Membership Update
At a recent meeting of the Davis Faculty Association Board, a number of hard decisions were made about the scope and direction of future activities. This has been a very active year for the DFA as well as the other…
Year 2010
CUCFA Responds to UC Commission on the Future Report and Pension Reform Plan
The following is a press release that the Council of UC Faculty Associations distributed to media outlets: At their Special Meeting on Monday, December 13, the Regents of the University of California will be making decisions on two significant issues…
Update about Monday’s Regent’s Meeting
The UC Regents will be meeting on December 13th and voting on changes to post employment benefits as well as on recommendations from the UC Commission on the Future. The relevant portions of the Regents agenda are: UC Commission on…
Regents meeting this week: benefit cuts and tuition hikes
The UC Regents are meeting this week. Issues to be discussed include a proposal to raise student fees yet again, this time by 8%. The student fee hike is scheduled to be discussed Thursday at 8:50 am. The Regent’s will…
Post Employment Benefits – President Yudof Has Decided
According to Academic Senate Chair Dan Simmons, UC President Yudof has decided what his post employment recommendation to the Regents will be: over many objections he will recommend a second tier, a variant on option C. The Regents will discuss…
CUCFA letter to UC Objecting to Proposed Retirement Changes
Yesterday, the Council of UC Faculty Associations sent the following letter about proposed changes to post employment benefits to UC President Yudof. When delivered to Yudof, this letter served as a cover letter to a longer report available at: …
Letter from outgoing chair Ian Kennedy
The following letter is being distributed to the members of the DFA on behalf of outgoing DFA chair Ian Kennedy: I have had the honor of serving the Davis Faculty Association, first on the Board then as Chair, for quite…
The Investors’ Club: How UC Regents Spin Public Money into Private Profit
There is a really interesting series of articles that has just been posted about the way the UC Regents have been handling UCRP and other investments in the era of Regents Parsky, Blum, Wachter, Lansing and Schwarzenegger. Here’s an excerpt:…
Student loan debt has surpassed credit card debt for the first time in history
Interesting post on the College Scholarships blog: “According to June 2010 statistics, Americans owe more money in student loans than they do on their credit cards. As of two months ago, student loan debt was at $829.785 billion, while credit…