Katie Rodgers, PhD. Lecturer at UC Davis, is President of UC-AFT.
UC Berkeley administration has called for a hiring freeze for lecturers for the 2025-26 school year. These teaching faculty are represented by UC-AFT and teach 30-40% of the credit hours across the University of California. Union members are organizing against these detrimental prospective cuts. In addition, several current Berkeley language lecturers are being laid off—or told they won’t be reappointed—as a result of UC’s austerity mindset. A grassroots coalition of lecturers, students, and allies wrote an open letter advocating for the administration to save UC Berkeley’s World Languages Programs.