The UCSB Faculty Association executive board endorses the five-day strike scheduled for all California State University campuses April 13-15 and April 18-19. It has been called by the California Faculty Association, the union representing faculty at the nation’s largest institution of higher education. The CFA is fighting for a 5% pay increase after years of […]
November 4, 2014 To the UCSB Community: With the 2015 open enrollment month now upon us, it is clear that those in the UC Office of the President who designed and/or administer UC Care and other health insurance options have once again failed to address the manifest inequities and problems that the transition to UC […]
American Association of University Professors and Council of University of California Faculty Associations Announce Partnership Agreement The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) announced that they have agreed to work together as partner organizations in “defense and promotion of academic freedom, shared university governance, and […]
UCSB Faculty Association November 4, 2013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Please distribute widely CONTACT: Nelson Lichtenstein, President UC Santa Barbara Faculty Association (SBFA) nelson@history.ucsb.edu 805-452-5089 Hundreds of Faculty and Staff Protest New UC Health Insurance Plan Nearly three hundred ladder faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara have signed a petition to Janet Napolitano, […]
by Lyz Hoffman. Santa Barbara Independent. October 7, 2013 – “The University of California recently unveiled changes to its health insurance plans, including an axing of Anthem plans that will reduce UCSB employees’ options to get treatment at Sansum Clinic and Cottage Hospital. Hundreds of UCSB faculty and staff gathered on campus Thursday to voice their […]