The UC Davis Emeriti Association has been producing videos for many years now. The goal is to preserve the history of UC Davis through oral history interviews of UCD faculty. They recently interviewed the Davis Faculty Association’s first president, Ed…
CUCFA President Constance Penley has written to Academic Senate Chair Robert May and Academic Senate Vice Chair Kum-Kum Bhavnani about our ongoing concern for the lack of shared governance, this time in UC’s implementation of suggestions made in the Huron…
The 15,000 members of AFSCME 3299’s patient-care unit, plus 9,000 from AFSCME’s service unit and 15,000 research, technical and health-care professionals represented by UPTE-CWA, have announced a strike for October 23 through 25. According to the Sacramento Bee, “Both AFSCME…
With the start of a new academic year, it seems like a good time to introduce ourselves to new faculty (and perhaps reintroduce ourselves to continuing faculty): As many of you know, we are an association of faculty independent of…
As co-chairs of the Davis Faculty Association, we felt the post below, from Michael Meranze at “Remaking the University,” was worth bringing to your attention. – Richard Scalettar and Jesse Drew. As part of their negotiations with the university, UC…
Prepared on behalf of the DFA Board by Joe Kiskis As a service to Davis Faculty Association members, this informal newsletter will be emailed to members several times a year as developments warrant. The goal is to draw attention to…
