A member mailed us the following article about immediate furloughs and cuts at the University of Illinois. Full article is at: An excerpt follows: …The cuts affect employees on all three Illinois campuses, in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield. Ikenberry…
The Davis Faculty Association endorses UCB faculty member George Lakoff’s efforts to simplify California’s budgeting process. Please read his message to faculty below: ———————— To: UC, CSU, and Community College Faculty From: George Lakoff Re: Ballot Initiative Dear Friends: Are…
CUCFA has posted a new working paper to the Keep California’s Promise site: Executive Summary: It is widely recognized that large reductions in state funding and sizeable increases in student fees have eroded quality and accessibility in California’s three-segment…
The Sacramento Bee reported that the Governor is considering providing State funding to CalPERS, in excess of the amount requested by CalPERS itself. See The DFA has written a letter, under the CUCFA letterhead and signature, to the Governor protesting…
Several UC Faculty Associations sent the following letter to UC Regent’s Chair Russell Gould. ———————— Dec. 1, 2009 Russell Gould, Chair UC Regents Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff 1111 Franklin Street, 12th floor Oakland, CA 94607 Dear…
Joe Kiskis attended the UCRP Advisory Board meeting (or, as Joe would call it, the “Advisory” Board) in Oakland last Friday on behalf of all of us and sends us this report: ———— Highlights from the UCRS “Advisory” Board meeting…
The proposed Regents’ budget for 2010-2011 is now online. Long version: Really long version: “Key elements” include: maintaining only a 4% employer contributions and 2% employee contributions to the UC Retirement Plan for the duration of 2010-11; preserving…
An article in the California Aggie about proposed legislation to begin taxing oil extraction to create funds for public higher education quotes DFA member Joe Kiskis. The full article is at and here is an excerpt: AB 656 proposes…
About a hundred people showed up for the teach-in Monday night. Speakers included: Nathan Brown (faculty member), Tarone Bittner (of AFSME), Kaitlin Walker (graduate student), Catherine Fung (graduate student), Ian Kennedy (faculty member), Joshua Clover (faculty member), Jeffrey Bergamini (of…
Your students may have a lot of questions about the impending fee increases, and about the funding situation of UC in general. Faculty and students at UC Davis are sponsoring a teach-in from 7 to 9 pm on Monday in…
