Black Caucus

1. Identify and activate a network of campus coordinators.
2. Support and participate in the bi-annual CFA Equity Conferences.
3. Increase the participation of Black faculty in the Delegate Assemblies, Lobby Days, state budget, and re-opener bargaining issues.

In fulfillment of its mission, the Black Caucus shall pursue the following goals and objectives:

• Encourage and provide networking opportunities for external and internal interest groups.
• Foster Black faculty membership, participation, and leadership at all levels of CFA, and, in so doing, build the union, promote and defend its mission, goals, and objectives, and support all of its campaigns. More broadly, champion diversity within CFA, along with others, to make it a better, more representative and stronger faculty union for the 21st century.
• Promote an equitable representation of Black faculty within the CSU, as well as their inclusion, participation, and leadership at all levels of governance and university life. More broadly, champion diversity within the CSU, along with others, to make it fulfill its mission better and live up to its promise of access, equity, and quality education to the people of California.
• Promote and defend all curricular, extracurricular, and academic programs, reforms, and initiatives that seek to better educate CSU students about the history and current conditions of Black communities in the United States, including the many historic and current linkages to Africa, South and Latin America, and the Caribbean.
• Mentor Black students, forge respectful, lasting relationships with their groups, and seek to include them in all Black Caucus activities and projects.
• Actively promote cooperative and mutually supportive relations with Black staff on each CSU campus, and seek to include them in Black Caucus activities and projects.
• Develop working relationships with the CSU central and campus administrations, the academic senates, the staff unions, and the student governments to promote and achieve all CSU related Black Caucus goals and objectives.
• Actively promote cooperative and mutually supportive relations with the local communities that our CSU campuses serve, especially Black community organizations.
• Foster respectful, cooperative, and solidarity relations with Black labor, educational, cultural, and political leaders and organizations locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally.
• Provide electronic means for all Black faculty members in the CSU to communicate and exchange data and analysis on all issues of interest to Black communities, especially those that pertain to the evolving status of Black in the CSU and information regarding all Black Caucus and CFA public declarations, activities, and projects.

Resources

The Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence

CFA LA Member’s Pursuit ‘Toward a Liberatory and Equitable Black Campus Experience’