Below, please find our letter to campus leaders calling on UCD to take important steps to protect students and staff: —————— March 28, 2025 To: Chancellor Gary May; Chief Campus General Counsel Michael Sweeney; Office of Judicial Affairs Director Stacy…
Dear Colleagues: The university is under attack. The Trump administration’s all-out assault on higher education, and its commitment to science, academic freedom, and civil liberties must not stand. DFA, along with other Faculty Associations of the University of California calls…
Dear colleagues: We are currently experiencing an unprecedented attack on higher education. The Trump and Musk administration has proposed massive cuts to critical funding that universities receive from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment…
Dear Colleagues, I want to inform you of a special meeting of the systemwide Academic Senate General Assembly to be held this Friday, January 17, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM. I encourage you to attend. You can register for…
A reminder that the UC Davis Academic Senate is holding a no confidence vote in President Drake. Voting ends today. If you have not already voted on this issue, please do so:
Dear DFA members, I am forwarding to you an invitation that Walter Leal is sending out. While this is not a DFA event, I think this will likely be of interest to you. In a followup message he added: “If…
Dear Faculty, The Davis Faculty Association (DFA) would like to alert you to an important letter protesting the massive increases in health care costs for UC faculty and staff. The letter has been initiated by the UC Union Coalition, of…
Dear DFA members, The Davis Faculty Association partners with the national organization Higher Ed Labor United (HELU). Join HELU and international unions AFT, AAUP, CWA, and UAW for a Higher Ed Votes zoom rally this coming Monday, Oct. 28th, at…
Dear DFA members, Our colleague Walter Leal has forwarded the following note asking faculty to sign on to the letter to President Drake, Provost Newman & Academic Senate Chair Cheung regarding COLA and medical plan costs. Dear Colleagues, We wrote…
Dear DFA members, UC Davis friends and colleagues, I hope your quarter is starting off well and that you had a relaxing or productive summer, or perhaps both! While we are settling into the new academic year, fine-tuning our curriculum,…
