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UC Berkeley faculty and counsel explained the Thakur v. Trump case and its implications for the UCLA federal funding suspensions.
ByMichael Chwe August 8, 2025January 16, 2026

On August 8, UC Berkeley faculty Claudia Polsky, Erwin Chemerinsky, Nell Green Nylen, and Christine Philliou, together with counselors Elizabeth Cabraser and Linda Gilleran, explained their class action lawsuit Thakur, et al. v. Trump, et al. in a zoom event at UCLA. In Thakur, on June 23, U.S. District Court Judge Rita Lin issued a preliminary injunction restoring federal research grants to UC researchers. On August 4, plaintiffs submitted a legal filing notifying Judge Rita Lin that by suspending research grants to UCLA, the NSF was violating the preliminary injunction. Notes from the meeting and how to get involved are available here.

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What is UCLA Health doing about ICE in our hospital?
ByMichael Chwe June 24, 2025January 16, 2026

On June 24, ICE agents abducted a woman religious asylum seeker in the Westwood area and she went into convulsions as a result. ICE agents took the woman to the UCLA Ronald Reagan emergency room and were allowed into private treatment areas without a judicial warrant, in violation of UCLA policy. UCLA police were present and cleared the woman’s supporters from the waiting area, in violation of UCLA policy stating that UCLA police does not cooperate with ICE (for more information, click here). On June 27, we joined UCLA Health staff, medical students, and AFSCME 3299, the union representing Patient Care Technical…

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Ahilan Arulanantham: Know Your Rights
ByMichael Chwe May 27, 2025January 16, 2026

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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Events | Federal attacks | Funding cuts | Science

Roughly 250 Los Angeles scientists participated in the “Kill the Cuts” march.
ByMichael Chwe April 8, 2025January 16, 2026

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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Events | Labor

AFSCME and UPTE are on strike from February 26 to February 28, 2025
ByMichael Chwe March 10, 2025January 16, 2026

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…

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Events | Federal attacks | Funding cuts | Science

Hundreds of Los Angeles scientists rallied to Stand Up For Science.
ByMichael Chwe March 7, 2025January 16, 2026

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.

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deportations | Events

The UCLA Faculty Association has presented UC President Drake with four demands to protect our community from deportations.
ByMichael Chwe February 19, 2025January 16, 2026

These four demands include: (1) a clear public statement rejecting any policies that facilitate discrimination or deportation based on national origin, religion, or political activities, (2) a public commitment to avoiding voluntary cooperation or information sharing with ICE, (3) a public commitment that UC will voluntarily uphold the practices endorsed by California‘s Immigrant Worker Protection Act (AB 450), and (4) a public commitment to not comply with the recent executive order that calls for universities to “monitor for and report activities by alien students and staff.”

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CUCFA | Events | strikes | union

What to do when grades come due? CUCFA Virtual Town Hall, Fri 7/7 @ noon
Byadmin June 6, 2024January 16, 2026

Many UCLA faculty are teaching courses with TAs who are on strike, and therefore striking TAs may not be grading final assignments and exams. What does this mean for us as faculty? What does it mean for our undergraduates, their courses, and their final grades? The UCLA Faculty Association invites all UCLA faculty to participate in a Virtual Town Hall Meeting this Friday, June 7 from 12-1PM hosted by CUCFA (Council of UC Faculty Associations). This meeting is intended to be an opportunity for faculty to think through and share the policies that have been devised by other faculty at…

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Academic Senate | Events | UC-AFT

Which Way UCLA? May 6, 12 noon
Byadmin April 16, 2015

Save the date! Which Way UCLA? Faculty and the Future of Public Higher Education Wednesday, May 6, 12 noon to 1:30 PM UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room Buffet lunch will be served As Janet Napolitano and Jerry Brown battle over tuition increases and state funding for the UC, faculty face eroding compensation and increasing privatization of the university. Is shared governance still meaningful amidst the race for private donations and bond-funded construction? Where is the common ground between tenure and non-tenure system faculty? How does the crisis of student loan debt change our relationship with our students? Join representatives of the Academic Senate, the Council…

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Events

UC Berkeley faculty and counsel explained the Thakur v. Trump case and its implications for the UCLA federal funding suspensions.

What is UCLA Health doing about ICE in our hospital?

Ahilan Arulanantham: Know Your Rights

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

Hands Off Our Students! Rally

AFSCME and UPTE are on strike from February 26 to February 28, 2025

Hundreds of Los Angeles scientists rallied to Stand Up For Science.

The UCLA Faculty Association has presented UC President Drake with four demands to protect our community from deportations.

What to do when grades come due? CUCFA Virtual Town Hall, Fri 7/7 @ noon

Which Way UCLA? May 6, 12 noon

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