We wish to inform you of a special meeting of the systemwide Academic Senate General Assembly to be held TOMORROW, January 17, 2025, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM. The SDFA board encourages you to attend.

You can register for the Zoom here and join the Zoom here.

The systemwide Academic Senate Chair, Steve W. Cheung, has released the agenda for the meeting, which contains 63 pages of documents, which you can find here.

This meeting will discuss three issues affecting UC faculty:

1) The ill-conceived Information Security Investment Plan that President Drake is attempting to impose on all campuses without any faculty input (see the exchange between President Drake and the Academic Council regarding “Information Security Investment Plans”).

2) The differential treatment of faculty and administrators regarding compensation and cost-of-living adjustments (see the October 15, 2024, letter signed by 450 faculty and President Drake’s November 13, 2024 response).

3) The University of California’s continued decrease in its share of contributions to medical plans (UC paid 87.0% of employee health plan costs in 2022, which still put UC 7% below market in terms of health and welfare benefits [see pages 155 and 157 of UC’s 2023-24 Budget] but paid just 80.6% in 2025).

If you cannot attend, please contact your campus representatives and let them know how you feel about the three issues being discussed at this meeting.