Category: opinion of faculty members

SDFA Suggests a Vote of NO confidence in Chancellor Khosla

The San Diego Faculty Association endorses the Senate resolution of  No Confidence in Chancellor Pradeep Khosla. Our recommendation is guided by the belief that the Chancellor’s decision to call militarized police forces to disperse the student encampment and to arrest students and faculty was a dangerous and unnecessary escalation that endangered our health and safety […]

Faculty letter in solidarity with grad workers

Post updated June 24, 2023 – SDFA would like to clarify that it endorsed the following faculty-authored letter in solidarity with 67 graduate student workers who are going through a student conduct process for their peaceful protest (including 18 who were not even present at the event) on May 5th, which now has 283 signatories: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zo6cDELh_06_XQqwXVkckvuHiSFQQgy5vZF649iM9tA/edit#responses  […]

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 […]

A proposal for paid family leave to all who work at UC

The Council of UC Faculty Associations’ board has just signed on to a proposal to provide paid family leave to all who work at the University of California. Most working residents of California have access to financial support for pregnancy, bonding with a new child, and caring for a sick family member. The governor is […]

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