FUC is a weekly online symposium organized by rent-burdened graduate students at the University of California, Irvine.
This series emerged out of a desire to re-establish and build vital bonds of solidarity across our international community during this period of isolation. It is our hope that these talks will spark critical conversations around labor and labor movements, as well as the future of higher education and the university.
Central to our mission is the promotion of the COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) Campaign at the University of California. Since September 2019, organizers across the UC have been calling for a COLA for every graduate student - regardless of residence, visa, documentation, employment or funding status - to bring us out of rent burden, without raising tuition or campus fees, and with a guarantee of non-retaliation.