California Faculty Association

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Stay Up to Date on Bargaining

Stay Up to Date on Bargaining

We are bargaining for better salaries, working conditions, learning spaces. We are bargaining to lift up our most vulnerable faculty and address long-standing racial, gender, and social inequities. Visit our bargaining site for more information on what we're fighting for and how to help.

Let’s Transform Higher Education to be a More Inclusive, Social Justice-Minded System

Let’s Transform Higher Education to be a More Inclusive, Social Justice-Minded System

CFA lays out a set of demands and justifications that center on redress for systemic anti-Black racism in the CSU. CFA is calling on all of us to seize this moment to begin the work for the systemic change that is needed.

Join Your Faculty Colleagues and Become a CFA Member Today!

Join Your Faculty Colleagues and Become a CFA Member Today!

Membership in CFA helps ensure continued advocacy on behalf of CSU faculty. Join thousands of instructional faculty, librarians, counselors, and coaches to protect academic freedom, faculty rights, safe workplaces, higher education, and student learning, and fight for racial and social justice.

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Anti-Racism & Social Justice

CFA members understand racism as systemic and linked to other structures of oppression. Our work to counter racism must aim at structural change and must be intersectional. We connect for co-liberation and we intentionally center anti-racism and social justice — both lens and framework — in all that we do.

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Keep up to date on our efforts to improve workload, salaries, and rights.

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Join thousands of tenure-track faculty, lecturers, counselors, librarians, and coaches to protect academic freedom, faculty rights, safe workplaces, student learning, fair pay, and fight for racial and social justice.

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Faculty Rights

We are dedicated to preserving faculty rights. Use the links below to explore the protections and benefits won for faculty through our collective work.

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Political Advocacy

CFA is deeply involved in political action through the endorsement of candidates and advocacy for legislation that supports members’ priorities.

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We invite you to join us to protect quality higher education, improve access to one of the greatest university systems in the world, and ensure equity and justice. If you are a faculty member at the California State University, support your colleagues and join CFA. We are stronger together.

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