Month December 2011

Faculty Fact Sheet

The following “Faculty Fact Sheet” responds to the “Fact Sheet on Recent Campus Demonstrators” issued by the office of the Chancellor on November 27, 2011. This document was not prepared by the DFA but is rather the work of several…

UC’s Patent Amendment Signature Request

On December 1st, a University-wide email was sent out by VR Election Services on behalf of the University of California, demanding faculty follow a link and electronically sign their names to an amendment to the 1997 UC Patent Agreement. While…

Member Survey Results

On November 19, 2011, in the immediate aftermath of the pepper-spraying of non-violent UC Davis students protesting tuition increases, the DFA board issued a statement calling for the immediate resignation of Chancellor Katehi, and calling for an end to “the…

Other groups call for Katehi to resign

(The information in this post was originally added as updates to our earlier post, however, as the list has gotten longer, it makes sense to make it into its own post.) After the DFA Board called for Chancellor Katehi to…