Year 2002

UC Budget Issues for 2001-02 and 2002-03

As many of you may know, the Faculty Associations representatives closely monitor the budget process for UC, particularly in relation to issues of faculty concern, such as salaries. As the 2001-02 budget unfolded in the spring, we alerted our members…

Membership Survey re. Tenure Committee Performance

Disclaimer: The board of the Davis Faculty Association has prepared the following article solely to bring to the faculty’s attention a Yolo County Superior Court decision that has gone unreported to date, and to obtain credible reactions thereto. The DFA…

Imminent UC Health Plan Changes

by Robert Meister, President, CUCFA Effective January 1, 2003, UC employees can expect their out-of-pocket costs to increase and their benefits to deteriorate. The design of the plans will also be considerably different: there will no longer be a zero-cost…

Legislative Report

by Charles P. Nash On January 10, 2002, Governor Davis submitted his budget recommendations for the fiscal year 2002-2003 to the Legislature. They included current-year (2001-2002) cuts in the base budgets of many agencies, including UC, as well as greatly…

Report on Graduate Education

Dear Folks: It is the goal of the DFA to help keep you informed on issues of interest to faculty. There was an article in the Jan. 17 California Aggie about graduate education expansion plans. In a presentation to the…