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		<title>Nash Dinner, RSVP Deadline Monday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you are aware, the DFA is one of the organizations that supports the Charles P. Nash Prize, which is funded by the campus community and Charlie’s family and friends.  Its goal is to acknowledge achievement in and commitment to promoting shared governance in keeping with Charlie Nash’s exceptional efforts in promoting and <a href="http://ucdfa.org/2013/04/nash-dinner-rsvp-deadline-monday/">[read more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times editorial on the magical thinking around online education</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times editorializes on state budget cuts to California&#8217;s public higher education systems and the state legislature&#8217;s magical thinking around online education. The full article is online at: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/resurrecting-californias-public-universities.html?_r=0 An excerpt follows: &#8220;The same California State Legislature that cut the higher education budget to ribbons, while spending ever larger sums on prisons, now <a href="http://ucdfa.org/2013/03/new-york-times-editorial-on-the-magical-thinking-around-online-education/">[read more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A note about proposed online ed legislation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The DFA, in conjunction with CUCFA staff and the other faculty associations, have been busy monitoring the impending state legislation about online courses. In a previous email, we informed you of our letter of inquiry to the UCD Senate leadership and also invited you to sign an online petition opposing Senate Bill 520, which has <a href="http://ucdfa.org/2013/03/a-note-about-proposed-online-ed-legislation/">[read more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Add your voice to a call for changes to SB 520</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Davis Faculty Association is gravely concerned about SB 520, a bill currently being considered by the state legislature, which would mandate acceptance of online courses from any source for academic credit at the University of California, the California State University and Community Colleges.  This proposal seems to us to have profound potential implications for <a href="http://ucdfa.org/2013/03/add-your-voice-to-a-call-for-changes-to-sb-520/">[read more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Senator Steinberg&#8217;s proposed online classes bill</title>
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		<comments>http://ucdfa.org/2013/03/senator-steinbergs-proposed-online-classes-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s New York Times (and a number of other news sources) had an article about proposed legislation from Senator Steinberg that would require California&#8217;s public higher education systems to accept transfer credits from select online course providers for 50 of the state&#8217;s most impacted courses (some of these courses would be Community College or CSU <a href="http://ucdfa.org/2013/03/senator-steinbergs-proposed-online-classes-bill/">[read more]</a>]]></description>
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