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CFA Resolutions & Statements

The CFA Officers, Board of Directors and General Assembly vote to approve resolutions on an as-needed basis.

From time-to-time, CFA Officers also issue statements on immediate issues of concern.

Resolutions & Statements are listed below chronologically.

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Open Letter to Chancellor White and the CSU Board of Trustees
State Funding: How it is used, and how much to request

Dear Chancellor White and Trustees:

As we start the new academic year we want to recognize the tremendous effort that faculty, staff, and students made on behalf of increasing the CSU budget for 2018-19.

The success of that amazing effort also leads us to insist that you and the campus presidents not only use good judgment and transparency in how you spend those new dollars, but also that you faithfully fulfill the intent of the Legislature in doing so.

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Comments to the CSU Board of Trustees by CFA Activists
Sept. 12, 2018

On Wednesday, Sept. 12, CFA activists addressed the CSU Board of Trustees about the union’s support for Charmaine Lawson, mother of slain HSU student David Josiah Lawson. They addressed the Board’s treatment of Ms. Lawson at a previous meeting, and echoed her demands to improve campus safety and seeking justice for David Josiah Lawson.

The following is a transcript of their comments.

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CFA Comments before the CSU Trustees
May 2018

  • CSU Trustees Committee on Governmental Relations: Jennifer Eagan
  • CSU Trustees Committee on Educational Policy: Jennifer Eagan
  • CSU Trustees Committee on Audits: Kevin Wehr
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Assembly Select Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education in California
Fourth Public Hearing: Meeting the needs of faculty and staff to support students.

The following testimony was presented as part of a hearing panel by Sharon Elise, CFA Associate Vice President South- Council for Affirmative Action. Dr. Elise is a professor and chair of sociology at CSU San Marcos


Good morning Chair Berman and members of the Committee.

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87th CFA Assembly – Resolutions
April 2018

The following resolutions were passed during CFA’s 87th Assembly, held April 14-15 in Los Angeles.

Click on the links below to download the resolutions.

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CFA 87th Assembly unanimously passes resolution in support of Eliminating Racist Mascots in the CSU System

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CFA Supports the #NeverAgain Movement
Parkland youth, we stand with you

As the 50-year anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination approaches, along with the 50-year anniversary of our victory in the battle for Ethnic Studies in the California State University, the California Faculty Association acknowledges that the wisdom, passion, and leadership of youth continue to animate our urgent and righteous movements for social justice.

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Eagan to CA Dems: Help keep the doors of our collective future open

Eagan to CA Dems: Help keep the doors of our collective future open

The following is a speech CFA President Jennifer Eagan gave to delegates during the California Democratic Convention Feb. 23-25 in San Diego.

We need you Democrats. The faculty needs you and the students need you. The future of California depends on the Democratic Party. I am Jennifer Eagan, president of the California Faculty Association and a professor at the CSU — the People’s University. I’m asking for your support for an important issue of our time. I am asking you to help keep the doors of our collective future open.

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OPEN LETTER: We Must Protect Student Access to the California State University

CFA sent the following Open Letter to CSU Chancellor Timothy White and CSU Trustees in advance of the release on January 10, 2018 of Governor Brown’s 2018-19 State Budget plan .
 
CFA calls on CSU leaders to  be stronger in fighting to keep the CSU—the People’s University—public and open to all qualified Californians.

Chancellor Timothy White and CSU Trustees
California State University
401 Golden Shore
Long Beach, CA 90802

January 4, 2018

Dear Chancellor White and CSU Trustees,

The time has come for the state of California to end the long, slow process of dismantling public higher education. For decades, state disinvestment from the California State University has harmed students and it has harmed our state. We have too few Californians with college degrees.

The CSU is turning away eligible students who were promised a place in college in California’s Master Plan for Higher Education. More than 31,000 students were denied admission this year, with more students likely to be excluded in the future.

Now, this disinvestment is poised to continue, both in the Governor’s budget proposal to be released this month and in the budget request that the CSU Trustees submitted to the governor.

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We must take strong action against racism, bigotry, hate
CFA letter to CSU Chancellor, Trustees, Campus Presidents

CFA delivered the following letter at the CSU Board of Trustees meeting on November 7, 2017. CFA Associate Vice President-Affirmative Action Cecil Canton made remarks about the letter at that meeting before the Educational Policy Committee.

November 6, 2017

Dear Chancellor White, Trustees, and Campus Presidents:

Recent events at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, show us once again how close to rending is our social fabric. White supremacy, white nationalism, and neo-Nazism have resurfaced and have come to dominate our attention and our discourse. This is not the first time that blood has been spilled, nor the last time someone will die as a result of hate and bigotry. We have been fortunate that, to date, our CSU campuses have not been shaken with the most fatal forms of racial violence and hatred.

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CFA Comments before the CSU Trustees
November 2017 CSU Trustees Meeting

The following links provide the full text of comments by CFA faculty during public comment before the CSU Board of Trustees meeting November 7-8, 2017.

CFA action on CSU Executive Orders 1100 and 1110
Jennifer Eagan, CFA President

A moral imperative to take strong action against bigotry and hate
Cecil Canton, CFA Associate Vice President-Affirmative Action

Rising campus-based student fees hurt students
Rafael Gómez, CFA Associate Vice President-North

CFA and CSU management must work together to strengthen our university
Kevin Wehr, CFA Secretary and Chair of CFA Bargaining Team

The CSU needs to improve faculty tenure density—and here are numbers to prove it
Molly Talcott, CFA Associate Vice President-South

Mental health counseling is in crisis on CSU campuses
Martha Cuan, Counselor, CSU Stanislaus

It’s time for action on Ethnic Studies Report recommendations
Kim Geron, faculty, CSU East Bay

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86th CFA Assembly – Resolutions
October 2017

The following resolutions were passed during CFA’s 86th Assembly, held October 27-29 in Los Angeles.

Click on the links below to download the resolutions.

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CFA congratulates Romey Sabalius, new faculty representative on the California State University Board of Trustees

The California Faculty Association congratulates Romey Sabalius, a German language professor at San José State, on his appointment to the faculty position on the California State University Board of Trustee  

Professor Sabalius has served on the CSU’s Academic Senate statewide as well as on his campus, and on the executive board of the San José State chapter of the California Faculty Association.   

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CFA congratulates Romey Sabalius, new faculty representative on the California State University Board of Trustees

The California Faculty Association congratulates Romey Sabalius, a German language professor at San José State, on his appointment to the faculty position on the California State University Board of Trustee  

Professor Sabalius has served on the CSU’s Academic Senate statewide as well as on his campus, and on the executive board of the San José State chapter of the California Faculty Association.   

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CFA: We Stand with DACA Students
They are California’s future


The California Faculty Association released the following statement on August 29, 2017 from CFA President Jennifer Eagan regarding our students and faculty who are immigrants protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program:

“We are appalled that Pres. Donald Trump is considering elimination of the DACA program. Such a choice would further expose the irrational hate, racism, and self-defeating behavior of his administration and do great damage to California and the nation.

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CFA calls on California State University management to protect students and employees from racist hate groups, set policies and practices with moral clarity
Statement from the California Faculty Association

August 16, 2017

CFA stands in solidarity with the University of Virginia and the city of Charlottesville in their anger and sadness over what has been done to their campus and community in the name of white supremacy and racism. 

Three people lost their lives and many more were injured. The city and campus communities have been done real harm and a serious injustice, and we wish the families of those we lost, along with the communities, hope and healing moving forward.

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CFA Statement on protecting career of Cal State Fullerton lecturer

July 18, 2017

The California Faculty Association, through aggressive representation, is proud to have successfully protected the career and livelihood of a 20-year lecturer at Cal State Fullerton.

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We all need to commit to ‘Due Process’
Letter to Orange County Register

To: Editor, Orange County Register
April 5, 2017

Dear Editor:

It is regrettable that the Orange County Register chose to publish an opinion piece by staff columnist John Phillips (March 31, 2017: “Universities should worry less about ‘triggering’ and more about ‘hair-trigger tempers’”), which resorts to hearsay and alt-right social media complaints to make a case in the news media that would never hold up in an impartial legal proceeding.

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An Open Letter to Principled CSU Trustees
From CFA Officers and Members

April 4, 2017
To: Ex Officio Trustees
Lt. Gov Gavin Newsom, Speaker Anthony Rendon, State Superintendent Tom Torlakson
Appointed Trustees
Silas Abrego, Douglas Faigin, Hugo Morales, Lateefah Simon, Maggie White

Dear Trustees,

We are writing to thank you for standing up for California State University students. On March 22, 2017, the Chancellor asked you to raise tuition by 5%. All of us appreciate that you voted against the increase and urged that body to chart a new course for the CSU. Your vote and your comments at the Board meeting reflected a commitment to access and equity for current and future CSU students. We are grateful your commitment to the People’s University.

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CFA Statement regarding Assembly Democrats’ “Degrees Not Debt” proposal

Sacramento — On Monday, March 13, 2017, California State Assembly Democrats announced a financial aid plan to help decrease the economic burden college students and their families face when attending the state’s public higher education universities.

The following is a statement from the California Faculty Association regarding the plan:

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