Attacks on faculty free speech and academic freedom are at an unprecedented high. Come join your colleagues and discuss how to protect our academic freedom at an afternoon dedicated to “Knowledge, Power, and the Future of Academic Freedom,” Thursday, April…
The 15,000 members of AFSCME 3299’s patient-care unit, plus 9,000 from AFSCME’s service unit and 15,000 research, technical and health-care professionals represented by UPTE-CWA, have announced a strike for October 23 through 25. According to the Sacramento Bee, “Both AFSCME…
The UC Student-Workers Union has begun collective bargaining with UC management, and is asking for the support of faculty in the current contract fight for better living and working conditions for graduate students. They are holding their next bargaining session…
In the wake of yet another horrendous shooting at a school campus, the Davis Faculty Association at the University of California at Davis expresses its support and encouragement of students and young people around the country who are demanding an…
The DFA Board has voted to endorse the statement issued yesterday, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) calling on college and university leaders to defend members…
The Davis Faculty Association condemns the decision by President Trump to rescind the DACA program and views it as a direct attack on many of our students’ ability to work, study, and take advantage of the many opportunities UC Davis…
Dear Davis Faculty Association Colleagues, Thanks to the many of you who came out to watch the film Starving the Beast and meet with filmmaker Steven Mims. I think we would all agree it is a valuable and well-made film.…
The DFA is hosting a screening of STARVING THE BEAST followed by a talk by that film’s director, Steve Mims, on the current situation confronting public universities. “Starving the Beast” is a documentary about the crises in education that has…
