The following letter is being distributed to the members of the DFA on behalf of outgoing DFA chair Ian Kennedy: I have had the honor of serving the Davis Faculty Association, first on the Board then as Chair, for quite…
There is a really interesting series of articles that has just been posted about the way the UC Regents have been handling UCRP and other investments in the era of Regents Parsky, Blum, Wachter, Lansing and Schwarzenegger. Here’s an excerpt:…
Interesting post on the College Scholarships blog: “According to June 2010 statistics, Americans owe more money in student loans than they do on their credit cards. As of two months ago, student loan debt was at $829.785 billion, while credit…
The post-employment task force has released its report and it is available online at: UC President Yudof distributed a letter about the report in advance of its release. Here is an excerpt: “The first issue to be addressed concerns…
It has been another busy year for the Davis Faculty Association and our affiliate CUCFA (Council of UC Faculty Associations). In recent years we have made an effort to communicate with our members more frequently. Toward that end, we rebuilt…
UCB FA chair Wendy Brown and other Berkeley faculty had an op-ed published in yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle about the cyber campus proposal to be discussed at today’s UC Regents’ meeting. An excerpt: “Most of the discussion about online education…
