Alongside other members of CUCFA, SCFA has been a strong advocate for robust state investment in public higher education, particularly via campaigns like the $66 dollar fix and the Reclaim California Higher Education Coalition. We also engage with the responses to the current threats to higher education that are initiated by Higher Education Labor United and the American Association of University Professors.
- AAUP National Day for Higher Education
- 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… Read more: Tenure-Track Faculty Are a Key Piece of the Academic Labor Puzzle - 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… Read more: Report from the 2022 National AAUP Convention - 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… Read more: Democratizing the University: Are Tenure-Stream Faculty for or Against? - * Paid Family Leave for UC EmployeesThe 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,… Read more: * Paid Family Leave for UC Employees
- * Letter re: the Academic Advisory Committee for the Selection of a New UC PresidentBelow 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… Read more: * Letter re: the Academic Advisory Committee for the Selection of a New UC President
- * UC abandons plans for closer affiliation with Dignity HealthWe 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,… Read more: * UC abandons plans for closer affiliation with Dignity Health
- * Followup with UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic EngagementTowards 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… Read more: * Followup with UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement
- * UC’s Contract with General Dynamics Information TechnologyJune 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… Read more: * UC’s Contract with General Dynamics Information Technology
- * 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… Read more: * CUCFA call on UC’s new Center for Free Speech to call for the defeat of ASSA and the proposed “Prosper Act”
- * The $66 Fix: Restore quality and access while eliminating tuition PLUS Prop 98 K-12 fundingBelow 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… Read more: * The $66 Fix: Restore quality and access while eliminating tuition PLUS Prop 98 K-12 funding
- * Taking a Stand Against Harassment, Part of the Broader Threat to Higher EducationThe 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… Read more: * Taking a Stand Against Harassment, Part of the Broader Threat to Higher Education
- 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… Read more: Saving Public Education: Public Lecture and Policy Document Release