We are the UCLA Faculty Association (UCLA FA), an independent body since 1979.
We represent UCLA faculty on employment and academic freedom issues and advocate for a vibrant and well-funded system of public higher education in California.
We coordinate research and advocacy efforts with faculty on other UC campuses through our affiliation with the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA).
We believe that expanding faculty power builds a better university for everyone.
The UCLA Faculty Association has presented UC President Drake with four demands to protect our community from deportations.
These four demands include: (1) a clear public statement rejecting any policies that facilitate discrimination or deportation based on national origin, religion, or political activities, (2) a public commitment to avoiding voluntary cooperation or information sharing with ICE, (3) a public commitment that UC will voluntarily uphold the practices endorsed by California‘s Immigrant Worker Protection Act (AB 450), and (4) a public commitment to not comply with the recent executive order that calls for universities to “monitor for and report activities by alien students and staff.”
What should you do if an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent comes to campus?
We have some guidelines to share.
The UCLA Faculty Association joined our colleagues at all ten UC campuses to defend higher education and political freedom.
The Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) called for an Emergency Day of Action on all ten UC campuses on March 19 to protest the Trump adminstration’s attacks on higher education. We call for the release of Mahmoud Khalil and Leqaa Kordia, protecting our campuses from DHS/ICE, protecting all of us regardless of immigration status, and a stop to federal and state funding cuts. Our rally was covered in the Los Angeles Times and the Daily Bruin.
Faculty deserve a voice in common calendar decisions.
The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) has convened a working group to respond to the push for a “common calendar” (semester system) happening statewide, with results from a survey of faculty here. CUCFA will send a letter to UC President Drake and other administrators with the results of the survey in February.
A petition to request a special meeting of the UC-wide Academic Senate to discuss the issue is open for signatures here.
Graphic from Daily Bruin, June 8, 2018.
Twenty-four professors of constitutional law released the memo “DEI Programs Are Lawful Under Federal Civil Rights Laws and Supreme Court Precedent.”
The authors of the memo include four of our colleagues at the UCLA School of Law. Listen to our colleague Ariela Gross interviewed on KPBS.
Hundreds of Los Angeles scientists rallied to Stand Up For Science.
On March 7, hundreds of faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and community members from UCLA, USC, and our entire community participated in the nationwide Stand Up For Science rallies. The rally was covered in the Los Angeles Times.
Faculty have significant concerns about Trellix.
On June 6, 2024, the UC-wide Academic Senate wrote President Drake expressing serious concerns about cybersecurity measures (including requiring the installation of the software Trellix). Concerns include how this could affect academic freedom, personal privacy, and computer performance, and also the effect of the UC’s proposal to withhold merit increases to leaders of departments who decide not to install the software.
At a meeting in February 2025, faculty requested that UC administrators produce a comprehensive report within two months responding to the substantive issues raised by faculty.
Executive actions are threatening higher education.
On February 19, we joined UAW 4811 for the nationwide “Hands Off Our Healthcare, Our Research, and Our Jobs” action.
The Trump administration attacks on higher education are summarized here by the AAUP and here, a live document supported by the work of UCLA scholars.
The UC is asking all of us to protect biomedical research by contacting our elected officials here.
More than sixty Jewish faculty and staff at UCLA have signed the letter “Not In Our Name.”
In the letter, more than sixty Jewish faculty and staff at UCLA write “to express our unequivocal opposition to the arrest and detention of former Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil, and Columbia University’s subsequent expulsion, suspension, and diploma revocation of dozens of pro-Palestinian protestors, apparently in response to demands from the Trump administration. We are vehemently opposed to efforts by the federal government to arrest, deport, or pressure universities to discipline students, staff, or faculty at UCLA or at any university who are deemed politically unacceptable by virtue of their support of freedom for the Palestinian people.” The letter was covered by the Los Angeles Times.
Meet our members
The UCLA Faculty Association is proud to have members in all disciplines and all fields on campus. Here are some interviews of our members so you can get to know us better!