The board of the UC Riverside Faculty Association would like to inform you of a special meeting of the UC Academic Senate Assembly to be held this Friday, January 17, 2025, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM. We encourage you to attend.

You can register for the Zoom here and join on Zoom here.

The systemwide Academic Senate Chair, Steve W. Cheung, has released the agenda for the meeting, which contains 63 pages of documents you can find here.

This meeting will discuss three issues affecting UC faculty:

1) The ill-conceived Information Security Investment Plan that President Drake is attempting to impose on all campuses without any faculty input. (see the exchange between President Drake and the Academic Council regarding “Information Security Investment Plans”).

2) The differential treatment of faculty and administrators regarding compensation and cost-of-living adjustments (see the October 15, 2024, letter signed by 450 faculty and President Drake’s November 13, 2024 response).

3) The University of California’s continued decrease in its percent contributions to medical plans. (see the October 15, 2024, letter signed by 450 faculty and President Drake’s November 13, 2024 response).

If you cannot attend, please contact your campus representatives and let them know how you feel about the three issues being discussed at this meeting.