The coming weeks are key for pressuring UCOP to settle the contract with UC-AFT in order to avert major disruption on our campuses. IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO ALREADY, PLEASE SIGN THE SOLIDARITY PLEDGE THAT EXPRESSES SENATE FACULTY OPPOSITION…
The Davis Faculty Association is the Davis chapter of the systemwide Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA). Below is an important letter that we are forwarding on their behalf: Dear UC Senate Faculty Colleagues, We are UC Senate faculty and…
Welcome to a new Academic Year. We were all hoping for a “return to normalcy” but it appears that the delta variant has thrown a substantial monkey-wrench into that aspiration. In a coming email we will ask for your views…
Like many of you, we are very concerned about the issues we face as faculty members of a large public university. In recent years, we have witnessed the deterioration of our universities across the US as funding has been cut,…
The California Conference of the American Association of University Professors is conducting its annual meeting online this year, and all who wish to attend can do so for free, wherever you may be. The DFA co-chairs encourage our members to…
The youngest campuses in the UC system, especially Riverside and Merced, are also the most poorly resourced in the University system. Their youth means they have the greatest difficulty in attracting support from donors. Their newness also means less reputation…
December 8, 2020 Davis Division Academic Senate Executive Council Dear Members of the Executive Council, The Board of the Davis Faculty Association writes to express support for the Physical Education Program and opposition to the proposal on the part of…
It appears from “A Message from President Drake about UC’s Commitment to Preserving Jobs during the Pandemic” that the efforts of the Faculty Associations (see our earlier post), the UC Union Coalition, and the Academic Senate to analyze and push back…
The executive board of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, of which the DFA is the Davis chapter, sent the following response to UC President Drake regarding his proposal to curtail campus operations for five or more additional days in…
Dear Chancellor May and Provost Croughan, We were quite surprised to read in the Davis Enterprise about the proposed elimination of the Physical Education Program. There are three aspects to this that give pause. First, many thousands of students participate…
