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UC Stand Up For Our Values
ByMichael Chwe September 14, 2025

On August 1, 2025, we released an open letter (please sign here) in response to the Trump administration’s suspension of roughly eight hundred federal research grants to UCLA scholars. This letter has received over 2400 signatures, including from over 1100 UC faculty, and has been covered in the national and international press. We demand that the UC Office of the President immediately challenge the Trump administration attacks in court and collaborate with Governor Newsom and the California state legislature to supplement this shortfall. We further ask that the university administration explore using a portion of the over $5 billion in unrestricted endowment funds to help keep our…

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What should you do if an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent comes to campus?
ByMichael Chwe September 14, 2025

We have some guidelines to share.

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Labor

PERB issues complaint against UC, finding merit in CUCFA ULP charge
Byadmin June 4, 2025August 11, 2025

Last fall, the UCLA FA spearheaded a broader Council of UC Faculty Associations effort to submit an Unfair Labor Practice charge regarding the UC’s handling of protest and strike activity on campus last spring. Now, the Public Employee Relations Board (PERB) has issued a complaint against the UC, finding merit in our charges that UC violated our labor rights and taking them to the next step in the legal process! This is a significant win in the fight for faculty rights on UC campuses. Stay tuned for more updates on how we will use this victory to protect our rights…

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academic freedom

UCLA-FA Statement on the Anniversary of the April 30 Attack on Our Students
Byadmin May 6, 2025May 6, 2025

Statement of the UCLA Faculty Association on the Anniversary of the Violent Dissolution of the Palestine Solidarity Encampment Just over one year ago, a group of student anti-war activists erected a Palestine Solidarity Encampment (PSE) on Royce Quad, with the goal of bringing attention to the role of UCLA in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. In the style of previous, storied protests, students demanded divestment of UC funds from the war and war profiteers. A few days later on April 30, 2024, UCLA posted signs declaring the PSE unlawful; a few hours later, outside agitators began an attack on the…

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academic freedom | Federal attacks | immigration

UCLA faculty and staff are vigorously protesting the attacks on our university.
ByMichael Chwe April 11, 2025August 11, 2025

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.

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Federal attacks | Funding cuts | Science

Roughly 250 Los Angeles scientists participated in the “Kill the Cuts” march.
ByMichael Chwe April 8, 2025August 11, 2025

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.

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events | Federal attacks | immigration

Hands Off Our Students! Rally
Byadmin April 7, 2025August 11, 2025

In the past week alone, at least 44 students across the UC system have reportedly had their I-20 Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) record terminated by the Department of Homeland Security, with at least one deportation occurring. The current count of visa revocations at UCLA is thirteen. These detentions and visa revocations are taking place without warning, and without the University being able to inform visa holders in a timely way that their legal status to remain in the U.S. has been terminated. The cases across the University of California and elsewhere suggest there is no consistent pattern…

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Federal attacks | immigration

The Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) and UC-AFT calls upon UC to immediately address Student Visa Revocations.
ByMichael Chwe April 6, 2025August 11, 2025

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;…

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UCLA faculty are deeply concerned about the planned closing of the Fernald Childcare Center on campus.
ByMichael Chwe March 20, 2025August 11, 2025

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.”

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deportations | Federal attacks | Funding cuts

The UCLA Faculty Association joined our colleagues at all ten UC campuses to defend higher education and political freedom.
ByMichael Chwe March 19, 2025April 19, 2025

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.

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UC Stand Up For Our Values

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

PERB issues complaint against UC, finding merit in CUCFA ULP charge

UCLA-FA Statement on the Anniversary of the April 30 Attack on Our Students

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

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

Hands Off Our Students! Rally

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

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

The UCLA Faculty Association joined our colleagues at all ten UC campuses to defend higher education and political freedom.

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UC Faculty Associations

Higher Ed Policy

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