On Wednesday May 13, a letter signed by CUCFA and all UC unions and containing a series of principles that should guide our navigation of the impending financial crisis of the State and UC system was delivered to President Napolitano and the Regents. Soon after, President Napolitano and Regents’ Chair Pérez met with representatives of […]
While we are all rightly occupied with confronting the pandemic spread of COVID-19 we cannot forget our more local emergency: the Graduate Association strike that has entered its third week and has recently confirmed that it will continue in the Spring. The SBFA board would like to inform faculty–to the best of our knowledge–of what […]
March 16, 2020 TO: President Janet Napolitano FROM: Council of UC Faculty Associations We write to ask you to delay the start of spring quarter by two weeks, to begin on April 13 rather than March 30. We came to this solution following an intensive discussion among our members about the challenges of moving to […]
By Lori Freedman, Ndola Prata, Susan Ivey and Seth Holmes; republished from the BFA newsletter, That was the Week That Was, #142. Should UC affiliate with religious health systems that prohibit choice in reproductive health care and LGBTQ-inclusive care? Those prohibitions are based on policies written by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and not […]