Below you can find recent public letters, petitions, and opinion pieces from SCFA, the Council of UC Faculty Associations, and SCFA board members.
- 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… Read more: Letter to administration regarding the policing of campus protests - 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 - UC Faculty Associations’ letter to President Drake about Senate Faculty Support of UAW-2865, UAW-5810, and SRU-UAW
November 11, 2022 President Michael V. Drake Office of the President University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Delivered via Email to: president@ucop.edu Dear President Drake, We are again writing to you as the leadership of… Read more: UC Faculty Associations’ letter to President Drake about Senate Faculty Support of UAW-2865, UAW-5810, and SRU-UAW - CUCFA’s Letter to UCSC Chancellor Larive about Carlos Cruz’ suspensionUpdate 2/19/21 – The SCFA is pleased to announce that the university has withdrawn the suspension of Carlos Cruz, a position supported by SCFA and Faculty Associations from across the University of California: https://cucfa.org/2020/12/to-larive-re-carlos-cruz-suspension/ ——————————————————– December 6, 2020 Dear Chancellor… Read more: CUCFA’s Letter to UCSC Chancellor Larive about Carlos Cruz’ suspension
- * CUCFA’s Letter to UC about the Potential for Censorship of Faculty by Private Technology ProvidersSeptember 24, 2020 President Michael V. Drake Office of the President University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Delivered via Email to: president@ucop.edu Dear President Drake, As members of the Board of the Council of UC… Read more: * CUCFA’s Letter to UC about the Potential for Censorship of Faculty by Private Technology Providers
- * CUCFA’s letter to President Napolitano regarding UC’s Cost of Living Crisis at UCSC and Across the SystemThe Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA), the coordinating and service agency for the individual Faculty Associations — associations of UC Senate faculty — on the separate campuses of the University of California. Below please find a letter that CUCFA… Read more: * CUCFA’s letter to President Napolitano regarding UC’s Cost of Living Crisis at UCSC and Across the System
- * Resolution in Support of LecturersUpdate: 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… Read more: * Resolution in Support of Lecturers
- * 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
- * CA-AAUP and CUCFA Issue Joint Statement in Support of UC WorkersThe 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… Read more: * CA-AAUP and CUCFA Issue Joint Statement in Support of UC Workers
- * 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
- * Joint Statement with AAUP in support of Academic Freedom for LibrariansAugust 18, 2018 President Janet Napolitano University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Email: president@ucop.edu Joint statement by CUCFA and CA-AAUP: On July 26, 2018 UC negotiators rejected a proposal by the UC-AFT Unit 17 that… Read more: * Joint Statement with AAUP in support of Academic Freedom for Librarians
- * 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