UCLA Faculty Association Annual Meeting
On May 31 we had our Annual Meeting in Mira Hershey Hall to discuss all the challenges we face and our plans to grow in the future. Roughly sixty people were in attendance.
Author: Michael Chwe
-
-
Ahilan Arulanantham: Know Your Rights
On May 27, the UCLA Faculty Association hosted a Know Your Rights event with Ahilan Arulanantham on the Law School faculty and Senior Counsel for the ACLU of Southern California. Notes of the event, including how to respond to ICE and also best practices when entering the US from abroad, are available here (additional notes here).
-
Faculty have significant concerns about Trellix.
On May 5, 2025, UCLA administrators announced that by June 1, all UCLA employees must install “Trellix Endpoint Security” on their devices, even personal ones, to access “select critical UCLA applications.” Information collected by the Trellix software is not under the user’s control, and there is the danger that it might be given to government authorities. A previous version of Trellix, called “FireEye,” was hacked in 2021 by “a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities.” The Trellix software is also computationally demanding and slows down other computer processes. These and other concerns were raised by a letter by the UC system-wide Academic Senate in June…
-
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.
-
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;…
-
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.”
-
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.
-
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…
-
AFSCME and UPTE are on strike from February 26 to February 28, 2025
AFSCME Local 3299, the union representing 37,000 Service and Patient Care workers at the UC, is conducting a statewide Unfair Labor Practices strike this week over bad faith bargaining and interference with workers’ free speech rights. UPTE-CWA Local 9119 (University Professional and Technical Employees), the union representing 20,000 UC employees including nurse case managers, mental health counselors, optometrists, pharmacists, physical therapists, clinical researchers, IT analysts and animal health technicians, are on strike in response to repressive limitations the UC is placing on employee and union free speech. AFSCME and UPTE are asking all community members to not purchase products (including…
