DFA Board Nominations
It is time to renew the DFA board. In accordance with DFA bylaws, a nominating committee — this year made up of Omnia El Shakry, Valeria La Saponara and Greg Miller — has selected a slate of candidates to fill…
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Upcoming statewide meeting on faculty issues
The University of California in general, and UCD in particular, has continued to face significant challenges in the past academic year. The DFA has played an active role in advocating faculty interests concerning health care and retirement plans, proposed revisions…
DFA Member’s Meeting – First Round is on Us
The Board of the Davis Faculty Association invites you to join us over a beer – or soft drink – and pizza at Woodstock’s Pizza (219 G St, Davis – we’ll be in the upstairs dining area) at 5:00 pm…
UC Faculty Petition UC Administration To Negotiate in Good Faith with Student-Worker TA Union
The Santa Cruz Faculty Association (the SCFA, a sister chapter of the Davis Faculty Association) invite ALL faculty — both Academic Senate members and AFT members — at ALL UC campuses to sign the petition at Signatures will be…
RSVP for Nash Prize Dinner
Faculty should have received an invitation to this year’s Nash Prize Dinner via the Academic Senate mailing list. This reminder is being sent out as the RSVP deadline approaches. Non-faculty are invited to attend too. You and a guest are…
Our concern over the proposed redevelopment plans for Solano and Orchard Park
Dear DFA members, The DFA Board is concerned about the demolition of Solano and Orchard Park Student-Family Housing and so has sent the letter (below) to Chancellor Katehi and Dean Gibeling. Also, students trying to save Solano and Orchard Parks…
We hope UCD’s response to striking students more appropriate than UCSC’s this morning
The DFA board sent to following note to Chancellor Katehi earlier today: Dear Chancellor Katehi, This morning riot police were deployed at UC Santa Cruz in response to the student strike. The DFA would like to express its hope that…
The Degradation of Faculty Welfare and Compensation
UC faculty need to wake up to the systematic degradation of their pay and benefits. In 2009, when the salary furlough temporarily cut faculty salaries between 6 and 10%, faculty were outraged. Yet since then our compensation has been hit…
Money behind CA pension proposition also secret money behind PBS pension news series
John Arnold — the billionaire former Enron trader who has been the financial backing for a proposed California ballot proposition that would eliminate constitutional protections for vested pension and retiree healthcare benefits for current public employees, including UC employees, if…
DFA Letter in Support of Graduate Students in Contract Negotiations
February 5, 2014 Jeffery C. Gibeling Vice Provost – Graduate Education and Dean – Graduate Studies Office of Graduate Studies – 250 Mrak Hall 1 Shields Ave Davis, CA 95616 Dear Vice Provost Gibeling: It is with increasing concern that…