September 13, 2025 Governor Gavin Newsom gavin.newsom@gov.ca.gov Dear Governor Newsom, On behalf of California Scholars for Academic Freedom,** an organization of over 200 scholars in higher education in California dedicated to the defense of academic freedom, we write to emphatically urge you to veto AB 715. The Senate Education Committee passed AB 715 on SeptemberContinue reading “Letter to Governor Newsom Urging Him to Veto AB 715 which Still Conflates Antisemitism with Protected Speech Thus Censoring K-12 Education Critical of Israeli Government Policies and Actions by Conflating it with Antisemitism”
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Letter to University of California President Milliken and UC Berkeley Chancellor Lyons Condemning Their Decision to Report 160 Members of the UC Berkeley Faculty, Students and Staff to the Federal Government for Investigation on False Accusations of Antisemitism
September 15,2025 Dear President Milliken and Chancellor Lyons, On behalf of California Scholars for Academic Freedom,* an organization of over 200 scholars in higher education in California dedicated to the defense of academic freedom, we condemn your decision to report 160 members of the UC Berkeley faculty, students, and staff to the federal government forContinue reading “Letter to University of California President Milliken and UC Berkeley Chancellor Lyons Condemning Their Decision to Report 160 Members of the UC Berkeley Faculty, Students and Staff to the Federal Government for Investigation on False Accusations of Antisemitism”
Letter to Dr. Dominico Grasso, President, University of Michigan Expressing Our Deep Concern for Two University of Michigan Ann Arbor Postdoctoral Researchers Xunqing Jian and Chengxuan Han Who Have Been Arrested for Agroterrorism
July 27, 2025 Dr. Dominico Grasso, President University of Michigan Dear President Grasso, On behalf of California Scholars for Academic Freedom,** an organization of over 200 scholars in higher education in California dedicated to the defense of academic freedom, we write to express our deep concern for two UM Ann Arbor postdoctoral researchers, Yunqing JianContinue reading “Letter to Dr. Dominico Grasso, President, University of Michigan Expressing Our Deep Concern for Two University of Michigan Ann Arbor Postdoctoral Researchers Xunqing Jian and Chengxuan Han Who Have Been Arrested for Agroterrorism”
Letter to Cynthia Teniente-Matson, President of San José State University, Provost Del Casino and V.P. Durr in Objection to the Disparate Treatment Accorded to Professor Sang Hea Kil Who is to be Terminated from Her Position Vs the Reinstatement of Professor Jonathan Roth Who Physically Assaulted a Protester but Will Return to Teaching in Fall 2025
July 28, 2025 Cynthia Teniente-Matson President San José State University sjsupres@sjsu.edu Vincent Del Casino Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs San José State University provost@sjsu.edu Jeanne Durr Interim Senior Associate Vice President, University Personnel San José State University jeanne.durr@sjsu.edu President Teniente-Matson, Provost Del Casino, and Vice President Durr: On behalf of California ScholarsContinue reading “Letter to Cynthia Teniente-Matson, President of San José State University, Provost Del Casino and V.P. Durr in Objection to the Disparate Treatment Accorded to Professor Sang Hea Kil Who is to be Terminated from Her Position Vs the Reinstatement of Professor Jonathan Roth Who Physically Assaulted a Protester but Will Return to Teaching in Fall 2025”
Letter to President Teniente-Matson, Provost Del Casino and V.P. Durr, San José State University, Decrying Their Decision to Seek the Termination of Dr. Sang Hea Kil, a Tenured Full Professor of Justice Studies for Allegedly Violating the Time, Place and Manner Policies Adopted by CSU Campuses in Spring 2024
June 27, 2025 Cynthia Teniente-Matson President San José State University sjsupres@sjsu.edu Vincent Del Casino Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs San José State University provost@sjsu.edu Jeanne Durr Interim Senior Associate Vice President, University Personnel San José State University jeanne.durr@sjsu.edu President Teniente-Matson, Provost Del Casino, and Vice President Durr: On behalf of California ScholarsContinue reading “Letter to President Teniente-Matson, Provost Del Casino and V.P. Durr, San José State University, Decrying Their Decision to Seek the Termination of Dr. Sang Hea Kil, a Tenured Full Professor of Justice Studies for Allegedly Violating the Time, Place and Manner Policies Adopted by CSU Campuses in Spring 2024”
Letter calling on University of California, San Francisco Chancellor Hawgood to end the Job Suspension of Professor Rupa Marya Begun in September 2024
January 17, 2025 Dear University of California, San Francisco Chancellor Hawgood, We are writing on behalf of California Scholars for Academic Freedom*, a group of over two-hundred scholars from campuses across California, to call upon you to end Professor Rupa Marya’s job suspension that began in September 2024. In addition to depriving your students, residents,Continue reading “Letter calling on University of California, San Francisco Chancellor Hawgood to end the Job Suspension of Professor Rupa Marya Begun in September 2024”
To Chancellor Howard Gillman, University of California, Irvine, Expressing Our Deep Concerns Over Your Unseemly Persecution of Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard for her Support of UCI’s Students in their Protest Efforts to Stop the Genocide in Gaza and Urging Him to Call on Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer to Immediately Drop all Charges Against Dr. Willoughby-Herard and all Protesters
x November 4, 2024 Dear Chancellor Howard Gillman, University of California, Irvine: We are writing on behalf of California Scholars for Academic Freedom, a group of over two hundred scholars from campuses across California to express our deep concerns over your unseemly persecution of Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, an esteemed Black feminist scholar at UC Irvine. Continue reading “To Chancellor Howard Gillman, University of California, Irvine, Expressing Our Deep Concerns Over Your Unseemly Persecution of Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard for her Support of UCI’s Students in their Protest Efforts to Stop the Genocide in Gaza and Urging Him to Call on Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer to Immediately Drop all Charges Against Dr. Willoughby-Herard and all Protesters”
Letter to California State University Chancellor Mildred Garcia Expressing Deep Alarm Over the New Time, Place and Manner (TPM) Directives Recently Imposed Systemwide by the CSU
September 7, 2024 Re: CS4AF letter about New Interim Time Place Manner Policies at the CSU Dear California State University Chancellor Mildred Garcia, We write as members of California Scholars for Academic Freedom.* We want to express our deep alarm over the new Time, Place and Manner (TPM) directives recently imposed systemwide by the CSU. Continue reading “Letter to California State University Chancellor Mildred Garcia Expressing Deep Alarm Over the New Time, Place and Manner (TPM) Directives Recently Imposed Systemwide by the CSU”
Birzeit University Union: We Are All Palestinians in the Face of Colonial Fascism”
[The following statement was issued by the Birzeit University Union of Professors and Employees in response to the ongoing genocide of Gaza perpetrated by the state of Israel.] 2023 will be recorded historically as the year that Palestinians stood boldly in the face of colonial fascism and screamed in defense of their homes, humanity, andContinue reading “Birzeit University Union: We Are All Palestinians in the Face of Colonial Fascism””
Letter to Chancellor García and Members of the California State University Board of Trustees Calling for the Removal of Lynn Mahoney as President of San Francisco State University Because of Her Ongoing Campaign Against the Academic Freedom of Professor Rabab Abdulhadi and Colleagues and her Unrelenting Anti-Palestinian Racism
September 22, 2023 Chancellor Designate Mildred Garcia – presg@aascu.org CSU Board of Trustees – trusteesecretariat@calstate.edu Dear Chancellor García and Members of the California State University Board of Trustees: We write on behalf of California Scholars for Academic Freedom* to call upon you to remove Lynn Mahoney as president of San Francisco State University (SFSU), becauseContinue reading “Letter to Chancellor García and Members of the California State University Board of Trustees Calling for the Removal of Lynn Mahoney as President of San Francisco State University Because of Her Ongoing Campaign Against the Academic Freedom of Professor Rabab Abdulhadi and Colleagues and her Unrelenting Anti-Palestinian Racism”
CALIFORNIA SCHOLARS FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM 