The DFA Board calls for the immediate resignation of Chancellor Katehi. The Chancellor’s authorization of the use of police force to suppress the protests by students and community members speaking out on behalf of our university and public higher education…
Nathan Brown is a board member of the Davis Faculty Association. He has been distributing the following letter, which the DFA board has agreed to reprint below: 18 November 2011 Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi Linda P.B.…
The Davis Faculty Association supports the ongoing efforts of students at UC Davis and across the UC system to defend the public mission of our university by protesting ongoing tuition increases. We commend the persistence and the courage of UC…
The rally yesterday on the UC Davis quad went very well and was extremely well attended. One of the speakers at the event, Nathan Brown (that is him with his arm raised on the speaker’s stage at the rally yesterday),…
The DFA board reiterates its support of the Occupy Cal call for a strike on November 15 to protest the use of police brutality to stifle the important debate about the current course of the University. While we believe the…
The board of the Davis Faculty Association has voted to endorse the strike called for by Occupy Cal to occur on November 15. After a mass rally and march of over 3,000 people, and repeated police assaults on the encampment,…
Students at UC Davis and college campuses around the state are planning to walk out tomorrow, at least long enough to hold noon information meetings leading to protests planned at next week’s UC Regents’ meeting. Although such activities on the…
The social movement known as Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is growing and raising issues of direct relevance to the faculty, students and staff of the University of California, including contracting opportunities and increasing debt loads for our students created by…
The Faculty Association leaders would like to draw your attention to proposed APM 668, Negotiated Salary Program: The origins of this proposed addition to that Academic Personnel Manual are in the Joint Senate-Administration Compensation Plan Steering Committee June…
Welcome back to school. This year looks like another difficult one for those of us trying to defend public, accessible, quality education. Public higher education is under attack all over the country: Texas, Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, and right here in…
