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 […]
On Wednesday May 13, a letter signed by CUCFA and all UC unions and containing a series of principles that should guide our navigation of the impending financial crisis of the State and UC system was delivered to President Napolitano and the Regents. Soon after, President Napolitano and Regents’ Chair Pérez met with representatives of […]
While we are all rightly occupied with confronting the pandemic spread of COVID-19 we cannot forget our more local emergency: the Graduate Association strike that has entered its third week and has recently confirmed that it will continue in the Spring. The SBFA board would like to inform faculty–to the best of our knowledge–of what […]