In a surprise move, SB 895, the California Science and Health Research Bond Act, has passed out of the Appropriations Committee on a 12-to-1 vote. The bill had been stuck in Appropriations since July, and it missed the deadline for the 2026 ballot. It is now first in line, should it be passed, for the 2028 ballot.
As suggested by the lopsided vote, the bill is popular among lawmakers after a six-month-long campaign that included a petition signed by over 2,800 UC faculty, meetings with elected officials by Faculty Association members, the UAW, many other organizations, and an endorsement from the University of California Office of the President (UCOP).
The bill’s reduced size is disappointing, but not a done deal. We can ask our Assembly Members to amend the bill on the Assembly floor to restore it to $12B and then pass it by August 31st.
Please contact your Assembly Member today!
Cut and paste this message for your Assembly Member:
Please vote to restore SB 895, the California Science and Health Research Bond Act, to $12B and pass it out of the Assembly by August 31st.
]]>We only know this because UC faculty, supported and organized by their Faculty Associations, acted collectively to defend the grants by filing lawsuits against the Trump administration. Now more than ever, we need your membership!
It hasn’t been the UC Chancellors, or the UC Office of the President, or the UC Regents fighting the Trump administration: it’s been faculty like you joining their Faculty Association and supporting these actions through their dues, their organizing, and their testimony.
These lawsuits are costly, and we’re up against a presidential administration with unlimited resources. To continue defending faculty rights, we need you!
]]>Interest in this event was enormous, with over 200 people RSVPing. Here is a recording of Dr. Ginexi’s presentation and slides from the Comment-a-thon session.
The OMB rule changes would affect all federal grants. Dr. Ginexi strongly recommended that we submit comments and contact our Congressional representatives to apply pressure on Congress to block these rule changes. Our goal is to reach one million comments! You may read more on the OMB changes on Dr. Ginexi’s Substack.
]]>Over the next few weeks, UC faculty have two vital opportunities to advocate on issues related to research funding.
SB895 (the California Science and Health Research Bond) will be voted on in the next three weeks in the CA state assembly. Please consider calling your assemblymember using this script. If you’d like some guidance on making these calls, we’ll be holding Zoom office hours on Friday, June 12 from 8-9am and noon-1pm to support phone calling.
There is a new attack on research: the federal Office of Management and Budget’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034; collection of coverage here) would have numerous dire consequences for federal grants in all fields. One of the most impactful things for you to do is submit a public comment on the Rule.
Not sure how? Join a virtual workshop co-hosted by UCSFFA and CUCFA where we will review the proposed rule, walk through recommendations for making a comment, and create and submit our own comments: Thursday, June 18th from noon-1pm.
Irrespective of their status as public employees, faculty are legally protected by federal and state law to act through their Faculty Associations and advocate for their working conditions (including research funding). Because the Faculty Associations are independent bodies, they are uniquely empowered to represent faculty before the University administration or the Legislature. FA members have been advocating for higher education funding and intervening in the political sphere since the 1970s, resulting in the passage of several important bills securing our intellectual property rights and safeguarding our salaries, pensions, and workloads.
]]>Faculty Association members from UC Davis, San Francisco, Berkeley, and Santa Cruz joined a crowd of more than a thousand in Sacramento at the Save Science, Save Lives Rally on Monday, May 4th. The gathering was organized to promote SB 895, the California Science and Health Research Bond Act, a law that would place a $23 billion bond measure on the November ballot to create a California-based foundation to fund scientific research.
Jessica Taft, Co-President of the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA), spoke for faculty, telling the crowd: “Faculty need to be advocates for ourselves, our institutions, and for our research. We need to make our voice heard. CUCFA and the ten campus Faculty Associations will do everything we can to pass this bill.”
Watch CUCFA Co-President, professor Jessica Taft’s speech here.
Watch UCSF Medical School professor Monica Gandhi’s speech here.
You can see the full program, including statements by UAW International President Shawn Fain and UC President James B. Milliken here.
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Faculty Association members from the ten UC campuses are campaigning to pass the California Science and Health Research Bond Act (SB 895), a law that will place a $23 billion bond on the November ballot to fund research at California institutions.
Over 2,000 UC faculty signed a letter in support of the bill. Last Wednesday, March 25th, the bill cleared its first legislative hurdle, passing out of the Senate Health Committee on a 9 to 2 vote.
UC Davis Physicist Richard Scalettar, Co-Chair of the Davis Faculty Association, speaks in support of SB895 at the Senate Health Committee hearing, March 25, 2026.
Next up, the bill will be voted on by the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water in April and, if successful, will go to the Senate floor.
The Faculty Associations are voluntary organizations of faculty coming together to advocate for our interests. Join your local Faculty Association to support this important work, including our recent legal victories protecting research funding.
Faculty support for the bill continues to build and is more important than ever.
Faculty voices will be key to ensuring that research funding remains available in the future. New studies show that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued 66% fewer grants for 54% less in monetary value so far in FY 2026 compared with the same period in previous years.
Over the past months, faculty groups on UC campuses have asked colleagues to sign the letter and have met with state legislators. At UCLA, a group of faculty members came together to increase the circulation of the open letter within their home departments. Steve Shoptaw, a clinical psychologist and an emeritus Professor at the UCLA Departments of Family Medicine and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, wrote to his colleagues:
“One way to SPEAK UP is to add your name to a petition in support of SB 895. If you are a faculty member (any series), there is a campaign underway to gather signatures confirming faculty support for this legislation – an effort deemed critical to the success of this legislation.”
— UCLA Prof. Dr. Steve Shoptaw
At UC Davis, a group of faculty from the Medical School and STEM departments gathered over 300 signatures from colleagues and held multiple meetings with local legislators. Tran Nguyen, Associate Professor of Environmental Toxicology, attended the meeting with aides from Rep. Cabaldon from the Davis area. She explained,
“The state representative’s office was receptive of our message regarding the negative impacts of federal funding disruptions on critical research at the University of California. We relayed the important point that SB895 is an investment – the adoption of this bill would benefit not only the scientists in the state, but also generate economic growth and yield significant returns for the health of the people, the environment, and the commercial industries in California.”
— UCD Prof. Dr. Tran Nguyen
The time to show your support is now. Sign the letter and circulate it to your colleagues. Let’s win funding for California research!
]]>We want to provide UC faculty with information in case these workers choose to go on strike and have therefore updated and reissued previous FAQ on Senate faculty members’ rights and responsibilities during a strike. Unit 18 faculty should seek guidance from their union (UC-AFT).
CUCFA’s fundamental interest is in defending faculty rights, securing their resources to conduct research, and improving faculty working conditions. It is the university’s responsibility to address the disruptions caused by a strike and the administration should not expect faculty to continually take on additional labor in order to mitigate strike impacts. Further, we are opposed to UC’s pattern of passing on the costs of negotiated wage increases to faculty grants and research funds. Such increases should be centrally funded rather than pushed down to departments and labs where they reduce faculty resources for research and generate additional workload burdens.
Q1. If a strike happens, do I need to volunteer to perform the labor of workers who are on strike?
A: No. Under HEERA, faculty can decline to perform struck work that is outside our customary duties. “Picking up struck work” refers to the act of performing tasks, duties, or labor that would normally be done by employees who are currently on strike. As faculty, it does not matter whether or not you support the strike or UAW’s demands. However you feel about the strike, faculty have protected rights under HEERA to refuse to take up more than our share of labor. The UC administration cannot compel us to take on additional work due to a strike. While faculty may be inclined to try to mitigate the effects of the strike for the sake of our students or our research, it is the university’s responsibility to resolve any disruptions caused by the absence of striking workers, and UC should not expect already overtaxed and overburdened faculty to act against our own interests by taking on additional uncompensated labor.
You may receive messages from the university telling you that it is your responsibility to ensure the continuity of instruction for your students. Such messages do not mean that you have to volunteer to do the work of strikers that is not part of your normal work duties, including teaching discussion sections, grading exams and papers that would normally be graded by ASEs, or ensuring the continuity of experiments in labs. These messages fundamentally misunderstand the time and labor required to carry out our jobs under ordinary circumstances. Our campuses hire GSIs, TAs, readers and GSRs because we have determined that the faculty cannot do this instructional and research labor alone. As faculty, we too wish for research and educational continuity that would allow us to meet UC’s educational and research mission, but it is up to the UC administration to create a work environment that allows for such continuity. The best way that the UC administration can prioritize the research and educational mission of the university is to respond to UAW’s demands and bargain in good faith. As faculty, we can best ensure the continuity of research and education by putting pressure on the UC administration to come to an agreement at the bargaining table. Picking up struck work dilutes the impact of the strike and draws out the length of negotiations.
Our HEERA rights to not pick up struck labor are enshrined in state law and have precedence over UC policies, including the Faculty Code of Conduct and Regents Policy 2301. Moreover, the Faculty Code of Conduct itself contains multiple provisions that may protect faculty, including its recognition of faculty rights to free expression, protections for “ethical” behavior, and treating faculty conduct as unacceptable only if it lacks “legitimate reason” or is “unexcused.” Disciplinary procedures would also have to go through the appropriate Senate channels which act as an oversight and a brake on arbitrary disciplinary actions.
See Qs 5-10 for more detailed information on faculty rights in relation to grading.
Q2: Why did UAW members vote on a strike authorization?
UAW alleges that UC has not engaged in good-faith bargaining, including by implementing unilateral changes to working conditions, which is an unfair labor practice (ULP). In particular, the UAW charges UC with unilaterally cutting workers’ hours, withholding critical information, and imposing new fees without negotiating. In addition, UAW has found that UC has unilaterally changed its teaching assistant and GSR workload and appointment policies in certain departments at some campuses, including Mathematics, English, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology. SSAP and RPSP have made demands on preventing misclassification of staff, instituting a step-based wage scale, job security, and benefits that have all been rejected. Stay informed on UAW’s bargaining updates and UC’s offers here, here, and here.
Q3: Does a vote authorizing a strike mean that there will be a strike?
A: There are at least several stages before we have more information about whether workers represented by UAW will strike or what this strike will look like. The strike authorization vote opened on February 5 and closed on February 13. A majority of voting members voted yes to strike, therefore, the UAW statewide Executive Boards for each union are authorized to call a strike, if a satisfactory resolution is not negotiated between the unions and the University. The existing agreement requires the UAW and the University to complete three days of mediation before a strike. Accordingly, the parties have tentatively agreed to mediation dates that stretch from mid-February through early March. At this point, we do not know if there will be a strike, when and where it will begin, or how long a strike might be. We will update the response to this question as new information comes to light.
Q4: What am I supposed to do about graduate student timesheets?
A:. Practices with regard to timesheets and tracking of absences have varied widely from campus to campus. We do not think that faculty instructors of record nor PIs should be responsible for the daily tracking of others’ work, for ensuring that other workers submit timesheets, or for affirmatively reporting on their presence/absence when they do not submit timesheets. If in advance of this potential strike faculty had not previously asked workers whether they would be working on future dates, asking about this in the light of such a strike could constitute a violation of those workers’ rights. In general, we recommend that faculty not take on any new or additional labor in relation to either the tracking or reporting of employee absences, but continue to act as you have prior to the strike.
Q5: I am teaching a class with assignments that may not be graded in the event that the UAW calls an open-ended strike. Do I need to volunteer to do the grading?
A: No. As we said above, under HEERA, faculty do not need to volunteer to perform struck work that is outside our customary duties. It is the longstanding practice for courses with assigned ASEs is for them to grade course assignments, proctor exams, and maintain the records of student grades. This is routinely documented in their Description of Duties.
If you are asked to do additional grading, you may respond by declining the extra work and communicating that you do not wish to volunteer to take up the struck labor. If it is unclear if the message is a suggestion or a directive, you can and should ask if you are REQUIRED to do this work. If your department chair or Dean insists that you must perform the additional struck work, you have the right under HEERA to refuse. If you do not feel comfortable doing so, you can state that you are performing the work under protest. You should document all new duties, dates, and time required to perform the work, any agreement on mitigation of the increase in work, how you will be compensated for this increased work, and any objections you have, including your physical and mental ability to complete the work. A template response for this email can be found here. Additionally, you can cc info@cucfa.org or contact your campus Faculty Association, and we can facilitate communication with the appropriate Academic Senate committee or office on your campus.
Q6: I am teaching a class with assignments that may be ungraded due to a strike. Should I just grade students based on their previously graded assignments or assign all students an A?
A: No. In this situation, issuing grades based only on some assignments or without necessary input from ASEs would not be fair to students. For example, it is impossible for instructors to grade students for participation in ASE-led sections when the instructors did not observe those sections. Furthermore, it would disadvantage some students to arbitrarily discard the section participation part of the course grade. Giving all students A’s might appear to be a more equitable solution, but it would undermine the legitimacy of the grades, UC transcripts, and the educational mission of the university. It is our professional responsibility as faculty to ensure that students are graded fairly and accurately.
Q7: I have ASEs who I expect to do the grading. Can the university discipline me for not providing grades in these courses before the grade deadline?
A: HEERA protects the rights of faculty to choose not to volunteer to perform struck work that is not normally part of their required duties, as we said above. The University would potentially be in violation of HEERA if it disciplined faculty in this instance. Furthermore, the Faculty Code of Conduct acknowledges that circumstances such as a strike may excuse a delay in grading by defining unacceptable conduct liable to be sanctioned as only those delays that are “undue and unexcused” (APM-015.II.A.1e). Any disciplinary action would also have to go through appropriate Senate channels, which act as an oversight and a brake on arbitrary disciplinary actions for Senate faculty.
Q8: Who will be responsible for missed grading when the strike is resolved?
A: If a settlement is reached before the end of the current quarter/semester, your existing ASE may be able to complete the grading, but only if it fits within their contractual workload limits. If a resolution is not reached until the next quarter/semester, an agreement about grading may be part of the settlement between UC and UAW. If not, then departments will need to hire ASEs on new contracts to complete that work. CUCFA advocates for this additional labor to be centrally funded rather than a departmental responsibility.
Q9: If all the labor of calculating grades was already completed before the strike, or my ASE was not on strike and has graded all work, should I submit grades?
A: In this case, you should submit grades unless you have chosen to withhold your own labor from the university (see below).
Q10: Can I volunteer to perform some of my ASE’s grading work for students with exceptional circumstances and still maintain my HEERA protections?
A: Faculty who are refusing to perform struck work could volunteer to do some small amount of struck work to provide grades to individuals with exceptional circumstances. This should be done sparingly and may not be necessary (campuses should make contingency plans for impacted students).
Q11: What should I do if I feel intimidated by the administration’s statements about UAW’s strike?
A: The best defense against intimidation is knowledge of your rights. And importantly, your Faculty Association is here for you. Please report any intimidation or pressure to pick up struck work to your campus Faculty Association or directly to CUCFA, who will liaison with our legal team to ensure that the law is respected.
INFORMATION FOR FACULTY CONSIDERING WITHHOLDING THEIR OWN LABOR
Q12: Can I withhold my own labor by respecting the UAW’s picket line?
A: Yes. Withholding one’s own labor is not the same as declining to pick up struck work (see Q3). Faculty have protected rights to both of these actions, but they should be understood as distinct, with different potential obligations and consequences.
Respecting a picket line (also referred to as “honoring a picket line” or “not crossing a picket line”) is sometimes used as a general term to describe supporting a strike or not entering a location where a strike is happening. However, when there is a strike at one’s own workplace, it specifically describes individual employees acting on their conscience and withholding their own labor in solidarity with striking workers. In this case, that means not doing work on behalf of the university. We understand this to include, but not be limited to, teaching classes, grading, submitting grades, and conducting research work otherwise handled by GSRs. Respecting a picket line is not the same as engaging directly in the strike, but it shows your support for the picketing workers, their union, and, in this case, it can also be a way to express your concern about the unfair labor practices of the UC and their negative impact on your own working conditions. Some faculty may decide to respect the picket line in order to put pressure on the administration to address the unfair practices and therefore help end the strike in a timely fashion. .
Q13: Do I have a right to respect a picket line in general and the UAW picket line in particular?
A: Yes. All university employees covered under HEERA, including Senate faculty, even department chairs or heads of similar academic units or programs, are generally non-managerial and also have the right to respect a picket line established by other university employees. Senate faculty are not subject to a no strikes clause and so maintain their right to honor a picket line. University employees also have individual free speech rights that provide additional protections.The UC may try to claim that if the UAW strike is determined to be unlawful, these protections may not apply, but PERB has not found that an employer can discipline workers who are honoring a picket line with other workers who are engaged in an unprotected strike.
You may start honoring the picket line at any point during the strike. However, if you choose to respect the picket line but then decide to return to work, you should only honor the picket line again if the UAW strikes over a new issue. You may always show your solidarity in other ways, including declining to pick up struck labor and being present at the picket during your personal time.
Q14: I’ve heard faculty who currently work with TAs or GSRs can’t honor the picket line because they are supervisors. Is this the case?
A: No. Senate faculty have some supervisory responsibilities regarding TAs, GSRs, and other workers, which require that we not ask them about their plans for the strike. However, our supervisory responsibilities regarding Teaching Assistants and researchers do not cancel out our rights to honor a picket line. For more details on this, see this analysis by UC legal scholars.
Q15: Isn’t respecting the picket line a violation of the Faculty Code of Conduct?
A: No, CUCFA does not understand the Faculty Code of Conduct as prohibiting conduct protected under HEERA, including respecting a picket line. Our HEERA rights to not pick up struck labor and to honor a picket line, enshrined in state law, have precedence over UC policies including the Faculty Code of Conduct and Regents Policy 2301. Moreover, the Faculty Code of Conduct itself contains multiple provisions that may protect faculty, including its recognition of faculty rights to free expression, protections for “ethical” behavior, and treating faculty conduct as unacceptable only if it lacks “legitimate reason” or is “unexcused.” Disciplinary procedures would also have to go through the appropriate Senate channels which act as an oversight and a brake on arbitrary disciplinary actions.
Q16: What might be the consequences of respecting the UAW picket line?
A: The university may choose to withhold the pay of Senate faculty for their time respecting UAW’s picket line. It would, however, be unlawful for the university to dock additional pay or take other disciplinary action against faculty for exercising their protected rights.
Q17: Do I need to tell someone if I am choosing to respect the picket line?
A: You are under no legal obligation to affirmatively notify the university if you are respecting the picket line. If you want to make clear that you will be doing so, you could choose to inform your department chair, although again this is not required. If you are asked whether you will be honoring the picket line, you are not obligated to respond, but if you decide to answer, you should respond truthfully.
]]>Our legal battle is not over–it will continue to be litigated in the same federal district court which granted us the preliminary injunction–but this ruling is very good news because it ensures that the injunction against the coercive Trump administration “demand letter” remains in place.
The UC administration itself was not part of this lawsuit, which was instead the work of CUCFA, the campus Faculty Associations, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and our UC union partners. To learn more, watch our 7-minute video explainer on the history of the lawsuit. Your FA membership ensures that this fight for our university can continue.
UC faculty are continuing the fight to secure research funding, faculty economic welfare, and academic freedom from political coercion. This month, CUCFA and the FAs have launched a campaign to support SB 895, a bipartisan bill that would create the California Foundation for Health and Science Research. The foundation would be funded by a $23 billion state bond and would award grants and loans to fund science and health research.
Read more about the bill and take action to support California science by signing an open letter and indicating you would like to get more involved in the FAs’ SB895 campaign.
]]>The Council of UC Faculty Associations is supporting a legislative initiative to increase funding for scientific research in California.
Scientists from institutions across the state are signing on to an open letter in support of this initiative.
Already over 500 UC faculty have signed!
California SB 895 would create the California Science and Health Research Bond Act to:
- Establish a new California Foundation for Science and Health Research to distribute grants and loans for research and facilities.
- Fund this foundation through a $23 billion voter-approved bond on the next statewide ballot.
- Require competitive peer review for all grants.
- Prioritize projects that replace lost federal support and keep work going.
Why Should UC Faculty Support the Bill?
SB 895 protects and expands research capacity in California and helps buffer it against federal attacks. When NIH/NSF dollars dry up or get delayed, this fund can step in and keep labs running. The grants are awarded based on peer review and scientific merit, and the governing body must have majority representation by scientists who have past or active research experience in the fields funded by the bill.
The bill supports the UC research ecosystem by explicitly including universities, research institutes, and labs in eligible funding. It will fund new facilities, equipment, and jobs for researchers and students. SB895 also includes annual audits and public reporting in the bill to ensure transparency.
In short: SB 895 gives UC faculty a dedicated, science-prioritized funding source that strengthens research in California, ensuring faculty retention and research funding stability.
Join Your Faculty Association
The UC Faculty Associations are voluntary membership organizations at each campus that represent UC faculty interests in employment matters and advocate for academic freedom, funding for scientific research and for public higher education. Our ability to mobilize faculty in support of campaigns like the California Science and Health Research Bond comes from your membership.
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Faculty Association Victories in 2025
As the new administration shut down research funding and limited faculty freedom of speech, UC faculty fought back on many fronts. Guided by a new leadership team committed to building a broader, more representative, more powerful organization, CUCFA initiated and joined multiple successful lawsuits:
| Sued the Trump administration to prevent the University from capitulating under financial coercion–and won! | |
| Sued to compel the release of the Trump demand letter–and won! | |
| Filed an amicus brief in AAUP’s lawsuit that banned the federal government’s ideological deportation policies–and won! | |
| Supported class action suits to restore hundreds of millions of grants across the UC system –and won! |
To learn more about CUCFA’s work towards these successful lawsuits, check out our exclusive Behind the Scenes video below.
Faculty members spoke out against UCOP’s plan to cut the hiring incentive component of the President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP). On Tuesday, November 18th, UCOP agreed to continue the hiring incentive.
In November, over 200 faculty attended a town hall on the Future of Higher Education, emphasizing the need to ensure research funding and academic freedom, and sent hundreds of letters to UCOP and the Regents urging them not to capitulate to the Trump administration.
CUCFA and the FAs continue to campaign against the implementation of Trellix surveillance software. We also continue to partner with UC organizers to advocate for a California-funded research program.
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Hundreds of Faculty Joined Their Campus FA
As the Trump agenda unfurled, FA organizing committees sprang up on many campuses. In September, local organizing committees held a state-wide meeting and set a goal to add at least 1,000 faculty members by the end of the academic year. As of today, we are half way toward that goal, but there is more work to be done. If you’re interested in joining your campus organizing committee, reach out to organizing@cucfa.org.
We need powerful organizations that can launch legal challenges, organize faculty opposition, and speak to the public through media outreach. The only way to build them is by you and your colleagues getting involved.
Join AAUP and Help Defend Higher Ed
CUCFA is allied with the national American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the national union at the forefront of responding to the Trump administration’s attack on higher education around the country. We encourage faculty to add AAUP membership to your existing FA membership by choosing your campus below and following the steps at your local join page.
Left to right, Jovanović, Taft, McClanahan, Chua, Hamstead
New CUCFA Leadership and Staff
Many of these accomplishments have been spearheaded by CUCFA’s new leadership team and expanded staff. Our vision is to shift from a primarily advocacy-driven model to an organizing approach in order to build durable, systemwide faculty power. This summer we elected new officers: Co-Presidents Annie McClanahan (UCI) and Jessica Taft (UCSC); Jess Ghanam (UCSF) as Vice President for Health Sciences; and Miloš Jovanović (UCLA) as Secretary/Treasurer. We also appointed Charmaine Chua (UCB) to lead campus organizing and Zoé Hamstead (UCB) to direct external relations and legal affairs. Based on our conversations with campus FA boards and organizing committees, the new officers have set a clear collective charge before them: to deepen engagement across campuses, strengthen our statewide coordination, and bring more faculty into active leadership.
Sam Smucker, our new Director of Organizing, brings over twenty years of labor organizing across higher education, healthcare, manufacturing, warehouses and school districts. Sam has led more than two dozen organizing drives, including at Indiana University, where he attained his PhD. He will be working with systemwide and local leadership to build campus structures that can turn broad faculty frustration into collective action for meaningful change.
Finally, Eric Hays, who has held CUCFA together for years as a contractor covering everything from tech to policy research—will continue in his current position through 2025 before transitioning into a new role of Policy Analyst. Eric’s new role will focus on legislative analysis, tracking UC Regents actions, and monitoring budgetary developments on the UC and state levels.
This new leadership and staff team positions CUCFA to take on long-term work of building real faculty power across the UC system. This power begins with you. If you would like to comment or offer suggestions on what CUCFA has done well in the past half year, and what it could do in the future, please reach out to president@cucfa.org.