November 18-20
Some UC faculty members, staff, and students are calling for a strike to protest the proposed 32% student fee increase. The strike is to roughly coincide with the upcoming UC Regents meeting: November 18, 19, and 20. The DFA has…
Year 2009
Minutes of DFA Board Meeting October 30, 2009
Guest Craig Flanery — Executive Director of the BFA, SCFA, CUCFA and West Coast Director of AAUP Craig gave a brief history of the SCFA: founded in 1975, enabling legislation was passed in 1978 (HEERA) that meant UC had to…
NY Times article on privatization of public universities
An interesting article in today’s New York Times about the perilous condition of public higher education. UC is used as an example in the article, but there is also information about a lot of other states, making for useful comparison.…
Interesting Course Offering (for non-students too!)
Here is a new UC Davis course offering that will be all about the future of public higher education. Please note that interested faculty, staff, students, etc. are all welcome to attend: ————————- SOC298/CST298 Winter 2010 Public Higher Ed at…
Discussion Board
At a member’s suggestion, DFA has set up a discussion board for posting comments and fostering interactions between members. Please go to to access the discussion board. There is no login requirement at present.
UC Senate leadership responds to Yudof in New York Times
Senate leaders have had a letter published in the New York Times support of State funding of the University: “We, the leaders of faculty governance of the 10 University of California campuses, read Deborah Solomon’s interview of President Yudof (Sept.…