A major mobilization is coming March 1 – 5, 2012, to put pressure on the Governor and legislature to renew support for public education in California and for raising taxes to restore the state funding that UC, the CSUs, the…
The DFA Board wanted to follow-up on the message sent last month regarding changes that UC is making to the way faculty assign patents to UC. Patents are not relevant to a large number of campus disciplines, and so the…
The Davis Faculty Association, Davis Division of the Academic Senate and Davis Division of the Academic Federation invite nominations of candidates for The Charles P. Nash Prize. The Charles P. Nash Prize is designed to reward exceptional achievement and commitment…
An upcoming event that may of of interest to DFA members: Inequality, Educational Access and the Future of the University Speakers: Senator Darrell Steinberg, Sue Dynarski, and Christopher Edley Events across UC campuses this past fall remind us of the…
The following “Faculty Fact Sheet” responds to the “Fact Sheet on Recent Campus Demonstrators” issued by the office of the Chancellor on November 27, 2011. This document was not prepared by the DFA but is rather the work of several…
On December 1st, a University-wide email was sent out by VR Election Services on behalf of the University of California, demanding faculty follow a link and electronically sign their names to an amendment to the 1997 UC Patent Agreement. While…
On November 19, 2011, in the immediate aftermath of the pepper-spraying of non-violent UC Davis students protesting tuition increases, the DFA board issued a statement calling for the immediate resignation of Chancellor Katehi, and calling for an end to “the…
(The information in this post was originally added as updates to our earlier post, however, as the list has gotten longer, it makes sense to make it into its own post.) After the DFA Board called for Chancellor Katehi to…
On November 27, 2011, the Council of UC Faculty Associations (the UC systemwide organization of faculty association chapters) delivered the following letter to UC President Mark Yudof: Dear President Yudof, The Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) protests…
The Davis Faculty Association is the Davis chapter of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, which has published (cucfa.org) the following: The Council of UC Faculty Associations Condemns Police Violence Against Non-Violent Protesters This week, we have seen excessive force…
