The Davis Faculty Association is the Davis chapter of the systemwide Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA). Below is an important letter that we are forwarding on their behalf: Dear UC Senate Faculty Colleagues, We are UC Senate faculty and…
The California Conference of the American Association of University Professors is conducting its annual meeting online this year, and all who wish to attend can do so for free, wherever you may be. The DFA co-chairs encourage our members to…
It appears from “A Message from President Drake about UC’s Commitment to Preserving Jobs during the Pandemic” that the efforts of the Faculty Associations (see our earlier post), the UC Union Coalition, and the Academic Senate to analyze and push back…
The current crisis has brought into focus the extreme precarity that contingent faculty live with year in and year out. UC-AFT (the union that represents UC lecturers) is circulating a pledge that asks ladder rank faculty at the University of…
Dear President Napolitano, The Faculty Organizing Group at UCSC has just issued a very important letter to UCSC’s EVC Kletzer (copied below) in which they call for an act of “empathy, compassion, and responsibility“ in reinstating the 80 graduate students…
Tuesday is election day. Perhaps you would be interested in spending a few minutes at the start of class the next couple days reminding your students to vote? Here’s some information you could share with them: The polls are open…
Dear DFA members, Due to the escalating crisis stemming from the grad student strike at UCSC, the Davis Faculty Association board signed on to the following statement issued by the Council of UC Faculty Associations:
Graduate Students are on strike at UC Santa Cruz, demanding a cost-of-living adjustment to meet cost-of-living increases in a city that has outstripped wage increases by a factor of 5. The Santa Cruz Faculty Association and Berkeley Faculty Association support…
Dear Colleagues, The Davis Faculty Association recognizes that the teaching excellence on campus depends in no small part on lecturers, who teach many of our courses. Lecturers, represented by the University of California-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT), are currently engaged…
