Mission:
The Council of University of California Faculty Associations is a coordinating and service agency for the several individual Faculty Association -- associations of UC Senate faculty -- on the separate campuses of the University of California, and it represents them to all state- or university-wide agencies on issues of common concern. It gathers and disseminates information on issues before the legislative and executive branches of California's government, other relevant state units dealing with higher education, the University administration, and the Board of Regents. The Faculty Associations are voluntary dues supported organizations and are therefore completely independent [More...]
Latest News and Issues:
Our letter in defense of regental autonomy (re: SCA 21 and ACA 24)
The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) believes that UC should be fully accountable to the public, and disagrees with recent comments by UC’s leaders suggesting that accountability must decrease as state support declines. However, we support regental autonomy because on rare, but memorable, occasions, it has protected the faculty’s academic freedom from political interference. More recent threats come from the private sector... [Read our full letter...]
CUCFA Requests State Restart Contributions to UCRP
For several years UC faculty, through the Academic Senate, have recognized the need to restart contributions to the University of California Retirement Plan (UCRP) and have supported a restart. For various reasons, the decision to do so has been delayed. During that time, a contribution restart has evolved from prudent and advisable to critical. [Read our full letter...]
How to Restore the Promise
Read CUCFA's outreach letter urging support for higher education here.