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CFA Resolutions & Statements

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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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CFA Message to Faculty Regarding Health and Safety During COVID-19 Outbreak

Dear Colleagues, 

I am reaching out to you because I’m as concerned as all Californians are about the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) and its impact on our lives and neighborhoods.  I know that you all are worried about the safety of your colleagues, students, and university communities.

CFA leadership is participating in and monitoring emergency response plans at the 23 California State University campuses.

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CFA Statement in Solidarity with Dr. Abdullah

The California Faculty Association expresses solidarity with Dr. Melina Abdullah, faculty in Pan-African Studies at Cal State Los Angeles and co-founder of the Los Angeles Chapter of Black Lives Matter. We support the actions of Dr. Abdullah to exercise her right of free speech and to demand accountability from public officials for excessive police violence and the killings of civilians.

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CFA Calls for Support for Asian and Pacific Islander Communities as COVID-19 Spreads

The California Faculty Association (CFA) Asian & Pacific Islander (API) Caucus and statewide officers call on our academic institutions to support safety, health, and wellness for all members of our communities by dispelling anti-Asian stereotypes and rejecting “yellow peril” rhetoric that associates Asians with illness–especially amid growing concerns about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

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CFA Statement of Support for Striking UC Grad Workers

The California Faculty Association supports the striking graduate student TAs/Readers of UAW Local 2865 at UC Santa Cruz and other UC campuses who are demanding greater compensation for the invaluable work they provide to students, staff, and faculty within the University of California system.

We encourage the University of California and the UAW to re-open contract negotiations and respond to the serious financial crisis faced by graduate students and educators across our state, as wages have not kept pace with the sky-rocketing cost of living in California.

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Open Letter to the CSU Board of Trustees
Labor Representative on the Stakeholder Advisory Committee

 

November 20, 2019

 

CSU Board of Trustees
Office of the Chancellor
The California State University
401 Golden Shore
Long Beach, CA  90802

 

Dear Board of Trustees,

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Open Letter to the CSU Board of Trustees
Our Next Chancellor

We need a Chancellor who is devoted to public education and works tirelessly to secure state funding for the CSU. Our new Chancellor would know that rather than putting up more barriers to student access to the CSU (such as impaction, additional quantitative reasoning admission requirements, and suppressing enrollment), we need more state funding to fulfill the promise of four-year public higher education for all of California’s students. 

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Public Comment on Quantitative Reasoning and Ethnic Studies
By Associate VP Sharon Elise to the CSU Board of Trustees

Let’s talk about the irony of the CSU advancing a new admissions requirement for quantitative reasoning that is prohibitive to student access while pushing against Ethnic Studies that is conducive to student of color success, in fact to all student success. 

Let’s put this in historical context.  We know, based on CFA’s Equity Interrupted paper, we have a pattern of diminished financial support for the CSU once demographics changed.  In short, once those students became students of color, and as we got less white, we got less money. 

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CFA Statement of Support for Striking Chicago School Teachers

In this challenging time for public education and our nation, the California Faculty Association (CFA) is united with the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) in their courageous struggle for a contract that not only addresses the rights and needs of teachers and staff but that also seeks social justice for students and their families.

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California Faculty Association Statement on Retirement of CSU Chancellor
NEWS STATEMENT FROM CFA

SACRAMENTO — The California Faculty Association (CFA) issued the statement below on behalf of Charles Toombs – CFA President and professor of Africana Studies at San Diego State University– following today’s announcement that CSU Chancellor Timothy P. White will retire in June:

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90th CFA Assembly

The following resolutions were passed during CFA’s 90th Assembly, held October 18-20, 2019 in Los Angeles.

California Polytechnic State University,  San Luis Obispo Incident 

Support of Port Truck Drivers in the State of California

 

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Letter to CSU Chancellor and Trustees about Land Acknowledgement and Recognition

Dear Chancellor White and Trustees,

As you may recall, we presented you with a CFA Resolution regarding Land Acknowledgement and Recognition during the May 2019 Board of Trustees meeting.

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CFA Statement on the CSU Chancellor’s Proposed Expansion of the Quantitative Reasoning Admissions Requirement

 

The California Faculty Association (CFA) opposes the proposed expansion of the Quantitative Reasoning Admissions Requirement in its current form.

Changes in policy often come from the best of intentions, but the impact is what matters. The CSU Chancellor’s Office proposal to expand the A-G admissions requirements to include a fourth year of Quantitative Reasoning, if rushed, will have serious consequences for student access to higher education, particularly for underserved and underprivileged communities.

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CFA Statement on Endorsement of Kimberly Ellis

The California Faculty Association is proud to announce its endorsement of Kimberly Ellis for California Democratic Party Chair. CFA is the union that represents 29,000 Faculty, Librarians, Coaches and Counselors at the 23 Campuses of the California State University. Ms. Ellis is the former Executive Director of Emerge California, a non-profit dedicated to preparing Democratic women – particularly women of color – to run for and win elective office.

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89th CFA Assembly — Resolutions and Elections Results

The following resolutions were passed during CFA’s 89th Assembly, held April 12-14 in Los Angeles.

Click on the links below to download the elections results and resolutions.

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CFA Statement of Support for Striking University of California Workers

The California Faculty Association is in solidarity with our public higher education colleagues in the University of California system, members of the Union of Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE-CWA 9119) and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME-3299), who are on strike. These UC staff provide the labor and technical support that enables the University of California to provide quality public higher education to the students of California.

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California Faculty Association Statement on Academic Freedom and the Case of Marc Lamont Hill

 The California Faculty Association (CFA) continues to be committed to protecting academic freedom, including the rights of faculty, students, and staff to engage in debate and public protest. 

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CFA Supports Transgender, Two-Spirit, Nonbinary, Intersex, and Gender Non-Conforming Faculty, Staff, and Students in the face of potential federal proposal

Recently the New York Times reported that the Federal Office of Health and Human Services is considering a change in the way gender is recorded under federal law.  These are not the first signs that the current administration is hostile to LGBTQI individuals, but this would be an intentional and determined effort to strip Trans, Gender Non-Conforming, Two Spirit, and Intersex individuals of their federal protections against discrimination. 

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88th CFA Assembly – Resolutions
October 2018

The following resolutions were passed during CFA’s 88th Assembly, held October 19-21 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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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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