As you are probably aware, our graduate students have voted to go on strike tomorrow morning (see attached flyer). They are striking to support their UCSC colleagues but also to extend their demands for a system-wide COLA (Cost Of Living Adjustment). We know that our members will have different opinions about this strike and might […]

As you all know the Senate has called for nominations of faculty for the Committee on Committees (COC) and Systemwide Legislative Assembly. SBFA Board strongly believes in service in our senate and is particularly interested in having one of our members elected to serve in the COC and systemwide Academic Senate Assembly. Claudio Fogu (member […]

Dear SBFA members and colleagues, Please see the attached document for a December update and consider making an end-of-the-year contribution to the UCSB International Visiting Scholars (At Risk) Fund. Happy Holidays from the UCSB Faculty Association Executive Board!

Dear Colleague:

The UC Santa Barbara Faculty Association welcomes you as we begin the new academic year. As many of you know, the SBFA is a voluntary, dues-supported organization comprised of Academic Senate members dedicated to the improvement of the economic status and general welfare of the UCSB faculty.

Over the past three decades the SBFA has worked hard to increase faculty salaries, to add significant health care benefits such as dental coverage, and to protect and increase retirement benefits.

In recent years, […]

Dear colleagues,

On July 26, 2018 UC negotiators rejected a proposal by the UC-AFT Unit 17 that academic freedom be recognized as a right of all librarians as academic employees. UC negotiators reportedly argued that academic freedom is granted only to faculty and students “to enable free expression in the classroom,” that it is “a professional standard established by faculty, for faculty,” and that their position was consistent with “AAUP’s stance on Academic Freedom.”

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has rejected UC negotiators’ claims and clarified that since 1972 it has recognized librarians as faculty (Joint Statement on Faculty Status of College and University Librarians). Specifically, the joint statement affirms that […]