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EQUITY CONFERENCE 2026

EQUITY CONFERENCE 2026

The Council on Racial and Social Justice is proud to offer four cutting–edge sessions at this year’s conference on the topline issues impacting faculty navigating tensions in higher education and in their communities.Together, we remember that we are the power, we are united in purpose, Learn more

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.

Let’s Protect Our Vulnerable Immigrant Communities as a Sanctuary Union

Let’s Protect Our Vulnerable Immigrant Communities as a Sanctuary Union

We will continue to advocate for the rights, dignity, and success of our undocumented students, staff, faculty and their families. As part of our union’s anti-racism and social justice agenda, we show up for our immigrant communities and fight to ensure our CSU campuses remain safe spaces for all.

See How Faculty Educate and Uplift on Their Campuses and in Their Communities

See How Faculty Educate and Uplift on Their Campuses and in Their Communities

CFA members are the CSU. We are the lecturers, professors, counselors, librarians, and coaches on the frontlines delivering quality instruction and support to students, protecting access to public higher education for all, and practicing anti-racism and social justice. Here are their stories.

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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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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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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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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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