Yesterday, UCSC and UAW 2865 announced that they had reached an agreement to allow for eligibility for re-employment of academic student employees who were dismissed for their failure to submit grades during the 2019-20 academic year. More information is available from media coverage of this story via the Santa Cruz Sentinel. The COLA issue and…
July 28, 2020 Office of the President University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Sent Via Email: president@ucop.edu, regentsoffice@ucop.edu Dear Presidents Drake and Napolitano: We represent academic, educator, and healthcare unions in the UC system, and we welcome President Drake as the new President of the University of California. We wish…
July 7, 2020 President Janet Napolitano and President-Elect Michael V. Drake Office of the President University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Dear President Napolitano and President-Elect Drake, We write as members of the Board of the Council of UC Faculty Associations to express our outrage and deep concern at the…
As a member of the coalition to Reclaim California’s Public Higher Education Systems, CUCFA signed on to their budget letter: June 11, 2020 Dear Governor Gavin Newsom, Speaker Anthony Rendon, Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, We are the Reclaim CA Higher Education Coalition, stakeholders committed to the reaffirmation of California’s Master Plan for Higher…
Dear President Napolitano, We are writing to urge the UCOP to adopt a system-wide policy rejecting and discontinuing all remote, external proctoring services (e.g., ProctorU, Respondus) effective immediately. Forcing students to submit to a protocol that entails personal surveillance during an exam and requires technology and Internet access unavailable to many has caused pedagogical failings…
A letter from the workers, students and faculty who know firsthand what Higher Ed needs COVID 19 and the uprisings following George Floyd’s murder are a wake-up call for higher education in the U.S. Will higher ed actually deliver the promises of an equitable America, or further drive its inequality? College and University Presidents are…
Workers and Students Presented Findings in Tuesday Zoom Conference Oakland: In research presented in a webinar this morning and streamed live on Facebook, a coalition of University of California Unions representing nearly 100,000 UC employees has found that UC has dramatically increased its cash reserves since the 2008 recession, and currently has billions of dollars…
The current crisis has brought into focus the extreme precarity that contingent faculty live with year in and year out. UC-AFT (the union that represents UC lecturers) is circulating a pledge that asks ladder rank faculty at the University of California to demonstrate solidarity in a very concrete way, and CUCFA is endorsing this pledge….
Below is a letter The Council of UC Faculty Associations and other unions and student groups delivered to UC President Napolitano, the Board of Regents, the Chancellors, and the Medical Center CEOs. It is an enumeration of our concerns and suggestions for dealing with the financial consequences of COVID-19. May 13, 2020 Dear University of…
The federal government, which is not required to be balanced each year as California’s state budget is, has a unique ability to engage in countercyclical spending in times like the current crisis. CUCFA has signed on to the following letter: April 27, 2020 Dear Speaker Pelosi, Minority Leader McCarthy, Majority Leader McConnell, and Minority Leader…
