You may have heard that the UC lecturers’ union (the AFT) has been trying to negotiate a new contract with UCOP since the previous one expired in January 2020. Members of the UC Santa Barbara Faculty Association (SBFA) have been attending several bargaining sessions throughout the year and our presence has been felt! AFT colleagues […]

The SBFA board would like to call your attention to this important event on “Restorative Justice” organized by the UCSB Multicultural Center tomorrow, Wednesday February 10, 4 PM Restorative Justice 101 How do we build and foster non-punitive modes of accountability? What are ways to address harm that center healing? How can we connect these questions […]

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 […]