposal to raise…
* CUCFA’s Letter to San Francisco City Attorney Herrera re: ACCJC suit
On August 28, CUCFA sent the following letter to San Francisco’s City Attorney Dennis Herrera: August 28, 2013 City Attorney Dennis Herrera City Hall, Room 234 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place San Francisco, CA 94102-4682 cityattorney@sfgov.org fax: (415) 554-4745…
* California: Do MOOCs Deserve Credit?
“It’s the wrong solution to the wrong problem,” said Robert Meister, chair of the Council of UC Faculty Associations and professor at UC Santa Cruz, in a phone interview. He argued that the problem is inadequate funding and the solution…
* SB 520 Update – Bill Monning abstains in the face of significant pressure
SB-520 passed out of the Senate Education Committee on May 1, 2013. It now moves on to the Senate Appropriations committee. It has not yet been scheduled to be heard by the Appropriations committee, but that committee must hear it…
* Add your voice to a call for changes to SB 520
We are deeply concerned by Senator Darrell Steinberg’s attempt to force the UCs, CSUs, and Community Colleges to accept credit for online courses from any source. Please help us convince him to pull or amend his bill by signing the petition.
* OPEN LETTER TO MEMBERS OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE ABOUT SB 520
March 15, 2013 - Academic senate leaders sent out this statement from the statewide senate officials. Senate Bill 520 raises grave concerns. We were not consulted in the writing of this legislation, which purports to address course access problems experienced by students in public higher education. Next week, we plan to meet with Senator Steinberg’s staff in order to discuss this bill.
* SENATOR STEINBERG’S PROPOSED ONLINE CLASSES BILL
Yesterday’s New York Times (and a number of other news sources) had an article about proposed legislation from Senator Steinberg that would require California’s public higher education systems to accept transfer credits from select online course providers for 50 of…
* How much will it cost to restore public higher education in 2012-13 (updated with January 2013 state budget data)
Raising revenue has become such a taboo subject in California politics, but restoring quality public higher education in California can be done. For the median California tax return (individual or joint), restoring the entire system while rolling back student fees…
* Professors, not UC, own their lectures (2000 legislation co-sponsored by CUCFA/CFA)
In 2000 CUCFA and the CFA (the labor union representing the CSU faculty) successfully co-sponsored legislation that specifies that individual professors, not UC, own their lectures, which is very important now as UC tries to move lectures to the web. (CHAPTER 6.5. UNAUTHORIZED RECORDING,…
* Brown and Yudof Bail on the Master Plan
By: Bob Meister, President of CUCFA (Professor of Political and Social Thought, UCSC) On June 27, Governor Jerry Brown vetoed language inserted by both houses of the legislature that would have tied UC funding to admitting a minimum number of…
* What Governor Brown’s May Budget Proposal Means for UC
UC President Mark Yudof and Governor Jerry Brown are working out a deal behind closed doors that will loosen the most important ties between the university and the state. Although they will both praise the deal by saying that it…