We are writing to share the letter sent out on Thursday, October 21st, 2022 to UC President Michael Drake reiterating our unequivocal support for our UC-AFT lecturer colleagues and urging UCOP to bargain in good faith. We would also like to share that over 750 Senate Faculty across all UC campuses have signed the Solidarity […]
Author: SDFA Staff
Request for delay of start of quarter
Campuses across the country are moving to remote teaching. Dozens of campuses are postponing the start of spring quarter to give faculty, students and staff time to make that move. The Council of UC Faculty Associations has asked President Napolitano and the Chancellors for that same flexibility: March 16, 2020 TO: President Janet Napolitano […]
President Napolitano, please extend striking student health insurance for COVID-19
March 14, 2020 Dear President Napolitano, The Faculty Organizing Group at UCSC has just issued a very important letter to UCSC’s EVC Kletzer (copied below) in which they call for an act of “empathy, compassion, and responsibility” in reinstating the 80 graduate students fired for their participation in the COLA strike, because they are poised […]
UC Faculty Association Letter re: Academic Advisory Committee for the Selection of a New UC President
Below is a copy of a letter The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) sent to the chair and vice chair of the systemwide Academic Senate regarding the academic advisory committee for the selection of a new UC President. October 7, 2019 With President Napolitano’s announcement of her resignation, effective August 2020, it is vital […]
UC abandons plans for closer affiliation with Dignity Health
We learned today that the concerted and united efforts of many (including the Faculty Association) have been successful in getting UCSF to give up on its plan to affiliate with Dignity Health. This is an especially important fight, and victory, in light of current efforts (some successful) to turn back the clock on Roe vs. […]