Dear Folks: It is the goal of the DFA to help keep you informed on issues of interest to faculty. There was an article in the Jan. 17 California Aggie about graduate education expansion plans. In a presentation to the Regents on Jan. 16, UC Provost C. Judson King outlined a 10 page report made by the Commission on the Growth and Support of Graduate Education that introduces plans both to increase graduate financial aid to meet students’ needs and to enroll 11,000 more graduate students in the next eight years. If you missed it, here is the link to the full report on the web: