Raising revenue has become such a taboo subject in California politics, but restoring quality public higher education in California can be done. For the median California tax payer, restoring the entire system while rolling back student fees to what they…
The Davis Faculty Association, Davis Division of the Academic Senate, the Academic Federation and the Nash family invite nominations of candidates for The Charles P. Nash Prize for the academic year 2013-2014. The Charles P. Nash Prize is designed to…
On September 16th, the chairs of 33 departments at UC Berkeley signed a letter to their Dean of the Graduate Division, Andrew Szeri, to express their concern about the uncompetitively low graduate student stipends UC offers. On October 3rd, departmental…
Dear DFA Member, The DFA is organizing a Davis Faculty Association team in the Yolo Food Bank (YFB) “Running of the Turkeys”, Thursday, November 28, 2013. This is one of the major fund-raisers for the YFB. The starting gun goes…
The DFA uses a variety of advocacy strategies: we meet with and write letters to campus and system-wide administrators and to Academic Senate leaders; we organize with other faculty, staff union and student groups on this campus and in other…
The UC Davis Blue Ribbon Freedom of Expression Committee has drafted a campuswide freedom of expression policy and is soliciting input. The draft policy is available online at: (The above page also lists methods for members of the community…
This is a post to alert you to an issue that will affect all members of the UCD faculty and staff. As you may have seen in an email from UCOP, UC has shifted the health insurance structures for all…
It is time to renew the DFA board. In accordance with DFA bylaws, a nominating committee has selected a slate of candidates to fill DFA board positions as listed below with the following code: C – continuing; R – renewing…
The Council of UC Faculty Associations is the systemwide coordinating agency for the DFA and the FA chapters at the other UC campuses. CUCFA has just completed its annual election of officers. The new officers are: President: Prof. Patricia Morton…
