Merced College Faculty Association

MCFA members at the annual CCA Board Planning meeting in San Diego!

CCA Northern Women’s Rights and Empowerment Director - Toni Visola

CCA Secretary - Patrick Mitchell

FYI.

We did it. 🙌 Signatures have been counted! The Secretary of State just announced that the permanent extension of Prop 55 to fund public education is eligible for the November ballot!

Solidarity forever!

After Canvas: The architectural question higher ed has been avoiding The Canvas breach didn’t fail because hackers got lucky. It failed because the architecture made it inevitable, and the standard response — patch, harden, audit, repeat — will produce the next breach on the same timeline. ShinyHunters compromised Instructure twice in nine days, exploiting Free...

California colleges went big on online learning tools. Then the worst happened A massive hack of education platform Canvas hit potentially more than 1 million California college students. What happens next?

State launches youth aid program amid praise and disappointment A funding program for foster youth and kids who lost a parent to COVID during the pandemic has launched, four years after approval

Board of Trustees meeting today! Megan's last report as MCFA President, next month Mike Weepers will be here reporting to the Board for us!

Some California regions have a shortage of qualified teachers. Can these programs help? California teachers in training have to spend at least 600 hours in a classroom, often unpaid. New programs provide them an income.

Tribes want Cal State to return Native remains and artifacts. Here's why it's not so easy Cal State campuses have mixed records in returning items to tribes. The process is arduous.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Cristina Vara, our UniServ Executive Board Member, for being honored at this weekend’s State Council as one of the recipients of the State We Honor Ours (WHO) awards. -Equity Team