The UC San Diego Faculty Association joins the UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council in urging you to support the UC A-G ethnic studies requirement (subject requirement for admission to the UC system), which the campus has already endorsed. We share their concern about a disturbing, recent development that suggests political interference into faculty rights to […]
Vote on Fossil fuel memorial
Dear Colleagues, We urge you to vote to affirm the Senate in sending the following to the UC Regents: The University of California Academic Senate petitions the Regents for investments in UC’s infrastructure that will reduce on-campus fossil fuel combustion by at least 60% of current levels by 2030 and by 95% of current levels […]
Virtual Public Transit Town Hall May 18 Update and Reminder
Mobility justice made a huge stride this week! On Wednesday May 11th, a coalition of local environmental justice activists, construction unions, educators, climate warriors and mobility equity advocates submitted 165,000 signatures to the registrar of voters to get the LetsGoSD measure on November’s ballot. It was a really energetic campaign, with dozens of members of grassroots organizations […]
Invitation to climate justice teach in and film screening March 30
The UCSD Faculty Association invites you to join a film screening and panel discussion on climate justice, sponsored by the Green New Deal at UCSD and Eleanor Roosevelt College, on March 30. See the full description below. As part of a worldwide climate justice teach-in on March 30th, you are invited to a screening of the […]
UC-AFT announces strike
The lecturers’ union, UC-AFT, has just notified UC management that they plan to strike this week, Wednesday, November 17 and Thursday, November 18, in response to the administration’s bad faith bargaining and unfair labor practices. There are negotiations scheduled for Monday, but the UC administration’s recent refusal to participate in good faith in the statutory […]