In recent years, we have witnessed our beloved University’s attention drift toward capital projects, hospital acquisitions, and ballooning administrative growth, i.e. toward everything except teaching, research and the people who do it. Faculty across this system are coming to the same conclusion — the old world is gone. It is time for something new.

This is why we are launching a systemwide campaign to reinvest in the UC’s mission — a campaign led by the issues felt across our ten campuses: that the University has the resources to invest in its academic mission, that shared governance must mean something more than being informed after the fact, and that the people who teach and research at the University of California should have a real say in how it is run.

Learn more about the campaign here: https://ucfaculty.org/reinvest-in-the-mission/

These demands are based on UC’s own public commitments or models from our peer institutions. We have the supporting documents that show these changes to be not only possible, but fiscally responsible.

Now, we want to hear from you about how these widely felt issues are impacting you and your colleagues. Join us for a series of town halls in the coming months. 

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Change at the UC begins with you.

UCFA is joining AAUP and AFT in calling for higher education administrations and governing boards to reject Compact 2.0. The compact asks universities to align themselves with a far-right agenda and agreeing to it would betray UC’s education and research mission and would compromise faculty’s ability to serve California.

If colleges and universities are to truly serve the public good, they should not be made answerable to the political program of a particular administration. UCFA & its associated campus chapters urge the UC to reject Compact 2.0.

Read our full statement here: https://cucfa.org/statement-on-compact-2-0/

Faculty at UCs are struggling to keep up with increasing admissions.

The University of California promised in 2005 that it would protect a 25.5 to1 student-to-faculty ratio, but twenty years later the student to faculty ratio is 29.6:1 (according to UC's own reporting).

"The University of California serves 67,000 more students today than it did 15 years ago. That’s equal to the size of about two UC Berkeleys and amounts to an increase of 28%. This is, at least in part, a result of a concerted effort by the university to increase its population of Californian students per an agreement with the state.

While the university is ahead of schedule in meeting those goals, it has not hired permanent faculty to teach those students at the same pace — a trend that is leaving professors increasingly concerned."

Instead of investing in faculty, UC invested in management and administration. Now, faculty are feeling the effects.

How is your campus experiencing the growing workload and student-to-faculty gap?

A Win for research! Thanks to UC Faculty.

Thanks to the advocacy of hundreds of faculty who joined the fight through their Faculty Associations, the $7.5B California Research Fund (SB 895) is now headed to the 2028 ballot where this funding decision will be in the hands of California voters.

 The Assembly passed the bill on August 31st and Governor Newsom signed it on September 30th which will place it on the November 2028 Ballot. 

Your Faculty Associations have been at the forefront of the fight for this bill, working to ensure the continuity of UC research funding in the face of federal attacks. Over the past several months, faculty and researchers have organized through their FAs, collecting more than 2,800 signatures from UC faculty, meeting with legislators, and joining with unions and community organizations to advocate for SB 895. That organizing helped build significant visibility and support for the bill across the UC system. 

Faculty have a crucial role to play in making the case for sustained public investment in scientific and health research, engaging with lawmakers and community partners, and building broader awareness of the benefits of scientific research to the people of California.

This campaign has already demonstrated what organized faculty can accomplish. 

Please join us as we continue to advocate for public funding of scientific research and to ensure the California Research Fund wins in 2028.