CFA Wins Tentative Agreement with Cal State Management

BY THE CALIFORNIA FACULTY ASSOCIATION The following is the text of a statement released on December 20 by the California Faculty Association, an AAUP affiliate and collective bargaining agent representing 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors, and coaches in the California State University (CSU) system. We are pleased to report that we have reached a tentative…

CSU Management’s Shameful Positions on Academic Freedom and Faculty Intellectual Property

BY HANK REICHMAN In Fall 2017 the California Faculty Association (CFA), an AAUP-affiliated union representing nearly 28,000 California State University (CSU) faculty, librarians, counselors, and coaches, and CSU management agreed to extend their collective bargaining agreement.  As part of that agreement, the sides agreed to continue negotiations over academic freedom and intellectual property with the…

Charges Dropped Against L.A. Faculty Activist

BY HANK REICHMAN Yesterday the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office agreed to drop all criminal charges against Melina Abdullah, a professor and chair of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles and an activist in the AAUP-affiliated California Faculty Association.  Prof. Abdullah, a prominent Black Lives Matter leader, faced charges of assaulting a police…

CFA, CSU Reach Tentative Agreement on Two-Year Contract Extension

POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following announcement was released today by the California Faculty Association (CFA, an affiliate of the AAUP.  CFA represents more than 28,000 tenured and tenure-track professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches on the 23 campuses of the California State University system. The California Faculty Association’s Bargaining Team and Board of Directors…

Victory for Academic Freedom at CSU Fullerton

BY HANK REICHMAN In a victory for academic freedom and faculty rights, a California State University, Fullerton part-time anthropology lecturer facing dismissal after a fracas at a campus demonstration in February has been reinstated by order of an arbitrator.  The university’s College Republicans had accused Eric Canin of striking one of them at the demonstration.…

CFA Statement on Detention of CSULA Student Activist

BY HENRY REICHMAN On Thursday, May 18, California State University, Los Angeles student and immigration rights activist Claudia Rueda was taken into custody by Border Patrol agents as she moved her family’s car outside their home. Federal agents had detained Rueda’s mother earlier this month. The following statement on her detention was released today by the…

Equity, Interrupted: How California is Cheating Its Future

BY HANK REICHMAN Today, the California Faculty Association (CFA), an AAUP-affiliate representing 25,000+ faculty members in the 23-campus California State University (CSU) system, released a new report, “Equity, Interrupted: How California Is Cheating Its Future,” the first in a promised series. Among its findings, the report details decisions impacting the CSU and its students, and…

Charles Reed, Assessment, and "The Great Mistake"

BY HANK REICHMAN Charles Reed, former head of the now-dismantled Florida state university system and for sixteen years (1996-2012) Chancellor of the twenty-three-campus California State University (CSU), died this week at the age of 75.  Known to friend and foe alike as just “Charlie,” Reed was a highly controversial leader whose brusque, even bullying style…

Terms of CFA-CSU Tentative Agreement

The following message from California Faculty Association (CFA) President Jennifer Eagan was sent this morning to California State University faculty members: April 8, 2016 Greetings Faculty Colleagues, The CFA Board of Directors, upon recommendation of the Bargaining Team, has recommended that a tentative agreement between CFA and CSU management be submitted to the membership for…

CFA and CSU Reach Tentative Agreement

The following media advisory was released this afternoon: MEDIA ADVISORY CFA and CSU To Announce Tentative Agreement What: California Faculty Association and California State University leaders will hold a joint news conference call for news media to announce a tentative agreement on a reopened contract between the university administration and faculty union. The proposed five-day…