Graduate students, postdocs, and other academic student employees are essential to the teaching and research mission of the University of California, especially as undergraduate enrollments rise. Given the escalating costs of living in California, 48,000 people in the UC system represented by three unions–UAW 2865, UAW 5810, and SRU-UAW–are coordinating their fight for living wages, […]
Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) President and SBFA board member Constance Penley, attended the historic National AAUP convention on June 16-18 in Arlington, VA, as the CUCFA delegate, which meant that she had an opportunity to vote on the proposed alliance between the AAUP and the AFT (AFL-CIO) and to fill six open AAUP […]
Our community will soon be joined by Prof. Elisabeth Ayuk-Etang, a Cameroonian scholar of Anglophone literature whose academic freedom, livelihood, and life have been threatened by a civil war raging in her home country since 2017, which intensified last year. Prof. Ayuk-Etang will be the first “Scholar at Risk” (SAR) to be hosted by UCSB […]