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.

Please join us at these upcoming events.

What should you do if an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent comes to campus?

We have some guidelines to share.

UCLA faculty and staff are vigorously protesting the attacks on our university.

On April 12, the UCLA Faculty Association held the “Hands Off Our Students” march to the ICE field offices in downtown Los Angeles, in cooperation with several southern California universities and community organizations, with roughly 150 people attending.

On April 11, the UCLA Faculty Association held a rally to demand that UCLA protect students and faculty who have had their visas and immigration status illegally and arbitrarily revoked, with roughly 60 people attending.

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.

Roughly 250 Los Angeles scientists participated in the “Kill the Cuts” march.

On April 8, around 250 UCLA students, postdocs, and faculty participated in the “Kill the Cuts” march to the Westwood Federal Building, to protest federal funding cuts to higher education. This march was covered in the LA Times.

The Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) and UC-AFT calls upon UC to immediately address Student Visa Revocations.

On April 6, 2025, the Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) and UC-AFT Local 1474, representing UC non-ladder faculty and librarians, called upon UC administrators with five demands: (1) UC should provide legal support to any member of our community whose visa has been revoked; (2) any student who is detained or deported must be able to complete their degrees remotely; (3) all fellowships, stipends, and salaries must be guaranteed even if a community member is deported; (4) any staff or faculty member who is detained or deported must be able to work remotely and receive their salary; and (5) the UC must seek action in the federal courts to halt termination of legal status without due process.

A UCLA graduate student was detained by US Customs and Border Patrol on April 17. UCLA faculty spoke out about our five demands and our demands were covered extensively in local media.

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.

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.

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.

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.

UCLA faculty are deeply concerned about the planned closing of the Fernald Childcare Center on campus.

On March 20, UCLA faculty and concerned parents issued a press release stating that “The UCLA community is uniting in defense of the Fernald Center, a beloved on-campus early childhood education facility, in light of its proposed closure.”

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!