Dear SBFA members,This Fall, our traditional message of “Welcome to a New Academic Year” comes late and in dark times for the world. We grieve the loss of Israeli and Palestinian life since Hamas’ horrific attack on October 7 and Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of Gaza in response. In times of acute crisis, campus communities become […]
Compiled by Harold Marcuse, Sept. 10, 2021 Executive Board 2020-2021: Claudio Fogu (French & Italian), President Jennifer Holt (Film and Media Studies), Vice President Constance Penley (Film and Media Studies), CUCFA liaison (and president) Harold Marcuse (History), Treasurer Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval (Dept. of Chicana/o Studies) Peter Ford (Chemistry and Biochemistry) Lisa Hajjar (Sociology) Howard Winant (Sociology), 2019-20 only The pandemic-induced […]
Dear Members of the Santa Barbara Faculty Association, We, the Board members of SBFA, wish you a good start of the new academic year and look forward to strengthening and enlivening our joint activities. Happily, we write in the wake of a positive example of what can happen if we work together as a group […]
Dear Faculty Association Members, In wishing you all a happy 2015 we would also like to celebrate with you a year of growth and give you a preview of upcoming activities. Since the Fall of 2013 our most urgent concern has been to challenge the dramatic changes in health care coverage that have affected a […]
“Like the Chrysler Corp. of the 1970s, the University of California is too big to fail. But it is certainly not too big to fall into decline. Budgetarily speaking, this is what happened to UC over the past fifteen years. It has happened through successive waves of cuts that have been followed by only partial […]