Our Chancellor was quoted in the May 31 issue of Chemical & Engineering News magazine of the American Chemical Society: “To illustrate the growing divide between what the government provides and what the public wants and thinks it should pay…
There was an interesting article in yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle about UC’s losses to indirect costs. Glossed over in the article is the importance of research to the reputation of UC’s faculty and thus the institution itself, or the important…
The Davis Faculty Association conducted a survey asking faculty to rate their deans. The survey ran from May 17 until June 4 and we had 87 respondents during that time. In summary, a majority of the faculty were satisfied with…
It is time to renew the DFA board. In accordance with DFA bylaws, a nominating committee has selected the following slate of candidates to fill DFA board positions as listed below with the following code (C – continuing; N –…
It has become a tradition in recent years for the members of the DFA to get together over beers towards the end of each year to discuss the faculty issues of the day. This year we’re going to give Bistro…
(The DFA is no longer collecting responses in our survey of Deans.) We encourage you to send the above link to all your colleagues in your department, and to other colleagues who may not be DFA members. Our opinions will…
DFA chair Ian Kennedy asked that I forward on to the members of the DFA the following, a response by the Berkeley chapter Faculty Association to certain proposals made by the UC Commission on the Future, especially as seen in…
The Daily Californian has an article today by Travis Donselman titled “Salaries Responsible for Budget Gap” The full article is at: An excerpt follows: The amount of the University budget gap is half of the $1 billion or so…
Article excerpt: Faculty members and administrators in Texas are speaking out about a recent state law that requires them to post specific, detailed information about their classroom assignments, curricula vitae, department budgets, and the results of student evaluations. A conservative…
A DFA member came across these news items about efforts by Erskine Bowles at UNC to rein in administrative bloat. Our member thought that our Chancellor might also be interested in this issue so we are forwarding the email to…
