Update, December 7. UC’s Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Michael Brown, responded. November 6, 2020 Professor Janet Napolitano Goldman School of Public Policy, UCB 2607 Hearst Avenue Berkeley, CA 94720-7320 Dear Professor Napolitano, We write to you as University of California colleagues and the Council of UC Faculty Associations board of directors […]

Update, November 3. UC’s Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Michael Brown, responded to our letter about the potential for censorship of faculty by private technology providers with the attached letter, the plain text of which is below: Dear Executive Board of the Council of UC Faculty Associations: Your letter dated September 24, […]

The UCSB Faculty Association would like to announce a series of webinars on RACIAL JUSTICE focused specifically on our university. In honoring Indigenous Peoples Day, and in recognizing the debt that we still owe as UCSB employees and administrators to the Chumash nation, on whose lands our institution stands, we will open our series this […]

There is a looming crisis that has been brewing over the summer that the board believes should merit your attention. This is the crisis of legitimacy of our whole UC higher educational system that the Abolitionist movement — inspired by racial justice principles — has brought to light and is planning to raise with vigor […]