CFA Resolutions & Statements

Faculty are organizing a grassroots nationwide Scholar Strike September 8 and 9. The organizers of the event are calling for faculty across the country to withhold their labor in order to call attention to violence against communities of color. The California Faculty Association supports the days of action, teach-ins and social justice advocacy as we head into the Labor Day weekend, a time to celebrate and recognize contributions of unions and the Labor movement.

George Floyd’s public execution is shocking, but not surprising given the persistence of anti-Black racism and white supremacy that dehumanizes Black people.  It is one in a long chain of similar transgressions and murders, most recently including Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, and people are taking to the streets because the United States has failed to address this.  CFA is a union representing faculty in the California State University System, one that is dedicated to anti-racism and social justice.  As scholar activists, we have an obligation to address the structural r

The Honorable Freddie Rodriguez
Assembly Committee on Public Employment and Retirement, Chair
1020 N Street, Room 153
Sacramento, CA 95814

RE: ACA 5 (Weber): Repeal of Proposition 209 – CO-SPONSOR

Dear Assemblymember Rodriguez:

On behalf of the California Faculty Association (CFA), we write to express our support as a co-sponsor of ACA 5 (Weber). CFA represents over 29,000 faculty, including tenure-track professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors, and coaches from all 23 campuses of the California State University (CSU) system.

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.

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. 

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: