by admin | Feb 12, 2024 | Shared Governance, UC Administration, Viewpoints Page
The Council of UC Faculty Associations, the statewide organization of faculty associations of which the Berkeley Faculty Association is a member, wrote to the UC Regents objecting to their proposed new website policy. Dear UC Regents, At its meeting on January 24, the...
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...
by admin | Oct 30, 2023 | Faculty Welfare and Rights, UC Administration, Viewpoints Page
Below is a letter the Council of UC Faculty Associations sent to UC President Michael Drake and the UC Regents objecting to healthcare benefit costs to employees increasing by 15% to 193%, depending on plan and coverage. After the original letter was sent, CUCFA...
by James Vernon | Apr 23, 2023 | California in Crisis, Faculty Welfare and Rights, Financing Public Higher Ed, Students and Costs, The Future of the University, Viewpoints Page
It’s Spring Break, finally. And I am sick. Again. Being sick over Spring Break has become a regular feature of my working life at UC Berkeley over the past decade. It may be just that I am getting old and my body can no longer sustain the intensity of work it...
