Dear UCSB Faculty, Please add your name to our letter to UC President Michael Drake and the UC Regents objecting to the sharp healthcare benefit cost increases to employees of 15% to 193%. We also object to the opacity with which UC negotiated rate increases with health care plan providers and unilaterally decided how to […]
“UCSB Faculty Association Asks for Transparency & Flexibility with Return to In-Person Learning.” This 27 minute report by KCSB-FM Internal News Director Ashley Rusch, which aired on January 31, 2022, is based on and includes clips from an extended interview with SBFA Board members Professors Ben Olguin, Eileen Boris and Harold Marcuse. Representing our membership, we […]
To the UCSB Chancellor, EVC, Academic Senate & Covid Working Group For Clarity, Caution & Flexibility on UCSB COVID Pandemic Protocols Final version: The UCSB Faculty Association appreciates the UCSB administration’s efforts to steward our community through the ever-changing conditions and circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past 24 months. Everyone has endured much, including […]
Please click HERE to read and sign the pledge. The Faculty Associations across UC, who together make up the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA), of which the SBFA is the UCSB Chapter, stand in solidarity with our lecturer colleagues who currently are in negotiations with UCOP for a new contract. For the first time […]
As of 10/6/2020, well over 500 Academic Senate faculty have signed the UC Senate Faculty Pledge of Solidarity with Lecturer Colleagues. After two years of negotiations and for the first time in 20 years, our UC-AFT colleagues voted with an overwhelming majority of 96% to authorize a strike. We echo UC-AFT’s demands that President Drake […]