After two years of organizing across every campus in this system, we are changing our name. The Council of UC Faculty Associations is now the University of California Faculty Association, UCFA. When CUCFA was founded in 1974, it was a council: a coordinating body linking ten independent campus associations, each doing its own work. That…
Dear UC Board of Regents, President James B. Milliken, and Interim Provost and Executive Vice President Ralph J. Hexter, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon’s August 3rd, 2026 letter, titled “A National Call to Action to University Presidents and Governing Boards,” is a thinly-disguised attempt to create another “compact” between higher education institutions and the Trump…
University of California faculty need a stable cost environment to perform research. Unexpected increases in the costs of labor, benefits, facilities, and services and sudden adjustments to indirect cost reimbursements create strains on research budgets. Recent landmark collective bargaining agreements rightfully adjusted compensation for Graduate Student Researchers (GSRs) and Academic Postdoctoral Scholars. But the University…
Over the past two years, UC faculty have faced an unprecedented attack on our ability to do our research. Now more than ever it is necessary for UCOP to defend the university’s academic mission by using itsresources to stabilize the sponsored research environment. Long term, we urge UCOP to ensure thatfaculty have the resources necessary…
Thanks to the advocacy of hundreds of faculty who joined the fight through their Faculty Associations, the $7.5B California Research Fund (SB 895) is now headed to the 2028 ballot where this funding decision will be in the hands of California voters. The Assembly passed the bill on August 31st and Governor Newsom signed it…
In 2005, when the student-faculty ratio was 25.5 to 1, UC promised that they would not let that number deteriorate further. Twenty years later, it is now 29.6 to 1 – meanwhile, senior administrators have more than doubled. Over the last two decades, the University of California has been steadily displacing tenure-track facultyfrom our central…
In a surprise move, SB 895, the California Science and Health Research Bond Act, has passed out of the Appropriations Committee on a 12-to-1 vote. The bill had been stuck in Appropriations since July, and it missed the deadline for the 2026 ballot. It is now first in line, should it be passed, for the 2028 ballot….
Earlier this week, the Trump administration admitted that they scanned for keywords related to race, diversity, gender, vaccines, and other topics anathema to the administration when deciding which UC faculty research grants to cancel. This revelation has significant legal consequences for UC faculty fighting to restore their grants because it suggests the administration violated the…
On Thursday, June 18, guest speaker Dr. Elizabeth Ginexi led the OMB Comment-a-thon hosted by the UC San Francisco Faculty Association and the Council of UC Faculty Associations. Interest in this event was enormous, with over 200 people RSVPing. Here is a recording of Dr. Ginexi’s presentation and slides from the Comment-a-thon session. The OMB…
Over the next few weeks, UC faculty have two vital opportunities to advocate on issues related to research funding. SB895 (the California Science and Health Research Bond) will be voted on in the next three weeks in the CA state assembly. Please consider calling your assemblymember using this script. If you’d like some guidance on…
