It’s time to introduce 2019 bills for consideration by the California State Legislature, and CFA is working with State Senator Dr. Richard Pan, a pediatrician, to reintroduce the Mental Health Counselors Act to improve care on the campuses.
During Black History Month, faculty at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo are continuing “blunt conversations” about the overtly racist attitudes that surfaced on campus over the past year through a 12-hour Teach-In on Thursday, Feb. 21 to assert that “Inclusion Starts with Me.”
We are in a unique position this spring—the proposed state budget includes an unprecedented 8% increase in funding for the CSU. We also have a governor who understands the financial struggle our students face, as well as the needs of faculty, and who is willing to take action to protect public higher education.
State Assemblymember Shirley Weber, a past faculty member at San Diego State, has introduced a new bill, ‘The California Act to Save Lives,’ to address the standards by which sworn police officers make use of force.
“Black History Month is a time for celebration, and also for recognition of and commitment to change, to transformation in our own lives, for our students, and in our union,” Cecil Canton, CFA Associate VP-Affirmative Action North, said at a CFA gathering last week.
Over the coming months, CFA members will be talking with lawmakers and policymakers in many venues about the elements of Governor Gavin Newsom’s first state budget plan for California’s public education system—from pre-schools through universities.
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.
OPPOSITION TO NEW RESTRICTIONS ON CAL STATE L.A. ADMISSIONS: Declaring No To Impaction, a group of faculty, staff and students are fighting campus President Covino’s plan to declare impaction at Cal State Los Angeles, which will make it harder for students in East and South Los Angeles to get into college, and would cut seats for 600 new students a year.
The CFA Chapter at San Francisco State has decided to pursue with vigor a question that has dogged faculty members throughout the CSU—how does a campus actually spend the state dollars it gets?
The chapter’s specific angle on this question is what has happened to money specified by the legislature to step up tenure-line hiring, since no additional tenure-line hires can be identified.
Universities across the country, and especially in the South, are coming to terms with their histories of racism and relationship to slavery, a reckoning that is highlighted in recent Chronicle of Higher Education series.
AB 392, introduced by Assemblymember Shirley Weber, would bring CA law up to date and in line with best practices to avoid deadly shootings and ensure community safety.
Long-term Lecturers and non-tenure-track (“temporary”) Librarians can increase their salaries through the Range Elevation process and move from one salary range to the next (e.g., Range A to B, B to C, or C to D). A salary increase of at least 5 percent comes with Range Elevation.
