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You may be interested in the Business Week article below about corporatization of higher ed, which includes commentary from UC Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau.  The article is available at

by Terence Murphy, DFA Board member You probably received the e-missive from Office of the President on the comparison of the 2006 and 2007 budgets.  I thought that the analysis was incomplete, not including the relative increases in the various…

UC has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) that asks for bids to manage our Defined Benefits program. This has been managed up until now from UCOP in Oakland. It indicates that privatization of the functions of UCOP continues. The…

Ian Kennedy today received a letter from President Mark Yudof in response to our communication about the results of the DFA survey on the direction of UC Davis. He expressed appreciation of our willingness to share our opinions about the…

The Council of UC Faculty Associations recently wrote to President Yudof concerning the status of the UC Natural Reserve System and the impact of reorganization of UCOP. Our letter is attached. The DFA and CUCFA can help to emphasize important…

The DFA has sent a letter to UC President Yudof informing him of the results of our first survey, particularly as they might assist in the selection process for UCD’s new Chancellor. The DFA also sent a similar letter to…

The results and comments from our membership to our initial DFA survey are available. In summary, 47% of the respondents agreed strongly strongly that a new direction was needed, 33% felt that a new direction was needed and 13% disagreed.…

by Ian Kennedy The following commentary initially appeared (in slightly different form) in the April 2008 edition (Vol. 1, No. 1) of “Faculty to Faculty,” a newsletter of the Faculty Executive Committee of the UCD School of Medicine.  Its author,…

The DFA Board wants to encourage the participation of our membership and to give voice to the concerns of the faculty. We plan to publicize the results of regular surveys on our web site and to possibly inform a broader…

Incoming UC President Mark Yudof was quoted extensively in an article printed recently in the San Jose Mercury News. The excerpts below indicate that CUCFA has its work cut out for it educating him to some UC budget realities. “Yudof…