Month May 1997

CUCFA Selects New Leadership

The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) has elected new leadership to become effective July 1, 1997 because current President David Leonard (Pol. Sci. at UCB) and Vice President Michael Warren (Literature, UCSC) have served the two-year term to which…

DFA Board Elections

A nominating committee consisting of Mark Wheelis (Microbiology), Terry Murphy (Plant Biology), and Martha Macri (Native American Studies) have selected the following slate of candidates to fill DFA Board vacancies: Chair: Jonathan Sandoval (Education) Vice Chair: Ben McCoy (Chem. Engr.)…

DFA Opposes Merit Pay Delay Plan

The  DFA Board has filed a formal  objection  to a proposal by the UC Administration to delay the payment of salary increases associated with academic merit and promotion actions until the Governor and the Legislature have approved a State budget…

CE Specialists’ Parity Pay Issue

As you may remember from our March Newsletter, a recent revision of the APM Section devoted to the Cooperative Extension Specialists title series changed their salary scale linkage from the Agronomists series to the Professional Research series. As a consequence,…

Legislative Update

The FAs have been following a number of issues in the Legislature, as we indicated in our March Newsletter: Long-Term Funding for UC — AB 1415 At UC’s request, Assembly Speaker Cruz Bustamante (D, Fresno) introduced AB 1415 which would…