by Ian Kennedy A letter from the Academic Council should allay your fears that Shared Governance is under threat. ——————– September 9, 2009 Gary Rhoades, General Secretary, AAUP Cary Nelson, President, AAUP Executive Committee, AAUP Collective Bargaining Congress Executive Committee,…
If you wonder where Indirect Cost Returns go as they trickle down to you, or dry up along the way, you may find Chris Newfield’s web site informative. Go to:
Ian Kennedy has produced a recruiting poster for our organization. You may have already seen it around campus, as a few of the DFA board members have already started putting some up. We’d love your help spreading the word about…
Over the weekend the Sacramento Bee wrote an editorial outrageously insulting to faculty. The original editorial is available online at: It has since been republished in slightly modified form at: The Bee had earlier written a news article…
by Ian Kennedy The imposition of furloughs on non-teaching days, on top of budget cuts and other draconian reductions in the operation of our university, demand a reasoned, effective, and broadly supported response from the faculty in consultation with the…
CUCFA has assembled an analysis of the history of the UC financial problems on a web site. We hope that you will help us disseminate the information. It is also intended to form the basis of a “teach-in” action this…
The following message was written by CUCFA’s managing director Craig Flanery: The AAUP Newsletter below about the UCs went out to all UC faculty today — or at least those for whom we have emails, which is about 90-95% I…
The DFA has nominated Jim Chalfont of the Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics to the Gould Commission on the Future of UC. We believe that he would an excellent addition to the Commission, given his depth of experience in…
An article in yesterday’s SF Chronicle about SB 217, a piece of legislation about UC and CSU executive compensation that CUCFA has been tracking all year. The full article is available at: an excerpt is pasted below: Lawmakers kill…
Faculty dissatisfaction with the furlough policy laid out by Interim Provost Lawrence Pitts continues. The following is a strong objection from the UCSC Academic Senate essentially asking UCSC’s Chancellor to ignore the Pitts letter: —————- August 27, 2009 Chancellor George…
