Coordinating the Faculty Associations of the University of California

A Voice for Faculty

Aaron Bornstein
“Faculty are constantly asked to do more—teaching, publishing, service—with less: static grant amounts, fewer graduate students, larger class sizes. The only way to stop this perpetual encroachment on our time and resources is to work together to build the leverage necessary to defend our working conditions.”
UC Irvine
Associate Professor
Cognitive Sciences
Hannah Appel
“I joined the FA because I want faculty to have organized power over the conditions of our employment – from the protection of our first amendment rights to how the university invests our pension. Shared governance is important but not enough, and that’s where the FA comes in.”
UCLA
Associate Professor and Associate Director Institute on Inequality + Democracy
Brett Stalbaum
“Join to fight the enshitification. Shared-governance was once strong in the UC, but now Senate faculty are the last non-bargaining academic employees. The taking has started. We all see the reductions in workplace quality, resources, safety and academic freedom. The FAs are needed to maintain high quality teaching and research.”
UC San Diego
Professor of Teaching (SLSOE)
Visual Arts
Lilly Irani
“I believe in academic freedom, affordable higher education, research for the public good. The faculty association is essential to pushing for public funding for teaching, research, and making sure every UC job is a good job for California.”
UC San Diego
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Communications
Rachel Lee
“Why’d I join the FA? To redistribute power back to faculty. As an elected member of the UCLA Senate, I witnessed the erosion of shared governance. I’m inspired by the successful 2019 campaign of LAUSD teachers when they FOUGHT BUDGET CUTS and ICE OFFICERS AT DROP OFF. It’s time to get organized.”
UCLA
Professor
English, Gender Studies
Institute for Society and Genetics
Sal Nicolazzo
“I joined the Faculty Association because our students deserve a world-class public education, and I believe that building collective faculty power is the best way to ensure that teaching, research, and patient care are prioritized and funded as the core of the UC mission.”
UC Davis
Associate Professor
Department of English
Lindsay Crawford
“The Faculty Association provides a peer support system that is sorely lacking on our campus. The FA is also able to respond to events swiftly and courageously, as our Senate is not — as demonstrated by suing the Trump Administration.”
UC Merced
Assistant Teaching Professor
Public Health
Carolyn Rasmussen
“I joined the Riverside Faculty Association because it was a part of the (successful!) lawsuits that restored grant funding that had been canceled previously by the Federal government.”
UC RIVERSIDE
Professor of Plant Cell Biology
Department of Botany and Plant Sciences
Chelsea Schields
“Faculty—not chancellors, not the regents, not politicians—know what we need to deliver excellent education and research. FAs are legally empowered to advocate for those conditions, robust participation is what makes that power real. When faculty act alongside other campus workers, we defend the university’s most radical promise: knowledge in the service of social transformation.”
UC Irvine
Associate Professor
History
Annie McClanahan
“I joined the IFA because I think a strong and empowered faculty makes for a better UC. Working conditions are teaching (and research) conditions, and the FAs are a vital way for faculty to make our voices heard on our campuses and across the UC system.”
UC Irvine
Associate Professor of English
Maria-Elena Young
“I joined UCMFA because I’m committed to making sure that the UC upholds its academic mission. One of the best ways to do that is through a faculty that is organized in its advocacy for research funding and sufficient resources to deliver high quality education.”
UC MERCED
Associate Professor
Public Health Department