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 […]
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 […]
September 6, 2021 To the Campus Covid-19 Response Team: Henry Yang David Marshall Joe Incandela Scott Grafton Stu Feinstein Susannah Scott Mary Ferris Margaret Klawunn Jeff Stopple On this Labor Day, we are writing on behalf of the UCSB Faculty Association. We recognize that the Administration and the various COVID task forces have worked vigorously […]
In July 2021, Representatives from UC Faculty Association chapters participated, along with representatives from 75 unions and organizations representing over 300,000 academic workers, in a higher education summit that developed a vision platform for a new national higher education campaign. The organizers of the event asked higher education organizations to sign on to the vision […]
The SBFA Board sent the following message to Susannah Scott, Divisional Chair of the UCSB Academic Senate, on June 1, 2021. ——————————————– Dear Susannah, The UCSB Faculty Association Board has been very concerned about changes to the Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) that were announced a few months ago and are now being implemented (see the […]