by Admin | Oct 4, 2024 | Academic Freedom, Free Speech, UC Administration, Viewpoints Page
We write to remind you of your rights as faculty that are protected under the State of California’s Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act (HEERA). At a time when free speech, assembly activity, and academic freedom are being threatened across the UC system...
by Admin | Apr 16, 2024 | Faculty Welfare and Rights, Pensions, Viewpoints Page
Dear Colleagues, We write to inform you of changes to our pension plans. Sadly, at a time when our salaries stagnate or decline in real terms, and our health benefit costs have sky-rocketed, our pension plans are now also being revised without consultation from 1 July...
by admin | Apr 1, 2024 | Academic Freedom, Compensation, Financing Public Higher Ed, The Future of the University, UC Administration, Viewpoints Page
Congratulations on your appointment as Chancellor. You have been selected by a process that affords little role to faculty, or any other group of employees on campus. The people hiring you have little experience of the campus you will lead. Here is what you need to...
by admin | Dec 15, 2023 | Compensation, UC Administration, Viewpoints Page
Dear Chancellor Christ, We write to express our dismay at the continued serious delays to merit and promotion cases for Senate faculty and our lack of confidence in the office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. A decade ago, when the campus was dealing with a...
by admin | Nov 17, 2023 | Academic Freedom, Free Speech, Viewpoints Page
Dear Members We wish to inform you that further to the earlier statement by the Board of the Berkeley Faculty Association on Academic Freedom and Palestine, CUCFA, the umbrella organization of Faculty Associations across the UC system, has written this letter to...
by admin | Nov 2, 2023 | Academic Freedom, Free Speech, Viewpoints Page
Photo credit: Anita Liu/The Daily Californian Dear colleagues,The Berkeley Faculty Association is deeply alarmed at the chilling climate that undermines the academic freedom of instructional faculty, and the free speech rights of the rest of our campus community, to...
