Please consider signing on to an open letter in support of the California Science and Health Research Bond Act. This bill places a bond on the 2026 ballot to create and fund the California Foundation for Science and Health Research, which would award grants and make loans to public or private research companies, universities, institutes, and health care organizations in the State of California for scientific research and development.
On November 21, 2025, UC President Milliken reversed course and pledged to continue funding the hiring incentive for the Presidential Postdocs Fellowship Program. This represents a significant faculty organizing win. The UCLA Faculty Association thanks the thousands of faculty who signed letters, sent emails, and spread the word quickly!
On November 19, 2025, four UCLA undergraduate students were arrested by UCLA police while picketing in support of AFSCME 3299’s protected strike. On November 20, 2025, two UCLA graduate student members of UAW 4811 were detained by university police on Wednesday at a union action about contract violations and labor cuts. The UCLA Faculty Association joined with AFSCME 3299, UAW 4811, Teamsters Local 2010, UPTE CWA 9119, UCLA Chapter of University Council – AFT, UC-AFT Local 1474, the UCLA Undergraduate Students Association, and all of our sibling UC Faculty Associations to condemn UC’s violation of our free speech and organizing…
On November 14, 2025, the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California granted the plaintiffs in AAUP v. Trump, including UCLA-FA, a preliminary injunction! By temporary court order, the federal government is now prohibited from holding federal funds hostage in an effort to coerce the University of California into imposing policies that would violate our first amendment rights. This order means that the Trump administration is now explicitly prohibited from doing the following: In last week’s preliminary injunction hearing, lawyers from Alshuler, Berzon—Connie Chan and Stacey Leyton—were able to argue convincingly, based on a mountain of evidence assembled by the team…
On September 30, 2025, we spearheaded a special meeting of the Legislative Assembly of the UCLA Academic Senate, which unanimously passed a resolution, 116 votes in favor and zero opposed, to request that Chancellor Julio Frenk share the Trump “demand letter” with the public.
On September 16, a coalition of 21 groups including the UCLA Faculty Association filed suit to stop “the unlawful threat of federal funding cuts not authorized by law to illegally coerce the UC into suppressing free speech and academic freedom rights, implementing harmful federal policies on the Trump administration’s behalf and otherwise violating the constitutional and state law rights of UC faculty, students, academic employees, and staff employees.” Our lawsuit was covered by the Los Angeles Times and more information is here and here. Also, on September 15, the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) filed suit to compel the UC to publicly share the Trump administration $1 billion…
Over 1600 UC faculty, staff, students, and community members have signed the open letter to Save Gender-Affirming & Trans Healthcare at UCLA. We demand: No cuts, restrictions, or limitations on gender-affirming care at UC and No capitulation to anti-trans demands. Please consider signing.
Over 600 Jewish faculty, staff, students, and community members in the University of California have signed the letter Jews in Defense of UC stating: “The Administration’s demand that UCLA pay the federal government $1 billion, along with a $172 million claims fund, is misguided and punitive. Cutting off hundreds of millions of research funds will do nothing to make UCLA safer for Jews nor diminish antisemitism in the world.” The letter was covered in the Los Angeles Times. On the same day, the opinion piece “Trump’s claim of fighting antisemitism at UCLA is a dangerous charade” by David N. Myers (UCLA faculty), Aaron…
Over 170 University of California law faculty have signed a public statement: “We urge Governor Newsom and the UC Regents to continue to stand up for the fundamental principles of the rule of law, due process, and equal protection. A defense of the University of California’s rights in court will model respect for these bedrock principles of equality and fairness, and it will ensure that the government honors them. The Trump Administration’s failure to abide by the law subverts these principles by denying the University of California a fair opportunity to contest the government’s charges of unlawful discrimination before an impartial…
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…
