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:
Democracy Now! and Patt Morrison on the UC Budget Crisis
Nov. 17 broadcast of "Democracy Now!" discussed the U.C. budget crisis and the Regents meeting. Link here. Patt Morrison broadcast live from the UC Regents meeting at UCLA. Student and faculty groups are incensed about the proposed fee increase, while the Regents claim they have no choice. They all (including Robert Meister of CUCFA) sat down with Patt Morrison live at UCLA. Link to show page. 48 meg audio file of the program.
Meister's Latest Article: Where Does UC Tuition Go?
UC feels free to use Educational Fees however it pleases without accountability. That’s why it can pledge “ed fees” as collateral for construction bonds and use them to pay debt service. In the past week, I have discovered another, equally disturbing, consequence of UC’s refusal to be accountable for its use of “ed fees:” It has allowed (or perhaps more accurately used) the rapid growth in “ed fees” to dramatically increase the disparities in the per student funds it provides to each campus. As tuition rises, students are not getting what they think they are paying for on their own campuses, and the entity they are paying has not been transparent about where the money goes. [More...]
The Checking Education Project
Under the guidance of the UC Santa Cruz Faculty Association, UC students have produced "a space for student-produced digital media about the crisis. It is a place for student voices to express how UC’s financial system is impacting them individually. And the site provides information and links to the many ways that concerned students, parents, alumni, staff and faculty can be involved in constructive activism." checkingeducation.com
They Pledged Your Tuition
All three parts of Robert Meister's exploration of UC's use of tuition as collateral for construction bonds, video presentations of the report, material from his presentation to the Regents Committee on Audit and Compliance about the topic, and a cache of relevant UC documents. [More...]