The Legislative Analyst’s Office has just issued the following report: The Master Plan at 50: Assessing California’s Vision for Higher Education Almost 50 years ago, the state of California adopted a visionary plan for higher education that sought to forge…
There is a new article on the KeepCaliforniasPromise.org website about the disproportionate growth of administrators at UC and how much it is costing us (four times the savings of the furloughs). The full article is at and an excerpt…
Legal Threats to Academic Freedom and Shared Governance in Higher Education; a presentation by Rachel Levinson, Senior Counsel at the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). November 13, Friday, at 12 noon, in the new Abbaszadeh Lecture Hall, Gallaher Hall…
Some UC faculty members, staff, and students are calling for a strike to protest the proposed 32% student fee increase. The strike is to roughly coincide with the upcoming UC Regents meeting: November 18, 19, and 20. The DFA has…
Guest Craig Flanery — Executive Director of the BFA, SCFA, CUCFA and West Coast Director of AAUP Craig gave a brief history of the SCFA: founded in 1975, enabling legislation was passed in 1978 (HEERA) that meant UC had to…
An interesting article in today’s New York Times about the perilous condition of public higher education. UC is used as an example in the article, but there is also information about a lot of other states, making for useful comparison.…
Here is a new UC Davis course offering that will be all about the future of public higher education. Please note that interested faculty, staff, students, etc. are all welcome to attend: ————————- SOC298/CST298 Winter 2010 Public Higher Ed at…
At a member’s suggestion, DFA has set up a discussion board for posting comments and fostering interactions between members. Please go to to access the discussion board. There is no login requirement at present.
Senate leaders have had a letter published in the New York Times support of State funding of the University: “We, the leaders of faculty governance of the 10 University of California campuses, read Deborah Solomon’s interview of President Yudof (Sept.…
The Governor, Legislature, Regents and maybe even UCOP et al, lose sight of the fact the University generates large amounts of federal dollars that flow into the State and have a very positive impact on our economy. This needs to…
