California Faculty Association

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Join Your Faculty Colleagues and Become a CFA Member Today!

Join Your Faculty Colleagues and Become a CFA Member Today!

Membership in CFA helps ensure continued advocacy on behalf of CSU faculty. Join thousands of instructional faculty, librarians, counselors, and coaches to protect academic freedom, faculty rights, safe workplaces, higher education, and student learning, and fight for racial and social justice.

Let’s Transform Higher Education to be a More Inclusive, Social Justice-Minded System

Let’s Transform Higher Education to be a More Inclusive, Social Justice-Minded System

Our work to counter racism must aim at structural change and must be intersectional. We connect for co-liberation and we intentionally center anti-racism and social justice — both lens and framework — in all that we do.

See How Faculty Educate and Uplift on Their Campuses and in Their Communities

See How Faculty Educate and Uplift on Their Campuses and in Their Communities

CFA members are the CSU. We are the lecturers, professors, counselors, librarians, and coaches on the frontlines delivering quality instruction and support to students, protecting access to public higher education for all, and practicing anti-racism and social justice. Here are their stories.

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Anti-Racism Social Justice

CFA members understand racism as systemic and linked to other structures of oppression. Our work to counter racism must aim at structural change and must be intersectional. We connect for co-liberation and we intentionally center anti-racism and social justice — both lens and framework — in all that we do.

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Faculty Rights

We are dedicated to preserving faculty rights. Use the links below to explore the protections and benefits won for faculty through our collective work.

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Political Advocacy

CFA is deeply involved in political action through the endorsement of candidates and advocacy for legislation that supports members’ priorities.

Learn More About Your CFA

We invite you to join us to protect quality higher education, improve access to one of the greatest university systems in the world, and ensure equity and justice. If you are a faculty member at the California State University, support your colleagues and join CFA. We are stronger together.

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