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 […]
Update, November 3. UC’s Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Michael Brown, responded. September 24, 2020 President Michael V. Drake Office of the President University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Delivered via Email to: president@ucop.edu Dear President Drake, As members of the Board of the Council of UC […]
The current crisis has brought into focus the extreme precarity that contingent faculty live with year in and year out. UC-AFT (the union that represents UC lecturers) is circulating a pledge that asks ladder rank faculty at the University of California to demonstrate solidarity in a very concrete way, and the SBFA Board is endorsing […]