Category Public Statements

SCFA and CUCFA public statements or public letters

Letter to administration regarding the policing of campus protests

Dear Chancellor Larive and EVC Kletzer, In light of recent police use of excessive force and violence across college campuses nationwide, the SCFA Executive Board calls on UCSC campus leadership to reject pressure to criminalize student-led protests of Israel’s ongoing…

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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…

CUCFA’s Letter to UCSC Chancellor Larive about Carlos Cruz’ suspension

Update 2/19/21 – The SCFA is pleased to announce that the university has withdrawn the suspension of Carlos Cruz, a position supported by SCFA and Faculty Associations from across the University of California: ——————————————————– December 6,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…

* Resolution in Support of Lecturers

Update: Success! A group of SCFA members brought a resolution to the UCSC Academic Senate, on November 15, 2019, in support of the impending negotiations between AFT-represented lecturers and the University of California. The faculty voted for the resolution almost…

* 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,…

* CA-AAUP and CUCFA Issue Joint Statement in Support of UC Workers

The executive board of the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) joins the executive board of the California Conference of the American Association of University Professors to express unconditional support for the just demands of our colleagues and friends of…

* 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,…

* 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…