Mission:
The Council of University of California Faculty Associations is a coordinating and service agency for the several individual Faculty Associations -- 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...]
Vision:
CUCFA is committed to renewing public investment in California higher education by giving every California family a stake in the system by restoring full access and by regaining the trust of the people by restoring accountability. The public-spirited legacy of generations will be squandered if the best of the system is financially out of reach for most citizens and increasingly controlled by corporate funders. The people of California will support higher education if it serves us all again. [More...]
Latest News and Issues:
What Governor Brown’s May Budget Proposal Means for UC
UC President Mark Yudof and Governor Jerry Brown are working out a deal behind closed doors that will loosen the most important ties between the university and the state. Although they will both praise the deal by saying that it “stabilizes” funding while granting greater “flexibility,” its essence is that each will let the other off the hook: UC will mute complaints that it does not get enough money from the state and the state will stop holding UC accountable for the money it still gets. The likely result is that UC will dump a larger number of eligible Californians onto the CSU and Community Colleges, which will in turn pass on their overflow to for-profit schools, where students take on inordinate amounts of debt with a very high likelihood of default. Here are some key elements of the deal....
An Open Letter to Governor Brown and the Boards of California's Higher Ed Systems
CUCFA signs on to the Courage Campaign letter that reads in part: "Support for a tax measure will be immeasurably strengthened if Governor Brown and the Regents commit to support a “Higher Ed for the 99% Budget” that reverses tuition increases back to 2010 levels and guarantees no more hikes for the next four years. Unfortunately, the “compacts” on UC, CSU, and Community College funding that are being proposed could increase tuition by up to 15% over the next four years. Just as bad, these deals would turn funding for the systems into a blank check by removing nearly all oversight and safeguards." Read the full letter.
Updated Cost to Restore California's Public Higher Ed
Raising revenue has become such a taboo subject in California politics, but restoring quality public higher education in California can be done. For the median California tax return (individual or joint), restoring the entire system while rolling back student fees to what they were a decade ago would cost $49 next April 15. Read "Financial Options for Restoring Quality and Access to Public Higher Education in California: 2011-12" at the Keep California's Promise website.