Last week, CSU Chancellor Timothy White announced that most CSU
classes will remain virtual for the beginning of the spring term
in January 2021. The CSU became the first in the state to extend
virtual learning.
CFA leaders
released a statement last week on CSU’s decision to remain
mostly virtual next semester. In part:
CFA leaders are calling on Chancellor Timothy White and the CSU
Chancellor’s Office to quit playing games with Ethnic Studies.
On September 10, CSU Executive Vice Chancellor Loren Blanchard
issued a memo to campus presidents enumerating both processes and
timelines for implementation of AB 1460 requirements. CFA
wants to emphasize that Blanchard’s memo includes constraints,
processes, and a timeline that are not mandated by the law.
Hundreds of wildfires are ravaging throughout California, and we
again find ourselves as a union with our minds and hearts focused
on our fellow CSU colleagues and CFA siblings across the state
affected by these fires, smoke, and air quality issues.
The CFA Council for Racial and Social Justice has created an
online version of the Interruption: An Anti-Racism Workshop. This
four-hour virtual experience – available as one session or a
two-part series – promises to be highly interactive and
thought-provoking.
Faculty are organizing a grassroots nationwide
Scholar Strike September 8 and 9. The organizers of the event
are calling for faculty across the country to withhold their
labor in order to bring attention to violence against communities
of color. The California Faculty Association supports the days of
action, teach-ins, and social justice advocacy as we head into
the Labor Day weekend, a time to celebrate and recognize the
considerable contributions of unions and the Labor movement to
America.
The 2019-20 California Legislative session concluded at 1:30 a.m.
September 1. While the COVID-19 pandemic caused drastic changes
in schedule and a reduction in the business taken up by the
Legislature, CFA continued to be an active participant in the
process.
Around 200 faculty activists met in Los Angeles for three days of
meetings and CFA’s semi-annual Assembly of delegates. These are
some of the images from the weekend weekend.
Both at the Fall Leadership Kickoff and at a recent meeting of
the CalPERS Investment Committee, CFA members proudly showed
their solidarity in calling on the pension system to stop
investing in private prison operators CoreCivic and GEO
Group. At the committee meeting, CFA Associate Vice
President Margarita Berta-Avila and others provided a series of
emotional and direct remarks to the assembled members.
On Tuesday, April 30, faculty and students were at the Capitol to
urge lawmakers to #FundTheCSU and support state budget
allocations that would strengthen the People’s University.
To learn more about CFA’s budget advocacy and sponsored
legislation, click
here.
CFA held a reception on Monday, April 29 honoring Senator Holly
Mitchell and Gov. Gavin Newsom for their efforts on behalf of
public higher education.
Both Newsom and Mitchell were at CFA Headquarters in Sacramento
to accept their awards during the reception, which also was
attended by numerous legislators, faculty, and students.
CFA hosted a rally in support of gubernatorial candidate Gavin
Newsom on Friday, Nov. 2 at San Diego State.
The event drew hundreds of students, faculty, and community
allies to the East Commons, where the crowd heard more about
Newsom’s commitment to protecting quality public higher
education.
SACRMENTO – On behalf of our 29,000 union members, the California
Faculty Association welcomes Dr. Joseph I. Castro as the next
chancellor of the California State University.
Castro assumes leadership of the nation’s largest public higher
education system during precarious times. CFA urges
Chancellor-select Castro to take the CSU mission of being the
People’s University to heart and center decision making on the
student perspective and experience.
Last week, CSU Chancellor Timothy White announced that most CSU
classes will remain virtual for the beginning of the spring term
in January 2021. The CSU became the first in the state to extend
virtual learning.
CFA leaders
released a statement last week on CSU’s decision to remain
mostly virtual next semester. In part:
CFA leaders are calling on Chancellor Timothy White and the CSU
Chancellor’s Office to quit playing games with Ethnic Studies.
On September 10, CSU Executive Vice Chancellor Loren Blanchard
issued a memo to campus presidents enumerating both processes and
timelines for implementation of AB 1460 requirements. CFA
wants to emphasize that Blanchard’s memo includes constraints,
processes, and a timeline that are not mandated by the law.
CFA TO HOST BROWN BAG LUNCH, DISCUSSION AND
ACTION: CFA is set to host days of action over the next
two weeks to support two important Propositions this election
cycle.
On September 23 from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.,
CFA will host a day of action on Proposition 16, which will
fight for racial and gender equality. On September 30
from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., CFA will host another day
of action on Proposition 15,
which will raise desperately needed funds for our schools and
local governments by making corporations pay their fair share.
Please join CFA’s days of action – where we will hear from policy
makers and CFA leaders on the importance of voter turnout and
passage of these very important measures. We will also include a
Q&A segment, along with training for phone banking.
COVID-19, or the coronavirus, is challenging our university
communities. At CFA, our tenure-line faculty, lecturer
faculty, librarians, counselors and coaches are not alone.
We are stronger together.
Hundreds of wildfires are ravaging throughout California, and we
again find ourselves as a union with our minds and hearts focused
on our fellow CSU colleagues and CFA siblings across the state
affected by these fires, smoke, and air quality issues.
