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.
News
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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).
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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…
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UCLA-FA Statement on the Anniversary of the April 30 Attack on Our Students
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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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.
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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.
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Hands Off Our Students! Rally
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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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;…
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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.”
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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.
