February 21, 2017 The Honorable Nancy Skinner State Capitol, Room 2059 Sacramento, CA 95814 fax 916-327-1997 Re: UC Faculty Support SB-201 (Skinner) Dear Senator Skinner, We of the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) wish to alert you to the fact that many faculty support SB 201 (Skinner), which would allow UC’s Graduate Student Researchers…
(A PDF of this report — prettier than this web version and suitable for printing — is available. A spreadsheet with all the data and charts in this report is also available.) California’s commitment to its world-acclaimed system of public higher education has declined dramatically since 2000, at tremendous loss to California’s people, economy and…
February 7, 2017 President Janet Napolitano University of California, Office of the President 1111 Franklin Street, 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 president@ucop.edu Dear President Napolitano, We applaud your clear denunciation of President Trump’s executive order restricting the ability of individuals from certain countries to re-enter the US as “contrary to the values we hold dear…
Several of the authors presented our policy paper at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges & Universities. Here is how the panel appeared in the meeting’s Program: Reinvigorating California’s Master Plan for Higher Education Henry Reichman, First Vice-President, American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Stanton Glantz, Professor of Medicine, University of California…
A tuition-free college education in California is possible. A new policy paper released today demonstrates that it is entirely possible today to provide the same accessible, low-cost university experience that California successfully offered its students from the 1960s through the 1990s. The report demonstrates that we can revive the California Master Plan for Higher Education—eliminating…
Here are links to articles that develop from the press event held today to release our policy paper. We will add links below as we come across them: Academe Blog (1/24): The $48 Fix: Reclaiming California’s Master Plan The Turlock Journal (1/24): Report shows how California can achieve tuition free college education Remaking the University…
Dear President Napolitano, We applaud your timely declaration in the immediate aftermath of the election that the UC administration “remain[s] absolutely committed to supporting all members of our community and adhering to UC’s Principles Against Intolerance.”[1] Like you, we are gravely concerned by the statements made by President-elect Donald Trump during the campaign, and in…
A University of California Chancellor must be committed both to broad access to university education and to scholarly excellence, and have a proven record of support for the value of public education. A Chancellor must recognize that, despite increases in fundraising for specific projects, efforts at privatization have failed to sustain the University’s central mission…
Dear Dr. Cline: The Council of University of California Faculty Associations is extremely alarmed by the “lock out” action taken by your administration against the faculty of LIU-Brooklyn. The action has no precedent in higher education in this country and constitutes a grave assault on unions, labor negotiations, and faculty themselves. We urge you to…
Dear colleagues, As you are most likely aware, over the summer a failed coup attempt in Turkey has led to an unprecedented crackdown on academic freedom in that country. Thousands of professors and teachers have been fired from their jobs, arrested, and/or threatened with prosecution in trials which will most likely fail to meet even…
