Allan Stewart-Oaten Emeritus Professor of Ecology, Evolution And Marine Biology Steadfast defender of shared governance and faculty involvement in the financial management of the university. We will miss your voice.
December 8, 2022 Dear Comparative Literature Program Faculty, We are now in the fourth week of the largest strike of academic workers in the history of the United States. We want to begin by thanking the Comparative Literature Program and its affiliated departments for your support during this historic moment. We write this letter in […]
As the UAW strike ends its fourth week, the UCSB Faculty Association would like to reiterate our recommendations to faculty and respond to numerous distortions put forth by the UC and UCSB administrations. 1) The strike is not over, even with tentative agreements with postdocs and academic researchers, who continue striking in solidarity with the […]
Three weeks into the largest strike in US academic history, UAW 2865 has not seen any meaningful movement from the UC on economic proposals such as wages, housing, and NRST remission (for full bargaining summaries, see fairucnow.org/bargaining). As the grading deadline approaches, we reiterate our OC Position on Faculty Solidarity statement, and note the following […]
Dear Colleagues, On Thursday, December 1, Senate faculty received a potentially misleading email from the President’s Office of the University of California, titled “Regarding Faculty Rights and Responsibilities,” and signed by Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Michael Brown. This communication fails to distinguish between being on strike and declining to pick up […]