February 9, 2007 Dear Judy: We agreed at our meeting on January 29 that you would send CUCFA the agenda materials for the February 9 meeting of the UC Faculty Welfare Committee and ask Chair Susan French’s permission for us to be present as guests. I had the meeting on my calendar for today, and…
CUCFA was very active this legislative session. What follows are updates on the bills that we acted on and discussed with legislators. The Budget: This year the state budget was reasonably generous to UC, providing funding above the minimums specified in the 2004 compact between UC and the Governor. UC will receive $3.077 billion, an…
On June 26th, CUCFA delivered the following letter to Assemblyman Yee and to members and staff of the Senate Committee on Higher Education: Dear Assemblyman Yee, The Council of University of California Faculty Associations strongly endorse the intent of the amendments to Education Code 92020 offered on June 20, 2006, but having said that, we…
On May 12th, CUCFA delivered the following letter (along with print copies of the referred report) to members of the California Senate and Assembly sitting on education budget committees: The UC Academic Senate Committee on Planning and Budget has recently released a report on whether UC’s continuing privatization is educationally and fiscally feasible. CUCFA felt…
by Eric Hays and Charles Nash During the legislative session that began in January, CUCFA will be lobbying state legislators on at least three fronts: (1) Faculty Recruitment–if UC is to retain its identity as the world’s premier public university system, faculty salaries must be returned to parity much sooner than the ten-year horizon envisioned…
CUCFA sent the following letter to Senator Jack Scott’s office for distribution to the Senate Education Committee: February 8, 2006 To: The Honorable Jack Scott, Chair Senate Education Committee Re: Hearing on University of California Compensation Practices, February 8, 2006 Dear Senator Scott and Committee Members: Bluntly stated, the UC Regents’ announced goal of bringing…
Mr. Gerald Parsky, Chair Board of Regents University of California RE: Action Item 5C (January 18, 2006) Dear Chair Parsky: The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) has serious concerns about proceeding with a permanent division of assets between UCRP and the LANSLLC prior to disclosure of the relevant terms of the contract between UC,…
Mr. Gerald Parsky, Chair Board of Regents University of California RE: Action Item 3C (January 18, 2006) Dear Chair Parsky: The Regents should not implement last November’s decision on the Senior Leadership Compensation Group (SLCG) as though nothing has happened since then. Over the past few months there has been widespread criticism in the press…
Fortunately, this is a choice that voters have not yet made and can still resist By Robert Meister, President of the Council of UC Faculty Associations. Published in the San Francisco Chronicle Jan 15, 2006. Revelations of secrecy and possible self-dealing in the compensation of some of the University of California’s top administrators expose a…
by Charles P. Nash, VP-External Relations and Eric Hays, Director External Relations On October 26, 2005 we had our now-customary annual meeting with Assistant Vice President for Academic Advancement, Ellen Switkes, and Vice President for Budget, Larry Hershman. Among other things, these late autumn meetings give us a preview of the budget proposal that the…
