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Equity and Diversity Research 2014

CFA’s latest report, “Changing Faces of CSU Faculty and Students: Vol. V,” is a comprehensive, updated summary of data on the racial/ethnic and gender diversity in the California State University.

Click here to download the PDF

Click here to download the PowerPoint slide presentation

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Journey into Change
An Unconscious Bias Workshop

The California Faculty Association’s Council for Affirmative Action (CAA) invites you to participate in a dynamic workshop entitled “A Journey into Change.”

The goal of this workshop is to help faculty and administrators become aware of unconscious biases, preferences, and micro-aggressions which interfere with the recruitment and retention of diverse faculty. This workshop was created with every CSU campus in mind, with a particular emphasis on hiring, evaluation and retention practices.

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Assembly Hearing on campus climate this Friday at San Jose

The State Assembly Committee on Campus Climate will hold the first of four public hearings this Friday, March 21 on the San Jose State campus from 12:30 to 3 pm at Morris Daily auditorium.

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Equity Conference to be held March 7, 8
A Journey For Change: Re-Visioning A Better CSU

Helping to create a more diversified CSU, combating assaults on effective teaching methods, and examining the challenges facing public education funding in California—these are among the main points of the Council for Affirmative Action’s 2014 Equity Conference.

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Early Start report gets an “Incomplete”

The state Legislative Analyst’s Office issued a report required by state law on Jan 14 about the CSU’s much-debated Early Start Program.

See the LAO report

Early Start, which has gone through various iterations since the initial CSU Executive Order in 2010, is intended to accelerate remediation of entering students who are eligible for the CSU under California’s Master Plan for Higher Education but who need improvement in English and/or math.

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The “cultural taxation” of faculty of color in the Academy
by Cecil Canton, CFA Associate VP - Affirmative Action

From California Faculty magazine, Fall 2013

Article 20, the Workload Article of the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Board of Trustees of the CSU and the California Faculty Association speaks to the professional responsibility of instructional faculty:

“The primary professional responsibilities of instructional faculty members are: teaching, research, creative activity and service to the University and to the community.” (Workload, Article 20, Section 20.1)

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L.A. Times reports on the issues & support for ethnic studies

NOVEMBER 2013—In an article last week, Carla Rivera of the Los Angeles Times explained changes being pushed to ethnic studies on several CSU campuses including Long Beach, Stanislaus and San Jose.

Funding cuts and reorganizations are hitting them hard. Faculty, staff and students are speaking out.

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Campus action over pressure against ethnic studies

Across the CSU, ethnic studies programs and departments are facing various forms of cutbacks, through purposeful underfunding and/or consolidations into other programs and departments.

These developments reportedly are at various stages across the CSU system.

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Resolution to Support Ethnic Studies Programs at CSU Stanislaus
Adopted by CFA Assembly, October 2013

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Deep concern about cuts/merges to ethnic studies
Letter from CFA to CSU Campus Presidents • Aug. 29, 2013

Dear California State University Campus Presidents,

The California Faculty Association’s Council for Affirmative Action and Board of Directors are writing to you out of a deep concern for an emerging pattern on a number of campuses within the CSU—an initiative to drastically cut existing race and ethnic studies departments or to merge them into larger departments. To our knowledge these efforts have either already started or are being considered at San Jose State, CSU Bakersfield, and Long Beach State to name but a few.

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CFA testifies on behalf of Africana-Studies resolution in State Assembly

AUGUST 20, 2013

On August 13 CFA testified in support of ACR 71 (Weber) at the California State Assembly Higher Education Committee. This measure would formally endorse the invaluable work of California’s Africana Studies programs and their faculty, staff, and students. The measure would recognize the leadership provided by the beneficiaries of those programs, and would support the continuation of Africana Studies programs in California’s institutions of higher education.

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