Updated 11/24/2020: It appears from “A Message from President Drake about UC’s Commitment to Preserving Jobs during the Pandemic” that the efforts of CUCFA (below), the UC Union Coalition, and the Academic Senate to analyze and push back on the dangerously short-sighted curtailment plan paid off. But we still have to struggle with each of our campus administrations to…
Update, November 3. UC’s Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Michael Brown, responded. September 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…
Our letter to the Governor and legislators about the 2020-21 California budget: 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 Education. We are the student, staff, faculty, and…
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 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 Education. We are the student, staff, faculty, and labor groups of the California Community Colleges, California State University, and the University of California…
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…
