Category Archives: Student and Faculty responses

Irvine Faculty Association information about the events of May 15th, 2024

The information below was compiled by members of the Irvine Faculty Association who were on campus near the Free Gaza encampment between the hours of 1pm and 11pm on Wednesday, May 15th, 2024 as well as those who provided jail … Continue reading

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CUCFA Statement On Campus Protests

The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) denounces the growing number of attempts to intimidate, repress, and criminalize campus protests of Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza that is supported economically and politically by the United States. Many of us have … Continue reading

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Faculty support requested by UAW: Contact your legislator

UAW 2865 President Rafael Jaime asked CUCFA to circulate this message of thanks to faculty for their support and solidarity. At this crucial phase of the strike and in the face of UC’s intransigence, he is asking us to call … Continue reading

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Our Letter to UC about the Potential for Censorship of Faculty by Private Technology Providers

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 … Continue reading

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Letter from Irvine Faculty Association regarding campus police reform – 8/7/20

The IFA Board sent the following letter to Chancellor Gillman in response to his August 6 email to the UCI community regarding policing and race at UCI. Dear Chancellor Gillman, We write as board members of the Irvine Faculty Association, … Continue reading

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President Napolitano, please extend striking student health insurance for COVID-19

March 14, 2020 Dear President Napolitano, The Faculty Organizing Group at UCSC has just issued a very important letter to UCSC’s EVC Kletzer (copied below) in which they call for an act of “empathy, compassion, and responsibility” in reinstating the … Continue reading

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IFA’s response to VC Haynes concerning the arrest and detention of an alumna.

The IFA Board sent the following response to Vice Chancellor Haynes, who responded to our letter of  February 26, 2020 concerning the arrest and detention of a UCI biomedical engineering alumna. March 6, 2020 Dear Vice Chancellor Haynes, Thank you … Continue reading

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Letter to Chancellor Gillman from the UCI Faculty Association 2/26/20

Dear Chancellor Gillman: We are writing as UCI faculty to express our concern about the arrest and detention of Shikera Chamndany, a UCI biomedical engineering alumna. Chamndany went to the Registrar in Aldrich Hall on February 20 at the same … Continue reading

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Joint Letter in Support of Librarian Academic Freedom

August 18, 2018 President Janet Napolitano University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Email: president@ucop.edu Joint statement by CUCFA and CA-AAUP: On July 26, 2018 UC negotiators rejected a proposal by the UC-AFT Unit 17 that … Continue reading

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Faculty response to UC’s Contract with General Dynamics Information Technology

June 21, 2018 President Janet Napolitano University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Email: president@ucop.edu Dear President Napolitano, The Board of the Council of UC Faculty Associations applauds you for your forthright support for UC’s undocumented … Continue reading

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