The UC Faculty San Diego Association calls on the Systemwide Academic Senate and the UC San Diego Division Senate in the spirit of shared government and responsibility to the California public. On May 12, 2020, Voice of San Diego reported “UC Campuses Have Disclosed Virtually No Records Under Police Transparency Law.” We encourage you to […]
Austerity, Inequality, and the COVID Crisis: A Faculty Town Hall
Austerity, Inequality, and the COVID Crisis: A Faculty Town Hall Monday, June 8th 4-5:30 pm Sponsored by the San Diego Faculty Association The pandemic has impacted every aspect of our working lives: teaching, childcare, research, and more. It has brought existing structural inequality and precarity into sharp relief in our classrooms, departments, and communities. […]
Standing Against Violence of Police: UCSD Must Respond
The board of the San Diego Faculty Association (SDFA) stands with all UCSD workers and communities in San Diego who mourn the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police, the domestic arm of a global project of US militarism whose reach extends throughout the world. We recognize the UC system’s complicity in violence […]
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 […]