October 26, 2020 Colleagues, I truly hope this email finds you safe and healthy. I’m writing to update you about an important position our chapter membership took at the most recent General Membership Town Hall held Wednesday, October 14. At the meeting, the members assembled passed a resolution creating an Ad-Hoc Committee to organize for Post-Election Contingencies …
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WHEREAS, electoral seasons are often highly contentious periods, particularly every four years when presidential elections occur; and WHEREAS, the 2020 election is even more tense coming in the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic, economic recession, and nationwide uprisings against anti-Black police violence; and WHEREAS, public health officials have expressed concerns about large groups of …
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September 2, 2020 Dear Colleagues and Friends, On behalf of your local chapter Executive Board (E-Board) of the California Faculty Association (CFA), Los Angeles, we welcome you to the start of Fall 2020. Welcome to all the new faculty joining us this year! Congratulations to those of you who received retention, tenure, promotion, or range elevation beginning …
August 8, 2020 Dear Colleagues, As CFA’s special headlines notes: “CFA affirms that the lack of childcare and closed schools count as essential reasons to take leave and that Unit 3 members are not excluded from this leave." The CSU developed CPAL in March 2020, while the U.S. Congress passed the FFCRA, which the Chancellor expanded to include all university employees in April 2020. …
July 30, 2020 Good morning and happy Eid-al-Adha to our Muslim community. In this moment of a global pandemic, economic recession, and antiracist uprising, we must safeguard the future leaders of our society by ensuring that students at Cal State LA can access the courses they need to successfully complete their education and be prepared …
For Immediate Release | Press Conference: 7/30/20, 10:30 a.m. CFA-LA SAYS THAT WE MUST PROTECT THE FUTURE: NO TO COURSE CUTS, CHOP FROM THE TOP! CAL STATE LA PREPARES TO CUT NUMEROUS CLASSES, FURTHER IMPACTING STUDENT LEARNING, FACULTY JOBS, AND ACCESS TO HEALTH INSURANCE By CFA-LA Media & Communications | July 28, 2020 File under: …
July 24, 2020 Dear Colleagues, This summer, CFA has met with Jose Gomez and Nancy McQueen to discuss the challenges that the pandemic presents to us as workers, and we have been especially concerned with how care work at home (of children, parents, ill family members) compounds our already onerous workloads. As a racial and …
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To: President William Covino, Provost Jose Gomez, AVP for Academic Affairs Nancy McQueen, college deans, department chairs, and the Academic Senate We’ve already heard rumblings that departments and programs at Cal State LA are planning to cut courses, sections, and Lecturer faculty positions for the fall semester. This is even before the full ramifications of the economic …
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June 2, 2020 Cal State LA Campus Community, The California Faculty Association, Cal State LA chapter stands in solidarity with the family and friends of George Floyd. We also express solidarity with the nationwide protests demanding justice and an end to police brutality and killings that have taken the lives of far too many Black, …
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CFA-LA FORGE JUSTICE 